Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1870 — A Falsehood Refuted. [ARTICLE]

A Falsehood Refuted.

“Gon. Packard was enthusia st ic - ally endorsed at the Laportecounty convention last Saturday for renomination to congress. After a vigorous campaign of a few months’ duration, during which time there was much stepping in the mire by the auti-Packard men, the public verdict has been given; the people of that county have met and this is the verdict: Packard is endorsed and iu the midst of greatest enthusiasm recommended by his old friends and neighbors to the people of the district for renominatiom” — JfishatcaLa Enterprise. “We cannot see how our convention ‘indorsed Gen. Packard.’ * * * * * There were no instruction, endorsements, or recommendations whatever, awd no candid, intelligent man of either side will say that the prospects of Gen. Packard are the least brightened by last Saturday’s proceedings.’’— Laporte Herald.

We quote these two extracts that the community may not be imposed upon by the unscrupulous partizans of an infamous man. Copies of the Mishawaka Enterprise were pretty largely circulated by our postmas-; ter last Tuesday evening, and unless its falsehoods were deuied the statements of its editor might be believed. The Laporte convention was anything but harmonious. In fact it came very near breaking up in a row. We do not stop to ask who was in fault there—whether they were the admirers or the opponents of Gen. Packard—it was a county convention called to nominate a county ticket and the appointment of delegates was an after thought, it inslced thought of at all. But as the Herald, says “there were no inttructions,indorseluents, or recommendations what* ever,” neither were delegates appointed, but instead a resolution w{u* adopted reading as follows: “Resolved, That any and every republican voter of Laporte county, who shall attend the congressional convention at Wanatah, on the 29th of June pros., shall be considered a delegate properly deputed from this county.”

The resolution was introduced by a friend of Packard, who had full knowledge of the fact that the congressional committee of the district had decided upon a delegate convention and the chairman had issued his call in conformity with this understanding. It was done for mischief and to overreach the people of the southern portion of the district, by bringing a noisy mob down to create a pressure. So far as Jasper county is concerned it makes but little difference as her delegation is not composed of the stuff affected by such noisy brawling and they will cast their votes in a manner which they believe shall redown to the' harmony, glory and sneceM of the party.

The WinaiAac Republican accuses I one of the editors of this paper with being a “young man.” If our cotemporary will wait patiently a few years w« will endeavor to cor- ( red the fault. no tinw'nor space fhis week to comment upon the proceedings of the judicial convention at I l£ei>l I and on the 7th. Our issue ‘ w ill be delayed, as it is, on account of not having received the report until n late hour. Both Judge Test and Mr. Everett are favorably known throughout the district and we hope to i ce them elected.

From present appearances—judging from letters we have seen and gentlemen we have conversed with from Laporte, Lake, Porter, Pulaski, White, Newton, Marshall and Fulton counties—if Gen. Packard is r< nominated at Wanatah, this district w ill be represented in the next congress by a democrat. Brother Keiser, of the Winamac Republican, intimates that the papers who advocate the re-election, of Gen, Packard, do so from disinterested motives. If their editors were removed from their postoftices, revenue offices and other sinecures, aid then continued their support of the man, we might think so too.

“Ira W. Yeoman announces himself in the Union as an independent candidate for auditor. That’s played out. If Mr, Yeoman is a democrat, why don’t 1 o say so, and run on his merits as such.’—H<namac Democrat. t Mr. Yeoman didn't vote for Seymour and Blair, and upholds the fifteenth amendment, which, probably, explains why those'Winamac “fellers” don’t likehim. “We learn that Mr. Hm-st has sold his mill-seat, north of this ; place, to Mr. R. Hopkins and Mar- ; shall Grant, of Jasper county. Pu- ; laski county will get two good citi- ’ zens in Messrs. Hopkins and Grant, and under the management of Mr. Hopkins the mill will become one of the useful institutions of the county. We know that be understands his business. The mill will be put in complete repair at once.” Winamac Republican.

Mr. R. J. Hopkins moved Over yesterdays Mr—Grant-will not go until fall and perhaps not until next spring. We wish both gentlemen will be prosperous in their enterprise, but are sorry to loose such good cilzens. St. Joseph -etrtttrty -has instructed her 2!) delegates to the Wanatah convention to cast their votes for the renomination ot Hon Jasper Packard. Laporte county did not succeed in appointing delegates to that convention, but Will assemble there en masse. It is thought her 20 votes will be divided between Packard and Cathcart. White county has instructed her 11 delegates to cast their vote solid for Wolcott. Pulaski county has 6 votes in the convention and instructed for Packard. Jasper county has 8 votes and her delegates go to Wanatah untrammcled by instruction. •

