Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1872 — Indiana Items. [ARTICLE]

Indiana Items.

Holly water works arc now talked of In rValpa rai ao.——Klim.' Lake could furnish the 'supply.-*-' Valparaiso Messenger. *• ' ;jt . It is now almost certain that we hriv,e-it- new opera- house. which will supply a want of the public, ever since the old hall was burned.- War raw Northern Indian.ii.in. The grocers are compelled to make requisitions on the fanners for delivery purposes, their own horses being unfit for use on account of the prevalence of disease. — Elkhart Observer. Most of the public schools in the city have been closed for want of wood, tlie contractors failing to furnish on account of their horses being sick with the epizooty.— South Bend Register. From a Washington dispatch we learn that our fellow-citizen, Dr. J. F. II caton, ait officer in the medical division of the pension bureau, died in thateity on Saturday last. — Val paraiso Messenger.

While John Thitnrcing, a brakeman on the P., F; W. & C. It. W., was engaged in the discharge of his duties on Monday night, he fell between the ears at the depot in this city and was run over. His head was literally severed from his body.- Valparaiso Messenger. We understand that there is a section of about four miles square, in Cass township, that is entirely destitute of public schools. There are about fifty children who are thus left to grope in ignorance, and it is not a very favorable comment on the enlightenment of our county. Laporte Argus. It would seem from the number of fights that we have l):td in town this week, that muscle was to supercede law. Old and young, law-' vers, mechanics,’ laborers, porkbuyers, loafers, have been engaged in pastimes of this character nearly every day in the week. We expect to hear of a respectable dog sigh t \ to close the record with. —Rochester Sentinel. . ' ; 1

The other day we overheard a prominent business man of this place predicting that there would be fifty new residences erected upon our prairie during the coming summer. We sympathize with him iir his spirit of enterprise, and honestly think that his liberal estimate will be greatly surpassed. If the citizens but do tiioir duty, this prairie is going to be a lively spot upon the face of old dame Nature for the next decade of years ! f ranccsvil/e Local Topic, There isn’t any room for doubt that the coming winter is to be “awful cold.” The prophets all say so, and the man is insane who disputes the prophets. They have found the moss growing thick on the trees fmas rdai).diiut>am.-Tlmit: heads, sun-flowers pointing toward the North Pole, grajie vines running around the poles instead pf tip them, and there are a thousand other signs to show that every human being will be frozen as still as a chip bej'ore February.— South Bend Tribune. A Market street man, well posted in the price of straight drinks, came home the other afternoon and made such a racket at the door that his wife thought he was drunk as usual, but when she opened the door she found him with both arms full of wood. In explanation he said- he bought a load of wood, and on the way to deliver it, one "of the woodhauler’s horses got the eppy-up-his snoot, and out of pity for the horse lie brought the whole load home in his arms, and it didn’t Stagger him much either, —South Bend Tribune.

Mr. Goodman, a Chicago-member ot the Tolliston, Imke county, shooting club, recently shot a remarkable bird iu the marshes Hear The club house. While waiting for some ducks to rise he observed the strange creature standing -on a muskrat house a short distance off. Startled by his presence, it took wing and him. ll,e' fired and brought it down. It proved to be an immense snow-white pelican, measuring eight feet ten inches from tip to tip of wing, seven feet from base of bill to end of tail, and seven feet in height. The bill is twenty : two inches in length, and is ornamented with a bag of sufficient capacity to hpid a peck.— Laporte Argue,

On Monday last our sanctum was graced by the pleasant face ot our amiable friend, Father J. A. Stephens, who, by-tlia-way, is an everwelcome yisitor. lii addition to his ecclesiastical excellencies, her is a most able and accomplished civil engineer. lie informed’ us that he had just returned from the credit h! ble work of laying out a Catholic Cemetery, about two miles-east of Fort Wayne, this State, which from the description that the worthy

