Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1873 — Compiled from Indiana Papers. [ARTICLE]

Compiled from Indiana Papers.

Baldwin, the New York clothier, issues 50,000 copies of a inonlhly paper devoted -cxclusivciy to advertising his own business, fiftr gratuitous circulation. It is issued on the finest quality of rose-tinted calendered paper and is very neat indeed. He is evidently convinced that advertising pays. Leniastcr, of Goodland, is the last justice of the peace to decide the liquor law of Indiana unconstitutional, and dismiss a case brought before him foririaL on that ground. What is the use of a Supreme Court at $20,000 per annum to pronounce upon the constitutionality of legislative enactments, when each township can have a justice ofthe peace do that business for a dollar or two? Complete returns of the assessment of real and personal property iihthe State, except from Clarke and Cass counties have been received at the office of Auditor oi State, from which, with an estimate made on the property of the comities not reported, it that the total of real estate valuations in Indiana is $600,000,000, and the total value <>f all taxabies including railroads, etc., $060,00(5,000. The second auditor of the United States treasury has just concluded a settlement of the account of Jacob Thompson, Secretary of the Interior under 21 r. Buchanan, and acling at the time as t rustee of the Indian fund. He finds Jake deficit in the trivial sum of sS2l,OOOvon]y. Now, in the language of Bess Tweed’s ring, we would like to know of the government, “what are you going to do about it?” Notwithstanding the Treasurer of Jasper county reports upwards of $58,000 cash on hand, he still endorses county orders “Not paid for want of funds.” This endorsement compels the county to pay six per cent, interest per annum on the lace of the obligation upon which it is written, and depreciates the market value of that paper ten per cent. That is to say, the county is compelled to pay, by this system of financiering, an order of SIOO bearing six per cent, interest for ninety dollars’ worth of work; or, really, interest, at the rate of 17 7-9 per cent. Just where the economy of this system lies, it is difficult for ordinary minds to perceive. The Rochester Union Spy contains a notice of a meeting of stockholders of the Fort Whyne & Rochester Railroad Company, to be held at Silver Lake, Kosciusko the Sth of August next, to elect directors -of said company; and also to consider the propriety of extending the line westward via Winamac to the Illinois State line at some point east of Kankakee City. Gentlemen couldn’t you bring your road through Rensselaer, for a consideration? The people here are ready to pay' for improvements of that kind. If there is any business meant by your organization, come over and see us before locating elsewhere. The Warsaw' Indignian. says a rumor reaches it to the effect that there will be no election of judges in Indiana this fall, as provided by the last legislature, in the law abolishing Common Pleas Courts and creatingncw Circuit Districts, Qoverhor Hendricks being of opinion that that act is in conflict with the general election law of the State If this view is correct there will be no election of judges until next year at the regular biennial election. So far as we can learn in this circuit there would be no complaint by the people if this should be the decision, Judge Hammond having given such general satisfaction that in all probability he would be elected anyhow. Now Oakes Ames is dead there seems to be no difficulty to find men that know all about his Credit Mobilier transactions with Mr. Colfax. The latest case in point is where one Drew, who has just returned from several months’ sojourn in Europe, is anxious to swedr that he ■was present when Mr. Ames presented the famous $1,200 S. C. check to the Sergeant-at-Arms and receive pay thereon himself. Nay, more, he also has a little memorandum book with which to refresh his memory, and an entry therein shows this transaction to have occurred about the 20th or 22d ot Jun®, 1868. Volunteer (?) testimony under the circumstances-—after one of the principals is dead, at a time when politicians commence to lay wires for approach!ng campaigns—has a appearance, and ought not to bo deceived without grains/ es allowance. ' I

