The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-21
Brief Mention.

A Masonic school of instruction has been To-
Gated at Paxton, and will be held there the COM
ing winter.
After the list of next month. until Feb. ].
next year, the Pekin public schools will close of
8 O'Clock in the afternoon.
A bullock wearing a horses harness and hav'
ing a bit in its mouth was driven through the
streets of Springfield with a mule for its mate
and a colored man holding the lines.
Frank White, of Cairo. was awakened one
night by the screams of his little child, which
lay in a crib in another room. He ran to it. and
saw a large rat jump off the crib. The rat had
bitten one of the infants hands badly and
frightened it into spasms.
Perry Devices, who was recently acquitted al
Deland of the charge of numbering his wife, has
left the country. The fate of Wildman, the wife,
murderer, recently iynched by q mob near At.
wood, is said TO have been the principal incent
i've for his sudden departure.
Three confidence men invited an old farmer of
Lovlngton to join them ia a speculation, each OF
the four TO put in $3.50 The farmer eagerly
agreed to the plan, and went TO Decatur and
drew the required sum out of g bank. In re.
turning the farmer lost his way. The conf
dence men became frightened at his long alb
sence and disappeared. The farmer was found
by his friends next day. He was furious
when he learned that he had missed the oppor-
tunity to invest his money with the three
rogues.
The trial of the Cedar Creek picnickers has
been resumed at Monmouth. The Mazeppa or
Lady Godiva act was not proven. but one wit
ness swore that there was talk of tying a = woman
to a horse. Neither was the allegation that the
men and women were in swimming together
clearly substantiated. although evidence was
taken that several of the party were nude, or
nearly so. The proof showed, however. as one
of the witnesses testified, that the timber was
full Of beer and scarlet women" and the air was
pregnant with v~ulgarity and obscenity.
Some boys out hunting squirrels near Joliet,
found the body of a man hanging to a tree. An
investigation proved the remains to be those Of
w. NJ. Combs, who had been employed at the
rolling-mills for a number of years. The de-
ceased was last seer at his clearinghouse the
evening previous. The body was rigid when
found. The clothing was torn and covered with
blood. probably caused by his struggles against
the side of the tree. Combs was a brother-in-
law of Fl. d. Stearns. of Joliet. He was about
forty years of age. unmarried. and q graduate of
Union College. New York.
A curious egg was found one day recently in a
barn on the farm of Mrs. Montgomery, near
Marshall. The curiosity consisted of two per-
fectly shaped eggs united by a circular hand one
fourth of an inch in length and half an inch in.
diameter. 1t was perfectly round, and was Ia
closed by a shell just like the eggs. 1t joined
the large end of one egg to the email end of the
other. This band was accidentally broken, ard
1t was then seen that 1t was filed with egg mat
ter, and seemed to have been open to the free
flowing of the matter from one egg to the other.
This wonderful dual egg was laid by an ordinary
sized hen of the common scrub breed. Both
eggs were of the common size.