The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-23
Minor Notes.

| The State Firemen's Association will meet at
| Angola in August.
| The gas and oil we'll at Mount Vernon. 500
| feet deep-has proved failure
| John Postlethwaite, an old and respected citi-
| zen of Medora, jackson county, is dead.
| Philip Payton, living near De Soto, has a COW
which gave birth to twin calves, recently.
| LaPorte has thirty-six licensed saloons, Mich
| igan City fifty. and Elkhart only eighteen.
A Sunday school celebration of the schools of
| Randolph county will be held at Lynn, Aug z.
| The Seventh Indiana Volunteers will hold
| their tenth annual reunion at Danvile, Aug. 26
| The Salvation Army under the command of
| Captain Thompson and wife, have laid siege to
| Kokomo.
| The district conference OF the NJ. E. Church
for the New Albany district will be held at
| Salem, Aug. 2, 8 and 4.
| The Purdue University wheat crop thrashed
| out over two hundred bushels averaging about
| twenty five bushels per acre.
| The largest single coal mine in the State is the
Nichleplate, in Clay county. 1t employs 500
| men, and turns out 800 tons daily.
| Horned pigs are no novelty according to
farmer Wallace, near Fort Branch, who says he
| has a large number of them on his farm.
The barn of B. B. Armstrong, located between
| Flatrock and Norristown, was destroyed yester-
| day by an incendiary fire. Loss. $1,000.
William Snodgrass. a. farmer living one mile
| northwest of Plainfeld, found dead in his
| bed, on Wednesday morning. Heart disease.
| Valentine Vogel, living near Seymour, raised
! 1000 bushels of wheat on thrty-six acres. Six
acres of the field yielded 226 bushels an average
of 81 % per acre.
! Francis Murphy. the temperance evangelist,
will hold two-weeks' series of gospel temper
ance meetings in Fort Wayne, during the latter
| part of September
| The toll-bridge across the Wabash river at
| Covington has been foreclosed by the County
Commissioners for SIS, 900, to the great gratif-
cation of the people.
| Joseph Winslow, a colored citizen of Dublin,
died on Tuesday night. aged ninety years He
was we'll known in Wayne county. where he re-
sided for sixty years.
| while driving in sulky. had his horse to fall
and throw him upon his head and shoulders,
| from the effect of which he died.
The fish in Sugar creek are dying in such
quantities that they gathered up by wag
on loads. The starch factories at Franklin are
said to be the cause of their death.
| The three children of Mrs. Georgiana Fall, of
| Of Baptisttown, who was recently declared in
| sane and sent to an asylum at Indianapolis, have
all died since their mothers Incarceration.
| A freight train was wrecked at Pine Village
| on Wednesday night on the g. & l. c. railway
/ Fourteen cars of coal were ditched ana the
/ depot was knocked eight inches out of plumb
1
est mining corporation in the State. 1t oper-
ates eleven of thirty four mines in Clay county.
/ The capacity of their mines is 600 tons daily.
While cutting thirty fve-acre meadow on
/ the land of DR.. Wilson, west of Robinson James
/ Dudley and tbs other hands killed sixteen rattle
! snakes the larges of which had ten rattles and a
| button.
Horses in parts of Harrison county are dying
| with disease similar to distemper. Henderson
Stephens, a prominent farmer, has lost two val
uacle animals, and has others that are sick and
| will probably die
The cclored people of Kingstown will inaugu-
rate a ten days camp meeting o-day at the fair
| grounds Eminent divines will be present. and
extensive arrangements have been made to make
the meeting success.
James Nichols. living on a farm near Dan
| vile. has sixty colonies of Italian and hybrid
! bees, and has taken from them this summer
about l. 100 pounds extracted honey and 900 to
/ 1000 pounds comb honey.
Pat Dickerson, of North Vernon, has pacing
| stallion 'sDelineator," which made record of
Els at Pittsburg recently. He has been offered
$4,000 for the horse, but refuses although it
cost him but $500 when colt.
| The Delphi Light Guards nave been organized
with the following officers: Captain, Louie Me
| werth; first lieutenant, Ed Bowen: second lieu
tenant, Will White; orderly sergeant, James
Wason; company clerk, Will Dixon.
Edward Johnson, member of the firm of
johnson BROS q Co., dry goods merchants, OF
Clayton, died on Wednesday Of consumption,
aged about thirty eight years. He was promi-
nent, wealthy and much respected citizen of the
town and county.
Afidavits have been filed with the prosecut-
ing attorney of Shelby county, averring that
| Thomas Anderson. recently sentenced to the
penitentiary from Shelbyville for grand larceny,
was not guilty of the crime as charged but that
his brother David is the guilty party. The case
will be investigated.
James Jones, now a pioneer of seventy-tvo
years of age. left North Carolina in 1882 and
settled at Clayton. One Of his brothers emf
grated TO Florida, and afterward each brother
lost trace of the other. A few days ago the
brother in Florida. by some means, heard that
his hrother James was livfuC AZ Clavfon and he