The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-11-01
GENERAL STATE News.

county. and was born April 1e 1888. Her
husband, Marcus Brookbank, has long
been extensively engaged in the cooper
age business at Jeffersonville.-New Al
bany- Ledger.
Engineer Thomas Danver Of Washing
ton, whose remains were buried here
with masonic honors from the residence
of Daniel Lester yesterday afternoon,
was a native OF EdinbuTg. but for long
time he was a prominent and highly
esteemed resident of Seymour. As
trainman he was popular and efficient 20
an unusual degree, and in every way he
was an upright man, good citizen and
an earnest Christian. His death Is de-
plored by many who had learned to es-
TEEN him for his worth. and the condol-
ence extended to the bereaved ones is
general and very sincere.-SeymOur DEM
ocrat.
A farmer stepped up to the window
of the Chicago & Erie ticket Office last
night and asked for three tickets to the
worlds fair. After engaging in CONVEX
sation with him he stated that this was
his first experience on board of a railroad
train since the year 1857. He had taken
short trio over the b. & o. railroad
in that year, but had never been on any
kind of railroad since. This shows that
we still have a few Americans that are
not up to the modern improvements after
all, but that the worlds fair arouses
animation in all of them TO note the prog
ress of the people Of the age.-Marion
Star.
Presley Givens, who lately sold his
farm south of the city and purchased
one near Boyleston, is something of
farmer. On the Boyleston farm were
ffty-three acres which he desired TO SOW
in wheat, and although il was late in
the year, on last Monday morning he
put seventeen teams at work, blowing,
rolling. narrowing and getting the
ground ready for sowing. and at dark
Thursday the work was finished and the
entire field sOwed in wheat. The farm
ers in that neighborhood say the work
was done very fast and the sight of so
many teaps and men working in one
field an unusual one.-Frankfort Ores
cent.
Peter wendle. respectable German
farmer who, with his family. lived near
Ft. Recovery, is dead. Last Sunday he
took his wife TO Ft. Recovery to take
the train for Celina, where q child of a
married SON of the old couple is lying
quite sick. and the old gentleman re-
he took two white powders from his
pocket, told the children he believed he
would take them and put himself out
Of the way, and taking q cup Of water
he went out to the barn with the powders
in his hand. Shortly after he came into
the house and was taken violently i'll
and died shortly after DR.. Snipps of
Tt Recovery had arrived in response to
an urgent ummons.-Portland Sun.
Reuben Long of Patolla township was
in the city recently. He is now ninety
years old, and aside from the fact that
he is partially paralyzed, IS in good
! health for a man of his age. He came
to this county from Richmond, Va, near
~ seventy years ago. and is the pioneer
land-cleareT OF the present site OF Pc
| tersburg. His life has been an eventful
one, having had the ups and downs of
a pioneer life, served in both the MeXi
can and civil wars, engaging in the latter
when he was past sixty years Of age
He was, in his younger days, a man Of
wonderful physique and courage. His
remembrance Of the growth and pros
perity Of Petersburg and Pike county Is
simply marvelous.-Feke County Demo
/ crat.
Land in Benton county advanced H.
| price a year ago 10 from $50 TO SIS per
acre II was thought at that time that
such high prices could not long be main
I tanned, and when the country was swept
| by the panic of 1893 real estate agents
| were Of the opinion that these high price
must come down. But not So The
prices stay right there. and although but
| few farms have changed hands lately.
excellent prices We're paid In every in
| stance. IL seems evident that people at
| length begin to realize that no better
/ farm land can be found than I'm this
| county. and an investment in any part
| OF Benton is a safe one. Evidently good
| prices have come to stay.-Benton Re
| view
Or. and Mrs. NJ. Mahin of Upton will
| celebrate their golden wedding ami
| versaTy on tho 31st inst. DIR. Mahin was
admitted into the Indiana conference
methodist episcopal church. in October.
1891 when he was scarcely seventeen
years old. He was ordained in 1913, and
| the same year he married Miss Eliza
| beth Dorsey Of Dearborn county. An
| OF the years intervening he has been
IN the active ministry, and he Is stin
hale and vigorous. mentally and physi-
caiiy- Or. Mahin was pastor Of the
methodist episcopal church in this city
| some years ago and he and his est
4 Unable wife have many warm friends
| here who viii congratulate them on
their golden wedding day.-Huntington
| Democrat.
Saturday night the Rev. b. Schwortz-
hoe Of Sierre Leone, Africa delivered an
/ able and interesting lecture on the habits
| manners and customs of his country. He
/ spoke or Stanley, and denounced him for
( the many false statements in his book
| and also denounced many OF the mission
| aries sent there, and said, that instead
| or civilizing the natives. they only came
/ TO debauch them and speculate. He said
| Livingston was the man the natives
| loved and admired. He said though the
natives over there went almost I'm nude
| state, they entertained n high idea Of
| chastity, and that missionaries and other
| foreigners who came there for debauch-
| cry We're served like colored men who
| attempted the same thing with the white
| race here-shot down.-Columbus Times.
About four miles southeast Of Hart
| ford City lives Michael Phillips and
with him stays his nephew, who now
/ lies at the point of death from a pistol
/ shot wound at the hands OF his uncle.
| The boy, who is some eighteen years of
| age, went TO town Friday night and
| coming home late found the family
| asleep. Going out into the barn he
startled the chickens into loud and
| continued squaking and Philips, think
\ ing to Brighten the thief he supposed
was there, opened the window and fired
I toward the barn. The report was echoed
/ by the scream of his nephew, and going
/ out he found the lad lying i'm a pool of
/ blood flowing from a wound near the
\ left eye. which will doubtless cost him
/ the sight of that eye and may result in
his death.-Portland Sun.
The death of William r Petit in
prison is, let us hope. the concluding
| scene of one of the saddest tragedies
/ that this or any other community has
| ever known. There was not one re-
deeming feature I'm the whole miser-
able business, from beginning to end.
| The Call will not harrow up the feel
/ ings of it's readers and friends by re-
/ hashing its details. They are already.