Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1872 — Indiana Items. [ARTICLE]

Indiana Items.

Measles are raging down at Kentlaticl. ' St. Joseph county is to have a public, hutpjtal.— A Smallpox in Franklin township, Pulaski county. * r ‘ : At Franklin the price of live hogs ranges from $0.30 to *3.50, Great scarcity of stock water is the complaint in Lake -county. The Legislature has'repealed the obnoxious Kankakee draining law. The total value of taxhiblcs in Lake county is placed at $5,000,285. Wild turkeys are reported numerous in’the woods of Porter couiity. The Mishawaka Enterprise calls qualifying witnesses “legal blasphemy.” The ice basinfess is rapidly reaching prodigious dimensions at Laporte. lHpthcria and scarlet fever are wrestling with the little people of Lap or tel ■ About 500 head of hogs shipppd from FrancesViii'e'one day last week. The Kendaliville Standard watitß Colfax, to be a candidate for President in ’7O. Several eases of blackleg among o o cattle are reported near Lowell in Lake county. Over at Monucello they have recently organized a Lecture and Musical Association. ■' Hebron is to have a new brick church; it will bo built by the Christian denomination. The Kentland Democrat don’t like it because the Remington Journal uses “Justifieatabilitv.”

-Fulton county farmers who are able are holding on to their wheat hoping to get $1.50 a bushel. Lake county people pay $ 1,825 tax annually on the liquor tiiey consume, and $2,105 o:i their tobacco. The total value of taxables in St. Joseph county is estimated at $lO,857,025. The amount taxed thereon is 128,802.80. . _ Rev. 11. Koenig, of Winamac, is going to take spiritual charge of St. Martin’s Catholic church at Louisville, Ky. Forty hands are employed in the Laporte car factory, and the force will be increased with the approach of warm weather. Warsaw boasts of “three of the handsomest "and most convenient school houses of any town ill the State of twice its size.” ■ ! ~ Vicious cows are permitted to run at large in the streets of Laporte and break the bones of surplus old ladies and children. The “rage” at South Bqnd this winter is an Anti-Profan eSwearing Association. Its membership numbers several thousand names. South Bend is said to have the largest paper mill west of the Allegheny mountains, -ft manufactures five tons ot printing paper daily. Senator Wintcrbotham, of Mich igan City, is said to be a brother to Sirs. Ann S. Stephen.;, the authoress, and yet they say he isn't proud. The conundrum which is now worrying- the brains of Laporte people is, Can disembodied spiritsmovc and control ponderable substances? A.Mispatch from Ft Wayne to the Inter- Ocean says that Allen county on Tuesday voted a tax of $200,000 in favor of the Continental railroad. Over in Benton county not long since Smith got’.his eye kicked out while fighting. It was Bob Smith’s eye and John War'd did it with his little hoof. The Logan sport Journal is afflicted with a correspondent Who insists that “Now the melancludly days have.come” and that' Byron calls them “the saddest of the year.” pound of quicksilver, nitric and mu riatic aoid in a bottle tlie other day, when the mixture exploded and, burnt his face. Billy lives in Stark county. Last week was an eventful nee in Porter county. Two fatal accidents from' firearms, one murder or suicide, a man killed by tlie cars, a fire in Valparaiso, a serious runaway, and a highway robbery. —The South Bend papers (which, slldom publish an issue without the Vice President,p say the rumor-that Mr. Colfax will soon taktreiiitorial control of the New York Tribune is without truth Up at New Carlisle two .men* a woman and three children carried hot water in pails, kettles and basins and poured it over a hog they Fad tied to a post. When expostulated with for their cruelty they replied that waffTlie Way they butchered their pork when they had no sharp knife. * • \ •*» '

♦The Francesville Local Topic says that most of the Swedes who work- , ed op the Continental railroad grade during the summer and fall have gone to work upon the new -ra-ilroarl -between - Valparaiso. There is a gentleman in Logansport whose feet arc wo hrrge the Ciity cnlp’lffys him to walk over the sr&ewiilJtK early winter mornings to make paths through the deep snowy so that people can get about to fake their morning nips without unnecessary delay. In the Rochester graded school if a youngster whispers contrary to the rules and regulations thereof, his little teacher claps a piece of adhesive plaster over the offending lips, and the youngster’s “stern parient” prosecutes for assault and battery. They have good orderly schools at Rochester! ■ The Indianian is urging upon the people of Warsaw the necessity of providing a public library and reading room. Among other reasons advanced in favor of the project it says: “There would he much less liquor drank, less carousing at nights, if a place was provided where young men could spend their evenings, many of Whom, for want of a better place, now spend their evenings in the saloons.” G. W. Dowell while perambulating the gas-jit streets of Francesville, not many moonless nights ago, was confronted by a stupid looking bull dog. G. W. had just been reading the Scripture which' enjoins us all to “beware of dogs,” and in trying to pull a little 4-shoot-ing Sharpe, accidentally discharged it tn his pocket and lodged one of its little balls in the calf of his leg; and tlie dog, he ran away. , , _. _ -Htr, 1- :