Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1869 — INDIANA MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA MATTERS.

Wood is w orth five dollars a cord at South llend. The wheat crop promises well in St. Joseph county. Eggs twenty cents per dozen at South llend. Eggs are 35 cents per dozen at Indianapolis. It is believed there is a regular organized gang of petty thieves at South Rend. Dressed hogs bring #9.50 per cwt, at Indianapolis and from #lO to #ll at South Rend. A coupha of blind people weft married at Indianapolis on last Sunday eyejnng. Col. Dick DeHart, Consul to Santiago dcCuba, has Jest Lafayette for his post of duly.

Cant, C opp, formerly of the 9th Ind. Kcgt., resides at Sauk Center, Stevens county, Minnesota. About £0 010 pounds of wool were purchased at Port Wayne this season, about 75,000 pounds of which were manufactured. Gen. Frank P. Blair was in Terre Haute on Monday, visiting D. W. Vorhees, and oilier “boys,” as he styles them, - Crawfordsville has been overrun for the past week with Spiritual mediums, Indian doctors, clairvoyants and tricksters. A man nc3r Potato Creek, Montgo/’jyrv county, gathered twentyone bushels of hickory nuts last week idles* than two days. The Southern Prison lias on hand for winter supply 7JM& bushels of coal, 1,100 barrels of potatoes, 250 j barrels of onions, and 50 barrels of krout. George C- Harding lias severed j all eonnectiQU with the Indianapolis ! Mirror, and we presume thesd/rrror will liot be quite “lied Hot” from ' this on. A confiding chap at Evansville advanced $l5O to his betrothed, to complete the matrimonial outfit, w hereupon she pocketed the stamps and left her disconsolate. Says the Laporte Herald: Twen-ty-five divorces were granted attlic > recent terms of our Common Pleas and Circuit Courts. J.nnortc is close to Chicago.

Half fare tiekets~wiH be given by j most of the railrdads that center in Indianapolis, to those who attend j the reunion of the Army of the j Cumberland on the 15th ai)<l 4<R)t of December. An,old man named Michael,iCoip nell was burned, to death in, his j cabin near Clarkville, on Sunday night. C | Week ago last Monday night Kendallville was visited with a $31,700 fire. Insurance ♦ 15,200. j The Standard says: “It is estimated that more goods were stolen, at the fire, than were burned.” The convicts of the Southern Prison have been living on wheat brpad for the past month—soifle-: tliiug They generally eat! p,9rp bread three inebea and a Calf ■ thick, but »he»f is now oheaper than corn.

On Tuesday ft f U*t ls e<* a party of seiners, beaded by Piloid L. Shocks, about four miles from Mitchell, made a drag in Briton's Hole, in White river* and brought out over eleven hundred jurge fi«k and eight hundred gars at ono hf ul.

The residence of 11. H. Roberts, Kan., was entered last Friday night, and Mr. R.'s pantaloons taken from his bedroom to the parlor, where the thief went through them. The result of the raid was #17.10 in money, two notes for #306, and a small Government order. The Michigan City Enterprine says: . j “Potatoes arc coming into town in large quantities. The market price lias increased since the cold snap, w hich injured a considerable liortion of the crop, to 35 cents per umbel, before the frost they were a | drag at ‘2O @ 25. The annual report of the Toledo, Wabash and Western Railroad shows the following figures: Capital stock since January 30, 1869, #300,000; amount of funded debt, #22,000,000; length of road and branches, 521 miles; number of passengers carried, 005,000; number of tons of freight, 707,000; receipts, #4,478,723; expenses, #3,158,763.

Homo of tho farmers havo commenced husking their corn. The yield rangos all tho wav lrom five to forty-five bushels per acre—to say nothing of many fields which were completely drowned out, showing neither ears.or even stalks. Few pieces will go over 25 bushels to the acre—in the wetter grounds tlie failure is total. Some think the crop .will hardly suffice to meet the home consumption. —Laportc Herald. The Indianapolis Mirror has “put its foot in it.” Making great pretentions to being an independent journal, it now transpires that the proprietors recently proposed to advocate a system of water-works, represented by James O. Woodruff, for tho paltry sum of #I,OOO. This proposition was declined by Mr. Woodruff, and the Mirror has since taken an active part against the scheme. This caused Mr. Woodruff to publish a card stating the tacts which have since been substantially acknowledged by the Mirror. Allof which has resultedin Harding—tho wonderful Harding—retiring from the paper. That paper has certainly manifested a queer idea of “independence” and “honesty,” about which it has talked so much. — Qreencattlc Banner. The city police of Indianapolis have inaugurated tho going through the gambling halls of that city. At a house kept by one Joseph Miller, a jolly crowd of about forty gay gambolierg were taken by the police. At the time of tho arrest the gayparty were passing their time away playing with the tiger. For the credit of Indianapolis it is to be hoped that this raiding will continue until the city is entirely rid of these dives where men aro made fit for the penitentiary faster than any other place.

Balloc’s Monthly Magazink.— We aro in receipt of this marvellously cheap and handsome Magazine for December. Its table of contents is varied and charming, embracing the usual fine variety of serials, sketches, stories, poems and attractive engravings. The publishers announce in the prospectus for the coming year, aserial story, for adults, by the popular Magazine writer, James Franklin Fitts, and a juvenilo serial by the young people's favbrite7lloHA.no Algkh, Jb. The price of this periodical is a marvel to everybody—a hundred page first-class illustrated Magazine for fifteen ceiits, or #1.50 per vear, is indeed wonderfully cheap. Elliot, Thornes A Talbot, publishers, Boston, Mass.

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