Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1877 — STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

STATE NEWS.

It takes seven saloons to slake the thirst of Newport. Seventeen poets divinely afliate the ambient air of Crawfordsville. Eighty-year-old pioneers still continue to lay worm fences in Owen county. Mathew Robinson, of the Fourth Ward in Lafayette, ia said to be 100 years old. Major Gentz, a Huntington dog, drank sixteen glasses of beer in fifteen minutes. A girl named Hanson eloped from Attica, a few days since, with a lightning rod peddler. A reduction in the force at the government depot, at Jeffersonville, will be made this month. The Charlestown Herald is dead, the material purchased by Reuhen Daily and removed to Jeffersonville. It will be merged into the National Democrat. Annaser, the man who killed Anderson, for criminal intimacy with his wife, near Van Wert, sometime since, and who confessed the deed, has been tried and acquitted. A Columbus Thomas cat descended a vault and rescued two kittens that bad fallen in. It took two trips, and the kittens, after being washed, were as good as new. Wabash Courier: “We understand that the wife of a certain farmer is playing ghost in order to rid the domestic circle of a very handsome and voluptuous looking servant girt that said farmer is quite attentive to, and whom he will not consent to have take up her abode elsewhere.”

A fearful tornado swept ovyr a portion ot Grant county, recently. Houses were unroofed, trees uprooted, and fences destroyed. A brick church nine miles north of Marion was demolished, at the time filled with people attending the Dunkard service, killing one man and seriously wounding ten or fifteen other persons. Speaking of fish reminds us that the South Bend Register of last, week tells of a boy that sheared a black bass in the St. Joseph river at that city which weighed eleven pounds and three ounces. On account of the Eastern war having caused an advance in the price of provisions, the lad asked an even dollar for his piscatorial capture. The following notice has been served on Jesse Davis by the Kuklux of the “French settlement” in Floyd county: “We your neighbors take this method to inform you that. your conduct as a man and a neighbor has been such as to reflect upon the respectability and good order of thia community in this, that you have repeatedly been known to have been guilty of dishonest and fraudulent acts, and we believe you to be a thief. We know that you have been forced to leave several localities on account of your rascality. We understand that you have come to this township to make a speck and then leave., The men you made the threat to in New Albany that you intended to salt have an eye on you, as we believe you have salted one too many now, and we here give you this advice: Mr- Davis, as soon as^y conveniently settle your aflairsand leave this locality, you will find it to your advantage to do so. We think that thirty days will be quite time enough for you to do so, and if you don’t we will not vouch for your good health.”

A very distressing accident occurred on Wednesday morning by which Mr. Dorsey McCullough, a highly respected yonug man of this place lost his life. A parly ot young men started to the river on a fishing excursion accompanied by Mr. McCullough as one of the party. On arriving at Montgomery’s branch where it flows into the Iroquois, -six miles northeast of this place, the party proceeded to draw the sein, and had made two or three successful draws when Mr. McCullough in Attempting to swim across a deep hole in - the branch, was taken with the cramp and drowned. He was drowned about twelve o’clock and after the entire party had endeavored to rescue him and to recover the body, two of them came to town for assistance, and after the body had laid in the water for ti ve hours they succeeded in reoovering it. Mr. UcCullough was one of the most promi sing young business men in town, and his death has uast a gloom over the town. The bereaved parentshave the sympathies of —Kentlund Press.