The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-01-24
THE STATE.

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THE STATE
Items OF Interest rs Gathered FROM nj
Sections Of the State.
Princeton. Ind, has Library Association
in fiourishing condition.
A splendid Touring mill, to cost $40, OOe
rs to be built immediately at Lebanon.
Not less than 600 men are now at work
harvesting ice on the lakes near Lsporte.
Charles Little, of Warren, owps a colt
which seems to take delight in catching and
killing rats.
The new Court House at Marion has been
accepted by the Commissioners. The total
cost was $166, 039.
The vanderburg County Commissioners
offers 81 600 reward for the detection of the
murderers of the Weibers.
William F. knight, of the Pike County
Democrat, who lost his entire Office by the
| late rire at Petersburg, has bought a new
outfit.
The United States has filed suit against
Isaac Mendenhall, ex-Postmaster of Albion,
and his bondsmen, to recover an alleged
shortage of 1918 81.
The Bedford Magnet says: wild turkeys
are plentiful along the line of the Narrow
Gauge, near the line between Greene and
Lawrence Counties'
Decatur will have q new Opera House.
The dimensions are to be 46 ITO feet 1t
will be three stories high and will have q
seating capacity of 600.
The total destruction of property by fire
in Peru during 1882 amounted to only SIS.
This shows the advantage of having a first
class system of water works.
Governor Williams monument has been
1 Il In, LII L.
kept in that position until next summer,
when the unseiling exercises will take place.
Evansville city orders are now selling at
/ only eighty-hve cents on the dollar, so the
Council concluded to discontinue the order
system and postpone payment OF the city of
ficers indefinitely.
| Our present Legislature should make q
liberal appropriation for the strengthening
of the Kankakee River. The value of the
redeemed lands, in the way of additional
taxes, would soon repay the State-Starke
County Ledger.
| John Rainbolt, of Owen County, was last
summer badly injured by the falling of the
White River bridge on the Bloomfield Mar
row Gauge Railroad. John sued the Com
pany for damages, and on Saturday obtained
judgment for $4,000.
Rochester, Fulton County, has a new Re
publican paper called the Tribune. 1t was
born with strong Republican proclivities
and Major Bitters is the editor and proprie
tor. Mr.. Bitters formerly published the
Spy of that city. He is an old newspaper
man and an able writer.
The Shelbyville City Council has passed ar
ordinance making it unlawful for persons t
loaf around the depot, to congregate at the
Church doors, the entrance TO the Operf
House. to loaf in or about livery stables OF
L RI. oh of fha onfr IN oto nd q h.
J steps to private offices The penalty for vic
} lation is a fine of from 81 to $25.
George Patterson, of San Francisco, was q
one time laborer on the canal at Lafayett,
and lived in a cabin on its classic banks
To-day he is millionaire, worth $1,000, 600
He owns $4,000 acres of land within few
miles of San Francisco, 3, 600 acres of which
he sows in wheat, and 1, 900 in barley ever,
year.
1t is quite pleasure to know that Senate
Hilligass, of the Huntington Democrat, is a
his post in the State Senate, as he is power
, fully 'forninst' the new decedents' estat
law; and it is to be hoped that he will All
tate measures to strike out this leecn upol
guardians, executors and administrators
Lagrange Democrat.
} The Secretary of the Board of Health o
Fountain County shows that the number o
{ female births during the year 1882 wa
greater by per cent. than that of the males
} and that 2 per cent. more males than female
, died during that time. This leads to tn
thought that soon the time will come whel
seven women shall cling TO one man, as fore
: told by the prophets of old.-Covingtol
, Peoples Friend.
r One of the oldest buildings In the State
, built by General George Rogers Clark, il
the old town of GAINESVILLE, at the foot O
, the falls of the Ohio, was burned recently
This house was of heavy hewn logs and tw
stories high. II was made very strong tina
il might be used as fort and is known Il
, have been over eighty years old. 1t wa
weather-boarded about fifty years ago, sine
r which time it has been used as a resldenc
. by two or more families.
The Radical bosses of Upton used Doxey'
"soap" on election day. 1t was no uncon
mon thing to see them giving away whisk
in the alley between the two printing office:
The whisky was evidently purchased by tn
corruption fund, and the RAIDS were usin
: it where it would do the most good. By
c little effort on the part of the Pr0secutin
Attorney he could make a few fees and al
!, the State by giving it a few years servics
! Will he do it?-Tipton Express.
Mr.. James H. Deery. of the well-know
. carpet and decorative house of Albert Gal
of indianapolis, has just finished the paper
8 ing and decorations of the First Nations
Bank of this city. 1t is done in the lates
: styles and patterns of rich wall paper. TIL
ceiling is finished in three panels, the tw
q ends of which are of rustic designs with til
: figures, while the middle panel is compose
: of fancy designed centers, giving the entir
,, ceiling a rich and tasty appearance. Tn
$ side walls are finished in elegant gold pape
= of fine Indian red colorings, with rich friez
. and dado to match. The Directors room
. also finished in splendid style with ric
cream colored and gold paper. The entir
. job has required artistic work and skilfu
work and reflects great credit upon tn
workman in charge. Mr.. Deery left for hi
hom, in Indianapolis this morning.-Mict
igan City Enterprise.