Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1874 — INDIANA GOSSIP. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA GOSSIP.

The 45th Representative District of Indiana is ctmiposed of the counties of White »hd Jasper, with n voltag jrtpMlation of 4,128 and a majority of 450. 0 Dexton, Jasper, Newton and ; White counties make the 24th j Senatorial District of Indiana. At; last election the aggregate vote of these four counties was 7,048, with «. Republican majority of 952 for Secretary of State. The Tenth Congressional District of Indiana, is composed of the following counties: NAM*. rorVLATION. VOtK. Carroll 16.452 3,8811 Jasper 6,354 1,552 l.ano'te 27,1)62 6,154 Lake 12;339 2,455 Newton. 5,829 1,452 Porter 13,942 2,972 Pulaiki 7,891 I ,WlB St. Joaepl 25,322 6,<181 Bturke 4,888 867 White 10,554 2,576 T0ta1.129,243 29,595 At present the district is repreFciited by » man named Packard.

Mb. A. T. Whittlesey, a Democratic editor who once invited a “d—d nigger” to his parlor,-table and bed, and to associate with his family, is favorably mentioned by the South Bend vnion for the Democratic nomination tor Sccretarj of State. John B. Stoll, editor of the Ligonier Bunner, who for several months labored under the hallucination that Indiana was chiefly inhabited liy ‘‘mules’’ because he was election, is said to be pressing for a renomination by the Democracy. Mr. Thomas Davis, of Brookston, White county, whose talent lor telling smutty stories places him without a peer in Hoosierdom, is ta’ked of by admirintr friends for a place on the Democratic ticket a* their candidate for Treasurer of State. A somewhat singular circumstance is observed about all the names thus far mentioned by the Democracy for Slate officers, and that is, the absence of Liberal Republicans, Granger* and farmers from the list.. But The best laid schemes of mice and men, Aft gang ag'.eg, * and there yet may be hope for the Sons of Toil and the Children of Reform.

Winamac buyers are paying 60 vents a bufehel for corn. A cigar factory at Winamac gives employment to six hands. Pulaski county farmers report their wheat looking badly winter*, killed. Gen. Ben. Spooner has been ’recommissioned United States Marshal for Indiana. The wheat in low grounds is said to have been injured, to some extent— Brookston Reporter. The Laporte Argus says that whooping cough has invaded nearly every household in that city. N. R Freeman, of Winamac, has a fife his father made in 1808 and fought the bloody Britshers with in 1812. There are now 377 prisoners in the northern penitentiary. This is the largest number ever confined there at one time. „ One man at Crown Point, Mr. Z F. Somers, last year bought and shipped 291 car loads of grain, for which he paid $45,100. A Starke county grand jury has found two indictments against Mr. Musselman, editor of the Knox Ledger, for signing petitions for license to sell intoxicating liquor, he not being a resident of the county.• A Mishawaka man recently gave a justice of the peace $25 in order hot to have any fuss about a sawbuck and a few small potatoes tlfStt he borrowed from a neighbor one night recently, without consent, and forgot to return. A Pulaski county woman exhorts her sisters, through the Winamac Republican, to show the world that they have minds which can be “elevated at least one degree superior to the dumb creation, or above the culinary and millinery range.” The Delphi Times of last week saj?b, “There seems to be a general ■ disposition manifested to make aj forward movement on the work of the Chicago & South Atlantic Railroad by the first of April. President Haymond has issued a call to the counties on the line to go to work and finish raising their quotas, as the company wants to commence work, early in the spring. In a few weeks the work of soliciting subacriptiou will be commenced in earnest in this county.”

