Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1874 — INFORMATION WANTED. [ARTICLE]

INFORMATION WANTED.

Present Grant has vetoed‘the hill for inflation <jf the currency. The Toledo Blade advocates the enlargement of the Wabash -etfr.al and its extension to St Louts. In a Hat 0f265 Middle, Southern, Western and Pacific States newspapers, collected by the Inter Ocean, 211 favor expansion oftbe currency and only 48 oppose it. The Baxters are proving paradoxically troublesome this season. Baxter’s Bill worries anti-temp-erance people of Indiana, while Rltslia Baxter troubles Arkansas Brooks. The Lowell Star says that Lake county “is fast ripening into a condition to put- down all cliques and money-leeches, and purity the political atmosphere.” That is encouraging, surely. The White county Republican convention is to be held on the second day of May, and the Grangers arc busy laying their plans to capture it and their prospect of success is almost certain. The Logansport Journal says all persons having business in our Circuit Court speak highly of Judge Hammond, who has occupied the Bench here frequently, while the docket tvas being cleared -qf- cases in which Judge Chase was interested as attorney, “Dick” Dodd, the ihan who led the famous Butternut raid in the 1 \ alley of the Iroquois, and was ' himself taken prisoner in Rensselaer by a gallant band of Home Guards ! during the eventful summer —of | 1363, was recently elected Mayor of Fon duLae, Wisconsin. Mr. Andrew Hall, clerk of New- i ton county, says: “If this district ! changes its Congressman, it will probably be worse represented than it now is.” And Andy’s neighbors tell that he aspires to succeed Mr. Packard. The selfabasement of that man is quite beautiful. A company has applied to the New York Legislature for articles of incorporation, which lias for its object the burning of the bodies of the dead. Singular, people are so impatient! Why can’t they leave the duties of another life to those appointed to discharge them? The Laporte Argus, a Democratic paper published at Laporte, thinks from the present outlook that Maj. Calkins has the best chances lor-the- Republican —Con-" gressional nomination; still as on two previous occasions thel Argus is doing its level best to secure that honor for Mr. Packard. However there is not ranch danger of such an accident, as salary-grabbers are not very popular just now. The South Bend Register “authoritatively” states that General Packard is not a candidate for renomination to Congress. But very considerately, however, the General “cannot and will not absolutely refuse,” notwithstanding he thinks “no man with a' proper sense ol selfrespect, will voluntarily place himself a second time in a position where, having mistaken the sentiments of the people in a matter in which he followed his convictions of right, he is to 1 e pilloried in the rogues’gallery and denounced as a thief and a scoundrel.’' Among the gentlemen who are reported as having aspirations to a seat in Congress from this district are our own admired Slate Senator lion. R. S. Dwiggins, and Newtou county’s clerk and model letterwriter, Mr. Andrew Hall. Perhaps it would be well enough for them to adopt the advice contained in II Samuel, 10th chapter and sth verse. Many think themselves called hut few are chosen. However, either might be an improvement on the present incumbent; and that is no-flattery. • At a meeting ol the Prairie Farmers’ Union Central Association of Patrons of.llnsbandry at Francesville on the 4th instant, they unani toously adopted resolutions pledging themselves not to support for office of whatever kind any man who-wilt attempt to influence his election by means of intoxicating liquor; nor any man who is an habitual drinker or who is known to get intoxicated though it be only occasionally; not to purchase intoxicating drinks for any one, nor to aecept a drink purchased by another for political influence; and also to use their influence to secure the nomination and election of farmer « alone for all local offices.— How does that last clause sound to thk arifirage Htope-box politician?

Judge Hammond's decisions on | the liquor cases, tried before him in the Pulaski circuit court, arel being favorably commented upon j by the temperance press through 1 out the State. Judge Hammond is, rapidly moving to the front rank of Indiana jurists. \ The Winnnvac Republican —lion. Jacob Reiser’s paper—thinks Mr. j Packard could hot be elected to' Congress again from this district, even if the Republican party was so indiscreet as to nominate him; and that it would not be worse represented by any man the Democrats could elect. The second number of the Fran-, cesvillc Home Banner is an improvement on the first issue. Perseverance and capital in connection with i Brother Mattingly’s native talent ; will make a good paper of it—but, ; (in a whisper) doii’t let your press- j man thin Ids ink with coal-oil, and make the devil wash his roller. I —mm It has been remarked that the | more machinery a nation has in . | operation, the more fully and profit- i i ab!y r is its labor employed, the , more rapid its materia] progress, i and the more developed its civiliza- ! lion. What is true in regard to a j nation is no less true of its integral ; parts, Stales and Counties, therefore encouragement should be extended to all manufacturing interests; not; to the detriment of any other -interest, of course* but in order to more perfectly build up and more fully develop ail other interests as well. Wherever factories exist, workmen must be employed, and wherever there are workmen there f will be mouths to feed and bodies 1 to clothe and to shelter, hence in that place will be a market for the produce of farmers, for the labor of other mechanics, for the coin- j merce of tradesmen, and -for the , skill of the professions. Take good, thick paper, cut three cornered, and double it in the shade of a funnel; fill with dirt and plant a seed in each one —a cabbage, tomato, or flower seed, or whatever else you want to start early—bury it in a box filled with earth. The seed will soon germinate. When the plants are ready to remove, lift the papers out and plant it like roots. The papers will soon rot and the young plants will never wilt. In case of plants that are liable to be attacked by cut-worms, let the paper funnel ex- ! tend about an inch above its filling of soil and when it is planted out let it remain about that bight above the earth, and it will afford a perfect shield against uut-wpnns until--the plants are so large or the season -striate they cease txr"trouble.

The Indianapolis Sunday Ilerold , is a spicy, readable paper, possessing a full average amount' of information upon, ordinary secular topics, but its religio-political edu- ! cation is somewhat deficent. Still j it is not in the least bigoted nor is it conceited, but it evinces a d.cMre for information iqron this topic that is truly laudable and which should be gratified. Here is what it wants to know, and there is no doubt eni lightenment would be gladly receiv(ed from whatsoever source, .ho niatter how humble, providing. it j was connected with a reasonable ! degree of intelligence: ! “We should be pleased to have I gome intelligent advocate of God iin the Constitution expiaii} the J object of the movement whether ! it is simply prompted by an earnest : desire to see that the Creator is I treated with due consideration at the hands of his creatures, or whether it is an entering wedge designed to make this a “Christian government” with power to punish | infidelity after the good old fashion. !If it is simply an expression of good will to God, then we should prefer to hear from him directly before taking action.”