The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-10-31
STATE NEWS.

Harrison County paid $3.50 at the recent
session OF the Commissioners for hawk heads
Jay Rugg, of Decatur visited the Chicago
Exposition last week and has not since been
heard from.
The Purdue Cadet Corps. under the com
mand OF County Clerk Mitchell of iafay-
cite, numbers thirty students.
new town has been laid of OF the Cory
don Branch Railroad and named Gresham,
III honor OF the Postmaster General.
Rev. d. NJ. Stewart Presbyterian minis.
ter of Nashville, has been in the ministry
forty-seven years, and has OBLIGATED at 9;i5
weddings
Mrs John 6. Jones, OF Bedford, has been
awarded -, OOo damages against the Louis
vile, New Albany and Chicago Railway
Company for damages received in an acct
dent. She sued for $4,000.
Work has been resumed in tue bottle de-
partment at DePauw's glass establishment.
at New Albany, and 30 men have found
employment
WELD being only one-haif what it usually is.
The grains are soft and only small guam
tity will grade as merchantsOle.
The convention of tine Woman Christian
Temperance Union for the Eleventh Con-
gressiOnal District will De neld ut Portland,
Jay County, November q and 4.
Nincennes Commercial Work OH the Y.
and 0. II. r. survey will be resumed as soon
as fall takes the leaves from off the trees 50
that more care can be used i'll doing the fine
work OF locating.
The chain-gang at Terre Haute refused to
work on Monday unless the chains attached
to their legs were taken OIL. The prisoners
were returned to Jail and placed on diet of
bread and water.
dog owned by Mr. G. Gaussin, of Bed
ford, that has been missing since the It'll OF
last September, was found on Monday at the
bottom of deep, dry we'll in the south part
OF town, where he had lain the entire forty
eight DAYS. without either food or water
When taken out he was in an almost dying
condition, but has since been recuperating
and will, with care and proper attention,
soon be well again.
LII Ingrim. OF the Winamac Journal
has purchased the Democrat OF J. o. Belly.
mer, and the paper will hereafter be known
as the Democratic Journal. Editor Ingrim
closes his saiutatory in the following words
I'VE are now fully identified with the De-
mocracy. having burned all the bridges be-
hind as, and sink or swim, survive or per-
ISL we are now and henceforth with the
grand old Democratic party"
| There will be an increase in the acreage OF
| wheat sown in this part OF the state the
! present fall over that Of last year. The wheat
: Is growing finely and looks very promising.
( The recent rains have been very favorable
| and the grain is making strong root. Much
/ OF the present years crop is yet in the hands
OF the farmers, who refuse to sell at the low
/ prices ruling the market since harvest,
though it is fact that New Albany millerS
are paying from five to ten cents per bushel
above Chicago qnotations.-New Albany
Ledger.
On Thursday night OF last week burglars
entered the store of Messrs. Schlensker &
W9ler. of Evansville, under very peculiar
circumstances The family occupy rooms
over the store, and were up during the hours
the burglars were at work. They entered
through gate way and concealed entrance
into the yard. A ferocious dog. feared by
all the neighbors, had been enticed away
from the premises, and another fierce do
that was inside is thought to have been
chlOroformed. The whole matter was clever
IL done; but $50 was all the money found in
! the safe after they got it opened. The safe
was drilled open.
queer specimen of humanity struck
I Lawrenceburg last week He is said to be q
seedy-looking individual and has the appear
ance OF being drunk, yet he is not drink
ing man. He carries letters with him fron
number of professors OF Ohio and Eastern
I Colleges, stating that lac IS a philosopher aud
can answer any question asked him in math
( enaticS and astronomy or any of the known
sciences, yet he claims to have no education
whatever His memory is perfect. and Ia
can repeat a long string of Latin or Greek
from bearing il once. aud lac knows n0thin:
of the languages. He addressed the public
schools OF Lawrenceburg. giving the pupils
much valuable information and displayin;
wonderful knowledge of science.-Ner
sailles Republican.
mild case OF hazing has been develope,
at Purdue University A new Student fron
the interior Of the State had intmsted TO lI
room mate an apprehension that he nigh
be hanged The boys got hold OF it, and
party of four or five entered his room, pre-
tending TO be drunk. They Personated tin
frightiul example perfectiy-aot in any yio
lence or profanity, but in wild feigne,
| drunken stupidity. There was no smashing
thinas-nc knocking the piauo OF the nan