Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1874 — A Sensation in Newspaper Circles. [ARTICLE]

A Sensation in Newspaper Circles.

The Interior says; “Mr. Talmage has assopiated with him in The Christian at Work, C. 11. Spurgeon, of London. A combination like this naturally produces a sensation in newspaper circles. The first number is a-bold, swift, fiery, gospel courier, ‘‘Evangelical always!” “Sectarian never!” Mr. Talmage's sermons and articles are furnished only to this paper. Mr. Spurgeon writes for no other Anerican Journal, Sample copies mailed free.— Address tbe publisher TO2 Cham - bers street, New York. Gen. Milroy has been honorably re instated ill the position of Superintendent of Indian Affairs, in Washington Territory, from whioh he was suspended last foil by Inspector Eimbair upon the ex parte statements of evil disposed persons -in the Territory.

The Warsaw Indianian says there is a girl in Kosciusko county “only thirteen years of age, who weighs onte, hundred and eighty-five poutidk.”_ . .p Thieves crawled under the Disciple church at Warsaw, a few nights since, sawed through the iloor,, and drank the comtfiunion wine and robbed the Sabbathschool contribution-box of about $3 in money—all there was in it. Some men are seized with a mad frenzy in this war upon whiskey. Reason seems to have forsaken them. They denounce whole nationalities as and if they had the power as they have the inclination, bloody work might be expected. — Valparaiso Messenger. The “Spider’s Den,” in the Valparaiso Hall Block, yielded to the prayers of the women. They paid the proprietor, Andrew Steeples, the sum of §12.00 for his stock of liquors upon the condition that he quit the business and engage in some more worthy occupation. One pint of rot-gut comprised his stock on hand.—Valparaiso Messenger. ■■ ■ ——* m m mOn Monday of last week a fire broke out in a harness shop at Goodland, which consumed that building, a hardware store, a butcher shop, and a dry goods store.— In the second story of the latter building was the Odd Fellows’ Lodge and Encampment. The contents of the buildings were about all saved, except that in the harness shop and in the Odd Fellows’ hail. Beti Butler and hia associate counsel have been allowed, by the court, ?65,000 for fees in the Farragut prize cases. The hill providing for the award was managed m the House by Bailer. The aggregate tward is $700,000, which is now Icing paid. It is about time that Ben shall have these “fat takes” taken away from him. The counsel for claimants against'TFie~ government has no business on the floor of Congress, engineering bills to put money in bis own pocket.— Logansport Journal. Peter.Junge, a laborer, five feet and three inches in height, with light colored hair, light eyes, light mustache', aged twenty-six years, left the town of Wanatah, Indiana, last March, in the year 1873, and r has not been heard of since. He. i was temporarily iusane and would at ! times, while sitting in a chair, look at one particular object for several hours; whenever provoked or offended would become frantic. He was born in STeswick Holstein,Den7mark, and emigrated from Copenhagen. All Pbormasters and Township Trustees of Indiana, Illinois, requested to give any information pertaining to the aforesaid to William Rimpler, Laporte, Indiana. Exchanges please copy. Tom Ward’s Sample Rooms were in a state of seige on Saturday.— Singing and praying was the order of s he women, and drinking and smoking of the men. It appeared to us that the louder and more ferf vently the women prayed and beseeched God to open the eyes of the liquor traffieers to the enormity of their crimes, the longer grew the tongues of the drinking men and the greater their appetite for ntoxicat.ing liquor. During the whole of Saturday, from 9 a. snuff til 9 r. it., it was praying and singing by the women and drinking and smoking by the men. If under such 8 state of affairs a reform can be effected, and the liquor traffieers be made to cease dealing out dsmna tion to all who have the money to pay for it, we shall be astonished at nothing in the future. But so far no impression has been made upon the liquor dealers. Their hearts are as hard as adamant, and the prayers of tlie women fall upon unwilling ears. And many good men, we regret to say, who are drawn thither by the novelty of this war upon whiskey, became possessed with an appetite for the intoxicating liquid and walked boldly up to the bar in the presence of the praying women and ordered and drank their “grog.” "Even women are brought in by men to drink and bring ridicule upon their praying sisters. The scene presented in Ward’s on Saturday—a group of women, on one hand, pray.mg and singing, and a crowd of men, on the other, drinking and smoking—was qnough to make the angels weep, and still the women were undismayed.— Valparaiso Messenger. For Sale. —A Novelty clothes wringer. Has been used half a dozen times, hut is as good as new, aud is an excellent machine. Enquire at this office.