The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-07-24
INDIANA INTELLIGENCE.

Goshen is to have a religious paper.
The Weekly Vincennes Sun is 70 years old.
The peach crop is said to be very great in
Sullivan county.
TYLER Mason is now holding the temper
ance fort at Terre Haute.
The young swallows at Lafayette are dying
by hundreds from the extreme heat.
Seine of the farmers are working during
the night on account of the intese heat.
II takes SIG year to pay the county Of
fcers of Vigo county. Rather an expensive
luxury.
Crack-loo is a favorlte amusement in
GreencastIe its votaries utilizing the new
silver dollar in their efforts to keep up the
circulation.
Winchester Herald: Two ancient one dol
lar bills are 10 be seen at the clerks office,
one on the Franklin bank of Columbus,
Ohio. the other on the bank of Lancas-
ter. Ohio, bearing date 1929. They were
seEt in a letter, a sheet of foolscap, folded
and sealed with a wafer, by John Aber-
crombie, in 1929, addressed 10 Charles Con-
way, clerk. for the payment of taxes. This
was before the day of envelopes and post
Office orders.
Friday evening Mrs. Richard Dsuos, of
Farrabee station, Indiana, on the L., n. A.
and C railroad, left her children-one aged
about fifteen months the other four years
at her residence while she went TO the post
office. The little fellows went to playing
hos with a string about the younger's
neck. He was finally tied up to the door
knob, and the door pulled 20. He fell and
was strangled to death. Life was extinct
wien Inc mother returned.
Sullivan Democrat: The sleepy denizens
of Sullivan were awakened last Wednesday
night by the ringing of the court house bell
abuut midnight Those who were alarmed
soon sscertained that a boOIblack named
Charley Bradberry had not arrived home at
the proper hour. in consequences OF which
hall dozen shriil female voices might have
been beard beWaiiing the loss of the boy.
After these proceedings had incurred the
W. TIA OF various persons the child was found
asleep in the Union office stairway. Score
one for Mrs. Mysteries.
Joseph Breckenridge, money order clerk
in The FIT. Wayne post Office, was arrested
Tuesday on charge OF embezzling money
from registered letters that passed through
his HANDS He made a confession OF bis
crime, in which ne said he mad been riling
letters for about year, and that his aggre-
gate stealiDgs were $500 or 5000. He as
cribes his crime TO an uncomfortable mania
which possessed him to go through every
registered letter that passed through his
hands. He was bound over 70 the United
States court, and furnished bail for his APP
pesrance in the sum Of $4,000.
Sullivan Union: A man dropped dead at
the depot on Monday. II is supposed that
he died from sunstroke. from papers on
his person his name was supposed TO be Al
beTs Cudres, German ami baker by rade,
atO@t fifty years OF age. No valuables found
OF rs person except twenty cents IN money
and pocket knife The fingers OF the left
haud we're all off He came here on Monday
morGiug anG procured psss from the town
ship trustee 10 Terre Haute. He dropped
deed just IS he arrived at the railroad depot
An inquest was held by Esquire Caffee, and
the jury found the above facts.
Madison Star: The wheels of the canning
es aolishment of Evans, Day & Co.. were put
il motion 10 day. II will be run on the
most xteEsiye scale imaginable and some
little idea of the magnitude of the under
taking may be attained from the statement
that FIVE carloads Of fruit cans arrived here
yesterday for the works There is one bad
feature of the business which we are sorry
TO mention; that is no inducement is offered
the firm 70 stay here. We learn that they
have to pay 500 per month for the rent of
their buiiJing,- and-this is a serious draw
bacl- ia itself. The city could afford to buy
til building and give il to them free of rent
to ecure their permanent location. The
wages paid 10 hands are very low, but good
many hands viii be employed and good
d'ai OF money put IN circulation.