Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1877 — STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

STATE NEWS.

A. W. Scott, of Oxford, has received an appointment to the West Point military academy. The Presbyterians at Laporte received 119 accessions to their church, Sunday before last. There are more swindlers and confidenceuce sharks in this section of country at the present time than for years past. — Fowler Era. Lots of frozen quails were found after the snowdrifts had melted from the fields, in some parts of this county. — Soulk Tribune' Last month the Terre Haute nail works turned out the largest product of any month since the mill was started, amounting to 4,050 kegs. Two hundred and thirty-two accessions have been made to the M. E. Church at Union City, and the protracted meeting has not yet closed.

A darkey stopping at one of the hotels in this place refused a cup of coffee on the ground that it might injure his complexion.—Monticello herald. Eighty-two probationists have been admitted into the Methodist Episcopal church at Fowler this winter, and twenty-four at Oxford, ns the result of the labors of Rev. Mr. Taylor. Down in Vermont they think Mrs. Emma Maloy is a reformed Irishman.* Our Emma is a native Hoosier, but its that Irish name she picked up that gave her away. —LaPorte Argut. At $2 each it cost St. Joseph eounty S3OO last year to pay the bounty offered on fox scalps, and the board of commissioners have declared all bounties off with twen-ty-five applications pending. Eddie Kief, 19 years old, was caught by a belt in Bowen’s paper mill at Delphi, and thrown across a revolving shaft. Before he could be. extricated he was terribly mangled. His left breast was torn so that the upper portion of the lung and the pulsations of bis heart could be distinctly seen, his left ear was torn oft, and it was found necessary to remove the collar bone entirely. His recovery is considered possible but by no means probable.— Delphi Journal. We have a smaller specimen of humanity in Huntington than Tom Thumb, Coraodore Foote, or any other diminutive" sample of the genus homo. Master Paster, son of Mr. Adam Paster, is one foot shorter than Toni Thumb. He is sprightly, quick witted and as perfect in form as any well-developed person oan be. Tom Thumb started out with Barnum at four years of age, but Master Paster <(or Admiral Toe, as we propose to call him), is smaller than Tom at that Bge, and will not start on his travels for some years yet.—Zlunrincfon