Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1883 — They're all heading for Bensseiner [ARTICLE]

They're all heading for Bensseiner

This playing ball in the streets, is an unmitigated nuisance, and ought to be sat down upon by the Town Council. Turn the rascals out.—New York Sun. That’s just what we did do in 1860, and they kicked up such a bobbery about it that we had to kill a lot of them to keep them quiet; and we won’t be fools enough to let them get in again, and don’t you forget it. A long sucsession of great disasters, in this year of calamities, culmininates in the earthquake of last Saturday, which destroyed three towns in the Island of Ischia, in the Mediterranean, near Naples. The latest estimates place the number of lives lost at 5,000. We have received a copy of the Premium List of the Sixth Annual Fair of the Newton County Agricultural Society. It is a neat looking pamphlet and was printed by our esteemed friends of the lientland Gazette. The Fair in question will be held at Morocco, from September 4 to 7, inclusive. The people of Cairo, in Egypt, are dying.off by the cholera at a rapid rate. A citizen, of a mathematical turn of mind, informs us that if the people of Rensselaer were dying as fast, in proportion to population, one person would turn his toes to the daises every twenty-four hours, with an extra one on Sundays occasionly, thrown in for good count. One funeral a day for a few weeks would’nt be such a very bad plague in Rensselaer—provided the subjects for them were selected with sufficient discrimination.

Mr. C. A. Arthur, the “soap” bought, “hullet-made” President, will pass over the road at this place, Thursday. “Democratic Sentinel.” For pure maliciousness, bad taste, and utter disregard for the feelings of all decent people, irrespective of their politics, the above quoted lines surpass anything we ever remember to have read. We commend them especially to the attention of those two or three loading republicans of Rensselaer, v. ho, by their patronage, do so much to support the Sentinel, and : -ceive for reward the insulting terms of “bosses” and “ringmasters,” applied every few weeks. Gen. Rcub Williams, of the Warsaw Indianiau-Republican give expression 10 his yiews.on the pension question in the following forcible language: “Do readers of a newspaper think of the fact that it costs the publisher of a journal something to speak out, on any subject? Only the ether day an individual in this county stopped his paper because of our article on pensions. We still insist that it is high time for the patriotic soldiers of 1861-2, to speak out against the’ infamous raid that has been made and is still talked of being made upon the treasury of the they periled their lives to save, and see that the government is not wronged in its attempts to be liberal to its true soldiers. Let it not be said that those who saved the country from destruction by an armed foe, afterwards ruined it themselves in an unwarranted raid on its treasury. No good soldier will lend his aid to an object so—we say—dishonest. The fact that this or that man has secured a a pension to which he is not entitled, is no excuse. We firmly believe that fully one-fourth the names now on pension rolls, are there wrongfully, and while we think that the government cannot pay its really wounded and disaoled soldiers too much, yet we feel sure that millions of dollars are being paid out on pensions that would not .■laud the test of an examination.” Rensselaer Lodge, No. 100, A. O. U. W.» is in a very prosperous condition and increasing in num-' bars and importance rapidly. Their nalJ, in Leopold’s stone buildipg, is now fitted up for their accommodation in an attractive manner.

Rensselaer is just now an intersecting point for more projected railroads than any other point on the continent, that we know of. The Rochester, Rensselaer & St. Louis, we hear more about than of any other, and has, seemingly, by far the best prospects of being built Then, there is the Continental, which many have thought to be utterly dead, but which still, at times, shows evidence of some vitality ’ Then there is the line from Northwest Ohio, through Warsaw to Gilman, the name of which we do not now recal and the Fort Wayne, Peoria and Galesburg Railway company which proposes to construct a road from Fort Wayne to Peoria, 111. “The Peoples’ Railway Company of America,” has already been largely noticed in the Republican. Since the advent of that stupendous scheme, two others, of almost equal magnitude, have been incorporated in Indianapolis, the particulars of which will be found in the two following extracts. The first from the Indianapolis Times, the other from the Chicago Inter-Ocean:

“The American Midland Railway Company has been incorporated under the Indiana law. The capital stock is 810,000,000, to be increased to any amount less than $100,000,000 when the lines of the road are built into other States. The length of road proposed in Indiana is 210 miles, radiating from Ft Wayne and passing through Allen, Whitley, Kosciusko, Fulton, Pulaski, Jasper, Newton and Lake counties. The preposed routes are from Ft. Wayne to Leiprie, Ohio, Ft. Wayne to Sheldon, 111., and from Rensselaer to Chicago. The directors are: Irwing Ward, James Cox, William H. Hams, Charles H. Ledlic and Libby B. Morrison. The stockholders are New York parties, with the exception of. Edward T. Cox, of this city.”—lndianapolis Times. A BIG SCHEME. ’CHICAGO AND INDIANA COAL COMPANY.

Chicago Inter-Ocean:—Cincinnati, July 24. “Railway interests are alive with the announcement relative to another big scheme which eminates from Indianapolis. Another trans-Indiana coal road has been formed there, to be called the Chicago and Indiana Coal Company, with a capital stock of sl2500,000. The line will run parallel with the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago, and Chicago and Great Southern, with the terminal points at Chicago north, and Troy, on the Ohio River, south, 280 miles, with 160 miles of branch road. The company also proposes to construct and operate steam colliers, steam tugs and barges for the transportation of coal on all navigable rivers in the United States. The directors are William P. Drake, Chauncy Hibbard, A. Jameson, Morgan Morgan, Jr., W. S. Pierce, and James F. Casey, of Now York, and Mathew P. Wood, of Terre Haute, Ind. It is understood that the company takes out a chartered right ,to construct 500 miles of road, as follows: From Chicago to Hartsville, in Lake County, sixty miles; thence through Lake, Porter, Newton, Jasper, Benton, Warren, Fountain, Parke, Clay, Owen, Green, Martin, Daviess, Dubois, Perry, and Spencer Counties to Troy, on the Ohio River, a distance of 280 miles; also, 160 miles of branch road, including line from Clay County, through Owen, Monroe, Brown, Bartholomew, and Decatur to Greensburg; also, a branch off the main line in Spencer County, following the course of the river to Rockport. The company also proposes to construct and operate steam colliers, steam tugs and barges for the transportation of coal on all the navigable nvers in the United States. The articles of incorporation indicate that 5,300 shares of stock, having a face value of SIOO each, have been taken. It remains to be seen whether the new company will do an actual or paper business. So many stupendous railroad schemes have originated in Indiana that it is regarded as the breeder of Utopian trunk lines, which are born, live, and die in the small space of the articles of incorporation.