Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1869 — The Indianapolis, Delphi & Chicago Railroad. [ARTICLE]

The Indianapolis, Delphi & Chicago Railroad.

Kvcry new project for a railroad which presents a semblance of being a necessity, that is suggested by capatalisls now a days, is eagerly hailed by the people, and its construction ordered forthwith. No one will deny that the new route proposed between our city and Chicago will prove a desirable one, passing as it does, through an undeveloped region of country, rich in fertility, and possessing magnificent and highly cultivated farms, earnestly demanding an outlet for their immense pioducts, and proving some thirty miles shorter than any route now in operation. Nearly every county through which the projected road will pass has voted for taxation; a lew counties, and but a few, who have not been educated Up to the proper standard of what constitutes a live county and live people, exhibit a lethargy worthy of the enterprise and exalted notions possessed by onr pilgrim fathers, look upon the design as rather chimerical. The decision of our County commissioners is looked for with great interest. If their verdict is favorable, we may look for the construction of the road av a fixed tact, and that its completion will be speedily attained no ono will doubt. The farmers along the contemplated line of road, cheerfully sign the right of way, with now and then ail exception, which is quite natural, and but one or two eouuties will object, no doubt, so wo may safely congratulate ourselves that another link ill the great chain of roads binding us with the powerful west will have been made, and ours the benefit—uulcss all these line prospects should become destroyed and rendered of no avail by the administration of too much “Schermorliorn.” *** —lndianapolis Mirror.

The enumeration of school children in New Albany foots up 6,262, an increase. 0f.~C02 over: last .year,It lias also 576 negro children to be educated. Monroe county may talk about her big men, but we think Lawrence county can take the premium on large babies. There is a baby in Indian Creek Township," throe months old, which weighs twentylive pounds nett; and one iii Perry township, eighteen months old, that weighs forty-two and a halt pounds nett. How is that for bigucss?—Bedford. Independent. The New Albany Commercial says; “Our peach growers are making it pay this year. Hundreds of bushels of peaches have been shipped from this county the present season, and the first of the crop went off readily at five and six dollars per bushel. Prices have declined tne present week considerably, and now range from one dollar to one dollar and a half }»er busiiel. The shipments of peaches and pears from this city to Chicago and ludianapolis daily amounts to three or four hundred bushels.

On Monday last, a littlo three year old daughter of Dr. S. H. Collins, living on the corner of 3d and F. streets, fell from a second story window. The ground nuder the window was almost entirely covered with broken brick, but strange to sav the cltild receivod no visible injury, not even the smallest scratch, and in a few minutes was soundly sleeping. The little girl was playing up stairs, and hearing her scream a mother’s instinct caused Mrs. C. to run to the window, where she found the child walking to the door, badly frightened, but otherwise entirely uninjured. —Laporte Argus. - . Grand Secretary E. 11. Barry was notified late last evening that Rev. S. L. Adams, M. W. Grand Master of the Grand lodge, I. O. O. F., of Indiana, died at Danville, Hendricks county, yesterday afternoon at 3 -o’clock. Grand Master Adams has been suffering some time with pulmonary affection, and his life has been for a few months very precarious, but his death, so soon, was not expected. His residence was atNorth Salem, and he was on a visit to Danville, where his disease assumed a malignant form, and hastened his death.— Lid. Journal of Auyust'JUh