The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-04-25
THE STATE


every day in Seymour.
Tell City has street lamps and is putting
on city airs generally.
A democratic paper is TO be established at
Brownsville, Union county.
young woman named Martha Travis
committed suicide at Madison Saturday
night.
Wheat looks very promising in Luce,
Hammond and Grass townships, Spencer
county.
The Rockport Democrat estimates the to-
bacco crop Of Spencer county for 1876 at
| 100000
The census of the school children of Rich
mond, just completed, shows that there are
at present 1892.
The Jacksonville, Madison and Indianap-
oils railroad will lay twenty miles of new
rail near Columbus this season.
Connersville Times: Several fast horses
from distance will be put on the track in
this city for training this spring.
Boonville has had the peep show, the
candy puller the walkist, the little man and
the powdered wig OF '76, during the week.
The Logansport Daily Star, which sus-
pended some time since, made its appear
ance on Tuesday as an evening paper.
Mr.. Peacock, aged eighty years and
inventor of the famous Peacock plow died
at his residence in Seymour one day last
week.
Rockport Democrat: Young tobacco
| plants look fresh and vigorous. There will
| not be q scarcity of the tender weed this
| season.
Connersville Times: Connersvillians, we
believe, contemplate turning out en- mdSSe to
the odd fellows celebration at Cambridge
| on the 26th inst.
The wife OF former Floyd county official
| will shortly bring suit against a saloon
keeper of this city for damages occasioned
by selling liquor TO her husband.
The stockholders of the Jacksonville,
Madison and Indianapolis railway company
meet at the principal office of the company
in Jacksonville, on Monday, May q.
New Albany Ledger-Standard: There are
but two applicants in Floyd county for the
position Of state house missioner. The
building will cost this county not less than
$4,000.
The people of HARRISON county are paving
their taxes pretty briskly. Within the past
eight days the money has been flowing into
the treasury at the rate of between 81, 500
and $1,000 per day.
BY the accidental discharge of revolver
on Sunday last, the priest of st. Mary's
Catholic church at Mooresville was shot in
the hand. He was loading the revolver to
shoot a chicken-hawk.
Rockville Republican: A little child of
Mr.. Hersey, OF Montezuma, fell into rain
| barrel on Friday, and when found and taken
out apparently drowned; but by appli-
cation of restoratives it was resuscitated and
its life saved
| New Albany correspondent Louisville
News: The boiler in the saw mill at Livonia,
which is owned by two German gentlemen,
| blew up on Thursday last, killing one of the
| proprietors whose name we are unable to
ascertain at this writing.
Fort Wayne Sentinel: The red ribbon
society held its last meeting at the Third
Presbyterian church last evening when
thirty-six persons took the pledge. This
makes / 200 recruits to the cold water cause
gained during these meetings.
Madison Courier: very large hay press
and stock barn owned by Mrs. Agnes Clark,
of Switzerland county, was totally destroyed
by fire Saturday night The building was
worth 81, 500, and was insured in the Etna
for $1,000. 1t was evidently the work of an
| incendiary.
Boonville Enquirer: Mike Sculley, the
| pedestrian, is walking a 100-mile heat in 100
| consecutive hours, making mile in every
hour. He began his walk in Hudspeth's hall
last Tuesday, and concludes his feat tonight
at 10 o clock when he will have a 200 pound
stone broken upon his breast.
The horse thief will have better show in
Warrick county now, the 500 reward paid
by the county having been recinded. The
| system has cost the county quite a sum of
| money, and the commissioners propose to
economic. Paying about $500 for a $25
horse by the county was looked upon as a
| bad trade.
New Albany correspondent Louisville
| News: At the Fourth street colored church
last night, colored girl named Slaughter
arose in the congregation and stated that she
had been warned in a dream that at II of the
| clock she would die. or, as the boys have it,
pass in her checks" This announcement
created profound sensation in the congre-
cation, many believing, herself among the
number, that the premonition would be
verified. The girl was taken to her home,
followed by a large crowd, but up to this
writing the colored damsel survives and the
black burying party stands postponed until
further notice.