The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-15

to resign The citizens Of the town are in favor
of new court house, while the people of the
rural districts want money expended on gravel
roads before new courthouse is built
John Monahan, q section foreman on the
Nickel plate, started to Smiley Station, where
he lived, on a velocipede hand car. Being under
the influence of liquor, it is supposed he went to
sleep on the car as it had stopped A freight
train ran into it, killing him instantly.
Frank s. Lambert, twenty-five years old, a
well-known newspaper man of Muncie, died on
Saturday, after protected Illness of Brights
disease, aggravated by typhoid fever. He leaves
young widow to mourn his early death. He
was the son of City Treasurer 0. NJ Tyler.
The tenth annual music teachers convention
will be held at Evansville. June % to 26 inclu-
sive. Profs. Ell. s. Perkins, of Chicago, and w.
I'll. Dana, of the Warren, o., Musical Institute,
and many other eminent musicians will be pres
emit and assist in the grand musical entertain
ment
at the colored high-school Of Evansville, there
are five graduates from the Latin course. The
two class honors were captured by Robert L.
Wilson and j. Thomas Harrison, respectively,
the former winning the first honor on an
average written examination of 97.6; the latte,
winning second honor on an average of SO.
Edward johnson. of Salem, made a bet that
he could eat whole ham. The ham weighed
fourteen pounds when he commenced on it, and
after eating about forty minutes the ham was
again weighed, and johnson had devoured ex-
actly nine pounds, including some two pounds of
crackers when he was forced to acknowledge his
inability to finish the remaining five pounds.
The township trustee Of Wayne township,
Wayne county (Riehmond1 expended 81, 1897 on
account of the poor in the past three months.
1t was thought that with the return of warm
weather the demand for help would cease, but so
many persons being out of work who would be
glad to have employment, leaves quite num-
Der Of persons to whom assistance is an absolute
necessity
Shelbyvie Democrat Richard Pyle, who
lives just east of Marietta, sometime after retir-
ing heard a noise in the yard, and, thinking that
calf which he had turned in the yard, had
fallen into the eistern, which had been repaired
and left open that night, got up to investigate
Looking down into the cistern he discovered a
man who lived near by and helped him out the
man making a lame excuse for his presence
there. Mr.. Pyle found two sides of bacon in the
cistern the next morning and the same number
were missing from his smoke-house.
Rev. Mahaffee of Boswell has made the fol-
lowing tabulated discovery There was shipped
to that little town during the year 1884, 1866
gallons of beer $50 gallons of gin $50 gallons of
whisky, and IS gallons of wine, which he esti-
mates cost the people not less than s;11.240.
This is 1924. 81 more than was paid out during
that time in that town and township for -four,
schools, support of ministers, churches and
Sunday schools. He says that the people of
that vicinity owe their merchants $50 000 and
concludes that it is the men who paid this $11 :
900 for drinks who are thus indebted