Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1888 — CELEBRATING IN STYLE. [ARTICLE]

CELEBRATING IN STYLE.

It is given out that a relic of the revolution has been found in Washington. It is the original pass of Maj. Andre, given by the traitor Arnold signed by Gen. Gage, when Arnold had determined to surrender West Point to the English. The possessor in a direct descendant of Paulding, one df the three soldiers who caught the spy Andre. _One matter in connection with this affair may be here mentioned. The three original northwest counties of Ohio, Williams, Paulding and Van Wert, were named for the three soldiers who captured Andre. Subsequently the county of Defiance was cut out of Williams and Paulding, and named after the celebrated fort at the junction of Maumee and St, Joseph rivers. ___________ It is rumored that therchiefs of the En gineers' brotherhood have issued orders secretly to the chairman of the different committees throughout the country for reports of all possible contributions in sight. The move, it is claimed, is in furtherance of a plan recently adopted and which will be put into operation at once. The object is not known and the engineers refuse to say anything, disdaining any knowledge of such a move. The rumors arc to the effect that the battle against the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy will be renewed with increased energy, and it is currently reported that the officials hai e declared their determina tion to make the strike general all over the country unless thier demands arc acceded to at once. As to the truth of these reports it i 6 hard to determine,but among railroad circles they are generally believed, / Since the organization of Indiana as a State there have been seventeen differ ent Governors. The first was Jonathan Jennings, who served from 1816 to 1822. Oliver P. Morton succeeded to the office on the resignation of Henry S. Lane, and succeeded himself by the largest plurality any Governor ever received except William Hendricks in 1822 who had no opposition. Morton’s plurality was 20,883. Those elected for two terms were Jonathan Jennings, Noah Noble, James Whitcomb and Joseph A. Wright. The Democrats have held the office for, thirteen terms and the Whigs and Republicans for eight terms. The smallest pluralities received were *1,277 by Jennings in 1816; 961 by Conrad Baker is 1868, and 1,148 by Thomas A. Hendricks in 1872. Albert G. Porter had a plurality of 6,953 in 1880, and Isaac P. Gray of 7.392 in 1884. It is announced with positiveness that the Republicans are about to transfer the tariff fight from the House to the Senate. An order from Republican headquarters is said to have been promulgated to the effect that the Republicans in the House must suspend dilatory tactics and allow a vote to be taken on the Mills bill that it may be considered in the Senate with as little delay as possible. The Republican members of the Senate committee of finance and Republican Senators generally, it can be stated on good authority, have decided to frame a substitute for the hill, which will simply repeal the entire internal revenue tax on tobacco in all its forms, which will be $12,000,000 more reduction on that head than the Mills bill makes; repeal the in--Jfimal revenue tax on alcohol- used in the arts and manufactures and reduce the tax on sugar 40 or 50 per cent.

William H. Beckwith, a respected and elderly citizen of New York City, found himself a prisoner in the Police Court charged with an attempt to blow up the town. Though an insurance agent, and apparently tied up by the holiest commercial bonds to respect the welfare of other people’s property, Mr. Beckwith had gone forth and invented one of the most diabolical fire-crackers that ever mortal man conceived. The. fire-cracker consisted of a pound of gun cotton, 21 pounds of dynamite, seven pounds of nitro-glycerine, ninety rockets, fifty roman candles and twenty-dollars’ worth of miscellaneous squibs,Catherine wheels and red fire. A little after midnight Mr. Beckwith placed his fire-cracker in the middle of the street and let her go. The people for seven blocks thought it was an earthquake. East Thirtieth street looked like the fall of Rome. There wasn’t a whole pane of glass for three blocks. The police swooped down from all sides, thinking it was an anarchist outbreak. Mr. Beckwith went to bed, never saying a word. Thursday morning he started out with a note book and a roll of bills to pay all damages. That was how the police discovered him. They had him before Judge Gorman,and Mr. Beckwith made a speech. The Judge lectured him soundly, and said that a man that would do such a should get twenty years. And the Judge held him in bonds of ,350- to—answer. Later on a reporter saw the Judge and Mr. Beckwith and two or three other old boys in an up-town case, where there was wine on the table. , ' — When a young lady gets married her father or some relative generally gives her away, but when the courtship is in progress the younger brdffier hreqiientTy manages to do it