Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1875 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Scarlht fkvkr prevails in Lafayette. Fourteen daily mails are received at Vincennes. The Northern Indiana Fair offers $25,OOQ premiums. 1 The Boone County potato crop gives great promise. The Lafayette Courier? calls it the “ reign of terror.” A Lafayette saloon hangs out a sign: “ Drugs for sale here. ” The fishermen of Peru daily violate the State laws by using nets. A permanent medical society has been organized in Pike County. John Madigan was recently killed in a fight at Spring Hill, near Terre Haute. Thb blackberry crop in the Green River bottoms is reported to be simply enormous. The Tippecanoe County Auditor recently paid out S2O for a full-grown wolfscalp. According to the Timet the jail at Peru is in a worse condition than the Calcutta Black-hole. - During ten years 27,462 money orders have been issued from the Richmond Postoffice. Northern Indiana, according to the papers, is absolutely overrun with tramps and beggars. A Lafayette young lady, socially, morally and financially well fixed, adver tises for a husband. School-lands in Center Township, Posey County, at a recent sale, brought as high as $44 per acre. Judge Drummond,, of the United States District Court, has ordered the sale of the Wabash & Erie Canal. The Clay County Teachers’ Institute will be held at Center Point during the week commencing Aug. 23. Hon. John C. Shoemaker has purchased the Indianapolis Sentinel. Lucian G. Matthews assumes editorial charge. Mrs. Riley chased a small boy who was stealing wood from her yard in Indianapolis, the other evening, and dropped dead. —— A four-year-old daughter of George Bow*man, of Indianapolis, recently fell and fractured her skull. She died shortly after. The Daviess County Democrat puts the wheat crop at two-thirds. Hay and potatoes magnificent—far above the average—and corn immense. Lincoln’s foundry and machine shop, at Logansport, was burned a few nights ago, involving a loss of about $15.000. The fire had incendiary origin. Herman Russell, living near Lafayette, was stabbed the other evening by his son, w r hom he was fondling with a leather strap. The old gentleman was fatally injured. J. R. Davis, of the firm of Elphinstine & Co., coal operators in Knox County, recently committed suicide at the Everett House, Indianapolis, by the use of morphine.

The following were the postal changes in the State during the week ending July 24 : Established Patronville, Spencer County, Edward P. Harrison, Postmaster. Name changed—Grand Rapids Crossing, Noble County, to Otto. Postmasters appointed Jordansville, Knox County, Thomas Myers; Mansfield, Parke County, Calvin Pruett; Moscow, Rush County, A. E. Washburn; New Comer, Delaware County, Philip W. Woodring; New Era, De Kalb County, George H. Post; Ray, Steuben County, George D. Avery. The following is a showing of the assessment of real estate and personal by counties as corrected by the State Board of Equalization. The average decrease from the assessment of 1873 will be about 5 1-6 per cent.,-or a falling off of about $50,000,000: Adams, $4,273,690; Allen, $20,674,425; Bartholemew, $lO,731,528; Benton, $6,555,630; Blackford, $2,686,423; Boone, $12,296,170; Brown, $1,642,750; Carroll, $8,379,233; Cass, $13,255,034; Clark, $8,858,067; Clay, $7,664,216; Clinton, $8,503,665; Crawford, sl,322,255; Daviess, $6,671,160; Dearborn, $8,976,142.; Decatur, $9,992,931 ; DeKalb, $6,441,837 ; Delaware, $10,352,914; Dubois, $3,107,677; Elkhart, $14,268,963; Fayette, $8,047,695; Floyd, $10,294,932; Fountain, $8,990,324; Franklin, $8,046,. 472; Fulton, $4,759,515; Gibson, $9,824,009; Grant, $9,239,158; Green, $6,785,023; Hamilton, $11,863,163; Hancock, SB,-* 439,808; Harrison, $4,400,160; Hendricks, $12,744,401; Henry, $13,933,120 ; Howard, $7,133,935; Huntington, $7,469,393; Jackson, $7,332,662; Jasper, $3,879,950; Jay, $5,960,905; Jefferson, $8,958,504; Jennings, $3,606,398; Johnson, $11,637,640; Knox, $10,295,295; Kosciusko, $6,654,685 ; Lagrange, $7,461,229 ; Lake, $6,001,905; Laporte, $11,788,960; Lawrence, $6,792,591; Madison, $11,387,858; Marion (not reported); Marshall, $7,016,945; Martin, $2,070,307 ; Miami, $8,534,137 ; Monroe, $6,430,115; Montgomery, $14,904,718; Morgan, $9,256,000; Newton, $5,004,638; Noble, $7,836,835; Ohio, $1,904,488; j Orange, $3,877,096; Owen, $5,946,775; Parke, $10,941,891; Perry/ $2,927,559; Pike, $3,888,468; Porter, $6,320,154; Posey, $7,510,505; Pulaski, $2,745,008; Putnam, $14,323,945; Randolph, $11,797,- 1 616; Ripley, $4,091,506; Rush, $13,236,945; Scott, $1,592,529; Shelbv, $13,604,515; Spencer, $6,606,607 ; Stark, $1,154,765 ; St. Joseph, $13,048,350; Steuben, $5,233,360;' Sullivan, $6,588,857; Switzerland, $3,979,518; Tippecanoe, $22,157,324; Tipton, $3,912,420; Union, $5,101,880; Vanderburg, $23,577,052; Vermillion, $5,882,165; Vigo, $24,218,355; Wabash, $9,840,566; Warren, $7,648,538; Warrick, $6,040,745; Washington, $5,866,925; Wayne, $23,369,913; Wells, $6,011,410; White, $6,680,505; Whitely, $5,670,611. Total, exclusive of the assessments for Marion County, which cannot be obtained until after the meeting ofthe. County Board of Equalization, $761,160,346. Of this amount $216,012,686 rep resents the personal property, exclusive of, Marion County. \