The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-19
Minor Notes.

A Sunday paper is one of the coming ventures
at Charlottesville
The members of the Thirty first Regiment
Indiana Volunteers will hold reunion at Terre
Haute on Sept. 8, and 10.
Col. Martin Adams and wife celebrated the
| sixteth anniversary of their marriage, yester
day. at their home at New Washington.
John Bender of Jeffersonville, has strayed
away during temporary fit of insanity. His
wiTes death, from sunstroke, is hourly expected.
On Monday morning the saloon and residence
| of John A. Monsch, at Jefersonville, were dam
| aged by fire to the amount of 800, insured for
| $500.
| The twentyeighth annual meeting Of the old
| settlers of Montgomery, TippecanOe and Foun-
tain counties will be hetd at Meharry's Grove on
| Thursday, Aug q.
| Mrs. James Mount, of Connersville mother Of
| Charles Mount. cashier of the First National
| Bank, of that place. ruptured blood vessel and
| died on Sunday, aged seventy-si years.
a paper asking Indiana Conference to return
| Rev. Robert G. Easley to the pastorate of John
| street M. e. Church, New Albany, has been
| signed by every official member of the church.
| A Jeffersonville woman poured coal oil over
! dog and then set the oil on fire. The animal ran
| through his prosecutors residence, but nothing
| caught fire. The poor dog was burned to crisp.
| Eli Lowery, lifetime convict, one of the
| Toliver gang, has applied for writ of habeas
| corpus, on the ground that he is illegally con
| fined'upOn plea of guilty not having been con-
/ victed by jury.
AT Greensburg Henry Black and Howard
| Johson. have bought the Press a Democratic
newspaper, for 5000. The Press is to be made
the county organ of Judge Holman. Mr.. Black
| wants the postothce
Isaac RUSSELL of Jeffersonville who was stab
| bed short time ago by playmate, is still alive,
and his physician has hopes of his ultimate
recovery. Robinson, the boy who did the stab
! bing, is still at large.
| Eli Marvin, of Frankfort, and G. N Weaver
| of Boston, were at Charlottesville Monday
| inspecting the city. with view of submitting
proposition for John w. Norman. of Newport
r. l., to put in a system of water works
Laura A, wife of Prof w. S. Almond, of the
Vernon High school, died at her home in
Vernon, yesterday morning. The deceased was
| a daughter of the late w. Harrison Phillips, of
| jefferson county Her remains will be taken to
| Madison for burial.
| DR.. A. Abbott, of Logansport, who presented
| diploma from the American Anthropoloeica
Association Of ST. Louis has been refused a
| license. 1t is alleged that this college was at
| one time located at Logansport and had faculty
| of eight professors, and large number of citi
zens are cudgeling their brains to recall the
| institution to mind.
| Twenty-seven young women have taken the
| veil at ST. Mary's of the Woods. Vigo county
There all the time 300 sisters at St Mary's,
| which is the mother house of the Sisters of
Providence and during the retreat, which has
| now begun there are about 700. Two young
| ladies from Terre Haute among the class
Miss Kate Daily and Miss Ella Lynch. Their
religious names are Sister ST. Zita and Sister
| Mary Alodia.
The Rush county teachers institute con-
| vened at the court house. in Rushville, on Mon
| day, with greater number of teachers in
| attendance than ever before on opening day.
| Prof. W. H. Fertich of Shelbyville. Prof. A.
| Jones' of Zionsville, Profs. James Baldwin and
N. s. Meredith, of Rushville, were before the
institute on Monday and yesterday. Prof De
Mott, of DePauw, will be present to-day and
| remain during the session. Professor Bloss of
| indianapolis, will also be present. On Friday
| State Superintendent Holcombe will deliver a
| lecture before the body.
| A snake twenty feet long and one foot thick is
reported as terrifying the agricultural community
| about Pierceve, Ripley county. Daniel Kidd
| and Charles Ward were driving along a road
| through clearing half mile south of Pierce
! vile. when they saw the monster by the roadside.
| Fastening to town, they gave the alarm, which
was responded to by crowd of men and boys.
| who visited the spot at once but the snake had
| crawled into the weeds and brush, and though
| they spent the day searching with guns and
| clubs 1t could not be found posse of men is
| securing the woods with the determination of
killing the monster if it can be found.