The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-02-13

Lung fever is prevailing in EdiuburEA.
Corn is worth 20 cents bnsheI at o;ofv.n-
bus, and none offered.
Edinburgh Courier: Cur farmer callers
still inform US OF the fattering prospects of
an abundant yield Of wheat this year.
1t is estimated that Warren county farmers
lost $4,000 last year from hog cholera.
The Portland Commercial says everythinx
is favorable for the growing wheat crops
Three persons in one family died of d,pt-
liberia in one nelghborhood in White county
last week.
Blue birds and robbins, says the ElKhart
Union, are hopping about as if spring had
really come.
Delphi News: Delphi has a young lady
who can sing the four principal parts. she
might travel as quartette.
Brookville American: 1t would seem that
all the walnut timber has been well nigh
culled out of White Water valley.
Elkhart Union: 1t is reported to us that
the peach buds are yet sound. notwithstand-
ing the previous changes of weather.
According to the Charlottesville Review
the farmers are getting ready for the manu-
facture OF maple sugar and mOlasses.
A disease much resembling the epiznotie
is affecting horses in various sections of the
state. As yet it has rarely proved fatal.
Leavenworth Democrat: Business in town
is rather dull, the roads being in such poor
condition that the people can notget to mar
ket
Paoli News: Under the new law a town.
ship trustee who has held the office for two
consecutive terms is ineligible for re- cleo
ton.
Huntington Democrat: Prom reports from
the farmers throughout the county what
never looked better at this season of the
year.
Valparaiso Messenger: In Marshall coun-
ty they send man to the penitentiary for
two years for killing man and twelve years
for stealing a horse. There is money in
horses.
Benton County Democrat: The grain
dealers at Raub are paying % cents per
bushel Tor corn. The farmers of that vcin-
ity are lucky in obtaining nearly every cent
the market affords.
Laporte Argus: The dry freeze of late has
been unfavorabIe to the wheat Some are
fearful that it will prove disastrous to the
| crop. We hope not. 1t now has a covering
of snow to protect it.
Ledger Standard: Turnpikes are agitating
the good people of Harrison county Floyd
county people, especially those of New
Albany, should awake from their slumbers
and do something in this direction.
The Crescent says: Members of the La
| fayette bar are total abstinence at home, but
when they come to Frankfort and get taste
| of the superior article kept in Frankfort
saloons they soon become half seas over.
The Ligonier Banner thinks there is but
| little doubt that the Indiana democracy will
| take a stand in favor of the reduction of the
| rate of interest The war rate of 10 per
cent. viii be wiped out by the next legisla-
| ture.
Huntington Democrat The enterprising
citizens of Dallas township, this county,
acting with tho e of Lagro township, Wabash
county, are agitatiDg the question OF con-
structing gravel road from Lsgro TO Hunt
ington. Let it come-Huntington township
will JOIN hands. A more valuable road
could not be built.
Benton County Democrat: A public meet
| ing was held il Gilboa township on Saturday
last for the purpose of taking the initiatory
steps toward the building of a gravel road
from the south line of that township to the
! town OF Remington. Something near 81 600
was subscribed, to be paid in money or labor,
and the success of the movement assured.
| Good for Gilboai
| Evansville Journal: Mrs. Adele LeBaume
Scott, of ST Louis, lady well known in
Evansville. is prosecuting a suit in the
| courts in St LOUIS to recover a large amount
of money from the estate of her father
which the trustee has failed to account for
| The estate is valued at about $97, 500.
The case is attracting great attention in ST.
| Louis.
Lafayette Courier: The German Savings
bank has paid its depositors SIS 600, leaving
| but $40, 900 unsettled. This will be fixed up
| in day or two when the books will be bal
| anced and the institution become thing of
| the past. The Langlois tract of 102 acres
| near the city limits, brought S. 900 cash.
| Theodore Wise was the purchaser, we under
| stand, but up to to- day the transfer had not
| been made.