The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-01-24
THE STATE.

Smallpox has broken out at Union City.
Fort Wayne is Dragging over having q
drug stores.
There are Is prisoners confined in the
Clark county jail
Logansport is doing away with her fire
steamers altogether.
Pneumonia is prevailing to an alarming
extent at Henryville.
The Black Hills excitement is waking up
again at South Bend
A terrible scandal will shortly be devel
oped in Nashville, says an exchange.
The resources of the three national banks
of New Albany amount to S1,433,622.72.
Parties in New Albany have just made
large shipment of mules to the West Indies.
A high toned divorce suit will come off at
the next term of the Fayette county circuit
court.
The Florida fever has set in again at Terre
Haute. Some parties talk of leaving that
burgh at once.
Burglars are having things their own way
at Lafayette. A $500 burglary took place
there Sunday night.
The railroad men of Fort Wayne are hav-
ing a raid made on them by the pastors OF
that quiet little village.
cost young blood of Terre Haute the other
night to light the tiger"
The Ledger-Standard says that New AL
bany has the smallest delinquent list Of any
city of her size in the state.
A new bank is talked of at Cambridge City
for the benefit of the poor. Such an instltu-
ton would be quite novelty.
A Young man named Ed Keller was
drowned at New Albany Monday while at
tempting to cross the river on the ice.
Terre Haute Gazette: 7. L. Knox has
abandoned his prosecution of the contested
election case against Senator DORIAN.
The river at Jacksonville is full of coal
barges RATS and model barges, which have
been carried away by the ice gorge from
points above.
The Ierre Haute Gazette goes for the en-
gineer of their water works in rather harsh
way one day and the next smooths it over
in honey and molasses style.
Elkhart Review: Some angels opened the
prison door of John Foutz, the South Bend
evangelist, and he went forth, the Lord
knows where, and the officers don't care.
Next.
Reese Voorhees,. son of the Hon. d. w.
VOORHEES,. has abandoned his study of phar
macy in Philadelphia. and is now in WASH
ington studying for the profession of ply
stefan and surgeon.
Jacksonville News: There is one thing the
legislature ought to do, and that is appro-
pirate Sl1S,O00 to pay the debts of the state
prison south. The people here have been
carrying this forced loan long enough.
Richmond Palladium: Some idea of the
business done at the Richmond post office
may be formed from the statement that dur
ing Yesterday $50 letters and 500 circulars
in envelopes were mailed here, in addition
to 375 postal cards.
This is the way the Connersyille Examiner
warns that women of the moral village:
'sIf some women we could narse, who per-
sist in running after certain men, should
wake up some morning and find their clothes
too small, they onght not to complain"
The libel suit of the Rev. Barr VS.. the
Ledger-Standard of New Albany, for S25, 900
damages, was decided at Salem on the 18th
instant and the Jury returned a verdict OF
500 for plaintiff Mr. Bars character was
damaged $24900 less than he supposed.
Sensible jury.
In three months the police of Lafayette
have lodged 1,1O6 tramps- They pass the
night in room 10 feet square, lying in reg
ular rows on the floor. The stencil can
scarcely be endured. At times there are as
many as thirty-five or forty of them. None
are willing 10 work for their daily bread
! The two Indian creeks-Little and Big ln1
dian-Blue river and all the creeks around
| and about New Albany, are at flood hight,
pouring out torrents of water and dong
great damage to fences, outstanding crops,
| bridgess meadows, and hay and grain
| stacked in the lowlands. The loss will fall
heavily upon the farmers.
| Decatur was visited by a large fire on
Monday night. 60 terrible was the eonfigara
ton that Fort Wayne was called on for the
| and of its fire department, but owing to .
| fire being in progress in that city i was inn
possible for the Fort Wayne firemen e
| leave. The following is list of the build
ings destroyed and the losses: l.. Yagar's
store in which the fire was first discovered
was destroyed, loss 81 900; Byram 5 Ihomp
son, grocery store, loss s, 500; J. Weltiery
loss 50, 600; F. Shafer & Bro, loss 81 900; ID
Studabaker loss $500; A Barthol, los
$500; J. r. Bobo loss $500; 5. Flogg. los
$500. The total loss is estimated at sic, 600
which is very heavy for town the size o
Decatur,