The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-06-10
THE STATE AT LARGE.
REFLEX OF THE INDIANA PRESS.

REFLEX OF THE INDIANA PRESS.
CASs COUNTY.
A clerk in Logsnsport the other day, in
one days work, copied with his pen two
million names. They were Andrew Million
and William Million.
EVANSVILLE CITY.
The Journal announces that it will ap-
pear next Monday enlarged in size, and cut
and pasted like the Boston Globe.
A son of Colonel j. s. Gardner. named
George P. Gardner, at college in Toronto,
Canada, was accidentally shot last Saturday,
and died Sunday night.
FLOYD COUNTY.
Five candidates for the naval cadetship
having passed examination and come out so
nearly equal that Mr.. Kerr has ordered
reorganization Of the five, June 10
Thursday
JEFFERSON COUNTY.
On the bank of the river there was found,
last Saturday, an unusually large, finely de-
veloped female infant, dead apparently
about twenty-four hours. There being signs
of violence, the doctor made post norton
examination, which developed an extensive
compressed fracture of the skull of the
right side, driving in the bones with such
effect as to force the right eye out of its
socket.
The Courier says of fruitful aged vine in
Madison: Mrs. Rebecca Phillips, mother of
J. ]. and David Phillips, is Sc years of age.
She has thirteen children living, the young
est of whom is 81 years old. She has 1O1
grandchildren, l29 great grand children and
three great great grand children.
PosEY COUNTY.
The twenty-ff.h child of Col. Benjamin
Wilson now lives in this county, but he is
not the youngest of the family by four.
The veteran father reioiced in twenty. nine
children, and was not much less remarka-
bic in other points of his history, some
points of which are as follows: Col. Wilson
commanded the military escort to Go vernon
Dunmore in his treaty with the eel ebrated
Indian Chief Corn Stalk before the revola-
tionary war, then and since known as Dun
more's Campaign, where Chillicothe, o., now
is He commanded the Virginia
militia on the North Western
frontier of Virginia against the Indians dur
ing the revolutionary war, receiving his
commission from the state, but all under
Gen. Washington. He was member OF the
House of Burgesses during our colonial exis-
tence, and also member of the first conven-
ton that adopted the constitution Of Vir-
ginia and for many years lived in fort on
the Tigers Valley river before the war. He
and his family never dared TO stick their
heads out until a careful examination was
made through the port holes of the fort in
the morning to see that Mr.. Indian was not
waiting in ambush for scalp. After the
war; Col. Wilson moved over the Laurel
mountain into Harrison county, now West
Virginia. He was born on the 9th day of
November, 1747, and died on the I'd day OF
December, 1875, was the father of % children
by two wives, OF whom Is grew to maturity
aud all except one married. There are now
living three sons, the oldest rs years old and
| the youngest 81, five daughters, the oldest
| II and the youngest 81.
TERRE HAUTE CITY.
| The Sabbath stiffness and dullness of this
young city Is well illustrated by an incl
dent related in the Journal. A man was
engaged yesterday in mailing board upon
fence. The sound of the blows as he ham,
mered and pounded so completely surprised
the folks there that they actually thought
business was looking up. The rush of i'm
provements stimulated them to such an ex-
tent that they invested extra dimes in soda
water, and are now bankrupt this morning.
! WARREN COUNTY
VIM. Bailey, of Milford, is nearly 80 years
old, yet he was in Lafayette the other day
selling his wool as spry as a boy.
Beware of the widow who writes and signs
herself yours truly, Ask her If she is