Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1871 — The Railroad. [ARTICLE]

The Railroad.

lion: It. S. Dwiggins, President of the Indiana division of the New York Western Kailway, returned to-dny, after an absence of six weeks iu New- York City on business connected with this enterprise. He reports the prospect for completing tho road according to eontract very flattering. The chief engineer of tho Construction Company came with him as far as Fort Wayne, where-he stopped to get his surveying implements, and will be in Kensselaer cither this evening or to-morrow morning ready to commence surveying tlic line and setting stakes from this point to Francisville and through to Rochester. One hundred hands or as many as can bo obtained will bo put on the line in Jasper county to grade the road, on Saturday, June 3d, and will be kept at work until it is completed. Mr. Dwiggins says that this means business in good faith, and is not simply to establish a lieu on the county tax voted last year.

We learn from citizens of Newton county that last Sunday Gen. Milroy, A. B. Condit, James Milroy, and one or two others, took a colony of Swedes, about a hundred families, into the north part of Newton county, on what used to be Beaver Lake, and pre-empted 160 acres of laud sits each as a homestead. The reason of this seemingly high handed outrage is this: When the United States deeded certain lands to the State, what was Beaver lake was not included and the wholo body of the lake about 8 miles long by 6 w ide was held as United States property. — Afterwards when tho lake was ditched, the owners of lands bordering on the lake, claimed that thoir land followed tho receding waters and that the traot thus reclaimed belonged to tjiein. The knowledge that the title was still in the United States we suppose started this colonization scheme.— As it now stands several men who profess to own thousands of acres of that land find it settled on by these new-comers, the land they supposed they owned cut uo into 160 acre farms and tho occupants determined to hold their ground in defiance of threlrts or mobs.

Within the past week Paris has been a theatre of bloodshed, and cruelty that would have disgraced the dark ages of the world. These tragedies prove that man is barbarous by nature and when tbo restraints of civil law are removed his natural propensities become more hideous and terrible in proportion as bis inventive faculties are intensified by civilization and education. History scarcely furirislies a parallel to the outrages that have been perpetrated by Frenchmen upon their countrymen and neighbors under the sanction of war and license of military necessity. Men, women and innocent children have been wantonly and cruelly put to death without trial. Public buildings and valuable works have been destroyed through wantonness and a spirit of insane malice. The , telegraph reports misery and crime rampant in the streets ot this miserable city whose inhabitants scarce cue short year ago claimed for her the proud distinction of being .the centre of civilization. Minister Washburn telegraphs to Secretary Fish that the insurrection has been suppressed.

Muckshsw frogs, whip-poor-wills of the forest, a night singing mocking bird, new babies and very bad consciences arc among the enumerated annoyances that break the rest and interrupt the slumbers of the geniußes that preside over the destinies of the Plymouth JJemocrat.

'-’I. . John Olvahy, a Michigan City fisherman, recently performed a deed of heroinpi more noble than any for which an Alexander or Cassar or Bonaparte arc famed. In company with three others he was out on the lake in a fishing skiff within sight of the harbor when they were capsized by a flaw of wind. Tho vessel being too smnll to support all four of them, ho’told his companions that as ho was a single Tnan with no one dependent upon him for support that he would endeavor toswim ashoro, while tlioy being men with families should cling to the boat until a vessel could put out from tho harbor to fhcir rescue. The accident was seen at the pier and a* steam tug went out and saved those clinging to the boat, but greathearted John Olvany had sunk beneath the waters and his noble spirit was quenched from this life forever.

Just at present the Rochester Union Spy, Republican, and the Rochester Sentinel, Democratic, have eased up a little on “bolitics” and*arc arguing the propriety voting additional aid to the proposed New York Western Railway project. The former paper takes the affirmative and tho latter the negative of the question. Besides able and well written articles both pro and con, in their columns these champions sometimes indulge in sharp little 6quibs. The last one of the kind indulged in by the Spy is that “Metcalf nor no other calf can but the loeojuotive off the track of the New York Western Railway.” Metcalf is editor of the &»- tinel and is a pretty sharp writer—it is expected lie will leave ofTpawing at the locopiotivo' and go fpr Mattingly with head down and Uq up.

Parties at Mishawaka have invented a hollow wrought iron axle for cars, drays, coaches, wagots, sulkeys, etc., which they claim will eventually supercede all other materials now in use for that purpose, being lighter, stronger, more elastic and possessing greater durability in combination than any other article yet discovered. At a public trial recently made in that place with a wagon of ordinary construction in other respects, but furnished with the hollow wrought iron axle, the wagon weighing 765 pounds, 14,048 pounds of iron was loaded on and hauled in perfect safety over stones, through ruts audacross tho .railroad track. The editor Of the Enterprise thinks that tho wagon would have sustained a weight of ten to,ns without strain.

