Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1873 — Compiled from Indiana Papers. [ARTICLE]

Compiled from Indiana Papers.

N<s*r disparage the place in 'wludh you live, n6r the people with whom you associate; but rather labor to improve the one, Mid strive to make your liHe'Srt fekahrpte for your neighbor’s to copy. Dr. Jay Gundy Winegarden, of Francesville,'sends us a copy of a poem road by triiii at the Grange celebration held on the 4th instant in his Vffln£c-. It IS a neatly printed pamphlet of fifteen pages, and Will be furnished all applicants for ctots a Copy. ::. The Delphi Times says after they Have made your acquaintance the only alternative left to get rid of lightuiug rod peddlers is to purchase one of their rods. A ftiore expeditious, less expensive and more phikmthropical plan is to tfd&p! Gen. Dix’s advice about the man who would attempt to haul down the American flag—“ Shoot liim on the spot,” and needn’t be particular what spot, cither. Dr. Thomas, editor of the Winamac Democrat , who is among the editorial excursionists to Dulutli, and the western terminus of the Northern Pacific railroad, Writes to Iris paper that the vessel that took them from Chicago had on board 600 barrels of lager beer, which might be considered a pretty bountiful supply for a company of sixty persons for a four days’ trip. On the 10th of July the excursionists were refreshed and invigorated by a pleasant little snow storm. Pliineas T. Barnuih, the great show-king who exhibits- at Lafayette next Wednesday, _and whose advertisement appears in another column of this paper (which, by-ih<f-\?ay, is an excel lent medium for advertising) will this year pay $450,000 for colored show posters, $50,000 for small bills, circulars, etc., and $200,000 for advertising in newspapers; making a total amount of $700,000 for this expense alone, llis receipts exceed SIO,OOO a day, with a net profit of $30,000 a week, $120,000 a month, or $840,000 the entire season. Young man, buy a show and go West! According to the Register, some of the best inhabitants of South Bend, and among them members of churches, are addicted to the sinfiil practice of betting, notwithstanding it is prohibited by the statutes of Indiana. On account of the fearful and widespread prevalence of this immorality the editor of that journal reads them a half column editorial upon the subject, which is admirable in its way. It is to be hoped his efforts to reform the people of his city may be completely successful; and having accomplished a triumph in this direction it is further hoped he will turn his conquering batteries against a no less immoral propensity that has recently been developed among his neighbors whose names are prominent in political circles. The propensity to which we allude is the very reprehensible practice of lying, or, if a more polite term, prevaricating. It has been spoken that all liars will have their portion in that lake which b.ufneth with fire and brimstone, and it is for the purpose of averting such a calamity as far as possible that the above suggestion is made to the Register man, whom we hope will not treat it with unbecoming disdain on account of the bumble source from which it springs,

Wheat is good in St. Joseph county. The huckleberry crop of Pulaski couuty is large this season. Epizootic still mildly—lingers among the stock in Fulton county. Religious people at Indianapolis recently enjoyed a charity horserace. Carroll county is to have an old settlers’ picnic at Delphi on the Bth of August. feaporte county assesses 120 miles of railroad, valued at $1,360,000. The pile work of the ne w east pier at Michigan City is nearly completed. Four pounds of wool were recently shorn from a three months lamb in Fulton county. - ~ ; =- . The Exposition buildings at Indianapolis are assuming shape, eo the Journal says. - Fifty boxes of huckleberries are among the daily exports from Grovertoivn, Stark county. „ Real estate business is reported by the ludianapoHs Journal to have temporarily declined in that city.

A brick yard laborer at Valparaiso was sun struck last week. He' had been drinking teo-jpuch whiskey. He lives in county and is named CharijfojSaxon. Last week he cradled Sis acres of whetft IH days. * A convention of comity school superintendents was convened at j Indianapolis on the 22d of this ' month. j The White county fair for 1873 will be held at Monticello on the [ 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th days of September. One of those queer talking little girls lives at Warsaw. She recently spoke of an undertaker’s shop as a “heaven room ” A South Bend man owns a third Interest in Membrino Gilt, a celebrated trotting horse that recently sold for SB,OOO. Monticello Odd Fellows have purchased a lot oil which they propose to erect a three story brick building next season. Workmen are making Purdue University hump itself, and property owners in that vicinity arc correspondingly happy. Ex-Senator David Turpie has moved from Logsnspoft to Indianapolis, and commenced practicing law in the latter city. _ A hired girl at Goshen came near reaching kingdom come last week, by taking just three drops of laudanum for the tooth ache.

