Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1873 — Compiled from Indiana Papers. [ARTICLE]

Compiled from Indiana Papers.

Deputy John G. Culp reports b axing organized Union Gaattg© in White county, December 12th, with SO members—Alfred Ball, W. M,, U. S. Ilussey Sec. Monterey Grange in White county, December 12th, with 30 members—F. G. Campbell, W. M., Dr J. E. Wright, Sec. Jefferson Grange in Pulaski eonntv, December 13th, with 23 members-W. Cob!e,'W. M.', W. It. Canine, Sec. It is now said that the report of the removal of General Aiilroy from the Suporinterdeury pf Indian Affaire in Washington Territory is incorrect. A misunderstanding between him an ! anoth ir official resulted iu bis temporary suspension until the difficulty could be investigated. An investigation of course found the General all right morally and financially, and no doubt he has re«rmieff~his ffutier before this time. It is reported that there are not less than one .thousand families, and fully four tfionsamfpcrsons in NorlhwrßtLm lort'a, wh o’are actnally suffering for food. The famine was occasioned by the grasshoppers which utterly devoured the crops in that region. The State Grange has appointed a committee with headquarters at Des Moines, to receive contributions and distribute relief. Other preparations looking to the same end are being made in various parts of that State. The House special eommittc-e have decided to report a compromise Gill fixing the salary of Congressmen at f 5,500, and actual traveling expenses. The bill will repeal all increase of salaries made by the act of last session, except the President’s, which it leaves undisturbed. Probably this bill embodies about the best terms the people will be able to obtain i from these men at present; but when they gel home again their ] constituents may take care not to let them have another such advantage. Surviving members of Company G of the oth Regiment Indiana volunteers will regret to learn that Sergeant William 11 oldridgePostil 1 -died en the bib instant, at bie residence near Mcdaryville, Pulaski -county. “Hoi.” ivas a good soldier, as brave as the bravest, and -as kind as he was brave. At the battle of Cedar Mountain, east of Atlanta, Ga., he was wounded by a rifle ball which passed, through his lef t lung. Although he partially recovered from the wound and lived ten years or more after receiving it, rt is thought to have hastened his death. Sergeant Postiil was born in Hamilton, Canada West, and at the time of his death was about thirtyfour years of age: Democratic papers ait over the country arc very much chagrined over the action of their representative men in Congress, who recently endorsed salary-grabbing by nominating' and supporting Mr..Fernando'Wood for Speaker of the House of Representatives. Republican papers are equally mortified that their prominent men also endorsed salary-grabbing by electing Mr. Matthew Carpenter President of the Senate, and appointing Mr. Benjamin F. Butler and other conspicuous apologists efibat infamous act to .controlling positions on important committees. The independent papers say there Is a conspiracy formed by prominent men of both political parties to keep themselves in power and prey upon the public treasury, while to the masses they seem toopp-se one another. With such notoriously unscrupulous and corrupt men as Carpenter, Cameron, Butler, Wood and their pals managing NationaUtfiairs; with the public debt Increasing at the fearful rate of milnccs of dollars a mouth, is the President in bis Message tells us it is; with no measure* proposed embodying retrenchment in public expenditure? 1 , but wi h r-commendation from the President and heads of departments and hills introduced by Members of Con* gross asking for increased appropriations; with a constant demand for larger salaries and heavier taxes —(it is now proposed to restore the duty Oti tea and coffee, and to revive the act requiring stamps on deeds, mortgages and other legal instruments) —it does seem as though the independent press may bavemore suhstantialfoundation for their chargesthan vague suspicions. Perhaps it is nearly time for honest people to • ignore party lines, as President Gri.nt says they are in.-, dining to do, and eleetmcn to

