Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1876 — STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

STATE NEWS.

The total expense of the reeent state election was not less than $200,000. Mr. J. R. Peelle, of Knox, has purchased the North Judson Cowier and changed its name to Enterprin. A chicken hawk measuring four and a half feet from tip to tip of wings was killed near Clayrburg, recently. John Dewey, of South Bend, has just received intelligence of a bequest of $50,000 from relatives of his first wile. . Vigo county has sent over one hundred and fifty prisoners to the Jeffersonville penitentiary in the past two years. Hog cholera has been playing havoc among the droves in Delaware county. Over one thousand have been lost by nine fanners. A little child of Pauline Kramer, living near Rockport, was burned to death, a few days since, while playing about a fire in the yard. Mr. John R. Connell, living east of Attica, husked 121 bushels and and 57 pounds of corn in 9 hours and 20 minutes, w da J, not long since. * ’

An infant daughter of Moses Milligan, of Huntington, was scalded to death, a few days ago, by sitting downjn a pail of boiling water. While waiting for • train at Greencastle the other night, a New York traveling salesman was robbed of his jewelry samples;, veined at 12,000. Robert McCullough, of Martin county, was killed the other day while out nutting, by the fall of a butting ram which was being used to shake the nuts from tbe trees. Louis Schmidt, a young German farmer, of Vanderburg county, accidently shot himself in tbe knee, the other day, and bled to death before medical aid could reach him. A boy by the name of Kunkle, about six years old, living near Huntertown, Allen county, was kicked in the stomach by a horse and instantly killed, one day last week. Two little boys were recently playing with a shotgun, in Decatur county, when one of them shot the other through tbe neck, severing tbe jugular vein, and killing him almost instantly. A seven-year-old daughter of Mr. Liske, living near North Judson, attempted to light the fire with coal oil the other day, when the can exploded, setting fire to her clothes and burning her so that she died from the effects.

George Wright, son of Mr. Jackson Wright, who lives three miles east of Corydon, an estimable young man, met with an accident the other day which resulted in his death. He was thrown from his horse and sustained a rupture of a blood vessel. George W. Dietz, of New Albany, the Centennial walkist, is still at Philadelphia. Mr. Dietz recently received an award from the Centennial commissioners as a walkist, and will remain in the Indiana department until the close of tbe great show. I A few days since a man near Milton started his threshing machine in operation with thirteen robust, healthy hands at work; by noon eight were shaking with ague. Next day they felt all right and went to work again; but by noon the five men who escaped on the day before were themeelves prostrated by chills, whjph flopped tbe machine again,

Five pound bass are frequently caught in the Wabash river Mt Huntington. Lightning struck the bsra of B. J. Reed, a commissioner of Clark county, on Saturday night a week ago and destroyed the structure, together with its contents. There were five bead of horses and mules and five tons of hay in the building, and'also a lot of agricultural implements. ... / _ . The report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction shows that the common school fund of the state is $0,428,771.04; congressional fund $2,442,100.89. Total, $8,870,871.98. Increase during the past year, $71,080.20. There are 9,244 acres of congressional school lands still unsold. > Buck Stanley, one of the guards at the northern Indiana penitentiary at Michigan City, narrowly escaped being murdered by convicts the other day. Ten or twelve of the worst criminals set on him with all sorts o( missiles, and he was cut about the neck and on the right arm. Under the rules of the penitentiary the guards arc not allo wed to carry firearms, and Buck was obliged to use his mace, which he did to good advantage, knocking three of the unruly prisoners down. Still, had it pot been for assistance rendered by some of the prisoners, be would undoubtedly have been killed. Dr. John S. Roe, state sens ter. from Jefferson county, corpmitted suicide at the insane asylum at Indianapolis on the Ist instant. He had tied one end of a Abeel A» a nail in theevtadow frame, secured the other about bis neck and strangled himself by throwing his weight upon the improvised rope. Jefferson is a close county, and should the special election to fill the vacancy result in the choice of a democrat it will make a tie in the Legislature, and give the democrats, by the casting vote of the Lieutenant Governor, power to control the management of the penal and benevolent institution*;

C. Vanderivolgan will make » public sale on the farm of tbe late Peter Vandervolgan, five miles northeast of Remington, on Friday, November 24th, at which will be offered a lot of tame hay in stack, corn in crib, one light two-horse wagon, plow, cook-stove, heating stove, clock, and numerous other articles. Nine months credit, without interest, will be given on sums over S 3, purchaser executing usual note. Sums of |3 and under, cash in band. “I understand you make very good eider!” “Yaw,” said the Dutabman. “Hans, my poy, go pring » mugful.” Hans soon returned with a mug brimming fuU,< -and handed it to the dutchman, who drained it to tbe bottom at one draught; then, turning to his astonished visitor, said: “Dare, now, if you dosh not diuk dat ish not goot cider, yoost smell the mug.’’ ■ »«* . ~ ■ Many times a cold exterior eoven a warm heart, and it often happens that a formal and frigid hueband will blossom out into the most devoted of men when his wife goes off to camp-meeting and leaves the hired girl to keep house for him A New Jersey farmer has found out a sure way to keep young fellows from hanging around his from gate. He has the girls sit op jthe back steps. “I take my text dis moraiag/’ said a colored preacher, *frqm dpt portion ob de ScripWß* wbar de Postol Paul pints his j>iatol to de Feetiane.”?/' ■ The ninth apnpal session of tbe National Grange wUI be held in Chicago, commencing on Wednesday, the lstb instant. ‘ —y. Life only valuable when W enjoy the good will of other*