A correspondent writing to the Indianapolis Journal from Rensselaer, Under date of June 30th, says: Fruit will be scarce, and the grass crop light. Few fields of wheat promise a good yield, and corn is very, iiaetcwirrtf. The new court bill is well received. The first term in the several counties of the Thirtieth Circuit is closed. Judge E. P. Hammond gives eminent saisfaetion. Hq will have no opposition at the special election in October.' In section 82 of the court bill.it is enacted that on the secmid Tuesday of October, 1873, a general election shall' he held; to elect judges, in place of those folding office i>y appointment of the Governor. Do we elect a Supreme Judge in place of Andrew 1,. Osborn? The temperance law works well, ami drunkenness is almost unknown in the Thirtieth Circuit. If the statute was enforced we need n<> better enactment. The Patrons of Husbandry held an association at Rensselaer on the 28th which watt largely attended. The order., seems to. prosper as the “green bay tree.” /A private letter, datedGirard, Kansas, July 2d, saysr Last night one of the most turbulent and sublime storms, I ever witnessed passed here. Tlie lightning was incessant amt the thunder appalling; rain fell in rivers, and hail reported as large as a man’s fist throwed broken glass clear across sleeping rooms; wind blowed houses from their foundations, twisted others around, overturned some, some unroofed and crushed aides >u id -endsTn ami out.— The rain, the hail, the lightning, the thunder, the wind, creaking houses, falling chimneys, screaming people and personal danger made it a scene at once grand and appalling. The great damage is done in the country. The largest and best crop ever raised in Crawford county, was standing oil the ground, puit of it ready to harvest, one-half of which it is estimated must be lost. Wheat and oats arc- prostrate never to rise up. Men are offering half to have their crops gathered.— Corn was rank, much of it four to six and seven feet high, and this .morning lies flat on the field? Being very' tendcj’, its brittle joiii.ts_...snayped.. in two like pipe stems. Some of it being only bent over will rise up again, but that’which was broken is a total loss. The damage for this county .alone is estimated -at $300,000 to $500,000. The Inter-Ocean says this storm, Vvliieli visited us oil tlie 4th, was general in extent, reaching as far as New Hampshire in the east, and was very destructive to life and property. A pleasure ...excursion was caught by it on Green Bay, Wisconsin, their boat capsized, and twelve pf the party drowned; and here and there ever the country euine reports of individmrU'deaths by; lightning and blows from timbers of demolished buildings. A private letter to one of the editors of The Union, frym a former resident of this county how in Kansas,;contains the following paragraph about the Grangers: There lias been some overhaul ing,of politicians 'in this State during the past year. Senator Pomeroy is succeeded by an entirely new man, Ingalls. Caldwell resigned for fear of a worse fitte, and our Governor delays appointing a successor because he wants the office himself; so we have a vacant chair. Mr. Lowe is talked of by some, but the Grangers have interposed a new element between aspirants and the offices they covet, and all the future is a maze, complex and uncertain. The Grangers-will tarry the West at the next election, if they try.— Some-are fearful of them, but I feel no alarm. Our farmers comprise the most numerous class in the land ; as a class they are as honest as any others. Possibly as a whole they may not lie as intelligent in political affairs as the lawyers; but the numb', r us intelligent men among farmers is equal to the whole number of any other class.—, They have not so large individual fortunes as some merchants or bankers, but their aggregate wealth is equal to that of any other interest in the Union. Having a majority of numbers and a plurality of wealth, why should they not wield a proportionate representation? I would as willingly trust the control of the country in their hands as in the hands of any others. I think the nation is in no • danger from the Grangers.. The had—its, birth among farmers—the people, not office-holders nor monopolists. Born of the people-it is democrtrtic in its tendencies; not in a narrow, partisan sense, but in the broadest meaning, having for its object thje_ organization of the majority to resist those encroachments which concentrated wealth is constantly attempting upon their rights and privileges. It aims to give the agricultural in ter est of th i s c dun try that position among industries to which its magnitude and importance entitles it. Having accomplished these objects, farmers will be given more time and ipeans to devote to self-culture; when they will no longer be despised,lor their ignorance and poverty, but having more means to use and more knowledge hew to use it advantageously they will pursue their vocation with better results, And thus will wealth be developed, intelligence increased and the nation be permanently benefited, while the liberties of the people which all should enjoy in .common will be made more secure. Nothing born of the people and having for its object the building up and fraternization of the mass, without endeavoring to encroach upon th<sse rights that are comifion|o all, need be iearedby the public. The Grangers are not organized to curtail any liberties in the land, but to extend their advantages to a class that has hitherto only partially Enjoyed them. None but professional politicians need fear the politics-of I this order, and none but grasping moHopohe.s need fear its legislation. .... ■ ■*'. . '' ' *. ■

