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

STATE NEWS.

EvaMvillo Indulged hi u SSO.OOO on the Bth u»«UuL Expons* toe bonfire that. Lake county is out of debt, has ♦BO,OOO in her treasery, and wants a new court bouM. A coal flotilla on the Ohio river laden with 4,000.000 bushels of black diamonds, touched at Madison last week. Maple HUgar sells at wholesale for 12| cents a pound al Indianapolis, and maple syrup brings 75 eeote a gallon. Valparaiso thinks her city clothes too large and expensive for her, and wishes she were a happy little town again. A Newton county literary pociety has this motto: “We rise by our own efforts.** Is it possible that not one of them ever sat down on a bent pin? Richard Vint, the embezzling cashier of the Singer sewing machine branch office at Indianapolis, has been convicted and sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary. He stole between 115,000 and $20,000 from the company. Gov. Williams has issued his proclamation calling an extra session of the legislature. He has been bulldosed by the members who are making more per day than they ever did before at any reputable calling.— Winamac Democrat. Ninety and nine bills were passed by the regular session of the legislature st an average cost each of ♦1,282.62, or the total expense of ♦125,000. And now that body is •ovened in extra session to 'pass more bills and add on more expense. Indianapolis aspires to be the greatest mule market in the world. Congressman Hewitt telegraphed from New York city just before the close of the October election to Senator Barnum, who was then st Indianapolis, to “buy seven more mules'* for the democratic party, —Since that time Indianapolis mule dealers have entertained great expectations. The Winamac Democrat says the jury that .tried the Scott-Teeters election case here, was composed of ten republicans and two democrats. The jury, politically considered, consisted of eight republicans, three democrats and one in- . dependent. The fact is that Teeters ought to have been returned by three majority instead of one.— Crown Point Regieter. The boiler in the saw mill of Roush & Pyle, at Rockford, Wells county, exploded on the Bth inst, George Roush, one of the proprietors, was instantly killed. Ada laski Morgan, aged 15 years, was fatally injured. Robert Pyle, another of the proprietors, was seriously injured. The mill is a complete wreck. Scarcity of water in the boiler caused the explosion. The Valparaiso normal school is contracting a bad name. Pupils in attendance report the frequent loss of valuables—the property is stoleif from there—and they suspect there are youngprofeesional thieves •attending the school in the capacity of students. One of Mr. Thomas Robinson's sons of this place recently lost a gold watch valued at $l5O, which was abstracted from his bed room after night while he was sleeping. A Baltimore fruit-canning firm has leased 800 acres of land near Greenwood, a few miles south of Indianapolis, 500 acres of which will be devoted to raising tomatoes, sod 300 acres to sweet potatoes. J. T. Pope A Sons are to superintend the farm and are now conconstructing hot-beds in which to stat 600,000 tomato plants. A canning building will also be built, 250 feet long and 35 feet Wide, where the tomato crop will be prepared for markbt. On the morning of the 7th inst. a young man was found on thej track of the Wabash railroad near the Heath cruasiug, in the eastern part, of AafayeUe, with one ami and botli legfc cut off. He was alive when found, but died- soon after. From papers on his person, his name was ascertained to be 8. Sheridan, living with a Mr. Wiles, pear Buck Creek. He was subject to fits, ahd it is supposed that while walking on the track he was taken with «>ne and wasrun over by the para. • ", ‘ . *JThe Plymouth Democrat of last week devotes two and a half coluipps pf brevier type to the useful purpose ot showing up the sharp financial tricke of Marvin 11. Bovee, a Wuwoasin dead boat whom the |ndian> democratic state central committee employed Hat fall to stump the #a<p ff|r “Tilden. Blue Jeans, bomeaty and reform” It seems that thus H<m. Bovee has been jnaftug practical application pf h»« reform doctrines and that all pf hie riptiiV M far as heard from «rp Ina party brethren. Boss Tweed, & J. Tilden, Marvin H. Jtaree-are representative individuals of a big gaug. The greater Jhe rascal the louder she cry of pp-