Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1890 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The part that boodling plays In municipal and legislative affairs would astound the country if it could be koowu just how much of the publie indebtedness is due to corrupt influences. ■ Kate Fifld is in favor of the establishment of a school of deportment for public men. Kate should not form hasty estimates of publie men td general from the spociminea she sees sometimesin congress. The wives of the shah of Persia are never Allowed to do any “shopping, ” and they are not even permitted to ride through the bazars except when the shops are closed. Yet, strange as it may seem to American women, the shah has quite a number of wives. '.J— It is really excruciating to hear the every-day office hunter protest that he “is not a candidate for that or any other office in the sense of entering into a scramble for place; but—”etc.: when everybody knows that he would move heavens aud earth to secure the nomination.

ODE navy is not very young-, but it seem 6 to have struck a streak of growth that is opening the eyes of our foreign relatives. Of course this iS’Somewhat encouraging to national pride, though just what use we have for a navy in these times of international arbitration it is hard to tell. [ ■ ■■ If one half the energy that is displayed in the selfish pursuit of amusement were devoted to the improvement of society and in providing for the rainy days of this life there would be a noticeable increase of real enjoyment of life and the world would be vastly improved for all. The average man overburdened with dignity can fall harder by stepping on a banana peel or a slippery walk than any other individval excepting a highly respected bank cashier who “borrows” a few dollars of the bank's funds to take a gambling deal in the grain market,

The best newspaper is that one which gives its readers the most information and the most enjoyment. The advertising columns are by no means the least important feature to be considered. A prosperous community advertises its advantages by its liberal support of its representative papers. To estimate lightly what it costs New Yorkers, and those in the vicinity of the city, to support seven tracks, one might put the expenses at about $8,000,000 a year. It costs about a quarter of a million to keep the tracks in order, and about one million dollars are spent in car fare to get to and from the tracks. The Marquise de Galliffet, one of the most beautiful women in Paris, is suffering from a strange formof insanity. She goes into convulsions whenever she sees her face in a mirror. Usually women are affected the other way, and in twelve cases out of a dozen would be hysterically mad if there were not a mirror in the house. TfiE timewas, aud not sb very long ago, when the prosperity of the country was governed by the affairs of the Atlantic states. The time came when cotton was king, and then corn was said to be the ruling monarch. Timo has changed all this, and no onß section, industry nor product rules the material welfare of the nation.

Positive people are not always pheasant people to come in contact with. There is a commodity called courtesy that costs nobody a penny, but it is an excellent and profitable thing to mix with the every-day affairs of life. It has been the financial and social making of thousands of men, and the lack of it has caused untold poverty and misery.

Some great improvements in transporting lumber from the forests to New York and Boston, and other Atlantio seaboards will soon be made. The builder of the Jog-gins raft made so much money out of the second attempt to float the lumber down by sea, that two oompanies have been formed for the purpose of transporting all of the lumber needed In this way. The subject of irrigation has for many years received a great deal of attention among congressmen, but mainly that of irrigating the alimentary canaL The hope is general in the west that there will be a fair amount Of lime devoted in future to the consideration* of measures for flooding good, generous sized irrigating ditches in the boundless prairie regions.

Of course there’s money in printers’ ink, but the man who makes the most IhfelKgehi use of it gets the most money out or it It does not pay to advertise something- you have riot got, or anything you cau not do and do well The man who advertises a fraud must have a ‘•good” fraud, and he who advertises bargains in .goods must be prepared to satisfy his customers. Any advertiser should undertake to present soma sort of a claim for patronage.

Two hundre d new cases; of la grippe are reported at Columbus. ' A. C. Mills, of North Manchester, wants to be Bank Examiner for Indiana. A chapter of the order of Eastern Star has been organized at Crawfordsville. Deaths superinduced by la grippe are reported from many parts of the State. ' Daniel Bowman, a farmer of Jefferson county, was found dead in his corn field. Two lions are terroizing farmers in Hun cock county, 111. They! escaped from a circus last summer. Fifty per cent, of the enrolled scholars are aosent from the Tipton schools because of la grippe, and one room is entirely, depleted. —The ery-is already - raised irr southern Indiana that the peach crop will be a failure next season, as the greater portion of the buds are already killed. “Old Ben,” the family horse of P. H. | Hardy, of Hardy P. 0., Scott county, died, Tuesday, at the age of thirty-one years. He was probably the oldest horse in the State. 4 James Thompson, of Edinburgh, a young man addicted to cigarette smoking, and who pursued the habit until his throat became ulcerated by the poison inhaled, died on Saturday. Whitley county has a farmer in hard luck. He sent a shipment of butter to Fort Wayne, but was only offered 7 cents a pound for it. He took it home in anger and threw it to his hogs. It proved fatal to two of them.

