Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1873 — PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY. [ARTICLE]

PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY.

- -Er®. D® of Remington Journal, i» trying to get ns to > dispute about the circulation of our paper. La! the combined circulation ot the Journal, The Union and half a dozen of our country' neighbors, would not be worth quarrying over. Jasper county,at tht> la*t election polled 1,555 votes, indicating a population of nearly ’IO,OOO stnils.— She has no jail and ho representative in the penitentiary. Al last enumeration there were 2,657 children between the ages of six and twenty-one years. The total value of property enumerated for taxa~l>l« purposes is $2,571,077, and the amount of school revenue derived therefrom is $5,605.08.

The American Farmer's Advocate, published at Jackson, Tennessee, is a large sixteen page monthly devoted to the interests of farmers, 11 is agoodjon rna 1, wel I cond u c ted y national in its character, and presses with great earnestness the claims of the National Agricultural Congress to the attention of farmers. Single subscription sl. We will furnish it and our paper one year for $2.50. The Advocate will be printed on a new press from and after March, 1873. ■ —The Commissioner of Agricu 1ture reports that the corn crop of the United States of 1872 amounted to the immense total of 1,100,003,-000-(one billion, one hundred million) bushels. Were this sold in the city of New York at present prices it would bring the snni of $704,000,000. At the farmers’ cribs it is worth about 20 cents a bushel or $22,000,000, which deducted from its value in New York, leaves the modest little sum of $682,000,000 for the pockets of railroad kings, warehouse princes and middlemen. - ~Who, after considering these stubborn facts, will doubt that there >s something wrong between the cornfields and markets? Or who will blame the farming community for organizing in Societies to correct the evil and stop these iinmense leakages that, are draining the substance of the soil to be horded up in distant cities? God speed the Patrons of Husbandry, Farmers’ Congress and any and all combinations of the people organized for the purpose ui breaking down these terrible monopolies that are sucking out the life blood of the nation.

Our readers will bear us witness that'we have steadily refrained from entering into a controversy with that filthy little sheet at Rensselaer. * * The career of these vile and dirty dogs has justified Divine forethought and wisdom. They have deceived the-public Aild degraded .the position they are permitted to Hold. They have gathered a few of this world’s goods by corrupt means, nt the expense of the people, and now, with the brazen assurance of convicted felons, they Haunt their ill-gotten gains in the face of the people.— “Their whole life is a consecutive lie; their whole nature is base and corrupt; decent men refuse them their society, and pure women shun them; their instincts are low and lead them to court the association of the vicious and depraved, and thus they live on their poor, worthless lives, shunned of men, branded of God, linked with criminals; and given over to every vicious practice and habit, and will contrive to exist, a stench in the nostrils of the community, until it pleases if wise Providence to take them hence.” There two criminal scapegraces, which the language above qtioted, from the pen of XV. C. Moreau, more appropriately used than in this instance. ♦ * * There is not a single paper in this district that can conscientiously say a respectable word of these licentious curs and whiskey guzzlers. ' ***** —-* ♦ jq seems to be a hard matter to suit these Treasury.sucklings and political dead beats in anything. The Legislature put a stop to part of their little swindling and now they are frothing at their venomous mouths about it. — Stop your low, vulgar slang,, you bigoted tools and public swindlers. Only such as you and jour ring associates believe a word youfolks i>ut no confidence in j'our statements. Tell us, you low, cowardly, sneaking, slovenly scoundrels, how you got the last draw on the Treasury? Tell the public, you gallows cheats, how you come to’have a circulation of 436 in this county, when your entire edition is only 360? Drag yourselves with your ill-gotten gains into your damnable slum, and use them to the best advantage.

The above extracts from the Remington Journal of last week are reproduced without change in typography, orthography or grammatical construction, and comprise less than one-fourth of what was published in that issue of a similar nature about ourselves, our paper, 1 our friends our business. Last fall Mr. DeForest admitted that Mr. Congressman Packard had paid him $3 for his friendship and polit-

ical influence, and we presume the young man will feel constrained, in. consideration thereof, to continue these attacks from timfe to time until the middle of next July, when, he publishes, he will pack up Lis office and move further -West.

