Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1868 — Indiana News. [ARTICLE]

Indiana News.

—The Grand Chapter of Royal -VI'CK Masons of Indiana elected ahd installed the following officers at their , quintal meeting at Fort Wayne on Wvsih • ••£“ » - * Grand High Priest, 11. G. Hazelnmtuaf Lebanon} Deputy Grand High Priest, R. J. G. Wood, of South Bond; Grand King, Hugh Hanna, of Wabash ; Grand Scribe, Alexander Thomas, of Terra Haute; Grand Treasurer, Charles Fisher, of Indianapolis; Grand Secretary, W. Brainally, ofTndihnapolia. —Two parties of flatboatmen started from Indianapolis last Friday, * one for Cairo, Illinois, and tho other for San Antonio, Texas, to hold cattle. They go via "White rivtf, the Wabash and Ohio. Those bound for Texas wW ho three mouths on the waters. —Snow fell at Indianapolis on the evening of the 21st. —Hon. Schuyler Colfax, Governor Baker, lion. Will. Cumback, Gen. Nathan Kimball, and other prominent speakers are vigorously stumping the State. —Scarlet fever at New Albany. —The young ladies of Plymouth arc organizing a base ball elub: Apples are selling for from fifty, -to-eixi y cciiU h~bußhfel atA^iiiicmiiica—Wheat in the •A)' abash Valley looks well. * - —The Bank of Salem, at Salem, has been wound up. It burned the last of its circulation at tho office of the Auditor of State day before yesterday. —A German named August Britztree fell out of a wagon last Sunday, at LaPorte, and broke his neck. —Potatoes sell at 40 and 50 cents a bushel at Michigan City. They are brought into the city at the rate of 2,500 bushels daily, . —General Packard’s majority over Judge Farrand is 1,330, The majorities stand as follows: Packard. Farrand. Fu1t0n.....;,. 180 Jasper 341 - Lake 540 LaPorte 11 Marsha11. Newt0n........ 173 Porter 483 . Pulaski - 270 Starko 62 St. Joseph .. .. . 675 White........ 25 . rT0ta1...... 2233 904 Packard’s majority 1,239. —The majorities for Common Pleas-J-ndgc of the 16th District, as <ar as we have been able to ascertain, are as follows: Gillett. Ryan. Lake - 1184 Porter 606 Starke 200 Pulaski 479 Jasper 1160 Newton.. — - } —' 1790 Gillett’s majority,, , . 241