The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-15
Minor Nofes.


The Mexican Cadets, of Terre Haute, are talk
ing Of disbanding
David Apples barn and contents were burned
near Farmers0urg. Loss $1,000.
John Tobin, laborer at the Peru basket-fac-
tory. dropped dead while at work, from heart
disease.
John Leonard, the banker and grain man who
recently failed, is said to be quite i'll at his home
in Delphi
Senator Faulkner is reported as pressing his
claims for congressional honors in place of
Judge Holman.
day, at Rising Sun. His remains were taken to
Terre Haate for burial.
F. Miller, druggist at Middletown, in Henry
county, ten miles from Anderson, was shot in his
store by a burglar last night and seriously in
jured.
W;n. A Henderson, ST., aged sixty-four years,
for many years prominent merchant OF Monte
yuma, died yesterday. He leaves a wife and
four children.
1t is claimed that Joseph Houehins the Pike
county oounterfeter, who was reported to have
died from injuries received when the wholesale
arrests were made, is still alive and in fair way
to recover.
Owing to the unusual large attendance at the
Valparaiso high-sehoo this winter, it has been
found necessary to fit up another room, in addi-
ton to the hlgh-School room, for the accOmIno-
daLion of pupils
School Trustee Kellogg of Elkhart, has offered
prize of $25 to The district school showing the
best average attendance for the last three
months of the present school term, the money
to be invested in books and placed in the school
room.
Bishop Knicllerhaeker said to the members of
the church while at Logansport that an effort
would be made to get the church TO pledge
81 coo for the maintenance of rector, and II
the effort were successful an efficient clergyman
would be provided.
The trustees and visitors of the Fort Wayne
NJ. f. College have purchased five acres adjoin-
ing the college grounds. A dormitory for
ladies to be erected, and it is intended erect
at an early date building for chapel and re-
citation halls. To meet the expenses of these
contemplated improvements and to make others,
aud also to begin an endowment fund the North
ern Indiana Conference was asked to raise $780,
600 during 1884.
The proposition of Mr.. Dewey, a representa-
tive of the Eagle Cotton Mills Company, of Pitts
burg, Pa, to the Madison people Is, that if the
citizens of the latter place will subscribe S105,-
600 in stock, the present stockholders of the
Eagle company taking the balance, $50, 600,
they will remove their factory permanently to
Madison. The wages paid out by the factory
range from 81 $50 to az, 900 per week. the num-
Der of hands employed is from 325 to $50; the
amount of cotton consumed is 5000 bales per
year; the value of goods furnished Is from $685.
600 to 1850, 900 per year.
The mother of Mrs William Lee, Mrs. Harry
man, OF Jeffersonville has been very i'll for some
days past. Mrs. HarTYman carried the first
mail from CorydOn to Fredericksburg when
only sixteen years Of age. Her name was Mar
kinney havinS tbe contract {or csrryinr the
mails between Corydon and fredericksburg,
deputiZed his daughter to do this work. The
young miss would saddle her horse, jump ON his
back with the mailbag and ride distance of
forty miles through dense woods, stopping over
night at a log hue half way between Browns
town and Salem, where family by the name of
House lived. AS the door of the room where
81 slept had no locks ON the inside and the mail
had TO be kept in her possession, the host had
to lock her and the mailbag in, and unlock her
door the next morning. The brave miss would
return home next day. Mrs. HaFryman passed
through Jacksonville with her parents in 1910.
Then Jeffersonville had only two houses, and
New Albany was a wilderness.