Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1877 — STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

STATE NEWS.

Lafayette is to have a grand 4th oi July celebration. The Battle Ground camp meeting will begin on Thursday, August 19th. Two farm hands in Rush bounty, named James H. Fiske and Columbus Henry, got into a quarrel over a girl, during which Henry was fatally stabbed by his antagonist. Two colored men at Lawrenceburg, named Mot roe Terrell and Green, quarreled over a barking dog kept by the former, which resulted in Terrell shooting Green with a shot-gun, causing instant death. William Kline, who lives three miles northeast of Jackson Station, Tipton county, shot and killed William Bradley, his brother-in-law. The murder was the result of Kline’s jealousy. He was arrested and bound over to court iq the sum of SSOO.

Tito passengers on tiie “New Albany fast mail” that went through Reynolds otto .day last week, took off their h'ats and cheered a< the cars caught up with and passed a horse which appeared to be going in the same direction of the train. It was afterwards ascertained that the horse was tied to a fence, and the singular occurrence thus accounted for. —Jlontictllo [Jerald. Our county treasurer sports- a very creditable suit of c.othes, cost $6.50, which he has worn with much self pride till a day or two ago, Ite paid an order of SIO.OO for a suit of clothes given by the county to,a pauper. This disparity and discrimination between honest industry and KhiftU*s»neßs, is not calculated to impress tiie mind "favorably with the present order of things.— Fowler Era.