The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-06-28
THE STATE.

Noah ID. Haverman, who has been on
trial for the last six days charged with COM
hitting rape upon little German girl last
month, was convicted and sentenced to six
years in the Penitentiary to-day.-Warsaw,
Ind. special, June 20.
Charley Brookbank, of Jackson Township,
says he has lost 500 bushels of barley by the
army worm. Several of the farmers north
of the city have lost their entire crops of
barley and considerable wheat and corn
Connersville Examiner.
Benton County has no Touring mill. The
venerable citizen has sat on the store box
and pondered over this fact long enough.
He wants to cut this item out and send it
to all his friends and relatives that ever
heard of m ller.-0xford Tribune.
Miss Anna Fowler, sister of Harry Fowler,
of this city, and popular teacher in the
New Albany Public Schools who was in
| jured in the Bedford Railroad wreck, had to
submit to amputation of her left hand, on
Monday, in order 10 save her life.-Craw-
louisville Times.
a Government surveying party from the
west arrived in the city yesterday. They
are engaged in taking the leYel of the coun-
try, on a line as nearly due east and west as
they can conveniently, between San Fran
cisco and New York. They make about six
miles per day this hot weather.---Daviess
County Democrat.
Lloyd Clark. of near Montgomery, brought
in sample of wheat from his farm, Mon
day, that is six feet and three inches high.
This is a good heighth for wheat, almost
equal to rye. Indeed the farmers generally,
in this County this year, have great reasons
to rejoice, for the prospect for large yield is
fine.-Daviess County Democrat.
While waiting for the mail in the Post
office yesterday, we noticed letter in one
of the glass boxes which contained an In
scription on the back of the envelope, which
read as follows: Il send still another kiss, ~
and the Lord only knows how many the
Der of that box in vlew.-Michigan City
Dispatch.
The Cass County Circuit Court decided the
celebrated bounty cases recently. Eighty
/ two soldiers who re-enlisted somewhere in
the South during the War. and were credit
ed to that country, demand the bounty
offered there at that time. The Court de-
cides, as has the Supreme Court in a similar
case, that the statute of limitation bars the
claim of the soldiers.
A singular phenomenon came 10 the no
tice of Milton Township farmer recently.
He owned young colt which had pro-
tubreance at the side of Its head, and it APP
parently grew larger every day. Ii looked
a
lance was used on the sac, which, when
punctured, was found to contain a loose
horses jaw tooth. Whether the tooth had
BENIN that position when the colt was
born, or whether horse had bitten il, lost
the tooth, and it had become encysted, are
questions il was unable to decide 1t was q
remarkable curiosity to say the least
Madison Star.
Oscar NJ. Goodwin, who has for five years
past been the cashier of the Logansport Ma
\ tional Bank, disappeared from the city or
Saturday night last, taking the train west or
the Wabash Road, and without explaining
his going to his friends or employers. Or
Monday morning his absence from his place
of business occasioned surprise, and search
was made for his Whereabouts, with the
above result and nothing m~re. Mr.. Good
wins accounts at the Bank so far as exam
ined, are correct His cash tallies with the
Bank sheet, and shows the usual reserve OF
hand.-Logansport Journal.
In his sermon one of our ministers painted
a terrible picture of the sins of ''the wicked
est city in Indiana" He classified the var
ious prominent sins and sinners from the
gambler and his advocation to the libertint
and the results of his work. He applied tC
Elkhart the words of noted author con
corning New York City: at is not the
slums and the gutter wlckedness of our city
that cause the increase and extent of sin
but the scons of wealth and fashion," He
claimed that of Elkhart il is said by the
general visitor that in proportion to ITS size
it is as wicked as Chicago. As representa-
tives from every class In the city were pres
ent, the effect of the discourse we'll, nc
doubt, be decidedly different upon these
classes. Monitor.