Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1876 — STATE ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

STATE ITEMS.

LaFayette claims a population of 80,000. Tbe bar dockets for Clinton county cost $450 per annum. Those tor Jasper, SIOO. Republicans of Allen county have nominated W. H. Baird and H. N. Fitch for representatives. Lt Governor Leonidas Sexton was, on the 11th instant, nominated for congress by the republicans of the 4th district. The funeral of Harvey Bates, Sr. an old, wealthy and prominent citizen of Indianapolis, was held on the Bth instant. Johnny Short, a LaFayette hot air balloon voyager, met with a mishap daring an ascension on the 4th, by which he was precipitated to the ground and nearly killed. At last reports he was likely to recover. Dr. Charles G. Hartman was unanimously renominated for auditor, by the republicans of Pulaski county, on the Ist instant. They also renominated Mr. Teters for sheriff, and placed a fall tioket in the field. Hon. Godlove S. Ortli, republican candidate for governor, opened the campaign at Greencastle on Saturday. He proposes to make it hotter than a lime-kiln for Uncle Jimmey Williams and Hon. Anson Wolcott. Col. John H. Gould, of Delphi, was nominated by the republicans of Carroll, White and Pnlaski, in convention, at Monticello last week, forjudge of the 30th circuit, and J. H. Wallace, of Monticello, for prosecutor. Robert Gunnison, a farmer who resided about five miles south of Ft. Wayne, while descending his well for a bucket that had fallen in, was overcome by noxions gas when about ten feet down qpd fell to the bottom, breaking hio neck and cansing instant death. Lucius Pieroe, a prominent citizen of Monticello, and the independent candidate lor county auditor, was discovered in the woods near that place on Friday evening, in an insensible and almost dying condition from tbe loss of blood consequent upon the accidental cutting of his left foot while chopping‘wood. It is doubtful il be recovers. iSL 4* it:. j; ... r - - -4Mr. Leroy Templeton, of Benton county, candidate for state treasurer on the greenback ticket, was nominated for congress by the independents of the 9th district, at CrawfordsviHe on the Bth instant. M. D. White is the republican nominee, and Judge Ward, who has been bolding court in Rensselaer lor tbe past week, is mentioned in connection with the democratic nomination. On Saturday night the office of the New Castle Mercury was visited during tbe absence of the proprietors and employees, by parties who badly damaged the presses, destroyed the files and part ot the subscription list, and stole $1,200 worth of acoonnts. It is supposed that the outrage was perpetrated in retaliation tor certain published strictures upon tbe conduct of a liquor saloon and its patrons.