The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-01-31
THE STATE AT LARGE.

roads,
Connersville is going 70 have new opera
house.
"Pouud" socials are in vogue at Brazil.
Clay county.
Viucennes is troubled with confidence
jewelry men.
The Edinburg spirituaiists continue 70
hold weekly seances.
Benton county has four newspapers and
now pines for another.
The next state grange viii be held at the
metropolis of Delaware county.
The 4Sth Indiana will hold reunion at
South Bend on the Sth Of next month.
The Terre Haute Journal says there is still
q very large amount of ice in that city.
A gas company has been organized at
Viucennes with a capital stock of $4,000.
Eighty females are in attendance at the
Purdue Agricultural University at Lsfay-
cite.
There iss said to be considerable grain in the
county, the farmers holding it for better
prices.
st. Joseph county was not represented in
the editorial excursion which started for the
Centennial City.
The county clerk of Wayne county has
been deposed for intemperance, bis BONDS
men refusing to indorse him longer on that
account.
Robert Dale Owen has written to the sec
rotary OF the British National Association
of Spiritualsts that his late illness was due
to overwork.
An old resident of Cass county died at the
advanced age of los years, on last Tuesday.
He had been a resident Of the county TOR
thirty eight years.
South Bend has been experimenting in
street oil lamps, and pronounces them bet
ter than the gas lamp. The citizens are de-
lighted with them.
At coal mine near Covington, last Fri
day, stable containing 1914 kegs of powder
caught fire. The explosion killed seven
mules and one horse.
The report that the Purdue Agricultural
Works at Lafayette had been sold to party
of Pennsylvania gentlemen is contradicted
on the authority of Mr.. Purdue.
Judge Carleton delivered the opening
lecture of the course on English literature,
at Terre Haute, last Monday night. His sub
iect was "Books and Reading"
At meeting of the various pastors of the
city of Richmond. il was decided not TO take
any steps with regard to historical sermons,
as requested by the state Centennial COM
mittee.
The auditor of Green county has called an
election to be held in Cass township on Sat-
urday, February 5, to vote appropriation
of sc, 240 for the construction OF the Indian
apolis, Bloomfield & Evansville railroad.
Wesley Ellis. an Old gentleman who has
reached three score and ten, is the champion
fox hunter of Paoli. Since the first day OF
las. May he has caught and killed twenty
four full grown foxes, twenty red and four
gray ones.
The Vincennes Times says that during the
month OF December 500 car leads of cotton,
sugar, molasses, etc., passed over the Cairo
d Vincennes road for the East, the main
portion being cotton. At least thirty car
loads per day go over that road now.
AQusker citizen of Morgan county pro-
poses to celebrate his 65sh birthday by CIV
ing a feas. to every man in his township,
over so years old, who now abstsins from
profanity and the use of liquor and tobacco,
A canvass shows that the party will not be
large.
TAe Vincennes Times says that the
Metzger family of that city has fallen heir
to an enormous estate, valued at SIl6, 900, 900.
So, it won't be many days until we will
hear the papers, in that vicinity, complain
ing of tramps and discussing the best mode
OF getting rid OF them.
A woman by the name of Mccullough,
AACntcAiy OSAdbkCO q SoN6Io sDOl1 Oh
sickness of typhoid fever living in the
southern part of Gibson county, last Friday
night threw her little daughter, aged eight
or nine years, into cis,ern, and then
jumped in herself. When found in about
an hour sitter, both were taken out dead.
An order has been issued from the general
Office of the Like Shore 81 Michigan South
ern railroad, making a general reduction in
the salaries OF all employees, except agents
and foremen OF departments and gangs OF
men. All men receiving 81 25, will nave
their wages reduced ten per cent, and eli
men paid by the day more than 81 % will
receive Is cents less.
A cutting sffrsy occurred near Petersburg,
Pike county, on last Friday night, in which
Isaac Luff was fatally cut by his brother in
law, William Stubblefeld. The jury re-
turned verdict that he came to his death
by violence, inflicted by the hands of Will
liam Stubblefield with knife, the knife
penetrating between the fourth and fifth
ribs into the left lung; also, one wound be-
tween the sixth and seventh ribs on the
right side, penetrating to the hollow.
Madison Courier: Maria Miller, an
elderly colored woman, wife OF Gabriel
Miller. residing two miles north of Ham
over, met with sudden death this morn
1Dg-in what manner or from what cause
is not definitely known. She went out this
morning to milk young and somewhat
fractions COW, and her absence was not
noticed with apprehension until noon, when
her folks Instituted search and found her
dead booy in the cow lot. Her corpse pre-
scented a gbastly spectacle, for a number of
hogs had eaten her head entirely off. A
blanket was thrown over the body, and her
son-in law, Thomas Blackburn, immediately
came to the city to notify the coroner and
telegraph to friends.
Daviess County Democrat: Last Saturday
Miss Amelia HILBERT, young lady of six
tesc, who lived at Chelsea, q village about
three miles east of this city, INST her death
in the following manner: A young man
named Chris. Grow bad started out hunting
and called at LioDsrt's to get some bullet