Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1882 — THE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS. [ARTICLE]

THE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS.

The amendments prrposed and voted oq' by ,the last Legislature art follows: Ist—Prohibition of the manufac ture and sale of intoxicating liquors except for medicinal, mechanical, qr sacramental purposes. 2nd—Granting the right of full citizenship to woman, by allowing her the right of suffrage. 3d—Tim extension of the terms of offices of Secretary, Treasurer, end Auditor of State to four years, and preventing any person from •holding more than one term in a * period of eight years. 4th—Similar extension and limitation in regard to the offices of Clerk of Circuit Court, County P»ecorder, Auditor, Treasurer, Sheriff, Coroner an dSurveyor. This is not the time to enter into any discussion as to whether any or all of these proposed amendments to the Constitution of our State should be adopted or not. All that is now askfcd is for the Legislature to submit them to the sovereigns of the goyernment for approval or rejection. It matters not whether any member of our incoming law-makers is opposed to the adoption of these propositions or not, he has no moral right to say to the people whom he is serving and by whom he holds his office, that they shall not be allowed the privilege of voting upon these questions. The people are intelligent enough to settle such questions as they see fit, and we believe that the Legislature will not use its august prerogative by refusing its constituents the right to give their opinion upon the propositions at the ballot box.

A cyclone passed over the town of Grinnell, lowa, Saturday night, demolishing property to the amount of $250,000, and killing 50 persons. The list of wounded numbers about 150. V . . \ At Pogue’s Run accident, in Indianapolis, last Wednesday, ten persons were drowned. Miss Lettie Hopkins, of this place, stood on the bridge at the time of the. accideut, and was precipitated into the flood. She was insensible when rescued, but was resuscitated and is reported as in usual good health. There seems to be no small amount of trouble in the Greenback camp of this county. The straight-outs are positively opposed to fusion with the Democracy, while the latter are putting forth their dearest efforts to ‘‘fuse.” They have tried every means to induce the Greenbackers to hold ther nominating convention before the Democratic convention, in fond anticipation that the former may be hoodwinked into placing a ticket in the field which the latter will endorse, and it seems probable that the Democratic convention, which lias been called for the 24th inst., may be adjourned until after the Greenback convention. But it is possible that the Greenbackers will nbt be willing to endorse the present Democratic auditor, even in the event of a previous convention.

Nbw Albany, , Ind., June 16. — Th<i wreck of the north bo and passenger train of L., N. A. & G., yesterjky noSn, four miles south of Bedford, was the worst that has occurred on that road for several \ears. The entire train was badly broken jup. John Oarmony, the engineer, who stopd to his engine and heid to the throttle valve till liter ally c< joked’ by the escaping hot water, died Lust night. To-day his body was lorwarded to his mother m Western Virginia. Miss Anna Fowl or, a teacher in the public schools of tins city, had her left hand split ..entirely open from - between the setoud and third fingers to the wrist, and the arm broken squarely oh’ between the and the wVist. She was fcjptmght home last night. It is h ared her, arm . v/ili have to be amputated. Dr. Feachman, of Louisville, seriously hurt, is improving to-day, and pronounced by his physicians out of danger. Mrs. Wplfsohn, of Louisville, so dangerously hurt, is also gettinr along favorably to-day. 'iiie embankment down which the train tell is forty feet high,, ' . CeuOeiarn whoM beards are not of a abode cao-VcTnedy (he defect ’ v iiV o' Sue' fogkahi'a Dye. for tin* wl.sk- . - I