Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1875 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Cut-worms are cutting corn in th« Pitta ity of Corydon. Terre Haute is talking park with a fountain attachment. Hoo cholera is carrying off hogs at a fearful rate in Pike County. Seventeen* attorneys live off the legal quarreling of Harrison County. A band of gypsies are peddling “ fate” in the vicinity of'Bowling Green. A ditch seven miles long is V) be cut in Tipton County at a cost of SO,(XX). , Centennial societies are being organized in several counties of the State. Rushville is infested with thieves who help themselves to gold-headed canes. Cass County claims to be better financially fixed than any other in the State. The apple crop is renarh d from all parta of tiie State to be a complete failure this year. During a heavy storm at Berno a few evenings ago a large show-window in a drug store was blown in and a clerk fatally Injured. In the excavation for the new Terre Haute gas-holder a number of very beautiful shells,- Indian beads, petrifactions, coal and other objects of interest have been unearthed. —, I—_ The detectives of Indianapolis are accused of having released three prisoners arrested for robbery and receiving stolen goods on the payment of S3OO. The affair is to be investigated. The wife of Jesse Artis, a colored man living in Lost Creek Township, Vigo County, had her throat cut a few nights ago while she lay in bed. At last accounts her murderer had not been discovered. Charles Ford was found two miles south of Rome City the other morning, where he had lain since the night of the 20th. having taken a large dose of morphine. The supposed cause is separation from his wife through the influence ot her friends.

Charles Ageno, a clerk in the wholesale confectionery establishment of Heing Bros., at Terre Haute, while swinging in the rear of the house of one of his employers the other evening was thrown twenty feet by the breaking of one of the ropes, anil fatally injured. The following postal changes were made in the State during the week ending June 26, 1875; Established —Beech wood, Crawford County, Airs. Sarah J. Jenkins, Postmistress. Discontinued—Ganby, Putnam County; Fish Creek, Steuben County. Postmasters appointed—Alert, Decatur County, Aliss Jennie Taylor; Slate, Jennings County, Charles N. Taubman. I\UEMER,a negro who committed an outrage on the wife of Mr. William Vaughan, near Carthage, Hancock Co., was lately brought to Greenfield from Rushville for safe keeping. On the morning of the 26th, between one and two o’clock, a mob of about 160 masked men, said to be from Hancock, Shelby and Rush Counties, broke open the jail, and took the negro out and hung him in one of the halls at the fair-ground. The affair created intense excitement at Greenfield! As the Toledo train of the Flint & Pere Alarquette Railroad was approaching Leonard’s Crossing, a few miles north of Highland, a few mornings ago, a man w r as

observed by the engineer standing about twelve feet from the track. Just before the train reached him he ran up to the track, laid his head upon the rail, and before the speed of the train could he checked it had passed over the mad. severing his head entirely from his body. His name was Oliver AV. Armstrong. He was twenty-eight years old, and had previously threatened suicide. In an appealed liquor case at Indianapolis the other day, under the new License law. Judge Perkius held that it was not within the ordinary judgment of the Commis.'iouers to decide whether the applicant was a fit person to be connected with sale of liquors, but that such fitness or unfitness must he judged by sound legal discretion upon charges made and proved. Concerning remonstrance, it must be one by voter or voters, in writing, who must specify with reasonable certainty the grounds of unfitness, and, if they do not in themselves constitute legal unfitness, the Commissioners may strike thorh out or refuse to hear proof of them. If they constitute legal unfitness they must be legally proved, and, if legally proved, license shall be refused.

Some time ago J. R. Buell and Susan R. Gilbert, residents of Indianapolis, took | out a license and in presence of certain witnesses and themselves solemnized a , ceremony of marriage and took each other for husband and wife respectively, so long as the union of love and life shall last. They were subsequently indicted for maintaining an adulterous connection. It j was claimed that the marriage was not le- | gaily solemnized, and that, therefore, the | parties were living 1 in open violation of ' the, law; but Judge Chapman held the marriage, although Irregular, to be valid, since the parties themselves believed it to , be so, and lived together as husband and wife. The Judge, in concluding his decision, said; “I conclude ; that the defendants contracted a valid marriage, such a contract as can only be dissolved by death or decree of a competent court: that their agreement.to dissolve the | contract by their own consent, in case their respective love natures failed to harmonize, is in law void and in morals vicious: that if the parties should 'act under this stipulation for a termination of the marriage contract and thereafter enter into a similar marriage contract and relationship with other parties they would be guilty of bigamy; and that good morals and sound political ethics, as well as the statute law, require that they shall be held firmly to the marriage contract they have assumed, and to all the’ duties and responsibilities the law attaches thereto; and, therefore, that the parties are not guilty as charged n the indictment”