The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-01-08
STATE INTELLIGENoE.

Orange county has but one licensed saloon,
and that belongs to Orleans.
The house of Mrs Huddleston at Knights
town was burned Sunday evening; loss, 500.
Henry Leedy, of DeedsvIlle. can prove
that he recently killed 16 quails at two
shots.
The delinquent tax of Howard County Is
larger than usual this year, amounting to
81, 400.
During the month of December 80 mar
risge licenses were issued in Switzerland
county.
veyey Democrat: A minister in this coun-
ty has married two couples in one and one
half minutes.
Rushville has pretty woman practicing
the art tonsorial, who shaves well and never
lacks for custom.
Saturday morning, at Brookville, two
young children named Nolan were found
frozen to death IN bed.
The trial of young Murphy, who killed his
father near Lafayette few weeks since. will
commence to-day at Lafayette.
The drug store of E. H. Hill & Co., at Fort
Wayne, was fred by an incenoiary Saturday
night and damaged to the extent of s., 500;
fully insured.
4 female blackmailer has been disturbing
the young married men of Fort Wayne, two
of whom she beat out of 800. She has been
run out of the town.
A stabbing ARRAY took place at Terre
Haute Saturday between two cooks of a
restaurant Albert Hill (whIte) badly cut
George Smith (colored-)
Miss Tasting, of Seymour, fell on the icy
pavement on Sunday and cut the arteries of
her wrist SO badly that prompt surgical at
tendance barely saved her from bleeding to
death.
John Starr, we'll known attorney at Balm
bridge, Putnam County, took what was sup
posed to be spirits at his sons drug store, but
it proved to be muriatic acid and he was
fatally poisoned.
A man named Nolan, living at Beckville,
Montgomery County, came home drunk
and took the bed covering from his two lit
tie children to protect himself with, and in
the morning the children were found frozen
to death.
Colonel III. B. Burgh, an assistant agent of
the Northern Illinois and Wisconsin Reeve
nue. District, arrived at Terre Haute Satur-
day 10 take charge of this United States Rev
enue District, which includes Indiana and
Michigan, during the absence of Gen. Pack
ard, the regular agent of the district, in Cal
ifornia as witness in an important revenue
case. Colonel Burgh will make Terre Haute
bis headquarters while in charge.
Marion Democrat: One day last week a
lazy, dirty scoundreI, living at Xenia and
whose name we have been unable to obtain,
was taken out by his neighbors and given 40
lashes, after which he was allo wed "a hours
to leave town, for sending his wife's half SIS
ter, little girl about 10 years old, out into
the snow barefooted and half clad otherwise
to hunt up cigar stubs for him to smoke.
The child was SO badly frozen that 1t was
feared she could not recover. II the good
people of Xenia had hung the wretch they
would have done righteous act.
Lafayette Journal: The not uncommon
occurrence of Jail delivery occurred on Sat-
urday evening, at about half-past o'clock.
There was nothing new or novel, and the
usual account OF how the prisoners went into
the old cell, that would not hold load of
straw, and from there out through a ventila-
tor and out in the cold they went. Punch
Jones. who was up for two months, and Ty-
Ter, who was nnder sentence for two years,
were all the prisoners who availed them
selves of the opportunity to go. They went
out in light marching order, and several per-
sons are quite sure that they saw the parties
at late hour on Saturday night. Sheriff
Baird offers fifty dollars reward for the cap
ture of Tyler.