The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-12-06

cradle editor Of the Indianapolis People,
| took place in this township last week.
| Mrs. Thomas of Lafayette and husband
| visited her father, G.. w. Brown. one OF
the oldest citizens OF this township. Mrs
| Thomas was the daughter of Mr.. Brown
| by a former wife from whom he sep
arated forty-three years ago when the
daughter was but eight months old
During all these years, father and
daughter have not seen or known any
| thing of each other.-Brownsbur item
in the Danville Republican.
Crime and punishment hardly ever
follow each other more nearly together
than i'm the case Of Commodore Brown.
who Tuesday night robbed the granary
| of w. ID. Covert of Hopewell. About s
O'Clock Brown, who lives west Of Hope
! well, entered Wayne Covert's stable and
| took five bushels Of clover seed. With
/ this he started for Indianapolis This
was discovered a few minutes later by
! Covert and with the assistance of his
J brother. Peter Covert. tracked him TO
| indianapolis, where he was found at
| tempting to sell the seed. When con-
| fronted by Mr.. Covert ne broke down
! and confessed at once. He was brought
down on the early train Wednesday
! morning and at 10 o'clock pleaded guilty
| before Judge JOHNSON to the theft He
was sentenced to two years in the south
ern prison and fined SO and disfran-
| chised for two years. He was 10 have
been married Wednesday to an Indian
| apOlis lady. His wife died last summer.
and he has two children.-Franklin
| Democrat.
A double wedding took place in the
! county clerks office Saturday Charles
| Shoemaker OF Wabash county and Della
| Shoemaker of this county We're one
couple and Jackson Cunningham, of
| Blackford county and Nellie A. Herrold
/ of Salamonie township, this county were
| the second couple. Neither couple knew
| a ha,. fhof
the other couple was coming in to get
| coupled One couple came in and in a
couple Of minutes the other couple ar
/ rived. Deputy Clerk Branyan issued
| a couple of marriage licenses and both
! couples were ready for the coupling pro-
cess. Squire John was found a couple
| of blocks away and informed that a
couple Of couples wanted TO be coupled.
| A couple of steps took him to the clerks
| office where the couple of couples were,
| i'm a couple of minutes, coupled by the
| legal coupler. A couple Of witnesses
| signed the couple of marriage licenses,
| and the couple of newly-coupled couples
soon left the office and started in
couple of buggies in a couple OF direc-
| tions for their couple of hornes.-Hunt-
ington Democrat.
The city schools are having some more
| trouble. The senior class. or a large pOr-
ton of it, has withdrawn, and last week
| one of the teachers and one of the young
men pupils INDUCED in a fight There
| are some very bad reports over town
! about our schools, and, whether true or
| not they have a tendency to do much
| harm. 1t is said that some Of the teach
| ers declare in the presence OF the
| class that the pupils are fools:
that they sleep ninety-nine hours
out Of every hundred and snore the
other hour. 1t is not expected that the
| very ordinary pupil can grasp an idea as
| as a WI hes
| Of training, or that any member of a
class would be as we'll educated as a
| wielder of the birch, but If a teacher or
teachers are guilty of such remarks
| there are certainly many pupils In the
| schools who have more sense than a
| teacher who would make such a remark
| before his class or any pupil in such
| class. The Times does not want to be
! understood as censuing any innocent
teacher or pupil, but what is said is in
tended wholly for the guilty ones.-Tip-
| ton Times.
Gus Steckelman has received three
| fine specimens of gray parrots from
| Liverpool, brought by his brother. Carl,
| from Mayumba, southwest coast OF AT
| RIGA They are very rare and costly
birds, and are very fine takers OF their
| species. Henry Brockman of this city
| has one of these rare birds brought
| here by Carl in 1888, which is valued
at $500. THE great trouble with these
| birds is to get them acclimated. The
| torrid atmosphere where they are raised
| is so different from our climate that
| many of the birds die in making the
| change. In 1883 Carl left Africa for this
| city with forty-sixof these rare birds,
| and arrived here with but three. the
| remainder dying ON the road. Two more
| of these died soon after reaching this
| city and the one Mrs. Broclkman now
| has Is the only one left of the forty-six.
These birds cost $40 each in their native
| land, hence IL will be very easily seen
| what value is to be placed on one that
does survive the change Of climate.
| Mrs. Brockman's bird being the only
| one left out of the flock that cost $3.50,
| aside from transportation expense, is is
easy to see why it's value is fixed at $500.
| Columbus Times.
| Some fifteen years ago there lived in
Sugar Greek township an aged couple
known as Uncle Jesse Anderson and
| Aunt Polly Rogers. Now Uncle Jesse at
| this time was a widower with grown up
children all around him and Aunt Polly
was a widow living with an only son.
| This good old couple had known each
other almost always and they concluded
| to travel Ife's uneven journey together
| and were married about fifteen years
| ago. They went to housekeeping on the
farm Of Uncle Jesse, afterward buying
| property and moving to Colfax, where
! they enjoyed the companionship of each
| other until they became tOV feeble to
! take care of themselves and were COM
! PEELED 20 quit housekeeping ana each re-
| turned their children, where they con-
timed to live visiting each other at short
| intervals until lately. when both took
! to their beds. Last week the end came
TO both, there being less than twenty
! four hours between their departure for
| the spirit world, he being in his eigh-
| tieth year and she in her eagh ty-third.
| Thus this old couple passed away re-
! minding us that the pioneers Of this
| country are fast passing away. They
died as they had lived, loved and re
| spected by all who knew them.-Craw-
| louisville Review.
An epidemic Of thieving has apRar-
emily broken out in all parts of the
| state. Frankfort has her share of it,
but still we are having very few, com
pared with other localities throughout
| the state. In some towns and cities a
| number are reported to the officers eaoAl
day. and in some cases the burglars
display the utmost daring and seeming
| ~ have no thought of fear or arrest.
| Tramps are given the credit for most
of it, but there is no denying the fact
that others are also guilty A strange
| part of it all is the fact that but very
few of the offenders are being appre-
hended. Where one thief is arrested
| a half dozen or more escape, and the
! rewards offered for their capture re-
main uncalled for. In the hands of the
local officers are the descriptions of
some twenty or more thieves, who are
wanted in different parts OF the state
for crimes Of various kinds, but mostly
! for stealing N uaarlU quarry caca