The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-12-13
THE STATE AT LARGE.

Burglar are abundant in Rockport.
Tramps and burglars infest all parts of the
state.
Luther Benson lectured at Evansville yes
terCay.
The Kankakee ice harvesters will beein
operations shortly.
The tobacco crop i abundant in the south
ern part of the state
Evansville is wrestling with the unem-
ployed poor problem
D. G. Earle appears as Hamlet, in Teue
Haute on "Wednesday.
David Bucklin was accidentally shot while
rabbit hunting at Princeton.
The funeral of Col Bowling takes place at
Terre IIaute AT o'clock this afternoon.
The Terre Haute grand jury returned II
indictments Thursday and l. yesterday.
Dr. Reed. of VincenneS. cures lOckiaW
with whisky. He lately gave patient three
gallons in a week.
The fast freight to be pat on the Wabash
road next week Is regarded "a a great acqu-
sitiOn TO the line.
W. b. Jef'ries was accidentally shot and
killed by his father AT Nankeetown, on the
Ohio river. last week.
Within the past three days the TeTe
IIaute apd Evansville railway has given con-
Paoli News: a birth, death and marriage
in one family occurred all in one day in
Fayette county Pa, recently.
Ii Is said that the Hon. John Yaryan of
Wayne county, will be a candidate for
speaker Of the lower house of the state leg
iSlature.
The Madison county republican central
committee nominated c. F. Doxey. for sena-
tor to fill the vacancy OccasiOned by the de-
cease of Hon. III. r. Cree.
Paoli News: The sheriff is again assisting
us in furnishing reading matter for our
patrons. 1t pays us, but we do heartily
wish that the necessity for it did not exist.
Ligonier Banner: Governor Tilden re-
ceiyed the largest vote ever cast for any man
for the Office of president And yet the rad
ertiOn 10 count him out."
a young man going by the name of ].
Gordon Bennett created a sensation at Des
PLANES, the other day. His wife heard of
another wife at Elkhart, Indiana, and caused
her friends TO pound him.
Evansville Journal: THE question now
is. will any republican elector sell out?'' 4
very significant question, but isn't it rather
a severe reflection on the morals of the aver
age republican ofhcehOlder?
Rochester Sentinel: The boy that sold
male mOcking-bird deserves a good lashing
from his daddy, over and above the 50 he
received for the beautiful warbler.
Two gentlemen drove forty-five miles,
from Michigan to South Bend, Monday
morning, purchased a cutter of the Stude-
bakers, and drove back in the afternoon.
Ninety miles day is good driving.
1t is charged that discrimination is made
against the wives of democrats at the quar-
termaster's department at Jacksonville. A
Mr.. III. Rust, in a card in the Courier-Jour-
nal, gives the names of parties so Ostracised.
A fire in Terre Haute completely destroyed
the old Hudnut hominy mill Saturday
morning. Less $1,000 to $1,000. Tramps
are blamed for il. Surrounding houses were
saved with difficulty. John Atherton fell
from a roof to the ground and was seriously
hurt.
The Jacksonville rifles received 100 rifles
from the state armory at indianapolis We'd
nesday morning. They are the improved
Springfield breech loading rifles. The com
pany is getting along finely, and will un-
doubtedly be one of the best drilled compa-
MES in the state.
The test of the water works at Logansport
Tuesday afternoon was in the main satisfac-
tory though the machinery seems defective
in some respects. Six of the streams thrown
Dy Stedn aNeTttSeQ lOO lceI u1Sn, anu I'VE
streams thrown by water power gave an av-
erage of 81 feet
In Richmond shop window are seen Ip-
dian curiosities sent by Lieutenant Reed
now stationed at Fort Sully, Dakota. Among
! them is an Indian war-coat worn by Sioux
chief in General Clusters battle, toma-
hawk, stone pipes, contemporaries, Indian
arrows, buffalo, wildcat and white wolf
skins; also, fine specimens of an elk and
/ deer, killed in the Black Hills history of the
Sioux Indians for the past twenty years.
besides many pictures of Indian life and
frontier posts, and very fine lasso made from
buffalo hair.
South Bend Herald: Two ladies APP
preached the editor of this paper on RoelSa-
/ feller's corner one slippery morning last
week. and, with what looked like malice
aforethought, one sat down on the walk and
wickedly threw a leg-we beg pardon
!, foot out against the journalistic shins. and
/ the journalistic corpus being suddenly
stricken with inertia collided with the curb
There was no damage done to the curb. but
We are mad because the owner of the leg
neither apologized for knocking US down nor
thanked US for lifting her up.