Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1883 — Page 6

®lw KtpuMtrau. JY MARSHALL. BENSSEIaER, : : INDIANA

It is pleaant to note that Jupiter has got over hiwiolent troubles and is cooling off. Tn red spot on his face—so the aetaronomereay—has entirely disappeared, and no trther danger from the internal fever thl produced the phenomenon is apprehenoj. This red spot was upward of 30,0flmiles long by 6,000 or 8,000 miles wide. An Americk resident in the City of Mexico says L has known of but one fire in that city dring the past three years where the danage amounted to as much as §3OO. is that the houses are virtually fie proof, being built of massive masony, with stone stairways, and roof and fljor of brick and cement, Herein there is I valuable lesson for the people of this g|>rious Republic. It is believed jhat the tenant farmer in England is dooned. Many of the farm owners are now personally superintending the cultivat in of their land,* employtog laborers to < a the work, and the results are quiw satisfactory. With the tenant class eliminated, the farm laborer becomes a mom important person, and his condition will improve. The necessity of emigration will bring the tenant farmers to America where they will better their condition

Investigation shows that in Utah the Mormon Church has about 120,000 members; in the Western States ard Territories about 80,000, and in the Sandwich Islands about 7,000. It has about ninety churches in Great Britain, and the denomination is one of the largest in the southern part Wales. They have also churches in many of the countries of Europe, in Turkey, Palestine, India and Australia. The Book of Mormon has been translated into a score of tongues. There are over 400 missionaries in foreign lands. In spite of anti-polygamy laws and frequent fulminations from executive authorities in this country and in other lands, it appears that Mormonism is still a vigorous and lively “twin jeliG.”

Tbm merchants of Chicago are now reaping the fruit of t e gambling in wheat a year ago. It is said that the unusual dullness in trade in parts of the Northwest is due entirely to to the fact that the farmers are generally holding their grain for a higher price than is now paid, the prices of a year ago .having caused them to expect the same this year. The grain being unsold, the farmers have little money with which to buy goods, and many of them are even borrowing from country banks to carry them along until the price of grain shall go up. The country stores are selling comparatively little to their customers, and are consequently not in a position to buy largely from wholesale dealers. r lhe results of Jast year’s grain gambling ought to be a lasting lesson to the country.

Thb Chicago Tribune published in a mud road (State, iudoraed by the Memphis Avalanche, from the mud road section of Tennessee, reconamends a plan of bettering country roads, which has been tried successfully and has the merit of eheapnees: It consists simply in laying on both sides of the road, ordinary farm tiles at a depth of about four feet, which should have a slight incline and open at intervals into ditches to carry oil the drainage. The road bed between the rows of tiles could be twenty-five or thirty feet This arrangement would thoroughly drain the road bed and keep it firm and dry, except for a little while after heavy rams; in other words to quote from the Avalanche, there will then be occasional muddy roads during the rainy season, whereas now there are only occasional dry roads after a long spell. The farmers of the State spend enough time and labor in wasteful and almost useless work on the roads under the existing system to pay for this system of effective tiling in a few years. The experiment is worth the trial, and if it is succewful as has been in Memphis and elsewhers the improved road will more than pay for itself in a year.

Tn*regular biennial change in the road law of Indiana has been effected uy the recent Legislature. According to this new law the township trustee be : comas the superintendent of all the highways in his township. He is io divide his township into road districts of not less than six square miles, and to number them, commencing in the north-east corner of the t< wnship, and file a correct plat of the same within ten days with the county Auditor. The districts are subject to change in the month of January, and every two years thereafter. The supervisors are to be elected at the April election, 1884. In the meantime, the Trustee has the light to appoint them. Each supervisor is to receive $1.50 per day,and may continue working for sixty days in

each year, but no longer. When appointed or elected, supervisors must serve or pay the sum of six dollars, but no person can be compelled to sene oftener than once in six years. Owners of property have the right to work out their road tax. To do so they must make application to the Trustee, and do the work as low as the same could be done by others. For all time devoted to the highways the Trustee is to receive $2 per day, provided the same is not in excess of sixty days in each year. An emergency clause is attached, and the law will go into effect as soon as approved by the Governor.

