Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1871 — Compilings from our Exchanges. [ARTICLE]

Compilings from our Exchanges.

aif l' BT„ JOSEF* COUKTT. ~ . . From the South And ifcrutar we learn there fife only seven Inmates in the toufily jail. V , * jE f Real estate dealers are complaining of dull times. Win. Heck has stored 1,200 tons of ice this season.

Over eight miles of sidewalk are planked or paved with brick. Wm. Bryer lately sold 19 hogs that averaged m pound* each. The atreet commissioner wants to buy 50 cords of paving stone. South Bend has seventeen practicing physicians, five of whom are females. The school bouso at Plainfield, Olive township, was destroyed by fire on the 18th. Tho furniture factories of South Bend employ 800 men and turn out #250,000 worth of furniture annually. The total fall of rain and snow at South Bend during the year of 1870 was five lect, two and- threefourths inches* Ono hundred and ninety-eight marriage licenses wero issued by the clerk of St. Joseph county in 1870; an increase of 79 over the previous year. The Singer Sewing machine factory’ At the Bend manufactures one machine for each working minute, ot 3,000 per week. It employs 225 hands x.nd its products aro valued at #5 00,000 per year.

Tb-} Studehr’ser wagon r»ivl carrisgtj fr.etm'y ’W. year employed 260 Uvea, used 2,000,000 pounds of iron, 3,000,000 feet of lumb. r, r> >d made 6,500 vehicles. CVqr.illard’s factory made 1,500 vehicles. South Bend has Jive artesian n’ellsj but does not make as much about it as sortie larger titles which hnvo but An evMe.; o time either the wa'oT* are not offensive or el so the people have strong stomachs. The Grand Army of the Republic has degenerated into a dramatic company and is prepiring to enact either the “Union Spy” or Lie “Drummer Boy of the Rappahannock” ou tho night of thi -*22d of February.

James‘Bivins had his right hand terribly mutilated while working among the machinery ox" Tliompsou’h furniture factory. The attaches of the establishment presented him with a purse of #SO as a tokon of sympathy. In 1870 South Bend had 142 industrial establishments, with a capital of over #1,500,000, which gave employment to 1,400 operatives and turned out products valued at nearly #3,000,000. During the same yenr 246 buildings were erected and the improvements of the city dmounted.to nearly #525,000. Th<* atorm week ago last Saturday night was terrible in this locality aud did great damage to trees and shrubbery. “It is impossible,” says the Registtr, “to estimate the damage in this couaty.— The enormous weight of ice prostrated orchards and the largest forest trees alike, leaving them in a worse condition than any wind-fall or tornado that ever passed through here. In inany.parts of the county the roads are impassable on account of the fallen timber, although the farmers have bceu busily at work for three Says removing obstructions. Here in the city the damage to s.Vade trees, fruit trees and ornamental's was terrible, and can not be repaired in yeasts, borne idea of -the weight of ice may be formed when we state that one little twig, one-eighth of an inch in diameter, and weighing bnt oneeight of an ounce, tv'Jl* encrusted with ice one and a quart in thickness and weighing seven smnecs,” . „ ■ • i» - ■ I-- A, PULASKI COUNTY. The Winamac Democrat contains • the following reply' of -Hon. L B. Washburn, our representative in the General Assembly, to Geo. H. Burrows, of Toledo, Ohio, Superintendent of the Toledo, Wabash and Western Railway, who attempted tq bribe him with a “deadhead” pass: HorSX OF REPRESENTATIVES, Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 11,1871. George U. Burrow's, Toledo, O. Si*—On- last evening I found upon my table a “pass” on the Toledo, Wabash and Western Railway, which I herewith return for the following reasons: Ist. In ms-opinion no public officer should accept a pass while serving the people, when the holding of suefi pass Would in any 'way plaee him udder obligations to a corporation, and lessen hla obligation to the people. 2d. You ask me to agree that I “will not consider the eompany as common carriers;” a thing I cannot do. sa. The interests ©f * vast am* jority of die people demand legislation regulating the rates of pas-

