Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1875 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The roof of a coal-mine at Farmersburg fell in the other day. Gov. Hennkicks, has issued a proclamation announcing the publication and circulation of the acta of 1875. A son of John Michel was recently fatally wolinded by falling from a fen it upon a sharp stick, which penetrated his abdomen. Tire surviving soldiers of the Seventy fifth Indiana Regiment will hold their an. nual reunion at Kokomo on the 21st and 23d of November. s John Hendricks, one of the oldest settlers and wealthiest citizens of Clay CopnA y, and the founder of Brazil, died a few days ago at his home in that city. The Commissioners of Clay County have made an order prohibiting the run ning at large of stock in certain localities where the late high waters washed away the fencing. »■ Joseph J enkixs, a miner in the employ of Veatch, Hall <te Co., Brazil, was killed by a blast of powder in the mine of that firm a few days ago. The explosion took place in the room adjoining the one in which Jenkins was at work, and prostrated the partition, mangling and killing him. The tower of the Court-House in Greensburg is 140 feet high. Near the top, growing out of the joints of the stonework, is a maple tree eight feet high, with a trunk two and a half inches in diameter. The tree is supposed to have sprung from a seed dropped by a passing bird. It is a curiosity which attracts much attention. The body of Emma Myers, a beautiful young woman living in Indianapolis, -was found in a cistern at her residence the other evening. She left the house about noon, and it is supposed that while attempting to draw water was seized with dizziness and- fell into the cistern headlong. No gashes or Bears were found upon her person. Smithson College, located at Logansport, opened on the Ist with the following reorganized faculty: R. N. John, President and Professor of Science; Wm. Lee, M. D., Professor of Languages; Leora K,Bowyer, Principal and Teacher of Higher English Branches; Emily W. Peakes, Professor of Mathematics; D. P. Baldwin, Professor of Law and Logic. A wonderful specimen of the human family recently turned up at Richmond. His wonderful development is in both his muscular strength and peculiar construction, by which he is enabled of contractions to shift his heart about, first lowering it to the abdomen on the left side, tben across to the right side of the abdomen, and then upward to his right side opposite its original and natural position. Two of the parties who robbed the Central Bank of Indianapolis of $5,000, in June last, it is believed have been discovered in the persons of Mrs. Marion E. Warren, of Charlestown, Mass., and one C. E: Thompson, alias Stevens. During the past six months they have traveled through the West disposing of forged railway stock certificates. In February last they made a raid on Simon Jones & Co.’s bank, of St. .John, N. 8., robbing it of $30,000: A singular white discoloration, like a sort of brick leprosy, has appeared on the walls of several of the pressed-brick fronts in Indianapolis. It looks like a whitening from lime-wash, or a saline “ effervescence,” as if the wall had sweated a briny moisture and evaporation had left the salt behind. A similar white deposit is seen on the weeds and grass bordering the ponds left by the late flood in the river and Eagle Creek. In several places these are surrounded by a band like white tape, at a distance, or a margin of paper, a foot or two wide, looking much as if the freshet had run lime-water over the vegetation, which it has left visible as it receded. The Woman's Temperance Union of Indiana are circulating throughout the State for signatures the following memorial to Congress, with a view of presenting it when the National Legislature meets in December: To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the United States , in Congress Assembled: Whereas. The Honor traffic is fraught with evil to the property, health, homes, lives and peace of our citizens: and Whereas. Governments are instituted to secure the peace, prosperity and well-being of the citizens; therefore. We, the undersigned, citizens of the State of Indiana. hereby pray your honorable body—1. To appoint a commission to investigate and report the effect of the liquor traffic in the United State* on the health, intelligence, industry, prosperity. crime and pauperism of the individuals; also upon taxation, revenue and the general welfare of the country. i. To prohibit the importation of alcoholic liquors from foreign countries. 8. To prohibit the manufacture and sale of alcoholic liquors as a beverage in the District of Columbia. in the Territories of the United States, and all places where Congress exercises exclusive legislation. e

4. To require total abstinence from alcoholic liquor* as a beverage on the part of all officials and subordinates in the civil, military and naval service of the United States. And will continue to pray. In response to a letter of inquiry Atty.Gen. Buskirk has prepared the following opinion upon & subject of considerable importance : You stste in your letter that in March last the Board of Commissioners of your county selected a Grand Jury of twelve for the term of your Circuit Court, which will convene before March. IST6. and ! yon ask: "Should a venire issue for the twelve : already chosen by the commissioners, orfor any of I them at all?" *" If tit of those already chosen are ' to serve as the Grand Jury how are they to be se- ! lecte . V In my opinion every Grand Jury which i meets before the regular session of the Board of County Commissioners in March next will properly consist of the twelve persons selected therefor under the present law. The act of March 13.1ST’>. will soon be in force, yet. by its own terms, it will no; be -operative until next March; for at that time will convene the first regu ar session in each year of the Board of Commissioners for each county after the act comes in force, as therein provided for. It is tree that the fourth section of the act of March 13. 1875. repeals all laws and parts of laws in conflict therewith, and the question may arise as to the validity of indict- } Timents lound "by Grand Juries consisting of/ twelve persons after said act conies in ; force, because of the inapt phraseology of the proviso in the third section. But this is a question which does not relate to your duties as a Clerk, aa It is plain, in my opinion, that you are to issue a venire for the twelve persons selected for the Grand Jury under the present law. The question • I lave referred to will nave to be settled by the courts, although I have no fears as to the decision being in favor of the validity of the indictments found by each Grand Juries; yet, if the question should be decided otherwise, the responsibiltiy must rest treon the.: Legislature, and it would not probably affect the views which I have given for : jour guidance, in compliance with your request ; therefor. . - - 1