The boys say that while riding along one day in the ears, on their excursion to Lincoln City, the or entered the car hurriedly with the remark, viz:—“Passengers will do well to look out for theirppckM. book?,— There are two very suspicious looking bellows in this car.” Therough looking. pointed porkscrews of theltensselaef U'foily I nude instantly clapped their hands upon their wallets, which contained their passes and a small amount of stamps which they had just drawn from the Jasper county Treasury forthetrip, and left the ear quickly, saying: “If that’s the ease we won't ride in this car.” After they had got out the conductor closed the'ear door, shouting to the passeng-' ers, “All right, rest easy, they've just got out! -Francesville Local Topic. The “boys” say that while passing through Chicago, on their excursion to Lincoln City, they had considerable trouble with the pretzle-pointed cork-serewsoftheenmltous Weakly Inside. While passing along the streets, thev noticed the red, yellow, blue and green lumps of tlie street cars. They wanted to go back home immediately, remarking, “We must get out of this place! It’s too sickly here—so sickly that their running the drug stores about on wheels! ” It required much labor to convince them of their error I—Francesville Local Topic.

Something more than a year ago the doggerel editor of the Topic spent six months’ time and about SBOO hunting for a half witted poor fellow has fits’) —who started from Pennsylvania for the little water tank on the prairie east of Saltillo, but got lost. Last fall the young man turned up in this place and we dTreeled him over there. Since then these happy brothers are publishing reminiscences of their travels and make us the heroes of their own experience. Gentlemen, those little incidents are very well told and read quite pretty, but you should not sacrifice truth to modesty; don’t hesitate to claim the honors that belong to you even if envious persons do call it egotism. A few, cases of scarlet fever are reported in Plymouth. The mill yards are well supplied with logs in Marshall county. A new corn planter and furniture factory is being built at Monticello. Fort Wayne, like Rensselaer, has a scarcity of dwelling honses. All over the State preparations are being made for maple sugar making. One firm atKentland has shipped 191 car loads of corn since January Ist, 1873. There is to be a mass meeting of Spiritualists at Michigan City on the 22d instant—Washington’s birthday. A man in Laporte county recently sold fifty bead of Chester White hogs, that averaged 416 pounds on the hoof. The first railroad built in Indiana was in 1845, and was thirty miles in length. In 1871 there were 2,335 miles in the State. - Green wood and chunks will not hereafter be accepted on subscription by the finical fireman of the Monticello Herald office. The Monticello Herald is. informed that the machinery tor a new paper mill at that place has been purchased and is on the road. The Valparaiso Vidette says that within the last two weeks quite a ! number of people have manifested a desire to become Christians. At South Bend, it is reported, ■ small pox patients are permitted tlTe free<rbm“oUthe“city and roam through the streets at pleasure. An Indianapolis firm has commenced manufacturing an iron fence to enclose the Tippecanoe battle ground. It will cost about §50,000. The new high school building at Michigan City c6st $28,000 and will seat 1,000 pupils comfortably. The cost of painting the edifice will.be $1,300. A Stock Company with capital of $75,000 is about to be organized at Walkerton to develop the'“very powerful min era! springsTLabout 12. miles from that place. The peopljp of South Bend are making preparations to give Vice President Colfax a grand ovation, when he returns from Washington, about the 10th of March.

Over at Anderson the fashionable thing is to warn proscenting attorneys that they are “in danger of being Egged for meddling with things that is not your Business for the Sake of a fee only.” People in Laporte county are becoming very careless of their offspring. One family not long since left their’toewly born daughter upon a neighbor’s door step, and since then another left their still born child in a haymow.

Fifteen or twenty citizens of Delphi, it is reported, are anxiously watching the arrivaFof every mail for an envelope from the Postoffice marked “official business.” They are in a great fever about the poetoffiee succession.

James Moore, of Laporte, has been appointed Government Ganger for this Congressional District. — position is a sinecure w orth 11,500 per aniittni. 'That is Ins reward for/packing conventions for a Member of Congress. The Courier says that ten or twelve hundred young men and bachelors in Lafayette live in hotels and boarding houses, and sleep in poorly ventilated, ill kept rooms. That accounts for their, behavior when they visit Rensselaer and other country towms. The small pox is reported to be prevailing to an alarming extent at Logansport. One physician treated two or three cases of it as brain fever and tramped about the city for several days until the infection was pretty generally disseminated before its true nature was discovered .

A new paper mill, costing $200.000, is soon to be built at South Bend. With the exception of one mill in New' England it will be the largest in the United States. The power will be supplied by seven water w hee Is, an d its manufite turing capacity will be five tons of paper daily. An applicant for divorce at the present term of the circuit court, Rave us his reasons/ a few days ago, for -wishing to be permanently separated from his loving spouse. He said that about three years ago, his wife left him, and went off with another fellow; that she has since lived with the other fellow, by whom she has two children, and that she has persistently refused to live with him (her lawful husband). “Now,” said he, “would you blame me for not wanting to live with such a woman?” We answered emphatically that we would not.— Plymouth Democrat.

