Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1875 — FROM KANKAKEE TO WNSHIP. [ARTICLE]

FROM KANKAKEE TO WNSHIP.

The grasshoppers are going for the flax in Southern Illinois. * ' The State Convention meets at Indianapolis on Thursday, Jane 10th. President Grant goes to Long Branch about the first of June, is the latent news. The Cincinnati! Commercial is of the opinion that Mr. Beecher will eome out ahead. Mrs. Lincoln, widow of president Lincoln, has been adjudged insane, and sent to an insane asylum. A Democratic paper says: “Principles, . and not men are wanted.” It despairs of xix combination of both in it? party compoaiiioß. i-H’ i

The itaad jury of* Yankton, Dakota Territory, have found a new indictment against Wintermute for the murder of Gen. McCook. The wedding of the gallant Lieutenant -General Sheridan, which will take place -the first week in June, will be attended l>y the President and Mrs. Grant. California is bound to be ahead in the Junfber business. They are cutting one of their big trees, thirty feet in diameter and three hundred feet high to exhibit at the Centennial. Chicago puts in a claim for a Centennial, on the ground that Braddock was pointing in that direction when he met with an unexpected obstacle and made an unpremeditated retreat. Northern visitors have left the snug little pile of three millions in Florida, during the winter. Healthy people, as well as invalids, have been there to the number of over thirty thousand. - The Logansport Star suggest “as a topic of discussion at the next editorial association the propriety of abolishing the system of deadbeat excursions under the auspices of the association.” A t LaFayette, June 24th, Parker A. Byers, of LaFayette, and Jacob Garrett, of Indianapolis, will play billiards (French carmos) for the championship of Indiana, $l5O, and the champion ettp.

Both parties are engaged in trotting out' candidates for the Presidency. By this premature action they are able to get rid of the aspirants they do not want to nominate. No man can stane this kind of attention more than ninety days, « —M— Jeff. Davis writes that the negro voters are increasing so rapidly in Mississippi that he sees no hope for the State’s deliverance. Texas he regards as the Mecca of the South, and the only State that has recuperated and taken on fresh vigor since the war. . The Inter Oceanof Friday, May 21st, covered 18 full sheets 144 pages, 864 umns. w One hundred and thirty-six pages was taken up by the delinquent tax list Thirty-two of the best Chicago compositors worked thirty-six days to set up the list, and it took twenty- wagons to deliver the city list. It has been decided by the Attorney General of the State that druggists selling whisky, wine or brandy in less quantities than a quart, for any purpose, brings them under the requirements of the new liquor law and that they will have to take out license the aame as a regular saloon keeper. A new horse disease has made its appearance in St. Louis, says the Inter Ocean, and seems to be spreading. Its ■effects arr far more fatal than those characterising the epizooty of 1872. The symptoms are similar to those shown in cerebro-spinal meningitis. The opinion prevails that the malady is due to atmospheric influences. General and Ex-Vice President John C. Breckenridge, died at his residence in Lexington, Ky., on Monday evening, of last week. His disease was abscess of the liver combined with consumption.— Gen. Breckenridge was a man of brilliant talents, and was not only the idol of his State, but of his party throughout the country. In an evil hour he united his distiny with the rebels, and went down never to rise again. On a third party movement the Louisville Courier-Journal says: “On the whole,Murat Halstead’s scheme of a third party movement, looking to nominate Charles Francis Adams for President, and by getting him early in the field to force the regular Republicans to take him, just as the Democrats were forced to take Greeley, does not strike us.— That scheme cannot be executed twice and on different political sects. It failed badly in 1872, and it will fail worse in 1876. Still, there is much true inwardness in it and true inwardness is a good thing.

The Ohio Democrats are in favor of the revolutionary war. They propose to hold their State convention on the anniversary of the battle of Bunker Hill.—Their resolutions, however, will lookjust a little awkward. The Toledo Blade suggests a form for them, which reads, as follows: “Resolved, That while we endorse the action of our forefathers in taking up arms to free themselves from British tyranny and establish a free and independent Republic, we grieve to think that tbtoir sons took up arms to maintain and perpetuate that Republic and its free institutions.”

