Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1870 — The Ft Wayne & Pacific Railroad. [ARTICLE]

The Ft Wayne & Pacific Railroad.

Next week the President and General Agent of tho construction company, that proposes to butld tho Ft Wayne & Pacific Railroad, will visit ll«nsselaer for the purpose of closing tho contract for building this road through Indiana, providing they can have sufficient assurance of the required local aid along lh« line. All the citizens along the proposed route in Jasper county fe«! a deep interest in this enterprise, and will utmost to assist the company with money and influence. If the company meet with the proper encouragement from the people, it expects to commence work by the first of June, and push the road to a speedy completion. The enterprise and indomitable energy, as well as the prudence of the officers and friends of of this company entitle them to success. A number of public meetings arc announced in another column, to which everyone is invited. Let all who can make it convenient come and hear what these men have to tell them, and learn what they cau and will do, and the terms upon which they work. We shall have occasion to speak more fully of this matter in our next issue. The Rochester Spy in refusing to publish an article from a Mr. Alf. Howard, in which that gentleman roundly abuses the editor of the Standard, says: Taking advantage as this occasion, we ask, why would it not be better and more dignified for editor* to treat each other courteously!* What good ever came of the coarse slang indulged in by members of the pre»s toward each other!* A triumph gained in such a contest only proves that the victor is a bigger blackguard than the vanquished. Rivals in other professions do not find it necessary to call each other theives and blacklegs, or even mules and dolts. Let the next editorial convention take the subject under consideration, and see if there is not some means of elevating newspaper discussion. ’Ere’s our 'and on that, Bill, and you can present our views to the editorial convention, as we wont be there. No stamps. “A friend suggests that the devil's head-quarters are not a mile from Rensselaer.” —Kentland Qazettt. If this be a fact, and the Newton county criminal docket and the wood and lumber stealing item* of the Gazette's local arc indications, Jasper may expects large immigration from Keutland In the course of time. How does it happen that tho editorials of the Kentland Gazette appear in the Indianapolis Journal first? The Journal should be ashamed to publish original matter from the Gazette without giving it credit. But big fish always thrive on the little ones.

The Michigan City Enterprise in its issue of the 25th heads its leading article with an extract from our editorial columns and credits it to the Monticello Herald. This is unfair, for if there is any merit in the quotation we are entitled to its benefit, and if without merit the Herald should not bear its odium. A New paper has been started at Ncblesville, Hamiltoh county. The paper assures its readers that it does not “propose to work for nothing. M How ridiculous? Just as though that paper woudn’t far® like the rest. Wadsworth of theLaporte Argus, says he would prefer to loan a man $2 rather than to send him his paper without prepayment of ’subr scription, and declines doing either. We cousider the Argue one of the best country papers in the State, John C. Cushman says in the last number of the Plymouth Republican that Fort Wayne has agreed to give SIOO,OOO and Rochester $75,000 to aid the Ft. Wayne <fc Pacific Railroad. The Plymouth Republican calls Reiser, of the Winamac Republican, “You big, nasty, ugly, dirty, vulgar, you,*’ which he aint, don’t it, Juke? *■-- F 11 1 l. It is reported that the Sheriff of Marshall county sits ou a chair and places his feet on a table, in taking position to announce the opening of court. Thedate Anson Burlingame once lired in Indiana, and twelve* or fourteen years ago he very closely resembled Col. Norman Eddy, of South Bend, so the Register says. John Root died at ten o’clock a. m. and was buried at one o’clock p. m. of the same day, at Michigan City. Rapid place,