One of the objects of the Grange is to prevent cruelty to animals, and yet some of the members persist in coming to town without any hay in their sleighs. Others put hay in but have a savage dog to watch it. Such cruelty to our town cows and horses is very reprehensible and calls for immediate action on the part of the order, — Renssilaer Union. Some of our farmers are so inhuman as to bring their corn to town in high ~wagon boxes, making it necessary for the cows to stand on their hind legs while they eat the corn out. The owners of the cows should have enough regard for their safety to keep them rough shod behind to prevent them from slipping.— Plymouth Democrat. The President of the Kankakee Valley Draining Company has addressed the following open letter to the editor of the Laporte Herald-. To the Editor of the Laporte Herald: As if may be of some interest to the' public to know to What extent the Draining Company will act, on your friendly suggestions to “Die thedeath of the evil doer,” weshall respectfully decline the complimentary invitation to commit suicide. We have no doubt your conclusions are based on the misrepresentations of enemies of the enterprise, as to the feeling ot land owners, or as to the intentions of the company.. Any plan which you may suggest, looking to draining the valley, different from wliat you call “the wrong thing in the wrong way,” will receive the respectful attention of the vonipany;==

G. W. McC ONNELL, Pres.

We have been informed that a change is contemplated, the coming springj,-in thp postal and—express, route from our railroad to Rensselaer. At present the mail and express matter leave the road at Bradford, and are carried bj’ Duvall’s stage line to the first mentioned place. It is claimed that our thriving town would be a more convenient point for transferring, and the route leading from this place to Rensselaer the most practicable one. In the event of this change, Pleasant Grove will be made a regular post office with a daily mail. The advantages which will result will be undoubtedly more numerous, profitable and desirable in every wav than those derived from the present route. Pleasant Grove should have a daily’ mail bj’ all means. The many extensive farmers and stockdealers residing in that vicinity, who now receive their mail but once a week, or have to make long and unpleasant ..trips to this place of Rensselaer, and who sutler much loss and embarrassment from the great inconvenience, wiinld receive incalculable benefits from an office in their midst and tlie consequent daily receival of their mail matter. Let them use their united influence in helfing to secure this change.— Francesville Local Topic. The Directors of the Kankakee Draining Company met at theTeegarden House yesterday’ and evidently held a lengthy consultation. From information gained 4n a conversation with one of the parties we infer that rhe company will determinedly’ adhere to their organization, but it is probable, . that they will somewhat modify the magnitude of their prow’ork. Our informant stated that the members of the company were so desirous of having their own land drained that they were willing ; to meet the opponents of the project! by a compromise. They estimate that some three times the volume of water ■ which now finds its way through the ; river course will run through a ditch ; twenty-five feet wide and ten feet |

deep, when the course is made straight. This, they think, would clear the country of the surplus water and perform all the becessary work of the main channel, and they say, such a channel can be completed at a cost of not over $300,000. The idea would then be to let private companies, or clubs of farmers, dig their own lateral ditches and drain their lands by their own labor if they choose.— They say the best,legal talent of the country assures them that they have vested rights, and by law are fully empowered to do the work in accordance with the original programme, but it is probable that they will settle upon the plan which we indicate. If feasible the plan would have the merit of being cheap, and Several of the members of the company say they will pledge their individual property to raise the money 4o do the work. The idea may be worth considering and we give it as w l e received it, with the assurance to our readers that we will investigate the matter further and give them such news as we may be anie to obtain. Argiu.

The next meeting ot the National Grange of Patrons .of Husbandry ; ' ; s-;——<■» i • Farmers’ Clubs and Granges of Patron's of Husbandry abound in all the Western States, and it is coming j to be understood that these organiz.a- ---' tions mean business. They expect to I triumph, through united . effort, against every form of combination that has wronged them, and we bid them God speed in their war against monopolies. Valpuiaiso Vidette. '' l! ■** »

The Patrons of Husbandry in Lake couhtv have taken preliminary steps to organize a Mutual Fire Insurance Company. Ata nieeting held in Lowell on the Bth instant directors were chosen and upwards of $25,000 capital stock was subscribed. When $50,000 is secured articles of association will be filed with the Secretary of State at Indianapolis. The premium notes are to be given for the hill amount of policy, and the first fifty thousand to be dated March Ist, 1873, and run six years. One tenth of one per cent, to be paid glving the note, and fifty cents on receipt of policy. No dwelling will be insured where the stove pipe goes out through the roof, window, or side of the building, or passes Through - any wood ceiling, or wood partition without approved ventilators. No ashes can be kept in or about any dwelling, or nearer than thirty feet of any insured building.