Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1871 — COMPILED FROM OUR EXCHANGES. [ARTICLE]

COMPILED FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

From the Kent land Gazetti , Thieves are plenty. Tho north halt of Jackson township, Newton county, was last week christened Colfax township, by petition of the citizens and order of the Board of Commissioners. The lino runs north of Pilot Grove. From the Plymouth Democrat. At the February term of tho Marshall Circuit court, Samuel Ilarkor, over seventy years of age, was convicted of an attempt to take the life of Peter Etlinger, and w»s sentenced to two years in thb penitentiary. Twenty-two sheriff’s sales were advertised in the.i?«mocral last week. From the Kentiand Democrat. Most all who were injured by the fire last winter are making preparation to build this spring. S. P. Thompson, of Rensselaer, was advertised to deliver a temperance lecture last Monday evening.— Messrs. Ward «£ Graham’s law office was broken into and robbed last week. Most of their clothing was stolen. From tho Warsaw Northern Jndianian. The horse market is quite lively this season. There are glimmering I indications that Warsaw people are ! slowly aw akening from the Rip Van Winkle sleep that has overpowered them for the past twenty years. There are thirty-seven lakes in Kosciusko county and very little dry land and fish are very plentiful in all—the varieties are mostly tadpoles, dry cod and pickled mackerel—which, no doubt, accounts for the saltiness of the Indianian “chit-chat.”

f rom the So|ith Bend Register. The editor tries to “sass” Theodore Tilton and don’t like the Golden Age. The Common Council** of ifouth Bend have been petitioned to buy another steam fire engine. A correspondent takes offense because a publie speaker called Martin Luther, the famous Reformer, a “little Dutchman.” The sugarmaking season has been exceedingly good, so far. Velocipedes have again made their appearance on the sidewalks. Croquet has been ushered into fashion by the return of spring. Peaches are going to be numerous tbis year. 1 Several manufacturing firms are making preparation to enlarge their establisiiments. William Prue, Emperor of Lowell, an eccentric halfbreed Indian, died w*eek before last, from the combined effects of unimpeached honesty, whiskey and old age. St. Joseph county boasts of a horse thief only twelve years old. A justice of the peace at Edwardsburg, a rural village ten miles from “the Bend,” grants divorces in his court for the low sum of one dollar and fifty cents. 1 *,

From the .Michigan Qity.D nterjnise. , Fish boats are doing a tlVriVing business. There is considerable disappointment manifested by the local Democracy about the division of the prison offices. It took a colored pupil nine weeks to “get religion” at Michigan City the past winter. Some of tho white people there have been a lifetime w ithout any. Rev. Dr. Wood has been retained »s moral Instructor at the prison. The new reyims of prison officers is as follows: Warden, C. B. Mayne, of Huntington; Depnty Warden, A. J. Smedley, of Greencastle; Clerk, A If. Leonard, of Laporto; Physician, Dr. Sinclair, of Porter.

From the Laport* Argus. The city council of Laporte has found it iiecoHSliry to pass a special ordinancc.agaiust loafing and rodyisru. There w ill be at least thirteen new brick store rooms erected during the coming season. A couple of Africans recently got themselves into a “de-ficelty” about something. Ono of the parties resorted to wordy abuse while the other assumed a haughty dignity and denied any acquaintance with hia antagonist Thia demeanor brought forth a crushing retort, as follows: “Don’ no you, hav? Yes I does, sah; 1 knows all about you. I knows yo’ loTathers; dars millions of ’em over in de fore’n country, lupen dtr tails around dc lims."

From tho Valparaiso Vidette. r l'he wheat in Porter county is looking splendid find unless something unexpected transpires, tho crop will be a good one. An unusually largo breadth of land was sown last fail. Dr. Sinclair has been appointed physician to the northern prison. Republicans in Porter county are reported to desires new mau for the Presidential candidate in 1872—they don’t want Grant neither do they desire Sumner. A genuine mineral spring, of excellent quality, unadulterated, and hugely nasty, has been discovered a short distance east of the city limits. Messrs. Shad© & Lembke Lave been awarded tbe contract to build the Porter county jail for the sum of $24,325.

From the Winumac Democrat. Chicken thieves have again commenced their fowl depredations.— Wiir&mao has five preachers, five shoemakers, five doctors and five drara-shopß. Three divoroes were granted at the last session of the Pulaski Circuit court. Tho wheat crop never looked more promising at this eensou of the year. Somebody burglared tho foundry and took a largo quantity of plow points. The male portion of the citizens think that Rev. Mr. Adell, who was recently sentenced to two years in the penitentiary for assault with iuteut to commit rape, guilty and his sentence just, while ninetenths of the female portion of community who read the evidence against him, think he is innocent and the findings unjust.