Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1877 — STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

STATE NEWS.

Plenty of peaches in Pike county Fire bugs are opeiating in Green* castle. The telephone lunacy has struck Kokomo. The circus tariff in Wabash is prohibitory. Hanve*'. hands are in demand in Spencer county. Morgan county farmers complain df weevil ill the wheat. A colored infant took a prize at the recent baby show in Waba*h. Harvest hands are in demand all over tlie slate at from $1.25 to sl.su per day. Mr. Willian Shore, of Madison county, was fatally poisoned by eating wild greens. Mr. Felz, of Rushville, consumes a pint ot bullock blood every day, to cure his consumption. A quart of w hiskey saved ti e life of a snake LiUen man named Frank Shelby, of Crown Point.

John Stiver was tawed up m his own mill at Bourbon, the other day. The Murphy movement has about 2,000 signers in Muncie, nearly onehalf the population. A lunatic 'in the jail attacked a fellow prisoner the other day and almost killed him. James White, lost the top of hi# head by going to sleep on a railroad truck near Huntertown. The farmers of Crawford county harvested the best cron of wheat they have hud for many year*. The root of the beautiful academy at Lebanon was blown off by the high wind of Monday, ol last weik. Israel Pierce was killed by a lightning bolt in Kosciusko county, during the storm on Monday of lasi week. The blue ribbon movement has been a success at Logansporl. About 3,000 persons signed the pledge. Warrick county has a cow that has had foilr calves within eleven months. AH well developed, alive and doing well. Delaware county farmers have sold aboftl 200,000 pounds of wool at an average price of twenty-five cents per pound. A Jeffersonville man tied his wife to a cherry tree and kept her there for six hours. He done it “to take the conceit outen her.” Sally Platt, frail and nnhappy, committed suicide in Frankfort ou Tuesday of last week because her “friend ’ was unkind to her. If the weather continues favorable, Knox county will produce at present price* $600,000 worth ot wheat and $1,000,000 worth of corn. . * A lad aged thirteen years, son of a widow who reside* tu Huntington, was drowned while bathing in the Wabash one afternoon not long since. , Dr. Joseph Gardner, «#' Bjdfcrd, and Prof. Cox, of Indianapolis have sold their kaolitie in hies, near the former city, to some Cincinnati parlies for $25,000. These warm nigh:* tlie corn can actually be heard growing in the river bottom field*. A continual popping and snapping of joint* is kepi up all the ti me.—Ledford Manner. Mr. Stanfield Frwder and Mis* Ida William*, daughter of General Reul>. William*, of the Warsaw lndianian , were married at that place ou Tuesday evening last week. i! A fatal disease has broken out among tlie cows in Warrick county. While giving birth to calves some, lie down and die at once, sdme die in a day or two, and others linger along three or four days. A daughter of Alex. Martin, by way of experiment recently set a turkey gobbler ou 17 hen’s egga. The old fellow went to work, tended to his business and hatched out sixteen living chickens, allot which are doing well. — hranklin Democrat. Richard Work, an employe of* the Jeffersonville News office, though quite a young man, ha* saved, in his time the live* of six ho)* from drowning. Mis last aci of heroism was performed the other night by rescuing a little son of M*-. John Little from a watery grave. ;1 --

James Smelser.bl Wayire comity, tells the following singular story: lie says, Monday, during the storm, as lie was going home from the city of Richmond, and was near Nordyke’s nursery, near the toll gate* on the Ronton pike, in his buggy, a ball of lire as large a» a bucket lell on the seat al his side. He jumped froiu the baggy and was able to get to a house near by, but lor two hours could not speak a word. Persona near corroborate Smelser a statement. —How did bis brealb smell, sir? . Louisville Commercial: This week will close out the government sewing for tour months. There is plenty of material on band and much work to be done, but owing to the stupidity of the democratic congress in refusing to make sn®eieju aopropriatlou work lias to be stopped. This throws out < f employment twenty cutters and about eight hundred sewing women, many of whom defended upon this work for a support lor themselves ami families. The stopping of this work will occasion a heavy Lou* to the business interests of Jefferspti. ville ami New Albany. It 19 a|i owing to the asiutty of democratic congress- '