Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1869 — New Draining Company. [ARTICLE]

New Draining Company.

In an other place will be found a call for a meeting of the citizens of Jasper county, for the purpose of organizing a draining company, to drain and reclaim the lands overflowed by the Iroquois river and its branches. The land proposed to be drained is all that lying above town' that is overflowed by both the Iroquois and Pinkamink. It is said that by cutting down the falls of the river at. this place five feet, in addition to removing the dam, all the land above town now overflowed with every rise of water, will be completely drained and reclaimed. There is perhaps nothing the farmer can do that will advance his interests and the interests of the county more than to organize draining companies to drain the wet lands of the county and give them an outlet for the surplus water standing on most of the farms in this county. These complies being composed only of those who own land that will be affected by the drain, can be so conducted that the burdens will bear equally upon all, and all will be benefited alike. It is a move in the right direction, aud one that should have been commenced and carried put years ago. If the farmers of Jasper comity had paid the attention they should have paid to ditching their land, instead of fess than one-|

eighth ot a crop of corn this year, wc might have had from cue half to two-thirds of a crop. We trust that the citizens of Barkley, Hanging Grove and Marion townships whose landsor other property will be Affected in any way will be at the meeting. . General Kosr.< hans could not be the democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio because he was in favor of paying his debts, so they nominated Pendleton who is in. favor of repudiating the national debt. —— , ' The democratic press have been finding fault with President Grant for assisting his relatives ever since his inauguration, until he refused to help his brother-in-law, Judge I>E.<r, become Governor of .Mi.-.'-i'.'ippi, and now they abuse him for refusing. Mr. and .Mrs. Keigwin, spiritual mediums, repel the insinuations pubJidied in the Indianapolis Journal a few days ago to the effect that their “spiritual correspondence” was all a humbug, by going before a notary public and swearing that it wan t so. The citizens of Newton county are having a lively time over the proposition to change the county seat from Kentland to Beaver City. The petition for the change will be presented to the Board of Commissioners at the September term, at which time it will, we suppose, be settled one way or other. At present chances are about equal. The Kentland Gazette says: “Mr. Harvey Boner, of Beaver Prairie, tells us that he has a large field of corn that promises a yield of thirty or forty bushels per acre. That is pretty good, considering the wet -season.” We have some fields in this county that will beat that, twenty bushels to the acre. —'