Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1873 — Compiled from Indiana Papers. [ARTICLE]

Compiled from Indiana Papers.

The first Humber of Der Courier, a German weekly paper, has been 4 sb ued at Sooth Bend. We would like to read it. Mrs. Workman, charged with murdering Mrs. Hedges, is nut of jail on SB,OOO bail, and is keeping house for her husband, who is at Matamoras plastering. J~*= The Valparaiso jfeiwrngcr has long eqjoyed the reputation of being a temperance advocate, notwith standing its Democratic politics, yet last week it was nearly three columns full of Beer. Judge Hammond issued an order, last week, restraining the commissioners of Benton county from building the new Court House at Oxford.From this it would appear that the cqunty seat question has not been settled. Coal stoves me being generally introduced into the business houses of Valparaiso, the IJest'.nger says, it being claimed that it is a cheaper article of fuel than wood. Not only is coal cheaper, but it gives a more even and greater amount of heat, and sooner or later all prairie towns will be compelled to.use it. Gen. Packard had a small live aligator at the Laporte fair, which he brought from Louisiana. A short time ago, dear readers,- GenPackard had about $5,000 of our money, which he dishonestly took from the National treasury at Washington. And while Gen. Packard-mw exhibiting ; 'hislittle aligator at Laporte the people -of the United States were taxed S2O a day to pay him for his services.— Don’t you think Jasper is paid pretty well for his little show ? Mon. Thomas M. Browne, —farmer Browne of Winchester town, — delivered an address before an assemblage of the Patrons of Husbandry, last Thursday. The Indianapolis Journal and other papers of that ilk are highly entertained by that portion of the address which treated of salary grabbers and back pay takers. It is a little queer how much better the same ideas sound when they come from the lips of a staunch Republican, like the General, than they do when spoken by lion. Geo. W. Julian.

The Remington [ Journal thinks the county Superintendent of Instruction “will be prejudged in his work, and that The Uniox only seeks an opportunity to use its little influence against whatever he may undertake for the benefit of the schools ” As what “little influence” —we—had—was used to secure Mr.Snoddy’s appointment his apprehension calls to recollection an anecdote we once heard about a strapping maiden whose mother found her weeping bitterly while engaged in the useful occupation of renovating the family clothing Upon being interrogated as to the cause of her grief, she blubbered out: “Oh, dear! I was just thinking how bad-bad-badly I should feel if I was mar-mar-married and had a little baby, and it should craw-era wcrawl up to that tub of hot water, and fall in and get drowned, boo hoo. 800-hob, hbo, ah-hoo.” Last week eighty-nine delegates from the States of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina, met in Chicago to compare notes and talk over the practicability of the Chicago & South Atlantic railtoad, of which the Indianapolis, Delphi & Chicago project is an important link. This convention held a two days session, concluding their business on the 10th. Among the prominent gentlemen present was ex-Govenor Magoffin of Kentucky,’ Cyrus H. McCormick, of Chicago, Gen. Thos. L. Clingman, of. North Carolina, J. C. Johnson, of Georgia, Dr. W. S. Haymond, of Indiana, and a representative of the great banking firm of Drexel & Co, of Philadelphia. A great deal of interest was evinced in the project by the delegates from the South, and all agreed that it was a practicable scheme, and one that when completed would be of immense benefit to the whole country as well as to the particular sections it is especially designed to connect. It was thought that the whole road might be placed in business condition within two years. A large ambunt of local aid was pledged to its construction, and Messrs. Drexel <fc Co. said they were ready to negotiate the company’s bonds and advance money for the work as soon aa the preliminaries were completed.

The election returns received M this office up to the hour of going to press, Arc very meager. It is thought that the Republican candidates for State officers in Pennsylvania, Ohio and lowa have all been elected by majorities far below those given in these States at the last campaign. In lowa the Grangers made a raid on candidates for the State legislature*, and the result is uncertain. The vote in Indiana for judges and prosecuting attorneys, was very light, and, except in a few localities, l,iad no partisan significance. In this (the 30th) circuit Judge Hammond is probably elected by 300 to 500 majority in a poll of only about one-third of the votes, over George W. Burson, an eleventh hour candidate. In Jasper county there were 589 votes cast out of 15G0, Hammond receiving 502, Burson 22, and 5 scattering, as officially reported by the Board of Canvassers. The Rensselaer Union evidently squints toward the lion. Anaou Wolcott as the coming man for Congress,, but it does not openly commit itself in his favor.—Laporte Argus. The Argus will please excuse us, I but we never squint nor look crosseyed. If there is any peculiarity about our vision it is the fact that we look straight ahead. We have not yet heard from any authentic source that Mr. Wolcott is an aspirant to Congress. As yet the issues tor next campaign are not made up, and we do not know that I Mr. Wolcott’s views and ours will I harmonize when they are announced; if they do not, although wo respect his ability andgeneially endorse his political record, and he should be a candidate, it will be our duty to oppose him. While some may question our prudence, none can truthfully charge that we are false to our convictions.

