Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1870 — The Indianapolis, Delphi and Chicago Railroad. [ARTICLE]

The Indianapolis, Delphi and Chicago Railroad.

“We believe that if tiie proper I effort was made, the Indianapolis &. Jeffersonville Railway Company could be induced to build the proposed 1., D. <fc C. air line.— That company has the capital and i certainly' would build this link, with the assistance proffered by the counties along the line, if the matter was properly presented before it. This link would give that company almost an air line of unbroken rail from the lake at Chicago, through Indianapolis, to Louisville. And now that the bridge is finished across the Ohio, cars could be run from lake Michigan to the Gulf, without change. This would I then command tlio larger amount! of not only North and South travel, i hut would he the greatest freight line in the West. Lot those who are concerned, stir the matter up, and let those who were appointed to act, act at once.” —Monlicello Herald. It is most too late to ssv anything more about the Indianapolis, Delphi and Chicago railroad to the people of Jasper county. So far as they are concerned, the officers of this company have sinned away the day of grace. Steps have already been taken, and will probably be completed before our commisaioners.shall have adjourned their present session, to prevent the assessment of the tax voted for this road last summer. We arp now interested in a project to revive the old “American Central” route, which was surveyed and graded across the county iii 1858-9. The Fort Wayne <fc Pacific Railroad Company are pushing things vigorously, and within the present month will place its construction under contract. Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Daniel Webster, Henry day, Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln, all expressed themselves against the principles of the 15th A mcndinen t. — Knox Ledger. What a wonderful reminiscence tho Ledger man has, to be sure!— See! O, Mussclman! Can't you remember what Adam, Noah, Cyrus, Alexander, Cmsar, Hannibal, Frederick the Great, Napoleon, and the rest of those old coves used to think and say about the Amendment?— Tell us about all your old associates. ; "Don't make invidious discrimhvatious; it looks bad. u ' At the request of a friend we republish the vote of Jasper county iu 1868, for Secretary of State: Towxsmrs. | Hoffman. 1 Rise. Hanging (Jrovo 50 19 (iillam •> 88 30 Walker 18 32 Barkley 89 70 Marion £69 92 Jordan 28 26 Newton 45 54 Keener J 3 4 Kankakee —l9 23 Wlieatficld * 12 12 Carpenter. 11l 39 Milroy 1 l 4 Total 753 4P’l Republican majority. 341 Hardesty, of the Anderson Herald , says, “To test a Christian, set him to putting up old unmatched stovepipe and keep him at it an hour.— If he don't swear in thirty minutes he is seasoned and his piety is at par.” > This is only equalled by the witch test of Salem, which was to tie the suspected party hand and foot, and throw her into a pond. If she got To shore the accusation was true and site was hanged; if she sank the Lord punished her for a wicked witch. “We have received the speech of Hon. Jasper Packard, Member of Congress from the Eleventh District, made in the House of Representatives oil the sth ultimo, upon the ‘Republican Party—its present duties and past achievments, and Democratic repudiation.’ It is an able and eloquent address, 1 one in which Mr. Packard's constituents may well be prolid.”— lndianapolis Journal. Were it not that the Journal is paid for its advertisements the above “special notice” would be considered a bit of irony. Henry Ward Beecher says he can’t serve God aright with an stomach, and his church gives him $ 10,000 per annum fco fill it. Other preachers recommend fasting as a means of grace and are permitted to starve on S3OO a year, < '* The Knox Ledger, complains that children howl about the streets o’ nights, the boys swear and young ladies practice gymnastics, dance hornpipes, and turn summersaults before window's with unclosed blinds, in that bucolic and gritty city. Some speakers talk too long before they begin to say anything, others talk too long after they have done saying anything. Both are bores. —.—^—.— . a; Preparations are being made for sugar*making in Fulton county. 1

