The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-27
Minor Notes.

coOred camp meeting will be held near
Princeton, August 9, to continue ten days.
Rachael Cowan, colored, reputed to be ITO
years old, died on Tuesday night at GlbsonYllle.
number OF farmers about Windfall have
been swindeld by seller of territorial rights
for patent wire fence,
The Bluffron Banner has been sold to three
citizens of that town. E. Y. Sturgis, DR.. A. g..
GOrrell and Joseph GOrrell for $4,000.
Six Lafayette residences were entered by burg
lars on Wednesday morning, but they got barely
enough from the lot to pay for II square meal.
George Right, of Sullivan, was struck in the
forehead by pitehtOrk While descending from
a hay stack on Wednesday. He will probably
die.
Frank LitenDG, who fell on picket of the
COurt-square fence. ON Tuesday fingered in
great agony until Wednesday morning, when
he died.
c. s. Ball, of Terre Haute, charges Matthew
Lyle with committing rape nearly three years
ago o. the formers step-daughter, Rosa VIII
liams, now about eleven years old
Thomas Cole fell out of a cherry tree, at Ply
mouth, on Tuesday, and broke his breast hone.
He will have to lie in one position at least two
weeks, It is said, to restore the fracture.
Full arrangements have been made for an
odfashioned Methodist camp-meeting. tn open
on September 6, in Blues grove, at Montezuma.
Able preachers are promised 10 conduct The
meetings.
or the public schools i'll Aurora, has received
calls to become the pastor OF two Christian
cnuf"ncS-One at Fort W ayne ana the OJheF aU
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.
Parke county comes to the front with q twenty
eignt-acre field of wheat averaging twenty-fOur
bushels to the acre, machine measure. 1t was
raised by Thomas Caussey, and sold for ninety
cents per bGshel to Davis, Atkins d Co., Of
Montezuma.
B, F. BOltz county auditor OF Randolph cOun-
ty, and George s. Diggs, merchant, Of Win
chester, engaged in a shooting scrape the other
evening, growing out OF an alleged intimacy be-
tween Digs and widowed sister or the former.
Several shots were exchanged, but fortunately
without effect.
Last Sunday, as train was leaving the depot
at Shelby vile, somebody threw large stone
the name of Smith, who lived at SUnman, twenty
miles east OF Greensburg, on the temple. Infor-
nation now comes that she is dead from the eff
fects of the blow.
AT HazletOn, on Tuesday, Peter LeFare was
running a belt on pulley, using stick for the
purpose. The stick became fastened in the wheel
and after one revolution 1t was thrown with ter
rlble force, striking LeFGre IN the bowels and
penetrating deep into his body. 1t is reported
that the young man died the same night.
The Supreme Court having decided adversely
to Joseph Stout, now under sentence of death at
Rockville for killing Dunbar in Montgomery
county, the gallows has been prepared for the
execution on August 8. Stout still continues in
different, declines to see minister and appears
far less concerned than those who guard him.
AT the opening OF the rebellion the citizens of
Perrysville made public presentation o. a fine
sword to Captain ]. NJ. Sinks, now of Indian
ap0lis, then of the Seventy first Indiana volun-
teers. 1t was captured by an officer of John
Norgan's command, who is now resident of
Georgia. and offers to return the sword in good
condition to Mr.. Sinks.