Father gave us, will surpass every - thing of the kind in the State— The land cost $15,000, and itj is contemplated to spend about $lO,000 in the way of improvements upon it. The plan of the cemetery iii original with Father Stephens, and reflects great fcredit upon his genius. It will he the most com.ple.te in every respect ot any institution 6 f the kind we have ever - seen in any portion of our great., republic! An orphan asylumTs to be erected up'on the grounds. Sue- j cess attend the undertaking.— Nrpn- j cesville Local Topic. —^

* Vico. President Clfdfajt ’ icifl this city ou l ut*s»i:iy He g«#es to Andover, Ohio, and Irani thence in n (1 ay or two, to YVitsliington to i c'-iimi; his duties as FresUiertt of the Sen&te. He expects to return, possibly tor a day during holydays, hut probably not before sonic time m February, when lie is promised for a speech at the dedication of Stntlehaker Bros.’ new works. Mr.. Colfax, who was already pecuniarily idi’iiutieii with several of the fnannfactories of this city, became on Monday last a $5,000 stockholder in phe Birdsell Maiiiilaefcuring Co., and lie signifies his intention, on his return to private life next spring, to devote his energies and business (jiialitieations entirely to bis home interests And this in the face of an offer which he has lately rejected of a Salary of 312,00.0 to take charge of a commercial interest in one of the larger cities. —South Bend Register.

Yesterday forenoon a boy about twelve years old, whose name we did not learn, met with an accident while coming down Michigan street which should be a warning to all boys in the future. It seems that the boy was bringing his skates down, town to have them repaired, and very foolishly touched his tongue to the iron of one of the skates, to ascertain, we presume, if it were cold. The result can be imagined. The tongue being very moist and warm and the iron cold they froze together. The little feldow endeavored to withdraw liis tongue but could not. Several gentlemen went to his rescue, but ; t required the most careful handling to loosen the boy's organ of taste from the iron. They ejected Saliva upon the iron and rubbed it fully five minutes before they succeeded, ancl then a piece of the skin of the tongue, about the size of the nickel was left on the handle, leaving the surface of the tongue where it had ..colire -in contact with the iron as white as though it had been seared With a hot iron. During the time he was last the hoy gave vent to the most excruciating cries. —South Bend Tribune.

Stiles Eggleston, : commonly known hr this community as “judge,” was found dead, last Monday- afternoon, about half past four, in a shed belonging to Wickwire’s Hotel. It appears he had been suffering a long time from a fever sore on his right leg, about half wav bet ween the ankle and knee. The immediate cause of his death was occasioned by the soreeating away the flesh until it reached a blood vessel, the .deceased bleeding to death in consequence, lie was seen about half an hour before his death, having gone for tobacco to Zeitier’s a few. doors above the hotel. The person who saw him called attention to some tracks of blood, which he noticed were those of Mr. Eggleston, but the latter paid uo attention, passing on to the shed hi question, where he was afterwards found: The body was still warm._ The caitso 'oTnjs dea.tliso apparent that-u jur.y was deemed untircessary. Deceased had lived at the Elkhart House for tlje past fifteen years, doing chores for a living. Ills age was 73., He was regarded as a peaceful old man. —-Elkhart Observer.

We notice tint many of our dealers have been abroad and purchased good numbers of young caUitv.-yWiriings, with the intention of feeding them this- winter and pasturing them next summer. Wo believe be the wiost profitable way ofjlandlitig cattle in tins country. Large quantities of good hay can be put up,, on our prairie during tbe summer at a trifling cost, i and there is more money in feeding our large crops of corn than to sell it at the very low market price usually prevailing. The cost of keeping through the summer- amounts to the price of the salt consumed and the wages paid a herder. Under tliese advantages, the handling of young eatile must certainly be the most profitable, as the money that would buy a herd of full grown, cattle w ill buy nearly double the number of yearlings, ■ and they grow r rapidly into tit condition lor -market under the trifling expense already indicated. Purchase calves and let them grow into money, is surely the best maxim for our dealers.—Fvanceaville Local Topic.