Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1873 — Compiled from Indiana Papers. [ARTICLE]

Compiled from Indiana Papers.

Who nays the money into the National Treasury?— Valparaiso Messenger. Pratt, Cobimi, Ken' ami Morton, of Indiana—three Republicans and j one Democrat. What became of the Rensski.aEß Union of last week? Do not miss, | Brother Union. We await your | weekly visit with anxiety .—Frances-: ville Local Topie. Can’t imagine what became of it; wc endeavor to send our paper regularly to all subscribers and exchangee. Thank you for the implied compliment. People should never tire of tolling the good qualities of our county and its inhabitants. A little friendly criticism among neighbors when occasion demands, is perhaps well enough and may be productive of good results, but do not tell others of the faults you detect or imagine you detect, because it does no good to them, yourself or anybody else. A telegram from Mr. Prosecutor S. P. Thompson informs us that McCullough, tried before Judge Hammond tor the murder of j a man named Morgan in Benton j rg eounty eight or nine years ago, was j found guilty and started yesterday j for a life term in the penitentiary. ! The conviction of McCullough is a triumph for the energy and efficiency of Mr. Thompson. -Work has been commenced in earnest on the Francesyjl 1 e Fai r Grounds; tbe track is being graded into good condition, the fence is being repaired, a number of new stalls are being erected, etc., etc. — The system of entry -fees has been abolished by the Society, and instead a deduction of twenty per = _ cent, will be made from all premiums awarded, and one dollar will —be charged for the use of stock stalls during the four days of the Fair. At the meeting of the directors of ihe Indianapolis, Delphi & Chicago railroad company, held at Delphi last Wednesday, most of the old directors were te-elected and Dr. Ilaymond, of Monticello, was unanimously chosen president. Articles of consolidation were ratified between the northern and the southern divisions of the road, and it was announced that the banking house of Drexel & Co. had been employed to negotiate the bonds of the company in England.

The initial number of John O. Hardesty’s Indianapolis Sun is an excellent paper. We shall be disappointed if it does, not soon stand among'tbe foremost Republican exponents of the State. Among oth* er reasons assigned for starting the Svn its proprietor enumerates the following which may be classed as “wise and otherwise:” To enable the proprietor to make a living. To supply a long felt want. To give the Democrats a chance to cuss somebody'. To afford the Republicans of Indianapolis and Indiana a paper that they can recommend to one another. The indications were strong on Tuesday that the Republican convention which would assemble yesterday in Massachusetts to nominat e a State ticket would defeat Mr. Butler’s gubernatorial aspirations by nearly one hundred majority, ami Republican journals throughout the land were correspondingly rejoiced. Mr. Butler is unquestionably an able man and would make an efficient executive officer, but his championship of the Salary grab and other disreputable public acts v I ,rove him to be unscrupulous and unprincipled, and has rendered him very obnoxfous to the less parpzan and moie honest Republicans of the country. The Hon. William E. Xiblack, a Democratic Member of Congress from this State, was one of the gentlemen who helped himself to about five thousand dollars for sendees already paid for. The Democratic parly can afford to'dismiss from its ranks every salary thief no matter what lias been liis standing in the party heretofore. Wiuaaiac Democrat, - • - - • ;; , That’s the right way to talk.— And what is sauce for those Democratic ganders is also excellent seasoning for Republican geese,— Let the whole gang of treasury robbers go adrift in the same boat. A thief is a thief, whether in tlie Democratic party or the Republican parly —whether lie steals $3,000 or but five cents— and the only way to secure honest men in public places is to make rascality odious by punishing those guilty of rascally acts. The political necessities of the hour seem to demand, neither Democratic nor Republican ascendancy, bbt the election of honest nltft to offices of trust.

