Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1883 — The Indiana Legislature. [ARTICLE]

The Indiana Legislature.

Plain talk from oar Exchanges. No Better than a Slum. Logansport Journal. With the beast Heffren bellowing in the House, and the brute, Brown buckin" snd bloviating as a boss in the Senate, the General Assembly is little better thana slum. No Occasion tor Surprise. Richmond Palladium. When the control of the commonwealth was turned over to a ty controlled and owned by the liquor interest, we should not be surprised to find saloon morals and saloon billingsgate even in the State Senate, Hoosier Democracy is, indeed, a thing without a rival for its vileness and audacity as Brown in the Senate and the rebel Lieutenant-general Heffren in the House. ” The Legislature Has No Parallel. Lafayette Courier. The record made by tliis Democratic Legislature has no parallel in pure cussedness since the aid and comfort Legislatuie of the war. Horace Heffren leader of the House and J ason Brown leader of the Senate! Ye gods, was there ever such a pair and such a party? The Buffoonery in the Senate. Shelbyville Republican. First the Senate bounced Kirk, its door keeper. Then it bounced •the secretary, and its second doorkeeper and reinstated its first doorkeeper, and elected C. T. Nixon, a Republican, as clerk. Then it bounced Mr. Nixon and reelected its first clerk, so that it now has its original clerk and doorkeeper. Beautiful work for honorable senators. The Bay ot Vensean ce Approaching*. Richmond Palladium. The State charities are raped to gratify a partisan desire for office. Such a measure was legitimately born in the foul brain of such a man as Jason Brown and properly championed by Horace Heffren, but the day of popular vengeance is approaching.

Judge Gould has been subjected to some unfavorable criticisim on account of his ruling to admit common rumor as to unchaste or adulterous acts anterior to the words spoken upon which the plaintiff’s claim foi damages is based. The criticism is entirely undeserving. The ruling is in strict accordance, not only with the principles of law but of justice as well. Mrs. Gougar is seeking to mulct the defendant in a large sum of money, on account of damage alleged to have been done to her reputation by certain words spoken by the defendant. Now by every principal of law, J 1 justice, and of common sense, the defendant has a right to show whether Mrs. Gougar’s reputation is of such a character as to be susceptible of being damaged to the extent of SIO,OOO or to any. extent at all. In what way possible * could a jury be able to assess the damage done to a reputation unless they are permitted to know what that reputation is? M.UWHE.IX— Feb., 24th, 1883, at the residence of Mr. Levi Hodge in Union tp., Mr. Stephen B. Coen and Miss Alda Fulton, by Elder A. E. Pierson. Quite a number of Miss Ful- ■ ton s scholars were present, (she ■ being a teacher) and did justice to 'an excellent dinner prepared for the occasion by Mrs. Hodge, who knows by the way just how to get up a good dinner. Though the day without was dreary the occasion was made joyous by the cheerful conversations of Mr. and Mr. Coen. The Elder’s heart was made luminous by receiving a greenback bill of liberal dimensions. I Mat joy, peace and prosperity attend the youthful pair though [life. /' I One VVho was there.