The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-25
Minor Notes.

Delphi has a ladies' polo team that practices in
costume every day.
The Charlottesville postofice will be moved
into the new Elston room, next to Music Hall,
tonight.
Burglars entered the residence of w. f. Bogot
| Riverside, Jeffersonville and got away
with $l5 III cash deposited in the baby's bank, a
| lot of silk stockings and some provisions.
The saloon of Henry Smith at Nabb's Station,
| on the q. q NJ branch railroad entered by
burglars and robbed of eleven gallons of brandy
ten gallons of whisky and caddy of tobacco
The new catalogues of Wabash College are
| out. During the past year there were 1S6 stu
dents in NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 90; junior, Is;
sophomores, 27 freshmen, 80; preparatory de-
paftment. 81
Lafayette Journal The dank and dripping
puddle known as the artesian we'll demands the
attention of the authorities. Whatever interest
it might obtain as ruin is lost by the Shiny
nastiness of its surroundings.
Elmer Swaisgood, of Plymouth, while walking
| around the yard, was struck by lightning and
instantly killed. His mother, who was sitting
on a chair close by had part Of her clothing
burned off, and was seriously stunned IJ tt
| David Lewis, a pioneer of Floyd county died
| at the Lewis farm, near Six-mile Switch. aged
| eighty years Deceased came from North Caro-
| lima in 1872 at the age of six years. and a
continuous resident up to the time of his death.
| The old DePauw House, which was, years
ago, the noted hotel of New Albany, is being
| thoroughly overhauled and repaired. It is proba-
! BILE that F. NJ Tribbey & Co, now of the Central
Hotel. that city, will take the house when it is
| completed.
| On Saturday the Montgomery County Com
missioners sustained the report of the committee
| who reported in favor of the poor-farm superin-
tendent, and ordered that the editors of the Re-
view pay the cost of the proceedings as they de-
manded the investigation.
William Fry, farmer, aged sixty, was struck
| by passenger train on the Cincinnati, Wabash
| & Michigan road, Claypool, and killed.
| His body was frightfully mangled,, but despite
his horrible injuries he lived two hours. Fry
was walking on the track and, being deaf. did
not hear the approaching train.
| The Greenfield Democrat Office has Just fin
ished 1.-THE Proceedings of the Fifth Annual
| Meeting of the County Surveyors and Engineers
| of Indiana held at Indianapolis Jan. 20-21, 1885
| The book contains eighty pages of valuable
| reading matter. The book work is gotten up In
| good style
The enumeration of school children in Put
nam county hus just been completed, and the
result shows their number to be Z, 769, slight
| increase over the preceding year. There were
| found but twenty-sx persons over ten and
| under twenty-one years who were unable to
read or write
Two negroes on a New Albany street car re-
| fused to pay their fare. The driver William
| Overflow ordered them to get of. fight en-
| sued, and in the melee one of the negroes
| stabbed Overton in the breast with pocket
| knife, inficting an ugly wound. The driver
jerked the crank off the brake, and assaulted the
negroes with it, beating them up badly and
forcing them to leave the car. The negroes were
arrested.
President Brown of the State Normal School,
at Terre Haute, gives reasons for his resigna-
ton, that he wishes to do another kind of work
He says there has been little friction be-
| tween him and the faculty. He says: Il
have opposed some action of the faculty that
seemed to me to reflect uhjustly and with
unnecessary severity against the students. One
| little thing has been added from time to time to
others, until a positive difference in sentiment
and Judgment has matured. Harmony in the
| administration of the discipline of the school
| shall prevail. Fhe interests of the school de-
| mand this and withdraw in order that it may
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