Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1874 — INDIANA GOSSIP. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA GOSSIP.

Medaryville has a population of nearly 400, which is rapidly increasing. They had a birth and two funerals*there this year. Valparaiso cremated SIO,OOO worth of hotel property last week. Th i American and the Tiedeman hotels were both burnt, together with most of their contents. The Medaryyille Guard says there issdfiie talk of organizing a new county out of portions "of Pulaski, White, Starke and Jasper, with Medaryville as the county seat.— Well, talk is talk, but it-takes money—sso,ooo or more—to place a new county in running order. Judge Hammond granted an injunction in the case of Scott and others, against the Sheriff and Commissioners of Benton county, to stay the removal of the county records from Oxford to Fowler, until the validity of the order for removal can, be tested in court. “The Pennsylvania Railroad Company have reduced the time of labor, at their shops in Fort Wayne, -to-five hours per day. and pay their hands only 60 cents for the time employed. They have about 1,100 hands engaged, and it will be difficult for them to support their families unless they can make some oLtheir spare time available elsewhere. Mr. T. Keene, of Valparaiso, ex-secretary of the Indiana State Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, received a letter, week before last, from Grangers in Alabama, asking relief for many there in distress from a freshet ami subsequent drouth, which had destroyed their prospects for crops and reduced them to destitution. A contribution was made by the Porter county Grangers, who shipped them thirty bushels of corn, freight prepaid.

The peddler is an itinerant wanderer who calls upon you, shows his wares hastily, pockets your ! money with alacrity, and vanishes, i never to be seen by you again.— ! Buy your goods of the merchant who lives in your midst, keeps a supply of everything you need, invites your inspection, advertises his goods in the,papers, contributes to all local improvements, and deserves and earns your patronage.— The home merchant dare not cheat or defjaud you, because he would thereby ruin himself and his trade within amonth.— South Bend Tribune.

The Valparaiso Vidette, edited by ex-judge Talcott, says that Mr. S. P. Thompson ought to, and almost surely will, be electee! Prosecuting Attorney for this district. Keeping hotel must be a paying business in these hard times. We noticed Father Babb on the street the other morning in a bran new suit of broadcloth and a new silk hat.— Remington Journal. The Rensselaer Union records the marriage at that place June 22, of Z. Dwiggins, Esq., brother of Robert S., our farmer common pleas prosecutor, to Miss Estclla Purcupile, daughter of Archibald Purcupile, formerly of this place. An acquaintance of the Purcupiles at this office wishes them all much joy of the new relationship.— Valparaiso Vidette.

Last Saturday morning, a man from White county came to Rensselaer on the track of one of his neighbors who had “skipped off” with one of his daughters—and, by the way, owing the old man a small sum of money. He said he didn’t care a d n for the girl but wanted to get what the fellow owed him, and kept up the pursuit several miles further, where Tie overtook the flying fugitives and demanded the amount of indebtedness. The fellow paid over the money and the father went on his way rejoicing.— Remington Journal.

We had a call a few evenings since from our friend J W. Duvall, of Rensselaer. “Wes.” had been with Noah Freeman chasing and capturing a horse thief, and came over here with him after they got the rascal. Our friend looks hearty and happy. He commenced on Wednesday last running a daily hack from Francesville to Rensselaer, this having been designated as the mail route instead of from Bradford to Rensselaer. Persons going to Rensselaer will find Duvall’s hack line “just the thing” for a ride over the prairie.— TPina/nac Republican. — ■ In answer to several inqurics that have been made regarding our position during the coining campaign, we would say, tbaf we are not the organ of any party, clique or ring; that we propose to run this concern upon an independent basis in our own weak and feeble way. In the meantime we shall aim to vindicate that which is just and upright, ami shall endeavor to expose and suppress that which is unjust and wrong. Personally speaking, when the time comes, We shall vote for those whom we deem to be the best men.—Remington Journal.

The reason that people vote so many poor sticks into Congress, is not that they like to be represented by such men, or desire them for rulers and' law-makers, or prefer them as guardians and expenders of the public money. It is because they allow themselves to be wheedled by political managers, bamboozled by political clap-trap, and treated as though they were merely the materials" <sf party, allowed to vote in ordel td insure party success. Who is there who backs, and what is this miserable party business, that the people should be led to their rain by them?—Cincinnati Commercial. The Chicago and South Atlantic Railroad Company has made a very liberal offer to the stockholders, which will in a short time make a full remuneration for all the outlay to aid the road. The Company grant to each holder of a certificate of stock the privilege to ride upon all accommodation trains at a rate not to exceed one cent per mile.— This generous offer will undoubtedly make the stock worth par from the moment the road is finished it not to command a premium.— upon such terms as these there should be no hesitancy about subscribing the full amountof stock required.— Monticello Herald. ' «■» Last Thursday, W. J. Duvall, of Rensselaer, in company with a couple of other gentlemen, came to thiaplace looking for a stolen horse which had been taken from near Mexico, about seven miles north of Peru. He was traced through Rensselaer, where the thief stopped and had the horse shod on Wednesday,- to a place four or five miles (his side of Rensselaer, where they seemingly lost track of him altogether. But the same evening they overtook and arrested him at Watseka, 111. Hq then concluded to go back to Peru; and the probability is, he now contemplates taking a trip to Michigan City soon to learn a trade. Wes. Duvall is winning a reputation at catching horse thieves.— Remington Journal. , , ,