The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-09-08
STATE NEWS.
REFLEX OF THE INDIANA PRE-:

very certain that we will have a fair in this
county this fall. J. ]. Maddox has started
the ball to rolling and win very likely stop
at the right place. The county has a race
track. and as for stock, Blackford is not be-
hind other counties in that line. The inten-
ton is to hold the fair on the 18th and 10th
Of October.
CLARK COUNTY.
Up to this date it is undecided whether
Clark and Lewis are the guilty fiends who
tied Gardner to the railroad or not. There
is sufficient excitement on the subject, too
much for wise and law-abiding conduct.
cAss COUNTY.
The Pharos, in a moment of elevation,
dilates as follows: Everything indicates
that the population of Logsnsport is rapidly
increasing. There are no vacant houses in
the city, and our clearinghouse and hotels
are all well filed. While many of the manu-
featuring establishments in neighboring
cities were compelled to stop during the
panic ours have kept right along, most of
them making full time. This is encouraging
to our citizens, and shows that our superior
railroad facilities are of inestimable value.
Logansport manufacturers do not have to
depend on home market for their products.
Our growth, even since the panic, has been
steadily increasing, and many first-class
erected. 1t is safe to predict that our popu-
lation in 1880 will number 5000, at least.
ORANGE COUNTY.
The Ledger-Standsrd correspondent writes
under date of the I'd inst. that the quiet
little city of Orleans was visited on wednes-
day morning with quite conflagration. At
about $50 a. NJ. the cry of fire rang through
the town, and instantly the people were all
on tho f,aoUa m the diroofi0n of Pre- nv
terrain church. It proved to be the large
two story dwelling, belonging to the Rev.
r. C.. Mckinney, situated near the Presby
terrain church. But the flames had gained
such Roadway as to render all efforts TO save
the house useless.
ST. JOSEPH COUNTY.
The South Bend Tribune says that John
NJ. Shocks, of Warren township, threshed
1917 acres of the Fultz wheat which yielded
him over "a bushels to the acre.
Also, that Aleck Staples, of that city, is
lowering the $4,000 pound bell at Notre
Dame, known as the biggest bell in America,
preparatory to removing it to its permanent
position in the tower of the new church
building.
The same journal is authority for saying
that the Studebaker Bros. are fast bringing
order out of the con fusion into which the fire
threw their affairs, and they will soon have
everything moving along in their usual
smooth and well-trained manner.
A Mrs. Schnable was backed of bridge
at Mishawaka by brute OF a horse and
nearly killed. But listen to the story of her
mother: She became the mother of p child
rem in % years, two of them being born in
one year-one in January and one in No
vember. She is only 40 years of age now
nd ic Of a a a cir
There's woman for the west.
sTARKE COUNTY.
The Chicago Times makes "foolishuess
nit" the Knox Spectator. 1t sets him off as
follows: Mr.. J. A. Garner, of Knox, Ind, is
merchant, Within the precincts and
among the slashes of Starke county, Ind, he
is man of mark. He sells the granpers
their goods, parts his hair artistically, and
wears store clothes of the most startling
pattern. Last week he came to this city on
good terms with himself and all the world.
and was meandering his way down Madison
street. convinced that had fortune placed
hiSi lin his earlier days on the spot where
Chicago has since developed, he would have
achieved a worldwide reputation as merch-
ant prince. A bulletin board in front of a real
estate office attracted his attention; he read,
with speculation glaring from his eyes, "Chi-
cago real estate in exchange for country
property or merchandise" He entered, and
was greeted kindly by the proprietor; he
spoke of the legend he had just read, and
asked the character of the real estate. A
beautifully autographed map of the "Boule-
ward Addition to Chicago" was shown him,
and he was told that a gentleman who was
reputed wealthy was in falling circum-
stances, and, intending to take the benefit
of the bankrupt law, wished to dis
pose of his valuable real estate, put
Io do Oil in h
pocket, or real estate in the name of his wife.
One hundred choice lots were offered at 500
per lot. Mr.. Garner saw his golden oppor-
tunity; be traded his stock of goods in
Knox, which were to be invoiced; his house
and lot in Knox, his farm in Starke county,
amounting in all to $4,000, for the boule-
ward lots. He went to see the lots first, and
was shown lots at Washington Heights. He
went home, the goods were invoiced,
packed up, shipped TO Hamlet, and were to
be delivered in this city on the 18th of
August. Ho made out the deeds
to deliver, and came to this city Thursday,
feeling that he was on the high road to
wealth and prosperity. He wanted house
in Town to which he could move his family,
and as he passed along the streets he saw one
advertised on another bulletin board to ex-
change for suburban lots. He had great
faith now in bulletin boards, so in he goes
and proposes to trade his boulevard lots at
$500 each. The scorn with which his pro-
posal was met astonished him, but he made
another offer at $3.50 each. The knowing
real estate man said to him "See here nv
friend, you can't trade them Tom Scott lots
to me at any price; they amt worth ten cents
piece" Then followed an explanation OF
the position and size of these lots, and
Mr.. Garner was astonished to find that
"lot" could be laid out three feet front by
six feet deep, and be an addition to Chicago
when it was eighteen miles from the cOurt
house. Mr.. Garner, in about an hour after
he went into that last real estate office, was
seen furiously hunting telegraph office to
stop them goods from being shipped, and on
the evening train he left for the slashes of
Stark, a saddeued man, who, in the depths
of his consciousness, doubted if he would
have succeeded as well in the metropolis of
the northwest as he has in the quieter cir