“The American Central Kailroad ■ will extend east of Fort Wayne, j via Tiffin, to a connection with the ■ Atlantic and Great Western Railroad. It is probable the old roadbed of the Tiffin and Fort Wayne ' (or Clinton Air Line) road will be used from here to Tiffin. As is ' well known, over a million dollars was expended on that line some fifteen years ago, and now only about $260,900 would be required ; to prepare the road for the iron j We yesterday saw a note from a i gentleman prominently connected with this project, who is now in New York on business pertaining to it. lie says he will visit this 1 city this week to consult with our people in reference to the proposed road, and inform them fully as to its prospects and what must be ’ d«£i»'lo secure it. We understand, if the desired encouragement, is given, there is no reason why the. line might not be in running order from its connecting point with the A. «fc G. W. Railroad to Fort Wayne by the first of January next.— fort Ji’ayrie Gazette, June 2d. The above article refers to the great trunk enterprise of which the Fort W ayne and Pacific division is a part. The gentleman referred to (President D wiggins) was in the city of Fort Wayne last Friday and held a consultation with a number of her leading business men, the result of which was to petition the board of commissioners to order an election upon the proposition ot a 2 per cent tax in aid of the project. This would raise about $200,000. Mr. Dwiegins was assured that the proposition would be carried in Allen county by a good majority, the people being largely interested in the revival of the road upon which they had expended so much labor and money several years ago. Hon. Anson Wolcott, has 60 1 aOrev planted in beans this season. ’

About Laporte June 4th it was 1 “awful dusty;” “wheat headed out;*' “census takers at work;” “sheep shearing commenced;” “Common Pleas court driving on;’’ “the 24th instant will be St., John’s day;” “hard weather jon past|irVs and wagon tir.es;” “Fourth of July comes mi Mupday this year;” “seYcral wedding* on the tapis;” ‘the drought is hurting the berry prospects generally;” “the season for pic hies;” “fishing js a very fashionaide Sunday recreation;” “Kingsbury cheese factory has commenced , operations;’' “it will cost <530 to re-' ; f use to answer the questions of the ' census takers;” “not less than 1,000 > > persons attended the republican ( I county convention;” “much of the , grass seed sown this spring will be a dead loss;” “women are deciding on what to tell the census taker, | when be comes to ask them their age;” “the interior of the Baptist church has been much beautified of late, by paint and white-wash;” Captain Cole (formerly of Rensselaer) gets up minutes of conventions in “excellent MSS ;” an “unknown, but sympathizing lady” has “left a very beautiful boquet” on the Argus editor’s table—he is a bachelor; “tfierc are, doubtlcs, those who think the ticket [republican] might be stronger, but it would puzzle them to better it”—all of winch we learn'from the Herald.

Good Health.— first number of volume 2 maintains the reputation of . former numbers. We consider it a good journal—the best of the kind we know of. Somebody has said that “it takes the laws of life and the conditions of health as they arc recognized by the great masters of physiological, medical and educational science, and unfolds and enforces them in a peculiarly effective and popular style.” “So far from being dry, as such works are too apt to be, there is really little reading in Good Health that is not as entertaing as a novel, while its contents have a direct tendency to elevate the taste, store the mind, preserve the health, and lengthen the ‘life of the reader.’ ” We never read a number of this journal without feeling that we have learned something of practical importance from its well written : articles. Monthly; published by | Alexander Moore, Bloomfield St., I Boston, Mass., at $2 per year—single copies, 20 cents. _ At Winamac, Friday, June 3d. “democratic candidates working like beavers;” “quite a number of strangers in town;” “farmers report oats and grass suffering somewhat for rain, ’ “the raising of the new mill has been completed;” an ice car went through the place on Tuesday “like a flash of lightning.” It was on tire and the framb was nearly consumed. The locomotive was taking it to the water tank below town. The members of the M. E. Church “are about setting on foot a movement to build a parsonage”—all of which we glean from the Republican.

Strawberries are thirty cents a gallon in Terre Haute. . Floyd county farmers are now plowing their corn the second time, and it looks splendidly. A man named Andy J. Hass, living in Franklin township, Putnam county, is 6 feet 11| inches high. The democratic congressional convention of the fourth district nominated D. S. Gooding for congress. Thomas Eldridge had his hand badly lacerated by the explosion of an overcharged gun, on Decoration day, in Goshen. Three other persons were slightly injured. William Kimball, sou of General Nathan Kimball, has been appointed cadet at large to West Point.— Young Kimball is a young man of tine parts, and will, no doubt, prove a credit and honor to his State.— Lafayette Courier. The report that a son of Colonel 11. W. Thompson, of Terre Haute, has been appointed to a West Point cadetship, is incorrect. No application for such a place has been made, either by the Colonel or his son.

Miss Melissa Hopkins, lately of Goshen, Elkhart county, has been reported as having married a Mormon, «in Kansas, recently. Her husband turns out to be a good Methodist, with no Mormon proclivities whatever —and both husband and wife are as mad—being Methodists—as they dare be, on account of the false report.