The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-07-03
INDIANA INTELLIGENCE.

Columbus hunters slaughter more mus
Quitoes than squirrels.
The military fUrore seems to be increasing,
and companies are being organized in all
sections of ihe state.
The normal school building at Danville
will be dedicated June 10Th, with appropri-
ate and imposing ceremonies.
A detective named Tom Cottrell is gather
ing in the crooks at South Bend. So far as
can be ascertained, he is not from Wales
The red men of Anderson will hold 4th
of July picnic at the fair grounds at that
place All lodges and citizens are invited.
1t Is noted as a remarkable fact that not a
single drunk was slated at Logansport
Tuesday. Mrs Malloy passed through the
city Monday.
Simon Baker, colored man supposed TO
be one of the murderers of Annie McCool,
at Mount Vernon Sunday night, has been ar
rested at Evansville.
The wicked think it judgment because
he First Presbyterian church of Sullivan
was struck by lightning just as a temper
ance meeting was being organized.
The Ladoga Journal argues that we should
do away with our Sunday schools or inn
men out of the boys of the country, for in
spite OF Sabbath-school influences they will
learn to swear like pirates il compelled to
drive teams over the roads in their present
condition.
Understandable: The decision of the SUI
preme court, recently rendered in the Clark
county removal matter, virtually decides
the case in favor of Jacksonville. Now,
gentlemen. give us a rest, and let us have
peace. Let dogs delight to bark and bite, for
tits their nature TO, but your little hands
were never made TO tear each others hair.
Terre Haute Gazette: Last evening the
new military organization, the Terre Haute
light artillery, were mustered into the state
militia service at the mayors office by Gen.
eral Charles Cruft, acting mastering officer,
in the absence of Adjutant General Russ.
Uniforms and guns are yet to be procured.
1t is expected the United States regulation
uniform will he adopted, and the guns will
have to be purchased, as the state has none,
and the general government can not loan
any except by act of congress.
Lafayette Journal: Farmers have been in
the city lately endeavoring to find men to
assist them at work in the harvest field.
They found men, but no workers. One gen.
tleman approached no less than 20 gentle
men of elegant leisure" vulgarly known as
''tramps," and offered S1.50 and board for
days services, but in each case some
objection was raised by the tramps and
they declined to accept the granger's propo-
sition. In one case the indolent rascal said
q dollar and a half with board thrown lin
was no inducement at all for him to work
under a boiling sun, and he couldn't see it.
The fact of the whole matter is
simply this: Ninety-nine per cent. of
those fellows won't work, and their
suppicating appeals for some WOOD to saw
so they can earn a meal are entirely too
thin. Upon the next tramp that comes
around your house for something TO eat
have the kindness to "douse" him with
pail of hot water, or administer a dose of
diminutive shot. Anything to effect a
change in his cOnsttutionally tired condi-
ton.
Kokomo Dispatch, 9th: While attending
the Peru convention on Wednesday of last
week, T. G. Phillips, editor of the Tribune.
was violently attacked with vertigo, and
was compelled to retire to bis room. There
was abundant evidence of a return of
paralysis, but happily he escaped the
threatened attack, and returned home. On
Monday evening, while out driving, his Wis
Ion suddenly became obscured and the pre-
monltory symptoms OF apoplexy or paralysis
were unmistakable in his system. He
was Immediately conveyed to his
home, and when entering the
gate of his yard was attacked
with return of paralysis that Frustrated
him. DIR. Waterman, of Indianapolis. was
Immediately summoned by telegraph, and
be arrived at $50 in the evening. He says
Mr.. p is in a very critical condition, but he is
hopeful that he VIII pull through all right
Readers will remember his first attack of
paralysis, May %, 1875, which came so near
ly proving fatal. This is his second attack,
and though the chances of life and death are
about equal, yet We are not without hope of
his recovery.