Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1871 — Editorial Correspondence. [ARTICLE]

Editorial Correspondence.

Tiikmont House, Chicago, June 20, 1871, 3 oUdock I\M. Col. Hammond: Dear Fbimnd:-— Dr. 11. 11. Most) and myself arrived here this morning’safely. Ar yon perhaps know we left Rensselaer Bunday evening and of course coulfl not see mnch of the country and crop prospects. We stayed with Mr. M. Nagle, nt Francesville, until the 7:20 train this morning. Found him nnd bis farpily well. He will <piit tlrehotel business July let. Mr. Nagle, is doing belter nn<l can make.more money in the insurance business.— Hi represents the Continental, of New York,,l believe, and is conthe wing filling policies. At I'ri'.nccaviilc we called on Bro. Wmi garden, of the lAcal T<>yic t and found him hale and hearty, dividing his time between the practice of medicine and publishing his paper. The Doctor is a pleasant gentleman, v. ith dcoi led literary tastes, :mtl 1 wonder he uhould ever have lift the editorial and publi. hing profession—r for he has published a newspaper b< fore. lie is cramped up in his little ofiiccHbetween types and pills but be seemed happy and contented. 1 also hnd the pleasure of sh: king han Is r, ith Mr. Samuel RAhling, Mr. Gordon, Mr. Fairchilds and Dr. Hartman. Everybody were anxious to learn about the ’ prokpccts of the New Yoik W< stern railroad r.ml all seemed willing to Jo their utmost in its f.-.vor. There w ill be. no trouble about their voting the appropriation tax. The excitement incident (e the agitation T»f this enterprise ti::*' already a'.tr;’.ctc,<lt>e.,ple thither to buy properly, aiin establish in business. I was told that two new T<Tores had already opened their stock there to be on band when the influx of population began to settle around. From Francesville to’the Illinois State line via Crown Point corn dees not look as well a* in Jafpc? ccunty. 1 did not see a field that was us forward as most-of the fields in Jasper, while much of it was only four to six inches in bight, pale sind spindling. Harvesting had commenced at intervals all along, and in Lake county and thence Chicago-wards numbers Wire cutting wild hay. From Wanatah west beyond Hebron and near to Crown Paint nearly the whole summer's growth of the fofet trees has been blighted from'sorae cause, and all the leaves on the lender twigs and shoots that have grown cut this season ?ro eear and withered. This is more particularly noticeable cn the oaks, but hickory, aspen and even orchard trees halve not escaped. I do not know the cause of this but it looks r.s though a current of hot air had passed over -and scorched them. It nujy be they have been pelted to death with bail, though I failed to notice ary marks oh the growing crops. J f As we came put of Indiana into the environs, tis it were, of I noticed that people were trying ‘to raise large crops of potatoes and in every field there were from one to a dexen persons—men, women and children—annul with paddles, e'.ubs and buckets, crushing -ar.J knocking off the pestiferous Colorado potato Lugs. They all seemed Laj py, the Sun shone brightly, and they generally traveled in lino of battle, closely supporting the skirmishers. Potatoes looked finely and don’t seem to be hurt by the bugs yet. ’ James. The- Laporte Argus says “A lively competition occurred over the letting of the contract for digging the Kankakee ditch. Some twen-ty-five or thirty bills, were put in.— J. J. Queally & Co., of Hannibal, Mo.j were the successful parties.— The price for excavating the main channel is 17 cents per yard, and the "tributaries 115 cents per yard, with per r.Cre for grubbing, and '51.50 per yard for removing stone. The company have "‘Concluded to enlarge the dimensions of the ditch by adding two feet to its width and two feet to its depth. The upper end will be 34 feet wide on top and 22 feet at the bottom. At the mouth, the channel w ill bo of the tame capacity as a stream ICO feet wide with the water about 4 feet 10 inches deep. The earth removed will be placed ten feet from the edge of the ditch. The contractors have ten steam dredges which will, be placed on the work as soon as possible and it seems probable that the work will commence in earnest in a short time.” r,' , A. Connecticut schoolboy has written a composition on the horse, in which he says it* is an animat having four legs. . “one r.t each corner.” a 1