Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1868 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

. —The WqanMd Republican claim* to have a larger circulation titan any paper ever ill Pulaaki County'. -ttA eall ha* heon made for a convention of editor* and publishers at Indianapolis on the 4th qf next January. —e-Gov. Baker ha* issued a writ for a special election in Carroll county on the 22d elect a Representative to the State Assembly. Tlte election in October resulted in a tie. —Maj. Joel H. Elliott, formerly of the 7th Indiana Cavalry, more recently of the 7th Regulars, was one of the killed in the recent battle between the forces under Gen. Custar’s command and the Indians. He W»» a resident of Wqyne county. -rr-Tho Young Men’s Mercantile library Association of Indianapolis have engaged Mark Twain to lecture in that city on the 4th of January'. Mrs, Elizabeth Cady Stanton is to follow him with “Woman's Rights,” and she will bo followed by Theodore Tilton and Petroleum V. Nasby. —Somebody at New Albany the other night, saw something whrtf and chased it—run it across the street two or three times and finally ‘■cornered ’ it on a neighbor's porch, When tho “something” “vanished into thin air ” a few days a little girl living in the house where the “something” disappeared, waa taken sick and died. The editor of the New Albany Commercial thinks it may have been “a Utile whjte impel strayed from the upper and beautiful world, and came in the. form of > little white rabbit to seek out some pnre little white soul in this troublous world of ours that it might be transplanted up above in the beautiful garden of heaven, where thpre is no temptation, or sickness, or death.” Perhaps so, but suppose the “rabbit” hadn't been Hlittljr and “white,” what kind of a soul would it have been hunting ? It may be the rabbit wasn’t in the soul business at ail—only hunting cabbage.