Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1874 — INDIANA GOSSIP. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA GOSSIP.

The freight dqpoi at Valparaiso burnt down recently, and two or ! three thousand bushels of grain was : consumed Wli eat in Marshall county is re-j ported to be looking twenty percent better than it did at the same -t time last year. Mr. Robert Gregory recently captured nine salmon in the Tippecnoe, at Monticello, that weighed 40 pounds altogether. The Jews at Fort Wayne Will build a synagogue this year which’ will cost $25,000 or $30,000. It is to he made in the Oriental style of architecture. The Lowell Star thinks it would be s remarkable event if somebody would bring some of the old fashioned yellow butter to the market again. Butter in that market is scarce at 30 cents a pound. . The White county commissioners refused all applications for permission to sell Whiskey in that county, though -in some cases all requirements of the law had been complied with. Cause of refusal, too great pr essure of public sentiment brought to bear upon them. We see in the Keutland Gazette that the members of the Methodist Mraf-eU at Brook intend to build a meeting house, this coming season, at a cost of 82,000, one-half of which has already been subscribedThe society had an accession of thirty-six new members during the winter. ...ua The Delphi Journal says that people of that town spend jpoi'e money’ for whiskey than lor flour, and-the 4Pitn.es says doable the ma.u_-_ ey is spent in .Delphi for whiskey elicTi year Than w&r.ld nrake tip, the I quota demanded of that county fey i constructing the Chicago and South j Atlantic railroad. ! Hon. John I>. Defrces, oi'Waeii- ' ington, is collecting material' prei paratory to writing a Iffetory of Indian:! from-the time ot its formation into a Territorial Government down to T 873, and desires to obtain j all the information possible cou- | corning the early settlement of each I county, and invites correspondence I from all who will communicate with : him in relation to facts of this kind. ; •The Monticello Constitutionalist t says, ‘-‘F rom a careful review of the facts in our possession we think • there is but little room to doubt the ; early building of tlie Chicago and South Atlantic railroad. It is certainly ,an -encouraging indication j ! when such men and capitalists as! ; Ogden, Hubbard and McCormick 1 . ! lieve joined the ranks and have j -been neiive-co-operators ‘nt the groat ‘ cause. When this class of- ijisn 'take hold of ah enterprise they mean business.” \ Thc KeiTtkiiid Gazette says liltn ~ I insurance companies loaned 8172,-; VOO iii Newton county, last year, at ten per et ui, interest payable semiannually, and the loaus secured by mortgage ot) real estate; and that' the aggregate amount of such loans ; there at the present time reaches I upwards of $200,000, all negotiated,' within the last two years. * The recorder ot’ that c-ounty says that an unprecedented number of these instruments have been filed in his office for record this year. Ready money is a convenient article to have about, but mortgages are not usually reckoned desirable farm improvements, and ii' one or two bad seasons should follow some of i those farmers will have hard digging to keep their mortgages in repair. The managing board of tlie.Wa- j brash and Erie canal held a meeting j at Lafayette last Friday night- to | consider the proposition to give up : the lease. The present condition ! and future prospects of the canal , were discussed at length, and the | result of the. conference was that the board adopted a resolution surrendering the lease of the canal to the trustees, the surrender to date back and take effect on the Ist day ; of 1874. The general manager, j Mr. C. W. Colton, tendered -his resignation, which was accepted, j and Robert Brackenrjdge of I’itts- j burg, whs appointed in his stead until a master’s commission shad be appointed by the courts. The matter now remains in the hands' of a special committee, previously appointed, who will attend tit the necessary details of the, surrender of the charter and closing up of the business of the company. At a meeting of the Indianapolis Board of Trade* last Thursday, U e secretary submitted his. annual report lor 1873, which shows a very large increase in all branches of business during the yepr. The number of manufactories reported is 62; number of employees in manUfacto* lies, -5,739; amount of capital ( m

ployed. $10.210.383. The aggregate Bales ~oT'ir6oTs;"'sEbeK, b.„,ks,' sta- . tionery, crockery-ware, dry goods, j clothing,furniture; grain, groceries, | provisions, hardware, leather, lumber and merchandiserftiches a total of 850,800,000. The total sales of manufactories 1 were $21,554,16.5; total sales ot real estate, $3,257,- 1 925,675; amount expended in build ings, g2.5C2.272. Grand total of business $10,718,579.376.