Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1879 — State News. [ARTICLE]

State News.

A malignant type of soarlet fover prevails at Delphi. Willard De Witt of Steuben county is 103 years old. Logansport boasts a matron 109 years old. She is Mrs. Mary Dillon. Leo Templeton, of Benton county, misod 17,000 bushels qfcorn last year. A Father Matthew temperance society has beon’organized at La Porte. The First National Bank of Montioello has an outstanding circulation of $27,000. South Bend suffered a $60,000 fire lust week. It originated in the St Joseph block. Two tons of poultry were shipped from Kentlund one day last week by a single dealer. TTiObert Chapman, aged 60 years, dropped deal ut Marion, 26th, of heart disease. A Winamac doaler Inst week bought 2,027 muskrat, 75 coon, 63 mink, 29 skunk and 1 red fox pelts. , Henry Blocber, Flora, Carroll 'county> wants to buy a $5,000 farm in White county or a county adjoining. Indianapolis ice men expect, to harvest 60,000 tons of congealed water, if conditions are favorable this winter. A Blue Sea, Pulaski county lad, 16 years old, has harvested 746 muskrat, 4 eoeu and 6 mink pelts this season. Mrs. Mann’s store-room at 1 Rochester, was entirely destroyed by fire Sunday evening. Loss, $2,000, insurance §I,OOO. Jacob Hobam was elected coroner of Marshall county last fall, hut refusing to qur.lify, the commissioners had to appoint another. lion. John Hanna, now representing the rndiunapolis district in congress, has bought a farm in Hendrick?.county upon which he will soon move. The Indiana Stale Christian Temperance Union (Blue Ribbon) will meet In convention at No. 75 East Market street, Indiunaplis, January 15th. A farm house belonging to Mr. Fowler, near Fouler, Benton county, valued at $2,000, was burnt December 27th. No insurance. Defective flue. Charles W. Stagg, the well-known stenographer of Indianapolis, has been adjudged insane. < Caused by overwork and the excessive use of stimulants. Jasper county positively declines to grant license to any but marriageable persons, and “good moral character’' is not a saving clause.- —Momticello Herald.

Judge Turner, of South Bend, ia preparing for publication a temperance song-book. It will be/om posed principally of original pieces, set to familiar and popular tunes. Adding coin to the paper money, the total volume of currency after January Ist will be $920,000,000. The purchasing power of this will be equal to $1,600,000,000 in 1870. It is reported by the Plymouth Democrat that rosl has been found on Burr Oak Flats near Maxenkuokoe lake in Marshall county. The vein is said to be four to five feet thick of fair average quality. Judge Wm. K. Logan, for thirty years a resident of Plymouth, Marshall county, moved to Austin, Nevada, a couple of years or so ago. He has recently been elected judge of one of the courts out there. Says the La Porte Argue: The temperance meetings held at Decker's new store building are something in the nature of a powerful revival. A good deul of work is being dono iu the way of reclaiming men who need it. State Superintendent Smart fiads the cost per capita ot common-school education to be less this year than it has been for tbe past teg years. The cost per capita per annum on pupils enrolled is $9.07, against $9.36 last year, and $9.55 in 1876. The cost per capita per annum in daily attendance U $14.82. The old fort of Rappites at New Harmony, burned Monday morning at 10 O’clock. It tfas built in 1795 by Rappites oh the settlement of the territory'fbr protection against Indians and was one of the greatest ourlosHiee of that historical plane. Tho walla of the fort were of stone three i flouring mill by astock company. The loss is sß,ooo', insured for $1,500. The walla 1 "Y'itfff>Vi V- -j ■ T"umiiiUr ,! i ------ temath intset.