The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-06-28
THE STATE.
Entertaining Items Gathered From Our
Friends of the state Press.


Indiana is the Methodist Episcopal, of
Corydon. 1t has been in operation for
sixty-five years.
The total number OF teachers licensed in
Henry County during the past year was
III; number rejected, 90. There are 15s
teachers required.
! John w. Rhoads. one of the prosperous
| farmers of Hamilton Township, is highly
elated this morning at the prospect of reap
ing not less than 2,400 bushels of wheat
from eighty acres sown to that cereal.
Seymour Lever.
Farmers are becoming discouraged over
| their prospects for corn this season.
| The continued wet weather and storms pre-
vent the cultivation, and some fields look as
much like pasture as anything else
| Knightstown Banner.
The Lafayette Courier charges Messrs.
| White and Scott, two County Commission
| ers elected by the Republicans, of being
Johnsonized, and coming over to the Demo
Gratis. The same old story, we suppose; the
gentlemen were tired of Republican boss
/ ism.
Some of our farmers commenced cutting
their wheat this week Glenn Nutter, who
is always the first on the docket, cut $50
acres. From every portion OF the County
we hear the most encouraging reports about
the wheat crop. The general opinion of
farmers is that the yield will be enormous.
-Martinsville Gazette.
During the storm last Friday evening a
daughter of Henry Kuning, living one-half
mile north of town, was putting some horses
| in the stable when she received a stroke OF
| lightning almost killing her. Her body
| is severely burned. A mare and colt were
struck at the same time. He had a valuable
COW killed in the same manner about wear
| ago.Ripley County Journal.
A license to wed was issued to William
| Snyder, of Thorncreek, last Tuesday. With
| in an hour after the license had been Sc
cured the gallant William was in the
clutches of the law on a charge of bastardy
preferred against him by another party than
the one ne was about to marry. The young
man is now under bonds to appear at the
next term of Court.-Columbia City Her
aid.
Old Uncle John Proctor died at Elkhart
last Monday, aged ninety-one years and
three months. The life of the old man was
an eventful one. Thirty and forty years
ago he was known by about all our citizens
in the County on account of his peculiar
habits. He was a lifelong Democrat, and
once gave DIR. Ellis some sound advice when
he was editor of the Goshen Democrat. In
speaking of the Wing party, he said in his
communication, Give them hell under the
shirt, Doc."-Goshen Democrat.
ssssOn Monday Ira Hawver, of Washington
Township, brought US in some stalks of
wheat of very large size. They are five
feet ten inches high, and crowned with
heads over five inches long and with an ay-
erage of eighty-two grains to the head. Mr..
Hawver has thirty-five acres of the same
kind of wheat. standing thickly on the
ground, aud the yield, if no bad luck befalls
il between now and harvest, will be some
thing marvellous. This County is going to
have wheat TO sell, sure.-Miami County
Sentinel.
The overflow has come and gone, taking
with it eight-tenths of the corn, three-fifths
of the oats, and one-tenth of the wheat.
This will fall heavily upon a great many
fellows in the bottom, some OF them were
depending largely upon this present crop.
Most of them will plant corn over, but it
will make it late as some of them will have
the harvest their wheat first, which will have
to be cut this week.-Brownstown Demo-
crat.
Hon. R. B. F. PIERCE appointed Sam Ir-
win, of this city, to the vacancy in the An
napolis Naval Academy. and Sam was sue
cessful in his examination. Out of thirty
eight applicants seventeen passed muster,
and Sam was one. He will start on man.
o-war and make his first cruise on Chesa-
peake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. Sam
will make jolly tar. and if the ship is too
light he can be utilized as ballast.-Craw-
louisville Review.
The daily papers last week contained &C.
counts of an elopement from near Wabash |
of Miss King with a married man passing |
under the cognOmen of Carlisle but whose |
real name was given as Daily, and the furth- |
er statement made that he was from New |
Castle. The Wabash papers contain accounts |
of the elopement and state that Daily has |
wife and child living in the northern part of |
Wabash County, but makes no reference to |
his former residence at New Castle.
The other day we met three large lusty |
tramps who we're taking their morning exer- |
else in search of a breakfast. They claimed |
they were sailors and on their way TO Chi |
cago, where they soon expected to snip |
They were out of money and hungry. A |
Job of work was suggested, when they few |
up in a rage and replied that by God they |
had helped to save this country, and would |
see it in hi before they got down to work" |
We intimated that they were going in the |
wrong direction, as persons so inclined gen. |
orally went to Washington Warsaw Union. |
Mrs. DIETRICH, wife of Chris DIETRICH. living
in Third Ward committed suicide Wednes- |
day afternoon by hanging herself. Her hus
band on returning from his work in the |
evening found her hanging by rope to one |
of the Tafters up stairs her feet still resting |
on the top of a barrel used by her in doing |
the job. Gashes found on her throat make |
it probable that she had at first tried TO kill |
herself by cutting her throat and failing in |
this had taken a more sure way. He con-
duct during the past few days justifies the
belief that she was more or less insane
Michigan City Enterprise.
DIR. Aaron Wood, the oldest Methodist d.
vine in Indiana gave the Dispatch pleas
ant call. In the course of his conversation
he remarked that an error prevailed in re-
gard to tho term "Hoosier." According to
one authority widely credited, a stranger
called at a cabin and broke the stiffness by
crying: Who's here" But according to |
the Doctor it was given birth by the follow
ing incident: learned foreigner, by the
name of Leminouski, formerly soldier un-
der Napoleon during the years intervening
between 1923 and 1880, lectured extensively |
on the wars of Europe to the pioneers of
this State. In his discourses the valor of
the huzzars was conspicuous, but his accent
was not English, and he pronounced that
body Hoosiers. During the excavation of /
the canal at the Falls of the Ohio through |
Kentucky, young man from Washington |
County, Indiana, on the grounds one day |
fought and whipped three Kentuckians !
Highly elated at the conclusion, amid tor 1