The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-10-11

thereafter haised 10 per cent In time
| of peace his life is one Of dress parade
on pay. Out Of the three hundred in his
| class he was one of fifty who graduated.
| columbus Republican.
| b. f. Jewett met with loss Saturday
/ morning that will not likely occur to him
| again IL he could live a hundred years.
| He rode his horse out to Stonebraker's
woods to take his COW 10 pasture. He
| dismounted near the railway to open the
| pasture gate so that the cow could enter
and left his horse grazing nearby. The
morning train was late and came by
| while he was opening the gate. The
train frightened the horse and he wheeled
/ and started for home and was caught
| and killed by the engine. Jewett walked
nome carrying the saddle and bride,
bordering over the uncertainties of life.
-Hagerstown Exponent.
Simon Hartman of Warsaw has Just
completed a mole skin lap robe upon
| which he had been engaged eleven years.
| Says the Times: when il is borne in
| mind that when dressed and sewn into
the robe each. skin would only average
four inches square the number of them
| required and the patience demanded in
| getting sufficient quantity for the con-
| templated work can be perceived. The
| size Of the robe as completed measures
/ i've feet and three inches in length by
| four feet three inches in width. The
number of skins in the robe is just 2S5."
| This robe is now on exhibition at the In
| diana building, worlds fair.-Milford
| Mail.
A wealthy man who does not live a
| thousand miles from Laporte recently
bought on the market large quantity
| OF wool as speculation. He expects to
| hold 1t for a raise in price. The fun of
| Ii is he is q stiff protectonist and
high tariff on wool and wooden goods Is
one of his hobbies, but here we have him
| combating all his theories by his prac-
! tice, for we see him buying wool under
| a tariff of ten cents a pound and ex-
| pecting to hold IL to sell at profit under
| a tariff that is sure TO put wool on the
| free list. The PROBABLE is he will make
some money, but if he does he will knock
| his high tariff theories into a cooked hat.
-Laporte Argus.
1t is doubtful whether in the history
| Of the city, despite the hard times, so
| many peaches have been sold in one
| season as this, although the prices have
been the equal of average years. We
have made inquiry concerning the num-
Der Of bushels shipped in by rail and
| brought by wagon, and the aggregate
! is surprising, reaching at least the enor-
| nous amount Of 1000 bushels or more.
| The American express company alone
| has brought to Goshen 1,424 bushels up
| to date and they are still coming. The
| fruit viii average 81 a bushel and will
aggregate $4,000, an immense sum for
town like Goshen to pay out for peach
es in one season.-GOshen News.
Editor w. a. Beane of the Goshen
| Democrat is happy today and he has
| been stepping around like a boy. It
is the sixty-ffth anniversary of his
| birth, but it is not that which has re-
| juvenated and put new elasticity in his
| limbs, Oh no. There is something back
| Of it all which is more potent than the
| knowledge Of his advancing years. The
| spirit of his content and jubilancy was
| caused by the receipt Of message from
| his wife, dated at Decatur, Ind, which
reads: boy. Ten pounds. All is we'll"
| This brief message may be unintelligi-
BILE to some. but the venerable editor
| found a speedy solution. 1t means that
| he is again a grandfather-Goshen
| Times.
The new democratic postmaster at
| Wellsboro has taken possession of the
] office and several of the shining repub
| lcan saints of that locality are making
/ jackasses Of themselves by boycotting
the office. Their action would be laugh
| able If it were not SO entirely silly and
contemplate that it creates disgust. The
| effort to boycott a postoffice is born of
| an insane or fanatical partisanship that
| is to the last degree unpatriotic, unameri-
can and stupid, and it amounts to no
| more to the postmaster than did Mrs.
ocean tide with an old rag mop. The
| bOycotters will only spite themselves
| while all men of common sense will
| laugh at them.-Laporte Argus.
| Yesterday and today a ridiculous re-
| port has been passed on the streets to
| the effect that Miss Leila Baird Of w.
| Pike-st. was afflicted with the smallpox.
! How such a rumor ever found an origin
or gained currency Is a question, but it
| did and, naturally, caused uneasiness.
| Miss Baird although slightly i'll Sun
| day, has been up and around for the
| last two days and was at no time afflict
| ed with anything which in the slightest
| degree resembled smallpox. DR.. Hutch
| ings, the city health officer, wishes II to
be distinctly understood that there is no
smallpox her or anything Of that ma
| ture even. The circulatOrs of these idle
rumors deserve ducking in horse
| nd.-Crawfordsville Journal.
| Charles NJ Wilson is pretty small per-
| simmons and few on a tree, If what
| Dora, his wife, alleges in her complaint
| is true He has been guilty of all sorts
| of reprehensible misdemeanors toward
his wife. such as ducking her in the
| slop barrel, slipping snow down the back
| of her pretty decollete party dress, put
| ting rats in her bed, and salt in her
/ coffee. He made life miserable for her
| by reason of his many practical jokes,
| one of the most provoking of which was
| his failure to provide her with any
| thing to eat or drink. Charles is not the
| sort of a chap for any girl TO hitch to
| and we all hope that Dora, dear thing,
| viii get her a big red, white and blue
/ divorce.-Crawfords Journal.
| Defaulter ]. AL Jenkins was summoned
| before the grand jury of Clarke county
| to tell what he knows about the shortage
| of county treasurers for twenty years
| back, but he declined to talk, and moth
| ing OF a eliminating character was de-
| veloped. A threat to send him before
| Judge Gibson for contempt in refusing
| to answer questions failed to open his
| mouth. This arouses afresh the impress
! sion that Jenkins could make damaging
| disclosures If he could be prevailed on
| to talk. Many are of the opinion, how
ever, that he is merely trying to carry
1 out a bluff game, and that his object in
| declining to testify was to strengthen
| the opinion that he could, IL he would,
| implicate others. 1t Is understood that
| the grand jury has found a true bill
| against Jenkins for emoezzlement.
One of the colored ministers who has
| been in attendance at camp meeting
| sung himself out Of town Friday night.
| 1t seems that he was short $1.45 when
| he went TO buy ticket to his Kentucky
home, and Of course the railroad COM
| pany don't do any credit business, and
| the poor fellow was in plight. He told
| several passengers waiting for the train
| his troubles mo officers being around)
| and offered to sing for them If they
would kindly give him a small donation.
| He sang a song, prayed and then sang
| another song, when a little bootblaek
stepped UP and offered him nickel If