The Kentland Democrat of last week launched at ns a shaft of withering sarcasm together with a hint that wc might be better employed than to publish tho insignificant feeß it actually received for publishing three notices of application for license to sell liquor in their thirsty burg. Upon mature reflection perhaps we ought to have considered the difficulties that present themselves to our contemporary in its endeavors to serve the temperance cause and the Democratic party at the same time, and desisted from annoying revelations. The Democrat does not deny our statements in regard to the matter however, and it is presumed the information upon which they were based are substantially true.

Among the various modes in which that delicious fowl the strawberry is served up by Plymouth epicures, the following are enumerated: Strawberries a la ice cream, strawberries sandwiched with friendship, strawberries fried in pounded ice, strawberries au nuturfl, strwberrics a la markonhisleftcheek, strawberries pickled on the vine, strawberry cocktails, strawberries a la festival, strawberries a la <fcc., tfcc., &c., &c., fricassed with onion hash and pulverized terra alba kohlrabi sliced in sorghum syrup aud eaten with a variegated skimmer.

Col. John W. Kay, estimates that the present endowment fund of Asbury University would not endow a first class saloon in Indianapolis; that the Methodist do not think as ijnuch of their church as the Mormons do of theirs, as the latter pay one-tenth of their incomes for church purposes, while if tbe Methodists would give four mills on the dollar of what they are worth the whole world could be evangelized in twenty-five years. Captain L. A. Cole, who formerly read and practiced law in Rensselaer and who married here 1 , has again been appointed City Attorney by the common council of Laporte. He is also Assistant Quartermaster General of the G. A. 11. for the district of Indiana.

The following is a list of the important games of baso ball fait and won this season by the leading clubs of the United States. Ctube. Lost. Won. 1 While Stockings, Chicago. ... 0 4 2 Athletic*. Philadelphia........ 0 2 3 Mutual, New York 0 0 4 Red 8eat0n........ 1 3 6 Haymakers, Troy 1 1 6 Kokloofa, Fort Wayue 2 2 7 Olympic, Washing ton 2 2 8 Eekfoid, Brooklyn 2 0 9 National, Waahlngton 2 0 10 Atlantic, Brooklyn A 2 0 11 Forest City, Cleveland 4 4 1 1 Forest City, Rockford 4 0 13 Red Jacket, Reamelaer 1 1 14 Rough and Ready, Reneaelaar.. 0 1 The Winamac Democrat of last week devotes six out of its seven and one-half columns of inside reading matter, to a brief synopsis of the proceedings at the editorial convention recently held in Indianapolis, and promises its readers to “refer more particularly to the subject next [this] week,” from which observation we are led to infer that the onterprising proprietors intend to enlarge.

The sickness of Vice President Colfax is caused from paralysis of the nerves of the heart, and is much more serious than was at first supposed. The paralysis has been occasioned by over mental la* bor. He is still quite weak and not able to sit up. He is cheerful, however, and constantly improving, though it is not probable that he will fully regain his health for several weeks. The Prairie Farmer cautions pcoplo- against sending money to the Dollar Store of S. C. Thompson & Co., at Chicago. The genuine S. C. T. & Co. failed in business and sold the establishment, business, reputation, and the use of the firm name to the present proprietors, who keep all moneys sent the firm and do not forward the goods ordered.

The Republicans of Michigan City are after Bro. Jcrncgan, of the Enterprise , with a sharp stick, he* cause he bolted the party nominations at the municipal clectious.— Petitions were circulated and signatures obtained requesting that he be removed from the Collectorship of that port. His son thinks it an awful persecution of pap and bawls like a ball calf. The Vidette says that it has become fashionable for young married couples-of Valparaiso to wheel baby wagons on tho streets with nothing in them, “and the same with intent to deceive.” The Mishawaka Enterprise advertises that he will make a business of swearing at 50 cents an oath.— That’s an outrageous price; we get cussed lots of times for nothing at all, and only a line or two of that J. B. Stoll, the happy' editor of the Ligonier Banner and proprietor of a 300-pound abdomen, wants to be the next Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Indiana. Green cucumbers, ripe tomatoes and good, old-fashioned, griping colic are onoe again to be found among the wares of Laportc green grocers.

The painful announcement comes to us that “Stephen A. Douglas’ tomb in Chicago is "to b 6 6old by the tax collector, to pay the assessment against it for improvements in the cemetery in which it is located.” How this testifies to the utter emptiness and evanescence of all earthly fame! Time Was when the “Little Giant” was the mosttalked of most idolized man in the nation. Few can ever hope to achieve the personal popularity and wide notoriety of this wonderful politician—ho was beloved of men, and women deemed it a precious honor to touch his hand. Now that he is dust he is so sunk in nothingness and oblivion, that his late worshipers do not care to protect his grave against the tax gatherer to keep his bones from the Sheriff. What an impressive lesson to those who are hotly seeking the “bubble reputation!” And it shows too how decaying and transitory is the fame and memory of the mere politician. —Laporte Herald. Best quality of envelopes and paper for business men kept on hand and neatly printed to order, at this office. We furnish printed envelopes and letter paper, equal in quality and printing, cheaper than they can be obtained from abroad after adding transportation charges.