The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-02-14
THE STATE.
Interesting Items OF News, Opinions and
Personals From Various Sections of the
Commo nwealth.

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Commonwealth.
The Posey County Banner is dead.
There is religious revival at Hanover
College.
There are five cases of smallpox in Jeffer-
sonville.
Crawford County's Delinquent. tax list con-
tains but 10 names.
Jasper citizens are rejoicing over a bank
just started in that place.
A large number of Boone County farmers
are emigrating to Kansas and Missouri.
Calvin A. Slime has been commissioned
Postmaster at Snowhill, and Miss Nellie
Sayler at Onoko.
A Postoffice has been established at Illion,
Marshall County, and R. W. Hardesty APP
pointed Postmaster.
Miss Annie Ketcham last week obtained
judgment of 81, 600 in the Kosciusko County
Court against VIM. +. Howard for breach OF
promise.
Colonel A. S. Baker, of South Bend. has
purchased the Mishawaka Wagon Works,
and will Immediately proceed to enlarge the
| business.
The Hancock Jeffersonian has been sold
to Ira Collins The former proprietor, r. ].
Strickland, has been retained in the man
agement.
A fellow named Harris. who hes been
showing counterfeit silver dollars and half
dollars in Grant County, was arrested few
days ago.
| Vincennes is to have a street railway. The
iron will arrive in q few days, and track lay
ing will probably begin in March or as soon
as the weather permits.
John Tach and wife. OF CorydoD, both
aged about seventy six years, died within a
| few hours OF each other, and were buried in
one grave very recently.
An obstreporous street car passenger in
Fort Wayne refused 10 pay his fare and re-
| sisted the efforts of the driver TO eject him
by living down in the bottom OF the car on
the fat of his back.
The Mennonite Church at Elkhart, which
at present has no UNCONVENTIONAL school, is
making arrangements for the establishment
of College at that place, where they al
ready have a book establishment.
George Doles, accused Of numbering Perry
| White, at Windfall, Upton County, has
been found guilty of manslaughter and SEN
fenced to twenty years imprisonment 1t is
generally thought the sentence is too Sc
we're.
Surveys are being made, with view CT
constructing levee running from Knox into
distance of some fifteen miles. which would
reclaim a large area of valuable land in both
Counties
} Ottelia Berndt has filed suit in the Vigo
Superior Court against Henry Nattkemper,
for $4,000 damages for breach of promise
The defendant is a well-known citizen OF
} Lockport, and the plaintiff formerly acted as
} his housekeeper.
George F. Harper, OF Madison, has in
vented an ingenious device for putting in
window glass withd ut putty. By removing
a slot at the side all glass can be inserted and
made tight by replacing the slot. He has
applied for patent
Some of our exchanges speak of a swind-
Ter who is canvassing through the country
and selling a harness attachment the price
of which is S.. He takes a note for the
amount. and it SOON turns up at the bank for
$50. Princeton Clarion.
There are nine newspaper reporters on
duty at the desks at the Lafayette Circuit
Court Roem at the Goug3r-Mandler trial
| They represent seventeen different newspa-
pers. The shaved heads and the bald head;
|, are also on hand.-Logansport Journal.
The Princeton Clarion urges the building
of a new Court House there. 1t says thai
} the old rookery now occupied as Court
House is not only disgrace to County
} like Gibson, but is absolutely an unsafe
! place in which to keep the County records
At the meeting of Farragut Post, G. A r
at Evansville on last Thursday evening
General Alvin P. Hovey read an interesting
paper on the Battle of Shiloh" in which
he warmly defended General Lew Wallace
against the charges made by General Sher
man in his memoirs.
The Pike County Democrat comes oct thi.
week in full size aud a handsome new dress
!, Its proprietor, Mr.. William P. knight
whose Office and printing material were cd
/; tirely destroyed by fire last December, ha.
exhibited remarkable energy and ability in
,, re-estsblishing bis paper and business.
Some of the enterprising citizens of Oak
land are engaged in the work of organizinf
new County, with Oakland as the County
seat. Their plan is to take portion from
each of the Counties of Gibson, Pike anC
Warrck, to give them enough land TO Sc
I up business for themselves. - Princeton
Clarion.