Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1873 — Compiled from Indiana Papers. [ARTICLE]

Compiled from Indiana Papers.

The Indianapolis Journal claims to have authority for saying that Senator Alorton “has "covered his back pay into the Treasury.” This announcement is very gratifying to the friends of the great statesman. The Chicago Tribune says: “Of all the new party movements of the diy, the Farmer’s movement is the most healthful and promising. We have no fear that,it will become an agrarian party, or a mob party, or a law breaking party. We believe that it will put an end, or at least give a cheek, to the prevailing corruption in politics.’’ The Oxford Tribune of last week “most heartily endorses the proposition’’ to elect Col. Hammond Circuit Judge this fall, and says “Judge Hammond has already made for himself a host of friends m this county, among all parties, and.we think we but utter their thoughts when we say, Hammond is the choice of Benton county for Circuit Judge.” The Remington Journal of August 23d says: . “After the conclusion of Mr. Lansing's address the Patrons were ‘called trom labor to refreshment’ by the President. Hundreds of well-tilted baskets were soon opened; large, clean tablecloths were spread on the sward; chickens, turkeys and roasted picks, with cakes and pks ami good far loaves of bread—in fact everything to make a good square rpeai— was placed ch.lhe cloths.” . There it is again! Who but a poor, half-starved editor would have thought of such a queer luxury as ft roasted pick ! To sharpen up an appetite it ought to prove better than a pick’ed “cockum’er.” “Red Hot” John O, Hardesty, late proprietor of the Afiderson Herald, has issued his postal card __ Wlib the fe 11 owing ann onu<• emenu “Indianapoms, Ind., Aug. 23,1873. My Dear Sir:—l have made arrangements to issue a 36-columri Republican (weekly) paper in this city on the 6th of .September ami thereafter. It Will l.'e called The Indianapolis Sun, and "will be Republican in politics, and otherwise readable. I send this to invite an exchange with you. I haven’t a great deal of money, but I have arranged with a man named Holloway, who keeps a posuotUee here, to take some ‘out-side Jots’ ns security for the postage which a large exchange list will incur. Hoping you may call to see me when you visit Indianajxdis, I am Jour unfortunate brother.” Although our exchange list is already large an Indianapolis Republican paper, Rrpublican.dn politics, promises to be such a curiosity that we are induced to concede to our “unfortunate brother’s” desire. Almost any pleasant evening this summer a gentleman and his wife, who have more of this world’s goods than many others, may be observed driving their carriage to the houses of their less fortunate neighbors and taking the women and children out to ride. These acts of kindness, though not on so grand a scale as the excursions planned by wealthy gentlemen of large cities for laboring people and their children, are equally as commendable and afford as much enjoyment to those who are favored; and they indicate a beautiful character truly refined by Christianity. The unostentatious manner of these people while performing their kind deeds indicates a modesty that would be wounded at the publication of. their names, but we know they will pardon this allusion if by it, others who have equally asiuncT hearts, receive a hint by which they are also led to join in increasing the happiness of little children and toil-wearied women. The county superintendent, township trustees and school trustees of the towns of Jasper county will meet at the office of James 11. Snoddy, in the Court House, next. Monday, in accordance with the provisions of section 8, of an act approved March Bth, ,1873, which reads as follows: Sec. 8. The county superintendent ami the trustees of the townships, arid the school trustees of the towns and cities of the county, shall constitue a county board of education. .Said board shall meet semi-annually at the office of the county superintendent on the first days of May and September, unless the said days be Sunday; if so, on the day following. A majority of said trustees shall constitute a quorum. The eounty superintendent shall preside at the meeting of said board, and shall be allowed to vote on all questions, as other members of the same are allowed to vote. Said board shall consider the general wants and needs of the schools and school property, of Wlikdj they have charge, and all matters relating to the purchase of school furniture, books, maps, charts, etc.— 'The change of text books, except in the care and management of township libraries, shall be determined bysueb board, and each township shall conform, as nearly as practicable. to its action, but no text book adopted by the bounty board shall be changed within three years from the date of aueh adoption, except by uiiauiiuous vote of all members of such board. ‘

In commenting upon a communication from a man that had been wounded tn the Union army, who/ said something about somebody having a “haired for the boys in blue,” the editor of the Ligonier Banner says “that old cry is pretty effectually played out.’’ The editor of the Banner was a Democratic candidate for a State office not very long since, and like all others of his party dislikes to, heap anything about the wai record of Democrats. Somehow,or other they do not seem to have much to be proud about in that respect, do they?

