Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1874 — INDIANA GOSSIP. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA GOSSIP.

The' Montioello l onstitntiouali.it joyfully exclaim* "the Democratic |)*rty ii not dead.” This will be interesting new* to the Chicago Times and ludiannpolis Sentinel. Somebody wisely observes that * man might as well go hunting 1 Without ammunition as to try to do j business and ignore printer'’* ink. ' It may do well enough among Turk* and savages, but in civilised countries people read. The Winatnac Democrat thinks '•every indication points to the success of the Democratic party at the next election." If there is anything at all it is j tolerably certain* that the Grangers intend to have a hand in those matters in Indiana this fall. A South llend paper says that t in a recent lecture Mr. Colfax qu«(tcd.a passage from the Koran' to prove that iu former days "it i w/s not considered a crime to be ‘a ' •,**iniler.”’ Perhaps Mr. Colfax pre- ! ter* Mahomedan civilization to the j liberty which permits people to ! criticise the conduct ol public officers; if so it might be well for | him to turn Turk and go where he | can enjoy it to greater advantage. I "Are the Republicans of this county going to send delegates to the State Convention?’ is the conundrum which the editor of the - ' t\ maniac Republican wrestled with i last week. If what the Democrat \ of that place prophesies comes to ' pa**, it would be love's labor lost »n addition to the expense, to do so. llad'nt all hands better vote with the Grangers this campaign and see if Stare taxes cannot be cut down a little ? The Montioello Herald says Dr.; Raymond went to Indianapolis last week on business connected with j the Chicago «fc South Atlantic railroad. "Should the Doctor succeed,” says the editor," in arousing the enthusiastic denizens at the capitol, to the importance of our great enterprise, there is no telling how soon the road will be commenced in that vicinity." Twice! have they been tried before and j found wanting. Perhaps the third ! time may charm them, at any rate ! it is hoped they will do something for the enterprise. Last week the Laporte Argun elevated its spine to an acute angle because of the happy clijomo published of it in these columns a couple of weeks ago That representation of it lit, just as Mr. Nast’a, in Harper's Weekly, always j fit. The Argus' dodge to create a diversion in favor of Mr. Packard* and secure his reuominalion for Congress by the Republicans of this dutrict, will fail. Twice the sympathy rust succeeded, and the persecution wolf-spectre did not howl in vain. Both times Mr. Packard’s subsidized Democratic and Republican papers played their tricks very cunningly, but the assistance he lent dishonest Democrats and Republicans in Congress, and to President Grant as well, to perpetrate that salary increase and backpay steal, effectually sealed his political career in this portion of the United States. No, no, Madam Tamar, of Laporte, thy Judah has gone up to Tiinuath to shear sheep for the last time, and thou mayest as well keep the pledges he left with thee, and lie in wait for another lover, for he will return that way no more ftrever.

KeutJand enrolls 320 school children. Warsaw barbers have agreed not to do aiiv more shavin" on • O Sunday. Whitley county farmers are pre- „ Paring to bow many acres of flax this season. Misha wale a chums to be among the unrivalled manufacturing centers of the United States. Ono o£ the South Bend papers, •ays a city eotemporary, has “a penurious regard for the truth.” Mr. Huff, editor of the Monticello Usf<ild, was married, week before last, to Mass Alice Wright of Monticello. The clover erop of St. Joseph ooonty, both old and young, is said to be seriously injured by wiuier freezing. Rossville, Indiana, boasts of an iflfant fifteen year* old, who is six feet tall and weighs 280 pounds.— He Is said to be well proportioned, graceful and handsome.

Col. J atiVcsW.Dunii. anromi7 •ntrtit citizens of Indiana, died at his home in Logansport on tho 4th instant. ?< y'-'ff , - In Democratic Marshall county, cord wood is valued at $1 per cord and that in inarkef. 62, for taxable purposes. * 4 ’ T Mr. Elmer McCray, a prominent citizen of Kentlaiid, died very sipl- | denly of heart disease last Friday or Saturday. I "The impatient, changeable, fierce, fickle, trying month of March is over and gone" on Rolling Prairie, says a correspondent of the LaPorte Herald. The Knox Ledger says that timber stealing is committed to an alarming extent in the southern part of Stark county; but those mostly alarmed at present seem to be the nonresident owners thereof. A singular disease that baffles the best veterinary skill is reported among blooded cattle in Laporte county, killing them off rapidly.— I Possibly scarcity of feed may have something to do with it. ; j A South Bend paper says a woman i became so drunk in one of the | saloons in that city, recently, that i she had to be assisted home. Now I they should organize a praying band among male Benders to visit i that salocffi. | A little boy named Thompson whose parents live near Rochester was out in the fields playing the other day, when his clothes caught fire from a burning stump and he was so badly burnt that he died shortly afterwards. According to. announcement Judge Gillett, assisted by the members of the Presbytery at Log msport, was to conduct a Sunday j school convention at Plymouth during Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. A seven year old son of Henry Marsh at Plymouth was run over by a wagon loaded with a heavy stick of timber, one day last week, and received injuries that caused his death in a few minutes. The driver did not see the lad until the hind wheel was on him. The South Bend Tribune says’ that Leander C. Pray—you knew Lc. didn’t you, when lie lived in Jasper county? —has provided him-* self with a good team and spring dray, aml is prepared to answer calls from all who desire draying I dyne in a careful manner, Pulaski county recently had a repetition of the calf story in Iter circuit court. A fifteen dollar calf inveigled two neighbors into three hundred dollars’ worth of litigation in addition to the fees of six attorneys. A Rensselaer firm received twenty-five dollars of the latter. Laporte ladies filed sixteen affidavits against liquor dealers of that city last week. Several of the prosecuted parties have succumbed to the pressure and closed their places of business, but a number have banded together for inutal defense, employed attorneys and propose to test whether the courts will protect them in their lawful calling.