Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1876 — STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

STATE NEWS.

A Kentland dealer shipped one ton of dressed poultry to Boston on Thwtdsy «t last week. Bnsijpw ot all kinds appears to have iiyepod up considerably, during the past veek.-—JSsc-During Q»« P**t week the two elevators at this plies have taken in 13,000Jmshels of corn.— RemingThe yopng people's prayer meeting convenes at the M. E. church every Wednesday evening at 7:30. —Arnungfon Jtecpnl The printing business still continues good. Renewals are coming in lively, and we have added | several new names to our list this week.— Remington Record. The new Lafayette city directory contains 6,800 names, which possibly indicates a population of about 15,000. The legislature of Indiana convenes on January 4tb, and lion. JamesD. Williamswill be inaugurated governor on the Bth. Parker Byers, of the Hoosier champion billiard-player, made a run of 188 in a three-ball carom game on a recent evening. Mr. Benjamin Dunkleberger, of Jackson township, killed a hog last week that raised the beam at 656 pounds. How is that for little Starke?—Anar Ledger. The license fees received in Whitley county from the sale of intoxicating liquors, have furnished the means fur an additional toon ths' school in every district in the county.— Columbia City Pott. A band of-gypsies, numbering about 200, most of whom are females, have oncamped near the •‘Vale.” They embrace all nationalities, pot excepting the untutored savage.— Valparaiso Messenger. An Indianapolis gentlemaif recently went into bankruptcy with a deposit in bank of 81,700, which he turned over to his creditors with his other assets. Gov. Hendricks has appointed John A. Holman judge of the Mayion county superior court, to fill a vacancy caused by the election of Judge Perkins to the supreme bench of Indiana. The Indiana state teachers' association will Tuesday evening, December 26th, gnd remain in session until the succeeding Friday. A full attendance of the teachers of the state is desired. I Nearly all of the ice houses at jColumbus, Indiana, have been filled this season with ice five and six inches thick. Last year between >2,000 and $3,000 was invested in the importation of ice from points further north. I Mr. Fourier, of Lafayette, owns 26,000 acres of land in Benton county, and Mr. Earl, of Lafayette, owns 16,000 acres in the same county. Mr. Fowler's land is said to be worth an even million of dollars, and Mr. Earl's about $640,000. The Delphi Journal is now issued in quarto form and printed on a new Campbell press. It also has a new editor and a new dress. It is an excellent country paper and de-, serves the liberal patronage which these signs of prosperity would indicate that it receives. A little four-year-old newsboy, thinly clad, was picked np at the corner of Odd Fellows Hall, yesterday afternoon, by Charlie Keyole, and taken home jnst in time to save his life. The little fellow wrs almost frozen, having turned bl ack in the face from the intense cold, w.hi.v hie limbs utterly refused to do his biding.— lndianapolis Journal.

In the United Staten circuit c<>art at Indianapolis on last Wednesday, George Van Horton yaa $2,000 damages from the Pittsburg, Cincinnati <fc St. Louis niUway. The plaintiff had a firstclara which he refused to surrender if n less accommodated with a seat in the ladies’ ear, and was accordingly put off the train by force. Dr. Moro hfopght into oar office on Tuesday, the horn ofan elk four feet in length and which contained five very large prongs. It wasdng pp on the farm of Mr. Andrews, yho reside* near Paleatipp, while ditching, *4 the depth of two feet. It, is as l«fg« a horn as we have ev*r seep, apd is in a good state of preseryatiofi. Dp Moro designs sending it to Mp Cox, at Indiana* polis, the state geologist, where it will be deposited among his many curiosities and r»lic.«.— IFsrrsre

Henry Brockman, in purchasing a lot of eggs, the other day, discovered one that was near four inches long and about one and a half in diameter. It had been frozen and cracked, and iia odd shape led to an examination of its contents. On taking off a part of the shell another egg was discovered inside, or rather two eggs grown together, one about the sice of a quail's egg and the other somewhat larger. Both had hard shells and were united at the ends. The outer egg contained the white of the egg and the two small ones the yelk. This is the most singular freak of nature that we have met with lately.— Columbus Republican.

Mr. Peipenbring, the restaurateur, is also a bird fancier in hie way. Birds have always been his especial pets. He now has a redbird, not veiy well trained, and a very intelligent bluejay. This bluejay is fond of bis cage, and seems greatly distressed when, after be has been out, the door to it is closed, preventing him from getting back. He is 1 also fond of peanuts, and will fly from his cage to any place in the room where Mr. P. may lay one. He is a sly codger, is thia bluejay. He sometimes sucks an egg 1,1 the show window, but bis guilty conscience makes him dart back to his cage if he sees Mr. P. come into the room. If any attention is shown to the redbird, which is more timid, he is quick to notice it, and is promptly jealous. Tkrre Haute Gazette.

Mrs. Hicks, who has bad an experience of more than ten years in the township trustee’s office, has made the subject of pauperism a study, and gave our reporter some interesting information on the sub ject. She knows hundreds of cases of men who were on the trustee's roH ten years ago, and have been on it ever since. Their children have grown up, married, bred children, and are themselves paupers, clamorous for the relief they have been taught to expect from childhood. To these hereditary paupers this condition of things is the most natural in the world. They were born into it, and know nothing else. And so it goes, the pauper list increasing in arithmetical progression; for it is an astounding fact that the fecundity of the human animal attains its highest development in a condition of the deepest degradation.— lndianapolis Herald. T - -

There was a wintry look about the lighthouse walk, the piers and beach after the terrible snow blast and Arctic cold of December Bth. Docks, piers, walk and beach were encased with ice. For half, the length of the lighthouse walk the ice was filled in solid from the face of the pier to the flooring above. The rails and supports were so thickly gloved with ice that in some places a person could with difficulty make his way to the beacon, and was occasionally compelled to turn sideways. Icicles long and large hung below the rails, fencing in the walk on both sides. A little west of the pier, the sea had breached a cave, forty feet high, into the bowels of Hoosier slide, aud made lively work for the yard men to save the lumber piles from being undermined. On Saturday the lake was higher than ever noticed before. At the Trail Creek terry the water was nearly three feet higher than its usual stage. — Michigan City Enterprise. s' ■

The telegraph reports that on the 15th an accident occurred to a Cincinnati, Lafayette and Chicago train, consisting cf a locomotive and one coach. When six miles west of Lafayette the lire of one of the drivers broke, onmof the pieces falling on the track, throwing the coach from lhe rails. g After dragging over the ties tor a short distance, the coupling broke and th<i i coach was thrown down the bank, I about thirty feet, roiling over three • timet in its descent, breaking in pieces, and more or less severely bruising all the occupants. The following is a list of the injured: J. H. Stewart, superintendent of the road, badly bruised on the head and body, and it is thought one or more ribs are broken; James Spears, bruised in the back, and scalp wounds; J. C. Dobclbower, editor of lhe JJitpotck, badly burned on the neck and both hands, and severely bruised in the back, shoulders and sides; T. P. Emerson, severely bruised in the elbow andthigh, and two scalp wounds; Thomas Park, Lafayette Journal, limbs and hip bruised badlr; W. S. Lingle, editor of the Courier, right hand, left side and leg bruised; Ira G. Howe, G. B. Rich, Geo. • Reynolds, Moses Fowler, and Po- • liceman Cass, all more or less! bruised. It seems miracrflous tuat any escaped with life. The stove, fortunately was securely held by its fastenings, and the addition of fire to the' diaaster was averted. The party were co their way to visit Adams Eat 1, president of the road, at Waldron, by special invitation of Mr. Earl, to vptpesa the operations of and packing ice. •* . ' ’