Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1873 — Compiled from Indiana Papers. [ARTICLE]

Compiled from Indiana Papers.

Lake Michigan is one foot higher this summer than last. Grasshoppers are swarming over the meadows of Lake county. Boone county wheat crop aver-, ages 15 bushels to the acre, this season. Forty teeth a day is an average crop for one of the dentists of Ligonier to extract. Jefferson connty has the champion wheatfield this year, it yelds 35 bushels to the acre. Lake connty pic-niceig take their “Sour vinegar” straight, and get as happy as walruses. The Lowell Star says a “lowlived .miscreant shot a horse belonging to Uncle Dan. Morris, residing two miles south of Hebron, last week.”

Old man Ross, of Monroe county, is 113 years of age, but still manages to eat roasting cars and walk to town. The average daily shipments of butter from Wanatah, Laporte county, are reported to reach 1,000 to 3,000 pounds. A little young one, only nine months old, down at Lebanon has commenced whistling. He ought to be switched. The Winamac Democrat publishes as a rumor that it is fashionable for preachers’ sons to disturb religious meetings in that county. Charley Miller,, aged, five years, and Willie Colden, aged seven, were drowned in Trail creek at Michigan City “The rattling music of higlTtoned threshing machines” have been heard by tlie man that dishes up local items in the Valparaiso Vidette. Some charitable people up at Laporte recently donated S9O towards buying timber enough to make a wooden leg for one of their citizens. All the old topers in Austin, Scott county, stagger because of sore feet, since they commenced prosecuting people down there for being drunk. Barnum occupies three columns in each of the two principal Laporte papers to advertise that his show will be exhibited in that city on the 25th instant. Lafayette people offer S6O premium for the best looking infant exhibited at their county fair this fall, $25 for second best and sls for the third, grade. The seventh annual fair of Stark county will be held at Knox on the 2d, 3d and 4th days of next October 1 . The premiums offered range in value from 15 cents up to $5. The Crown Point Register says that army worms have made sad havoc in some data fields m Ross township of that county, and are now attacking meadows and corn fields. It is estimated that the fishing business at Michigan City nets? 35,000 to £40,000 a year, the lumber business is placed at $1,000,000, iron ore handled SIOO,OOO, and the cars manufactured $1,000,000. Half a gallon of whiskey taken inwardly, and plenty of tobacco juice applied to the wound, saved Asa Jones, of St. Joseph county, from death by a cruel rattle snake’s bite. A Monticello man named Kiser, while out hunting last week, Wednesday, accidentally discharged his gun while climbing over a fence and sent a load of fine shot through his hand. The Laporte Herald describes Michigan City people as “those indomitable, energetic who, "having tiifned "Tfail creek’ 1 riti>' si .commercial port, declare they are next going to make the old sand hills bloom like Eden.” . Had it not been for the burglaries that occurred at South Bend week before last the Tribune of that city would have had a dearth of local news. As it was the record occupied more than a whole long column of that excellent paper. William Ferguson, of Warren county, has a colt of the English Clydesdale stock which when foaled was 4 feet inches high and when four weeks old weighed 310 pounds. It was foaled on the 13th day of last May on his farm. He has been offered S3OO for it at weaning time. Articles of association of the Market Savings and Exchange bank of Crown Point have been filed with the Secretary of State.— The capital stock of the association is $25,000 divided into shares of SIOO each. Joseph E. Young, of Chicago, is president, and James S. Holton, ot Crown Point, secretary.

The little four year old daughter of John Hoffman, of West Prairie, Lake county, wandered out to the field where her father was mowing with a machine, a few days since, and being in tall grass was not seen by him until run against by the sickle of the machine, which struck her above her ankles, nearly severing her right leg and badly cutting the left one, Mr. Hawthorne sold a Wilkham’s farm gate to Mr. Durant Smith, an old farmer of Randolph county, for >5 which was paid; he then presented a paper for Mr. Smith to sign, saying it was a statement of the transaction to be sent to the patentee. Mr. Smith signed it and now finds that slip-of paper was a note promising to pay 1190, and Hawthorne is nowhere to

The Madison Courier says: "A. T. Stewart is said to be wtirth one hundred millions of dollars, and thinks he would be rich if he had gone into the real estate business at Indianapolis.” Three voters for Hendricks for President on the New. Departure were made by his Excellency in pardoning them from the Southern Penitentiary on Monday, July 28th.—Winamac Democrat. The mammoth tooth that was recently found by Paul Metzner near Wanatah, was shown to us by his father last Monday. It is quite a curiosity and is attracting considerable attention. It weighs four pounds and six ounces and measures 17} inches around, 3} inches across the face and is 7 inches lengthwise of the face.— One of the prongs is 3} inches long.— Laporte Argus. A high-priced chap from Boston, with a four-ply collar, and a shirt all buttoned down behind, attempted to wrestle with a glass of Wea Catawba, vintage of 1873, last night. His attenuated legs went into bankruptcy at once, and he would have fallen into the arms of the ‘perlice’ but for the devotion of a friend Who swore he had the measels, and they struck in on him. — He went to his hotels in an ambulance, and was so chagrined this morning that he left without paying his bill.—Lafayette Courier.The Illinois farmers have succeeded in electing their candidate, Mr. A. M. Craig, as judge of the Supreme Court, by a majority of between-2,000 and 3,000. This election lias been denounced in some quarters as if it in some way impaired the sanctity of the judiciary in that State. But where an office is to be filled by popular election, it is certainly as fair that popular as that partisan interests should enter into and determine the result. It seems now probable that the Western farmers will even go so far as to consider their own interests in the elections hereafter to be held to fill State and Federal offices. Possibly they may attempt to consecrate the ballotbox entirely and without reserve to popular interests, and realize for the first time on this planet a democratic form of government.—[Editor Harper’s Monthly Magazine.] No law was ever made, and while human nature cotinues as it is none ever will be made, under which government will not lose a large amount of revenue to which it is justly entitled. Thousands of men who would scorn the idea of robbing their neighbors, think nothing of evading the law and cheating the Government. Yet what is this but robbing their neighbors? Government must have a certain revenue, and by just as much as A fails to pay his due proportion, by just so much B and C have to pay more. Every man that shirks his own load increases the load of his neighbor. Tne man who makes a false return of taxes befrauds every other tax-payer in the country as clearly as if lie had put his hand in each of their pockets and drew out a j sum of money. And if a day ever comes for general overhauling of the books and a production of all the assessment lists ever made, with a testing of affidavits by the clear light of truth, what a panic there will be! A mere recital of the hooks and crooks, the tricks and practices, the twistings and turnings, the suppressions of truth and compromisings of conscience and the dodges, evasions and ffltuds used by rich men to escape the payment of taxes, jwould fill a library beside which the largest ever known would sink into insignificance. Ifsuch a record is kept, when the time comes for it to be opened the reading of it will afford jolly fun for the poor man, for it will show by what hocus-pocus of finance the bankers and millionaires of earth managed, during this life, to appear on the tax-lists as not possess! ng any personal property when the world new they had bags full of money and notes, bondsand mortgages galore. This is one of the interesting secrets which will be cleared up at that final interview. Meanwhile it is only left to poor mortals to wonder how these unhappy Croesuses, without any “personal property,” can raise money enough to pay their butcher bills, and keep the wolf from the door.—lndianapolis Journal,,