Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1873 — Compiled from Indiana Papers. [ARTICLE]

Compiled from Indiana Papers.

Tim Nt w York World says the Patrons of Husbandry are natural allies of the Dt mocratic party.— That poet who said tliß World was "for man's delusion given” hod a level head. Uncle Johnny Sherman, United States Senator from Ohio, who said he would not have any thing to do with his $5,000 of hack pay I>,»cause he did not vote lor it, hut was going to leave it right where it was, has concluded to take- ami put it back into the people’s treasury where it belongs and from whence it was sLlui. Senators Morion, Pratt, Edmunds and others who claim to he Ironest, virtuous and honorable may profit by this example.

“Maple City” is the pet name for La portc. South Bend is putting up water works that will cost >'57,000. The hay crop in Porter comity is said to bo good, ami much of it is secured. Three dollars a bushel is what Uoehester dealers pay for truck ie- “ berries. J. 1). of Elkhart, refused SgfiO cash for his mocking bird the other day. Old preacher Lilt lcjohn WjfsilT Kochestei, last we.ek, as full of vim ami vigor as~cvery ....w,. " John Bussell, near Broukston, thinks ho will raise 700 bushels of flax seed this season. The city of Ind mnapolis claims to own, -in corporate capacity, property to the value of $1,004,425. The new South Bend directory contains 3,000 names, indicating a population of at least 15,000 in that city. Fifteen butaired bushels of h uckleberries, at $3.50 a bushel, were shipped by one Michigan City firm this season. A Winamac woman got fearfully au,d tearfully drunk and came near failing out of a wagon while going to a funeral the other day. The 1 alparaiso Videlle says Judge Gillette will be elected Judge of that circuit this fall, and there w ill probably be uacaudidate against him.— Up at Green Oak, in Fulton county, they have commenced threshing wheat and find that the new crop averages about sixteen bushels an acre. It was South Bend thieves that recently abducted a blind man into the Woods and rubbed him of five dollars and his cane and left him to wander all night. -t-w About §SOO worth of hav was destroyed in Lake county recently by the breaking away of a dam, tatusing the ad j .lining, ni end o w a-to be .overflowed wi th w ateE“~. Oxford, Benton county, is being ! ornamented with §GojooO worth of new court house, notwithstanding the vigorous agitation about removing the county seat to Fowler. The Mishawaka -Enterprise thinks '; that the yield of wheat in fit, Jo j sepli county Will not he more than j one-half to three-fourths of a usual | crop, and is rather inferior in quality. * Old John Emmons, of Fulton county, thought.his son Finley too young to marry thdtigh he was nearly 21; hut Lydia Wagner had.a different opinion and took the lad over to Michigan, where the twain v/ere made one flesh. -.——— r Mrs. Scott, of Ligotiier, has a collection of 250 varieties of flowers and among them is a night-blooru-ing eereus which recently flowered in the presence of about two hundred' admiring spectators. Lewis Iddings, formerly treasurer of Noble county, took about Si 1.000 worth of double credit on account of road tax receipts and now they - want him to put it right back where itjrill do The most good. The common council of Yalpa- * raiso expect to realize §7OO revenue from saloons during the comin" year, so the Messenger says,'but how much the city treasury wilt realize it is eloquently silent upon. Itev. Justin Doolittle, for twentythree years past a missionary in China, returned from Pekin to Mishawaka last week, and being in failing health will probably spend the residue of his days in St. Joseph county. Geo. McKiusey, of Salina, Fulton county, in traveling from Kentland to Winamac on the 30th of July, lost a roil of money, containing S.IOO, dong up in brown papci. The *finder will be liberally rewarded on relnroirigit to George or leaving it at the Winamac Hepultkem office. - • • ■ i'

The Rev. Miss Addie 1.. Ballou puli- j belies her clerical, .challenge in the ' Argus. She is evidently spoiling for! a tight; but the voice .of the male clergy is for peace. Subside, Addie. Re a turtle-dove and not a warrior.--Michigan City Enterprise. We see it stated that the Hon. David i S. Gooding lias become a'Granger and j is preparing to sound hip bugle in ; favor of free trade and farmer’s rights. ! Dave is a good farmer; we know lieis. i He can get away with an ordinary j pailful of milk at one sitting, devour i Ids two pounds of bacon with astounding alacrity, and stow away a half dozen eggs without a struggle. Besides these rural accomplishments, his handsome figure shows to a decided advantage when enveloped in a suit of homespun and his gigantic feet liedecked by a pair of Franklin county wooden shoes.—Ligonier Banner. - ' . Between 2UQ and 300 Grangers.in this. vicinity are preparing to attend the pie nic at Remington next Thursday. If it should be .a failday that premises to be the largest assemblage ever called together in this section ol country since it was settled by White men. —~ « Mr. A. M. Muridcn, teacher of IMcasaut Grove school, Barkley township, reports for two months term ending July 19lii, 1873,. its follows: Enrollment, 21; average attendance, 15. The pupils perfect in attendance, punctuality, deportment and recitation for entire term were Minerva Brown and Belle Brown. A citizen desires us to call the attention of all persons who may he interested to the fact that the race track cast of the town plat is within the corporation limits of the town -of-Rtm-sselacr, aud suggests-that all who* exercise their horses there might-(ind it economy to read page 015 of the 2d volume of Gavin & Hold. Mr. 11. B. W.-Smitli, of the Cincinnati jEuquiixr, who is now. xisitr mg. relatives in Jasper county, this morning completed the purchase of an 80-acre farm in Newton township. Mr. Smith-is a very pleasant gentleman and we are glad that he becomes identified with the interest of our county, and trust lie ■ may be a resident thereof before- manyyears. - • We are informed that old Mi 1 . Abraham Freeland, of Newton township, six miles west of town, was thrown backwards out of a sulky, one day this week, and sustained severe injuries about Ins head and shoulders. But we are pleased to add his hurts are not of a serious nature and lie is now recovered sufficiently to be about on Ids feet. .—__ It will repay lovers of the beautiful to visit the Nagel Farm on Two Mile Prairie and see their garden of roses now gorgeous with bloom. Everything looks .splendid on that farm this season. They had excellent wheat, good oats, their corn is unusually line, much of it being in “roasting ears,’.’ and the nursery trees, evergreens and hedgeplauts are making prodigious growth. The.revised premium list of the Jasper county Fair is published in another column. No alterations have been made except to add premiums for running horses, photographic work and milch cows.— The awarding committees will be selected on the Fair Ground at time of holding the exhibition.— PosUirs, the premium list in pamphlet form, and tieke.ts will be issu d in a few days.

A load of cheerful watermelons was brought to town last Saturday and half an hour afterwards happyfaced, but ragged clad, doctors might have been seen standing in groups about the -.streets congratulating one another and rubbing their bands in anticipation of fat fees soon to follow - . It was also noticeable that the usually longitudinal features of the grayedigger and the undertaker had relaxed in jtgidity and perceptibly shortened, while the monument man who bad followed in from Remington was an impersonation of exhuberant glee. "It is reported for a fact that the wives of three druggists were each happy recipients of a new silk dress purchased by their husbands, 'on the strength of anticipated increase in sales’ of medicines to result from that first load of melon 8.