Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1871 — COMPILEDFROM OUR EXCHANGES. [ARTICLE]

COMPILED FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

From tho Monticello ConstitiMonalut. Notwithstanding tho recent) act of tho legislature, fine fish arc being caught at Monticello. Tho first number of the Reynolds Banner has made its appearance. It is published by Messrs. Kleist A Wood, and advocates the rertoval of tho county scat from Monticello to Reynolds. ■ © From the Plymouth TArmoerol. Bixty-teven additions were received into the Methodist Episcopal church at Argos during a recent revival. Bremen is building a t3,0C9 school honse. Messrs. Ogleabee, Mattingly A Black, of Plymouth, shipped sixty car-loads of lumber in ten days. The trial of Orange Sage for killing Charles A. Tibbetts in a billiard saloon at South Bend, last spring, .which was taken on a change of venue to Marshall county, resulted in the acquital of the accused, the jury considering the killing a justifiable homicide. From lhe Mishawaka EnUrprize. High school ia wanted at Mishawaka and so is the Peninsular railroad. Freeman Campbell advertises that he drinks beer, smokes, owns 100 acres of land, |two town lots, cattle and other stock and that he wants a wife. The editor says that he knows nothing about the advertiser further than that he paid well for the notice. Pop corn and oranges are considered just the thing for refreshments at a donation party. Mishawaka youths excuse profane swearing becaiiso “dad belongs to mectin.’’ From lhe West Lebanon Advance. The West Lebanon Advance is the, name of a sprightly six-column Republican paper recently started in Warren county, by S. P. Conner, formerly of the Monticolle Herald. It requires considerable nerve to commence tho publication of a newspaper in a town like West Lebanon and a full pocketbook and liberal patronage to establish it We certainly wish Brother Conner both. The following compilings are made from its local columns: Growing wheat never promised better atlhia season of the year. Seven car loads of cattle were shipped from that place for Buffalo one day last week. Tho demand for dwelling houses is greater than tho supply; an 'evidence of prosperity. From the South Bend Register. The drama of “The Union Spy” recently performed at South Bend by a company of local amateurs, for five nights, receipted the handsome sum of 1600. Little Jimmy Gitohell, of Mishawaka, takes the South Bend Register, and earnMAe money to pay bis sawing wood. During the gale tMw prevailed Friday before last a portion of the roof of Coquillnrd’s steam mill uear Lakeville was blown off and stuck Mr. John Henderson, fracturing his skull and otherwise mangling him so as to cause death within twenty-six hours. A lazy, worthless individual in South Bend supplies two or three families with their daily grub to a salubrious extent, by driving a sorry team out among the tender hearted farmers of St. Joseph county and begging. From the Fort Wayne Gazette. Somebody outrageously outraged the Gazette by palming off a load of decayed cord wood upon them after dark. The editor thinks that after all his “efforts to elevate the moral tone of commercial intercourse, it is mighty discouraging to have a man slip up on them in that way.” A little child named Charles Grund, two years qi" age, was so terribly burned last week Wednesday that he is not expected to live. Tho little fellow’s mother had loft him alone lor a few moments, and it is presumed that a spark from the stove caught in his dress. All tho child’s clothing except a little belt was burned oft' and its legs, body and arms were nearly a mass of blister.