Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1873 — The Politics of the Grange. [ARTICLE]

The Politics of the Grange.

The Indianapolis Journal is considerably exercised about the ultiI mate objects of the Patrons of i Husbandry. It fears that this soj w # i cret order-will become a tool in the ! hands of politicians who desire the j overthrow of the Republican party. I Do not think any honest body need be alarmed about the intention oi the Grangers. l>ut as the members of this order have-already signified their intention to attack all monopolies that arc fattening upon the industries of the producer without rendering reciprocal value—and as they have also shown that they dare criticise the acts of Members ol Congress and State Legislatures, 1 Judges and other elected officials, J without regard to political professions—it might be. wise for Rep.tib.-_ lican newspapers, Republican convention managers, and Republican office holders to be exceeding careful how they suffer their cupidity to i triumph over honesty, or how they i place in nomination or advocate, j the election .of candidates whose reputation has a trace of the odor of corruption about it. Credit Mobilier and back pay Congressmen, increase of pay Legislators and corrupt Judges appear to be special aversions of the members of this new secret social order, and the safest course for the Republican party to pursue, if its managers desire to retain the favor-of the agricultural class in the West, is> to sift out all those who have dishonored their official positions and betrayed the confidence of the people. Organization means defense by offensive measures; the Grange has lor its chief object the overthrow of injurious monopolies, to gether with all political associations that bStome their accessories and allies; but honest men and true principles need have no fears of a free ami intelligent- people. — A flax mill is about; to be erected at Kentland. A teachers’State institute will be held i:i Laporte some time in August. The Lake county fair u ill he held on the 24tli and 25th of September, this year. Jim Vinson, of Montioello, held a ticket iiithe Omaha lottery which drew §IOO. Red hot sand and amateur theatrical exhibitions make life a burden at Michigan City. Mr. Colfax will- deliver a Fourth of July oration at St. Joseph, Michigan, this season. There has been one hundred convictions in Logansport under the \ new temperance law. j The woods north of Kentland, ' are full of pigeons, that are building nests and preparing for incubation. Henry Ermel tried to commit suicide at Oxford, a week ago last Saturday. He was jealous of liis wife. Growing wheat is nicely headed out in the timbered districts of- Laporte county'. In prairie districts they hav’n’t any. The Pulaski county fair (not the I Frauccsville one) will be held at Winamac oj> the 9th, 10th and 11th days of next October. The Elkhart Review says that Colorado bug catchers measure them by the peck up that way, and that ji bushel is an average day’s catch. ; Knox county boys are in the habit of taking horses out of their owner’s stables without their permission, and riding them until they are ruined. John Uufty, of Kentland, was 0 the fortunate bolder of ticket number 17,055, in the El Paso lottery which drew the lot and bank building valued at $3,600. The elevated walk to the beacon light en the east pier at Michigan City is to be extended to the shore line, an additional distance jc».f. nearly three humlred feet J Members of the South Bend fire brigade amuse themselves by playing water oh gentlemen and ladies passing the engine house to church and arc not arrested -.therefor.

