The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-02-06
STATE NEWS.

from 80 10 81 y cents a bushel.
A fatal disease has made It's appearance
among the horses at Fort Wayne.
Wheat has sold higher in New Harmony
since January 1 than in Evansville.
sale of 10, 600 bushels of wheat was made
at Vincennes recently, 81 cents per bushel
being the price received.
Bloomington Courier: The late cold snap
did not check the growth OF the wheat in
this section of the state.
Many of the farmers in Clay county have
lost their pork. it having spoiled during the
long continued warm weather.
A Jacksonville genius is lnventing an
iron horse to be used in running street cars.
1t is believed it will be success.
The dirt roads throughout the state are in
a bad condition. Those that are grayeled
are the only ones that are passable.
Vincennes Times: The growing wheat
looks we'll and promises an abundant yield,
should there be no untoward event.
Two hundred dollars are offered by one of
the citizens of Brazil to assist in having a
good road between Brazil and Bowling
Green.
Rockport Journal: The leaf tobacco mar
ket is firm. with an upward tendency on
all grades, with an advance on last weeks
prices of one cent per pound.
1t is reported that the contract for build
ing the narrow gauge railroad from the
Wabash to Switz City was let last week to
Lyon, Thacker Buel 81 Co., TO be completed
by the LIST of July, 1878.
The Brazil Miner says: Pork, potatoes,
butter eggs and some other products to
satisfy the inner man are chap in COMPARE
son with other winters for which the con-
sumner should feel grateful.
Wabash Courier: The roads still continue
bad They are so nearly impossible that
there is but little travelling. and those who
are compelled to do any kind of hauling are
forced to hitch on four horses.
Bloomington Courier: Eggs are plenty at
only 10 cents a dozen retail. The supply
exceeds the demand TO such an extent that
hundreds of dozens are shipped from here
weekly. The hens mean business.
New Harmony Register: The pork BUSH
ness has been rather brisk this week, several
large droves having been slaughtered and
packed. The price rose at one time TO 81 %,
but at this writing only 81 is offered.
A strange disease, resembling the epidemic,
has broken out among the horses in Jeffer-
son county. and is proving fatal, several fine
horses having died in the past few days. 1t
battles the skill of the veterinary surgeons in
that unity.
The friends of persons who have died re-
Gently in Fort Wayne guard the graves
carefully. There is much anxiety felt about
the bodies of the dead buried late last fall, as
it Is believed that the body snatching" has
been much more general than was sup
posed.
Edinburg Courier: The pork packing house
at Franklin has closed up for the season.
They have slaughtered during the season
17,029 hogs, paying out for the same nearly
100000. The hog crop in Johnson county
has been nearly third larger this year than
it was last.
Gospel Temperance meetings are being
held in the penitentiary at Jacksonville.
The prisoners are very eager in their desire
for reading matter, and, as has been sug
gested time and again, a bundle of papers,
dailies or weeklies, or pamphlets or books,
will be most gratefully received.
Bloomington Courier: The contract for
building the narrow gauge railroad from
Switz City to Sullivan has been let and the
work is to be complete ted by July of this year.
The road is already completed from Sullivan
TO the Wabash. This is encouraging for
Bedford, and she ought to pay her tax with
out making so much fuss about it.
Columbus Democrat: The wheat fields in
this county look as fresh and green as they
usually do in May. The ground is covered
with a thick mat of heavy growth that de-
lights the eye to look upon. With a favor
able season our wheat crop promises to be
enormous. A greater breadth of land was
sowI last fall than for several years.
The Fort Wayne Gazette says, in view of
the body snatchlng now going on in that
city: Great anxiety and expense could be
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vault in Underwood and other cemeteries,
in which bodies could be retained until de-
composition had commenced, placing them
beyond the use of dissectors. The different
associations will do well to take this under
careful consideration, and that Immediately.
Fulton county people are sgitating the
subject OF more gravel roads in their district
of the state. A recent article in the Roches-
ter Sentinel proves most conclusively that
the cost OF building such roads has been
greatly exaggerated. and the farmers will do
well to compare the great profit to their
farms with the trifiing expense, before
deciding not to build BY a series of we'll
drawn conclusions it is shown that good
roads can be built all over the county at an
average cost of 80 cents for each acre of
ground owned by the farmers and the
increase value of lands lying adjacent to
such highways would far more than balance
the original expenditure.
Terre HaGte Express: The Louisville
Courier-Journal says: "a Louisville man
sits upon the supreme bench. 1t was a vote
transferred from Louisville man that NOM
mated Rutherford b. Hayes for president of
the United States. 1t is a Louisville man
who is fighting the British government
and striving to annex the Samoan Islands to
the United States. 1t is Louisville man
that mighty Boston has just brought forward
for the presidency in 1880. The greatest
living American tragedienne is a Louisville
woman. All this, and much more. Yet
you never hear Louisville calling herself
the Paris of America. A Terre Haute