Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1869 — The Indianapolis, Delphi and Chicago Railroad Surveyors. [ARTICLE]

The Indianapolis, Delphi and Chicago Railroad Surveyors.

The surveying party reached Frankfort on the 13th of August; and having received instructions from Mr. Ridenour, they were ordered back to run another line via Zionsville to Frankfort. They left Frankfort on last Tuesday at noon, and at ten o’clock on Wednesday they resumed work on the newline and expect to reach Zionsville on [last] Friday evening. Doubtless many of our railroad men are anxious to know the reason of the apparent slow progress that is being made by those having the survey of the road in charge, but when they take into consideration the fact that this survey is the completion of the preliminary work on the road, they will be fully satisfied to “wait a time with patience.” The parties having this work in charge arc doing their work nobly; they are making a final survey of the road, making the profile and estimate of costs and work to be done on the road, and securing the right of way as they go, so that when they get through the work will be finished, so far as all preliminary arrangements are concerned. They will then be ready to put men to work in earnest, excavating, grading, and laying down ties, etc., ready for the iron. The party will be here in about two weeks.— Delphi times. Hon. David McDonald, Judge of the U. S. District Couyt for the State of Indiana died at his residence in Indianapolis last Wednesday. He was one of the most eminent Jurists in the country; was for 14 years Judge in the Bloomington Circuit, was Professor of Law in our State University, and was appointed federal Judge by President Lincoln to fill the vacany made by the death of Caleb B. Smith. The latter part of his career was clouded with ill health aud a settled melancholy ; his life was despaired of several days before his deniise, and his death created no surprise.