The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-04-11

excursion to Florida, 10 come off some time
this month"; 60 days trip and sojourn.
The work of repairing the Sery levee at
Quincy, Illinois, whose breakage caused so
much damage two years ago, is in progress.
The California republican state committee
is preparing an address concerning the al
legged frauds in the registration in San Fran
cisco.
The governor of Virginia has vetoed the
bill which proposed to lease the James River
and Kanawha canal TO Mason e. Co. for 20
years.
The Easter collection at HolyTrinity Cath
olic church at New Albany for the benefit of
the Catholic seminary at Vincennes amount
ed to $240.25.
Dakota will probably be the next terri
tory admitted to the union-unless the
Black Hills country is given a separate
territorial organization.
Some of our fruit growers tell us that the
peaches and cherries have been killed by
frosts, and that the crops of these fruits will
be an almost entire failure.
The Friends are about to erect a new
church in Richmond the cost of which will
be SIS, 600. This will be an honor to the So
clety and quite an improvement to the city.
Fort Wayne Gazette: Monday afternoon
% trials and judgments were rendered in the
circuit court, which is doubtless one of the
biggest days work ever done in this county.
The people of Elkhart county are being
troubled about the drive well business
Some parties are around collecting royalty
for each drive we'll that has been put down
in that county.
Rushville Republican: CHM seems to be
an lronical person. He is reported to have
remarked that he didn't care so much for
the nine years imprisonment as the $1,000
fine.
Fort Wayne Gazette About So 400 of the
Indebtedness of the agricultural association
will be paid in full; the balance pro rata,
and at not less than 40 per cent, and pos
sibly 90 per cent
Terre Haute Express: A couple of married
ladies were discovered, by the husband of
one of them, at beer counter in the south
part of the city, in the company of two
gamblers, last evening.
Sullivan Union: A lively bail storm
passed over here Sunday about 1 o'clock
Hail stones as large as quail eggs fell, and
although the storm lasted but few minutes
the ground was covered with ice.
New Castle Mercury: Four thousand
dollars is the entire amount due the state
lIOIn NdIlOuS ucHTy equity OllCldlS, udJlllg
back for period of 20 years, and forward to
this time, as shown by Donaheys figures.
The coroner of Pike county is accused of
perpetrating outrages in order to run up his
fees. The citizens OF Petersburg are very in
dignant at the proceeding of the coroner's
inquest held over the body of Robert
Beazley.
Terre Haute Express: The river is falling
clOu-lv. tho obonnal &c IocS han Hftaa,,
feet deep. The depth last year was triie
over twenty-one feet and the great flood of
the previous year twenty-eight and half
feet.
New Albany correspondent Louisville
News: Farmers in this county are making
unusually large additions this spring to their
stock of fine blooded cattle and hogs The
Poland China and Berkshire in hogs, and
the Jersey and short horns in cattle are the
favorite breeds
Lafayette Courier: The pimps who run a
certain faro bank in Lafayette hired bully
to pound young man whom they had
robbed of So, 900. and whose guardian sought
to recover the money. These low rasoals
will come TO grief.
Jasper Courier: Tobacco is being rapidly
taken TO market in this county. On last
Tuesday over 100 wagon loads were taken in
by the dealers at Huntingburg, and about 40
loads at Ferdinand, besides several at Jasper
and Holland.
Seymour Democrat: At Newport Wayne
| county, Saturday afternoon, Ollie Dormer
and Charlie Scarce were fixing the sight on
an air gun, preparatory to shooting at
mark, when it was discharged, the charge
entering the head of the latter above the
| right eye, and Charlie was killed almost in
stantly.
Decatur Democrat: ST. Mary's township
| is all in an uproar at present on account of a
| wild beast said to be within its borders,
which no person has been able to get close
enough to describe. 1t is said to make
| track somewhat larger than that of a large
dog, and noise somewhat like sharp,
| piercing scream.
Sullivan Democrat: An enterprising old
fellow, dressed in the costume OIL 1776. has
| been on our streets for some days selling fac
| SMILES of the Ulster County Gazette giving
accounts of the death of George Washing
ton. The editor of the Vincennes Times is
| fond of such relics and would probably buy
| the full stock.
Sullivan Union: Last Friday afternoon
| a man by the name of John Moore living
! two or three miles south of Farmersburg,
| shot himself through the head with a rifle,
causing it is supposed, instant death, as his
| wife found him few minutes after the re-
| port of the gun-dead. 1t is not known
whether the deed was accidental or inten-
tional.
A noted German, John Doffin, commonly
known as Father" Doffin. died at o'clock
yesterday afternoon at his restaurant on
Market space, in Lafayette. from an overdose
| of morphine. Father Doffin exerted
marked influence among his countrymen,
and his place was a noted resort for poll
| ticians. His kindness of heart and acts of
charity were proverbial. He ALWAYS had
food and shelter for the needy He was
| prominent during the a friend of the
i soldiar He was horn m Bavaria in 1918