Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1873 — Compiled from Indiana Papers. [ARTICLE]

Compiled from Indiana Papers.

Conner, of the Kentlaml Gazette is * “Granger,” so is James of the Henseelaer Union. They are both “bully lellWVs.”—Wlnamac Republican. * And of such is the kingdom of heaven. *ftlc people of inpper county ottght to compliment Judge Hatntnond with a largo vote next Tuesday. His long residence in the county, his fine social qualities, his superior lcgAl attainments and his excellent judgment rendered it proper to honor him with this tribute of appreciation. We do not certainly know that liidrc will be a competitor for the position to Avhicli he aspires, but the Wii.aiuao Demo, ermt ot last week says, “Sometime since we saw a letter in which Mr. O’Brien wae spoken of as a probable candidate.” Mr. O’Brien is an attorney living at Kentlaml and is said to possess legal attainments of high character, but we know noth ing about him except by reputation. Judge Hammond we have been long acquainted with, an 1 knowing hi m to possess in an eminent degree th u qualifications which make a good judicial office!' we are anxious that his election be placed beyond peradventure, and urge all his friends in Jasper county, irrespective of political bias, to vote for .him next Tuesday.

Young idiots race around the streets of Valparaiso Sundays on velocipedes. Wells comity has voted to take stock in the Chicago and Atlantic Railroad. t Old Mr. Zoborosky, of Newton county, died week ago last Friday ! aged 103 years. Senator Sumner is going to lecture in. Michigan City, about the middle of next month. Mr. Ellis Hughes, a prominent member of the Montibello bar, died Monday of iast week. The mill and property connected j with it, two miles above Wtiiatnac, recently sold for $2,000. The Carper House at Winamae recently sold for $3,8Q0, an Indianapolis man being purchaser. A new peat company is organized and about ready to commence operations at Ross, I.ake county. An Indianapolis man wants to supply the people of Michigan City with gas for illuminating purposes. Myers’ sawmill, southeast of Monticello, was burned down recently. The origin of the fire is not j known. .v From 432 to 4*45 and occassionaly SSO per month, are the prices paid school teachers in Newton county this season. j The Catholic congrngation at' Crown Point have recently pur- j chased an organ for their church lit a cost of SBOO. A gentleman at Warsaw proposes to invest $5,000 aud find a friend to put in $5,000 more, if the balance of the citizens will subscribe $15,000 to supply the city with gas. Mr. J. C. Tullis don’t want to be post master at Oxford, Indiana, any longer. lie has sent in his resignation and now there arc several anxious candidates for the place. Mrs. James Mason, of Liberty township, White county, left her nine months old babe in a room where there was a bucket of water, for a few minutes, and came back to find It drowned Day before yesterday a special election was held in Fort Wayne for the purpose of electing a city clerk. John Godown, Independent, beat Peter Meltler, Democrat, by twenty-five majority. The commisioners of Warren county have appropriated SI,OOO for the purpose of having a thorough geological survey made of their county. Mr. Senator John Collett does the business for them for a trifling consideration of $lO p r day. > When Saliy Tucker stops at the Gess House in Brookston again she will not leave her little pocket book, containing $1.50, open on an ottoman in the sitting room. She did so last Friday, went out a few minutes, aud came back to find Iter $1 .50 bad been abstracted. Johnny Martin, twelve years climbed into a walnut tree down in St. Joseph county one day last week, and when he had got up about fifteen feet he fell down and broke his thigln He didn’t cry when the bones were set, but it diaconragea him to think that he can’t climb any more for six weeks and by that time all the nuts wilj have fallen to the grouod.

