The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-02-07
THE STATE AT LARGE.

Huntington county Is going to have a new
poor house.
The Kokomo Democrat has been changed
to thai of the Dispatch.
The soldiers OF Upton county hold q re-
union on the 22i of february.
The Greensburg Standard favors Godloye
s. Orth strongly Tor governor.
The Charlottesville Review has been sued
for libel to the amount OF $1,000.
Three hundred and seyenty-fve patents
were issued to Indianians during 1879.
The game law for quail, pheasants and
chickens expires on the first OF February.
Loeansport has appointed committee to
canvas the city in the interest of the Cen
tennial.
The amount ofcontributions raised by the
citizens of Richmond in behalf of the Cen
tennial is SlS6.
About 81, 500 have been subscribed at Law
renceburg for the purpose of building a
ferry at that place.
Corn is selling at Terre Hsute for 33(936c,
and farmers who have been waiting for bet
ter prices ard disappointed.
South Bend has issued city bonds amount
ing to s65, 900, which will be thrown upon
the market as soon as printed.
The citizens of Vernon donated $500 for
the purpose of renting and furnishing a
room for the Y. NJ. @. A. at that place.
Notwithstanding the excessive rains of
last summer, Spencer county will have
enough corn to run over to the next crop.
Five hundred citizens of Csss county have
signed the petition of the greenbackers, and
the petitions have been in circulation less
than week.
More than 1000 men are employed in
Richmond manufactures at this time. This
does not include the small shops where no
power is used.
Brazil is the chief center of the block coal
field, surrounded by its forty-five coal shafts.
in which is invested over one million dol
lars, with capacity to mine 1000 tons OF
coal per day.
Vineennes Times: There have been re-
ceived from different church exhibitions,
for centennial PURPOSES in this city, the sum
of Sl57. When other exhibitions, intended
to be given are held, p handsome sum Will
be raised in Vincennes.
Fulton county has recently lost three
aged citizens: Mrs. Ritter, born in Cum
berland county. Pa, aged so years; James
Davis, born in Virginia, aged 69, ard
Catharine Nicodemus, born in Carroll
county, Md, aged SO years and months.
One mine at Brazil. Clay county, has fur
nished the Vsndslis with $4,000 tons OF
freight in one year, and multiplying this By
twenty-five or thirty, the number of mines
working, some idea of the immense amount
shipped from that point can be imagined.
The. Seymour Times dominates another
Indiana republican for the presidency.
Gen. William Mckee Dunn is declared to
have all the requisite qualities for apresi-
dent. He is said to be ''a second Abraham
Lincoln, not quite so funny, but equally as
incapable of wrong doing"
Charlottesville Review; Mr.. Wilcox, a
stock farmer residing a few miles south of
town, has lost five head of fat cattle re-
Gently, with a new disease. The cattle be-
come very much swollen about the neck
and breast, and survive the attack but few
hours. No remedy has been discovered
nor can the disease be attributed to any
particular cause.
During the Y. M. G. A. meeting held at
Vernon lately 135 persons went forward for
prayers, and many testified to change of
heart. When the doors of the different
churches were opened to receive members
"a Joined the Baptist, 10 the Methodist, and
10 Joined the Presbyterian church. Several
others express their intentions of joining
some OF the churches.
Terre Haute Express: On Monday next
the trial of the two men arrested by Officer
Vsndever some months ago. charged with
having thrown the Danville & Terre Haute
night ex press from the track, near Clinton,
two years ago, will occur az Newport, the
county seat Of Vermillion. Nelson Cross
ley, who refused before he went to the peni-
Tertiary to say anything about the matter,
has "wilted," aad will probably lie brought
from "Jeff.N as aswitness.
Evansville Courier: Mr.. Chas. E. Robert,
of the Argus, WIS the recipient yesterday
of congratulatOry letter from his parents
at Nashville, upon the gaining of the recent
suit in the United States Court of Kentucky,
by which they recover a vast territory OF
land in the Blue Grass region. They state
that the value of the land will 60 up into
the millions. The estate has been in litiga-
ton a number Of years, and the decision OF
the court was rendered on the 28sh ult.
Looking around us, we see none upon whom
we would rsther the fortune descend than
upon Mr.. Robert.
Logansport Star: We thought at the time
that the naturalization of spirits, by the
1er-e Hsute medium (?) was a humbug.
Later investigations have only added to this
conclusion. Mr.. Thomas, of Huntington,
Indiana, man whose ability and integrity
Is unquestioned, with several other gentle
men, have given the matter thorough in
vestigation and have pronounced 1t a clever
deception. These parties, like Mr.. Sage, be-
gan their investigation, expecting from re-
presentations that bad been made to them,
to find some reality as a basis Tor those
representations, but falling in this they
unite in pronouncing it fraud.
Logsnsport Journal: While Treasurer
Hebel was on bis way to indianapolis, last
week, going over the Indianapolis 81 Peru
road, ne learned of a man and wife, living
At Arcadia, who had twenty-four children
twelve boys and twelve girls, the oldest be-
ing thirty years ofsge, the result of one mar
rage. The girls all dress alike, and the
family all eat at one table, the girls on one
head and mother at the foot. The old gen.
tleman is well of, aud intends to keep the
family together until be dies, when he says
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