The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-20
Brief Mention.

The Piatt County Agricultural Society holds
its twenty third annual fair at Monticello next
week.
Rev. Thomas Harrison figures up 500 converts
to religion as the result of his four weeks serv-
ices at the Clinton camp-meeting.
Ellis Wilcox, of Berlin, is the oldest man in
Sangamon county He has just passed his ninety
seventh birthday and is in good health.
Cardinal dc Guibert, Archbishop OF Paris who
recently died at the age of one hundred years
was the uncle of Louis de Guibert, of Woodford
county.
Preparations are being made for grand re
union of old soldiers at Decatur, Oct. Z Dun
ham Post, No. 141, @. A. R., have the matter in
charge
Samuel Reecher living near Coleta. has con
structed fish ponds fifteen acres in extent on his
farm. He intends to raise large numbers of carr
for market
Eddie Crewes, aged fourteen years, was ar
| rested at Bloomington, on Wednesday, charged
with alleged attempt to outrage the four
year old daughter of A. E. Elbe.
Elder Hiram Buck the pioneer of the Metho-
dist Church. forty five years in the ministry and
twenty years presiding elder in the Illinois
conference, is in diving condition from stroke
of paralysis, at his home in Decatur.
The red mite, the deadly foe of the grasshop-
per. has made its appearance near Danville in
great numbers 1t is little bulb-shaped para
site that fastens in groups under the wings of the
grasshoppers and slowly worries it to death.
Coroner Seehorn, of Quincy, was summoned
after dark TO a sand-bar in the Mississippi river
to hold an inquest on dead BODY The coroner
impaneled jury and the party poled out on a
raft to the sand-bar by the light of lantern.
They found the figure of a man, but as it was
made of sand they poled back to the shore In dis.
gust.
Quincy parrot has the habit of crying out
Papa" in the most plaintive manner, and sew.
hau haox,
and give anxious looks down the street to see If
their children were following them from home
and calling to them. The parrot seems to know
that he has caused trouble. for he always winds
up his cries with very malicious chuckle
heavy storm visited the vicinity of Cen
tralia on Wednesday morning, doing great dam
age to houses, barns, hay stacks orchards and
corn fields. At Central City the German Evan
gelical Church was badly wrecked, and at the
Centralia Cemetery the wind played sad havoc
among the monuments and ,headstones, leveling
many OF them to the ground. No lives, so far
as heard from. were lost but large number of
horses and cattle were killed.
Two fine fragments of an aerolite imbedded to-
gether in the earth about two and q half feet
from the surface were found near Pana, on
Wednesday The specimens are nearly equal in
size, and as large as q human head. One
weighed fifty-nine pounds. Persons who have
seen such stones that are known to be genuine,
pronounce these @roltes at first sight. There
are no rocks found near the surface there as
the drift is about 100 feet deep.
Postmaster Clendenin, of Springfield, Is in a
peck of trouble over the administration of his
Office from the fact that Eve of the old letter
carriers walked out of the Office on Monday
morning after the appointment of green men to
succeed them on Saturday. It was expected the
offensive partisans would remain two weeks
longer and teach their successors but their sud
den refusal to remain left the distribution of the
mail in the entire business portion of the city in
green hands, and the delivery has been SO irreg-
ular as to cause general complaint
number of mounds standing on hill over
locking the Ambrau river. near Oakland were
opened on Wednesday by party of inquisitive
gentlemen While digging into the largest one
a stone wall, ten feet square, was discovered,
which barred the use of picks The dirt was all
excavated from the walls, and an entrance found
on top. Further investigation brought to light
some five or six skeletons. Three copper vessels
were also found, and these were filled with crude
pieces of silver ore, which, when scraped shone
brilliantly. The oliver weighed over fifty
pounds, and varied in length from one to four
inches, the most of it being round in Jumps A
copper AK. weighing eighteen pounds, attached
to a stone handle. and number OF tomahawks
of the same material, were also found It is
thought that this mound was the buria! place of
the chiefs of the Indians