The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-26

The building of the levee at Jacksonville win
begin ON Monday.
Gorham Brothers tile works, at Groveland
burned Loss, So. 600; insured for 81, 500 in the
Liverpool and Globe.
John Stout of Seymour, keeper of a lverv
stable, has become insane through financial re-
verses aid heart disease
Prof O. c. Charlton. of Lebanon, has been
elected to the chair of natural science in the
university at Ottawa. Kan.
At Martnsvllle, on Saturday, during storm,
the barn of J. c. Comstock was struck by light
ming and totally destroyed. Loss, $500.
Memorial services at Spencer, on Sunday,
were held iii the opera house. Addresses were
made by Revs Spears, Nesslaye and Clevinger.
Rev. George McCampbell, of New York, will
fill Rev j. NJ. Hutchinsons pulpit at the Presby-
terrain Church, Jeffersonville, during the sum
mer months, commencing next Sunday, and Mr..
Hutchinson will fill Mr. McCanipbell's pulpit in
New York City.
At Warsaw, some children had tied a string
around cats neck so closely that it was about
re- be choked, when little boy named Holbrook
undertook to cut the string The knife slipped
and the point stuck in the eye of a little girl
named Sparkling. She will probably lose her
eye
The Seymour Council has reduced the salary
of Mayor r. F. Everhart 800 per year, and
raised that Of the city clerk and city treasurer
$50 each. There is considerable indignation
pressed by the Mayors friends, but the excite
Tnent is dying out, and the people generally
approve the action
On Friday night the Office of the treasurer Of
Brown county at Nashville, was entered by
burglars. The outer doors of the safe were
blown open with powder They then tried to
batter the inside doors open with sledge- hammers
and crowbars, but failed. There was large
amount of money in the safe, but they only got
$751; 70, which had been left in the drawer
H. T. Pickett, of Winchester, blind man,
visited Cincinnati to have "a good time" Ac-
cUmpanied by his son and gnided by some de-
Iraved men of Cincinnati, they visiteda house of
H-fame. The next morning the blind roysterer
,iscovered that his pocket book, containing 1929
md some valuable paper. was missing. ALI the
-5mpany, men and women, except Pickett ahd
lis son, are now under arrest.
William Gibson, a young man Of Spencer,
addicted to drink and abusing his family who
has been a town terror, was taken on Saturday
night by six unknown men to a secluded spot on
Calvin Fletcher's farm and given 150 iasiIes with
tough switches. He was found on Sunday morn
ing In barn three miles from Spencer. A
doctor sent for to dress his wounds-he re-
fusing to come back to town.
At Mnncie a suit has been brought to set aside
a mortgage given by b. NJ. Brown to his wife,
CoFnelia A. Brown, for $40, 600. A point raised
as to the legality Of the mortgage is the
ground that the seal used by the notary who
took the acknowledgment was not his own seal,
but cue borrowed from another notary. What
ever the outcome, now that the question has
been raised. notaries will probably be careful
hereafter to use their own seals.
A bug has appeared in the neighborheod of
Vincennes which is believed 20 threaten destruc-
ton to the watermelon crop. The bug is about
the size of house fly, yellow in color, and has
wings to accelerate its movements. Black
stripes cross its back like that of the potato
beetle. The bug appeared in limited numbers
last year and stayed two weeks, eating the plant
n tha
are millions of them, and the melon man is in
despair.