Duiirtg 1873, eighty-two counties 1 reported to Attorney General Denny an entry of fines to the amount of 118,812.59, and of forfeitures of $25,345. Of these sums, Jasper county received credit for $lB9 on account of fines, and SBOO on account of forfeitures. The late high water in the Iroquois washed the north bank of the river where the Timinou’s t bridge rested last week till one span ofthe bridge .gave way and fell. That bridge of course cannot be crossed until repaired, which will hardly b? before spring.—Kentland Gazette. A protracted meeting is in progress al Battle Ground, under the control of the Methodists. About forty persons had united with the church at last accounts, and the interests seems to be unabated. The services are conducted by Rev. Mr. Deinott, assisted byßevs. Beckner and Hull.— Brookston Reporter. , --S The no fi fire-proof vaults for the books of the Clerk have been finished inside and are both handsome, convenient and safe. The improvement is money well invested by the county. The records are now perfectly safe from fire, and these two vaults are not only safer, but have cost the county less than one iron safe, and have ten times the capacity.— Kentland Gazette. The Winamac Democrat says that prayer meetings and preaching were held at the Methodist Church in that place for three consecutive weeks, part of the time night and -morningr-wiiKout ~;i~cbnversi(m ing made. And this Democratic paper, edited by a member of the Camphellite faith, scoffingly asks, “What is the matter with the sinners? Is this, too, a result of the Grange Movement?” Gen. M. D. Manson, ofl Crawfordsville, Gen. I. B. Foley, of Greensburg, and Hon. John Brownfield, of South Bend, have been appointed by Governor Hendricks as commissioners to assess the value of the real property of Benton county in the town of Oxford, Indiana, the removal of the county seat from Oxford to the town of Fowler in said county having been ordered. —lndianapolis Journal. Charles Hoover, aged 14, living near the State line in Lake county recently met his death in a singular manner. He was playing in the kitchen, and in the course of his antics placed his head through what is termed a “roller towel”— a towel hung on a roller—when he slipped and was caught by the neck. When liberated he was dead—his neck was broken.

Gottleib Heine, a butcher living at Hanover, Lake county, put his butcher knife into the inside pocket of Lis coat, point upwards, after butchering for a neighbor the other day, and got into a wagon to ride home. On the way the team ran into a ditch and precipitated Heme from his seat, who fell in such a manner that the knife penetrated through his side into an artery, causing him to bleed to death in twenty minutes. For the year ending November Ist, 1873, the Executive Department of Indiana issued eight proclamations, one hundred and seventy commissions to State, county and district officers, eight hundred and eleven commissions to justices of the peace, fifty-seven to cemmiss ioner s o f deeds, and eigh t hundred and sixty-seven to notaries public. There were also issued thirty-five warrants and fifty-eight requisitions for fugitives from justice, sixty-three pardons, twenty-one remissions, and seventy-seven patents for land. There were filed in the office of Secretary of State one hundred and fifty .articles of incorporation, amendments and consolidations.

A FrSheesville dispatch to the daily papers says that a terrible accident occurred six miles east of there, last Sunday. As near as can be gathered the facts are that four persons had seen the track of a deer, armed themselves.with double-bar-relled shot guns, and on that morning started out to hunt it. The persons, were Thomas Mills, B. F. Lincoln, L. Hurley, and a German whose name was not known. After going a short distance, Hurley was sent back to the house, to watch at the south side, and to come to his comrades, if they called. The other three then went on and soon came upon the deer. Lincoln attempted to fire r but his gun snapped, when Mills said: “Kneel down:, let me give hinx a shot.” Lincoln did so, and Mills fired one barrel,’but failed to bring the deer, and it started ip a circle that brought Lincoln directly in line, and just, as Mills

pulled the trigger of his second barrel, Lincoln raised high enough to receive its contents in his head. Six buckshot entered the left side, back of lhe ear, tore the whole front of his face in a dreadful manner, and caused his death in about ten minutes. He was a single man, twenty-one years of age. Mills is nearly crazy, and is watched to prevent self-destructioHj Which he lifts once or twice attempted. A Vandersypt was last week the proud owner of a cow possessed of one of the most inordinate appetites of which we have ever heard The cow had been unwell for some time and getting no better was killed. A ‘postmortem examination developed the fact—that the cow had, some time or other, dissipated on a hardware diet, and in her stomach was found a general assortment of hardware, consisting of nails, knife blades, wire,etc. Some of the nails had evidently been eaten several years since, for they were worn and bright with friction. One piece of . wire had lodged in her throat, and imbedded itself to a considerable depth.— Where the animal got her appetite for hardware, and where she obtained the stock, Is a mystery. — Mishawaka Enterprise.