Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1873 — Remington Items. [ARTICLE]

Remington Items.

We were favored on Wednesday with a call by Mr. Siieider, editor of the Remington Journal.— Logansport Journal. How is tliat for fame, Brother Snoddy?' Vick’s Floral Guide, quarterly Nos. 2 and 3, have been received at this oflicc. They contain many seasonable suggestions of value to florists and gardeners. A Waw aka correspondent of the Ligonier Bonner imparts the following recipe: Now I will tell you liow we manage our darling little ones: J ust as soon as they begin to show signs of total depravity, (which is at six months), we take them to Sabbath school and there whisper into their ears the first words of love to their Creator, and the effect upon them is noble and the scheme a success. «... i The faculty of an obscure university in Ohio, having 1« isure and desiring cheap advertising, lately conferred the degree of Doctor of Laws upon Hon, Schuyler Colfax. This poor but honest gentleman recently bought a piece of property at South Bend for ♦5,223, that was worth at the time oyer $7,000. — Thus, dear children, it will be observed that honest poverty and transcendent virtues receive their reward sooner or later, if well advertised. The Lafayette Courier, of last week, Says that at the recent session of the Tippecanoe county circuit court, Judge Vinton granted a decree of divorce to Sarah C. from David S. Clitton. As David S. was granted a decree of divorce from Sarah C. Clifton at the February term of the Jasper Common Pleas court, and was married to another woman early last March, he has a little the start of her; but if Sally lias good luck She will get even with Dave yet On the fourth of July, Doctor Schujler Colfax, of South Bend, will ‘‘he present at thcOdd Fellows’ celebration” at Good!and, Newton county;'he will “quietly spend the I anniversary among old friends’' in j Porter county; and he will “deliver j an oration” at St. Joseph, Michigan. It is indeed a mournful spectacle to behold that excellent man divided into small fragments ! and scattered about the country in this reeklcss manner; but if the worst comes and the catastrophe cannot be avoided, put the pieces “where they will do the most good.” After the Fourth let his remains be carefully collected and deposited where the South Bend Register and the Tribune may have free access to them at all times, because if by any means they, should be deprived of their source of filling it is possible their warp might prove too thin to bold together, and thus that city would lose two of its important industries. The cholera has been prevailing to an alarming extent in Memphis, and.Nashvllle, Tenncsse, for two! or three weeks past. It lias also appeared at Cincinnati and Indianapolis. This is early in the season for that disease to show such ma-! lignancy, and while it is not best,! perhaps, to be panic stricken, yet j we cannot help feeling an anxiety ■ about it. Heretofore its appear- j ance in the United States was mostly confined to our larger cities, still there were cases of it in smaller towns and even at farm houses. , Experience has shown that the ! Safest way to treat this terrible epidemic is to prevent its attack; this can be done almost certainly by the adoption of rigid sanitary regulations. Keep the person clean by bathing at least two or three times a week, 1 avoid the use of alcoholic drinks, abstain from too stimulating diet, and above all let there be no pools or barrels of stagnant water, sunken swill-tubs, foul privies or decaying matter of any sort about your dwellings. Use disinfectants freely about pig-sties, * privies and the like, and keep sleeping apartments well ventilated. We received an 'invoice of eight bundles of print paper last week, which cost us SB.BB per bundle. In JBOO the same quality of paper could be bought for $3.50, delivered. The publishers are at the mercy of the pager manufacturers. This monopoly has received the protection of government about long euough. and it is high time it should be withdrawn. W e are going to joinin with the battlecry of the farmers, “Down with all monopolies.”— Crown Point Register. —Better carefully study that step, Brother Bedell, or before you are fiturjy aware of-where it leads you will discover yourself outside of the j wetectmg pale of that politic aLorH*nization which, just now, makes contract; with country newspapers for publishing the laws of the United States; which not many 1

