The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-02-23

is placed small stove, and through the
floor of which a small aperture is left
through which to drop the lines. Holes are
cut in the ice and the houses moved over
them, and the fishermen sit by warm stove
while drawing in the fish. Several of these
houses are now on the lake.
LAPoRTE COUNTY.
The following story is good one, told by
the sheriff who accompanied the prisoner.
The latter's name was Watson, and he was
to serve two years. One night the suspense
of the ragged edge" became so unbearable,
that he signiied a desire to die. His fellow
prisoners desiring to see every wish graft
fed, got little -four OF the prison cook
which they made into pills. They were of
fered to Watson on condition that he would
not tell vino gave him the poisonous pills. He
faithfully promised, and taking them with
him to the solitude of his cell, he laid his
weary head upon the hard pillow and swal-
lowed the fatal pills. He laid there for four
mortal hours thinking over his past life and
forgiving very one who had testified to his
stealing that horse, and yearning for the poi
son to take effect. But somehow the swal-
lows did not homeward fly, and finally,
very much discouraged, he walked out of
his cell, where the smiling countenauces
of score OF his fellow prisoners apprized
him that he was the victim of cruel hoax.
NOBLE COUNTY.
The Kendallville Standard speaks thus of
social parties in that vicinity: social
eucher parties are becoming quite fashiona-
BILE this winter. 1t is a very pleasant and
social method of passing an evening, and we
are pleased to see that the old fogy, silly no.
tons and prejudice against this pleasant
pastime is fast dying out. So also in regard
to dancing. How much more genteel, civil
and respectable it is to join pleasant dance
than to romp, pull and haul, hug aud kiss
In the manner practiced by some church So
cIeties.r By which we infer that they have
peculiar church sociables in that region.
PIKE COUNTY.
Orwell is a little settlement in Pike
county, containing 200 inhabitants. About a
year ago, says the Petersburg Press, John
McCarty started a saloon in Orwell, under a
government license. Last summer it was
accidentally or providenlially destroyed by
fire. He afterward started another. On
18th of December, 1874, this saloon was
broken into and all the whisky and other
liquor destroyed. The affidavits charged
that on the date JUST mentioned, in the
county of Pike and state Of Indiana, the de-
PENDANTS, A. @. Richie. Marshal Craig,
Robert Craig Harry Coleman, Thomas
Sullivan, John +. Clarke, Richard Weed
man, John Craig, Ezra Britton and Jacob
ner, destroyed his property by pouring out
barrels of whisky, kegs OF beer and other
LIQUORS, destroying boxes of tobacco, cigars
and Christmas toys, then and there the prop
! erty of John McCarty. The case was tired at
Petersburg last week. John Peekinpaugh,a
boy about eighteen years old, turned states
evidence and made a clean breast. He was
one of the party, and his evidence went
straight to conviction. The different par
ties were represented by able lawyers and
the end was reached on Friday last by ver-
eict OF guilty and the imposition of a fine of
81 and costs each upon the defendants.
SULLIVAN COUNTY.
The Democrat gives the particulars of
sad stabbing ARRAY in this county. 1t says
that last Thursday, one week ago. a serious
affray occurred at the Dodd school house,
in Cass township, wherein boy named
Adolphus Houck stabbed another boy
named Henry Hutchinson, four or five times
with pocket knife, infiicting wounds sup
posed to be fatal. It seems that during play
| time at school, where both boys are pupils,
they got into fight and were separated by
the teacher, Mr.. Stark. In sep
arating the combatants it was claimed
that Stark was unnecessarily severe
on the Hutchinson boy; and from this
fact charge of Partially was brought
against the teacher, and a school meeting
At the meeting the teacher made statement
OF what he had done in the premises and
MrJerry Hutchison followed with declara-
ton that his actiOus had been different from
his statement, whereupon Mr.. Peter Houck
| told Hutchison that he had lied. Hutchinson
knocked Houck down and was proceeding
to punish him, when their respective sons
came to their rescue, and DOlph Houck
stabbed Henry Hutchinson as stated above.
| There is one serious cut in the region of the
kidney, one in the arm, and one or two on
the breast. Young Houck has disappeared.
The same paper also says that N. G. Buff
Esq, has effected a sale of the Sullivan City
mills, the purchaser being Afr. J. G. Neal,
and the price being something over $4,000,
which pays all the membranes and leaves
margin of over 50 600.
SHELBY COUNTY.
The Shelbyville Volunteer thus refers TO
the latest jobs Of bridge building in the
county: The probabilities are that the
county commissioners will build two iron
bridges across Sugar creek this season. One
a. the intersection of three turnpikes at a
point just north of the "Red Mills" in Sugar
Creek township, and one at the Michi-
gan road crossing in Moral township. The
northwestern part Of the county have been
prompt in paying their taxes without muir
muir, while nearly every other portion of
the county Is provided with bridges built
from the public crib, and now we insist that
it is but of justice that that section be pro-
vided with bridges as good as they can be
built.
TIPPRcANoE COUNTY.
The Lafayette Dispatch says that Edward
Riley, young man from Benton county,
now serving out a thirteen days imprison-
ment in our palatial for a petty theft. met