The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-09-27

1 The thieves stole $50 chickens at Isaac
! Whinery's. Daniel BIaugher was awak-
ened bv the robbers at his house. He
got up and shot at them as they drove
away in their wagon.-Huntington DEM
| ocrat.
There has been a new departure on
( the maiIboats. one night last week, as
| reported by some CarrOltOnians aboard
one of the boats, a drummer belonging
i to the PRESBYTERIAN church proposed to
/ ing. The officers Of the boat were con-
| suited and, no objection being offered.
. the affair was soon arranged and a
| pleasant ard profitable hour spent, many
taking part. Dancing and card playing
have heretofore been the means of
Willing the hours away while travelling.
| -Carrollton Democrat.
| Grape thieves at Waynetown have de-
| veloped ingenuity in the burglary line.
and some of their contrivances for steal
| ing grapes. without entering the arbors.
| would sprove beneficial to growers If pat
| ented and put into general use for legiti-
! ment purposes. One boy, more skilled
than the rest, made a grape picking ma
/ chine that would clip and gather the
| fruit at a distance Of several feet from
| the fence. and all the genius had to do
was 10 reach through an opening and fill
| his pockets without the trouble OF break
! ing locks or removing boards.
| Newspaper borrowers are great an
| noyance to publishers and subscribers.
| II is frequent thing for the Democrat
| subscribers TO stop their paper a short
| time to freeze out borrowers. and with
| the hope that their borrowing neighbors
may subscribe and in this way get free
| of such annoyance. In some cases these
borrowers grab the paper before the
! subscriber gets a chance to read il, and
| in some instances retain il, when the
publisher and carrier are condemned be-
cause the subscriber thinks they are
| derelict in their duty.-Noblesville DEM
ocrat.
M. Z. Meader is the possessor Of a
chameleon and he had considerable sport
with the harmless little reptile yester-
I day. The animal attaches itself TO any,
| thing upon which it is placed and Mr.
Meader wore it on the lapel of his coat
/ A tiny gold chain encircles its neck and
is attached TO pin at the other end.
| People unacquainted with the chameleon
! thought ii rubber ornament and great
was the surprise manifested when IL was
dislodged and commenced to scramble
about. The animal changes its color to
| correspond with that of the substance
upon which it rests.-Goshen Times.
Saturday evening a sad death occurred
/ on our streets. Charles Capped, son Of
| Henry Capped and wife, who live on
, COnwell-st.. with number of compan-
| ions was standing on the corner of Cen
! tral-ave. and Seventh-st when a foot
race TO warm them up, the evening
| was cool, was proposed by one of their
| number, and they were off as fast as
their feet could carry them. They ran
/ as lar as E1ghth-St, when the Capped
/ boy staggered across the street and fell
near a tree in front of Mrs. Lafayette
COnWelPS residence. On examination
his companions found he was dead
| Connersville Examiner.
The Elkhart Review relates an in
| stance Of a man who lost his head when
| suddenly awakened at night by the
| alarm of fire. That paper states that
| 'Mr. Charles Huff had gone to bed in
| his house and when the Ere started
/ from the explosion Of a gasoline stove
! climbed out through a window and ran
| in his night shirt to the nearest box at
/ the Hydraulic hose house to turn in an
| alarm. He fell down and was consid-
/ erably hurt about the legs. He speaks
/ in high praise of Foreman Smith, who
] he says is cool headed and takes pains
| that nothing shall be unnecessarily des-
| stroyed or damaged by water"
Speaking of smallpox reminds us that
| a thousand rumors are afioat about
! smallpox in Winchester and when one
I goes away from here he can hear that
! Winchester has at least a dozen cases of
/ the dread disease. These reports are all
false. There is no smallpox here, nor
/ are there any symptoms Of any. Some
1 Of our people were exposed to il more
/ than a month ago, but it was evidently
/ not in a contagious state and all danger
! is past. If Winchester has smallpox we
| Will tell you about it, but don't allow
/ any rumors to keep you away from town.
| There is no danger now.-Winchester
/ Herald.
| Police Judge Hamilton is mortalIy
afraid of smallpox and uses a hundred
/ and one precautions. For several MORN
ings past ne has disappeared imme-
/ diately after a short session of court is
! held, and never shows up until the next
/ morning. He will not mingle with the
/ officers and his actions to prevent COM
ing in contact with any Of the blue coats
/ provokes great merriment. Now il is
/ hardly possible for the judge to con-
/ tract the disease, according to the fol-
/ lowing assertion made by a man this
/ morning: "A high bred smallpox germ
| would be ashamed to greet the judge
| Muncie Herald
a large family reunion was held Sun
/ day at the home Of Mrs. Eva NJ. Haag,
! Greendale, in which 100 members Of the
/ following families participated: Nicholas
/ Fox, John Fox, Gus Kestner, John
1 Koch, Leonard Haag Lester Jackson.
| the Kyle and Probst families and 9TH
/ ers. including children. grandchildren
| and great grandchildren. A grand feast
was spread, affording pleasure TO the
/ multitude for three and one-half hours
| NrEdnumolneT daaR was surprised with
many gifts, especially a large sum OF
/ money placed, under her plate by the
| grandchildren. Lester Jackson was the
originator Of the happy event-Law-
| renceburg Register.
| A correspondent of the Fit Wayne
| Sentinel sent the following to that pa
per: 81 am willing to stake my reputa-
| ton as a public man if the worst cases
OF smallpox cannot be cured in three
| days simply by cream of tartar. This
/ is the sure and never-failing remedy
| One ounce cream of tartar dissolved in
a pint Of boiling water, to be drank when
cold. at intervals. 1t can be taken at any
| time mad is a preventive as well as a
| curative. 1t is known to have cured i'm
100000 cases without a failure. / have
myself restored hundreds by this means
| 1t never leaves a mark, never causes
blindness and prevents tedious linger.
ng."-Cor of Liverpool Mercury.
Two chickens belonging to Messrs
Brisbane and Pfeifer, who reside near
/ the water station at the Seventh-st
| depot, have been attracting the atten-
! ton of railroad men for the past ten
days. When the 2:45 p. m worlds fair
! trains halt for water the chickens are
| on hand to pick the dead grasshoppers
from the pilot and brakebeams The
other trains, the boys say, do not travel
| fast enough to catch a hopper. Mr..
| Brisbane's chicken, a tall white fellow,
| fingered too long under the engine a
day or two ago and had part of his head
| and one wing cut off. The other at
tends the trains regularly for his feast
OF grasshoppers.-Colum Times
| The school authorities of Carbon are