Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1876 — STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

STATE NEWS.

South Bend wants to borrow $2,000. The endowment fund of Pardue university is $375,000. ,w «1 Good oysters are selling for 25 cents a can at Crown Point. Myron Range, of Lake county, recently killed 20 quails at one shot. About forty wagon loads of Gypsies are in camp near Crown Point. Judge Lorenzo C. Daugherty, of Lebanon, died recently of paralysis.

A woman In Pike county, said to weigh 505 pounds, died near Stendale recently. Revival meetings are in progress at Hebron, and many have already united with the church. A colony of a dozen or more persons from Delawarecounty recently moved to Jacksonville Florida. Mrs. Laura Neil, of Dearborn county, died recently, aged 58 years. She weighed 350 pounds. Not less than 700 members were in attendance upon the recent see sion of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows at Indianapolis. Au anti-dramshop league has been organized at Indianapolis which will make efforts to extend its ramifications throughout the state. Jo. Hook, who shot and killed McShane at Bloomington in a quarrel over a chew of tobacco, has been admitted to bail in the sum of SIO,OOO. The residence of Mrs. Culver, at Rochester, was destroyed by fire on the morning of the 21st instant. The family barely escaped with their lives. Loss, $1,600.

Seventeen car-loads of Texan cattle were recently turned upon Fowler & Alexander’s Hickory Grove farm in Benton county, to be wintered and fattened for th? eastern market The lands of Maridfi bounty are appraised for taxable purposes for 1876 at $20,170, 757; lots and improvements, $61,042,915; personal property, $18,836,605; total SIOO,040,277. Last Thursday Mary Perry, daughter of Nathaniel Perry, of Pleasantville, Pike county, while at school fell, and injured her spine so that she died in two hours. She was 13 years old.

Professor Cox estimates that there are 6,500 square miles of coat fields in Indiana, or more than twenty-thee billion tons, which at the present rate of consumption will last 41,000 years. Mr. C. W. Ainsworth, the great Hoosier editorial excursion conductor, has severed his connect ion with the Crown Point Register, and is succeeded by Mr. John J. Wheeler. Frank Bedell, like the star spangled banner, “is still there.” Hog cholera is prevalent in many portions of the state. One gentleman near Argos, Marshall county, recently lost 47 head from this disease. The Benton county papers speak of its appearance in that region and in Warren county. Robert Tweedy was stopped on the highway neftr Pilot Grove, Newton county, ope evening last week, and robbed of his pock it book containing sl3, It is suspected that the crime was committed by people living near by who were lying in wait for a neighbor who had on that day driven S3OO worth of bogs to Goodland. The report of the officers and trustees of the deaf and dnmb asylum shows the introduction of valuable improvements in the system of teaching, including visable speaking. The new set of charts prepared by Dr. W. H. Latham, one of the instructors, havq been adopted all over the country, touring the year, 340 pupils have been admitted, and 303 now remain. The expenses have been $68,533,66. The board asks an appropriation for qext ye>r of >6.6,500,

The proceed* of she Christian festival, last Thursday evening, amounted to about $2L — Remington Record. ...of —. J ■- —«-■—■*-