! months since resolved that the “revenue should be so adjusted as to promote the industries of.the country ;” and again in a State convention declared that all efforts looking Ito the development of the great industrial interests of the State,” and requested our Senators and Representatives in Congress to use their influence in any revision ol the tariff to secure incidental protection to certain specified monopolies, You may also discover that your viewß do not harmonize with those ot a Vice President reared in an Eastern manufacturing State, who, while traveling in Europe, was careful to observe that the material and social condition of the laboring classes in countries where capital is protected was vastly superior to the condition of the same classes under governments whose policy was to permit capital to protect itself, and that opened their ports and markets to the free commerce of the world. The following paragraph is taken from the Loportc Argus, which for three or four years past has been considered the “best onc-tcrm Congressman’s” official organ: Gen. Packard is at home now and there is no evidence that the affairs of the government are giving him serij oils trouble, but his salary is going right along and it amounts to just about twenty dollars a day. And yet : he tells us he could make more money to return to “Lis, early avocation of tilling the soil.” Where is the farmer who makes S2O a day and docs nothing two-thirds of the time? We used to till the soil for an honest living but if our memory serves us right we did not make twenty dollars a day, anil we put in some pretty hard days’ work too. We have an ambition to be considered honest and honorable and have no particular desire to be a Congressman, but that twenty dollars a day might tempt us to banish our long time wish to own and work a good birth. We would never exchange the opportunity of spending S2O a day for a chance to labor.on a farm, and we don’t believe Gen, Packard seriously thinks of doing anything of the kind. If the last clause above is an authorized intimation that "G’cneral Packard proposes to figure for another term in Congress, we suggest a penal colony be created in order that he may find a .constituency whose views harmonize with his standard of honesty ; because we really do not believe his philosophy is appreciated by the people of this district, nor that they will require his services after the expiration of his present term. “Scarlet rash” is raging atKcntland. Small pox has again appeared at Ligonier. The Texas cattle disease has appeared in Lake county. Ivcno flourishes at South Bend, and hydrophobic dogs are being killed there. The workmen in the Laporte chair factory addition struck for more money, last week. Wheal harvesting was commenced this week, on the “second bottoms” near Indianapolis. Strawberries retailed for 10 to 12£ cents a quart, last week, in the country towns throughout the State. Poor, but honest Mr. Colfax has recently purchased another house and lot in South Bend at a cost of ♦5,223! The Local Topic says the health of the people in the vicinity of Francesville was never better than at present. Citizens of Wanatah robbed a Catholic priest of SOO, who stopped at that place recently in a state of intoxication. The plaintiff in the Swygart divorce case, now pending in the St. Joseph county courts, only sues for ♦OO,OOO alimony. “Choke damp” in a well in Palestine, Kosciusko county, suffocated Mr. Ellis. Borton and Mr. Zebner Sutherly, last week. Brookston, White county, lias an agricultural society, (recently organized), and proposes to hold a Fair this coming fall. - Dr. J. C. Spohn, of Rochester, Fulton county, has raised strawberries this season that measured 4% iuches in circumference. David Clymer’s steam mill at Clymer’s station was destroyed by fire week ago Tuesday night. Loss ♦2,000 with no insurance, f • Forty misses and twenty-five lads partook of their first communion in the Mishawaka Catholic church, two or three Sabbaths ago. Gen. Carrington has applied tor Horn G. S. Orth for 100,000 salmon, trout and other choice fish with which to stock Sugar creek. Unless rain fall# very soon the South Bend Register predicts that “the strawberry season will arrive at a speedy and premature close.” The Northwestern Indiana Con-l ferehce ot the Methodist Episcopal sect, Bishop Simpson presiding, will be held in South Beijd, commencing on the ICtliday of next September.

