The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-03-06
STATE NEWS.

Liberty is to have a new Lutheran church.
A new gang of gamblers infest Lafayette.
A Michigan City horse thief is but Is years
old.
The Terre Haute folks are repairing their
sidewalks.
The dairy business is prospecting at Con-
nersville.
Fruit men of Green county report the
peaches as all killed.
Drunkenness is on the increase at Ellets-
vile. Send on the red ribbon.
A fine belt is being made to be shot for by
the rihemen of Wayne county.
Seven Richmond people have expressed a
determination to visit the Paris exposition.
Richmond dogs took three second and
three third premiums at the st. Louis dog
show.
Jackson county has seven papers. Four OF
them are published at Seymour and three at
Brownstown.
10 croft, of Connersville wears a copper
coin bearing date $40, which is therefore
LOSS years old.
At Muncie last Monday little boy died
from strangulation caused by button lodg-
ing in his throat.
The next session of the criminal court at
Fort Wayne will be taken up with the trials
of the body snatchers.
Laura Reno is now the wife of a locomotive
engineer, and is quietly pursuing her domes-
nc duties in Seymour.
The prospect for wheat in this county was
never better at this time of year than it now
is.-Connersville News.
Columbus Democrat: A dramatic club is
being organized to give an entertainment for
the benefit of the Murphy reading room.
The gravel road companies around Iafay-
cite are in bad luck. This summer" says
the Courier, 'they will have TO regravel
nearly every portion of their road"
An important manufacturing enterprise
has lust been started in Evansville. The OBJ
ject is the manufacture of emery stones for
sharpening reapers and mowers, scythe
blades, circular saws and other grinding and
polishing purposes.
Lafayette Courier: Some of the Wabash
men witnessed a strange spectacle at Dan
vile, Illinois, yesterday. They were at the
c. and f.. l. round house, and found En-
gineer Kenning dead on his engine. He
met his death from paralysis of the heart.
The press of Lafayette are agitating the
question of new court house, of which it
would seem they stand in great need. Their
present one is designated as a imam trap"
several persons having lately died from dis
ease contracted from its unhealthy atmos-
phere-
Vincennes Sun The Maple Grove school
house, four miles to the northeast of the CITY,
was entered last Wednesday night and
robbed of all the new school books it con-
tained-about S25 worth. II would be a
safe plan for school children to take their
books home at night.
Lafayette Courier: The value of the hogs
diving from hog cholera inVermillion, Foun-
tain and Warren counties during the last year
will reach $50, 700. Taking the average
throughout the state at $4,000 per county
lonly little more than half the total in the
three counties named abOvel, the value of
the hogs lost through the cholera would
reach 81, $4,000.
A letter from Antwerp says: about the
whole surface of our country is covered
with water, and all labor is stopped per
force The Maumee river is bank full, and
even the low bottoms in some places are
beginning to be submerged, and every brook
let, creek and ditch is pouring in its tribute
to the swollen stream. The prospect is that
we will have very high water"
Columbia City Post: George King, for
mer engineer on the Eel river road. but now
IN Fort Wayne buried the third child in
the masonic grave yard on Sunday. While
here attending the obsequies of the lite one,
he received dispatch announcing the death
of his wife, which occurred shortly after he
left Fort Wayne Verify, sorrows came not
singly with him.
Shelbyviile Volunteer: There are great
many people who seem to have an unlimited
degree of faith in the ability of an animal to
convert an offensive and deleterious sub
stance into an article fit for human food. TO
this faith is due the fact that multitudes of
farmers feed all manner OF refuse TO their
hogs and many are In the habit of giving
swil to their cows. Both practices are de
cidedly injurious to the animals, and the
man who wants good meat or pure milk had
better avoid them
LAFAYETTE Courier: Delphi has genuine
sensation. Mr.. Fawcett, editor of the Sat-
urday News, was assaulted by Miss Emma
Gist. whom he had maligned in his columns.
The Young lady was accompanied by her
mother. and one used a club while the other
applied cowhide. He was severely punish
ed. The editor drew his revolver, but was
prevented from making use of it by young
man who placed his thumb under the ham
mer as Fawcett pulled the trigger. Public
sympathy is with the ladies.
Ledger-standard: We understand that ].
Cadwalader conducted gospel temperance
meeting at the southern prison yesterday
and pledged over 400 convicts, and found but
one in the hospital dangerously sick. and
that. after careful investigation, is OF the
opinion that the southern prison is the
cfeanest healthiest and best kept prison of
anv i'm the United States The religious IN
terest IN the prison is more extensive than
MT auy time hitherto and the cause is in part
con account Of the kind treatment on the