Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1873 — Wabash & Lake Michigan Railroad. [ARTICLE]

Wabash & Lake Michigan Railroad.

lion. Daniel W. Yrvorheos li#s presented a bill to the commissionere of Vtgo county amounting to ♦B,BOO for services in a railroad lav ewe. Whett lit! made oul that lull !»• evidently thought he was in Congress moving tor an increase of nn<l voting for back pay, Speaking of the riot at Rcmttig\on week before last, the Valparaiso Messenger says, “Swell lawlessties* is reprehensible, and docs Ynore damage to the cabsc of temperance than a thousand saloons.— The people of Remington haVe established a very bad precedent, which tuay some day return to plague them.” Why does Tin; Union draw its loftiest flights of eloquence from diseases of the alimentary canal?—Remington Journal. " \Y v arc not much at answering conundrums, blit this one is very Easy. Tills Union always endeavors to shit its remarks to the comprehension of those it addresses; the article alluded to by tlie Journal was addressed to the editor of that paper. The Indianapolis Journal launches from its docks a report that a quiet movement is going on in Democratic circles with a view to bringing out General Jefferson C. Davis, of Modoc fame, for the Presidency. Wc know sonic ancient roosters belonging to the Democratic roost in Jasper county that would have to experience a change of appetite before they would vote lor a military man to that office. At least that was their principle objection to Mr. Grant. The Jasper countv Fair will be held at Rensselaer oil the loth, 11th, Pith, and loth days of September. The premium list—a very liberal one—appears in Tim Union.— Winamac Democrat. That is all true, every word of it, and if the Fair is a lailurc this season (a poradventure which nobody anticipates) it will not be for lack ol energy on the part of the Hoard of Directors. Our Fair will probably be as good proportionately speaking as any held in the State. W e are asked to strain our credulity up high enough to believe an item which states that the Jasper county Commissioners have refused the increase of pay allowed them under the new law. If the statement is true, those Commissioners will be in demand as the right kind of material for Htate Legislatures and Congress.— Logaitsport Journal. Don’t strain your credulity to the _ cracking point, , Bro. Bryar, hut come over and examine the public records of Jasper county. The report is strictly true and it will he worth to you all the' expense of coining, to see and shake hands with public men possessing the rare virtue of honesty. It lias been generally supposed hereabouts that liidiana’s noble Senator, O. I*. Morton, bad returned his portion of the “salary steal.” This is not the case. It still stands to his credit and may be drawn at any time.— Winamac Democrat. Think the Democrat is mistaken, but if not and Mr. Morton don’t put it right back where he got it, off with his head; the people and the nation can manage in some way to dispense with the services of thieves, no matter how great they are in other respects or what political views they profess. Sir. Morton can’t afford to tarnish his brilliant reputation for $5,000, and we do not believe he will do it; but if lie should be so weak, equal and exact justice demands that the same penalty be inflicted upon him that is meted out to -men of lesser calibre. The failure of Thk Union to give any notice of this state of affairs, shows that while The Union blows lieavy about Colfax, and Packard, and baek-pay, it conceals tilings in which they [the public] are directly interested at home. * * * Since writing the article in reference to the Auditor's report, we have examined tlie Auditor's books and feel confident that they are kept honestly and correctly. * * ' * —lteming ton Journal. Or, in 6tber words, The Union is censurablo for not attacking things at home which the School Marm Inspector finds upon examination “are kept honestly and correctly.” What a pity it is The Union is not conducted according to the hightoued views of that gentleman whose inordinate egotism leads him to style himself “the people! ” As yet we have not seen that provision of the statute which adds censorship of the public press to the official duties of County Superiutendents ot instruction,; mid until wc arc convinced there is such a statute, that officer will please pardon us for conducting our business according to uur own notions of propriety and right. *.~ ' ‘

| The Kent Inna (fnzftte suggests Friday, August Ist, as a good time, ami ihe'-Alattisoii lb.use, .Chicago, as the proper place, todiold a meeting ot co-operativd publishers for the purpose of consulting over nrtifc tors pertaininar to their business. " The satisfaction with Judge Hammond on the bench, and all (Tver the circuit has very naturally and properly <ve think, cropped out into a general desire with tlie people that he should be elected without resort to conventions or formal nomination. — From whltt we hear on every hand, wc are led to believe that this is the wish of alKHit ail, and that being true wo can see no use of holding conventions. The bar and people alike are pleased w ith the man ami Judge no less than with the ability lie has siKiwu oil the bench. We move his election.—Kentland Gazette. Second the motion, with three voles. Mr. L. W. llenkle, county treasurer. complains that our remarks last week about tho system of financiering adopted by the officials of jasper county were calculated to do bun unmerited injury, that the Auditor’s report was not correct, and that he has had motley in his hands fbr a long time which the Auditor has neglected to apportion among the several funds. It was not our intention to injure him and we have tendered him space in our columns to make such explanations as are proper in the case. From Ins published report of March Bth, fol-. lowed by the Auditor’s report of May 31st, it was apparent there must be money in the treasury to pay county orders and stop further accumulations of interest. Mr. llenkle’s notice to holders of county orders published in another column—announcing his readiness to pay orders issued prior to June Ist, 1873, and that interest will cease on such orders to-day—proves The Union to have been correct in the material parts of its statement.

W. 11, Irwin, President of the Wabash & Lake Michigan Bailroad Company, has written to Henry S. Travis, Esq., of Oxford, Benton county, the following letter, which was .published in the Beniington Journal of last week: Office of ITiesiuknt, Oxford, July Ist, 1873. 11. S. Travis, Esq.: Dear Sir:—You arc authorized to negotiate with tlie citizens of Remington and Rensselaer in regard to the extension of tlm line of the W. & L. M. R. It. through these towns. You are aware that the termini of road are West Lebanon, on the T. W. <fc W. 11. It., and Reynolds on the L. N . A. & C. R. R., and that our object is to develop the block ami bituminous coal field of Warren, and ultimately, Fountain counties. The Wabash Coal and Iron Company, to which our road is an adjunct, own three or four thousand acres of tlie choicest coal land in Warren county, and we are seeking a lake market via Renton,, Jasper and White counties, and may run northward through Rensselaer. Capital stock of W. C. & I. Co., $1,000,000; capital stock of W. & L. M., $500,000, wilh power to issue bonds to aid in constructing the road. Remington and Rensselaer can each have a director for the W. & L. M. R. It. C<>. if they answer promptly and liberally. The survey and location ought to lie made, if at all, at once. Very respectfully, W. 11. Irwin, Pres. The Journal comments favorably upon the proposition ami says it is unanimously in favor of donating the money now in the county treasury, collected for the Continental project, to this road. It is doubtful if this could be legally done, but we are willing to give the new project a courteous hearing and would advise making them a liberal offer. However, if their line is permanently located with West Lebanon and Reynolds as termini, they will have a queer looking zigzag to reach Remington and Rensselaer; but then anything reasonable for a railroad, and any kind of a road, if it is crookcder than a rail fence, or more bobtailed than a decaudled cow.