Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1885 — Journal of the Indiana Legislature. [ARTICLE]

Journal of the Indiana Legislature.

Gen. Grant’s conditfbn,which was nearly desperate during the earlier part of the present: week, assumed a rather more hopeful turn, Tuesday afternoon, and there is now somp grounds for hoping that the old hero’s lease of life is not to be terminated just yet. Ho endures the dreadful pain of his disease, and the prospect of impending death, with the heroic fortitude which has ever been an inherent part of his nature.

’ Chicago News. Monday—Nothing. Tuesday - -Supra. W ednesday—lbid. Thursday—Ditto. Friday—Adjourned. f Total,” $15,000. We have received from the publishers of the Police Gazette a proposition to advertise that publication, and receive the same in payment for the advertising. But we have no use for the Police Gazette, and decline to advertise it upon any terms. We look upon it as a mos t pernicious and demoralizing sheet, and believe that its sale ought to be suppressed by law. — I— —II It is now discovered tha t at one time Mr. Edward-J. Phelps, appointed minister to England, spoke in the bitterest terms of Mr. Lincoln, and denounced the “Abolition War.” Mr. McLane, minister to France, wanted to shoot down the Massachusetts volunteers on their way to the national, capital. It should be remembered that both of these men are old Democrats, and it would be hard to find a Democrat of age in. 1861 who had not denounced Abraham Lined n, and who did not vfant to shoot Union sokliers.-India'napolis Journal.