Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1873 — Compiled from Indiana Papers. [ARTICLE]

Compiled from Indiana Papers.

.Corn quoted at 50 cents a bushel at Logansport. The cranberry crop of Fulton county is nearly ripe and promises a fair yield. It is proposed to start a new coffin factory at Kendallville, with capital of $40,000. There are five or six half mile race tracks in Laporte county, owned by private parties. ■ The Argus announces that winter wood, delivered in quantities, can be had at Laporte for $5. a cord. Fanny Gray, of Harrison county, read novels until it became necessary to confine her in an insane asylum. A gang of horsethieves is operating in Carroll county, and several valuable animals have been stolen recently. Lakeside paper mill, at Laporte, was burnt last Thursday. Loss 810,000 on which there was $4,0.00 insurance. One thousand, five hundred and thirty Hoosiers adjusted their financial affairs by means of the bankrupt law. A man in Pulaski county recently sold 1,700 pounds of honey at one time, the surplus collected by his bees this season. Robert Curl, of Ilawpatcb, recently threshwl a crop oi 411 bushels of wheat that he had har- : vested on 15 acres of ground this season. David Waterbery, deputy clerk of Tippecanoe county, was thrown from a carriage ' near the fair ground at Lafayette during the fair and killed. The Ligonier .Banner says “It is a noticeable fact that-the young men in this town who draw the least wages invariably swing on the most style.’ Laporte has expended nearly $3,000 this season in the repair of streets and building of cross-walks, in addition to the labor of 800 or 900 poll-bearers. Miss Mollie Clem wants lion. I. N. Pierce, of Terre Haute, to salve her lacerated heart and liniment her bruised affections fifteen thousand dollars’worth; The common council of the ci-ty of Plymouth recently adopted a resolution authorizing the issue of $20,000 of city bonds tor the purpose of building a school house, A company of Chicago speculators have bought Fancher lake near Crown Point, together with forty acres of land on which they propose to build a fashionable summer resort. l They didn’t convict Dr. Donnelly of bigamy at Laporte, the other day. The jury disagreed, standing 11 for conviction to 1 for acquittal. In November, sternhanded law will take another whack at him. A telegraph and railroad institute is about to be opened at Hebron were young men can learn the art of dispatching message's, trains and human life in all its various branches. Fieteber; Meredith,2editprjqf„the Frankfort Banner, was shot last week Tuesday by John A. Douglass, who thought he was too intimate with his wife. The btill ventilated Meredith’s right breast, making a dangerous wound. When game is scarce Lakeoounty.bunters amuse shooting at boys herding cattle, .Last week a boy herding stock on the Dinwiddie estate was perforated in the cheek and the horse he was riding was peppered by an enthusiastic sportsman.

The Kegtland Gazette tells- of an artesian well on the fawn of Mr. Strobridge, four miles east of that town, which is only fifty feet deep and flows sixteen feet above the surface. f - The Lowell Star thinks it will not be necessary to put fresh beef into barrels of cider this season to preserve the “body”—there are worms enough in the apples for this purpose. It is reported that the railroad agent and postmaster at Star City, recently departed for another local-ity-without waiting for a settlement with either the government or the railroad company. Judge George A. Buskirk, who shot a saloon keeper named Rose, at Bloomington, sometime during the summer, has recently been releas id from an inebriate asylum and is now at home. A good quality of hard sandstone, suitable for building purposes, has recently been discovered in large quantity within an easy distance of Rochester in Fulton county. The M. E. Church at Rochester has a membership of about 160, over half of whom are women and children, yet they contribute S9OO to the salary of their pastor, SIOO to the Presiding Elder, besides liberal incidentals of various kinds. The Monticello Herald says that when thenew Presbyterian church building at that place is finished it will have co;st $20,000. It is to be hoped the Lord will allow the munificence of those Who contribute to the expense of the edifice to go as far as possible toward balancing any lack in devotion they may have manifested in former days'. Dora Newhouse, a little girl seven years old, attended school on Monday, the- Bth instant, at Rochester, apparently in excellent health. At half past four o’clock she went home and a quarter of a mile from the school house was accosted.by a gentleman whom she answered with usual vivacity, but upon reaching home a few minutes later she was speechless, having been attacked with cerehro spinal meningitis, and was a corpse at nine o’clock the next morning. W. 11. Martin, of Kentland, has formed a partnership with Col. Healey, of Rensselaer, for the practice of law. A vigorous law firm.— Lotcell Star. Report has it that A. E. Mahaney has suddenly disappeared tql the discomfiture of sundry creditors. If such is the case he is meaner than the Georgia widow who chewed gum while they were burying her husband.— Lowell Star. Billy Wallace got out of a pair of shirts, nt Myers Gainer’s Furniture Factory, very suddenly the other day. lie was trying a new lathe, when the “chuck’’ caught bis .sleeve, and twisted both shirts clear off of him. Billy put on bis coat and went home to repair damages. —Rochester Union Spy. The most painful piece of business we have heard of lately was the resignation’by an unmarried pastor of an Indianapolis church, occasioned by the jealousy of quite a number of the young ladies of his congregation who wanted to marry him. He didn’t want to marry and they did.— Kentland Gazette. The universal satisfaction which Judge Hammond has given on Hie bench, has pointed him out so definitely as his own successor that there is neither necessity for conventions, nor disposition anywhere in any one to be a candidate against him, and Jiejs therefore the candidate of the people, and subject to their will, expressed by the ballot. These tacts testify more handsomely of Judge Hammond than anything that could be added. Let us give him a full vote in Newton.— Kentland Gazette. Some men have a very selfish notion on the subject of subscribing for a newspaper. They seem to never think about any one else in the family, and if they themselves want no paper why of course they conclude they need none in the house. A man whose soul is so contracted, is not fit to have a wife or to raise children. Everyman should consult the pleasures of his wife and the interests of his children, especially so in matters that will assist in educating them and making them intelligent.— Exchange. A singular case of spontaneous ignition took place in the rear of Huntsinger & Co.’s drug store Thursday morning. A small quantity or settlings from a barrel of boiled linseed oil was thrown out the back door and about an hour afterwards it was discovered that the refuse oil had ignited. A great many fires aracaused in this manner. A rag, shavings, paper, or any other light substance is almost sure to take fire when saturated with this kind of oil, and people can not be too careful bow they leave any opportunities for such combustion. Mishawaka Enterprise. *

Tuesday morning last, on Main St., in Rochester,. Charles Garry—a—lad of 19 summers, leaped from his father’s wagon with all the buoyancy and elasticity of youth. But sad to relate, the little pistol in hi a breeches pocket exploded, lodging a ball in the flesliyjMutof his jmnp r .about two inches from the spinal column. Charles will take his meals off the mantle-piece for the next week or two.— Rochester Union Spy.