Indiana has finally done justice to the dog, it would seem. The new dog law, which, having an emergency clause, is now in force, does away altogether with ' the system of tagging licensed dogs as heretofore. It makes it a misdemeanor to kill, maim, injure or steal a dog for which the tax has been paid to the county, but provides no means by which these privileged canines, which are now for the first time in the history of the State recognized as property, may be recognized by the less favored of that race. The main provisions of the new law are as follows: Township Assessors are to ascertain, between April 1 and June 1 of each year, the number of dogs in each townshtpubver the age of six months, and for ack of proper diligence in this respect are to be subject to a fine of $5 for each dog omitted from the list. Persons failing to list their dogs for taxation are, upon conviction, subject to a fine of SIOO for each offense. The owners of a single male dog are to pay $1 a year,s2 for each additional dog and for each female dog $2. Any person owning or harboring a dog known to have propensities for killing or maiming sheep is made subject to a fine} of SSO, and the law authorizes any one to kill mad dogs oh sight For the mischievous or wanton injury, or the stealing of a dog, which has been duly Jisted for taxation, and which is not kqojyn to be a sheep-killing dog,the punistynqp.t is fixed at a fine not exceeding S2OO, with imprisonment for not more than thirty days. The money received from the dog tax is to be kept permanently in the county Treasury and to be know as the “dog fund.” From it all dam- - ages for the killing and maiming of sheep are to be paid, and the balance, if any, to he tuition fund.

A NEW SCHOOL LAW.

The Indiana legislature passed the bill amending section 34 of the act providing for a general system of common schools, and scetion 4,425 of the Revised Statutes of 1881. It reads as follows: “The county superintendent shall examine all applicants for license as teachers for the common schools of the State by a series of written or printed questions, requiring answers in writing, and in addition to the said questions and answers in writing, questions may be asked and answered orally, and if from the ratio of correct answers and other f vidences disclosed by the examination the applicant is found to possess a knowledge that is sufficient, in the estimation of the county superintendent, to enable said applicant successfully to teach in the common schools of the State, orthography, reading, writing, arithmetic, geography, English grammar, physiology and the history of the United States, and to govern such schools, said county superintendent shall license said applicant for the term of six months, twelve months, twenty-four months or thirty-six months, according to the ratio of correct answers, and other evidences of qualifications, given upon said examii ation, the standard of which shall be fixed by the couhty euperinten dent; and in examining persons for positions to teach in graded schools in cities and towns the county superintendent may take into consideration the special fitness of such applicant to perform the services required of them, and shall make, on the license issued to such applicant, a statement of the kind of work for which they are especially qualified; and all applicants before being licensed shall produce to the county superintendecdent the proper trustees’ certificate, or other satisfactory evidences of good moral character; provided, that a six months’ license shall be regarded as a trial license, and that no person who hereafter receives a six months’ license in any county shall be again thereafter licensed in said county unless he obtains a grade which shall entitle him to receive at least a twelve months’ provided that any poa<n now pocaeesinga twenty-four months’ license, whose next consecutive license shall be for the term of thir-ty-six months, or any person who shall hereafter receive two licenses in succession each for thirtysix months, may receive, at the expiration of such several licenses, a license for the term of eight years, upon such an examination held by the county superintendent as may be presented by the State Board of Education,and such license shall stand only upon the approval of the State Board of Education, and shall be styled a professional license, and shall entitle the holder to , teach in any of the schools of the State.*’ There is no emergency clause to the bill

Changed Her Order.

lew Orleans Pioajrune. A Northern lady paying her first visit to New Orleans, astonished the waiter at one of the high-priced restaurants, the other morning, by ordering a red snapper fish for her breakfast. When some one told her these fish weighed all the way from five to one hundred pounds and more, she rescinded the order and meekly called for shad. 1 * • Some years ago Patrick Gleason abanponed his wife and son in Indiana. The son, then eighteen, was a fortnight ago committed to the Jeffersonville jail for lar ceny. On his way to a workshop he passed through a line of convicts; one of them was his father. The recognition was murial ' .