The Rensselaer Union takes exception to the appointment of Ex-Senator Pratt as Revenue Commissioner by the President. It falsely says that Mr. Pratt was repudiated by the people of Indiana at the’last general election. Mr. Pratt’s fitness for office, his integrity and honesty, did not enter into the question of politics at all, no more than did that of the editor of the Union. However, the fault-finding of Bro. James will not • cause either Mr. Pratt or the President H ny uneasiness. We look upon the ap- " j n Jment as one of the best the President has. made, lindji o does two-thirds efthe thinking* of the State, regardless of party —- 2?epuWican. Here is a clipping frou.' the columns of the Western Granger aud Home Journal which everybody should read carefit’ly: “The character of a town or city may be judged unerringly by the columns of its I local journals. Do the columns of those | journals bristle with announcements of business men T Do they abound in details of what manufacturers are turning out and offering to the public? And do merchants employ them as show rooms wherein to exhibit their fabrics to the gaze of multitudes who may be induced to become purchasers? Then the town or city where those journals are Situated may be set down without a misgiving, as prosperous, vigorous, and enterprising. The sign is a sure one. Enterprise will show itself, and the first place it will meet the eye is in the public press.”

Mr. Editor : I notice that we in our township, need more public roads; and I see that we have notices posted for them. But we hope the Commissioners of Jasper county will not grant any roads on half section lines. The road referred to is to commence at what is known as the I. D. Dunn ford on the Kankakee river, thence east up the river to section line dividing sections fourteen and fifteen, thence south on section line to the corner of sections twenty-two, twenty-three, fourteen and fifteen, thence east one hundred and sixty rods on sections twentythree and twenty-four, thence south on half section line in section twenty-three o»e hundred and sixty rods. So you see it takes three square turns; whereas, if the road was on the section line it would be straight, three-fourths of a mile shorter, and not half the grading to do. We hope the people of Kankakee township will look before they leap. Citizen. The following railroad items we clip from the Monticello Constitutionalist : Work was commenced at this place on the new Railroad last Tuesday and is now progressing earnestly. From present indications the grading will be completed from Chicago to Monticello within ninety days from this time. The engineers are surveying two routes from hdre to Rensselaer, viz:— One via Bradford, and the other on a shorter ronte whieh will cross the L. N. & C. R. R. übout four miles south of Bradford. A decision of the line to be adopted will be made as soon as the engineers have reported. Distance, cost’ of construction, right of way, and local bid ‘will be the question considered in arriving at a choice of routes. We would specially urge those favoring the Bradford that they lose no time in securing right of way. This important matter should be settled as early as possible, on whatever line is adopted, so that no delay or annoyance will interfere with the progress of the work.

Hon. Jesse D. Bright died ou the 20th, instant, of heart disease, at his residence in Baltimore. He was dected to the office of United States Senator, in Indiana three successive terms, beginning in 1845. The Logansport Star says of him 'Early 1862 he was charged with disloyalty, the principal evidence against* him being that on the Ist of March, 1861, after the organization of the Confederate government, he wrote a letter addressed to "Jefferson Davis, President of the Con. federate States'* recommending to him a person who was desirous of furnishing arms for the use of the Confederate armies. He was expelled from the Senate, Feb. 2, 1862, by a vote of 32 to 14. He afterwards settled in Kentucky, from whence he removed to Baltimore, where he has since resided. Bright was a strong adherent of the Democratic party during his whole life, and at one time was considered the leader of that party in this State. After has expulsion from the Senate he disappeared from public life and little has been since heard from him.— Like other Northerners who favored the cause of the rebellion, without the courage to take part in the conflict, his death will cause little regret in either North or South.

Musselman, of the Stark County Ledger, has given notice that all communications which appear in hia paper must have the proper name of tSe author attached ». e., in print. As an argument in favor of that style it says John Hancock was not ashamed te put his name to the Declaration of Independence.