Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1873 — Compiled from Indiana Papera. [ARTICLE]

Compiled from Indiana Papera.

Grapes are a drug at Warsaw. Winamac ships wheat, flour and bran to New York City- - Good pidgeon shooting in the ne ighborhood of-Saiith-Bend. War has been made upon cranberry thieves in Stark county. Notre Dame had enrolled 326 students on the 2d of September. Sixty men make one hundred carriages a day in a Laporte factory. A Ligoni >r man has a vineyard of twelve acres in bearing condition. . Knox thieves pilfer such little things as halter straps, bridles and the like in broad day light.

About tw'O-thirds of the corn in Pulaski county was more or less injured by the frost of last week. Ex-Senator David Turpie was married to Miss Alice Partridge, of Logansport, on the 18th instant. It is estimated that 50,000 bushels of new number one wheat has been marketed in Laporte, this year, up te-date. Schuyler Colfax, Esq., will deliver an address at the Porter county fair on the I Oth day of October. It is reported that the Logansport Sun is to be resuscitated by Dr. J. G. Winegarden, of the Francesville Local Topic. The gross receipts of the Cass county fair amounted to $3,600, which was very well indeed for the first exhibition. The apple crop of Kosciusko county is an abundant one, and the fruit is slow sale at thirty-five to fortyjmts a bushel. An attache of the Union office at South Bend, wants to borrow S3OO. Who would be green enough to lend money to a printer? An appletree is now in bloom at Crown Point and the editor of the Register plucked a fresh strawberry from his vines last week. . Valparaiso youths attribute the ruby glow of their countenances to habitual use of crash towels after performing ablutions. Stock hogs are very plenty in Stark county, and the Knox Ledger says there are more than can be wintered over in good condition.

Jimmy Cummings, aged nine months, received the premium offered by Dr. Washburn for the finest baby exhibited at the Cass county fair. There were twenty competitors. From thirteen to fifteen years is now the fashionable age for brides at Valparaiso. And a little girl only five years old proudly' announced the other day that she had “found a nice beau, so rich.” It is not safe to slight Valparaiso youngsters when their acquaintances make a party, for they retaliate by “busting” things with brickbats, ringing cowbells, drumming on tin pans and by sundry other offensive means. Randolph Clevenger was sawing out pickets on a little buzz saw in ..Etna Green, last week, when by some accident a stick was caught by the saw and thrown with such force against his abdomen that death supervened in a few' hours. E. 11. Duffie, of Warsaw, went out hunting the other day and in attempting to pull his loaded gun. out of the wagon, muzzle foremost, succeeded in putting up a job for the surgeon who successfully amputated his right arm below’ the elbow'. Somebody set fire to 40 tons of hay, 100 bushels of wheat and 40 bushels of oats belonging to F. N, Mann, ofLake last week. He suspects that it was done by a neighbor to retaliate for takiug up 95 head of stock that had broken into Mann’s cornfield. A very severe frost last Saturday night cut the late corn badly, damaging it beyond all recovery. The early corn, however, was safe from frost and w’e will have an abundance for the demand.— Oxford Tribune. The w’orse thanfoolishexpedients resorted to by vain girls to give themselves a fair complexion came very near resulting fatally to a young damsel of this ,place last Sunday. It appears that she W'as informed by some one-that the use of arsenic would produce a beautifulwhiteness of the skin, and accordingly obtained a quantity of that poisonous drug. She had taken three.or four doses when she was throwm into spasms, and but for the eiiergetic efforts of a physician would have atoned, for her folly by meeting with grim death. is not likely that she will repeat the operation, but we record this item that others of a like ainbition may take warning and allow nature, to perform its own function^.— National Banner.

We have it from reliable authority that the work on the I. D. & C. Railroad will be commenced at Delphi this fall, if the right of way and local aid required is secured.— The w ork once commenced will insure its completion through from Chicago to this city inside of twelve months. We hope our citizens will respond cheerfully when called upon for the risrht of way donations, &c. —Delphi Times.

One w ho has been accustomed to dropping in at the State House, in eluding visits to the State Library, will notice that men do not enter the library now, cigar; in hand or mouth, and give the old salutation, of “How’ are you, Jim?” The reason is obvious. The librarian is a lady—Mrs. Oren—and not a man De Sanno. Gentlemen who visit the library rooms now, take off their hats, discard their cigar and quid of tobacco, and otherwise deport themselves as they would upon entering the provinces of a lady.— lndianapolis Sun. The quarterly meeting of the State association of Spiritualists commenced here Thursday evening of last week, and was concluded on Sunday night. Among those in attendance from abroad were, Addie L. Ballou, Mrs. Wood, Dr. Barnes and J. R. Buell, Secretary State Association. Quitea number of seances w ere given during the meeting whereat the spirits manifested their presence in various ways. A series of lectures were delivered during the week upon the philosophy of modern Spiritualism. A large number of Spiritualists were in attendance Orford Tribune.

Thehu 11 df th esteamb oat “ W ash. Obencham,” will fee launched today, at 2 o’clock P. M. The work, thus far, has been under the supervision of Mr. Charles Kilborn, and we are assured that no more staunch, light draft boat, can bjjfcfonnd anywhere in Western w«t*n' Some of our exchanges seem to think that th e “Wa s h .Cbench ai n ” is a can al boat. This is not the case. She will be fitted up as a first-class, river steamer, for service inr shallow waters. After the launch, she will be taken to the shop of Messrs. Lincoln to receive her engine, thence to Pittsburgh, on the Wabash river, to receive her cabin, and thence to New' Orleans and her final destination. “iojransjoorZ Vournal. This is the argument of some professed temperance people, viz: “Liquor will be sold anyhow, and you might as well license two or three to sell it, and get the revenue for the school fund.” This is our argument on the same hypothesis, viz: Horses will be stolen anyhow, and you had as well license two or three to steal them, and get the revenue tor the school fund. Men will murder anyhow, and you had as well license two or three to do it, and get the revenue for the school fund. We haven’t secured a patent on this argument, and the public may use it as they wish. To speak our true sentiments, however, we must say that we are not in favor of selling men special permits to send their neighbors to the devil, via the saloons, or for more direct methods of murder, either, even to replenish the school fund. If we were, we should soon be advocating the sale of permits for blood-letting, to secure funds to build churches and school houses. —Kentland Gazette.

The Plymouth Kankakee and Pacific railway, which has engaged the attention of the residents in its immediate locality for the past two years, is at present in a state of financial helplessness. The company is insolvent, and among its creditors are to be found men who have invested their entire means in the project. Mismanagement and the failure of contractors to fulfill their obligations are said to be the cause of the present difficulties.— The bondholders and creditors of .the corporation have recently held two meetings in this city, and have determined to take possession ofthe partially constructed line and dispose of it, dividing the money derived from the sale pro rata. The officers and directors of the road have been notified of the intention of the' creditors. The line is a very important one, opening an eastern connection through some of ‘the best counties in northern Illinois and Indiana. Nearly the entire route has been graded, and a portion of the ties furnished. It is hoped, notwithstanding the condition of affairs,, thatmore practical results will be secured under the management of the creditors of the company than have been realized for the last year.— lnter-Ocean.