Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1873 — Compiled from Indiana Papers. [ARTICLE]

Compiled from Indiana Papers.

Laporto people arc suffering for a steam laundry. The Exposition buildings at Indianapcttswill dost.Sl 00,000. It only cost $1,187,83 to assess and appraise Newton county this year. There was a little frost at Kontland Wednesday morning of last week. Indianapolis is estimated to contain a population pf 75,000 inhabitants. P. T. Barnnm shows at Lafayette, July 30lh, and dead heads this notice. , y A history of Lake county has been written which js peddled for 82 a volume. The Odd Fellows’ State Mutual Aid Association, of Indiana, has attained a membership of 1,027. Kentland papers advertise for some man with stamps to come there and build a good hashhouse. The railroad depot house at Franccsvillc has been put in thorough repair during the past week. The hop fields near Rochester indicate a good ct'op, and beer drinkers are Correspondingly happy i Cholera is scooping tho chicken coops near Lowell, Lake county, and no camp "meetings will be held there this season. Four spans of the Carrollton bridge across the Wabash, four miles above Pittsburg, was capsized by tho storm on the 4th. “According to all accounts,” says the Crown Point Herald , Grady’s circus men “did considerable foraging while at this place.” To amuse themselves people in Fulton county who do not attend church find it convenient to harvest their graiu on the Sabbath. Fourteen minutes is tho average time employed by some of the South Bend preachers to deliver their sermons, when tho weather is hot. Maj. Gen. Reynolds, and his son Lieut. Reynolds, are visiting friends at Lafayette. Gen. Reynolds was one of the best officers of the late war.

Rev. Richard Hargrave peremptorily refuses the honorary title of Doctor of Divinity, recently conferred by the Indiana Asbtiry University. The Lowell Star says the “heavens opened on tho fourth,” but they didn’t open for Bro. Bcbee; like the star spangled banner he “is still there.” The Lognnsport Joarnal says that wheat is turning out better in Cass county than was expected, but a very large number of fields will scarcely pay for cutting. The Lowell Star says the Prosecutor of that circuit “has a smile that wears and a grasp of the hand that draws,” Shouldn’t want that hand to grasp our pocket book. A Cass county woman is the happy mother of an infant born with a full set of teeth already out. Sho doosn’t buy any of Mrs. Winslow’s syrup for children teething. Messrs. Firman Church and Sarnuol I. Anthony, of Valparaiso, have formed a partnership with ox-Scnator Lyman Trumbull and liis son in the practice of law at Chicago. Hebron justices of the peace see Logansport justices and go one better; they fine men $2 for being drunk and disorderly. The Baxter law of our last legislature fixes the penalty at $5. The Commissioners of Allen county allow their superintendent of public schools $2.50 per diem for carriage hire, for every day necessarily employed in the discharge of liis duties under the law. Ross McClurg, a fanner living in Rock Creek township, Huntington county, ate wild parsneps to commit suicide, and at latest reports had fair prospects to be And success is the measure of genius. The Kentland Democrat says that on the 4th a house and barn belonging to Mr. St. John, miles south of Remington, T Were completely demolished by the wind. All the farnittire’in lhe nouso destroyed, but none of the inmates were seriously hurt. Buskirk, the banker, who shot a saloon keeper named Rose at. a week or two since because he would not sell him liquof, was admitted to $3,000 bail and immediately left for other parts. The wounded man is slowly recovering from his wound, and is likely to get well. Col. James Gavin, of Greensburg, joint author with O. B. Ilord of Gavin & Ilord’s Digest of the Laws of Indiana, died last Saturday. During the war lie was Lieutenant .Colonel of the 7th Indiana Infantry and when Gen. Dumont was promoted succeeded to the command of that regiment. Because the Marshal of Monticello employed boys to # drive lion. Robert Gregory’s bogs*to the public pound, instead of doing that dnty himself or having it done by his appointed deputies, tho said Gregory brought a replevin suit to recover his stock. The justice before whom the case was tried, decided in favor of Gregory, but (lie case was appealed to the circuit court. v <v