The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-21

movement is on foot to connect Madison
and Vevay by telephone.
Mr. ". H. Hardesty has purchased the Rock
port Journal and will hereafter manage the bust
ness.
Richmond twelve-year-old boy is reported
TO have vomited up living snail minus the
she'll.
John Carlisle, a well-known music dealer of
Madison, was found dead ia his bed on saturday
morning
Rockport has an organized female base ball
club The first game was played last week on
the college grounds.
Miss Mamie Boyer Of New Albany, has been
appointed to a 200 clerkship in the Pension
Office at Washington.
The aggregate losses by fire In the past year,
reported by the Yineennes chief Of fire depart
ment, only amounted to some $4,000.
An effort will be made this summer TO have
the Governors of ONO. Indiana and Michigan
present at one time, al the Island Park Assem-
bly,, Rome City
The catalogue of Wabash College has been
Issued. There are 10 seniors, II juniors, 30
sOphOmOFes, % freshmen, Sc senior preparatory,
Sc junior preparatory and % in the English and
normal department.
New Albany complains ofthe prevalence of a
habit among young girls of from twelve to Tiff
teen years old, yet wearing short dresses. of
promenading the streets at night with boys
from sixteen to twenty years of age.
In an alteration in A. Qaalls saloon, at
Bloomington, on Saturday evening about 2
o'clock, a man by the name OF SIzemOre shot
four times at Wade Chandler. missing his mark,
but putting one ball in the throat of joe an, a
bystander.
The bodies OF the dead in the old cemetery at
Michigan City being removed to another
place of burial The contractor doing the work
says that SO far he has found the bodies of two
persons were buried alive. Upon removing the
decayed tops of the coffin he found, to his amaze
ment and establishment, that they were lying
face downward, the vertebra being on top.
Richmond colt pasturing in the jaiiyard at
tempted TO jump the lrOn picket fence dividing
the yard from the Jail, on Saturday but it alight
ed astride of the fence. The sharp point Of a
picket penetrated the flesh in the vicinity of the
withers, and SO friBly was it impaled that it re-
CURED the united efforts of eight stout men TO
lift it of. 1t is badly hurt, but Mr.. German be-
Heves IL will get we'll
William Captinger, well known society young
man, residing SIX miles northeast of Franklin,
has become insane. The cause Of his insanity
dates back several months, at which time he WAS
paying his addresses to a young lady of the
neighborhood. Itappears that his attentions
were distasteful to the lady, and upon ascer-
tanning this fact he became mOrose and unsocia-
Bile. His actions have been more aud more
marked from that time until yesterday, when he
became violently insane.
Quite a sensation was caused in q country dis
trict in Carroll county last Saturday, by the ap-
paarance of the two Mormon elders, who have
been instructIng the citizens of Vigo and Parke
in their religion. During the services one of the
MOrmons was hit by chew of tobacco, and
after the meeting eevaral eggs were thrown at
them, and they found difficulty in getting out of
the reach Of the angry HoOsers. Before they
lett, however, they declared their intention of
preaching at every schoo-house in the county.