Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1875 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Howard County,. has fourteen postoffices. Thet are talking about a rifle team in Angola.. \ The number of hogs in Elkhart County this year is 25,744. There were 1,200 entries the first day of the Wabash County Fair. They are putting up a new iron fridge across the Wabash at Antioch. Morgan County will have a large corncrop, despite the Dig overflow. Indications,?of crusading are coming to the surface in Wayne County. Putnam County has shipped a cargo of live cattle to the English market The potato crop in Sullivan County is the best that has been-known for years. A Wabash man recently sacrificed a good position to his passion for croquet. Malarial fever has been quite prevalent at Cannelton during the past week or iwor - Henry Reese, an Evansville tailor, left that city the other day by the arsenic route. The Perry County offices are supplied with coai this year at seven cents per bushel. The question of school -books and changes is exciting some attention in ML Vernon. The Anti-Slavery Veterans’ reunion at Greensboro on the 14th and loth of October prox. The net receipts of the Tippecanoe County Fair this year far exceed those of last, jrear. 'o The Pike County Teachers’ Institute was well attended and the exercises quite interesting. Asbury University wants #40,000 for building purposes and anxiously asks who will give it. X X There are thirty-eight applications for divorce at the September term of the Vigo County Court.

The Wabash is so low-at Terre Haute that there is scarcely water enough to varnish the rocks in its bottom. Several State exchanges are establishing educational departments in the interests of the teachers in their several bailiwicks. Houghton, the man who was recently Ku-Kluxed in Crawford County, was in a precarious condition at last accounts afrd~ not thought likely to recover. The total receipts from the Cass County Fair were about $5,000. Tlie Secretary states that after all expenses are paid there will be a surplus of between SSOO and ‘ : : The Assistant State Geologist null visit Kendallville for the purpose of investigating the quality of fish in the lakes, and other matters of interest in natural history. A man named Keller, residing near Goshen, was killed by being run overby a train of cars. He caught bis foot in a switcli-frog and was unable to extricate himself. Mrs. Catherine Hudson, of Blackford County, has been bound-otter to appear at the October term of the Circuit Court to answer to the charge of poisoning her step-son. A Fountain County man applying for license to marry was told the charge, $1.25, when he exclaimed: “Good Lord! you don’t charge that when a man is hard up, do you?” A couple of Stones were rolled down the bluffs near Wabash recently.' They didn’t gather any moss in tlie way, but Mrs. Stone was considerably bunged up. Their buggy upset with them. Near Newark, Greene Co., recently, the boiler of a portable saw-mill exploded, instantly killing James Skinner, a farmer, who wag at tlie mill on business. Four of the mill operatives were seriously injured. George Siegleh, a colored lad fifteen years old, fatally shot tlie bar-keeper of tlie Laclede House, in Evansville, the other morning, because he charged Siegler’s pal, named Cousins, with stealing from him.

A young lady by the name of Cornelia Galaway, aged about twenty-six years and living in Cartilage, Rush County, in a fit recently fell into a deep gutter, and before assistance could arrive died in that condition in a few moments. Crime is unusually prevalent in Evans ville and the city is overrun with deeper.ate characters. The Grand Jury just adjourned found forty-one indictments—the biggest criminal job ever performed in Vanderburgh County. The editor of the "Washington Gazette was assaulted recently by die Mayor of that town and knocked down. That Mayor may possess the kicking faculties of a mule, but the chances are that lie will regret his exertion in that direction before done with it. A State Convention of colored citizens was recently held in Indianapolis to devise ways and means to redress certain alleged grievances—said grievances being the enforcement of the so-called “ Black laws” in certain portions of the State. The convention was organized by the election of Joseph Braboy, of Howard, as President, E. E. Outland, of Marion, as Vice-President, and die usual subordinate officers. Resolutions were adopted calling upon good men of all parties to send men to the ■ next Legislature who will unite for the repeal of the Black laws; approving the President’s policy in the Louisiana troubles; insisting upon the admission of Pinchback as United States Senator from that State; asking the Government to protect -the colored people of Mississippi from mob violence; demanding the establishment of public schools for the education of colored youth; opposing the color line North and South; approving the call for a National Convention of the race to be held at Nashville, Tenn., ih Apri1,,1876, etc., etc.