Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1877 — STATE HEWS. [ARTICLE]

STATE HEWS.

Anderson has a haunted house. The NoMeaviH* court hwfoe «tt sold last week tor SIOO. A hog doctor ha* swung hi* Shingle in Vienna, Scott county. Covington ha* nineteen lawyers, eleven saloons, and only one resident minister. n ; Mrs. Hunts, of Lafayette, Wan Severely injured by the eaptoeiwM of a pop bottle. !a:,<, A theatiroal company hi Evansville wna fined lor burlesquing » judge ot the court. Dr. O. V. Jones, of Covfngton, removed thlrty‘five pound* of ovarian tumor from Mrs. Grady, who ia ia a fair way to recover. On Thursday la*t John Lindley, son of Mr. Eli Lindley, living near Chambersbnrg, vu kicked by a horse on the temple and killed. Dillard Drake, a painter of Mancie, wound ape spree Thuredsy night by a nap on the railroad brack. He was found Friday raorhmg with both leet crushed off. * 0 • t i ■ ■ < . ... i • u l* 1 1 . ; i ■ t ■, i .. The esoapes from the southern prison are more nnmeron* than ever, despite the vigilance of the official*. The institution ha* more inmates than it can accommodate. Conrad Broeker, one of tjhe wealthiest residents of Niew Albany, died recently, leaving an estate of about SIIO,OOO. The property is pot to be divided Among tils heirs until May, 1804. A sixty-five year old beastnamed John L. Morgan, of FairUnd, has been indicted tor an attempt to outrnge a girl eleven years of ago. Two similar offences are charged to his acoounL The body of Edward KHler, a cigar maker who felt overboard irom a ferry-boat -at New Albany the 15th of January Inst, was recovered Wednesday. He left a family in Baltimore. Johnnie McConnell, aged about fifteen years, the son of a wellknown citixen, was drowned in Fox Lake, near Angola, where he wn fishing with a number of companions, Wednesday morning of last week.

Terre Haute Expreer. The village of Dennison boasts of a ladyand two daughter* whose aggregate weight is 618 pounds. The mother is seventy-ftve years of age, Very active, and quite sin agreeable talker. Her weight ia 201 pound*. Her daughter# are both married, weighing 205 and 208 pounds respectively. Monday, May 28, Win. C. Norman, oldest son of Alex. Norman, of Princeton, fell from a freight train on the E. and T* H- road, and was instantly killed. The two remaining sons of Mr. Norman— Charley and Hour)— Were at Mt. Carmel when the death dealing cy*; clone struck that place, ahd Charley was killed outright and nearly consumed by fire, while Henry the youngest, was injured internally, only slightly, however. Wabash Courier: *‘S. Carrie and sisters, South Bend,” is the way he inscribed it upon a Princeton hotel register. The ‘sisters’ were given one room aud the brother another, Sometime during the night the brother got np and repaired to the roQfn occupied by the ‘sisters.’ He remained several hoars, and when he returned to hie own room it was to find it locked, the spring-lock having snapped to when lie went out. He had on nothing but drawers and ntidershirt, aud in this plight was forced to arouse the landlord and acquaint him with the trouble. The brother in this ease is thought to be a prominent business maw of Valparaiso, while the ‘sister# are female* who have hitherto borne a good character.’* The following is a Logansport woman’s scheme: Farmers upon coming to town would hitch their horeee in front of her residence in spite of her placarded notice of“ Dona bitoh here.’’ The other day, boiling over with indignation, she stepped out among the sleepy steeds who were enjoying their noonday siesta, and untying tte hotses from the rack, and then coupling together by tail .and bridle until a long-stretching tandem team waa formed, she finished the exploit by giving the leader a vicious out of the whip, and away they wetot. A-* number one’s oats was Mix miles off and the other hvrses accompanied him to i-upper, it would be useless j io attempt a .description of the profanity of th seven granger# When they found their u«g* missing from the rack. l -