Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1869 — INDIANA MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA MATTERS.

Laporte proposes to expend about $20,000 for Nicolmm pavement. There are several eases of smallpox in Jeflursonville at present. ..... _ A branch of the Methodist Book Concern will shortly be established at Indianapolis. A man Mas fined $25 in a Lafayette court, the other day, for tampering with a witness. Judge Join: I”. Pettit has accepted the professorship of law at the Itidpuu State Vnivcrsity. Nearly one hundred ounces of quinine have beep polcl in Frankfort, Clinton county, vyjthin the past two weeks. The Richmond Humming Rird says Hon. George W. Julian has come out squarely ia favor of the women voting. The crop.of hickory nuts, walnuts, pecans, &c., in the pocket, or Egypt section of Indiana, will be very large this fall. Terre Haute has borrowed ten thousand dollars and Vigo county will have to borrow before tax paying time comes around. Near Indianapolis, wiew days .ago, James Tupper, while intoxicated, tell into a small creek, and with his face in water only three inches deep, was drowned. The berry trade es Michigan City has been quite large this season. The shipments to this time of whortlc and black berries were about 8,000 baskets. During the week ending the 11th inst., 154,405 bushels of wheat were received in Toledo by the Wabash railroad and 139,602 bushels by the Wabash and Erie canal. There are in Montgomery county 3,300 farms. The wheat crop for 1869, on those farms, it is estimated, will reach 800,000 bushels—a surplus of 500,000 bushels. Jacob Casad, against whom an indictment for murder was found by the grand jury of White county has taken a change of venue to Newton county. Casad’s two sons were also indicted for the same offense. The barn of David Stucky, of Elkhart Prairie near Goshen, was destroyed by fire on tke 11 th inst, with all its contents, including 1,500 bushels of wheat, eighty-five horses and mules, 40 tons of hay, buggies, farming implements, Ac. Loss about §6,500. The Elkhart people are having a magnificent Iron Truss bridge coftstructcd across the St Joseph river at that place. The bridge will be composed of a single span three hundred and eighty-eight feet long —said to be the longest span for a truss bridge in this country. When the extention of the Purdue Agricultural Works, at Lafayette, was begun last spring, the estimate of brick required was eight hundred thousand. Additional buildings have since been added which will require the increase to be riot less tnair~twe- tniilions of brick. * . • •

- A man named Purcell, a widower, living near San Pierre, was in 1J319 1 ette last Thursday looking f<gr his daughter, who is about sixteen years old. Six weeks ago her Father reißSad to allow her to marry her lover, whorC’pon *>lic left home, and went to Lafayette, hiring out as a servant. She was afterwards acuscd ot stealing, and left the place where she was working, and subsequently traces of her were lost. It is quite probable that she is, Fy this lime, leading a life of sb amp, In the Montgomery circuit court, a few d:iys ago, the case came up of Samuel Mathers t'r. William Malott, Isaac Chrisman, Joseph and Harmon Loeb. This was a case of trespass —an action brought to recover $20,000 damage, inflicted by the introduction of Texas cattle to the vicinity of Mathers’ pasturage and cattle, causing Ids stock to became infected with Spanish fever, which kiP tt -d 115 head of his cattle. The jury gav? a verdict for the plaintiff of nearly $9,000. A motion is pending for a rehearing, which will be considered in the Boone circuit court this week. Failing in this, the attorneys for the defence will appeal the case on the ground of no jurisdiction, the law of trespass providing and declaring that suits for trespass shall be brought in the county where the act is alleged to have been committed. This is a case of great importance to cattle men, and its final termination will be looked for with much interest. 1 > We wore shown tho other day in the P. O. Book Store a box containing two hundred and forty five-cent (sl2) nickle coins, which had been hoarded up by a child of 8 or 9 years, and with which she had just bought a superb Illustrated Unabridged Webster’s Dictionary. The brave little girl saved the amount out of trifling sums given her for sweet meats and toys; with the fruits of her patience and self-denial, she ’has purchased ojiy of the most precious treasures qt'human knowledge. And we doubt not that she will make noble use of the same. We are told she is fond of books, and in her reading Resolutely refuses to pass a single word without mastering its Cleaning; perhaps that is the reason why she set her heart so firmly on possessing the great lexicon of the English language. Her fine example ought to make some older cheeks blush and older heads reflect—the weak, worthless idlers oi both sexes. We are sorrv ve cannot give the name of the interesting little enthusiast. — Laporte Union <t- Herald. -ilk • ‘

Articles of association have been filed in the office of Secretary of State, for a railroad from Rockport to Bloomfield, Green county, thence through Clay county, touching Middlebury, Bowling Green, Brazil and Knightsville, thence to Rockville, through Parke and Fountain counties, crossing the Wabash Valley road at Attica, and through Warren, to Oxford, Benton comity, and to Lake Michigan and Chicago, the Oxford Tribune says. Will Remington and Rensselaer do anything to encourage the enterprise?

When Adam delved and Eve span, disease was unknown, but since that time the race has degenerated and at the present time mankind is afflicted with many' .diseases, vet if the people would take a medicine upon the first symptoms of disease which would pass direct to the afflicted parts and restore healthy action thereto, they would greatly prolong their lives. We believe T)r. Judson’s Mountain Herb Pills to be the best and most universal of medicines, they should be used in Live.' Complaint, Female Irregularities, j’illiotts DisoTuefs, Dispepsia, &c. Use the Mountain Herb Fills, and by a fair trial convince yourself of their efficacy. Sold by all dealers. 1-52 4) New Benton, Hamilton Co., Ind. Dn. C. W. Rouack —Dear Sir: This will certify, that my wife Ims been laboring under a severe attack of Palpitation of thelleart and Dyspepsia, and her case had been given up as incurable. I then resorted to the various patent medicines of the day; but she found no relief from them. At last, I was requested to procure some of your Scandinavian Blood Purifier and Blood Pills. I pyrchased from your agent, 1). V. 'Hanna, one bottle of the Blood Purifier, and two boxes of the Blood Pills, and proceeded to use them according to directions. She found relief from both diseases, after using three or four bottles. I will, therefore, cheerfully recommend your Medicine to the sufferingcommunity, especially the females. Yours, respectfully,

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ROBERT M TAYIOR.