Those people* who think it a hardship to pay postage on their county paper ought to subscribe for the Rensski.akii Union immediately and receive it three months for nothing—an amount of saving equal to the postage for two and a half years. i J , The South Bend Union appears ! to be disgusted with' some of its l ° _ j brethren in the faith. It says, 1 ‘‘Our friends should and probably Ido understand that the Chicago Timet and the Indianapolis Sentinel art* ti" longer Democratic papers. The Chicago Tribune will bolt any Democratic nomination.-’ Ihrttlesfiakes are killed in the dooryards of the back villages of Laporte and South Bend this season, and we look every week for accounts of children carried off by bears, mjd defenseless women being scalped by relentless savages. Those pioneers are suffering terrible privations, but it will he the. making of them if they can only stand it. A correspondent writes _to the Hebron Sun as follows: The matter lias been talked of from time to time concerning a much needed bridge across the Kankakee River, south of Hebron. No move has ever been made by the citizens on this side of the liver notwithstanding it lias been spoken of at times through the columns of the Bun, as an cltbrt to arouse the people of the eounlry from lethargy*, to wake them up to see the matter in the true light bt their own interests.. It is hard to estimate the advantages that would arise, and the increased trade which we would secure by building this bridge. The citizens of Jasper county have, from time to time;propose to make their road passable to tlie river bank if the people of Porter county would do the same. If the citizens of Hebron would move in | this enterprise there is surely a go!den opportunity awaiting them. There is a scope of country at our very doors, | unsurpassed for farming and grazing ] which is settling up very fast with good alliTehTer[ >nsii ig people, llebron ] is their natural trading point, the host i qjoiut for selling or shipping their pro- i titiee, As it now is, it is nearly a day’s be made before breakfast, if we bad this bridge. Now tifis is no idle talk or moonshine speculation. It is a matter the j people should move in at once. It would be of vastly more importance to us than any second railroad could possibly be. I am satisfied that if there was an effort made to raise the means to build the road and bridge, it could be done easily. Assistance from (lie two coun ties, in the way of appropriations, can surely be liad by showing up the advantages to be gained by the respective counties from such a work. Will not some enterprising persons make a move? It can be accomplished without doubt, and at much less expense than is generally .supposed.

New photograph gallery at Francesville. f— , New hay is leaving l’ranccsville by the.car load. Wild plums sell for five cents a quart at Brookston. South Bend enrolls 937 pupils in her several schools. A Laporte lirm manufactures 1,500 brooms a week. A man in Spencer county lias 150 acres of tine tobacco., Keiitland lias now two building and loan associations. Michigan City values the church property there at £124,500. robbers still infest the vicinity of South Bend and Mishawaka. Huntsman’s Hall, at Laporte, is to be reconstructed into an opera house. New telegraph poles are being put up along the L- N. A. & C, railroad. The first ] >rcmimrrbTibwmf tire Tippecanoe county Fair was Geo. B. Felton. Francesville, to be ahead in something, reports a, frost on the 2d instant. There is now not a vacant house in Warsaw. Two years ago there were sixty. The catch of fish at Michigan City is rather better than at tins time last year. A proposition- is on foot to stock Center lake, in Kosciusko county, with new varieties of fish. Seventy regiments were represented at the "soldiers’ reunion at Crawfordsville, last week. A two-year old Percheron oolt, owned by a gentleman in Lake comity, weighs 1,284 pounds. The new half mile time-track at Laporte coFt SI,OOO, and is thought to be one of the best in Indiana. One firm ;at Lnpoi'le will use 500,000 feet of lumber for the construction of new ice houses this season. The Mishawaka Enterprise says that the crop of teachers promises to be good- in St. Joseph county this season. While stealing melons just for fun, Bill Prance, of Kosciusko county, was shot in the hack by Perry Moe the other day.