Plenty of burglars are at work at Monticello. New machinery is to be put into the Delphi paper mill. Tlm Urown Point 7?f<p«lrr tallies one for our early tomatoes. A Delphi boy 70 years old was recently married to a little girl aged 65. The Catholic young men of Valparaiso threaten to organize a large Silver Band. Walkerton merchants invested about $5,000 this season in seedy huckleberries. A Laporte county mill is grinding out 200 barrels of flour every twenty-four hours. — Lowell, Lake county, is agitated from center to circumference by an internecine temperance war. Cap. John Lopp sails on Lake Maxinkuckee in Fulton county, in a little yacht of hisown construction. A mass meeting of the old settlers of White county is to be held at Monticello on the 25th of September. The Timer says that the subject of fair grounds and a driving park is warming up the people over at Delphi. Rev. August Reichert succeeds Rev. B. Weidati as pastor of the Catholic Church at Winamac, the liepublican says. Some of the Noblesville youth are mean enough to destroy melon patches. They ought to be salted with a shot gun. The Empress manufacturing company has been established in South Bend to manufacture ladies’ beps and garters from leather. A lecture association has been organized Mishawaka, and they are now negotiating for the delivery of a course o/ lectures next winter. “ - ■“ The Knox Ledger says that Spiritualism is turning everything" upsidedown in little Starke. How queer the people must look in that condition. John B. Pepplc, one mile west of Albion, thinks he has discovered a mineral spring on his place equal to the celebrated magnetic spring of Michigan. One man near Walkerton estimates that, if the frost holds off the usual time, he will have a thousand bushels of cranberries on his marsh this season. On the 28th instant at a festivali to be held in Valparaiso the popularest business man of that city will pe presented a gold headed cane valued at SSO. The Kentland Gazette heais that 1,300 out of the 1,500 voters of Benton county have signed a petition for the removal of the county seat from Oxford to Fowler. _ A Mishawaka cow is only eleven -years old that has not “come in” for thirteen months, has furnished her owner with 900 or 1,000 quarts of milk and 320 pounds of butter, durjsg.the past year. The Mayor of Kendallville recently decided that a man whowvas totally disabled from performing manual labor, by reason of wounds received in the army, is exempt from the payment of road poll-tax. The Ligonier Banner says that Elder Harris, of that place, has been tendered a professorship in the Northwestern Christian University, but deferring to the wishes of friends he declines to accept the position. One evening last week two men approached Mr. Kent, who was driving in a buggy near Reynolds, throwed him out, took possession and drove off. Up to last Friday nothing bad been heard of men or team. Uncle Johnny Peele, of Wayne county, has dandled upon hisknees his decendents to the fifth generation. He is 93 years of age, but does not look to be more than 60, doesnot stoop in the least and carries himself as lively as young men of 25. His lineal number 73 at the present time.

The Laporte Argus says Messrs. ’Faurand <L; McCollum, Atiprn6ys for the Kankakee Valley Hraitiing” company, have sued that effete organization for $3,000 worth of legal services, and the secretary of the company has sued it for about $3,600 salary. A South Bend youth of twentyfive summers recently became the husband of his aiyit —his mother’s sisttr— aged about it order that their mutual offspring, aged six months, might receive the advantages of a father’s care according to the customs of Christian society. A man over at Delphi is rushing around frantically, and offering to het SIOO,OOO that the Indianapolis, Delphi & Chicago railroad will be built within the next two years.—. At last accounts ho had found no takers and the authorities had not made application to send him to a lunatic asylum. The schools of Delphi have been closed for fifteei>months on account of not having a house of sufficient capacity to seat the pupils. A large new building will be completed by the first ■of September, and the people hail with delight tli_’ prospect of soon being' able to remove their children from the streets to a better place of instruction. When Chicago peddlers get up into St. Joseph county the people, with whom forbearance has ceased to be a virtue, band together and ‘ shoot at them. froni_ behind clujnps i of bushes that grow near the road i with their little pistols. Oh! when I will people in other parts of the ' State welcome lightning rod men, ' patent right men, school furniture ■ men, quack doctors and other swindlers with like hospitality? T h e e n ter p r i s I n g En terp rise cl a 1 in s to have discevtireff: an enterprising vegetarian at Mishawaka who receiitly “ate one large watermelon, two muskmelons, a dozen apples and a few other specimens of fruit and vegetation,” in order to prove whether fruit was healthy for a summer diet. The operations of! a double acting cholera morbus for five hours, and the fee bill of an attending physician, have satisfied his curiosity.