THE NEWLY MADE LAWS.

• A Full List of the Bills that Passed Both Houses and Become Laws. The following is the complete list of bills that have passed both houses and become laws, either by the Governor’s sanction or is passed over his veto. SENATE BILLS. Graham’s bill to legalize the proceedings and records of the trustees of the town of Westfield, Ind., and declaring an emergency. Brown’s bill providing for the better government and management of the State benevolent institutions, passed over the Governor’s veto. Overstreet’s bill to punish persons who disclose messages overheard while passing over telephone lines. Foulke’s bill authorizing turnpike companies in the State to connect their roads with turnpike roads in other States. Bell’s bill supplemental to an act concerning the publication of the Revised Statutes of 1881, approved April, 1881. Hutchinson’s bill to make a contract with the city of Michican City for constructing a sewer from Indiana prison and emptying into the harbor. Overstreet’s bill relating to the qualifications of petit jurors in courts of this State, and declaring an emergency. Ristine's to amend section 5,097 of an act approved March 3,1881, entitled, “An act to amend section 7 of an act approved March 3,1877.” Graham’s bill to legalize the proceedings and records of the trustees of the town of Westfield, Ind., and declaring an emergency. Hutchinson’s bill concerning the official teims of directors of Northern State Prison.

Ristine’s bill amending section 31 and 34 of an act authorizing the formation of companies for the detection and apprehension of horse thieves, approved Dec. 21,1865. Smith’s bill amending section 28 of an act providing for a general system of common schoolg, approved March 6,1865. section 5,501 of the Revised Statutes. Voyle’s bill designating a name by which the House of Refuge for the correction and reformation of juvenile offenders shall hereafter be known, providing for-the appointment of commissioners and prescribing their power and duties and regulating the commitments thereto, and for the more efficient and uniform government of said institution; also authorizing the governor to commute the sentences of boys under twenty-one years and declaring emergency, passed over the governor’s veto. Johnson’s bill to amend the feebleminded children incorporation act, for the reorganization of said institution—the board to hold, two for four years and one for one year from April next; to have control also of the Soldier’s Orphans’ Home. ,■ Duncan’s bill to amend section 27 of the justices’act of June 9, 1882, being section 1,407 of the Revised Statutes of 1881, as applying to changes of venue before justices. McCulloch’s bill to legalize the acts of certain voluntary associations in Vanderburg county. Hilligass’s bill authorizing cities to permit municipal taxes to be paid in installments —the third Monday in November.

Bundy’s bill to legalize the incorporation of the town of Cadiz, in Henry county. Van Vorhis’s bill to amend section 1 of justice of peace act, being section 1,418 of the Revised Statutes of 1881. Magee’s bill to amend an act to divide the State into judicial circuits, repealing conflicting laws, and declaring an emergency. Keiser’s bill to define the Thirty-first and Forty-fourth judicial circuits—Lake and Porter the Thirty-first, and Pulaski and Starke the Forty-fourth judicial circuit Bell’s bill for an act to authorize and empower gas light and water works companies to extend their mains and supply gas or water beyond the corporate limits of cities and towns not to exceed five miles beyond the corporate limits. Bell’s bill to abolish the Allen County Criminal Court j Bischowsky’s bill to exempt from taxation money and choses in action held by execution for scientific, benevolent and charitable institutions. Voyle s bill for an act supplemental to an act fixing fees of certain officers, providing punishment for violation thereof, and repealing conflicting laws, approved March 31,1879. Macartney’s bill amending sections 218 227 and 228 of an act concerning taxation approved March 29, 1881, and declaring an emergency, being sections 6,487, 6,496 ; and 6,497 of the'Revised Statutes of 1881. [ Magee’s bill to amend section 2 of an act entitled “An act providing for the establishment of a State Bureau of Statistics and Geology,” approved March 29, 1879, and declaring an emergency. Foulk’s bill to authorize the trustees of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum to convey