We copy the following letter from the Rochester Spy. KkwaNxk, 111. Feb. £7, 1870. Win. Ashton, Director I Ft. W. A P. R. ft. } Dicak Sin: Since I saw you we have been waking up the people on the line of our proposed road. There have been large meetings held at Iletiry, Andover, Cambridge and Muscatine. All have appointed, their committees and are going to work to have the required amount of stock voted and subscribed. During the month of April, Muscatine pledges $200,000, and Henry SIOO,OOO. So you see the hall is rolling in Illinois. There is to he a inass meeting at Pontiac on Wednesday, March 2nd and at Clifton and Iroquois on FriI day, March 4th. I leave home on Tuesday for those meetings, and cx[>ect to go to the State line. Should >e glad to see you at L’ontiac, if convenient. We hope to have our stock voted as soon as you do, and he prepared to commence work. Yours, «&e., E. V. Bronson. » The Local of the Anderson Herald inspirates tho following piece “About an Eagle:” “The American Eagle is a big tiling. It soars aloft and is painted on the flag of the country. The stars and stripes don't amount to anything without the eagle.* The eagle creates much enthusiasm.— He is a patriollsrtl-maker and a majestic bird. Blessed he him who invented the idea of making the eagle the emblem bird. - The Father of his Country hacked the cherrytree and never fold a lie in his life. So did the eagle. The Father of his Country and the eagle arc fast friends. They have always been. To love one is to love the other.— To despise cither is pure cussedness with the scum on. Wc should as soon think of making our voice heard in a woman-suffrage convention, as to say a word against the eagle in a crowd of patriots. One would be as impolitic as the other. The eagle has a heap of hard’sense. It can look from the craggy mountain top and say ‘Fan monarch of all I survey’ or sing ‘Shoo Fly,’ just as it chooses.” “Died—at Logansport, on yesterday, Miss Ella Gertrude Milroy, only daughter of Gon. It. 11. Milroy, of erysipelas, aged IS years. “This amiable and accomplished young lady was attending school at Logansport, and had been slightly ailing lor two weeks, yet no damage was apprehended until ilonday last, when her parents received a telegraphic dispatch apprising them of it. They started immediately and were with her until she expired. She was a great favorite with her acquaintances and onr citizens generally. This is a terrible blow to the General and his family, and also to many sympathizing friends. “ ‘O, not in cruelty, not in wratli, The Reaper came that day; ’Twits an angel visited the green earth And took the flower away.’ ” —Delphi Journal. “Among the delegates from this district in attendance at the State Convention there was but one sentiment in regard to Packard’s claims for a re-nomination. That is that he is a dead duck. So our veneraable friend, who cautioned us lately that our attacks on that gentleman were likely to produce trouble in the party, c,an see for himself that we do not stand alone. In every cottfity there is wide-spread dissatisfaction with our M. C. Everybody, however, testifies to his private virtues, and it is generally felt that he is well-suited to obscurity. —Rochester Spy. The Indianapolis Journal says that Professor Cox, in his last trip, made a few days since, found a splendid vein of block coal in Clay county, near the town of Carbon, and on the line of the new Indianapolis &St Louis railway, lie is confident that there is enough coal in Clay county to supply the country, estimating the amount in Clay county at upwards of 6,000,000,000 tons. | An atrocious project is now on foot to occupy three months with the burial of Anson Burlingame, as was done with George Peabody. The prolonged sepulture of the latter became a broad farce and a disgusting burlesque before it was half done. We respected Mr. Burlingame too much while living to quietjy submit to such a “wake” over hi? remains.— lndianapolis Journal. A petition, signed by 500 freeholders, will be presented to the Board of Commissioners next [this] week, asking that an election be ordered to permit the people of this county to vote on the question of a tax in aid ot the Ft. Wayne & Pacific Railroad.— Rochester , ( Fulton County,) Union Spy. The" Eighth Congressional Dis#ct conrcntion will be held at Kokomo on the 16th of June, next. Republicans from that district say that Hon. James N. Tyner will be renomiuated without opposition. The enumeration-for school purposes, of the colored children' of New Albany, gives a total of five hundred and seventy-four between the ages of six and twenty-one years. Dan. Vorheesnntends to reply to Governor Morton’s speech, made at the State Convention. The Rockville Republican reports the peach crop entirely destroyed in county.

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