Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1876 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

Baseball and whooping cough *ro raging among the innocents at Delphi. ... -yr^r-v'^ Lake county' has a neatly kept jail, but it is insufficient for tho purpose. Elkhart will have a baseball tour* riament on tho 4th of July, for a purse of SIOO. Ed. Maxwell is publishing a Onardama folio newspaper at Mo* fteeo, called the Courier. fftevr THnwf ddie of Lake county jtmuA about one thousand trees sms ids place the tp ring past. Kortr*«rr«w year* ago the license fee for aettimtr if urinous liquors at retail m Wsjta* was S§ cents. Am Mthm brigade is to march in (ha fliffelMirif Delphi o» the <tb of July. It wm b* composed Ilf ulin ’T" wwasaw .. i..- ■

Mr*. Molloy, es South Bend, baa Wb iimu-d tvcrou the oeeta and lecture on temperance, her specially, in Loudou. A circus company recently loft one of their dromedaries to recruit it« tailing health on a pasture near Lowell, Lake county. There is talk of organizing a company to build a narrow gauge railroad in the bed of the Wabash & Eric o&ual in Infant* * " The Walkerton, Marshall county, Visitor estimates that the huckleberry crop at that place will amount to not less than 130,000 in value. v_

Dundy James, of the Journal, has been elected superintendent of the water works at LaFayette. Possibly in order that be may become acquainted with averyoseful fluid. It is anticipated that the Battle Ground camp meeting which will assemble on or abont the 23d of August will be the largest oneevfer h&d in the state. It will be in ■session three hr four weeks.

In the Michigan City penitentiary are 574 convicts. Flora, a little village in Carroll county, is supplied with water from flowing wells. All of the wells there are of this character, says the Delphi Time*. They are bored to tho depth of forty feet, iron tnbing is iueerlcd, and water slightly chalcbyatc spouts out the year round. John Kelley acetified bf the murder of Dick Herron at Idaville, Wbilo county, last fall, was tried, fbund gnilty and sentenced to six years in tho penitentiary. Ilis attorneys procured a now trial for him before another jury. They sentenced him to eighteen years in tile penitentiary, and his counsel will now rest from further proceedings in that direction. Ground squirrels can't be numbered in this locality ; the like wan never before known. They arc taking the corn row by row. It in also reported that the potato bugs have made their appearance in bountiful numbers. —Lautrencebvrg Register. This is the harvest of the noteshavers. These heartless barbers cut with a clean, sharp, cut, clean to the bone. Sixty per ount. in no joke. It is an actual, nhameful fact that money ban been loaned in this city at five per cent, a month, tq parties who were compelled to have it, or elso have their homes taken from them. It is said—but we can hardly believe it—that some of tho banks have agents on tho streets loaning money nt these murderous rates. —Indianapolis Herald.