Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1875 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Bakttßwn to an Evansville suburb. Salem comes to the. front with • mad d<te.r Winchester calls for more tenementhouses. Scarlet fever prevails in Harrison County. Union City recently voted to incorporate as a city. Terre Haute supports a noon-day prayer-meeting. The grape <jrop in Union County is being damaged by blight. Hancock County has seven representatives in the State Prison. Vevay pays its School Trustees twenty, five dollars a year each. Logansport claims the title of “ City of Natural Advantages.” There is a living two-legged calf belonging to a farmer Rear Lafayette. The State printing has been awarded to the Indianapolis Sentinel ’Company. The wheat harvest in Sbllivan County is over. It was saved in fair condition. The Richmond Palladium tells about “emersions” in the Whitewater. What? Terre Haute sees Lafayette’s two legged calf, and calls, with one having five ears. A poor inebriate named Edward Newman floated over the falls at Bluffton and was killed. A Terre Haute clairvoyant proposes to find Charley Ross within twenty miles of that city. The New Castle Courier,' Company, with a capital of SIO,OOO, has paid a dividend of 5 per cent. William Ludwig, while cradling wheat south of Richmond a few days ago, dropped dead. John Schwetzberger was sun-struck at Indianapolis on the 18th. He died almost instantly. Forty-one Adventists have obligated themselves to observe Saturday as their Sabbath, at Ligonier. Hon. A. J. Boone, State Senator from Boone aud Clinton Counties, died at Lebanon a few days ago. Gov. Hendricks will address the old settlers’ meeting at Oakland, Hancock County, Aug. 7, next.

Miss Maggie Thompson is preaching for the United Brethren in different parts of Switzerland County. Arrangements are progressing for a grand reunion of soldiers at Indianapolis some time in September next. J. T. Boyer, editor of the Logansport Joiirtuil, has been recently appointed Revenue Collector for his district. A fat, fair and saucy j-oung widow of Connersville threatens to bring suit against a widower of that town for breach of promise. The State Board of Equalization has deducted 5 per cent from the assessed value of lands and improvements in Randolph County. Mrs. Nancy Rigney, of Orange County, recently gave birth to triplets—all boys. The rising family live in Stampers Creek Township. The Worthington Journal is authority for saying that that town “ contains some of the most genuine dead-beats of the nineteenth century.” Willie Stone, at Putnamville, was struck by a stone thrown by a boy and so badly hurt that he fell. In falling he struck on the edge of a tub and broke his neck.

PutLLirs & Son, of the Kokomo Tribune, receive the munificent sum of oneeighth of one cent per square for publishing the ordinances and other legal notices for the Common Council of that city. The Auditor’s report of Decatur County shows a balance in the treasury of $57,858.25, while the county is out of debt. Taxes have been reduced to Twenty-five cents on the SIOO for all county purposesA train on the Vandalia Railroad recently ran over and killed a fireman named Andrew Kelly, at Fillmore. He attempted to climb on his engine while it was moving and fell beneath the wheels. A Terre Haute husband recently hired a man to watch his domicile during his absence. His wife seeing the guardian in the back yard sent a bullet on an exploring expedition in that direction. Exit watchman. The Indiana Christian Sunday-School Association will meet in annual convention in the town of Greencastle, at two o’clock p. m., Tuesday, Aug. 3, 1875, and continue in session until the Thursday evening following. A lady, who said she came from Virginia, made three attempts to commit suicide at Indianapolis, the other day, by throwing herself on the track in front of an advancing train. The bystanders rescued her three times and then placed her in custody.

The storm on the morning of the 14th caused great damage in the vicinity of Lafayette. A stable, several houses and the Wea Church (the finest edifice in the county outside of Lafayette) were struck by lightning, and crops were beaten down and destroyed. The Roshville Republican savs a man named Richmond, living neaV that town, recently whipped his daughter so severely with a wagon whip that sh.e had to be placed iipoer the treatment of a physician. The offense she committed was to pull beets out of the garden. The fellow is not insane—he is-a nipturkl" brute. He now disgraces the jaij. v , ‘ ■ The following postal changes were made in Indiana during the Week end meJtfiv 17, Postmasters appointed—America, Wabash County, Daniel Me Kiel; Bretzville, Dubois County, Franklin P. Hunt; Cannelburgk. Daviess County, W F. D’Brien; Jalapa. Grant County, John C. i Conner: Rono, Perry Connty. William N. Stiles; Troy; Perry County, William V. Connor.