Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1878 — ROUND ABOUT THE STATE. [ARTICLE]

ROUND ABOUT THE STATE.

Misliswnka line n school debt of $12,0M1 bearing eight per cent, interest. Tho ilrookslon Ilrportcr thinks that tho peach crop in that locality is killed. George Elliott of Sttale Line Oily was kicked 10 death by a lior.io Februar y 21m. J. W. Siders nnd Walter Pipernf Macomb, Ills., likvo bought the Plymouth Urpublican. Purdue University,has houglif, $200,000 worth of (hi 1 five per ceui. bonds of Indiana. A daily mail route has been opened from Rainsville via Pine Village |to Oxford, in Denton county The state board of agriculture lias decided to hold the state lair of 1878 in the last week of September. The New York society for tho suppression of vice will organize a brunch association in Indianapolis. A horse-chestnut tree in the city of TndinnapolU lias already inflated its buds to the size of filberts. Accordina.to'the Register the Goodland Methodist Episcopal Sunday school recently elected a “quorister.” Five children died out of one family near Burnctsville , Whi’e coun’y, within three weeks, with diphtheria. A number oflhc financially oppressed democracy of Pulaski county propose to attend the Fims exposition this year. The feedor dum eight miles below Fort Wayne broke way last Thursday, causing damage to the structure to the extent of $5,000. Abraham Hathaway was found dead in the woods near Medaryvilie, 17th instant. Supposed to have shot himself accidentally while hunting. Lake county boasts a postmaster who has held the the appointment continously for forty years. President Jackson consented to his first commission. A man namod McCormick last week received a judgment in the LaPorte circuit court of $5,000 aguinst’, the Lake Shore railroad for injuries received while coup ling cars. K. P. Harper deputy auditor of Monroe county, committed suicide oh the 21st. Ho was a member of churchy an ardunt temperance worker, and in good circumstances. No cause is known act. August Schaeffer and Mrs. Tesmer .died of trichina spiralis, at South Bend, reoently. Five other persons who ate liverwurst are sick from the action of the parasites, and only onu of them gives hopes of recovery. Quito a number of our citizens attended the jollification at Bonsselavr last week. They report u large crowd anil a good time in general, but that there was no liquor to be had in the town. —Hrookiton Reporter. Nearly a thousand inhabitants of Valparaiso signed the temperance pledge during a recent revival. Possibly that lias something to do with their saloon keepers trying to get a footholl in neigh* boring counties. The commerce received, shipped and .distributed from the port of Michigan City , during the five years from 1873 to 1877 inclusive, as compiled from tho records by a committee appointed by the mayor and common council of Michigan City, for that purpose, shows that by the Indianapolis, Peru nnd Michigan City railroad, and by the Louisville, New Albany and Bulem railroad in Indiana, 22,774 car loads of lumber and 082 car loads of iron ore in Ohio, 4,885, in Kentucky 1,709, and Tennessee 79 car loads of lumber. By Michigan Central railroad 1,8811 car loads of lumber and 1,189 car loads of’rityn ofet .iitd pig iron. There is now on hand Jn , tbe yards, 25,(100,000 feet of lumber. In addition to the above there has been shipped from this portquito "a number of cargos of black-walnut lumber and oak timber, some bf which was shipped direct tb Europe. V