j , Clean, cosy dwellings in Laporte readily rent for 915 to S2O a month | and there are not enough to Supply the demand. j Sooty chimney sweeps have recently visited Rochester and Ply- - mouth. Something new in those ! young cities. Upwards 0f.200 wagons were counted in the procession of the j Grangers who pic nicked at Crown ; Point last week. ' The Warsaw* opera house will lie : one of the largest and handsomest buildings in Northern Indiana, so the hulianinn says. I Mr. Marshall Makbnison, of Kosciusko county, harvested 298.1 bushels ot wheat from 8 acres of ground this season. The Plymouth Democrat says the indications are that a large breadth of wheat will be sown in Marshall county this season. Cholera has appeared in malignant form at New Elisabeth, Hendricks county, about Wenty miles south of Indianapolis. Jack Gridley, once an attorney of some promise,- recently spent a night in the calabooSe at Kentland, in a drunken condition. The wheat yield in Warren township, St. Joseph county, this season threshes out lrom sixteen to twen-ty-five bushels an acre. A base bail tournament for a_ ' purse of 5100 ' is reckoned among ! other attractions at the St. Joseph ! county Fair on the 22d. A Franccsvillain lias been licensed ! Iby the Commissioners of Pulaski | : county to ‘•ell intoxicating beverrages in small quantities. Franklin township woman I takes ginger pop when she visits j S Winafnac, and ginger pop al.rays . “flies right to her head.’’ i . i 1 Orlando Kimmel, of York town- ■ ship, Noble county, threshed 1,100 j bushel’s Of bati w 1 lietr "were birr-; ■ vested on 22 acres of ground this i 1 season. The time tor holding the Porter j ! county Fair has been changed one j week later, and it will now be held ■ on the Bth, 9th and 10th days of October. i _ Col. Kline G. Shryock, of Rochester, is a candidate for the Republican nomination for circuit judge in the Fulton, Marshall and Kosciusko district; " ~ The South Bend Union says that students for Notre Dame and St. Clary’s continue to pour into that city from every direction They better go to school. The Laporte county Fair commences September 29th and is held four days. They offer over $2,000 premiums for fast horses—trotters, ! pacers and runners. According to the Star Lowell bummers have one day of the week consecrated to drunkenness, when they get “pretty low in the calendar of respectability.” Charlestown, Clark lias been visited by a band of Kuklux, who posted notices in conspicuous places, warning obnoxious persons to leave within fifteen days. The new agricultural association of Newton county will locate their fair grounds near Morocco, but it is so late in the season that they will not hold a fair this year. Frank McCurdy, of Wauatah,. pays rent on $15,000 worth of life insurance. When lie dies there

will be one more eligible yfidow in that county, providing the Companies liquidate. The First Church of the German Evangelical Association at South Bend has purchased a quarter of an acre of ground in South Bend, on which to erect, a church. The price paid was $3,800. Grapes are plenty and cheap at South Bend, and there is no good reason why they should not be so in Jasper county. Plant a few vines next spring for experiment; you will never regret it. Mishawaka has expended a quarter of a million of dollars in new buildings, during the last year, and more than three million of brick were used, besides a proportionate amount of other material. The arrivals at the port of Michigan City l during the mouth of August were 77 vessels, representing a tonnage of 8,066, manned by 465 seamen. They brought in 6,340,000 feet of lumber, 6,289,000 Bliingles, 1,760,000 lath and 1,058 tons of iron ore.. .. A company of Chicago speculators recently paid ' $450,000 for 8,000 acres of land in the north part of Lake county with the design, first, of making it a manufacturing.territory; second, to direct' the growth of Chicago eastward; third, to secure land for cheap suburban residences.

".The editor of the Rochester Union Spy announces that having found he can not exhaust the supply of the saloons by drinking their whiskey, he has determined to oppose bv all honorable means the future existence of .saloons in Rochester. . p.— ; — Mischievous urchins make ii necessary for Crown Point people to. set traps in their melon patches and watch their gardens with loaded shot guns. And that, too, almost -Under the shadow-of the walls of the northern penitentiary. Rev. Father Borin writes to Notre Dame, from Rome, that the Pope has presented to him for the college a beautiful marble statute of the Virgin Mary, setting in deep meditation By her spinning wheel, so the South Bend Register says. The Missengcr thinks that tin Queen -Elizabeth fashion of huge neck ruffles of lace, now affected by Valparaiso belles, “make the ‘dear creatures’ look charminsrly beautiful.” Undoubtedly; and probably the Egyptian fashion of close veiling would make them look still more so. The residence of Win. Burns, in Big Creek township, White comity, j though protected by five lightning j rods was struck by lightning one ; day last week and considerably damaged. The electric fluid was jitlfactcd to two of tire .rods and skipped off into the roof of the building. Frank Anderson, son of Dr. An- | derson, of Monticello, was killed | by the ears at Honey Creek, -near • lloytHdds, last Monday week ago. He was acting as brakesman and in attempting to jump from a ear that : had become uncoupled to the one in front of it fell to the trussed | work below, breaking a leg and ! crushing hisskuil. Another Brakesman on the same train, named Ilart, Hems —fabti'yiua?dicd betwecu the bumpers of two cars at Reynolds, j Margaret. Wentz, of Liberty tows.iship, Pulton county, lost a little child last spring which so preyed on her-simple mind that the other day while her husband was away drum home, attending a show, she set lire to her clothing and then jumped into the well and deliberately drowned herself in four feet of water. When she got into i the well she sent her two little girls, S aged eight atiil five years, mio the house. They obeyed and went to sleep. Aider waking up they went : and told a neighbor what had hap- | p cued, but ;W he n aasis ta n cer eaeh e d j the house the mother was dead, h Over in Starke county, so the tale is reported, there lived an old gentleman named Isaac Reed with an unmarried daughter. Ihs daughter was dissatisfied' »itli that land of | cranberry marshes and huckleberry j --barrens and wanted to move aw ay. I . In order to . conciliate her the old | gentleman traded his inuekshaw I swamps for property in Plymouth, but this djd not satisfy the finical : old maid who declared she would not'move. This perversity so worried the old gentleman that he | waded into a swamp the other 1 morning and drowned himself. lie was found standing in ail upright position in water over his head, tightly holding, to the rushes.

