Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1877 — STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

STATE NEWS.

The Rushville baby show was a success. Madison expects to have a music hall soon. South Bend has a Wofnan’s Literary Club. Lafayette will have n fair, beginliihg SepteinMr 3rd; •Fifteen people in Ripley comity want to retail liquor. Twelve convicts were received St the soul hern prison Mondajf of last week. if A colored cpolicenmn strikes terror to the hearts of tile smull boys of Terre Haute. 1 Micfiigan City estimates her present population at 5,837; again of 800 since 1873, An 1812 sword .was. ploughed up by Duuicl Fettpiv, of Randolph dounty. A man nanipd GreefiVVooil, of JefftFraon «oanty,.hf dying from the 4 tdfects of a rat bite.- <; r Mr». John ■4iaridv^, i ,P l f Greens-her*'sfow-lM«Hi«udl bbirthday ou Sunday last. Last Wednesday a Week ago, a young tonu'named Shepherd, living near Carlisle, was killed by a runaway horse. It is estimated that the loss to the strawberry growers of Vigo comity, by the recent frosts cannot be less than $20,000. A Richmond girl gave a bookmark to her sweetheart worked with that soul-stirring refrain, “I ne,ed thee every hour.”

A drunken brute in Fort Wayne offered for sale, the other day, the skeletons of his father and grand-, father,Which he had dug up from the grave for that purpose. Dora Kammerling, of Greensburg x has recovered a judgement for $500,0f the $15,000 'damage she suffered by reason of Hebron Eich’s failure to fulfill his marriage contract. > ’ ■ ' A ten year-old child of William Steffen, wbolives onctookted Cheek,' just beyond the city, limits,Ayas bitten in the lip and face by a vicious dog several days ago. The dog was not killed, bat carefully watched, and this morning the animal died of hydrophobia.?-J/odi-aon Star. A lad twelve years old, living near Valparaiso,.while out hunting th£ other day met with an accident which is likely to disfigure him for life. He took a gun and went out to shoot a crane which was in a marsh near by, and when he fired, the gun buraied. tearing quite a chunk out of'his right cheek. He will be careful’ bowtie fools with shooting irons hereafter. , X, ' 1 i ,w j . £ t Last Thursday evening a vonnjf man by the name of John Henderson, living near Carlisle, fell from the top of a hay-stack upon a sharp stake which had been used for the support of the top of the stack; it ran into him from six to ten inches, euteriag just above the groin and ranging into the bowels. At last accounts he wss still living, but recovery was thought impossible. The Wabash Courier gives a graphic account of a prize fight between two women—Mrs. McNeal and Mrs. Hackelman —of America, in that county. After these two had torn out considerable hair, and. left but little tnore clothing upon each .other than Mrs. Eve is said to have had on before that, trouble with her landlord, other S ar ties, all female, were drawn melee : A »ay.

thrffi’fur fifteen minutes the combatHlits looked more like an animated mass of legs, striped stockingt, chignons, hoop skirts, bnstles, cortits, bonnets, and garters thau anything elso to which ho could compare them. Rheme, of Goshen, is taa|iiig of the bitter water. He is that*cast-off husband of a magiiifieietffi brunette of twenty-two, who liirti three children and then left.lllni, with or without cause. NoiEHhslanding bis discharge, Rheoio still fancies be has property in Mrs. R., and dogs her tooisleps, thryateiiing to shoot any other he wli§ may venture to make her acquwitance. A night or two since he .Haught her walking with a young 01« named Lash, and fired a couple of’pistol shots at him. Mr. Lash ha« business elsewhere. A’ case of almost total depravity bastjusL been brought to light in this hither toquiet town. John Laclear, a Abhool teacher, who has been a district school a few niiU»B south of here, was on last Fri daX by the revelation of several htffib girls who were pupils of his, brifight to grief. According to thpir stories he has been guilty of the most indecent conduct towards thcfoi. Their ages range from seven. years. The story of his beh|®lur is too disgusting to relate. It-iseenis that he was endeavoring toSdd to his knowledge of anatoiny examination of their lower The ladies ot the district preceded to the school-house with the intention of chastising him, but JM&ecented danger from afar, and 1 *fc suddenly for parts unknown, txfeat indignation is felt, and if be should return soon he would probmeet with a warm - reception at the hands of the parents of the uMhiren.— ITes/viZ/e Cor. Chicago