senger fare and freight tariff, and rwrMi the same, since the discrimination inadp by ourgpilroads between lot cm and throigh rates is Ainotp t# i Ik 4 TeuAKi. B. TPlsnwP*i#F Among tho Winamac locals we find that five applicants for license to tcsch school recently failed to pass a good examination and vebti refused a license by the school examiner. Won’£ he. he “sussed” though? Cl, —• iV .IrtmLaik 17|<V ■ ID UTHTT OfluVn™ * 1 ■ 11 It*“lI men in jail and furnishes them .* copy of the Governor’s message to sober off on. One application cures the most inveterate case. John Whalen and Frederick Poppey were last week arrested on a charge of timber-stealing and coramited to jail in default of #3OO bail. New plank sidewalks are found to furnish a dry footing in time of muddy streets. rORTKK COUNTY. Tho Valparaiso Vidette of the 19th instant complains that the roads are impassable, and wood is scarce and high. The Methodists are holding protracted meeting. The shade trees around the Methodist church and parsonage were badly broken by the ice, during the late storm.

G. Bloch, having been elected one of the directors of the Northern pri.;ou, is “as happy as a clam at high tide.” Mr. Gurnoy says “It is a very easy matter for'a man to look out from the dens of infamy and debauchery and throw 3iirae on the paaser-by, but-not so easy tp give the vorld a wholesome Christian example.” Whether the remark : l8 the wisdom of personal exr>' r i ment or merely theoretical Assumption,is not definitely sailed by. the gossip of his s^'.ghbor*.

LAFOETE COUNTY. The Michigan City Enterprise reports that all the vessels wintering in that harbor broke loose from their mooriugs during the late thaw. Mr. Gerbnck, of that place, lost a big gray rooster and SSO in money at the late cock fight at Tolleston. A Champaign, (UL).chicken that “waaM.p to snuff,” collected his checks in just 4 minutes and 35 seconds, simply because he didn’t have enough sand in his craw. The stoTm last week caused terrible havoc among the trees and shrubbery in tho Sand City.— “Hardly a tree in the city remains uninjured,” says the Enterprise, “and many are totally ruined. The magnificent elms fronting on the square are a total wreck; and fruit trees —especially the tender peach —are probably nearly worthless.”

FULTON COUNTY. Frora the Itoohcstcr Sentinel we compile: Thieves are numerous and impudent. There were nine applicants for divorce before the Common Pleas court in session last week. Protracted meeting is being held night and day by the Methodist denomination. Jacob Hisey, of Newcastle township, recently lost five head of cattle from a mysterious sickness. A post mortem revealed the fact that tho blood was clotted in the large arteries. All the cattle were in good order when taken sick, and some of them died within twentyfour hours from the time they were attacked.

WHITE COUNTY. The Monticello Herald has been confidenced by an amateur troupe of low comedians from Logansport The dispenser of postoffiees for tbis congressional district has ordered an election, by the Republicans, of a candidate for postmaster fat that place, S. P. Conner having resigned. The editor has a Craig Microscope, supposed to be used to aid him in finding original matter in his “collumns.” > .Recent rains have burst out the east abutment of the new iron bridge -across the Tippecanoe at Monticello so that it is now dangerous to cross. ALLEN COUNTY. The Ft. Wayne Gazette of the 19th says “Mr. J. Tilton plowed an acre of sod on the west side of St. Mary’s river, on Saturday, and found the soil in excellent * condition.” CABBOLL COUNTY. The Delphi Journal publishes Gov. Baker’s Message in full and sets a portion of it up in type that was Us* used for one of President Pierce’s Messages. James dP. Stcrlin recently recovered, at Paris 111., two horses that had been stolen from him last November. One of the thieves -gas a mere child. Ben Willwck accidentally-slipped into the canal, whUe catting ice the ether dsy, and was completely Sub-

merged. He was rescued,however. Without ttiy permanent damage. BENTON COUNTT. Ttic Oxford Tribune «*ys that ev •embody, #ver there want moWfto i ,# l u dr eb 9t L 1 KjL Mud was knee deep in the streets of Oxford last week. The saloon door-knobs were recently draped is mourning. Th* Methodists are folding protraoted meetings which have already resulted in several accessions. Quite a temperance revival also reported in progress.