Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1874 — INDIANA GOSSIP. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA GOSSIP.

For several years the dam across the Calumet river at Blue Island, in Illinois, wag the source of much injury ’to lands bordering that stream in Lake and Porter counties. About three weeks ago it was removed, by order of the Legislature of'lllinois, and the new level has already changed the character of more than 75,000 acres in these two counties. Situated as they are in short distance of Chicago, the owners will reap an immense benefit, as they readily sell for $lO to SSO an acre. In the Monticello Herald it is reported that the election held in that (Union] township week before last, to vote upon a proposition to give aid by pubilfe taxation to the Chicago & South Atlantic Railroad project, resulted in favor of an appropriation, by a large majority. This is encouraging, and shows enterprise upon the part of the people in that locality. Go ahead with the work, if there is any bottom to it, and when the proper lime comes, and people over in this direction are satisfied it is not a humbug, there is no doubt they will be found ready to give liberally. The Crown Point Herald in commenting upon President Grant’s veto of the currency biltV'says,' “For a tnan to pocket one hundred thousand dollars in greenbacks -in the way of a salary steal, and then to coolly call these same greenbacks spurious and irredeemable, when other folks want some of the same kind, is but to brand that man as a thief, a liar, and a poltroon.” The editor of that paper when he penned this paragraph, certainly did not calmly consider the import of his language. Such violent expressions do not usually come from cool judgment and seldom have much effect upon dispassionate hearers, othet than to excite their pity for the individual who is so unwise as to utter them.

Seed corn has been selling for $1.50 a bushel at Brook, this season. Jimmy Dillon aged 15 cremated at Delphi the other evening, with a coal oil lamp. An establishment for the manufacture of njechinists’tools is being started in South Bend. Lapotte has taken judgement against Crown Point tor $1,103 due for an old fire-engine. A Winamackerel caught a pike in the Tippecanoe river the other day that weighed 17| pounds. Many loads of railroad ties are brought to Winamac and sold by men who never owned a foot of land. The Odd Fellows Celebration at Michigan City last week is pronounced to have been a grand success. Mr. F. P Greenwood planted 9,000 trees this spring on his farm two and one half miles northwest of Oxford. The House Committee on Com merce have reported in favor of an appropriation of $50,000 for the harbor at Michigan City. ‘ . The Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Woman’s Suffrage Association of Indiana, will be held in Fort Wayne on the 27th and 28th instants. Two Crown Point pigs of recent birth were ornamented with a horn in their foreheads, just above and between their eyes. They were little unicorns. The Methodist Church at Mon* terey is unable to support a minister and pay current expenses of the church, hence* they propose to sell their house of worship. The Crown Point Herald says that while Mrs. Fox, who h.ved near Merrillville, was fighting a wild fire, a short time since, her dress was set aflame and she suffered injuries which resulted in death. A wagon factory will soon be in operation io Logansport, which will manufacture 2,000 wagons per annum. It will be managed by Fish brothers A Co., of Racine, Wis., as a branch of their extensive establishment in that city. Professor Wilcox was chosen to represent the Presbytery of Logansport, embracing the territory of Northwestern Indiana, as their lay delegate at the United States General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, to meet in St Louis on the 21st day of the present mouth.