Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1873 — The Elections. [ARTICLE]

The Elections.

Ti'ssmav was a bad day for the party. There was a State election in Connecticut, and various municipal elections throughout the conntry, at nearly every one of which the Republican* found themselves in a minority— Chicago Tribune. As far as ihe Connecticut election is concerned, the “leading Republican paper of the Northwest” ought to have the fairness to state that the test of parties was on members of Congress, and tlxat the three Republican members of the late Congress were re-elected by largely increased tnaorities, and that "the Democratic member of the late Congress is re-elected by a reduced majority. Unfortunately, the Republican candidate for Governor was personally obnoxious to many Republicans, and lienee liis defeat. And as regards the various “immieipai elections throughout the country,” the Tribune might, if it should for once choose to be candid, tell its readers that, in cases where the contests were of a strictly partisan character, the Republicans at feast held their own, but that in a majority of cases party lines were not drawn, but the elections were decided upon local issues, regardless of old party lines.— Chi&go Journal. A katiiek singular case of somnambulism occurred recently in Shelby County, Kentucky. A beautiful and accomplished young lady of the neighborhood, wholtad a strong predilection for attending all the dancing parties that came off anywhere within reach of her home—who rather “had dancing on the brain,” as one of the good deacons of her church remarked — arose one night, while asleep, and proceeded to dress as for a ball, and, as she remarked afterward, dreamed that her escort was waiting for her, and that she was in a great hurry. Instead of fixing her hair up as she should have done, she procured a pair of scissors and cut it nearly all off, which occupation she was found engaged in by her mother, who, hearing the noise, had gone to her room to ascertain the cause; She now mourns the loss of her curls, and can’t be induced to attend another ball.

The Troy (N. Y.) Time* mentions a curiour case * of somnambulism which-re-cently occurred in that city. A young lady, a visitor from a neighboring State, who was an accomplished musician and gifted singer, one night recently attended a party where, in response to repeated demands, she sang and played until she had quite exhausted herself! The ttoatpany broke up about one o’clock, and at two o’clock the young lady retired. In about an Ironr music was heard proceeding from her room. It continued so long that one of the members of the family arose, end, upon entering the apartment of the yotmg lady, found her asleep and singing with all her" power. She tried to awaken her, but the effort was unavailing. She continued to sing, going from one song to another, fox upward of an hoar, when nature seemed to be exhausted, and the somnambulist sank into a real sleep. Uponawaking the next morning she knew nothing of the occurrence. —A clerk in the Indianapolis post-office Is now in the last stages of drouth, occasioned bv his own gallantry in vohmleering to lick and adjust postage stamps for the young ladies who came to his window. He "is very charming, Indianapolis is foil of good-looking girls, who loved dearly to see him run out his tongue and moisten a stamp, and the first thing; the unfortaurte young ntan knew he bad exhausted his s#C livarv secretions, and was as dry as a ltoarding-house pie. The doctor says utiless he can start the sap in his system he Is a goner.— St. Loui* Democrqt. B frfr- - 1 *'* * • ? It cost the Land (Kansas) to catch and hang their last horsetthtef.