Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1877 — STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

STATE NEWS.

Crawford county cheesed It Ifiat season to the extent of 0,810,000 pounds. An Elkhart bog weighed 001 pounds, when dreaaed ready for the kitchen. Seventeen divorce caeee adorn thetdocket of the Marahall county circuit coart. Thirty oonverta were immersed .in the Ohio river at Evansville, on a recent Sunday. A negro at Warsaw swallowed a 1 silver'half dollar, while tooling with it one day last week. Fifty head of hoga, the property of one man, slaughtered at Richmond last week, averaged 444 pounds > / ■ Henry Ford; an elderly managed about 00 or 00 year*, living . near Greenfield, dropped dead on Tuesday of last week, while.ftl work in the woods getting oat dtoss-ties. Bremaker, Moore & Co.'s large paper mill, at Laurel, wee destroyed by ’ fire on the night of December 28th, entailing a lon of $100,000; insurance $40,000.

A gentleman who has taken pains to learn the fact* says that one-half of tbe hoga in Spenoer county, aboat 10,000 bend, have died of cholera within n year past. Indianapolis supports 1,810 paupers. Of these 526 are of Irish birth, 411 American, 866 eolored, 330 unknown, 16* German, 10 Hebrew, 4 English, 3 Scotch, and 2 French.

The Fort Wayne directory, just issued, contains 9,354 names, an increase of more than 700 offer the directory isau ed last year. These figures show an estimated population of 31,739. . c ~ D. £. Caldwell has bought the Plymouth Republican of Jasper Packard. The latter will now give his undivided attention to the Laporte Chronicle , which he has recently enlarged. It is claimed that a jack rabbit was reoently killed in Galena township, LaPorte county. Probably the animal waa one of the largerspeoies of hare; the jack or mule rabbit is not foundeastof (he Missouri river. A tramp entered the residence of Jaoob Snyder, a farmer a few miles northwest of Fort Wayne, the other day, and stole clothing, silverware, and other articles to tne amount of 9180. The family were absent at the time. Will Taylor, a young man living near Morgantown, while preparing for a hunt a few days ago, blew into the muzzle of hia gun to ascertain if it was loaded. His foot, which held the hammer, slipped and discharged the gnu, causing instant death.

The State Board of Agriculture, whieli has been trying to run an exposition in connection with the fair, and has not succeeded very well, sent a memorial to the gov* ernor last Friday, asking the state to advance SIOO,OOO in the shape of ten-year bonds, to relieve them of their present financial embarrassment. During the year 1870, the number of vessels arriving at the port of Michigan City with freight was 438, bearing a complement of 2,073 sepmen. Tonnage of vessels, 62,828. Freights, 43,234,000 feet of lumber, 26,488,000 shingles, 14,606,000 lath* 6*U6 tons of iron ore, and 1,894 corda of atone. Thi# is a falling off of about 23 per emt from the busiuesa of the previous year. .

Denniq O’Brien, a prominent citizen of Fori Wayne, was assaulted the other evening by two persona whom he oonid not recognize. They gave him a terrible beating, which will lay him ap tor some time. He wavstrnek over the head with a heavy club. O’Brien defended himeeif as w ell as possible, knocking one of his assailants down. He cannot Imagine any cause fur the assault,a.d thinks he waa taken for some' other peiso \ The affair took place in front of the residence of the Hon. - *#n© Williaipa. in tbc heart of the city.

An accident ooeorred at the depot of the Louisville, Mew Albany and Chicago Railroad, in Lafayette, last •week, resulting la the mangling •and death of James R rough, ••earrepairer of the road, Tie ewifeli engine came out of the freight house at the speed of aboat four miles per hoar. Mr. Rough was walking through the yard and attempted to cross the track, bnt slipped and fell, and the ei»gine ran over him, crushing both thighs terribly. He died a few minutes after- Mr. Rough was a sober, industrious, and reliable man, a widower. He leaves four children.