Air., Connor, ot the Kent|and Gazette, reports that lie sold last week $10,720 worth of land in the Arkansas Valley, south Kansas. It is rumored that the Baptist college at Franklin, which has been pecuniarily embarrassed for some time, will locate at Carter’s station. A man at Grown Point has ten grape vines, four years old, which arc estimated will yield at least four hundred pounds of fruit this year. North Judson, Starke county, contains a population of about 500 peaceable people whose diet is principally iuicklebcrries and mucksliaw root. Addie L. Ballou, Spiritual lccturess, is cavorting about Michigan City and challenging orthodox ministers to discuss with her these hot evenings. Somebody feloniously entered the store of Dr. E. J. Jones, at Chesterton, the other night and purchased $l5O worth of goods without paying therefor. At Warsaw new v/hcat sells lor $1.20 to $1.25 per bushel. The new crop is all harvested, nearly all taken care of, and is an extra one in every respect. The Kentland Gazette man wants to publish a “Delinquent List” of church members who forget to pay their preacher. Business—at 50 cents a description. George Patterson, of Bristol, aged 14 years, was shoveling bran into a bin in his father’s mill, last week, and accidently fell in and was smothered to death. The Taylor farm near Rochester has produced a bountiful crop of trattle snakes this season. Seven have already been harvested and the season is not yet ended. A handsome well-dressed girl, in a condition of staggering intoxication was one of the sights to be seen at the railroad depot in Laporte, one evening last week. Cl# 5 .-1 The flax crop of Newton county is to be a very large one this season. Some fields are estimated to yield fifteen bushels of seed to the acre, while none will fall below ten. William and Edward Beadle, brothers, aged respectively nine and eleven years, were drowned while bathing in the harbor at Michigan City, ou Tuesday of last week. Indignant boarding house young ladies in Laporte hurl pieces of raspberry pie against the white pantaloons of impertinent males who stare at their charms from the street. It is fashionable for loving wives at Monticell o to announce in public gatherings that if the law was on their side they would split their husband’s heads open with the family ax. In one of the liquor saloons at Delphi they have a placard posted on which are the words Moral” printed in large characters. It is a favorite resorts for county officers. From the best information to be gathered by the Laporte herald , the wheat crop in timbered sections of that county will be a fair average yield; and .on the prairie about half a crop. The grain is excellent.

,7 The new cathedral at Notre Dame will have a seating capacity for twenty-five hundred persons. Two- women and two children l arrived at Indianapolis onb day last week; haVirtg “h'obfccl it” all j the way from Lawrence, Kansas, j They were promenading on to Co(lumbus, Ohio. J Repairs on the Wabash & Erie j Canal, near Logansport, were com- ! pletcd last week and water turned , in. The banks are now even full and boats are daily plowing its raging billows. They have found one marr at Valparaiso who is anxious to donate SI,OOO towards building a hash house in that place, and are now dilligently looking for thirtynine more of like mind. Rev. R. 1). Robinson has been speculating in “things of earth, earthy,” that is, dealing in real estate in a small way at Indianapolis. Ho was prudent and realized a net profit of $95,000 in five years. The first annual exhibition of the Gass county Agricultural, Horticultural and Mechanical Association, will be held at Logansport on Tuesday, • Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, September 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th, 1873.

Over in Starke county where pure, unadulterated, Bourbon Democracy prevails and the people are opposed to compulsory education, it is fashionable for the trustees to refuse to pay their female school teachers. The Brookston Reporter says the apple crop in that section of White county will be very light this year. Also that corn planted on old ground is not doing well, but that on sod and “second sod” is generally growing first-rate. George Washington Bruce, of Indianapolis, thinks lotteries^very moral and beneficial institutions, worthy the patronage of the public at large. The ticket he bought in the Louisville institution, netted him $2,240 ill currencyMr. Joseph White near Kentland has three acres of ground planted in raspberries, which produced abundantly this season. A ready market was found for his crop at home, and there was not enough of it to supply the demand. Twenty-seven valuable sheep were killed and wounded for Thos. Mercer, of Fulton county, by the falling of a lree, on the night of the 3d rnstr, and the next day there was a corresponding falling in the price of mutton in that neighborhood. Bloomington University recently covered itself with glory and immortalized Judge Osborn, of the Indiana Supreme court, by conferring upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws. Doctor Osborn is said to wear liis blushing honors with becoming modesty. Dr. I. B. Washburn, of Logansport—two winters since representative in the State legislature from this district—offers a special premium of five dollars for the healthiest ahd handsomest baby two years old and under exhibited at the Cass county fair this coming fall. Air. llixon who recently tore up the track of the Peninsular railroad that was being built across his farm in Laporte county, has compelled the company to pay him $1,546.75 damage for the privilege of crossing his premises; which is much pleasanter than being sent to the penitentiai-y as the company at first threatened. Old mother Daftsus, of New Albany, 70 years old, is hunting for a winter job. Winter before last she cut down trees three feet through at the but," stripped off 40 cords of tan bark, split 1,300 rails, cut and split 50 cords of wood, and lenced 40 acres of land, besides attending to her household duties. The fob lowing season she and her old horse broke up the ground she had cleared, and raised a good crop. It is said she don ? t want to marry. Cholera has been fearfully ravaging the city of Mount Vernon, Indiana, during the past Week.— The mortality reached as high as nine deaths in one day—for the week forty deaths were reported.— All business was stopped; hundreds left the place in fright; and those who remained- were worked nearly to prostration in their endeavors to disinfect the city and nurse the sick. Physicians and nurses wore themselves completely down and were compelled to send to Evansville and other neighboring towns for assistance. As many as. four deaths have occurred in one family.