Grapes sell for five cents a pound at Ligonier. Fourteen applications for divorce adorn the court docket dfSt. Joseph county. r—eA Laporte man has refused S2OO for a pair of elk’s horns which adorn his place of business. A Union township man, in St. Joseph county, sold eighteen bushels of pears oft’from one tree this season. The Northern Ministerial Association , of th e North western Con fereuce, will meet in Michigan City on the 28th instant.

The first'frost to destroy vegeb ation in the huckleberry precincts of Stark county, occured Monday night of last week. At 10 o’clock on Monday of last week “the first snow of the season fell” in the north polar region -about Crown Point. During the month of September ' 2,155 car loads of coal were shipped from Knigbtsville, while Brazil exi ported 1,338 car loads of coal and • five of iron. ■•■ . - The Mess&lget finds Valparaiso saloons “pretty respectable” places since they dried up card playing and began to close at 9 o’clock in the evening. An amateur debating club at Ligonier have decided that legal coercion is more effectual than moral suasion for suppressing the evils of intemperance. The Stark county Ledger says, “A buffalo, a wild cat of the tigar species, a wolf and pararie docs, were on exhibition at our fair last week, but narry an elephant.” Six glasses for five cents was the ruling for peannts at the Laporte fair, and all the newspaper fraternity took advantage of the market to lay in a supply for winter. Sweet cider is said to be a drug in the market at South Bend .for $3. a barrel. Two or three druggists would have a thriving business in Jasper county for a while selling the drug at that price. The Good Templars of A alparaiso are preparing for a vigorous campaign against the liquor sellers in that city. It is to be hoped they will act with prudence, zeal and integrity, as on the exercise of these virtues depends their success. —— “They say” that gamblers har vested S7OO from the-suckers that visited the Laporte fair last week. Jasper county gracefully yields the championship for having the greatest number of tarnal idiots. Laporte may now wear the belt. There is a vacant office in Benton county for some enterprising politician who desires to grow into the affections of the people, and who does not despise the day of small things. It is the, post office at Templeton. Salary no object, $D per. month.

.J ■ ' I. —J ; A “durned” fool at Laporte paid Out. $9,000 entry fees on his horse, last season, without winning a single race. That is just the kind of stock to break a marl up —just fast enough to bet on, and not quite fast enough to win. While two brothers named Wolf were chopping in the wOods in Green township, St.'Joseph county, one evening last week, John was stuck Tn the breast by his brother’s ax which glanced and inflicted a wound that may prove fatal. Down in Sullivan county forbearance has ceased to be a virtue, and now sewing machine agents'are found scattered along the roadsides with their skulls smashed. The time is probably rapidly approaching when the people of Jasper county will rebel against the persecutions of sewing-machine peddlers, lightning rod swindlers, life insurance agents, tombstone canvassers, etc., and then let them wear suits of mail if they venture inside of the county limits,—— A flax factory was burned at Rochester last winter under circumstances which gave rise to the suspicion that it had been fired by the propietors in order to obtain the insurance money. Last week two men appeared before a justice of the peace and confess ed to setting the mill on fire, for which its propietors paid them SSO in money and a watch upon which they realized S4O. One of the men was sent to jail in default of bail, theotherwas released on 82,000 bonds, and the propietors will be ariested as soon as they can be found. Several broken down politicians in this place have ordered a pint of timothy seed each, with which to sprinkle their hair, since the Grange movement is taking root in this region. It beats ail, how many real old veteran farmers there are in Warsaw I—Warsaw Indianian.. Mr John Gransinger, of Washington township, aged about 19 years shot himself to death, accdentally, on last Sunday. He was out hunting, with a companion, when becoming tired, they sat down to rest upon the railroad track. After some time spent in this way, the companion arose and walked off some distance calling to John to “come on.’’ John apparahtly moved as if to get lip, when his gun was discharged. The companion ran to his assistence, but he died in about five minutes. It is supposed that, as he pulled the gun towards him by the muz.zle, it was eocked by a railroad tie and discharged. The load of shot entered his side and breast. — Logansport Journal. Four thousand dollars in property was burned up at Palestine, Kosciusko county, for John Surber, on which there waS v 2,800 -insurance. The insurance company now talk about over insurance and a compromise. Whereupon the Warsaw tZuion says: “The people of this State have no protection from the robberies of insurance companies, and many persons who are resting easy under the impression that their property is insured,’ when the test comes they will be disappointed.— The law should be compulsory in its requirements on the part of an insurance company to fulfill to the very letter the contract it enters into with the people. — Ligonier Banner.