Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1885 — RENSSELAER MARKETS. [ARTICLE]

RENSSELAER MARKETS.

CORRECTED EVERY WEI'XEsII AY AFTERNOON. Wheat ..§.75 (g ,8 5 Corn.... .40 Oats ... .30 (p 32 Rye .55 Timothy Seed. • 100 Clover Seed 4.50 Hay, Timothy 5.00 @ 6.00 Hav, Wild.. . .4...... .3.00 (p 4.00 Butter .18 Eggs; JO Potatoes ;40 Apples .10 Salt, per barrel......' 135 Bacon, per , 12| Lard, per lb '

Another Indiana man has got an office—Bayless W. Hanna having been appointed minister to Persia. This makes the account stand as follows: Indiauians who want oftice 1)8,250 Indianianv who have got ofliee. t> Still available 98,2« Valparaiso Vidette. The following from the New York Evening Post shows tlia% even the Mugwump papers are be-

coming deeply disgusted over the character of some of Cleveland's sweet-scented appointments: Nobody ever expected that the new Administration would ma’:o no mistakes. Some mistakes were inevitable. The Higgins appointment was the first, but it Was in some degree excused by the fact that the entire Maryland delegation, Representatives and Senators, approved of it after it was done. At all events, there has been until now a strong di.position among the friends of the Administration to assume that it was an insoluted case, and had no real significance as regards the general policy of the Administration. Some of the more recent appointments by the Treasury Department have been such, however, as to do a great deal toward weakening this friendly assumption. The. selection of three such Internal Revenue Collectors; all in one week, as Pillsbury, Chase and Troup, and the appointment of Secretary Manning’ s ,brot bcr-in-law to be. Superintendent of Repairs, are likely to be very unfortunate in their effects oh the pub lie mind. Worsf: selections than Pillsbury and Cliasivcduld hardly be made v, i;limit going among the technically e.rimimd class.: .Tllgyare Iqijilqjied tuql worthless politicians of tlie very type over which, in the Republican party, Mr. Cleveland’s selection was supposed to be agreat victory.