The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-01-17
THE STATE AT LARGE.
affords a night school.

Evansville has an old folks dancing club
The northern penitentiary has 6l2 in
mates.
The Michigan City News is about to re-
gain life
Jeffersoiville is reported as being full of
burglars.
Lafayette has man who has lived in that
burg 40 years.
Fort Wayne bellies say striped stockings
are out of style.
The Allen county delinquent tax list con-
tains / 800 names.
Rabbits are being brought to Terre Haute
by the wagon load.
Evansville has a new fire alarm bell
weighing $500 pounds.
The bellies of Lafayette spend their time in
skating on the reservoir.
The Madison County bank, of Madison, has
reduced its capital stock $4,000.
Rabbits, quails and poker are the most
abundant game in Salem just now.
The Hagerstown Exponent is to be re-
enlarged to an octave next week.
A Richmond firm sold $500 bushels of po-
tatOes to Cincinnati firm last week
Lafayette has letter carrier who can
afford to carry letters around in sled.
Evansville contractors are preparing to bid
on the new DAviess county court house.
The ice packers of Madison hauled sc days
in succession this season without Interrupt
ton.
Six hundred and forty eight persons
were inferred in Evansville cemeteries last
year.
They have thieves IN South Bend who
steal horses and sleighs from the church
doors,
The business of the street railway compa-
ny, Fit. Wayne, was much less in 1876 than
in 1875.
Fayette county has 1865 school children,
and her apportionment of school revenue is
81, 32470.
Logansport has bastardy case in which a
girl fourteen years of age appears in the Tote
of mother.
During the past year up to October l.,
Montgomery county lost by dogs $40 sheep,
valued at $2,064.
Portland Commercial: Geo. Benedict &
Co. shipped a car load of hogs last week that
averaged 400 pounds.
The Warsaw paper mills, which were de-
! stroyed by fire few days since, are to be
| rebuilt on the old site.
Another wrestling match is on the tapis
|
| track yard at Richmond.
Hogs in Elkhart county are afflicted with
a disease resembling diphtheria. Ii has
proven fatal in most cases.
| A Frankfort bank president sweeps OUT
and builds fire and gets the institution ready
! for the cashier and his assistants.
Chester township, Wabash county, has
more teachers holding 81 months licenses
than any other township in the county.
Az least 200 more children are in atten.
dance in the district schools of Wabash
county this year than there were last year.
Windfall News: Live stock, so far, has
| wintered WELL and there is plenty of hay
and grain in the country at moderate fig
ures.
A man named F. r. Claven representing
! himself as agent of the Peake family of bell
ringers, has been swindling the Logansport
| folks
Connersville Examiner: The county
clerk issued during the year 1876, l27 mar
] riage licenses. Net product, so far as heard
] FROM Is.
The Peck donation to Wabash college is
l $3.50 1t is rumored that a citizen of La
4 fayette has put down Wabash In his will fol
| $125 900.
| Richmond Palladium: A short horn bull
4
! shipment yesterday, by Mr.. Hayworth, of
| Liberty.
Terre Haute Journal: A. Hoberg has pur
i chased a very fine flute, costing $125 from
| Mr.. L. Ballenberg, the flute player of the
| kellogg orchestra.
Cash on hand in the city treasury of For
| Wayne January /, 1877, was $40, 099.6S. The
debt was decreased during the past 1:
m Jnths SAC, 2S272.
A Shelbyville class leader and deacon wa!
before the grand jury for bribery, and the
smart Alexis Whereabouts are pronouncinl
Christianity failure.
Lafayette Courier: During the week o
prayer everybody on earth is being prayed
| for. by order of the Evangelical Alliance
except newspaper men.
Evansville Courier: One of the pet bear
at the Salt Wells park escaped on Sunday
and was killed by lot of negroes IL
| Claushide's field yesterday.
Eight hundred and sixteen persons wer,
supplied rations from the soup house a
New Albany last week, the average supply
being to 100 families per day.
Lafayette Journal: might before last thu
number of street lamps not lighted as re
ported by the police. was 105." They ar
aboutall the city can afford.
Fort Wayne Sentinel: 1t is not absolutely
necessary for those who apply for relief al
the township trustees Office to appear il
white kids and patent leather boats.
Lafayette Dispatch: If gas can be manu-
featured at Purdue university, for 80 cent
per 900 cubic feet, isn't there a very larg,
margin of profit in the business at $2.75?
Lafayette Courier: The soup house pro
ject has fallen through. Small loss. TIL,
poor of Lafayette need not suffer. There i
scarcely citizen who will not divide hi
crust
Connersville Times: Whooping cough i
! prevailing to an alarming extent in the vi
cinity of Loekharts school house. Who'll
families are said to be afflicted with tn
disease.
| The Reform Journal is The name of