Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1874 — INDIANA GOSSIP. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA GOSSIP.

A Goodlander has planted 1,000 grape vines this season. Newton county consumes§22,ooo worth of alcoholic beverages annually. . “The Grangers are steadily increasing their numbers throughout the county,” say's the Laporte Jryus. William E. Saunderson, sheriff of White county, died.gon the 15th . instant, after protracted illness, ■ age'it about 37 years. i A rattle-snake was recently killed on a farm near Michigan City, which measured iiine feet long find shook thirteen rattles aml a button. The, fourth annual fair of the Porter county agricultural society will be held at September 30th and October Ist and 2d. Mushrooms are plentiful this year in the woods adjacent to Monticello, and boys are making themselves useful collecting these queer vegetables for food. Lieutenant Governor Sexton is billed for a speech at the' commencement exercises of Blbbiuing- | ton dav of July. Upon the Republican ticket for Marion county recently nominated at Indianapolis, Judges Horatio C. . Newcomb and Samuel E. I’erkins fare candidates for Judges of the ; Superior Court, Charles 11. Test for the Criminal Court, and James 11. Wright, Ex-Governor Conrad Baker, Clemens Vonnegut and William Woman for Representai lives in the General Assembly. Many a young man goes astray, not because there is want of prayer or virtue at hoine, but simply because home lacks sunshine. A child needs- srmles just as much as flowers need Sunbeams,- If a thing : pleases, they are apt to seek it, and | if it displeases, toshimit. If home is the place where faces are sour, | and fault-finding is fanever in the I’ ° . ascendant, they will spend as many hours as possible in the saloons.— . Valparaiso Messenger. Gen. Packard's last term in Congress is being filled up with a series oi faux pas that a new member should be ashamed of, much more a man who has been in Congress sb long as he has. His last one was a speech in favor of the Centennial §3,000,000 grab—ameasure that not one of his constituents in a thousand endorse.— Fortunately there were enough cool-headed men in Congress, who ’ had sufliceut regard for economy ■ in times like, the present, to defeat! the grab.— -South Bend Tribune. : ' .’ ' ■ '■■■ I Nineteen gentlemen have stepped j to the front “and announced. their | names, as candidates for the yariotis' county offices, in the Plymouth Democrat. What is the matter in Not a head appears above the political wave, but law, satires’ what an undercurrent in

mi<i ocean! Tiie~e Grangers are ' as great a terror to oflieerUCckcTS" as the Ku-Klu£-«reto the plantation negro. Eyery man who wants office is afraid to say so, for the moment he, so announces, he becomes a middle man. — Kentland Gazette. After' nearly a year's wqrk, and*. ■ the c’xpi nditure of a couple hundred ; thousand, the Constitutional Convention in Ohio has at last arrived at a majority decision on the form of a new organic law which the I people of the State are soon to rat--1 ify or reject. There was no ; unanimity in the labors- of the . convention, and it is expected that i the popular opposition to the new j Constitution will be strong. It is, j however, admitted that the.changes I which the instrument proposes to i make Hi the organic law,are, upon I the whole, for the better. The | new charter gives the veto power; it lengthens the terms of judges, ! and provides for the payment to ; t hem of.-a-« a-h ir y -wb iedt wild sc c nre ! competent men for the bench. — i Dojible- taxation, is forbidden, and j the principle of minority represent- ' alion is adopted. The question of. ■ license or prohibition has been • ’ evaded, instead of which there is pa double clause, one part for license ! and one against it, upon which the people are to vote directly—thus shifting tiie responsibility back to the electors. In view of the experience Ohio has just had with prohibition, and the political results last fall and the present spriii'g, there is little doubt as to the disposition that will be made of this question on a fair expression of public sentiment, and it. should be remembered that the action is now intended to~ decide ' the 'State's future position. The <piestion <d’ allowing Slate aid to railways is also relegated to the people, so that the real fight is yet I to come — lnter Ocean.