Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1881 — Union Items. [ARTICLE]

Union Items.

France has been been bulldozing T*nnK and, for that kind''of work, has done a good job. h , r . The switchman’s strike in Chicaoago seems to hare ended and in favor of the railroads. The battle may not always go to the strong, but it certainly ha* in this case. C inkling and Platt re-signed their, 6eats in the U.S. Set ate Mon. «lny. The Legislature cf New Yt rjc which is now in session, will pro-, coed at once to elect their successor.!.

The Inter-Ocean tells ns that on Tuesday, Chicago receiyed 33,512 bushels of wheat and shipped 559,564 bushels. Bat the 1.-0. does not attempt to tell us how many bushels' the grain speculators l (ought and sold bn the same day. Somewhere among the enormous millions we may be sure.,, < The Nihilists, the other day, were so-excessively'polite as to jnvite the the Czaj Alexander 111. to attend ills own funeral. In the language of Artemus Ward, they would undertake “to see that the ‘corp’ was ready.” Alexander, ' however, thought he was able to pay. for all his entertainments, and declined to ,to- be “dead-headed” to any such : erforinance. , The Indianapolis Journal of Wednesday calls attention in conspicuous headlines, to a,letter from t ion. Grant to President Garfield, urging the latter to withdraw the the nomination of Robertson. We ire unable, however, to find the * oxt of the letter in the columns of tlie Journal, and we are somehow imnuted by a vague suspicion that the letter is* a pure figment of the Journal’s own tortured brain.

Stanley Matthews was confirmed last week as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Saturday of last, by the Senate by a majority of one. The fight against Matthews has been a long and peculiarly bitter one, and his confirmation, although by a majority of one, may )»e regarded as a victory forth© Ad_ ministration. The Hon. W. H. Robertson was confirmed by the Senate, Wednesday, as Collector of Customs for tlio port of New York, without a dissenting voice.”

The struggle between the titans at Washington still goes on. Garfield, the immovable, and'Conkling, the irresistible, have indeed met, but we still cherish a hope that when* the smoke of battle has cleared •iway that there will not be revealed to our distracted eyes the ruins of the universe and chaotic atoms of the world, nor even the disjointed fragments of the Republican party. In all seriousness, then, we see no good grounds for the sorrowful b ars so wildly prevalent among the" lie publicans, and no more, for the wild hopes that spring triumphant in Democratic bosoms, that any serious consequence to the JRepublic m party are likely to result from the contest.

President Garfield and Senator * C'onkling are botli men of vastabil. ities. Both of them number among their immediate partizans and friends, many of the best and wisest men in the nation, but for all that, neither one nor both of these men :vll their followers constitutes the Republican party. No, the 1 Republican party is far more than that. It is an organization of more than half the citizens i of the oountry, and includes within its numbers by far the greater part of those among us whose political preferences are determined by unselfish motives, and whose intelligence is broad enough to perceive the true interests of the nation. It includes the great majority of those who prefer knowledge to ignorance; nationality against sectionalism; the dignity of iabor rather than the degradation of slavery ; progress as opposed to reaction ; a safe financial policy rather than the wild dreams of theorists, or the brazen schemes of repudiators. In a word it is the party of justice, of intelligence of humanity. And so long, then, as the Republican party is composed of such elements and is the representative of such ideas we may be assured t! at ao mere struggle for pr eminence* or quarrels over patronage among, a few leaders, will be permitted to break np the organization, or swerve the people from their fealty.

C. H. Price, our genial County Cleric, has invested largely in cabbage plants, rnd proposes to raise the vegetables for the market, we p.re informed. - John Shields, of J as per County, Ind., has lost fifteen steers in bix yoan by lightning. Shields had W‘ttet-gb oat of the steer business *gr.4sfijptrt lightning rods on their wins.- -rjder-Ccceß.

Most everybody planting corn this pleasant weather. The ground plows well owi iag to the hard freest-1 ing the past winter. LA i A - JEhere is an abundance of grass for pasturage. Several cows have been mired in thd marshes this spring. Mr. Michael still continues to lose sheep. Over fifty have died this spring. . The bridge across the river at the old mill-dam is in a dangerous condition. It is hoped the Commissioners will lend assistance in remedying this “evil.” . Willis Wyatt, in trying to burn off the old grass in his field the other day, let the fire get away and do considerable damage, burning his fences and some cord-wood belonging to Alter Bros. The railroad is completed two or three miles north of the river, and we, with our herds, are startled every morning by the shrill whistle of the iron horse as he thunders along over marshes andsandridges. Success to Che iron horse.

BILL BAT.