Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1874 — INDIANA GOSSIP. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA GOSSIP.

New wheat starts out at 'sl a bushel, in the Laporte market. The tame hay crop will be light in Whito county this season. It is reported that peaches will be abundant m White couiity this season. Kentlanders label their* jugs “Kerosene” now when they attend picnics. There are now four hundred and twenty-four convicts in the Michigan City prison. Bids for. the convict labor of Michigan City will be received on the 4th day of August. The flax crop in Newton county is reported to be better than for the three seasons previous. Two dollars and forty cents a bushel is tlie exorbitant price asked at Laporte for new potatoes. A Delphi gentleman has a portrait of Mr. William Bolles, which the Journal says cost $45,000. Gen. Morton C. Hunter has-been nominated for Congress by the liepublicans of the sixth district-. A cheese factory near Wheeler, Porter county, makes use of about two---- anti = one -ha 1 f tons of milk, daily. They talk about having raised wheat up in Marshall county this season that yields forty bushels to the acre. The financial officers report $23,307.71 in the Benton county treasury, yet they protest their county orders. The old settlers of Carroll county will hold tlicir annual meeting on the Bth day of August, 1874, near Delphi. A strange fatality is raging among the cows' 1 in Laporte city, and several valuable ones have already died. “Eighteen coaches of Morman recruits went west over our road last week,” is what tho Kentlaml Gazette reports. The Valparaiso Messenger says that Judge Hammond is a sensible man, because he has no Congressional aspirations. The Singer Company’s works at South Bend, manufactured over 14,000 machine -cases during the last week of June. Mr. Drake, jusfwest of KeiiTlaml. has harvested' ijiiKjty acres of wheat that will thresh out eighteen to twenty bushels per acre. The Lognmsport Journal wants Thomasßnshnell, of White county, nominated for Congress by the Republicans of this district. The flowers of 104 summers have gladdened the olfactories ~of Mrs. Dillon, who lives .in Lognnsport, with their cheerful perfume. At Valparaiso week ago Monday, George Slater was fooling with his rifle, and accidentally killed his sister, aged twenty-two years. The wheat, hr on in-Laporte cou n - ty promises to be more than an average yield this season. It has itl 1 been harvested iitgood-condition. Spencer Biddle only stacked twenty tons of timothy hay this season that was cut and cured on ten acres of Carroll county meadow land. Tho Oxford market, in Beuton comity, is reported to be well supplied with cherries, which sell for ten to twelve and one!half cents a quart. One of tho officers of Carroll county clandestinely visited a beer picnic on the 4th, and now the Crusaders propose to make it lively for his roc,lection. Hiram Stanton, twelve yo’trs old, while hauling wheat in a field near Delphi, the other day, was thrown from the load and run over, producing instant death. The Plymouth Mail and Magnet declines to publish the song sent them beginning “Fill up with wine •your flowing bowels.” They must be afraid of the. Crusaders. The Michigan City Enterprise received at this office last week was only printed on the Chicago . sido. Don’t do so again, Bro. Jurnegan, an thou lovest us. It is estimated that the wheat crop of Carroll county will average scvtnrteeh ■ busbels ,au.winch is an increase of three bushels per aero over the yield of last year. Judge D. It. Chase is commander of a military company at I.ogansport, called the Logan Greys.— They are going to purchase their own arms and be free from entangling alliances. Says the Delphi Times-. “We long for tlie days of ripe apples and green corn.” Yonng man, take half a dozen cathartic pills before bedtime, and that longing will be satisfied.

Mr. H. Cole, of Lake county, has cut his spring wheat and burnt itj in girder to destroy, as many chinch bugs as possible. The pest has commenced on many pieces of corn. —Lowell Star. A vacancy will soon exist at West Point Military Academy, k which .may be obtained* by the best 1 looking young man in Jasper county, if iie.has a good education and is strictly virtuous. ’ A raspberry patch near'.South Rend yields several hundred bushels -of fruit this year. In the morning, when the pickers are j busiest, they-gather an average of one bushel every fifteen minutesi ! Anew German Methodist church i edifice was dedicated at Crown Point, Sabbath before last. It is | a neat and modest structure, tastefully furnished, and cost,* together I with the lot, $1,300. Mr. (’. «L. Goodrich, a former j resident of Carroll county, has ! recently been visiting Delphi tor ] the purpose of inducing a number i of its citizens to embark with him i as colonists to the. island of Cozu- * mcl, near Yucatan, which he thinks Oue yi the Edens of the earth.

A little steamboat, called the Wash'Obeuchain, plys tho lordly Wabash between Americus and Lafayette. When tlie Chicago & South Atlantic Railroad is built, she will extend her trip up to Delphi. Upon the completion of the new railroad (the Chicago A South Atlantic,) our farmers must erect cheese factories. Arrangements should be perfected this season to commence early in the spring.— Better than a mine of gold.—Lowell Star. ; The approaching political campaign in tliis county promises to be an exciting one, when fairly opened. The only drawback at present with the “faithful followers” of both parties, and which they arc at a loss to overcome, is a strong odor of hay seed which pervades the politcal atmosphere, not only in this section of the State, but throughout the whole country. —Delphi Times. Thomas Gihanski and his wife Marie, middle aged people of Polish birth, were murdered Wednesnight of last week, in their house neat New Carlisle, St. Joseph county. The killing is supposed to have been done with a hammer that was found near the premises. After their skulls \Vere .crushed in, their dwelling was fired, and their bodies were nearly consumed when discovered., * It ts supposed they were murdered for tlicir money, as Cihanski was known to have about SBOO in a belt upon his person. — No clue has yet been obtained to the murderers.