The ungodly managers of the ancient and worthless Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railroad bad a torce of men at work, last Sunday, below town, driving piles for a new bridge. If the heathens who eoiijrol this one-horse railroad have no regard for the Sabbath day, they may be taught a lesson some of these times.— Brookston Reporter. There is one thing that Mishawaka tan brag of, and that is, all that has been done here has been done ! by our own energies. Not one cent S ’of foreign .capital, as far as wo are | aware, is used in rebuilding.— I ; Chicago, though her fire was not j as large in proportion to the size of j . the.place as was ours, was obliged ! to draw to a very great extent upon Eastern capitalists; and the result is that most of her best buildings are heavily mortgaged to outside parties. —Mishawaka Enterprise. The Governor, Secretary, Auditor and Treasurer of State, this week made a visit to the Michigan City penitentiary. Their visit was made tor the -purpose- of exa-mining the prison, and to sec and talk with the convicts who have made application, for pardon. The number asking for pardon is about thirty. Of course, we shall not know for awhile how many of these will be granted their freedom. Our prison system is very deficient in many respects, but there is Jess cause'" for against the system of governing convictsthan the system in making convicts: By a study of prison statistics hue will be amazed at the unequality of punishment. The writer having visited both, of the Indiana prison's in an official capacity last winter, knows wereof he speaks.in this regard, and can give an incident. In going among the convicts, the first question asked is, | for the reason why the man is in the 1 penitentiary. / We found oiie. man

| convicted ofgfand larceny, and lie j was a villainous looking fellow too, | who was ui for the very sliortest j period allowed by the law; while j right by his Hde was a colored mail I who was incarcerated for thb longjest period aUiowcrl by law for per- ; sons convicted of petit larceny.— jWe found that prejudice has -as : much to do with the making of a , verdict by jijrics, as the law and j evidence had. From several counties, which arc strong in the clc- ' incuts of Democracy, white men [ were sent for short periods and i colored man for long periods, wTiioh - clean y- sh ows,.Jim4d4dg4ihar<Ll-o <1 ij vest tiie average jury of prejudice. , —ladianopoflti Bun, j If the Indianapolis' Journal de- ! sires, to 1 e recognized .as the advo- | cate of the Terrc llante Ifoil way j.Company, in the .suit pend mg to recover a million of dollars to'" the •School fund under its charter, it has that right, and ought to assert it under a less transparent guise.— Its thinly-spread out excuses in bejhalf of the .company in ..this suit, j and its special’pleading to save its • charter, (the forfeiture of.the same j being tli e“pe nallyf• i riisv io Hit To n) jis all very much like the ■ whining" - I pettifogger, ami ought to be left to 1 11 m. —Ken tin ml Gazelle. A great secret of success is pointed outby the statement that a j farmer should never go to town without carrying something to sell —butter, eggs, potatoes, poultry, or | even a load of wood. Uy... 5.0,..d0ing., his income is quite- sure to exceed his outgoes. Tli ere is no more , mi.sera I>l c atuLpovcity stricken ,way than to keep sending to stores and shops, and having tilings charged, with the expectation'or paying for them.when speed nFefops conic oil, lor these crops seldom or never turn out as well as was expected. Thoge v,ho decried the order of P a trffns ~of ■ Llusb an dry a year- and over ago, and believed it was shortlived, now see their riii-inke. The order is founded on principles that underlie the, foundations of all prosperous society, and has grown out of a failure to enforce these principles. The order is to do that, and to restore to the, 'producer a recogni 1 ion—erf■ tlrose —measures of political economy, which will secure him a I‘cgftimate share of his own earnings. An order founded on such principles, having for its object such elements of justice ami equity, -and in the hands of an mtcliigent people, must- of course succeed, and all doubters had as well make up their minds to it.- —Keniiand Gazette.: _ X