The Valparaiso pin factory will commence operations in August. Chintz bug is attacking spring wheat in different portions of Indiana. i . * <; Something over 200,000 pounds of wool ie annually worked up in Laporte. A new national bank with $50,000 capital has been organized at Plymouth. The real and: personal, estate of St. Joseph county is placed ats2o,0()0,000 value. There is not dock room nor freight cars enough for the wants of lumber shippers, at Michigan City. L. D. Hawley discovered a vein of fine black marble while boring a well recently near Oxford, Benton county, A Kankakee valley farmer, in Laporte county,named Crouse, had three calves killed by one stroke of lightning. a o The Indiana State Fair will be held at Indianapolis from the 10th of September to the 10th of October, inclusive. Thos. McGloin, late city clerk of Logansport, died last week Wednesday, aged about 30 years, a victim to bad whiskey. The Tribune Company of South Bend, lias incorporated with capital stock of $20,000, which may be increased to $30,000. Good people of 2lishawaka amused themselves last-Saturday night by pelting the Presbyterian parsonage with stones. Gay and festive cows are permitted to roam at large through the streets of Logansport, and deat pleasure. -——- A dispensation has been issued by> Grand Secretary Foster for the organization of a lodge of Odd Fellows, at Brook, Newton county. A White county jury recently found a man guilty of burglary and grand larceny, and sentenced him to ten days imprisonment in the county jail. Somebody entered William Cook’s stable, three miles east of Mishawaka, last week, and cut the throats of a span of fine bay horses, George Anthrone, a respectable farmer of Tippecanoe township, Tippecanoe county, was struck by lightning and killed on Tuesday of last week. The prospectus of a new German paper at South Bend, to be called the Indiana Courier, has been issued by Messrs. Fassctt & Brownfield, of the Union. Center township, Laporte county, pays S3OO per annum for physicing her poor. Dr. Darling is the darling doctor wlio was awarded that contract this year. Joe. Kirlin’s fifteen year old son celebrated the glorious Fourth at Logansport by shooting away three fingers of his left hand, with his elegant little pistol. About 4,000 Grangers pic niced at the Battle Ground on the 4th. Hon. T. A. Thompson, of Minnesota, Lectiirer of the National Grange, was orator of the occasion. Assistant State Geologist Lcvette who has recently been prospecting ’there says Laporte county is all drift formation and has no valuable minerals in paying quantities. One of the Lafayette butchers pounds his beef steak before killing thereby saving a. great deal of trouble to his customers. lie is largely patronized by boarding house keepers. Deputy United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries Milner and Mr. 2lason recently empted six cans, containing 30,000 youthful shad into Eel river, at Logansport, above the dam. Alf. Leonard, the clerk who ab: sconded from the Northern Penitentiary last summer, taking all its surplus funds in his hands, has turned up in Canada, and is repotted to be very unhappy. The Lowell Star advises those who want to get “set up” to buy their boots of a firm in that town. Over at Remington when they want to get “set up” they buy cheese at the drug store. Number one, volume one, of the Benton County Clarion will be issued at Fowler, Benton county, to-morrow. it is established to advocate the removal of the county seat from Oxford to Fowler. Unmistakable evidences of the presence pf gold are saidUo have been discovered on a farm in Morgan county, and Indianapolis real estate dealers are becoming excited i over th® prospect lor a speculation. I

The storm un the 4tli unroofed Smithodeon hall, a portion of the round house, one of the railroad shops, and other buildings, at Logansport, besides blowing down shade trees and doing other damage. It is estimated that there are nearly 3,000 acres of lakes near the city of Laporte, which are, now being utilized for boating, yatching, regetta and shooting sports in summer; and for skating and ice harvest in winter. There were 87 arrivals of vessels at the port of Michigan City during the month of June 1873, which brought 7,064,000 feet of lumber, 7,426,000 shingles, 432,000 lath, 292,000 fe<?s-of square timber, 3,857 cedar posts and 1,588 tons of iron ore. The southern division of the Wabash and Lake 21 ichigan railroad, from Oxford, Benton county, to the Fall Creek block and bituminous coal mines, fifteen miles in length, is to be put under contract and completed before winter; so the president thereof informs the Oxford Tribune. The German Lutherans, of Rochester, have broken ground for the erection of a brick school house to be 22x21. feet in size witli walls 16 feet high, and costing over $1,200. Both the German and English languages are to bo taught in the institution, which will be under contfol of the Lutheran sect. Last week a fellow determined to take a plain drunk at Monticello, and in order to keep out of mischief, tied himself to a tree in the Court House yard. He then drank his bottle of liquor, got dead drunk and was not disturbed by the authorities, who probably knew how it was themselves and had a fellow feeling of charity for the man. The Louisville, New Albany & Chicago railroad sustained quite e xten si v e damage 3 a.t L a fay ell e i n one of the recent storms. The .culvert at the crossing on the Southern gravel road became obstructed with drift to such an extent as to dapi up a volume of water that swept out thirty or more feet of the embankment at Durgee’s run, near the Junction. If a fellow gets drunk up at South Bend and breaks in a door to a private house in which a respectable widow and her daughters reside, because they will not admit him after night, the justice of the before whom complaint is made dismisses the case, because “there was no malice in the trespass.” In places where the courts will not protect them unprotected females should maintain a private arsenal with which to hospitably welcome such intruders. George 2lechhn, 19 years old, and Henry Broom, 18 years of ago, started out-of Walnut "station, in Marshall comity, week ago last Sunday evening, with a bottle of whiskey. When about two miles from town and within about three hundred yards of Broom’s home they sat down on 4 the railroad track for some purpose and fell asleep, from which they only awakened in eternity, train of cars running over and killing them instantly. George A. Buskirk, president of the First National bank of Bloomington, went into Aaron Rose’s -saloon last week (Wednesday) and ordered drinks for two negroes who had asked him_to treat. Rose deelined stating as his reason therefor that Buskirk’s brother, Judge _S. 11. Buskirk, had instructed him not to sell to him. The demand was repeated and again refused, when Buskirk drew a revolver and shot Rose in the right side near his heart inflicting a fatal wound. Buskirk had been drinking hard for several 1 days previous. He was arrested and locked up in jail for trial.