The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-01-24
THE STATE.

North Vernon is still pining for national
bank
The peaches in Jackson county are said to
be killed.
A Kansas colony is being organized in
Richmond.
Eggs were selling at 80 cents per dozen
few days since at Frankfort.
The Wagner pillow works at Vernon will
soon be put in operation again.
The Fort Wayne police are breaking up
the gambling dens of that city.
The fair ground buildings at Fort Wayne
are shortly to be sold by the sheriff
A Mr.. Hughes of Posey county, recently
lost 100 barrels of apples by freezing.
Eggs are retailing at 60 cents dozen at
Evansville. The hens must be on a strike.
The farmers about North Vernon do little
else now but get wood, keep fires and eat
Ripley county claims to have lost SS5, 900
by the ravages of hog cholera during the
year just closed.
Susan B. Anthony is going to lecture at
Wabash shortly. Her subject will be''Women
and the 10th Amendment"
Cambridge City Is about to have pigeon
hole saloon, and the Review wants the
authorities to sit down on it.
Given post Office in Clinton county has
been discontinued. \ new Office will soon
be established at Boyleston, on the railroad.
Lawrenceburg is said to be cursed with a
regular metropolitan dance house which is
nightly leading the susceptible youth of that
city astray.
A young lady in Elkhart county had her
teeth pulled out and then took a dose of
chloroform, and then died. Her name was
Libbie Smith.
a colonization association. consisting of
100 families has been organized in the east
end of Wayne county. The colony will
locate in Kansas.
The Loiler III the Davis pork packing house
at Terre Haute exploded Tuesday evening,
but strange to say, no one was hurt, although
several men were in the building at the
time.
Fifteen thousand dollars of 10 per cent.
interest bearing debt of the city of New Al
bany is to be paid by $4,000 loan at s per
cent. interest, the per cent. bonds TO be
sold at par.
New Albany Ledger-Standard: Crusaders
who kept diligent watch yesterday say
there was not near so much back door en-
trance to saloons as usual. Rather cool
business this freezing, frigid weather.
Frankfort Crescent: The bonded and
floating debt of Frankfort is but little more
started to diminish the bonded debt. In
less than two years our city debt will be di-
minished at least So, 900.
A fifteen year old boy of DIR. j. S. Homer,
of Louisville, robbed his father of $3.50 and
skipped for the far west but on arriving
at Orleans on the L.. n. A. and c. road was
overhauled by the town marshal and re-
turned to his father. Such is life.
Lafayette Courier: An old citizen. who
now pays over 81, 600 tax annually, found
among his old papers yesterday tax receipt
from Jesse Andrew, county treasurer, 1872
for S4.03, total tax. The same year he paid
the enormous sum of s1.25 corporation tax.
Sullivan Democrat: Something over TWEEN
ty years ago, David l.. Hollenback, brother
of Esquire Hollenback, of Gill township, left
this county, and was never heard from until
within a few weeks past His brother lately
received letter from him, dated Omeo,
Victoria, Australia
South Bend Herald: That travelling news
paper, late the Three Oaks, late the New
Carlisle, late the Walkerton Public
Leader" has again taken up its line of
march and camps out at Bremen. 1t is pre-
sumed that unusual inducements have been
offered Boynton to get out Of town.