: Migratory rats are overrunning Owen township, Clarke county, aud one man alone, Alfred Parrenten, killed 175 in two days in a cornfield. The vermin one month ago overrun Monroe township, and have since been heard from at different points. Governor Hovey Wednesday reappointed Murray Briggs, of Sullivan, to membership'in the Board of Trustees of the State Normal School, Mr. Briggs is a Democrat, and was appointed because the Governor is determined t o keep the Boa rd non-partisan. As now composed it is half Democratic and half Republican. 'Walker Hammond, a noted convict in the Prison North, is lying at death's door with disease, and his recovery is not- antiei pated. A great part of his life has been spent in prison, and he is under sentence for thirteen years, having been convicted of larceny in 1887, in the Boone Circuit Court. He was a companion of Heiiry Underwood, who was convicted about the same time. In former years he is supposed to have belonged to the Reno gang, and to have engaged In counterfeiting, horse stealing and other grave offenses He has no relatives save a sister in the southern part of the state. One Bittner, a fanner residing in Harrison county, near the Washington countyline, was charged by his neighbors with having, a few nights ago, nailed the toes of two of his children “to the floor as a pun ishmentfor some childish misdemeanor The affair became noised about in the vicinity of his residence, and Monday night after a baud of White Caps called at his house, and dragging him out, gave him a thrashing. After the punishment was concluded, the leader of the band warned Bittner that unless his future conduct was of the most exemplary character he migh expect another visit that would be even more serious. IL ~ '

REPUBLICAN COMMITTEEMEN. Republican conventions were held in every district in the state Thursday, and the following State Committeemen were elected: First District—H. A. Mattison, Vender burg. Second—T. H. Adams. Knox. Third -S. E. Carter, Jackson. Fourth—Marcus R. Sulz3r, Jefferson, Fifth—Charles F. Hammond, Putnam. Sixth—John W. Macy. Randolph. —Seventh—W. T. Durbin; Madison. Eigth—W. T. Brush, Montgomery. Ninth—C. C. Shirley, Howard. Tenth—E. D. Crumpacker, Porter. Eleventh—William Hazon, Wabash. Twelfth—William Bunyan, Noble. Thirteenth—H. D. Watson, Elkhart. The first district passed resolutions endorsing Harrison and Hovey and thanking Frank B. Posey. The second endorsed Harrison and Hovey, and adopted the follow ing resolution: That much is due to Mr. Gladstone for his faithful illustration of the principles of free trade in his recent essay, wherein he

declares it to be the purpose of its advocates to reduce the wages of laboring men in America, so that they will be driven into agricultural pursuits, to the end that Eng land might have more cereals at lower prices; aud that the thanks of the country are due to Mr. Blaine for his able reply, setting forth the principles of the Republi can party to be higher wages for labor and more consumers for higher priced farm products. The third district endorsed Harrison and Hovey. The fourth did likewise The fifth endorsed Harrison and Hovey, and the Republican members of the last Legislature and “denounced the present Democratic gerrymander of the State.” The Sixth district endorsed Harrison, Hovey, Tom Browne aud their committeeman. Tne Seventh congratulated the people on the return to power of the Republican party, and endorsed Harrison and Hovey. The Eighth pledged continued support to the party, endorsed Harrison, condemned Cleveland’s recent ; interview as an insult to “the best brains, intelligence and honesty of the country.” The Ninth endorsed Harrison. The Tenth endorsed Harrison, Owen aud the service pension bill. The Eleventh the administration in all things, and including ts course with the new Republic of Brazil. The Twelfth and Thirteenth endorsed tbe administration. -

* STATE WOOL GROWERS. The State Association of Wool Growers {bold their annual meeting at Indianapolis, ! Wednesday. Many interesting papers ' were resented. Nearly all the members preso 4 were in favor of a high tariff on wool. Joshua Strange, of Arcana, read a statistical paper to prove that, though the wool market has been greatly depressed .during the last decade, tberfe have been ; important improvement* in the woel bearing capabilities of American sheep. Genorally. Mr. oStrauge ■ said, when the de