office wluLhave notbeeu in politica 1 life long enough to learn its dishonest tricks. I '— ■■■ - ' By the Chicago Tribune we learn 1 that Mr. N. W. Fitzgerald, at one I time n teacher in the public schools in this place, and recently engag' d in real estate speculations at Indianapolis, is at present a resident of i Evanston, Illinois. I “ | The report of Col. Houston, U. S. Engineer, is that the project of making a hirbor of Wolf Lake in | Lake county, near the Illinois line, ■is feasible, and that the work can be done at moderate expense. Mr. ; Packard will endeavor to have Congress make an appropriation for dredging and other required work. 1 Mr. Orth on the lltli instant introi duoed a resolution in the House of i Representatives, which provides for ; a survey to ascertain the practicability of a ship canal from this ! point to the Wabash river. The Michigan City Enterprise says it has no doubt the scheme is entirely impracticable and very strongly intimates that it is gotten up for a small raid on the National treasury ! aud toouable South Chicago specu- ; Inters t:> realize on their investmerits; but it is possible that Michigan City people may fear a ; rival. i ■■■ At the opening of the present ! session of Congress , a number of ! Members who served the country | faithfully as soldiers during the * Rebellion were compelled to take what is known as the iron-clad oath, but some fifty cx-Confederate soldiers were admitted to seats without that condition being required j ;of them. .Thus has treason been £ made respectable, while loyaliyiM-j comes a stigma. InTts undignified haste to fraternize with our “late j misguided brethren, the party its power tramples upon political equality and discriminates unfavorably to those who were the nation’s nobles*, friends in its lour of peril. Such sycophancy to the one and j ingratitude to the other is disgrace* I ful in a Republic.

The new paper mill at Monticello is in operation. The consolidation of the Gere- : soeo and Knoblock manufacturing companies will add six hundred more inhabitants to South Bend. Winamao is a town of less th*>n one thousand inhabitants, vet. she prospers six licenced liquor saloons j and laughs the Baxter law To scorn. The researches of a directory ; publisher have been rewarded by the discovery of 10,500 inhabitants at South Bend, 111 of whom are . colored people. The Marshal of Mishawaka indignantly denies that any of the school children of that town have ; been drowned in the mud, while ! endeavoring to return home. • Allie Dawson * girl about twelve years old was seriously, end perhaps fatally, burnt, a week ago last Saturday night, while attending a religious meeting five mile? northcast of Wolcott, in White county, by the accidental explosion of a kerosene lamp. Mr. Charles Prettyman informs the KnQX Ledger that he has cured three calves of black leg. Ilis formula is to drench the patient with ; about a gill and a half of coal oil and bathe well the parts affected with the same medicine. He has : no doubt that all casesean beenred by this remedy if it is administered in season. I. . ■ - • ' ■ . | From the best information the I Laporte Herald can obtain it is led j i to estimate that about 20,000 kegs j of lager beer are consumed in that l city-annually. With 125 drinks to • the keg, there would be an aggre | gate of 2,500,000, which at five j cents each would cost i Probably as much more money is | spent for other liquors, or a quarter iof a millien dollars in all for that | which is a mocker; and this, too, in ; only one small city of less than ten theueand population! <•»*»- Rev. 11. A. Gobin, the new pastor of the First M. J 2. Church, South Bend, is drawing large audiences, and becoming very popular “for his able sermons and -pleasing social qualities.— Mishawaka Enterprise. Harvey Bryant, of Eagle Creek township, took 2,800 pounds of faoney to the Chicago market the other day, receiving 27 cents a f round therefor. Harvey, after osing many swarms, last spring, started this season with forty-two. Hq has now 106 swarms, and the 2,800 pounds which he took to market. Is what the bees have tirade him tins season. Considering the increase and the honey, he has realized fully SI,OOO from tbs original 42 swarms. — Lovell Star.

