Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1869 — From General R. H. Milroy of Delphi [ARTICLE]

From General R. H. Milroy of Delphi

General Mii.koy, of .Delphi, in a recent letter to a gentleman in this place, writes as follows: “Dt Aii’Siß: There is considerable talk here about the air line R. R. from Indianapolis, via Frankfort, this place,.Monticello or Reynolds, Rensselaer and Crown Point to Chitmgus Tlwre is a strougJeeling in favor of the project m tins comity and Clinton. Meetings will be called to organized Joon. Stir up Jasper, and keep agitating the matter. If Monticello don't wake, up we wiH put the R. R. tjirotigh *Revix>ld>; which would be a nearer and better route to your place, and better for this county. Keep it prominently before the people In every th® Vsion. . det up FdosiiJg meelnfgs! A ppomVcofres-" ponding and executive committees, and get up a delegate meeting of all the counties along the line, and the , R. R. will be built certain. ‘Where there is a will there .is a way.’ ”

Your friend,

R. H. MILROY.

-Michigan elected a Republican bUk ticket by aver “O,O0f». r

If??'" A dispatch ftold Kan Fran-' cisco states that the fur trade in Alaska luas been entirely on account <\f the Indian troubles. While the Russians hail control of Alaska no one ever heard ot any Indian troubles, but nlmost as soon as the “Yanks” go there trouble , begins. A little judicious hanging of wjiite men who create strife with the Indians w ould have a good dTict. and be the means of saving thousands of lives. The cause of the sudden illness of ex President Johnson, a few days after he returned to Greenville, Tennessee, has been ascertained. He hail so much grit that as soon as the demand for it in fighting the liadicnls in- defense of-lhe—G-onMitutiow ccascd, he was attacked by the gravel.— (.»«. Cvmmerehd. The election for governor and Slate officers in Tennessee comes off iii August i.extT *3'hb latest report in Nashville about Andrew Johnson, ' is, that he will not be a candidate for governor, but that he will can-, vass the State during the summer in the interest of the democracy, with the view cf securing a democratic tnajdrjTy in the ingtsfriturr, —ami of securing his election to the Luited States senate. There are, in Massachusetts, sb'dit 700 colored Freemasons, who have seven (loiirishing lodges hr existence. They have never been acknowledged or recognized by the white Freemasons of .Massachusetts, and have forr —t'" -is ■ . a long time been trying to secure 1 what they term their rights. 'I he ' Masonic publications aixjfiscnssing : the subject, and so is the Grand Lodge (white) of Massachusetts. The directors of tho New 1 oik and New Haven Kailroad have decided, as an experiment, to use woqdetrwjieeis on some of the ears upon their road. Quite a number ofthcsc-wrlTeels-lmve been purchased, and will be sulc-titwled for the present iron ones on some of the new ears. They are understood to cost nearly treble the price of iron wheels, but are considered quite as cheap in the end. They arc made of elm or teak. wood, and bound with steel tires. Besides being less liable to break by action of frost, they make less noise. It is believed that quite a respectable number of live weli in New York city by supplying graveyard poetry- to people who have been bereaved ol their friends and relatives by death. These versifiers (some of them females) cari'fully peruse tiie newspaper obituary column every day, and select from it the ■ places of death, where they imagine ' a few dollars can be made by writLlug rhymes tos <> o 11;S,ille..fee]ylg.S P r I tint ter the vanity of tender-hearted survivors. Il is said the price ot. one of these sympathetic effusions is often as low as 25 cents, and seldom higlicr than $1.0., An English inventor has built some houses on a novel principle at Nou Hampton. The houses are of a cheap order designed for laborers. lie compresses straw into 4» -asolution of ilint, to render thenl fireproof, coals the two sides with a kind Of 00nient or concrete; and of these slabs the cottages are built. By ingenious contrivances the quantity of joiners' work is much reduced, and the chimney is so constructed as to secure warmth with the smallest consumption of fuel, and at the same time to heat' a drying closet. The cost of a single cottage of this description, ebmbining “ill! thej'equiremciits of health, decency and ■ comfort,” is eighty-fii e pounds, i (*425). The commissioners on the . . employment of .children, young . |.-r*pns, and women in agriculture, I report favorably of these cottages. .

The Springfield Republican says: “Il ought to be made a statutory of- ■ fence to put a shovel full of dirt up- ’ on the highway jjjfter the Ist of June, i except where the ground has been viewed by the County Commissioner, and the work ordered for the public, safety, ( Ini geffefai, all the repairing I that is done should be furbished three #eeks earlier than that The ' true theory of road-making is that the new earth should be added in | the spring, while the frost is coming [ out of the ground, so that new and old shall settle down together for the summer. When this is done, the addition is incorporated bodily, and never heard from afterwards.— It is the only way in which hard, firm roads can be obtained. On tlie other band, when, as generally at present, the repairing is put oft' till after harvesting, we have bad roads all the fall, execrable roads all whiter, except where the ground iadeepJy covered with show; and, come spring, the passage to and from even ■ tlie nearest localities, becomes a matter to be seriously considered, I well prepared for if inevitable, or ■ altogether avoided, if this can be 1 done." , I