The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-11
Minor Notes.


There are eleven bicycles in Nashville and a
club is to be formed
The Rose Orphans Home, of Terre Haute, will
be opened in two months.
Gypsies, who have been South all winter, are
now coming North. A party of them is en-
camped near Jacksonville.
Mr.. John Haney, of Ripley county, for whom
the village of Haney's Corners was named died
suddenly on Sunday. He was very wealthy
man.
Gordon Post No POI, G. A r., at New Mad
rid, was presented last Saturday night with
handsome regulation flag by the ladies of the
town
The Logansport Journal has perfected arrange
ments for the Associated Press dispatches which
will be valuable addition to its already val
liable columns.
Whitaker, who has just been serving a term
in the Franklin JAIL for pulling the tongue out of
a horse, was discharged on Thursday, and two
days later was taken with smallpox.
John Mitchell an intelligent colored man liv-
ing with Frank Fortman, on Long Branch, was
the first man of color that ever voted in Sand
Creek township, Wabash county, casting his
vote last Monday.
A crowd of young men were playing base ball
at Rushville last Sunday, when the bat flew out
of the hands of Jack Dolan and struck Charles
Montfort o bystander breaking his cheek-bone
and horribly bruising his face.
The case against Garrett Stillman. of Pike
county, for counterfeiting, was dismissed in the
United States Court at Evansville, by the dis
trict attorney, he acknowledging he could not
make out case against him.
Hon. Schuyler Colfax was given a reception at
the New Albany Odd-fellows' hall, by the crafts
men and their lady friends. Mr.. ColfaX is the
author of the Degree of Rebekah, and has al
ways been popular with the ladies of the order
William Crawford, an old and wealthy farmer
of Guthrie township, nine miles east of Mitchell
While carrying in backlog for his place, on
Tuesday, lost his footing from the snow on the
doorstep and fell. breaking his neck, from
which he died instantly
There is a scheme on foot in Rushville to or
ganize a Flaw and order society, for the pur-
pose of wiping out the gambling dens, Saloons
houses of prostitution, etc. The persons who pro
pose the organization are men of influence,
energy and determination.
Yesterday afternoon, at Terre Haute. the st.
Stephens bell, which weighs over :, 900 pounds,
was taken from the depot and escorted to the
church, where Hon. VIM. Mack presented it on
behalf of the Choral Union and DR.. Young re
ceived it on behalf of the vestry.
Sheriff Meyer of New Albany, went up to the
Jeffersonville penitentiary, on Monday, and
shook hands with seven men sent up from Floyd
county for murder during his brief term of of
fee If the sheriff had some hanging to do he
would not be bothered meeting criminals of this
class.
The suit of Alexander MCGEE against Sheriff
Miller, of Coshocton county, Ohio, will come up
at Brazil the 18th inst MCGEE asks 5000
damages for being arrested in Parke county for
murder, the murder having been committed in
July last, and MCGEE being abundantly able to
prove an abb.
William JONES' hostler, in jail at Logansport
for larceny, has confessed to belonging to q local
gang of crooks, which has for months been carry
ing on a systematic business of robbing stores,
houses and barns His testimony duplicates
John Choen, proprietor of a large meat market,
and also William Rubendale, hard character,
who recently ran away.
On Tuesday afternoon the business block of
AL Spears, at Ho1ton, burned. The business
house belonging to Al Spears, and occupied by
his son; the business houses occupied by j. J.
ScOfeld & Son, Eli Cox and the Yater business
house, were all consumed with their contents,
except the goods of Scofeld .& Son, which were
mostly saved The total loss is estimated at
$25, 600
The family of Elijah Eskridge, comprising
himself, wife and daughter, residents of Wash
ington, have been almost at the point of death
from vegetable poison. They cooked the tops of
a rhubarb plant as green's, and shortly after
eating were seized with violent Sickness which
Frustrated them. Mr. and Mrs Eskridge are in
fair way to recover, but the daughter is still
very i'll