The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-03-07
THE STATE.

THE STATE.
Mitchell is going to have -four mill.
Cambridge is trying to resurrect her base
ball club.
Texas colony is being formed at Column
bia.
Frankfort is talking about having gas
works.
Lsporte is going to have dog and chicken
show soon.
A national bank will soon be established
in La Gro.
Good plug horses sell rapidly at New Al
bany for $50.
An excursion party for Texas leaves Fort
Wayne to-day.
on the 9th inst.
South Bend had another Jail breaking sem
sation Thursday.
Boat building has commenced at the New
Albany ship yards.
vincennes is going to have grain eleva-
tor four stories high.
The women of Connersvilie do their wash
ing on the Sabbath.
Thirty marriage licenses were issued at
Bloomfield last month.
The Howe factory at Peru is only running
40 hands. Hard times.
Secret societies are becoming very preva-
lent in Harrison county.
The Albion Lyceum realized $1465 from
two lectures by Fred Douglass.
The uo.al value of taxable property in
Delaware county is S11, 1S5, pa.
Noon prayer meetings are an innovation
on the church custom of Kokomo
Logansport is going to have an evening
paper. II will be called the News.
Sixty persons signed the pledge at tenn
perance meeting at Fort Wayne Sunday.
South Bend Tribune: There were six
corpses in the city at one time yesterday.
The Irish population of Howard county
numbers 4O0-fully 800 living in Kokomo.
Bill Short, notorious burglar of Lafay-
cite, has been captured by the police of that
burg
Wabash county boasts of lady who has In
her lifetime given birth to four pairs of
twins. II
large number of Lafayette people will
leave for Texas next week, to start anew in
that state.
Mt. Vernon Star: Many farmers are now
busily engaged in breaking their corn
ground.
The value of taxable property has in
creased in the past ten years in Richmond
S5,019.715.
There is young man at Huntington who
weighs but IL pounds, and is foot shorter
than Tom Thumb.
Evansville Journal: The Midway, Spen-
Ger county, grange sent to New Orleans for
800 worth of groceries.
The average daily compensation of teach
ers in the schools of Greene county is:
Males, s1-99; females, s1.s1.
Benton Democrat: A preliminary survey
of the proposed railroad from Attica to Tenn
pleton junction is talked Of
Richmond Palladium: The Pioneer Rife
club will shoot for the champion belt at the
fair grounds on Saturday next.
Calvin Carpenter was killed by falling
tree on the McHenry farm, a few miles
below New Albany, Saturday.
Fort Wayne Sentinel: The prospect is
that the straight democratic ticket will be
elected in this city next spring.
Spiceland is going to have democratic
paper SOOn. May ~ pIOfc OcItcI ludu Int
radical sheet that is now issued there.
Decatur Democrat: The growing wheat
in this county never looked more promising
than it does this season, from what we can
learn.
w. III. Plummer, of Evansville, had his
leg amputated a few days since on account
of a wound received in the army during the
late war a-...asas,as.ss s.-as
Boonvile Enquirer: The remaining SIX
cells of the new Jail have been completed
and the building is now ready for occupan-
cy.
A great deal of land has already been
plowed by the farmers of Floyd county, pre-
paratory for sowing oats and planting po-
tatoes.
Fort Wayne Gazette: The Miller Raber
bastardy case was yesterday settled by pay
ment of $50 TO the woman for the deed and
$25 costs.
A couple of tramps burglarized two coop
er shops at Edwardsvlle Friday night, car
rying off an even dozen drawing-kniyes and
other tools
Fort Wayne Sentinel: The owners of the