Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1875 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

There are nearly 700 boys in the Reform School. The Knox Gounty Court-House will cost 1500,000. Posey County has $58,000 ahead and don’t want a cent. A reunion of the Eighty-seventh Indiana Volunteers is talked of. There has never been a dance in Spiceland that anybody knows of. , A Harrison County woman has had nineteen children at seven births. The Davids County folks are talking horse, to come oft on the 15th prox. Tub total valuation of the real and personal property in Goshen is $1,687,770. Wheat harvest will not commence in Clinton County before the middle of July, they say. Geologists say coal may be found in Northern Indiana at the depth of 300 to 400 feet. All but twelve of “ the old guards” at the State Prison South have been officially decapitated. The proprietors of the Bucyrus mowing and reaping machine works are talking of removing them to Terre Haute. The change from the Baxter law to the present liquor law puts $3,000 in the school fund of Warrick County. A blind man named Kratz, living at Chili, committed suicide the other afternoon by taking 240 grains of opium. Terry County intends to build two exposition halls, one 24x50 and the other lOx 32 feet, 21,000 feet of board fencing, and eighty stables. /jA child at Graysville, Sullivan County, was fatally injured a few nights ago through carelessness in lighting a fire with non-explosive kerosene. No licenses to sell liquors were granted by the Commissioners of Union County as their late session. There were only two applicationsand both were denied. William Ennis, while walking in the woods near Indianapolis with a young lady, was killed the other afternoon. She claims that in playing with his revolver he accidentally shot himself. Thomas Miller hung himself with a clothes-line at the house of his uncle in Rush County a few days ago. He was twenty-three years old and unmarried. No reason is assigned for tlie rash act, Terre Haute is going to hive a grand Fourth of July celebration on Monday, the stli, at Early’s Grove. Judge Long will read an historical essay and Dan Voorhees and Col. McLean deliver orations.

It is probable that there will not be over half an average crop of wheat in Rush County this year, and unless the season is very favorable henceforth there will not be more than a third of an average crop.— Indianapolis Journal. A new dodge has been devised for advertising reapers and mowers. It is for all the agents to deliver all their sales in one day, give a grand dinner-to the purchasers, and have a procession of the machines sold. Such an affair came off at Frankfort the other day. It was equal to a circus. A few days since a daughter of Rev. Mr. Tanzy, of Graysville, kindled a fire with coal oil, and the old story was repeated. The oil caught fire, exploded the can, and enveloped the young lady in flames. Her clothes were burned off, and jier lower extremities so badly burned that she died. The drunkest person that got on the Vandalia train yesterday was a pretty young woman at Brazil, whose rosy cheeks were aflame with vile potations, and her insane laugh as she reeled to the platform at Staunton made a shudder go through the frame of all who love' purity and virtue.—Terre Haute Express. Jerry Monroe, a colored man, living in Indianapolis, recently brutally murdered his late wife by beating her brains out with an iron wrench. She had been lately divorced from him on the ground of cruelty. Deceased was thirty-three years old and a member of the colored Baptist Church. When visited in jail, two hours after his arrest, and told his wifewas dead, the brute exhibited little emotion, but expressed a belief that he would be hung. The following postal changes were made in Indiana during the week ending June, 19, 1875: Established —Greenfield Mills, 1 LaGrange County, William H. H. Groves,. Postmaster; Soto, Stark County, Isaac R. Bascein, Postmaster. Discontinued—Nelson, Vigo County; Tassinong, Porter County. Postmasters appointed—Dorsey, Blackford County, Harrison R. Harter; Ewing, Jackson County, John Wallace; Hartsville, Bartholomew County, Nicholas S. Holcomb; Haubstadt, Gibson County, Frederick Monroe; Jordanville, Knox County, John Gilmore; Merrillville, Lake County, John P. Merrill; Mount Liberty, Brown County, John Clark; New Haven, Allen County, Joseph Whitaker; Pleasant View, Wabash County, Jonathan R. Wilson; Rexville, Ripley Courity, Thomas S. Vawter; Williainsburgh, Wayne County, Mrs. Lydia Bunnell. Charles Probst, living near Terre Haute, owned two Valuable horses, and a thief caught one of them, pus on a bridle, and rode away. The other horse then began neighing and acting so strangely as to attract Mr. Probst’s attention. Seeing that one horse was missing he went to the field, when the remaining animal began to neigh loudly. Presently Mr. Probst heard an answering neigh from the missing horse far in the distance. Saddling the remaining horse he at once gave chase, the two horses, singularly enough, keeping up that kind of horse language at frequent intervals. He galloped over hills and through gullies in this manner for about two miles, when a turn in the road brought him in sight of the thief and the horse. A last neigh disgusted the thief, and, abandoning his stolen animal, he took to the woods on foot