Two cases of genuine hydrophobia were developed in Keutland last week, but both dogs were killed before they bad bitten anybody. A worldly-minded church at* Michigan City attempts to entrap poor dying sinners into an “illuminated, ice cream, strawberry, croquet sociable.” The honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon Rev. Richard Hargrave, at. the late commencement of the Indiana Asbury University. A tusk,, twelve inches in length, two inches in ciicumference, weighing two pounds and resembling that of a bog, was recently fonnd three feet below the surface on Paul Black’s farm near Delphi. Intelligent farmers tell the Plymouth Republican that “wheat will not yield so well as was expected a few weeks ago. It is thin on tfio ground, and vTill be short.” . A country woman, well oft’ in own right and whose husband i? wealthy and respectably connected, was recently detected stealing goods in a South Bond store. Two horses belonging to Charles Cottrell died of sun stroke, on the road between Plymouth ami South Bend, one day last week. They were being driven to a wagon. John Lohson, a German, was drowned in the Wabash at Peru the other day. lie fell backward out of a boat into fifteen feet of water and did nix fer stay English swim. Boys, Logansport is the place to go when you want a plain drunk. The law fixes the penalty for this offence at 45, but Judge -Smith of that city compromises for $1 and costs. The Ligonier Banner is “assured by those who ought to know, that the prospect tor a full wheat crop is surpassing all expectations, and will exceed last year’s by thousands ~dT bushels.” There is no penalty for resisting a policeman in Logansport, which is why rowdies arc permitted to -disturb the public peace with impunity, if they only threaten to put a head on a“cop.” The Brookston Reporter says that Mr. J. 31. Winters, of West Point township, White county, recently lost twelve head of young cattle, mostly calves, with a disease resembling- epizootic. Machinery for the new flax-mill at Ksntlaud has been received, the lumber will be on the ground in a few days, and work will proceed witli such vigor as so have it iii operation within fq.ur weeks. Two Kendallville belles were recently arraigned before the court in that city to testify in a suit for violation of the liquor traffic. The Ligonier Banner says “they had been there and knew how it was themselves.” The Ligonier Banner observes that “the energy displayed by some of our citizens in holding down store boxes these warm afternoons is astonishing, and all the more so as we know they are unaccustomed to working.” t ’ Charley Higgins, of Mishawaka, aged 24, steady habits, estimable, well connected and generally respected, peeped into his little Derringer with his right eye last Friday afternoon and was buried next day at 2 o’clock P. M. They will endeavor to send Mr. Hickock, of Laporte county, to the penitentiary for tearing up 'about one-third of a mile of the Peninsular railroad, last week, that was built through a portion of his farm in opposition to his will. The handsome editor of the Logansport Journal was permitted to visit the Logansport female college the other day and hear the big girls sing, and now he “wants to be an angel and with the angels stand” all day on the croquet grounds. The Laporte Herald says that “the grub has cut up some of the cornfields badly.” Judging from the poor prospect rfor wheat this it will not j?urprise us to learn that many cornfields in Jasper county are cut up for grub next fall. t A building, loan and savings bank association was organized at Kentland last week, with capital stock of ♦160,000 divided into shares of S2OO each. A. J. Kent is President; R. E. Hawley, Vice President; Sylvester Root, Secretary; and C. B. Cones, Treasurer. We notice in the Indianapolis Journal that .Messrs. J. T. McKim and Lycurgus Rawles, formerly residents of Remington, were recently elected members of the Board of Trustees ot the Methodist Episcopal church at Irvington, a suburb of Indianapolis. The Kendallville Standard man may now put down "in his little ,book the name of the Francesville Local Topic editor as another victirii to that that ancient “sell,” a copy.of the Ulster County paper; “containing the funeral obsequies (?) of George \Yashiugton. J H

“Dissolve one pound of sulphate of copper (jiduc vitriol) in live gallons water, aud sprinkle the vine# in the morning and after every shower”‘is a recipe sent to the South Bend Tribune as an absolute proventive of lhe i a vages"of potato bugs. Tho unpleasantness existing in the Methodist Episcopal church at Wanatah has been adjusted by a .compromise, the terms of which provide that the organ shall be left out of the edifice for one year, and no music but singing and baby squalling will be indulged in during that period. The untimely breaking of a fiddlestring prevented the editor of the Delphi Times from being “favored with a pleasant serenade last week” and -furnished him a subject for his leading editorial. Another illustration that genius can VrCst victory front defeat and compel' failure to do it service. We believe there are six drug 6tores