Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1882 — UNION TOWNSHIP ITEMS [ARTICLE]

UNION TOWNSHIP ITEMS

Again wo send you a few “items? Beautiful w»a her afur the storms yesterday. The political pot has begun to boiL The republican had the audacity to call us a Nubin Ridger while oae or its editors has a brother living in the barren wilds of Kseaer township. The convention last Saturday nomi. nated William Cooper for Trustee David W. Shields for Assessor and* George W. Casey for Road Superiu. ten lent.

The Literary still holds out. James Garret was trU vei lit g northern Union lust week buying cows. Mi s Sylvia ilill of Grove 111. is visiting U*-r brothers-and friends in Union. The Grape Island school house closed yest relay, quite a number of visitors present Spring why lingereet thou. The roads are pecoining almost im .passable The ma shes ure full of dueks and geese and almost as full of hunters. Quite a number of our young people intend attending the summer term pf the Northern Indiana Normal at Valpraiso. John Gant went to Gillam township last Monday. We would advise him to steur clear of the ’’webfoots” for there is breaker ahead. Keener was represented at the literary last Friday evening. Come again friends. John C. Alter is Surveying lund in Keener,

James Pierce closed Jiii school lust Fridiiy after a sucessful term of four months. James is a success utschool teaching as he is at everything he uu lertakes. Robert Swairn is rapidly regaining his health. Several of onr citizens talk of go ing West next fall. James H. McClanehan was buying hogs in northern Union last Monday No more for the present: Marc 14 1882 GRA I E ISLAND.

A Chicago naan, visiting Cincinnati was being shown around by a citizen who said, “Now let’s go and see the Widow’s Home.” The Chicago man put his finger by tho side of his nose and winked, and then said’“Not much Mary Ann. I saw a widow home once, and it cost me $15,000. She sued me for breach of promise and proved it on me. No, sir send the widow home in a hack.

A man was once before the late Judge Kent of Maine, on a charge of having burglariously entered a lumberman’s camp and stolen clothing and money. The witness for the goverment testified that he saw the prisoner’s head, right arm and shoulder thrust through an opening he had made in the cabin, and that tha stolen articles disappeared with them. Here the prosecution rested. Whereupon the prisoner’s counsel went to the jury gravely protesting that there was no case; that to make out a case of burglary the prosecution must show an entrance of the whole man—at least the larger part of him: the feet as well as the head must have been within the cabin. Judge Kent instructed the jury to return a verdict of guilty to the extent which the evidence would warrant. After a brief absence the jury returned a verdict of guilty against the prisoner as to his right arm, right shoulder and head, and the Judge sentenced the arm, shoulder head to the state prison for two years. The prisoner might do with the remainder of his body as he pleased.