Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1875 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Vigo Gqi ntv will.Uy to ran a fair without race.-d < t Evansville will have, no exposition this full. A Newtonville lady was badly bitten by a ferocious hog a few days ago. ■ Tramps arc relieving some of the Posey County farmers of their best clothes. Tuk I’eru Times sets down on the people looking for gold in the soil of Indiana. Work has ceased ih the Daviess County mines because (fee coal cannot be shipped. Terre Haute has fourteen saloons on a single square, and its thirsty inhabitants are clamoring for mere. < The boss of the Logansport chain-gang superintends the operations of his force seated in a rpcking-chair. Indiana has eighty-nine cities (of 8,000 inhabitan's and upward), 203 incorporated villages and 1,011 townships. A social fish-fry has been arranged for on the26th and 27th inst., at Mussel Shoals, White River, near Petersburg. Mrs. Sarah A. Oren, late State Librarinn. has been elected Assi-lant Professor of Mathematics at Peru University. Uriah Young, a farmer residing near Frankfort, recently committed suicide by cutting his throat in a corn-field near his house. The Democrat claims that Rockport has more pretty and marriageable young women than any place of its population in the State. A six-yeabold son of Thomas Thomason, at Mt. Vernon, was kicked to death a few days ago by an old horse whose tail the little fellow caught hold of. R. W. Burk, of Lawrenceburg, formerly road-master of the Ohio & Mississippi Railway, committed suicide the other day by taking twenty grains of morphine. William Taylor, the Spencer County tobacco king, says out of 200 acres of tobacco planted this season he will have 160 acres of the. weed that will be very good. Dr. B. J. Woods, of Angola, was recently murdered at Dundee, Mich. Over SI,OOO in currency and notes, besides a watch and valuable papers, were taken from him. A musical convention, under the direction of Prof. B. F. Peters and E. McDon-' aid, will be held in Washington, Daviess County, beginning Aug. 30, and continuing five days. Another Baptist church of colored members has been organized ip Indianapolis, located on the corner of Morris and Maple streets. This is the sixth church organization of colored brethren in the city. During the recent floods the people of West Point, Tippecanoe County, were considerably exercised by the discovery <sf a human skeleton which had been washed out of the middle of the road by the waters. There has been a bitter revival of the war between the Indianapolis Sentinel and the Journal of the same city. Senator Morton having furnished a copy of his recent speech to the Journal, the latter took such precautions as would prevent the /Scnfittel from getting it, the Associated Press agent being ordered not to let the Sentinel have it. In some way the Sentinel obtained proof-slips of the speech from the Journal office and printed the speech several hours before it was delivered. The following postal changes were made in Indiana during the two weeks ending Aug. 7, 1875; Established—Heckland, Vigo County, Edward J. Keplinger, Postmaster; Dox’s Mills, Wayne County, Robert fox; Forest, Clinton County, Joseph T. Shackelford, Postmaster. Dis-continued-Abbey, Sullivan County; Prosperity, Madison County. Postmasters appointed—America, Wabash _County,Daniel E. McNiel ; Arba, Randolph County, Squire C. Bowen; Blountsville, Henry County, Laurens G. Higgins; Hagerman, Porter County, Henry Dabbert; Hector, Jay County, John Dougherty; Jerome, Howard County, John H. Stone; Riversi de*'Fountain County, Henry Campbell; Slash, Grant County, J. B. Lore; Slate, Jennings County, William Deputy; West Shoals, Martin County, Thomas O. Daggy.

The district affected by the recent inundation, a Terre Haute dispatch says, was confined chiefly to the valley of the Wabash River, beginning about twenty-five miles above Lafayette and extending to its mouth. For that distance the bottoms, from one to two miles in width along the river, were overflowed, the waler being from two to twelve feet deep. A careful estimate, based on a comparison of reports received by the railway companies whose lines traverse that region, and which agree with the reports from other reliable sources, shows that the area of the bottomlands inundated was between 450 and 500 square miles. Of this not to exceed 250 were under cultivation. The crops have been totally destroyed, much of the growing corn having been swept away, while the rest is left ruined. Reckoning fifty bushels to the acre as the probable crop of the overflowed bottoms under cultivation, the loss exceeds 8,000,000. bushels. Besides, the overflow of the tributaries of the Wabash Sas causal a lass of about, as nearlv as can be estimated, a quarter more, which would make an aggregate of 10,000,000 bushels. The figures look big, but the fact is that there are no two of the counties which suffered in which the area under cultivation is hot equal or greaterthah that of the inundated strip along the Wabash and its tributaries. There has been great exaggeration of the damage to the low lands not 'lying on the. Wabash or its This was a few days since estimated as equal to 50 per cent of the entire crop of Central and Southern Indiana. The panic is now subsiding, and the better estimates place the damage at not more than 15 per cent of the crop of Central and Southern Indiana