Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1858 — SENATORIAL CONVENTION. [ARTICLE]

SENATORIAL CONVENTION.

The Republicans of the counties of Lake, Porter and Jasper will hold a Convention at Valparaiso, on Thursday, July 15, To nominate a candidate for the State Senate.. Every Republican of Jasper countywho is able to attend will consider himsel a delegate. •* s —r deaths were caused in Idianapolis on last Saturday by sun-stroke. ~ t~ thermometer stood at 93 ® in the shade yesterday, and on Sunday it was 97° . o^7“We are indebted to Mr. R. B. James for half a peck of green peas—the first of the season. - - „ (tiyWe learn from a letter received at this place last week, that John Sager is in jail in Canada—cause not stated, _ [ (fT’Hon. James Wilson, the present Congressman from the Eight District, was nominated fair re-election last Thursday. B abb has made a table in his gar-i den of sufficient length to accommodate one hundred and fifty persons next Saturday. John U. Pettit, Congressman from the Eleventh District, has been nominated for re-election by the Republicansi call attention to the advertise-1 mer‘ in another column, of the winter arrangements of the Eclectic College Qf.Med-| icine, Cincincinnati. ' ! ■“ 1 , I Republican Convention of the Ninth Congressional District met at Plymouth yesterday. The Democratic Convention will meet at the same place to-mpr-row. ■—*«■ 1 testimony in the case of General Lane was concluded on Monday, and the argument was to commence yesterday. Public,opinion at Lawrence was too much divided tp predict the result. corn crop in this county looks fine, and is growing unusually fast Tlie countenances of our farmers, which two or three weeks ago looked gloomy enough, ne w brighten up wlren corn is mentioned. John B. Haskins, Congressman from the counties of Westchester, Rockland and Putnam, New York, has been renominated by a portion of the citizens of his district as the Independent Anti-Ilecomptdn Der nor rat ic candidate. Q3”WO made a flying visit to Francisville last week, and while there became the guest of Captain Riley, the clever and accommodating host of the Riley House. The Captain is a whole team, and spares no pains to hie guests comfortable. of our citizens express fear that the; wheat will be materially injured, if not totally ruined, by the rust; but an intelligent nn(l observing farmer informed us yesterday that he had just examined several wheatfields south of town, and found them uninjured. H<’ eays’that the rust is not of the kind that our farmers need fear.