The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-04-17
STATE NEWS.


Huntingburg merchants want bank.
Cannelton wants a lumber yard. What
| for?
Earlham has a student who is totally color
blind.
Rock candy cocktails are served in Fort
/ Wayne saloons.
The wild grape ard pawpaw crop in Perry
county is killed.
| There is talk of erecting another steam
/ Touring mill at Chauncy.
Twenty five women are employed at the
Jacksonville glass works.
Nearly 1900 persons in Lafayette have
signed the temperance pledge.
Mrs. Robinson's temperance work at Co
| lumbus is growing in interest.
On the Goth Pike county will vote for or
against the proposed railroad.
The measles are still raging in Boonville,
with but single fatal case as yet.
The New Albany rifle club will hold its
/ first meeting this season next week.
Fort Wayne Gazette: Instead of making
about $50 on Tilton, the home lost $12
Some of the pupils of the New Albany
public schools have the whooping cough.
/ Corn is selling at SO cents at Lafayette,
and receipts on Monday and Tuesday fair.
Fifteen hogs belonging to a farmer near
Fort Wayne died OF hog cholera last week.
Rockport is organizing a base ball club,
and Sullivan will soon have new opera
house.
The prospects for a new railroad between
/ Terre Haute and Worthington are now very
( hattering.
The mayor of Lafayette died on Monday,
and City Engineer Simpson is very i'll with
/ diphtheria.
A wet spring is predicted by one half the
farmers. The remainder are ahead prophesy-
ing drought.
Two Madison COWS died from eating some
leaves of an oleander that had been pruned
and thrown into back alley.
The Rev. Joseph Cook Will lecture at
Lafayette on the Sd of May. His lecture is
in the regular y. NJ. G.. A. course.
Fort Wayne Sentinel: A number of school
teachers will leave for Europe after the
I schools close. The rest will get married.
The home for the friendless at Fort Wayne
melted $50 from Tilton's lecture, delivered IN
that city for the benefit of that institution.
The Fort Wayne Sentinel says that ''rumor
SAYS there is a scandal in one of our church
choirs which is assuming large proper
TONS"
Trinity NJ. f. Sunday school of Madison
are going on a steamboat excursion to Louis
vile, KY, one day the latter part OF tins
month.
The evangelist Earle, after paying SO to
the singer Hodges, and all other expenses,
cleared $1lS by his three weeks services in
Fort Wayne.
Richmond Independent: The removal of
the Lutheran orphan asylum of the Ohio
/ synod to the Greenmount water cure is
/ growing more probable.
Lafayette Courier: Whisky led Isaac
! Saunders of Brazil to kill his devoted wife
Saturday night. She was the daughter of a
prominent citizen, Jonathan Croasdale.
The editor of the Jacksonville News gives
notice that he is going to hire a special
policeman to keep two young men IN order
/ who disturb temperance meetings" in that
city.
/ Corydon Democrat: A physician tried his
mesmeric power on a girl in Rensselaer, and
put her TO sleep readily, but he could not
AWAKEN her, and she remained unconscious
for two days.
The Terre Haute Gazette says: THE new
brick sidewalk fever is rapidly developing to
a mania, but it is very healthy one and
should be encouraged. New walks are being
laid down in all parts OF the city,"
The Windy" bridge. near Troy, Perry
/ county, was destroyed by fire recently, and
the commissioners considered it an emer-
gency and let the contract for building an
iron bridge without the usual formalities OF
law.
Richmond Free Press: Bishop Talbot
writes from Boston to DIR. Wakefield, of this
CITY, that he is obliged to postpone all his
appointments for April. He says he is still
troubled with his head, but is gaining all the
time.
on foot in the city for the purpose of build
ing two fast packets to be run in the New
Orleans trade 1t will be known as the Lou
! isviIle, New Albany and New Orleans packet
company, and it Is the intention TO send
boat out, one each week.
Terre Haute evening Courier: Terre
Haute has the reputation of being the head
quarters in the United States for splritualis-
tic manifestations. There are now quite
number of investigators here from ali parts
of the country, and "seances' are held
nightly at various places.
Lafayette Journal: The rowing students of
Brown university have decided to hold a
series of races in June, in which classes OF
'7S, 10, 80 and 'sl will participate. 1t will
not be many years before Purdue students
will ADOPT the oar and scull boat. Their
sculls will be puzzled oar the matter before
/ long.
Terre Haute Gazette: Dealers in horse
flesh say these animals are rising in value.
The fact is, for the past five years many
horses have died with disease, and an equally
large number have been shipped to foreign
countries, while upon the other hand very
/ few farmers have raised any, thus making
the supply far less than the demand.
Lafayette Journal: LoRansport claims
that there lives in that city the oldest woman
in the state, and gives her age at ITO. There
is within the limits OF Lafayette man who
was born in 1768, and who is without doubt
tbo <,1I m, oil In he state Qrpat-great-