I a strip of ground on the south side of said premises. | Ristine’s bill to create the Forty-fourth i judicial circuit, Co amend sections 22 and ■ of an act to divide the State into judicial circuits, approved March 6, 1873, repealing conflicting laws, and declaring an emergency. o Rahm’s bill providing for the location and erection of additional asylums for the insane, and providing for the management thereof. Marvin’s bill defining the Twentieth judicial circuit, creating forty-third circuit, and fixing the time of holding court therein, and appointment of judge and prosecuting attorney. Ernest’s bill defining the crime of false pretense, prescribing the punishment, and repealing all laws inconsistent with the subject White’s bill amending section 9 of an act relating to the laying out opening, widening, altering and vacation of streets alleys and highways.

Bell’s bill to amend sections 9, 38, 47 and 76 of an act to divide the State into judicial circuits. Magee’s bill concerning railroads crossing each other on a common grade. Fletcher’s bill authorizing municipal corporations te invest their sinking funds in government, state and county bonds temporarily. Youche’s bill for an act concerning the qualifications of students for entrance into the State University. Ristine’s bill to legalize the incorporation of the town of Waynetown, Montgomery county, Ind., and all the acts of said town’s trustees. Lockridge’s bill to amend section 9 of the act of June 7, 1852, being section 5,852 of the code of 1881. concerning the election of clerks of counties. Adkinson’s bill to amend the act approved March, 1881, being section 6,454 of the code of 1881, concerning taxation—the publication of the delinquent list Sayre s bill amending section 280 of an act concerning proceedings in civil cases, approved April 7,1881, and declaring an emergency. Henry’s bill to amend section 580 of the Revised Statuses of 1881, concerning proceedings in civil cases, approved April 7, 1881. Compton’s bill to amend section 16 of the act of March, 1869, regulating coal mines, being sections 4,472 and 5,480 of the code of 1881. Compton’s bill supplemental to an act to incorporate the Ohio Insurance Company, the title and name being changed to the Commercial Bank by decree of Court, Nov. 21,1882. Wil,'ard’s bill authorizing railroad companies to guarantee the bonds of any other railroad company organized under laws of another State. HOUSE BILLS Jewett’s bill to appropriate $125,000 for the expenses of the General Assembly. Path i’s bill providing tor the creation of the J orty-third judicial circuit (the circuit of Vigo) and providing for the appointu ent of a judge for said circuit. The udiciary committee’s bill to appropriate $40,000 for the relief of the sufferers from the recent floods of the Ohio River, and to appropaiate from the general fund of the State not otherwise appropriated, and making the Governor, Lieutenant-governor, Secretary of State and Auditor a board jf commissioners to dispense the sum appropriated for said purpose.

Deem’s bill concerning town elections and repealing all laws in conflict therewith, and declaring an emergency. Shockney’s bill to equalize the assessment of taxes made by the board of trustees of the incorporated town of Winchester, in the county of Randolph. Jewett’s bill for making an appropriation for the completion of the construction and fumisning of the department for women of the Indiana Hospital for the insane, and for the construction of a warehouse and two coal houses for said institution, and declaring an emergency Wilson’s of Marion, bill to construct a sewer from the Female Reformatory to connect with a sewer in the city of Indianapolis. Wilson’s, of Kosciusko, bill to legalize the incorporation of the town of Syracuse, in Kosciusko county, and to legalize the acts of the board of trustees in said town. Wilson’s, of Kosciusko, bill to legalize the incorporation of the town of Silver Lake, Kosciusko county, Ind. Shaffer's bill for the relief of Thomas Heagy, ■ex-treasurer erf Madison county, and the sureties on his bond. Jewett’s bill tc appropriate S6OOOO in addition to $40,000 appropriated last week to the sufferers by the floods on the Ohio, Wabash and White rivers. Harris’s bill to provide for the payment of certain claims for labor performed in ditching by persons living in Tipton county. > Henderson’s bill to enable the several counties in the State to sell and dispose of land for the benefit of the school fund. Gibson’s bill to amend sections 255,256 and 257 of an act regulating taxation. Akin’s bill to amend section 4,the same

