The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-01-24

DleG IN frankfort, Clinton county, 10 Lear
an address from the state financial agent
in relation TO Centennial mstter. Com
mittees OF ladies and gentlemen were sp-
preparation TO exhibit the interests of the
county. The schools hsYe made couiri-
/ button 70 the Centennial fund of $40.
The North Vernon Sun, in speaking of the
plow which carried of the gold medal at the
last state fair, says that the Advance, since
its introduction has stood the test of several
trials for the championship, coming out
frst-best in every instance. Mr.. Butler has
made the manufacture of plows lifetime
study, having expended thousands of dol
lars in experimenting in order to produce
| plow per Get in every re pect. The peculiar
shape of its share is wherein its merit Lies,
| being so constructed as to make it run
steadier, with lighter draft, turn better
furrow, and wear longer than any other
plow now in use. Buffers ploWs are known
the word over. as they have been on the
market for years, bnt the Advance, as its
name indicates, ranks ahead of anything
ever yet introduced.
lafayette Courier: About three years ago
young man In the employ OF David Bent
ford, farmer, living near Thorntown. on
the l., G. & L. road, disappeared under very
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At the tina of his disappearance there were
many rumors sfioat, and hints of foul play
were freely circulated throughout the neigh
borhOod; but, in The course of time, the
excitement quieted down and the affair
would have been forgotten had not the gOs-
sips revived the old rumors, and now the
people are thoroughly bent on rigid inves-
| sigatiOn being made. Some have gone so
| Tar as to associate the supposed death of the
young man with the name of his former
employer, who is a respectable ana hOnOred
citizen, but the damaging reports are be-
lieved TO be without foundation in fact.
A letter from Bloomington. Monroe
county, dated January IL, gives the following
account of the suicide of Joseph Frost,
farmer, living two miles north OF Bloom
ington: He was fouuc partly resting on
some hay lying on the floor of the barn
His legs were lying full length on the hay,
with his head within two feet of the floor
The upper ends of the pillow lines were
fastened to log eight feet from the floor
These lines were douhly stranded. The
fatal moose, instead of being about his neck
was found across his mouth and the hollow
of his chin. His neck was broken by his
headlong fall, his body weighing something
over 200 pounds. He must have died in
stantly, as the hay was undisturDed. His
discOnsolate wife noted his singular con-
duct this morning, when frequent and
mysterious trips were made by him back
ward and forward from the house to the
barn. Mental anguish, born of financial
trouble, was the cause OF the rash deed.
South Bend Herald: The new engine of
the South Bend Iron Works has been placed
in position, and tor the first time steam was
let on yesterday aud the ponderous ma
chine moved off with perfect satisfaction.
We said pOnderous, for the great engine has
more than five hundre horsepower under
eighty pounds pressure OF steam, which is
equivalent TO lifting Is 500,00 pounds one
foot high per minute, which weight would
fill at their maximum load S25 railroad cars
that would make thirty three full trains
of twenty-five cars each. This monster
has thirty inch cylinder, with stroke OF
sixty inches, and turns a driving shaft of
eight inches in diameter, upon which is a |
hY-wheel oftwenty-four feet diameter and
ifty-four inch face, turned for two belts. |
This shaft and wheel revolve fifty times per
minute and weigh $1,000 pounds. The cyl |
inder weighs 1900 pounds; the bed 1900 |
pounds; the pillOw-blOck 5000 pounds; the |
connecting rod 900 pounds; piston rod and |
cross-heads 1000 pounds; valves and con-
nectIons 800 pounds; making total of 81
400 pounds, besides the bolts and small |
works not figured in. The engine is the |
William A. Harris improvement on the |
Corlss engine.
Richmond Palladium: Mr.. waddIes Is q |
pious old gentleman who lives a short dis |
tsnce out OF town. Mr.. Waddles has son |
of about fourteen summers, who is lament
ably prone to fall into the ways of the
wicked, and who Is rapidly acquiring all the
bad habits that go to make up the average
young American. Last Sunday evening
when all the family, with the exception of
this maynard SON, were assembled in fam
lily worship, and while the old gentleman
was pouring forth his soul in prayer, a reg
ulsr Comanche warwhoop was heard out
side and the boy came in. FliDging
the door to with laundering bang he
rosred out: ''Hooray for our side! Cheese
yer racket old feiler, (hicD Why don't you
hire a hall-say?" Mr.. Waddles stopped
short in his prayer, and seemed to ref set
moment, and then rising from his kne5s he
gravely gathered the young peace-disturber
by the collar of his coat and the slack OF his
trcwsers, and walked him Spanish out of
the room: Raising him halfway. up the
stairs with one effort OF his cowhide boot,
he mildly remarked: swat for me in your
room, l will be up there presently" The
boy has used two bottles of arnica, and it Is
thought that with careful nursing he will
recover in a lew months.
Jasper Courier: One day last week one
Joseph Lsistman, living near st. Anthony,
had $35 in money stolen from his house
while he was at church. Having no clue to
the thief he consulted an old man named
Rothdecker, living near Huntingburg, who
Processes to be kind of sorcerer or diviner
of hidden things, and telling him his woe
at the loss of his ready cash, the old mans
sympathies were aroused, and drawing q
bucket of water from a spring, he coDjured
1t to reveal the face of the dishonest de- |
spoiler OF his friends wealth, and then babe !
Liestman to close and rub his eyes and |
bucket of water and see the faces of the |
thieves. He did as he was bid, and 10! he
said the water revealed the faces of two
young men living at st. Anthony, William |
Bubr and John Nichaus, and upon this evil |
dence be FASTENED to Esq. Dsinderfer, and |
made affidavit against them FOR stealing. The |
instica iasued q Warrant. and also ordered |