Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1874 — INDIANA GOSSIP. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA GOSSIP.

Crown Point boasts seven church buildings. There is said to be 1,900 Granges in Indiana. % Crown Point Masons will dedicate their new hall on the 24th day of June. At Warsaw they have already begun to talk about celebrating tlife Fourth of July. > The,Baltimore & Ohio railroad company has directed its engineer to survey a branch line from Bremen to South Bend. There are ttiofe unemployed men in Delphi at the present time than was ever known at any one period before, says the Times. The Democracy of Fulaski cotinty have concluded to nominate their candidates for county positions by a primary election, this year. The first annual Fair of the Carroll County Voluntary Agricultural Society, will be held at Delphi on the 22d, 23d, 24th and 25th days of September, n»*xt. The Pittsburg,Ft. Wayne &Clu* cago railroad company will soon commence laying twenfy-one miles of steel rails between Hamlet and Valparaiso. Porter county contains 5,024 children between six and twentyone years of age. Thirty-four persons over ten years of age, in that county, cannot read. Plymouth undertakers charge 860 for coffins which cost, including lumber, trimmings and joiner’s work, the sum of $7; but few people in that lively city can afford to die. Says the Monticello Herald : “We noticed a piece of blue ribbon and some long flaxen hairs streaming from a gate post the other morning. Of course some fair haired blonde was kissed good night there the evening previous.” Well, it was not gallant to jani her head against K the splinters, anyway. He ought not to be so rough with his courting. On Thursday, thel4th inst., the Very Rev. E. Serin. General of the Catholic Older of the Holy Cross, accompanied by Brother Vincent, the oldest Brother of the Order, will leave Notre Dame University to join the American pilgrimage to the Pope, which leaves New York on Saturday by a French steamer, under special charter. Bishop Dwengcr and the Vicar-General, Father Benoit, of Ft. Wayne; Father Hamilton, of Lafayette, and Father Steiner, of Huntington, Ind., are also among the pilgrims from Northern Indiana. —Plymouth Democrat. — 1 Fruit may now be considered out of danger, and it is pretty certain that we shall have this season the largest general fruit crops for many years. Wheat is reported as looking well throughout the West, and the acreage set in this grain is larger than ever before. Farmers are busy planting corn, and the indications are that a very large amount will be put in. The weather is exceedingly favorable for farm operations, and we may reasonably anticipate large crops of all kinds; which means lively times, brisk business and prosperity for all classes. Two or three good crops would make a wonderful difference in the condition of affairs at the West. We are not sure but we need an increase of crops as much as we do an increase, of currency. —lndianapolis Journal.