The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-11-29
PROVINCIAL INDIANS.


The Pike County Democrat is offered for
sale.
Iaporte is to have an opera house which
will seat $40.
Judge Borden, of Fort Wayne, has Tritten
history OF Allen county.
Rolling Prairie is all muddy on its uppF
side. Why don't it roll over?
The Ohio Falls car works pa their later
ers 80 cents per day of nine henrs.
The Kokomo academy If medicine is
| again in full blast for the winter session
An amateur company q Valparaiso 5 pre-
paring THE Octoroon'i or Christmas eve.
There is some talk ofthe Cambridge City
car works being opensd about the 1st of jan
nary.
Fleming RadcliH late of Che Spiceland
| Reporter. will lauJch the KnightstOwn Jour
nal November 80.
The big democratic wigwam at Jefferson
Vile has been striped of its seats, and is no
longer the wigwah that il was
The O and NJ railroad is in arrears to its
employes 10 tn rmOunt of $4,000, which
will be paid rom the first available earn
| ings.
pocbeste Sentinel: He Will Cumback
| from Loua;ana with smooth, oily story OF
| The radic1 side. Later: He has oil ready
Cumba&.
Ent,r the Baptist Herald 1T BoOnville. Ii
it's EDITOR can live on locusts and wild honey
| ,e nav be able to survive the general jour
nsistic depression.
lAtFort Wayne Friday deaf man driving
4 blind horse came in contact with the NOV
ing end of freight train, and he will never
drive that horse any more.
Martin county has erected handsome but
not gaudy court house on the foundation of
the one destroyed by fire, for $4,000, the
amount the old one was insured for.
At the walking at Valparaiso last Thurs
day evening, Frank McCOllom walked a mile
in six minutes and ~ seconds, and Willard
stanton walked six miles in 80 minutes and
i6 seconds.
New Albany Ledger-Standard: The latest
gag is a card worn under TIE lapel of the
coat collar. If the wearer is asked how the
election resulted he exposes the card, which
reads. "Damfino."
Hoosiers. beware of the festive hickory
mutt A New Albany physician has discoy-
cred that its kernel contains nlyriads of
microscopic worms, which have bad effect
on the human system.
And now cometh the deponent, William
Myers (colOred), living near New Albany,
and testifieth that the Desdemona of his
household tried to accustom him TO taking
pounded glass in his corn pine.
South Bend Register: The local mail agent
at Otis, whose duty it is TO transfer mails he
ween the Lake Shore and New Albany and
salem roads, is in bad box, one that will
doubtless open directly into the peniten-
larry. He has been detected.in stealing reg
stored packages in transit from the New
Albany and Salem to the Lake Shore.
South Bend Register: j. VI. Stadebaker
narrowly escaped death by accident Thurs
day He was showing a visitor around the
works, and while standing below at one of
the elevators was grazed by Il l5-pound axle
which fell from the upper story, and came
lowp end first The violence with which ii
truck caused il To penetrate the floor like a
cannon shot
On suspicion of foul play, the stomach
of the deceased Mrs. Prather. of Jonesyille
was sent to this city for analyzation, and OF
Thursday the chemist who examined ii re.
ported that he found arsenic enough in the
stomach of the deceased to poison seven per
sons. The coroners jury, which had the in
| quest postponed, will resume the taking OIL
| testimony. The case looks desperate for tho
iusband of Mrs. Prather. and there is con
| siderable excitement in Jonesville.
Valparaiso Messenger: 4 young painter
| Of this city became acquainted with a very
| tuesday evening, and invited huI to shar,
| the hospitality of his home. Mark the in
| gratitude of this ''bulldozer" On retirin,
| for the night he remarked that he had n very
,ad case of asthma, which often neceSsitatec
lis getting up in the night. The accommo
| lating host placed a lamp at the disposal o
| ais guest, and retired. His sleep was sweet
| nut how his watch took the asthma and dis
appeared in the night with his guest he car
| ,nly surmise.
Theodore Brough, of Delphi, Friday nigh
was deprived of his overcoat by two mel
who entered the hall of the house where Ia,
ate his supper, and stole that necessary ad
iunct to mans happiness. Mr.. Brougl
went in search of the stolen property an,
thieves, tracking them south of Delphi few
miles, where he met them and demande,
his coat. 4 general melee followed, il
(which Mr.. Brough was shot at, pounded
Sieked. choked, bound and gagged and lief
in the road still minus his coat and also on
i23 and revolver. Since when he has no
| seen his assailants
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