The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-02-27

INC wi POAabtOu uLnlsS VI AuoorE are -
be extended.
Ripley County Journal: The peach buds
are all safe SO far.
Work on the new depot at Columbus i,
progressing rapidly.
The Delphi papers are having little per-
sonal unpleasantness
Goshen is to have another newspaper.
This makes the fourth.
Angola has had Ann Eliza Young to lee
ture for the literary society.
Logansport Pharos: Sugar water flowed
freely several days last week.
Many of the lakes in Kosciusko county
are to be stocked with salmon.
The Warren county fair begins September
y, 1878, and continues five days.
Osgood needs more business houses; there
are absolutely no stores for rent.
Blue birds are singing and building their
nests In the Ripley county groves.
Farmers in Owen county are complaining
that their horses and cows are sick.
Horse buyers are sweeping away all the
good stock from Kokomo and vicinity.
The Ledger says that Attica defies the
world in the way of loud squalling cats.
kokomo Despatch. Farmers report the
roads In an almost impossible condition.
The Columbus wooden mills will not CON-
mence operations before the 1st of March
Tippecanoe county is sending many Of her
best citizens In colonies to Texas and Kan
sas.
The Richmond light infantry have adopted
as a drill uniform simply blouse and cap"
Cool.
Attica Ledger: The narrow gauge railway
expects to extend its road westward In the
spring.
Two large gray wolves have been killed
near Liberty Mills, Wabash county, in the
past six days.
The Lafayette guards have petitioned the
city council to bear the expense of the rent
1 of their armory.
! There is movement on foot to have a
! grand temperance convention at Richmond
the 9th of March.
A catamount, measuring three feet and
seven inchesfrom tip to tip, was killed in
Knox county last week.
Lebanon has dramatic association. An
entertainment will be given soon for the
/
George Patton, OF Brookston, White coun-
/ ty, buried four children recently in one
week They died of diphtheria. He is now
childless
Two Holmes county chaps traded wives.
One OF the ladies gave her lord to understand
she was not a legal tender, and the bargain
| was declared off.
The Brookville American says: Sugar
making is now in full blast Finer weather
than the present for that purpose could
hardly be expected"
Franklin Democrat: Old farmers tell ne
that the public highways are in a worse
condition now than ever before known
during any former winter.
Laporte Heard: Colds, colds and rheuma-
tism, neuralgia, mumps scarlet fever and
! dlphtberia have been holding high CARNIVAL
this winter all over the country.
Decatur county is losing its population
| rapidly. 1t is said that thirty families leave
| Greensburg and the immediate vicinity
about the 1st of March for Kansas
Some of the farmers of Decatur county, in
! connection with some of the Greens0urg
citizens, are thinking of having a poultry
show some time during the present month.
North Manchester will be much improved
this spring. New buildings, residences,
stores, and other Improvements are contem-
plated by the wide awake, thorough going
citizens.
Eight members of one family at Waterloo
had the scarlet fever at the same time. All
are now out of danger The disease is pre-
vailing to an alarming extent in and around
Waterloo.
Lebanon Pioneer: Some of our business
men are shipping ice from KankalEee. e
costs them about $53 per car III tOns) de
livered here. 1t is ice that was put up last
year, and is about "a inches thick.
Terre Haute Gazette: 1t is learned that
parties in this city are making preparations
to fit out colony of emIgrants for Texas
There are many in this city and vicinity
contemplating moving to that state.
Attica Ledger: Some of our older readers
have got into dispute IN regard to which
side of an old fashioned sickle the teeth are
cut on. Will some of our subscribers settle
the matter by giving in the desired informa-
ton?
Loganspor. Pharos: The Upton township
free gravel road project has failed. While a
majority of the land owners along the line
of the proposed road were IN favor of it, they
were not the owners of the majority OF acres,
as the case requires.
Goodland Register: 1t now looks very
probable that farm labor next season will
be lower than it has been for the last %
years. From S13 to SIC per month, the
farmers say, will be all they can afford to
give unless times and greenbacks are better
and plentier.
New Era: We have a family in Noble
county who have been so destitute to be
compelled to kill and eat litter of pups
and then eat the mother, since which time
they have been eating ground hogs. They
can not be prevailed upon to go TO the poor
house. Does pride drive people TO such
ends?
Brookville American: The aged inhabi-
tant has turned up again aud says that the
winter OF 1912 43 was even milder than this.
The farmers were blowing every month. and
there was no slelghing but fer one-half day,
YET the spring was not earlier than usual.
The apple trees were in full bloom on the
20th of May, but white frosts appeared
until the 23d.