Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1875 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Clark County Is entirely out of debt, and the current expenses Amount to 140,000 per year. The small-pox is raging in Oakland City, and many of the citizens are taking refuge in adjoining counties. Several of the Republican papers in the State are speaking of Hon. D. D. Pratt as a probable nominee for Governor. The Northern Indiana Nonna) School, at Valparaiso, is said to be the largest Normal School in the’United States, numbering at the present time 931 stude'nts. Dan. Craycraft's fancy and grocery store, at Noblesville, was burglariously entered the other night and robbed of about SSOD worth of merchandise. Considerable interest is being manifested in the meetingof the State Road Association to be held in Indianapolis Jan. 6, 1876. County agricultural societies are taking the matter in hand and will send delegates. Adolph C. Stein, lately a resident of Seymour and editor of the Aiizeiger, a German paper printed there, committed suicide at Cincinnati the other day. He was discharged from the paper because of his drunken habits. The Indianapolis newspapers call for tlie construction of extensive stock-yards at that place. It is estimated that the stock movement over Indianapolis lines during 1875 will exceed that of any former year lully one-third*. A three-year-old daughter of Amos Reeves, residing near Fredonia, was burned to death the other day. Site had been out playing, and, coming too near the flip, allowed her clothes to become ignited, with fatal results. The Women's State Christian Temperance Union have forwarded a memorial to tlie National Centennial Commission, asking that body to refuse to grant to any person the privilege of selling intoxicating liquors within the Exposition building and grounds. Tlie memorial is signed by tlie President and other officers of the union, and is indorsed by Indiana clergymen and business men.

A State Monumental Association was formed at IndianopOlis a few days ago, with the following officers: John Coburn, President; John W. Bay, Treasurer; C. W. Brouse, Secretary; A. D. Strieght, B. C. Shaw, N. Gleason, Thomas BringhUrst, J. B. Julian, Geo. J. Langsdale and Franz Erdelmeyer, Executive Committee. Tlie following Vice-Presidents were appointed with tlie understanding that the list will ; be completed as fast as the counties orI ganize: A. Moore, Putnam-. John M. Lord, Marion; L. D. Baldwin, Grant; T. H. B. McCain, Montgomery; ! Samuel K. Harryman, Morgan; J. B. : Jackson, Hamilton'; A. Q. Miller, Boone S. P. Oyler, Johnson. James Ferguson was, convicted last August, at Madison, for the murder of John Stilheimer, in a drunken row at a negro picnic, and sentenced to the State Prison for life. On appeal to the Supreme Court a new trial was granted which came oft a few days ago, resulting in a twenty-oue-year sentence. On the afternoon of the 11th he was allowed to visit his mother, six miles out in the country, before going to the Penitentiary. The Deputj- Sheriff remained below, a la Tweed, and Ferguson went up stairs and jumped out of the window, also a. la Tweed, and effected an escape before the officer had got through examining the mantel ornaments. The Sheriff offers a reward of |SOO for his recapture. The fact that a man named Parker had been arrested in Cannelton for burglary, tried and sentenced to the Penitentiary, was recently chronicled. It seems that when Parker was arrested he was minus one eye, very lame, and otherwise quite unwell. During tlie trial he grew worse and worse, and at the time of his conviction he was supposed to be so near death’s <door the Judge, in the kindness of his heart, did not order him sent to the Penitentiary lest he die, in the bauds of the Sheriff, on the road. Dr. Bemis, a veteran physician of Cannelton, attended the unfortunate criminal and pronounced his disease to be paralysis. One of the man’s legs was very badly warped and the doctor, with all his skill, fieemed unable to straighten it. In this condition he was watched by the Deputy Sheriff, with the expectation that every day and night would be his last. Sure enough one night he did “go off,” but not according to expectation. The Deputy Sheriff, weary with watching, went tc sleep, at the sight of which the paralytic was restored to health. He quickly relieved his guard of his pocket-book and gold watch, locked him in tiie cell, and left for parts so. far not ascertained.

The afcHowihg postal changes were made in Indiana during the two weeks ending Dec. 11, 1875: Established—Johnsonville, Warren County, George W. Johnson, Postmaster; Oakwood, La Porte County, Lemuel S. Fitch, Postmaster Discontinued —Northern Depot, Boone County; Reed, Tippecanoe County;South Cleveland, Whitley County. Postmasters appointed—Americus, Tippecanoe County, Andrew' Mcßride; Augusta Station, Marion County, Reuben Kilgensmith; Bretzville, Dubois Couni y, John C. O. Ritzman; Cason, Boone County, Fielding Denney; County Line, Tippeeanoe County, Andrew Metzger; Freeport, Shelby County, Hiram B. Crute; Greenfield, Hancock County, Hugh B. Wilson; Laketon, Wabash County, William A. Forst; Lyons, Greene County, Isaac Halstead; Mariah Hill, Spencer County, Mrs. Barbara Wagner; Milledgeville, Boone County, James E. Pinnell; New Mount Pleasant, Jay County, Mrs. Sarah N. Ingersoll; Paw-Paw, Miami County, D. L. Repp; Pleasant View,,Wabash County, W. G. Gardner ; Somerset, Wabash County, H. D. Lawslie; Stilesville, Hendricks County, Bary M. Gentry; Whiteland, Johnson County, Joseph D. Beebe; Wolf Creek, Marshall County, John J. Thompson.