Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1877 — STATE NEWS AND GOSSIP. [ARTICLE]

STATE NEWS AND GOSSIP.

Report rays that cx-renator Wadga will •tart a nows|<apor at HpUart. Religious excitement has caused three women to become insane at Hebron. An irieh womum reported to be 112 yctirs old <li"d nt Wanatah last week. Judge Biddle baa a hundred white rabbit* on Ilia island ut Logansport, but only n ‘ few cabbages. Fight hundred bushels of Pulaski county whent has been shipped to Snyder county, I’etinsylvntna. for seed.’ At Morocco they say “I measured out 25 bushels of oats and weighed them; they weighed 29 bushels nnd 22 pound.” That pnpor will ba aUUtod til Remington “to-morrow," It will need a pretty good start, too, with a Demuorutic editor, —Monticello Democrat. The North anil Smith railroad company propose to extend their line of road to Orford if money can be raised to pay for it. The people say they will raise enough by taxiition, Jasper county will report for duty [at the soldiers’ reunion nt Valparaiso,] Turitdsy, September 18th, with 8t)0 men and a martial bund.—Valparaiso Mctssetig'-r. Who told you so? A match game of baseball, fora purse of SSOO, will be playt d nt South Bend tiie 28th instant. Tho contestants nrc the Junipr.s of Laporte nnd Clippers of Sooth Bon ], the former challenging. An old farmer near Winamac paid'sloo to some sharpers recently to le irn the mysteries of n little game which Im did nbt understand. He was un apt pupil and only required a minute’s instruction. Dr. J. B. Armstrong, a leading physician of Terre Hunte, was shot mid killed while returning from a visit to a patient in the country, one evening lust. week. The cmiso of the murder is a mystery. Tim Indiana Arcliteolrtgical Association will hold a meeting at. Indianapolis, commencing September 12th and continuing in session two days. Fur further information address - !,. B Paso, Richmond, Ind.

Henry Ale near Boswell, Benton County, is 77 year* old. lie cultivated 38 acres, of corn this summer for himself, besides assisting one of bis sons eight Jays. He might be called good strong old Ale Luther Benson docs not hanker for a cell in the hospital for insane. A week or two wits sufficient to satisfy him that it was not -n desirable place of rest deuce. The society and associations were not altogether agreeable. The Enterprise is the only newspaper in Michigan .Gitv—a city of G.OJ9 iubabjr t»'4s. It has lived and flourished among the sand dunes nearly twelve years, and -now is improved and made better than ent-. When a beau offers himself to n pert Flint Lake, Furter county miss ns an escort from nn'evening meeting, she sometimes answers in the purest vernacular, “I don’t have to." It crushes him, and he even wishes that he were dead. . .. Claims for military services render'd during the strike*-amounting to $2,200, have Ix-ejvfiK-d at Indianapolis for. collec-Xi-v. They are to be apportioned between the city of IndiauapalU and the stale fur liquidation. Agricultural lager beer will be permitted to be sold on the fair grounds at Logansport during fair time. This will insure ngrieulHirddrurtle* and «agrieultural quarA 1"! tlicy’ll have a good agricultural time generally; Bell-ringing is to Le done by electricity hcreaftes, in the high school building nt ITyurouth. I’ussiLly sopie geniusjjyty next invi jct a-spanker to be operated by electricity that will have salutary influence over the pupils. f William Davis, well known in Benton om>nty-in—years- past by—td»e pseudonym (lid Blue Davis, was hung at 8: erman, Texas, recently, for murdering a man who was-nttempting to recover some cattle that Davis had stolen.

Bill Mobely, a Lognnspoit rough, is in jliil in default of §I,OOO bail, on a 'charge of having attempted to rape the 11-years-<dd dauglitir*of William Mayor, lie shot Mayor two or three days previous to the attempted outrage on his child. The annual meeting of the Indianapolis, Delphi & Chicago roilroad company, fortta* purpose of electing directors, will be held at Delphi September sth. As tlris is about nil the company does during'the year there ought to be a full attendance. An e even-year-old son of Mr. Pothouse was thrown off a rear cut mowing qiaehine near Goodland, on the 2d instant, had one of his legs cut nearly off, the other badly cut, one finger cut off, and both arms badly cut. It is surprising th it lie wußTiof killed. A man named Fr,mk Carrico, living near Sullivan, is charged with haring kicked to death a little son of Mr?. Fifer, his paramour. They circu'ated the report that the child was killed by falling out of a hayloft; but Carrico’s sou says that his father killed him. Two dollars will procure the best firstclass country paper in the United States for one year. Send it to us —Warsaw Northern Indianian. One dollar will procure one of the best country exchange papers on the Northern Indianian’s list, one year. Send it to us. ' ... . Captain L. A. Cole, of LaPortc, delivered tin eloquent temperance address from the court house steps at South Bend, one evening last week,Which was listened toby a large audit-nee. The Herald says that jhis words left a strong impression upon Jhe minds of his hcirers.