The Indiana State sentinel., 1893-08-23

Mongo held a harvest jubilee last FRI
day.
The Brazil rolling mill has resumed
operations.
Portions of Jackson county indicate
short corn crop.
There will be a good crop of peaches
on the knobs in Scott county.
The Tampico creamery is making
sixty pounds of butter daily.
Many bottom farms near HOMETOWN
will yield average crop Of corn.
The hickory nut crop OF Jackson
county promises to be large and fine.
James w Cunningham committed sui
eide recently at Orleans by shooting.
Daniel Lappe, an old citizen of Floyd
county, died wednesday, aged sixty
eight.
Nine tons OF nutmeg melons were
sent north from Seymour Thursday
night
whooping cough is making the rounds
of the children in Center Point, Clay
county.
Some pastures in Jackson county are
In good condition, Notwithstanding the
drought.
A large consignment of Jackson county
live stock was sent TO Cincinnati Thurs
day night.
The blacksmiths of Clay county are
moving toward forming union for mu-
Thirty-one tons of nutmeg melons
have been sent north from Seymour In
the past three nights.
A water haul-saIty, very salty-is
the last result of Logansport enter
prise drilling for gas.
Mrs. MaIinda Ryburn, aged seventy
seven years. died Aug. 10 in New AL
bany. She was an old resident.
A very fine well of mineral water has
been discovered near English A large
summer resort it to be established.
Entirely too much land is planted in
corn on the uplands of Jackson and
Lawrence counties.-Seymour Journal.
Glover hay sells for So per ton in this
market, and the price of good timothy
hay IS $40 per ton.-Seymour Democrat
A thief stole the eye glasses from
q Kendallville hotel clerk, from off his
Eose. while he slept, one day last week
The Edwardsville stone quarries were
reopened on the 18th, after long idleness,
and will be operated the balance OF the
season.
One day last week sixty-three car
loads OF melons were billed north from
lVincennes over the Evansville 81 Terre
Haute.
The AIR line continues to have a heavy
traffic in Gibson county watermelons,
averaging thirty carloads per day, east
and west.
The Union and the German reform
Sunday-schocl at Poland will hold their
regular annual picnic at Shultz's grove,
Saturday, Aug. 26.
One farmer who two weeks ago es-
minated his corn crop in Bartholomew
county at 1,500 bushels says now he will
not have 100 bushels.
Isaac Short died at Madison Tuesday,
aged eighty-one. He was the father Of
Mrs. j. Bishop, Mrs Barnes and Mr..
Charles Short, all OF Madison.
Topooa Ior,fIFop D,ot VU;IIio ~
Patrich and NJ c. Hamilton, near Hon
eytown, each had yield Of over two
bushels Of cloverseed to the acre.
While squirrelhuntin in Franklin
township Tuesday Bud Harmon. the
contractor, killed q grounding that
weighed thenty-one and one-half pounds.
One hundred and fifty New Albany
women have been given sewing at the
quartermaster's depot at Jeffersonyille.
In a couple of months the number will
be doubled.
On the evening of the 14th a spark
from a thresher set fire TO the wheat
stacks Of II. Meyers, five miles northeast
Of New Albany. and destroyed 200 BUSH
els Of wheat.
Joe Byers killed big blue crane below
the mill Wednesday morning. 1t meas
ured four feet and seven inches In
height. G. V Smith is having it mounted.
-Bridgeton News.
Adams Earl OF Lafayette Tuesday
sold to Samuel Born $4,000 bushels Of
oats, part Of the product of his Ben
ton county farm. The price received
was "a cents per busheL
Frankfort has been overrun by tramps
and the mayor has decided that here
after all tramps arrested and fined for
any ordinary offense shall be put to
work on the streets of that city.
Jonesville is to have a new Lutheran
church that will cost $500. The work
is TO be begun next week. The congre-
cation has already secured about $500.
It will erect handsome house Of wor-
ship.
Capt Ben Hegler, formerly of Attica,
Is now a resident OF FL Reno, o. t.
where he holds the position of clerk Of
the Second district, under u. S. turis-
diction, and is much pleased with his
position.
The aIl-day methodist episcopal bas-
ket meetings for McKendree circuit will
be held as follows: Mt Zion, Sunday,
Aug. 20; McKendree, Sunday, Aug. "a;
Bethesda, Sunday, Sept. 8; Clear Creek,
Sunday, Sept. 10.
AS a result Of the contest for the gold
watch put UP by Mrs. Lille Pennington,
the proceeds to go to the building Of Mt
Tabor. church. the watch was awarded
Miss Eva Mann, who received 290 votes.
New Albany Ledger.
County Treasurer George Andy Rob-
ertson was inducted into Office Tues
day, Clerk B. L. Long administering the
oath. There were the usual formalities
and the outgoing treasurer was caned by
the county off1cials.-Seymour Demo-
crat.
The people Of Floyd and surrounding
counties should remember that the Floyd
county fair will open Sept. and close
Sept s, and that it is to be made the
grandest show the people OF southern
Indiana have witnessed.-New Albany
Ledger.
c. Perry. who lives in Elkhart, secured
a pass for his wife TO go to Lagrange.
Last week he received letter from La
Grange informing him that his wife had
decided not to return to him, and the
last the writer knew OF her whereabouts
she was in Chicago.
The Indiana club Of South Bend was
Incorporated Tuesday. 1t has nine gov
ernors 10 manage its business affairs
and prudential concerns. They are
Patrick O'Brien, John +. Reynolds, Hor-