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

Brooks lille boasts of All males over the age
of 81.
The Albion post Office has been burglar
lied again.
A party for the Black Hills is being organ.
lied at Auburn.
The new city map of Lafayette gives gen.
eral satisfaction.
lodge of good templars has been organ
lied at Brookville.
Petitions for the postmastership Of Fort
Wayne are being circulated.
The Northeastern Indiana M. z. confer
ence meets at Button April 4.
Lafayette Courier: The next county fair
will surpass those of previous years.
An excursion party will leave Terre Hauts
on the LIST of April for New Orleans.
Nine divorces were granted at the Zebra
| airy term OF the Laporte circuit court
The superintendency of the Shelby county
asylum and poor farm changed hands yes
terday.
The Berrien county sheriff has four fe-
male boarders, and has no trouble keeping
| them.
Wabash county has full hedged centen-
arian, who was 100 years old on the 18th day
\ of November.
The citizens living along the ditch on
the Wabash still persist in trying to keep it
open. Bad job.
johnson county, died last Sunday morning
at his residence in Franklin.
Fort Wayne Gazette: Fifteen of the ap-
| lflo1 &c To- c.
failed on the oral examination.
New Albany has three saloons for every
church in the city and yet boasts that she Is
1.-THE city of churches of Indiana
st. Joseph county has good Jail but nos
a very good jailer, if we should Judge Of the
number of prisoners escaped lately.
Kendallville Standard: Epidemic infiu-
enza prevails in this vicinity at this time.
Several children have died of the disease.
The safe of Thomas C. Wernnock, at Nor
ristown, Shelby county, was blown open
Monday night, and about $500 in money
and $50 in postage stamps taken.
Greenfield Democrat: Farmers from all
parts of the county give good report of the
growing wheat crop. They all unite in say
ing that the prospect was never finer at this
| season.
The grand jury of jefferson county have
just failed TO find an indictment against the
defaulting treasurer and auditor, Jackman
and Gale. Yet the peoples money is gone
all the same.
Fire was Tuesday placed in the furnaces of
the bottle-house of the New Albany Star
glass works and work in this department.
will commence March 6, giving employment
to $50 hands.
n01A oil So O.. 4.
Bend, was accidentally drowned on Wednes-
day in the Kankakee river, while out duck
hunting. He has held the office of postmas-
ter since 1868.
Lafayette Courier: The game of chess BY
postal card between four citizens of Attica
and four of West Lebanon has been in pro-
gress since December %, and will be COM
pleted within three weeks.
Wabash Plain Dealer: Cholera and lung
disease continue to make sad havoc among
the hogs in our county. They are dying at
such a rate as to quite discourage many
farmers in any attempt TO raise them.
New Albany Correspondent of the Louis
vile News: A New Albany woman who
has husband of high respectability has
fallen into such habits of intoxication that
she has frequently to be led home of the
streets. Truly wine is mocker.
|
and search warrant was placed in Marshal
Browand's hands last week, for the purpose
of recovering a mans wife. Diligent search
was made in numerous and sundrv places,
including across the creek" but the miss
ing wife could not be found.
Two young women attempted to cowhide
man in broad daylight on the public street
in Lexington, Scott county, yesterday. They
had lawsuit in which the ladies came out
second best, hence they prepared them
selves with cowhides and made grand
rush for the man, who seized a club
and knocked one to the pavement, when he
was interfered with to prevent serious re-
suits. The night before the woman called
at the residence of the gentleman, in the
country. and severely beat his wife. Great
excitement prevails, with fears of some
thing worse, as the female parties are des-
perate.
This is the way things are run at New Al
bany: Last month the police made SO ar.
rests, most of them for drunkenness and dis
orderly conduct, and So stragglers slept at
the station house. There were fires and l
false alarm. Loss sustained about 1880.
The county clerk issued 20 marriage Ii
censes. The township trustee furnished
wood to the poor which cost $500, delivered.
1t cost 1854 to run the soup house, sos SIS
were given out IN orders and So. Is was spent
for fuel for the soup house. making total of
s717.4 for the expense Of the poor during
the month of February. 1t cost about $500
to run the county poor house during the
month.
The little town OF Tyner City, about seven
miles from Walkerton, was the scene of a
brutal murder, the particulars of which are
about these: A man named AL Smith came
to town from the country, and after getting
full OF tanglefoot wanted to whip some one
and after knocking around town all after.
noon he went into a saloon where
Burt, or Albert, Broderick was bar
] tenter and nicked a nnarrol 81