| mand for any article is lax it is allowed to j deteriorate through neglect, but sheep ! of.er a direct contrast to the rule. The truth of his statement was supported by | figures, which showed that the 43,506,060 sheep in the United States in pro - duced 13,000,000 pounds more , wool than ;di d the 45,000,000 sheep in the country in ! ISS2. "Silos and Ensilage” was the sub ject of a paper by L. B. Skinner, of Den JtfiXylnd. He._,^aaid.-.practieal-es^err !f----ence has demonstrated that ensilage is a valuable and eeonom ical food. It is estimated that the waste of nutritive substanee in feeding loose, dry fodder is 44 per cent., while the same corn cut up and put in a silo can be fed with a loss of but 17 per cent. In Wisconsin there are already 2,000 silos in use, and hundreds more are being built annually. The corn, stalk and all, is cut up into small fragments and packed in airtight compartments. It remains fresh and juicy and can be taken out and used as wanted A convention of Indiana men j\vho own silos oi intend to construct them, on to be held in Indianapolis. . ■■' ■ A resolution was adopted to the effect that the West is the proper place to hold the World’s Fair, but an amendment nam - ing Chicago as the preferred location was rejected. Another resolution was that wool and mutton together can be profitablyraised upon land of the highest productive—ty and price. A third was that the Legislature should double the annual appropriation of $5,000 for the expense of the farmers' institutes; a fourth that a committee of the association should be appointed tohraft a bill to be r presented to the next Legislature for the better protection of aSgep tfom the ravages r dogs; a fifth that the high tariff paper read Tuesday by Calvin Cowgill, of Wabash, be printed and copies sent to numbers of the association, to Indiana members o? Congress and to Chairman of the Congressional Ways and Means Committee; a sixth calling on Congress for better protection against the sheep barons of Australia and South America. The new officers were elected. They are: I.'N. Cotton, of Traders’ Point, President; Cowgill, Wabash, Vice President; J. W. Babe, Greeneastle, Secretary; John L. Thompson, Arcana. Treasurer; S. W. Dungan, Fraklin; Robert Mitchell, Princeton; Fielding Beeler, Indianapolis, executive committee.

TARIFF KEFORM LEAGUE. The annual meeting of the Indiana Tariff Reform League, at Indianapolis, Tuesday, was not largely attended, there being probably forty representatives present, The officers of the league were present. M, W. Lee, the organizer, stated that about seventy counties had been fairly well organised, and it was expected to have every county thorougaly organized' by the time the league is a year old. Not a great deal has been done in the way of township organization, but that work, he said, would be pushed. The plan is to cstablish a branch league in eadttmvnship in the State, which shall be to the county organization what the latter is to the State organization. Mr. Ball, of Terre Haute, said that “It is the farmers who are most interested in this subject. I am in favor of accepting the designation put upon us by the enemy, namely, ‘free traders.’ ” A general discuss on of the needs of the league was engaged in, and verbal reports were received from various parts of the State. President Brown then laid before the meeting a plan he had formulated for raising money with which to carry on the work. He said it was absolutely necessary for the league to have money. His plan was to assess each county so much, say SIOO or S2OO, and then leave the local leagues raise the money by popular contributions. The money, he said, was needed to provide literature for circulation. He suggested that if everybody in the State in favor of tariff reform would give ten cents the league would have all the money it could use. A fuller discussion of the financial situation was had at a meeting with closed doors. A proposition to hold a State convention of tariff reformers March 4 was favorably considered!.

SHORTHORN BREEDERS. The Indiana Shorthorn Breeders’ Association met at Indianapolis, Wednesday and Thursday. Lewis Moore read a paper relative to securing the best and safest results as to grades. In conclusion Mr. Moore referred to the fact that Indiana cattle are brought into competition in the Chicago market with Texas and Western cattle that have been raised, on cheap laud, where grass is green the year round and where there is no need of expensive barns. He declares that the farmer must rid him self of the “scrub bull,” which is causing all the trouble, for there are plenty of buyers looking for good cattle, and by breeding prime animals the competition will not be, as at present, ruiuous, lor tub first class stock will command a satisfactory figure, no matter how heavy the shipments from Texas and the West. Many other subjects of interest to this industry were considered. CHESTER WHITE BREEDERS. The National Society met at Indianapolis Wednesday and Thursday, with representives from six States. The matters discussed were of interest to breeders of this breod of swine particularly. SURVEYORS. The annual meeting of the Surveyors’ Association was held at Indianapolis Wednesday . Topics of interest to the members were discussed. - - • ■ -

The Maine Democratic State Committee, at a recent meeting, discussed the repeal of prohibition, and as a result circulars have oeen sent to well-known Democrats all over the Statte. This document asks for answers to throe question?: Do the people of your town favor reform of the ballot law? Waat is the sentimeut regarding a prohibition law! Do you thiuk .your people would favor a high license and local option law! On th« answers will depend the future action of the committee, a plan favor ing a repeal of the prohibitory luw in Maine will probably be put into the party nevt Spring .' :J ~- £ When money talks everybody sto • to listen. — ——-