Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1876 — STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

STATE NEWS.

The Fort Wayne Sentinel ia for sale. Ipdianapolis had an SB,OOO blaze Sunday night last. The State Saugeriest waa held at Evansville last week. Three people in Laporte clear $50,003 a year selling opium-eating antidote. The old fair ground of Lake county, containing five acres, was recently sold for $1,545. Walkman, Laporte oounty, ships nearly 12,000 orates of huckleberries a week. Wheat is better and more shunbant in Carroll county than was first reported. At Hammond, Lake oounty, an average of 176 to 200 head of beef cattle are slaughtered daily. The Northern Indiana Sunday School Institute is in session this week at Mishawaka. Mr. A. N. Hart owns 16,000 seres of land in Lake oounty, on which is s ditch 150 feet wide by 60 feet doep. Mr. Jepthx D. New declines the demoei atic renomination for congress, recently tendered him in the 4th district The Valparaiso district conference of the M- E. denomination will convene at Winamae on the 15th. Jimmy Onnthier, of Laporte, recently ate 81 figs in 8 minutes and 48 seconds. He was still alive at last reports. Lafayette people are agitated over. a rumor that Moody and Bankey will visit their eity sometime this winter. Michigan City is the “boss’’ huckleberry market. About 200 bushels of this fruit are chipped from that place daily.