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

STATE NEWS.

Lawn fetes are the fashionable dissipation in Fort Wayne. The Indian springs in Martin county are becoming a favorite sort. .. Warren Goddard is undergoing trial in Parke county for the killing of George Vantossen. A man named Smock had his arm sawed off and thrown twenty feet in the air at the sawniiH ofT. J. Fullenlove, near Crawfordsville, the other day. Charles Daggelt, of Terre Haute, was fatally wounded Friday, while loading logs in Sugar Creek township, Vigo county. A log struck him in the head, fracturing the skull.

A littledaughter of A. Sanderson, of Logansport, aged four years, fell backwards into a kettle of hot lye last Saturday evening, and was terribly scalded. Death resulted in a few hours. On last Tuesday the flouring, mills of Fred. Lohse, at Eberfield, Scott township, Vanderburg county, with its contents, were destroyed by fire. The loss is SIO,OOO, with $6,000 insurance. Last Wednesday William Thompson, of Clinton county, near Stockwell, lost his tine house and all bis outbuildings, except the barn, w hich his neighbors saved. No in-, surauce. Loss, $2,000. Friday morning the building owned by the P., Ft. W. and C. R. R. Co., at Columbia City, were damaged by fire to the amount of $2,500. The fire originated from sparks from a locomotive. The de pot was entirely consume<lc_ The Indianapolis Herald: A lady of Plymouth, this state, who had faith in Vick and helievedimplicitly in his “Floral Guide,” read in that periodical of the beautty’ul cardinal plant, seeds’of which could be had by addressing the publisher, for a small amount of legal tender. She

sent the necessary amount and received in return a small package of seed, which was carefully planted. In a few days the cardinal plants made their way through the earth, and were attended with conscientious care. On cold evenings the vase containing them was brought indoors, and when the sun shone kindly they were permitted to bask in its genial rays. The cardinal plant throve. When ithadenjoyed material existence for three weeks its proud owner was somewhat astonished to see the household cat mount the vase, or lecturn, and eat half of the pct herb, when, Io! it was found to be catnip. _