The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-10
Minor Notes.

Joseph Piseley has died at New Harmony,
aged seventy-two years.
A calf belonging to MIR. Ribeyre. a large farmer
at New Harmony, weighed ! ,038 pounds at nine
months DID, In twenty sight days it gained 10l
pounds.
VIM. f. Lee. recently a commercial college
student, at Terre Haute, where he was well
thought of, has been arrested at Arcola as s
horsethief. Within a few weeks he stole horses
from Vigo county farmers valued at nearly $500
He confessed his guilt.
John e. Harrison sixty years DID, died at JEFF
fersonviIle, on Monday. He was an infdel and
protested no belief in hereafter 1t is said
shortly before he breathed his last he begged
piteously to live, and called upon the Lord to
have mercy on his soul.
State Mine Inspector McQuade last week
caused the arrest of Mr. j. S. Talley, Of the Coal
Bluff Mining Company. for failure to comply
with the mining law in two important particu-
lars. Since then Taley has met the require
ments, and the suit has been dismissed
The name of the unknown man killed by the
New York Express on the Vandalia, near Reels
vlle on Monday morning, is supposed to be
William ii. Osborn, tramp who hailed from
Terre Haute. He was of medium stature, had
light hair and blue eyes. and wore a closely
trimmed moustache.
The polo game last evening between the Pat
tersons, of Muncie, and the Mascotts, of Lafay-
cite. played at the latter city. resulted to / in
favor of the Mascotts, who also Monday
nights game by score of 3 too In last nights
game Stilz. of the Pattersons, bfoke one finger
of his left hand Time of game. l6a minutes
Mrs. Mary Personette Franklin, widow of
Elder Benjamin Franklin, late editor of the
American Christian Review, died at her home in
Anderson Yesterday, aged seventy-six years,
eight months and twenty five DAYS. Mrs. Frank
lin had been q sufferer from paralysis for the
past thirteen years. She the mother of
nine children, all Of whom survive her.
Mr.. Oliver Bly,. farmer living near Charles
town. get steel-srap for the purpose of catching
fox that had been raiding his hen-roost Imag-
inc his surprise, on Sunday morning, when he
found huge catamount fastened by his fore
foot in the trap. The animal made desperate
fight, but was finally killed. The animal has a
head like leopard, reddish brown fur, head and
legs spotted. 1t weighed forty pounds, and
measured four feet from nose to tip of tail
relic of the war may be seen on the Hege-
valid foundery lot, New Albany 1t is one Of a
pair of steamboat engines that belonged to the
famous James Battle, built in New Albany be-
fore the war by Captain Greer. of Mobile, to run
in the Mobile trade. The Battle was famous
captured by the Union forces The engines were
very large. and the mate to the one on the Hege-
valid lot is now in the Shoals, Ind, iron furnace
The engines were built in New Albany at the
American foundry Of the late Capt Peter Tell
on.
Mr.. w. E. Carr, Van Buren, township lClay
county, school teacher has just been exalted to
the appointments of a 81. 200 clerkship in the
United States Treasury Department In conse-
ouence he has resigned his position as teacher,
and is off for Washington. Mr.. Carr. though a
fair teacher, has in no sense been identified with
the fortunes of his party as worker for its sue
cess, and the workers of the party to whose
abors its success is largely due, not at all
pleased over the preference which has passed
them by In this, another OF numerous in
stances.