being section 4,556 of the Revised Statutes of 1881, requiring the State Superintendent of Public Instruction in his next 1 apportionment of the school fund to set apart SIO,OOO, and semi-annually deduct the same amount, and aet it apart, to be known as a normal school fund. Stephenson’s bill fixing the time of holding court in the Second Judicial Circuit Shiveley’s bill concerning liens of merchants, laboring men and others. Westfall’s bill foi the relief of Allea Lepten and his surrettee, John J. Ppters, Henry Edwards and Levy Holliday. Schloss’ bill to amend section 8 of an act concerning .taxation, approved April 29,1881, being section 6,276 of the Revised Statutes of 1881. Helms’ bill in relation to township trustees and legalizing certain acts performed by them. Robertson’s bill for an act to fix the time of holding court in the Forty-third Judicial Circuit Best’s bill to amend section 2 of an act entitled “an act regulator g the descent of heirs,” approved March 2,1855. Ferriter’s bill concerning legal advertising. Tuley’s bill to amend sections 7,21 and 41 of an act to provide for a general system of common schools. McCormick’s bill in relation to amending sections 1 and 2of an act to incorporate the trustees of the Hortsville Academy. Adam’s bill to authorize boards of county commissioners to straighten and change the course of channels of stream* of water upon petitions of persons living adjacent to such water course. Mutz’s bill to amend sections 17, 25, 26 and 32 of an act regulating descents and apportionment of estates. Sutton’s bill concerning the duties of county, township and State officers. Thompson’s bill to authorize the Auditor of State to issue patents in certain cases Smith’s, of Perry, bill providing for the removal of mill, dams and other obstructions from water courses to prevent the overflow of lands. Mock’s bill providing for the taxation of dogs. Huston’s bill to legalize the sale of certain real estate in Connersville. Mering’s bill to abolish the Maple Lawn cemetery at Richmond. Graham’s bill to provide for the permanent endowment of the State University. Robinson’s bill to regulate the incorporation of the town of Carbon, Clay Co. Holler’s bill to empower manufacturing companies to take and hold stock in in] corporations furnishing water power. Tuley’s bill supplementary to an act relating to disposals of estates of persons who have absented themselves from their usual place of residence and gone to parts unknown. Mellett’s bill to legalize the incorporation of the Daleville and Bell Creek turnpike Company in the county of Delaware. Fen iter’s metropolitan police bill The general appropriation bill waspassed Monday [Several other bills of which the record has not been made up will be added to to this list.]

The receiver appointed to take charge of the Marion Trust Company, located in Indianapolis, reports that the concern has been in existence about one year,during which time nearly $200,000 has been taken in and $50,000 paid out The victims to the swindle number about five thousand, as the average amount received from each is about S4O. The investigation thus far phows the assets to consist of some office furniture and a cord or more of circulars. The liabilities can not be ascertained at present but it is not likely the concern will pay anything.' Mr. Collier, the manager, has been absent in Chicago since the receiver was appointed where he is interested in a similar institution, known as the Union Benefit Association. The Indiana concern has been doing busmess in Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Missouri and Alabama. ~t ■■ An attempt was made to bum South Hall, one of the Wabash College buildings, at Crawfordsville, about midnight Monday night. The flames were discovered and put out before damage to exceed SIOO had been done. The fire was the work of an incendiary, as the stairs were found saturated with coal oil. The college herbarium, the most extensive in the West, is in this building, and its losa could not have been replaced. No arrests have been made, although refractory students are suspected. Ellen Conway, a woman of fifty-five years, who sold newspapers on Broadway, New York, was found dead in bed Sunday. Her rooms had a miserable appearance, but when searched over $5,000 was found in them. Edmund Fougers, a Brooklyn young man of nineteen, enjoying the princely income of $4 per week, was secretly mar - tied March 6, to the pretty daughter of a poor neighbor, and has been promptly discarded by his father who has ducats 'galore.