T.fic people of New Albany and; l)eiglibofhood will devote tfrcr-pro- j cceds of the’Fourth of July cele- j bration to the erection of a nionu- j incut to the memory of Governor Ashbel P. Willard. lion. Gs S. Orth has addressed a letter to the fish commissioner at Washington recommending that a supply of shad, salmon and other varieties of fish be sent to stock the Wabash river. The South T>em\ Tribu)\c says that ■■Mi’.,Y/tUuintm.Klrir"ehofdhat city, is flic possessor of a chicken that lias four perfect legs, healthy, active and walks backwards or forwards will) equal factlity. Innumerable hordes of potato bugs are reported throughout Indiana, and therefore it is thought the potato Crop will average better than usual, for patches will receive extra good attention. Dick Green, a gentleman of color, stole a ring at South Bend last winter, lie recently had his trial, was convicted, and was sentenced to t\vo years in the penitentiary, disfranchised for five years and fined one dollar. *• The Valparaiso Metseuyer says that a laborer on the Peninsular railway dug lip a chunk of gold on the aforesaid road east of Prattville, the other day, which he brought to this city and sold for five dollars.’' During the month of May SO vessels arrived at the port of Michii gan City, and among the imports were 7,190,000 feet of lumber, , 4,350,4)00 shingles, 3,207,000 lath,. 65,000 feet of square timber, and R 024 tons of iron ore. A single lumber firm in the City received and shipped over two and a half millions of shingles. Geo. Clteesebro, of Kentland, aged fourteen, recently attended a picnic in that vicinity armed with a revolver to defend himself against attacks bferobbers, musketoes, "wild | Modbus and other savage beasts'of j prey that are found in that locality. 1 He tiidt kill anything he had intended to, but the little revolver went off accidentally and shot him through his thigh. Guppy, confined in the Montioello jail, recently attempted to make his | escape therefrom. He bad succecdfed in cutting a hole through the ’ brick wall, bad broken his shackles, and was battering away at the brick i-Aujxh.ji_tii.i<‘k' of wood when. discoy- | cred by the officers. It required the f united efforts of four men. to replace j him in his cell and put on the man- ] ados. ! Mrs. Chris. Lawrence, near Iloch- | ester, gathered some potato bugs ! last week and set the vessel down whereherbaby crawled to it and ate some of the ‘ varmints.” It was shortly alterwards taken violently sick and its life was only saved by the prompt administration of whiskey, sweet milk and other poison antidotes. Delphi is becoming thoroughly purified by fire. Week ago last Monday another fire broke out there which destroyed the barn of Joseph Potter, and spread into the outbuildings of the old jail, Dearth’s restaurant, Lewis Martin’s dwelling and St. Joseph Catholic church, damaging about §f,ooo worth of property in all, upon which there was.no insurance. _ Etliuii Allen practices surgery at Laporte. Hots the fellow that demanded the surrender of Ticonderoga “in the name of God-aud the Continental Congress” a-few nights since,—and afterwards performed the part of a gorrilla in a Loudon menagerie, , It lias been some time since he was heard of inpublic, ajid we are glad to learn that he has 'settled down to a cheerful occupation. The Grand Temple of Honor, of Indiana, met at Indianapolis last week and -elected the following grand officers: G. W. T.—E. H. Green, of Jeffersonville. ' ’ G. W. V. T.—T. D. Miukler, of Brazil. G. W. It.—ll. J. Needham, of New Albany. G. W. T.—L. E. Runn-ill" of Greenfield. G. W. N.-Frank M. Hill, of Mad,ison. G. W. G.—Taylor McCarty, of Jeffersonville. G W. Chap.—George C. Clouds, of Morristown. On Monday last the infant daughter of James Harvey, brother-ffi-law of lion. P. S. Troutman, of Ivewana, Fulton county, died of ccrebro-spinal meningitis; and on Wednesday, while the friends were returning from the funeral, Mr. Troutinan’x team became frightened and rah away, precipitating all within the conveyance to the ground—Captain TrouWyanyfais ’ ■wife and. daughter. - Troutman's :

injuries were slight, but his wife was hurt internally, and her recovery is doubtful; wiiih? the daughter, aged about seventeen years, had hOfhr hones ot one leg broken. .-A few days sittcc a farmer in Madison township, quarreled with his wife and left home. He returned in a short time and the quarrel was resumed and continued to sucli an extent that he expressed a desire to be out of the World. His wife ihihimted that nothing Would -please her better and offered to do her part if the rifle were only loaded.- Me went into the house, got the rifle and ammunition and "tWcrcd it iffr Hhi proocnoo of., his wife, but was Very careful when she \vas not looking to slip the ball down his sleeve. After the gun had been capped he handed it to her and went into the yard, she following as far as the door, when sire look deliberate aim and tired. The husband dropped in the grass, to all apDeanni-y-j tiff?. 4, and laid there a short time before his wife came to him. It did not take her long to discover that he was “playing possum,” and grasping an axe handle, she attacked him so fiercely that but for the interference of some of the children, she would have crushed his skull. It is needless to add that there will be a divorce. —South Bend Daily Tribune.