Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1874 — INDIANA GOSSIP. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA GOSSIP.

Michigan City shipped SIO,OOO worth of huckleberries tills season. Knox county claims to have 50,000 bushels of peaches to harvest this season. Nearly a thousand entries Lave been made for the Northern Indiana Fair at Fort Wayne. Marshall county holds her. Fair this season September 29th and 30th, and October Ist and 2d. It is thought that tlie fall term of the Valparaiso Normal School will open with 300 pupils an attendance/' Michigan City boasts, in addition to her sand knobs aiid penitentiary, a $551 brass hand to make life a burden. From January Ist to August Ist, 1874,‘0ne dealer at Crown Point purchased 72,820 pounds of butter, anil 24,340 dozen eggs. Dysentery combined with a low grade of typhoid fever, which baffles the skill oi the best physicians, is Very fatal to children at Valparaiso. Stndehaker Brothers’ mammoth wagon factory at South Bend was burnt Monday morning, resulting in a of about $300,000. By this calamity 300 workmen are thrown out oi employment.

Bishop Wiley will preside over the Northwestern Indiana Conference of the Methodist Epis'copal cliurch,i which will convene at Lafavetlo on the 9th of next * ♦ month. Any amount of hay is being cut on the Kankakee marsh this year, says the LoWelt Star, where the sound of the mower was never before heard. A team can be driven anywhere across the marsh to the river now. Dan. Comingore left Logansport last Wednesday in a skiff, bound for New Orleans. Texas, and South America will be visited by him, but at the Ohio or Mississippi rivers he will abandon his skiff and secure passage on a craft of larger burthen. The First National Bank of Crown Point has been organized. Its capital stock is $50,000. James Burge President, A. C. Bundy Cashier. A room is now undergoing repairs and being fitted up for the bank occupancy, and the officers expect to be ready for business by the first of September. When Mr. Lawrence's people retired to bed at Winnmac the other night, they left their lamp burning. After they had been in bed awhile the lamp exploded and set fire to a dress hanging near, which was burnt up. It was with great difficulty that they succeeded in extinguishing the flames and saved their house.