The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-07-25
STATE NEWS.


chased tricycle., as q means Of conveyance
to meet his several appointments.
Lightning struck the Lutheran Parsonage,
Huntington, shaking up the inmates lively
and doing $50 damage to the house.
The FloS d County Teachers Institute will
meet a. DePauw College, August Is. Coun-
ty Superintendent C.. X. Mcbride will be as
sisted by Mrs. McCrae, of Muncie, Ind, and
Professor ID. +. Hunter.
The Butler Record says that in the neigh
borhood Of that place many of the farmers
Lave abandoned their Germ fields entirely
while others have plowed up the corn and
sowed the ground TO buckwheat.
Towns are cow being visited by swindlers
who call themselves agents for some city dye
ing establishment, and they call at a resi-
DEF &c 10 collect shawls, clothing etc., to be
died and returned, but the owners never see
anything more of their goods Let Us be-
ware.
Judge Join r. Coffrcth left on Wednesday
night for Kansas City, in the interest OF Orth
SuiD, hose murder Trial will come up t.
morrow. Colonel Stein expected to leave
la, evening. A number of dispositions will
be taken in this city. An effort will be ma lie
to have the case ertinued.-Lafayette San
cay Times.
Superintendent Stevens, of the Wabash
publish in the current number of the An
drews Express card, in wDica he makes
special denial of the charge that the shops
are to be removed from that place. bat says
that ON the contrary their capacity will b.
inc essed, and that new depot will be
erected there.
Mrs. Catherine Awkward has filed a claim
against the civ Ct LAFAYETTE for 81 600 dam
ages sustained by the Ere Thursday morning,
July She claims that the Fire Depart
ment failed 10 exercise proper diligence and
skill, and hints darkly at there being more
whisky than water flowing. The Interesting
document is with the City Clerk.
John Coup. father OF w. c. Coup. the ia
nous Snowman, died at his late home in
Washington, Davis County. last week in the
eightie,h year of his age. He was native of
Pennsylvania and came to this County at an
rly age. In HE early manhood he was q
stage driver and when Maysvilla was a
fiOurishipg village he kept hotel there.
The Frankfort Crescent says: Clinton
County has the largest corn crop ever put out;
il will be immense. il adds: The farmers
complain that the wheat heads many of
them, are light, that something has interfered
with the filling; the rust has also hurt the
wheat considerably. The latest est nate of
the wheat crop is that it is only II per cent.
less than the crop of 1882.
The wheat harvest in this section is about
over and the farmers express themselves well
pleased with the yield. In fact, it has been
much better than was expected and the
bountlful prospect for corn will. without an
accident, more than make up for the falling
off in wheat AS a consequence, the farmers
are in good spirits and are by no means dis
couTaged.-Franklin Democrat.
TIE annual meeting Of the old settlers of
Montgomery County will be held at Me-
haIry's Grove tie last Thursday in August.
The Grove has been famous place for hold
ing Fourth Of July celebrations camp meet
| ings and the old settlers meetings have also
teen held here for the past twenty years
The first Methodist camp meeting was held
there in 1851 and regularly after that until
| 1859. Next year Alex Meharry. to whom the
ground belongs, will clear it and plant it in
| corn.