Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1874 — INDIANA GOSSIP. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA GOSSIP.

One mad dog has been killed at Laporte already. A Iventland man expects to raise a crop of one hundred bushels of raspbernes this season.— Two children named Austell were playing on a bed at Brookston the other morning, when onq fell off and fractured its collar bone. Rufus Magee has sold the Logansport Pharos to a stock company, and is now ready to receive proposals for starting a Democratic organ at Indianapolis. And now the chinch bug has attacked the oat fields in many neighborhoods, says the Lowell Star, and ft lookk as though- they would be complttely ruined. Gathering pond lillies and making them into bouquets is among the means adopted by industrious little boys at Laporte for accumulating spending money for the 4th of July. The Executive' Committee of the Grangers, farmers’clubs and other labor organizations of Wayne county resolved, last Saturday, ..to nominate county officers ana "a candidate for the Legislature. During a recent storm at Brookston the lightning struck a team of horses standing hitched with the harness on, knocking‘one of them down and the other upon its knees, and iucited one’ tug, but did no further damage* . Over fifty horses are entered for the races at Laporte this week; some of them are among the best and fastest horses in .the West.— The pacing class alone has hot been filled. The races were to commence Tuesday and continue four days.

It is reported by the Republican that there was Irost in the neighborhood of Winamac week before last which nipped corn blades a little, but not enough to damage anything. We hear that some of the Haydens, on West Creek, are plowing up their spring wheat, which has been destroyed by the chinch bugs, and sowing it to buckwheat.—Lowell Star. A Laporte horse, called Stump Puller, won the 2:32 race at Koko mo on the 10th, and the 2:30 race at Peru. _ His winnings in eight days were $875. lie is for sale for $7,000 on long time at seven per cent interest. A big hail storm passed over a portion of Newton county last week, and in places mowed the corn and grain down to the ground. It was not extensive, but very destructive where it did extend, the Kentland Gazette says. ■ ■ . At a recent meeting of the St. Joseph county Council of Patrons of Husbandry, a resolution was adopted authorizing the Master to issue a call for a political caucus in South Bend", next Saturday, to take such political action as may be deemed advisable. The Helphi Times boasts that there were more drunken men on the streets of that town one evening after the majority of them had attended a temperance lecture, than had previously been seen since the enforcement of the Baxter law. —C. L. Davis, son of C. W. Davis of Kentland, was „the successful 'competitor at Westville last week for the vacancy in the United States Naval Academy. He is seventeen years of age, and was unanimously recommended by the board ot examination, over twentyone competitors. Two horse thieves named Fry and Shields, recently escaped 1 from the Delphi jail. They procured two case knives' which they made into saws, and cut off ail iron bar, oiie inch in diameter, in the main half do or inakiu g a hole through which they escaped into the street, the outer doors being unlocked. : A Hebron correspondent writing to the Lowell S/ai-, says : When ilr.. ItbLy’s house was in flames the other night, the hired girl was awakened and. told. J.Q.. come out.- ■ She had a a large trunk in her room, which required the strength of men to take it there, and was told to Leave it. She declared she would burn with it, rather than leave it. She caught and'dragged it through the kitchen, where the rest (hired not go, to a safe distance, and they went back and secured more of her things. Soon after she came out the second time the gun was discharged, anTha powder flask, exploded, which burst out the windows Unit were not already broken.