Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1880 — DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, GENERAL LAND OFFICE, WASHINGTON, D. C., MAY 15, 1880. [ARTICLE]

D EPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, GENERAL LAND OFFICE, WASHINGTON, D. C., MAY 15, 1880.

Iwn S. AtUr , Ktq., County Surveyor, Morning - ton, Jatpor county, Indiana. Sib: —ln reply to your letter of the 24th ult., I have to state as follows: Ist, the township line between townships 28 and 29 north, range 7 west, 2nd P. M., mast be considered as the north boundary of the sections immediately south of the line. The fact that certain closing "corners were erroneously established somewhat north of the line does not olrange the ooursc of the township line which mast run straight from corner to corner as originally established thereon, and the lines of seotions on the south mast end at their intersection with the township line. In like manner if dosing corners fall south of a township line the said lino will nevertheless form the North boundary of the northern tier of seotions in the township on the aoath. 2d, In regard to the identification of the corner referred to by you where the witness trees have been destroyed, I have to state that unless yon are fully satisfied that the stone found is on the spot where the original corner was located, the corner shoald be ro established in exact accordance with the field notes of the original survey. 3d, In re-establishing the corner to 9, 10, 15 and 16, township 30 north, range 5 west, as the quarter corner between seotions 9 and 10, and the quarter corner between sections 27 and 28 are identified by witness trees. The said corner shoald be re-establisbed by proportionate measurement and right line between existing original oorners, regardless of the courses or difference in measurements beyond the same. Very respectfully,

J. M. HAMMON.

Commissioner.

eaee with thiriNHa of tkoopa* mittee is • fitting ooaelasion to the jnstMt hjWitirtfcfwof the mk* ■ob* !■ the eoerae ot his public eereer Mr. Yoorkeea hee Mode lah things, but for stupid oonoaptiou wpwii eIL Frooi first to lest this bee bees i stupendous freed. It vu e freed oe the pen of Mr. Yoerheee to pro teed that he wee eeteeted by nothree of freed will towerde the eelored people; It we* e freed to »iw that they bed not the seate right u other Anwrieaa citizens to more free* State to State; it wee a freed to eharge that the Republican party waa ia any way responsible for the movement; it waa a freed oe the part of Mr. Yoorhee* to summon hia personal friend# and boon companion# to Waablngton to testify as witnesses; it was a fraud to expend $40,000 ot the people’s money ia any each basinets; and, finally, this pyramid of fraud ia fitly erowned by the dieappearance of the ofßeial reporter of the committee with the notes of the investigation, making it impossible for the testimony to he written ont The reporter, a Georgia newspaper man, and a personal friead and adherent of Senator Yoorhee*’, ia said to hare celebrated the close ofthe investigation by going on n spree, and in the midst of it he peeked np and went to Atlanta, where he got into a fight and was badly stabbed. He took bis notes of the Investigation along with him, and has lost them, so that the testimony oannot be written oat. A sergeant-at-arms ‘bee been sent to Georgia with an order for his arrest, bat it is understood that his notes are lost or destroyed, and cannot be recovered. This is no great loss to'history, and it may even be said to be fitting and harmonious conclusion to a systematic humbug; but it places our Wabash Senator in a bad position. The margin of statesmanship on which he has to travel is narrow at best, and each incidents as these greatly lessen his chances of achieving historic renown in any other role than that of a political fraud.— Ind. Journal.

In 1553 four South Carolina olergymen, who were old and intimate friends, sent their' four sons to the same, boarding school. From, boarding school at the end of fonr years they were transferred to college. Through school they were room mates and olass-mates, and stood in the order of first, second, third and fourth at the top of the roll. They graduated together in the same order of merit, entered the seme lew office and studied under the seme ohanoeilor. At the beginning of the war they entered the same eompany and the same regiment of the Confederate army. They marohed, messed and fought together. At the second battle of Manassas a Northern shell burst in the ranks of of their oompany. It killed these fonr, bnt touched no one else. They were buried on the bnttle field in the same grave.

The latest expedient for ridding a-house of rate, is furnished bj a writer in the Seientifio American, who says:* 4 We clean onrpremises of the detestable vermin by making the white wash yellow with copperas and covering the stones and rafters in the oelTar with a thick coat of it. In every orevioe where a rat might tread, we pat the 6rystals of the oopperas and scatter the same in the corners of the floor. The resalt was a perfeot stampede of ratal and mice. Since that time not a footfall of either rats or mioe has been heard about the boose. Each spring a coat of the yellow wash is given to the oellar as a purifier as well as a rat exterminator, and no typhoid, dysentery, or fever attacks the family.”