During the absence of Dr Clark . i and family from their residence at ‘ Monticello, last Tuesday, somebody : entered the house and stole a lot of J bank stock certificates, promissory notes, a county order and a lot of trinkets, amounting in value to something near $2,000. The county order and some of the notes were afterwards found in an old WnCOCupied house, but bank stock and »>>* es to 1G amount of $1,2(10 are still jn.’*’ sll, pt The litera.’v entertainment of the ladies on Tuesday evening of last week was a decideq success and the proceeds of the evening amounted to nearl y sls. Journal? When youcome to the show the t best way is to walk up to the prize package swindler and put a head on him. The chances are that the fine for such an offense would be much less than the money he would steal from you if you should invest with him.— Plymouth Democrat. Commissioner Burnham lias the inside row of the best of them in the shape of huge horse flesh, lie weighed a colt last Thursday, two years old last May, that pulled down .1,180 pounds. The colt is well pat up and will make a magnificent horse. — Loioell Star. Speaking of the organization of the Olive township “farmers’ grange/’’—the —Secretary, —W. 11. Deacon, says the farmersjeem very much interested in the new work, and he predicts that within a year nine-tenths of them in -That.township will become grangers. — South Bend Register.. W. 11. Martin, of this place, has formed a law partnership with Col. Healey, of Rensselaer, for practice in the courts of that county. Of course this does not interfere with the business of here, as Mr. M. will still reside here. We wish the new firm abundant success. — Kentland Gazette. A man was killed on the railroad about ten miles west —of —here, recently. The men of the construction train were working beside a steep embankment. One of thfi boys, thinking he would have some fun, got on top of the bank and shouted at the top of his voice: “The bank, is caving in!” They all rushed on the track as the mail train was approaching, and all succeeded in getting off in time but the one who was killed. — Michigan City Enterprise. On the 13th inst., a Swede named Anderson, hung himself in North township, in a small barn near Pleasant Ferguson’s farm. He was a man about fifty years of age, and a laborer on the Baltimore, Pittsburg’and Chicago railroad. Being a poor but honest man, having no rope with which to “shuffle off,” he substituted-birch bark, and made ifolook very well The - deceased was supposed to have been drunk at the time of suiciding.— Plymouth Democrat. *

On the 15th instant while Chas, ,A. Manning, Deputy Warden of the-Michigan City prison, and Mr. St. John, President of the Board of Directors, were alone in the guardrtrom of the prison, Joseph Simpson, a prisoner, armed with a cooper’s broad-ax, entered the room and advanced towards Manning exclaiming, “d—nyou,l will killyou.” The deputy drew a revolver and ordered the man to leave the room, at the same time threatning to shoot him if he did not obey.— Simpson continued to advance, spriging from side to side to avoid the pistol, when St. John seized a chair and struck him, which, however, failed to prevent liis advance. Recovering from the blow the prisoner rushed at the deputy, who fired and followed the first with two Others. Mustering his failling strength, the prisoner threw the ax with all Lis force, narrowly missing the deputy’s head and then fell. As he fell the deputy fired a fourth shot. The second shot was fatal as was afterwards ascertained. The Coroner’s Jury exonerated Manning. The prisoner had once escaped from another penitentiary and it is thought he was of the impression that the deputy had informed the Warden when his time would expire. Judging from their last issue, we infer that our brethren of the Rensselaer Union derived a wrong impression from an article which appeared in the Topic a few weeks ago, relative to tile officers and members of the Prairie Farmer’s Ag. Society. We did not aim to hold forth the idea that the wish and determination to make our Fair a grand one, greatly surpassing former exhibitions, were not uppermost and i ardent in the breasts of the Society, kbut that there was a petty spirit of: ; contrariness, jealousy and rivalry : among some of the officers and ' members, which is only personal ! at present, but which we feared might attain dimensions in time that would prove seriously disastrous to the Society as a successful organization. To prevent such a misfortune, is why we have written as we have from time to time, and shall continue to do so until this base practice ceases. Do not think, brethren of the Union, that we arc not prepairing for a grand exhibition, and that we are not determined to make it the greatest success that our people have yet enjoyed, the weather permitting.— We hope that you will give it all the favor ami help that a commendable enterprise merits, and not in the least hinder i-t by implied or expressed disparagement. Let us work mutually to assist ami encourage the Farmer in every effort that he may make to elevate his calling, secure his rights and enjoy the trnils of his labors. As faithful sisters, interested in eacn other’s welfare, let our SocieLiea work hand in hand for others success.— Erancesville Local Topic,