Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1871 — Compillngs from our Exchanges. [ARTICLE]

Compillngs from our Exchanges.

KT. JOSEPH COUNTY. The Mishawaka Enterprise contains the most original matter of any of our Indiana exchanges. That paper says there are a number of very rude young men who attend church in that place—a circumstance that no doubt inspires their friends with strong hopes of reformation. Only two lawyers in Mishawaka. One hundred loads of wood were in town last week Monday. One firm handled 60,000 feet of lumber in one day last week. Seven young men living in the county were recently taken into South Bend and fined $1 each and costs for clubbing a “certain* house. Mishawaka people are not afflicted with foreign applicants for divorce, a providence for which they give due honor to their suburban nearness to the great city of South Bend. The superintendent of the M. E. Sabbath School interests the little shavers under his charge by short lectures upon what he saw and heard in Utah. Mrs. Molloy, editress of the South Bend Union, is to deliver a lecture-dining the present month rt South Bend, for the benefit of the Episcopal Church in that place. • We by the South Bend Union that: To his draymen, Irwin Skinner Gave a splendid New Years dinner. Turtle soup is served up by Mishawaka restaurateurs. The Enterprise athAt 13 hogs, owned by Mr. Byers, of Portage, pulled 5,610 on Blowney’s scales, but it provokingly refuses to tell why they pulled them or how they did it. Engine and Hose Company No. 1, of Laporte recently treated the boys of hose Company No. 4, of South Bend, to some delightful cordial at a recent ball, and the boys were much pleased over it. Little Emma J. Fye aged seven years was terribly scalded from her waist to her left foot, by accidentally stumbling into a kettle of hot water, week ago Friday night.

LAPORTE COUNTY. The Laporte editor of the Argus thinks his defeat for the directorship of the Northern prison was accomplished in a manner not entirely creditable to his opponents. The fact is, so far as our observation extends, the party whose principles he represents cares very little indeed for the labors of an editor — 20 cents’ worth of whiskey has more influence there than 82 worth of newspaper. Some cases of scarlet fever in Laporte city. The question of bringing w’ater from the sulphur springs into the city is still being agitated. Paul Starkweather, of Fulton county, stopped at the Merrill week, went to his room, blew out the gas, instea-j of turning it off, went to bed and came very near dying from asphyxia. Mud is pertnitted. to accumulate on the street drossings- of Laporte city until the walks are next to impassable and are a disgrace to the city. v

The Laporte Herald says “ice business is red hot.” “Orville Fravil sports a span of Cherokee Indian ponies” on bis watch chain we presume. Peach buds are believed to be still safe. Elder Chase is baptizing converts at the Disc : ;p] e church. The Baptists are folding protracted meeting. Vtev. Mr. Brass has entered upo-j b’ 18 dut i es as Rector of the Episcopal church at Michigan City. ’ $ 3 . 50 per ljOdo i feet is all the t .j,y (. onne |l wifi pay . for gas—-lecturers will probably j shun the ’dace hereafter. The Bpii'lualis.is are thought to be gairt’’•'J? g’Mur.d in the city. Loafers and idlers are ordered to be dispersed from the Balcony Block corners. 266. marriage licenses were -issued and 68 divorces granted in Laporte county during 1870. Necktie parties are raging among the fashionables. City cows are permitted to steal hay from country men’s teams. A boy named Russell, living on Rolling Prairie, experimented with a pound of gunpowder and—found himself hanging qn the front gate withthe doors and windows of the house fully open for ventilation. The Michigan City Enterprise says there are six schooners and two tugs wintering in that port.— The-Hutchinsons have been singing in the Sand City. There is danger of the glass factory scheme dying out for want of sand in the craws of ita projectors and stamps in their purses. 11. J. Willits has been confirmed postmaster nt that plaee. Tom Jones, a. hard-up sailor, “stole a pound of beef” to get into the penitentiary for the winter. Lawyers in that virtuous burg fuo out writs of

against impecunious tenants —they • work them off every time. KOBCIUBCO COUNTY. The Warsaw Northern Indianan says pork is bringing 10.50 per hundred. The jail was again on fire Saturday evening. The editor of the Indianian has had a protracted spell of dreadful sick headache. The Jndianinn is opposed to making an additional Supreme Judge. It don’t believe in creating a new office of this kind at a cost of 83,000 —or 818,000 for the term—when the people arc- demanding reform and retrenchment of expenditures. FULTON COUNTY. The Rochester Union Spy relapsed from sensible, as well as ccomomical, ready printed outsides into the old plan of doing all the work at home and using dead advertisements to fill up w r ith. Mattingly, its editor, has quit taking subscriptions on promises to pay wood and then waiting three or four years and take wood in payment at $5 per cord. POKTEE COUNTY. The Valparaiso Vidette tells of a pretty little struggle going on in that city over the bankrupt estate of Jacob M. Newberger, where there are 87,500 of assets to liquidate 846,000 of liabilities.