The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-06-26
INDIANA INTELLIGENCE.

Petersburg has seven saloons.
Madison is to have a normal school.
The Evansville rifles have received hand
some flag.
chased at a cost of 81 300.
Cows instead of tramps brighten the unpro-
tected females of Brazil.
A lodge of the order of red men is to be
organized at Columbus.
Asbury university has conferred the degree
of A. NJ. on the Rev. A. A. Johnson, OF Mad
ison.
1t is estimated that the wheat crop of Spen-
Ger county will average only ten bushels to
the acre.
Sand in the water pipes at Lafayette is
still troubling the citizens who have sand in
their craw.
Warrick county lawyers have established
bar association for the purpose of mutual
Improvement
The travelling men of Tippecanoe county
are we'll organized. They are sometimes re-
ferred TO as ''drummers."
A footrace will be one of the attractions at
the New Albany Fourth of July. Gwin, of
the Ledger Standard, will say go"
The nude body of an unknown man was
found floating in the river at Evansville
Saturday evening. There were no marks of
violence.
While they have nothing else to do, the
citizens of Russiayille. Howard county, en-
gage in excited discussions on the temper
ance question.
Steuben county foxes have reversed the
order of things, and now give chase to the
grangers' CANNES A Clear Lake Reynard did
this the other day.
VincennesSu New wheat will command
so to 95 cents in this city, several of our grain
dealers having contracted at the latter rate.
Old wheat brings 80 to 95 cents; corn, 80
cents. d.
The closing exercises of St. Mary's acad-
envy, Notre Dame, will take place to-day and
tomorrow. The graduating class is very
large, and a more than ordinarily interesting
time is anticipated.
Burglaries are becoming alarmingly fire.
quent in Washington, Davies county, al
though, judging from exchanges similar
depredations are taking place in almost every
locality in the state.
The Lagro Express walls: The Fourth of
July is fast becoming feast of the past ages.
1t was first turned over to the Sunday
schools then the firemen took hold and run
it awhile, and now it appears to be gone TO-
ever.
Madison is looming up fruit shipping
point, and it is thought that Court E. Whit
slit, the great peach grower. will be able to
load two or three steamboats, and severai
freight trains every day with the products of
his farm.
Madison Courier: Snow on the I'D of Junel
We are informed by q gentleman living a
few miles out of the city on Indian Kentucky
creek, in this township, that it showed
briskly for a few minutes out there last night
at about 1920 o'clock
After the due course of dime novel in
struction, Spencer Webb and Buck Giraffe,
two Madison boys, started west to hunt buff
falO and scalp Indians. The paternal ances-
tors propose having little exercise them
selves when the runaways are oyertaken.
Madison Courier: There have not been as
many houses to let IN this city for many
years as at present, and at the same time
rents are low. This is due to the pressure of
the times which compes families of limited
means to ''splice" and go ''halvers," to econ
omize or go to the country.
The Shelbyville Volunteer has this cheer
full item: George w. Francis, of Brandywine
township will start up his rendering and
refining machinery for the purpose of util-
izing the cholera hogs, on Wednesday. Our
informant says hogs are dying rapidly in
many sections of the county.
Madison Star: The city council last night
rescinded their action fixing the salaries of
the school trustees at $500 each per annum,
and placed it at the old fieure-$200. This
action is highly commendable. 1t was not
the extra $500 to be spent this year that bit,
but it was the fact that the precedent having
been once established, the extra $500 would
have gone on eating into the treasury year
after year.
still Happy.