In. times like .these, when business men are cutting down expenses-, they should bear in mind that the item of advertising, is the. very last matter of expense which should be cut off. We don’t encourage large, sensational advertising so much as we do small, tart, pointed statements of facts with, the printer’s type. — Indianapolis Sun. A terrible railroad collision oc- | cured near Hobart last Monday night. Coining around a curve, [ two freight trains ran into each other at full speed,- smashing the 1 engines and ears to splinters. One j of the engines exploded as soon as | she struck, throwing debris in every direction. None of the employes 1 were injured. The engineers and ' firemen leaned from their respective ! engines and saved tlicmsetveir Had they struck to the train they ! would have been blown to atoms. The track was obstructed for several hours. Both the engines and a large number of the cars, j loaded with flour, are total wrecks. | —Lowell Star. ! Don’t ask your pastor to make I more than seventy or eighty weekly | visits. Better let him make yeast 1 week days than serve you with a sad loaf of the Bread of Life on Sunday. _ I Don’t quarrel with a fool. Wise ; men will getyou and the foolmixed 1 up. | Don’t judge your neighbor I harshly. His case will be heard before a higher tribunal. Don’t give the gold to the devil and the copper to the Lord. There ure good eruieibles in Heaven. Don’t ask a minister to preach |on half pay. Let God make His own “letired list.” Don’t imagine that you know it nil. Solomon knew nothing about kleptomaniacs. Don’t ‘ court the muse ” Try you hand with a sensible girl. Don’t look at your neighbor's faults through a magnifying glass. Blindness often results from straining t'he eves. Don’t overtask your brain. Tender plants should be carefully nurtured. Don’t give too much advice. Parsimony is sometimes a virtue.— L iffanxport Pharos.. The “creeping” of railroads lias attracted some attention of late, and while we do not attempt to explain it, we offer a point on the fact that, • off lines running north and Bouth, the western rail “creeps” faster than the. eastern rail; that is, this strange movement of the rail toward the south is more marked in one rail than in the other on the j same track. .Furthermore, it has ! been noticed that on such r line the eastern rail wears out the fastest. ; Both of these points, we think can be explained by iTIe motion 6t ttprj earth as it turns from the west toward the east. Everything that lias free motion is dragged after the whirling globe; every wind that blows and every tide that moves, feels the influence, and our train going north, or south is pulled oyer jtoward the east, and naturally presses the eastern rail most heavily. : Tliow-csturn rail being relic veil of its share-'Tyf the weight, “creeps ! more frequently and quickly.” It | is also noticed that the wheels that I run on the eastern rail wear out the fastest, and we can but think that 1 this earth motion is the true cause. Tiie.praetieai side of this is that j the east rail and wheels should be j stronger. —Scientific American. Spencer, the Major Gordon pickpocket, who was brought from | Kansas City, Thursday, by Deputy j Sheriffs Adams and Brown, tells a! good one at the expense' of Judge ; Tost. It will he recollected that j Spencer was triqd before the Judge, J sentenced to four years, and i escaped from the jail in company | .with Joe Walters. All efforts to j recapture him during the summer were unavailing. But he saw the wails of the penitentiary looming up very closely before him one day when he came face to face with the j venerable Judge, who was taking a brief vacation at Beaver Lake. Nothing daunted, however, and with sublime confidence in the cheek that had carried Turn through ] many closer places, Spencer grasped the Judge cordially by the hand and affectionately inquired how* matters were getting along at Indianapolis. The man who had sat in judgment upon him answered all queries, and .ambled off wondering who that polite young man could be; lie remembered his face but could not recall exactly where he had met him. Spencer walked away from Beaver Lake.—lndianapolis Herald. \ Of course President MacMahon will not allow the sentence of death to be executed upon Marshal Bazaine. It is a just sentence certainly. Bazaine sacrificed his army and imperilled the existence of France in the ahsurd expectation of restoring the master who ,had made him a marshal. He was a traitor Iff that unexampled crisis, aud for this the court have judged him. And if he were some insignificant Communist he would be killed without delay; but as heT# only a representative of Bonapartism—a political creed professed but tbe other day by nineteen-twentieths of the French nation—-we may be sure his punishment will be commuted. Degraded from his rank he must be. So much is due to military discipline. But President MacMi’non will not be likely to go the length of putting to death oiie whose crime consisted in fidelity to their common benefactor. Besides, he will remember the place filled iu history by the

execution of Ney for fidelity to s an earlier Bonaparte, and will take care not to connect lift own name with a similar tragedy. To the long catalogue of executions since~ the the present French republic that of a Marshal of Franco is not likely now to be added. —New York Sun.