Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1876 — STATS NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

STATS NEWS ITEMS.

Horseflies worry Ed. Maxwell at Morocco. LaPortc city possesses an indebtedness of $115,02G. Gon. Packard’s history of LaPorte county Is now for sale. Strawberries for 81 a bushol, less than four cent 9 a quart, at South Bend. A daily paper will bo issued front tho Vincennes Sun office, commencing on the Ist of July. Says the Winauiac Democrat : Tho wheat as a general thing iu Tippecanoe township is very fine. , Dr. Graham N. Fitch, of Logansport, has been made professor of surgery in the Indianapolis Medical College. Property in Indianapolis has depreciated in value 818,000,000 within a year, as shown by the assessment rolls. The Brazil Miner says that a catfish which weighed 140 pounds was caught iu Eel river, at Carpenter’s mill, a few days ago. Articles of association of the Home Building, Loan Fund and Savings association, of Grant county, were recently filed with the secretary of state. Capita! stock 8100,000. Wire fences are becoming popular in LaPorte city. Barbed, they would go far to correct the vicious habit that young people imbibo of leaning across them until midnight. Lake county is reported to have $50,000 surplus funds in her treasury. She ought to use it up; it is too much of a temptation to set before any man iu these days of official corruption. The Grand Temple of Honor of Indiana met at Indianapolis on the 13th, with a larger attendance than last year. The rcport of the Grand Worthy Ileeorder shows an increase in- numbers and prosperity. M Goese, oowe and hogs wandering—*t large on the streets impart a decidedly bucolic air to the city of LaPorte. The Chronicle thinks perhaps this fact has something to do with its reputation of being a summer retreat. A strip of country fifteen miles long by one and one-half wide, in Fulton county was visited by a hailstorm, re- ■ eently, which utterly ruined the growing wheat iu its path. Trees were stripped of their leaves, aud other damage done of serious nature. An apple-tree in Oass county measures 7 \ feet iu circumference one foot above the ground. The spreading top shades nearly a quarter of an acre. In 1572 it produced 44 bushels of fruit. It stands in the orchard of Abraham Hildebrand, in Jefferson township. Ilcnry W. Matson a saloon keeper at Logansport, committed suicide by means of a dose of strychnine, last week. He had been arrested for violating the United States internal revenue laws by selling liquor without government liand killed himself to. avoid a tiial. Among the rows of saintly figures on pedestals and in uiches, at the Centennial Exposition, is aMadonna'i’dlharkablc for the gorgeousness of apparel and sweet benignity of expression, which has been approved by the Pope aud bought for the ltoman Catholic cathedral at Notre Dame, Indiana.

Mrs. Joseph Tibbots, living two miles east of Franecsville, was struck' down by lightning during a receut storm, says the Winamac Democrat. Sho was standing near the cook stove at the time with the cover lifter in her baud. She remained insensible, about twelve hours, but finally The Ibdiuna State Suuday School Convention was held at Fort Wayne on the Bth instant. Win, H. Leveriug of' LaFayette was electod president of the society for ono year; L. W. Willis, of Waterloo, recording secretary; C. 11. Conner, of New Albany, corresponding tc^p.tarv; B. F. Ibach, of Huntington, treasurer. Hon. Adßcu Wolcott’s corn crib, near the railroad track" in the town of Wolcott, in W hite county, is 44x60 feet on the ground and 47 feet high. Ita capacity is 40,000 bushels of ear corn. Connected with St ia a steam elevator and shellcr, the former of which is capable of raising 20 bushels pqr minute, and the latter of shelling &60 bushels |icr hour. This corn crib is ono of the largest in the world'