The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-13

| days later he was confronted with a note for
$3.50, and. rather than get into legal fight with
| the swinilers, he compromised the matter by
paying $l60.
Valentine Stillabower lost carp to the value of
| 5000 at the Shelbyville fair by putting them in
| Blue river water, which had been tainted by slop
| from the distillery.
Clint Kif, we'll known in eastern Illinois and
| the western part of this State as the owner OF
| Bald Hornet and other speedy horses died at
Attica on Saturday.
Clarence insolvency, whose leg was cut off by
| a L., N. A. e. c. train at Frankfort, year ago,
| has brought suit against the city and railroad
| company. jointly, for $4,000 damages
The interstate fair opens at Fort Wayne to-
morrow. A large number of horses have been
entered for the races, which is expected to be
the best meeting ever held in the State.
A potato and carrot firmly grown together so.
so that it is impossible to tell where thh potato
begins and the carrot ends, is one of the veget'
able freaks exhibited by St Joseph county
farmer.
Miss Lizzie Ryan, of Daviess county, while
visiting relatives in Evansville on Saturday, was
suddenly attacked with coughing spell, which
produced hemorrhage and caused death In less
than i've minutes.
The ministerial and Sunday school convention
of the Elkhart district of the Evangelical Asso-
citation will be held at the Grandview church,
, near Rochester Sept Is to 19. About twenty
CuuTCHSS arc lUJ0r0SLcu IN buc uacSLAbk.
Hon. IT. NJ Browne addressed a meeting Of
his old G, A. r. comrades at Lynn Saturday
At night all hands participated in doing honors
to bean supper, which was served in the beau.
tiful grove just east of that wide-swaBs town.
While excavating for new bridge under the
old canal aqueduct at Fort Wayne, workmen
found a Mexican silver coin of the date of 1882
and horseshoe of primitive construction.
They lay ten feet below the bottom of the river
Vigo county cattle thieves do not drive their
booty to some stockyard and there dispose of it
they simply kill it on the spot and carry
away the hide and meat; at least that was the
way it was done on the Cruft farm, near Terre
Haute, last week.
A bee tree on the farm of Jacob Wiseman
near GAINESVILLE, Hamilton county. cut
down last week, and in it was fonnd lots of
honey and black snake nine feet long. In or
der to reach the honey the snake had to climb
thirty-fve feet up the tree.
The Edinburg fair will open on the Goth, and
the prospects for successful exhibition are
more than usually encouraging. The stalls,
space. ETC., are being rapidly taken. and the
farmers, having been favored with good crops.
are taking lively interest in the coming fair.
The 6. A. r. reunion to be held at Delphi. on the
18th, 10th and 17th bids fair to excel thing of
the character ever held in northern Indiana
Preparations are grand scale. Thousands of
veterans from three or four districts will be
present, and many prominent leaders OF the war
are to participate.
A press used in the manufacture of counter
felt coin in 1882. will be one of the curios ex-
hibited at the Huntington county fair 1t was
plowed up by Farmer Wernerder, two years
ago. liz a locality which used to be rendezvous
for the Helvey brothers, long ago noted as vend-
ers OF spurious money.
The Columbus Republican says that Albert
Miller. preacher from Van Buren, township,
Brown county, arrived in that city on Saturday
and INN lat adQd 70 iYI1hi ho
liberal quantity of intoxicants After quarrel
ing with his friends and abusing his wife, the
marshal ran him in for safe keeping.
Dory Biddle; editor Of the Anderson SDaily
Bulletin, was severely assaulted, last Friday, by
Ed f. Daley, deputy prosecutor. At the time
of the assault Biddle was in a saloon when
Daley came up from behind and struck Biddle
terrible blow in the face, and then escaped by
back door. The trouble grew out of an item in
the Bulletin. the previous evening, rejecting
upon the official capacity of Daley.
The fall term of the Indiana University
opened on Sept g. with a considerable increase in
numbers over the large attendance of last year
The freshman class will probably reach no. The
faculty has been greatly strengthened since last
year by the additions of Professors Won Jage-
mann, Boone, Dabney. Swain and Woodford,
and Instructors Burnet and RawleS A very
successful years work is anticipated.
Evansville is again in trouble over the fact
that the Air Line railroad secretly removed it's
shops on Saturday night from that city to Hunt
ingburg. When the vigiant reporters, at a late
hour, discovered what was going on, steps were
taken to secure an injunction, but the city attor-
ney said nothing could be done in time to stop
the removal of the machinery. The city will
have nothing left but the naked walls of the
building to show for it's investment
The Yearly Meeting of Conservative Friends is
in progress at Sugar Grove near Plainfeld. and
promises to be unusually interesting the attend
ance being much larger than in any previous
year The orthodox division of the church will
commence its yearly session in its large meet
ing house, in Plainield, on Thursday and will
continue ten DAYS This society has member
ship of over $4,000. and embraces Indiana and
the greater part of Illinois.