in Logansport. One of them not long since ordered 2000 ounces oi quiuine for city trade this season. But the Pharos says “Logansport is undoubtedly the healthiest town on the Wabash.” Law, how sickly the balance must be! Dr. G. 31. Levettc, assistant State geologist of Indiana, and Professor John W. Foster, President of the Chicago academy of science, are to tramp through 'Laporte county next week to prospect for coal, marl and peat,-and also to rummage the Indian mounds. Harry Edwards robbed C. C. Wolf’s jewelry store, in Rochester, of about $250 worth of watches and jewelry left there for repairs, week ago last Friday. He was arrested in Plymouth shortly after, and now his prospect is excellent for a nobby Doily Varden suit and free lunches at State expense. Francesville Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, are making arrangements to celebrate the Fourth of July upon the Fair grounds near that place, and invite the Granges of Jasper, Pulaski, and adjoining counties to join them. Among other atractions promised by the programme are “two speeches and an appropriate poem.” The contract for sinking an artesian well for the Michigan City penitentiary, was on the 11th inst. let to 3liller & Beach, of Chicago, who expect to commonce work by the 15th of July. The bore is to be six inches in diameter, and if necessary the well will be made 2,500 feet deep, for which the contractors are to receive $4 per foot. The Indiana State Convention of Spiritualists, in session in Terre Haute last week, adopted this resolution: “That we do most earnestly condemn the doctrine of free-love, as popularly understood ; of freelust; of promiscuity between the sexes; and that we regard the monogainic marriage, with just legal regulations, and the perpetuity of the family, as the only true foundations ot human society.” Patrick Shell an, an Irish Catholic priest, was arrested in Plymouth last week for stealing a watch, valued at SIOO, from Father Zurwellen, who had kept him over night. He sold the watch to a tavern keeper for board, receiving s4' therefor.— When arrested he was staggering drunk. In default of S3OO bail he was inoaieerated in an irreligious bastile. A Polish woman while going home with a basket of provision, in the city of South Bend one day last week, laid down on the sidewalk and gave,birth to a healthy child, which she gathered up in her arms and proceeded on her way as unconcernedly as though, nothing out of ordinary had happened. The Tribune observes that “she is undoubtedly one of the kind 3lrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton tells about, who do not lace tight.” The circuit court is now m session, Judge E. P. Hammond presiding. The docket is a very large one and two weeks time may be consumed before it is gone through with. It is perhaps unnecessary to say that the court is presided over by a gentleman fully competent ‘to discharge the duties of his position and we have no doubt full justice will be meted out to the offending and defending parties brpught before him.— Winamac Democrat. The South Bend Register thinks that it is a “disheartening reflection that so many young men in this city, with good natural abilities, should prefer tofistlessly roam the streets after with no better object in view than to be on hand if a hog or man fight should occur, rather than spend their time at the reading room.” “ ’Twas ever thus from childhood’s hour; I’ve seen my fondest hopes decay.” But then all the South Bend young men are being trained for the Presidency. . . ' , - -iThe other day a little child of Mr. Bastow, just big enough to begin to walk cleverly, was out playing in the yard. In a little while it came into the bouse bolding with both hands a gaiter snake-two feet long. The serpent was twisting and writhing, wrapping itself in slimy folds about fits wrists and arms, %nd lashing rat its forked tongue menacingly. The mother called out to the child J “Throw it down; it will bite you.” The child’s only reply was, “It’s p’itty, ma ” The snake did not bite the boy. Had it been a rattlesnake or any other species of poisonous reptile, the child would no doubt have picked it up just the same, but tbe consequences would-have been much more Union Spy.

Compiled from the Journal. - Sugar cured hams 1!?£ cents a pound. Hon. Anson Wolcott was present and took part in a Grange meeting, last Saurday, week ago. Dan. Coleman donated $1 to the educational revenue for the inestimable privilege of punching Constable Pierce. Wonder what Pierce thinks of his price?) The freight tram going west last Wednesday morning, (week ago.) wrecked four cars, about j half a mile east of town. “Four feet of misplaced confidence,” is reported as having caused the disaster.. Suppose it had been a passenger train filled with people, what then would have been the excuse? A “Country Jake” wants to know, you know, why “the Journal talks Judge Lynch after being a violent advocate of law and its rigid execution; why the offal from the slaughter house is thrown into Carpenter creek to pollute the water and fill the air with stench,” and why several other matters of a local nature, be as they be.