Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1876 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

** J. Curran wa* cut in two by a »witchengine at Indianapolis on the 10th. k The State Grange will hold an adjourned meeting at Indianapolis on Jan. 11. Robin Clark, ' the Terre Haute murderer, has surrendered himself and is now in custody. A new Christian church is to lie erected at Kokomo, which will cost, when completed, S2O,(XX). Arrangements are making to celebrate I the fiftieth anniversary of the location of Lafayette as the seat of justice ofTippecanoest'ounty. The Supreme Court has recently decided that the Reporter of the Supreme Court is restricted to three dollars per. volume for his reports, and that dealers cannot recover'a larger sum. The Chicago train due at Lafayette on the morning of the 19tn ran over a man two miles west of the city, cutting off his head, Lgs and arms, and scattering portions of the body for a considerable distance along the track. While hunting near Lotus, Union County, a few days ago, Burgess Gardner was accidentally shot and instantly killed. In order to get a better shot at a rabbit he had climbed a tree and pulled the gun up after him by the muzzle. * Miss Condon, of Seeleyville, wanted to go to a party. Her mother objected. The girl cried but the parent was firm. The gushing creature was romantic and ' took “cold pizen.” A stomach-pump brought her back from the border.

The Evansville Common Council recently voted to fund $300,000 of the city debt by an issue of thirty-year 7 per cent, semi-annual interest bonds. The total city debt amounts to a little over $.>50,000, and was created to aid certain railways. Reports to the State Centennial finance Committee show that auxiliary committees are busily at work in thirtyfive counties, and Jhat throughout the State a gratifying degree of interest is shown. Educational interests will be fully represented. The State’s building op the grounds will be constructed, almost entirely of material donated. The family of Rev. J. W. living at Wakarusa, recently had a narrow escape from burning to deajhby the explosion of a kerosene lamp. ■ The oil set fire to the carpetand the room in which the family were congregated was filled almost instantly with flames, which blazed (<f the ceiling. Mrs. Seaman was seriously burned on the feet and hands before tlie flames were extinguished. The fifty-fifth anniversary of the , Parent Missionary Society of tlie Methodist Church closed its session at Indianapolis on the evening of the 19th by a union meeting of the Methodist churches held at the Academy of Music. Hon. Will. Cumback presided, and addresses were made by Bishops Foster, Harris, and Bowman and Revs. Spencer- and Parkhurst. In the morning missionary sermons were preached in all the churches. The State Grange, recently in session at Indianapolis, elected the following officers for the ensuing year: Henly James, of Marion, Master; Archibald Johnson, of Crawfordsville, Overseer; B. F. Ham, of Pendleton. Lecturer; Mrs. Pauline Paddock, of Union County, Chaplain; E. W. Carr, Steward; J. S. Phillips, of Lebanon, Assistant Steward; J. F. Oliphant, of Lawrence County, Treasurer; C. C. Post, of Starke County, Secretary. John Halford, a farmer living two miles from Middletown, in the south part of Vigo County, was called up a few evenings since about ten or eleven o’clock, and met at the door by two men who asked him to go with them to help them get up a horse which had fallen down on the road a short distance below his house. Suspecting nothing, he went with them. Some time elapsing, and he not returning, his wife grew uneasy, and went in search of him. She could find no trace. Nothing had been heard of him at last accounts. Dr. Pettyjohn, having a medical practice near Westfield, on the borders of Hamilton sonic ten miles north of Indianapolis, recently brolight to Dr. Fletcher, of Indianapolis, for microscopical examination a piece of pork tenderloin and some portions of human muscle which he believed to be infested with triohime. It was learned from him that a family named Beals ate freely of pork tenderloin. Soon after they became affected, some seriously, and one little girl fatally, with symptoms which he afterward traced directly to the presence of trichina:. After the death of the little girl he procured a portion of the gastric tenderloin, and specimens were then submitted to a close microscopical examination by both Drs Fletcher aud Chambers. In a piece of the muscle, the size of a pin-head Dr. Fletcher fpund twenty of the little varmints, of mature growth, and still showing signs of active life. Up to the 19th only the little girl had died, but others of the faiuily were dangerously ill. The following postal changes were made in Indiana, exclusive of Presidential appointments, during the week ending Dec. 18, 1875: Established—Marcy, LaGrange Count}’, Allen Woodruff, Postmaster. "Names changed—Huntersville, Clay County, to Clay City; Rock Lick, HiuTison County, to Locust Point and John Dugins appointed Postmaster. Postmasters appointed—Ashborough, Clay County, George M. Moss; Atkinsonville, Owen County, David Welty; Bear Branch, Ohib County, James Buchanan; Eel River, Allen County, Charles Brown; Gundnim, Pulaski County, George W. Waterman; Irvington, Marion County, John Sim; Oswego, Kosciusko County, John Horrer; Staunton, Clay County, Thomas E. White; Stockdale, Miami County, Andrew J. Casper; Turman’s Creek, Sullivan County, Owen Kisner; Twelve Mile, Cass County, Daniel Shoemaker; Wild Cat, Carndl County, Warren Adams; Williamstown. Decatur County, Benjamin S'. Hester.