They have a keen appreciation of justice up at Valparaiso. All summer have they, kept a l’olat.der in jail in order that the Prosecuting I Attorney might enter >a nolle pros. against the charges upon which he was committed, and that he might be turned loose lale in the fall. • —— . _ » >- - S. P. Thompson, Prosecuting Attorney, merits the praise of all law-abiding citizens for the zeal and skill with which he pcrior.ms his official duties. lianuHjloH Joinourt, The citizens of Hebron are dis cussing tiie opening of a new' road from that place into Jasper county. It would help the business of Hebron wonderfully,' - Valparaiso Messenger. The Brook Grunge is accumulating an excellent library. ItfiSS a handsome case, and a considerable collection of books already. This is ag excellent feature of the order, and worthy of imitation by all.— Kentland Gazette. ■ ■>— —■ An Indianapolis commercial drummer attempted to commit suicide at Marco, one day last week, by holding, a pistol against ids face and firing. His cheek Was too much for the ball,- which fell to the floor flattened.- — Worthington .Times.. —-- - Mr. Keene, secretary of the State Grange,.informes ns that from the first to the loth day of September, there were over sis ty Granges estab lished in the State, the average being about three and a halfpor day. lie also informs us that there is now over 400 working Granges in the State. — Valparaiso Viclette. Some writer in the Crown Point _ jß?<7fe/er'cl:lims"tli':it coffee is much Cheaper than before the tariff was taken off, am)- says it will bccheap--er still after the present stock is exhausted. We don’t know how long “the present stock” will last, ►but coffee is no cheaper now than it was the day after the duty was taken off, of course, we mean to the consumer. It liiay be where be buys ins “Hio,” but it is not heriq-and in stead of the price coming down, it is reported as going up in the m> icantilc reports. — Winamae RepuUi can. Last Tuesday evening Ella Eis, a fourteen year old daughter of Nick Eis, ot Mishawaka, went into the pantry, with a kerosene lamp in her hand, and while rummaging about knocked down a coffee mill, which fell upon and bfoke the lamp, scattering the oil over her. person and setting her clothing on fire. She ran into the yard, and several persons hastening to her assistance, she was speedily enveloped in a coat and quilt, and the flames extinguished, bhe was very badly burned, but, it is hoped, not fatally. We are informed the destinies of a woman was decided m this way by certain parties residing in this county, a short tune ng.o: Four men sought the hand of a charming widow. The matter could not be settled by the lady in question, and in order to keep peace between the parties the idea was suggested to decide thevoxed question by throwing dice.-The parties agreed to this and the lucky man is~a German aud does not live far from this city. He is now married and happy.— Delphi Times. The Lafayette Dispatch says two girls, aged respectively fifteen and sixteen years, were picked up on the streets in that city about one o’clock Friday morning by the police. They had come from Colfax and Medaryville. One was driven from home by her step-mother, and the other found incompatibility of temper with her step-mother a sufficient inducement to brave the (rials of a life among strangers. They were 1 both destitute, and wore trying to ! make their way to Chicago. They are held in custody by the authorities, who are puzzled to know what to do with them. A fellow stalked into Shane’s grocery one day last week, when the. bank panic was at its height, and stated that lie heard that the “United States Government was busted,” and that a “greenback wasn’t worth a Continental.” Shane informed him, that so far as he was concerned, he would take greenbacks yet, when the fellow immediately invested about $25 in groceries, which however included $9 worth of tobacco. That man is bound to have his “chew” and will probably take a- qnid xVTion Gabriel blows his trumpet! — Warsaw -Northern Indiunian. One Stephen Horsey, who will be remembered as figuring quite extensively in the Sons of - Liberty, during the late war, and who was tried for treason, is again in difficulty. Stephen, true to his Democratic instincts, has engaged in the distillery business, and still bent on injuring the government, he did his best—like others we could name—to destroy, has been shipping his liquors without the necessary stamps required to be fixed to each keg or barrel; therefore Stephen will take his place in the prisoner’s box in the United States Court room, at Indianapolis, again. Alas, for Stephen!— Warsaw Northern Indianian. ..//:■ -'■ ■— .w ; ~ -I- - ■ ■■ On last Saturday evening William Farner, after lua days work in the brick yard—on the North Side —was ended, was out in the yarij talking to his companions, when a

young Mr. Geoppiuger came along, I and a revolver by had in his posses- j j si<»n was Jpijrjkcd aromul on exhibition. T\yp or three shots were fired from it, being all - the loads, as Farner supposed. He took it and held it in his hand, cocked, and was frying either to pick a cart- : ridge out of one of the chambers or remove a cap, when it went.off, the bill striking him in the abdomen.— He started and ran over a large pile of wood, and around the kiln, where lie found Mr. Thomas, to whom he said, “I know I must die, I the ball is in my stomach.” Jle was immediately cared for, and a doctor summoned, but the ball could not be found. lie lingered in great agony until Tuesday morning, when death Released him from his sufferings The deceaseiLwas about 26 years of age, and was much respected by all who knew him.— Lagaiisport JoUTJi&L ».<► A mass meeting of farmers was held at Mancie last Thursday.— There were thirty four granges i represented, and the attendance was variously estimated at from eight to ten thousand. The procession was one mile and a half long. There was a basket dinner, music, and addresses by Ezra Olleman, of Morgan county, Hon. J. J; W. Billingsley, ofthiscity, and State Lecturer Lansing. The crowd was remarkably orderly and attentive to the speeches. The speeches were mainly upon topics of special interest to the fanr.krs, and arc said to have been entirely free from extravagance, and temperate in tone, the | farmers were advised to abstain I from any attempt at organizing a j seperate political party, the spe.dk- | ers holding that such a step would be detrimental to tlie interests of the order—which never contemplated adipTuTcaFcareer, it having had jJis.incepuoii- in a desire to promote J the interests of agriculture only.— The order is said to be in a very flourishing condition in Delaware county, twenty-four granges having been organized there since March. —Jndianapo/is Journal.