Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1874 — INDIANA GOSSIP. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA GOSSIP.

When a wideawake, hard working, economical young man gets tied to a lazy, dirty, schmutzenguntmuincr of a woman how can there ever he any prosperity, love or hum>iness in that Kind-of a family union? - Knox -Ledger. Give it up. But in the name of all that is decent we protest against the Ledger obtruding family matters on the public, at least before we ave through with Tilton, Mr. John O. Hardesty has soi out his interest in the Indianapolis Sun and retired therefrom. James Buchanan, Mr. Oh 1 email, Sato of the Indiana Farmer, and oho or two other parties have organized a Joint Stock Com} a: y and bought the office. It is probable an effort w ill be made to have the S /. recognized as the centra! organ of tie Independent party.

Mr. J. B. Coniter, recently pro* - prietor and editor of the Ker.timid Gazette, has gone to Indianapolis where be succeeds. Mr. Oi{*-man in .the Indiana Farmer office. Mr. Conner informed the writer that he had become very much disgusted with political affairs of late, and was glad to exchange from a polit- ! teal journal to a position on a \ paper which ignored ■ matters’ of; that character as much as possible. The Monticello Herald extravagantly states that the Democracy of Indiana have declared in favor of free whiskey, hut the tact is they favor taxed whiskey to obtain a revenue for public school purposes- j The Indiana Republican platform ; advocates a law which shall permit 1 whiskey la be. sold untaxed in any community where a majority desire it. The Democracy favors taxed whiskey: the Republicans free wlii.-key..

The Democratic Statte platforhU is silent on the -salary grab. Cause.• Dan. Vooriiees, one of the leaders of tiie grabbers, was a member of the committee on resolutions. Besides, Daniel may want Jo go to Congress again.—Logansport Journal. Why is the Republican State platform silent on the salary grab; also? .What salary grabber was a member of its committee on resolutions? Both the Republican and Democratic partics, by the silence of their platform, condone that infamy. They oonspmi—together- Co do evil. Neither should longer be trusted in legislatures or Congress.

Major Frederick F. B. Coffin, treasurer of Porter county, was in town yesterday, lie is a good nutured person who labors under the amusing hallucination that the Repnidican party of this district is hunting a candidate for Congress with a tair prospect of bagging bun as their game. Like many another coirfiding oitieeseeker the M;i jor has been drawn into a trap and not long since published a letter, which effectually extinguished whatever chances he then had lor success. It was a neat trick of the enemy, cleverly managed, and thoroughly- successful, although it is as old as the confidence games played upon unsophisticated countrymen by city sharpers-" Before the publication of that missive, the district ring, masters feared Major Coffin and , his prospects seemed, reasonably lair; but now that be has , committed himself, they feel he is completely in their power. lie is u nice man, but is entirely too guileless to successfully cope with unscrupulous -politicians.

Dr. Ha innioud and other medical gentlemen of New York recoin mo ml as a means of preventing dogs from ihnoculating persons or other animals with hydrophobia, that the canine teeth or fangs and tire incisor teeth be blunted so that it would be impossible for the animal. afflicted with rabies to bite through the skin. The manner in which the operation is done is to place between the dog’s molar’leeth a stick large enough to keep his mouth open, and fasten it in posi- . tion by means of a cord attached to both ends of the stick and passed around the animal’s head; then fasten another strap or cord around its muzzle in’front of the -stickT in such a manner that the dog cannot open its mouth get the stick out While tine dog is in this condition aud held, take * file and blunt the incisors and shorten the fangs with a pair of nippers, afterwards filing them down smoothly.. This operation does not hurt tire animal nor impair its usefulness, w hile in ease it should ever' be Stricken w ith madness it is effectually prevented from communicating the horrible malady to other animals or members of the human , family. VY '" V

1 The Lowell says that Engineer Zimmerman arrived in Lowell with his Corps of workers on the 20th, and is now working between 'that towh ami Dyer. Henry M. Stanley, the director -of. thomowAfr ie an xxp;j m i iig e xpt 11 ditien, writes :.s follows to an English• gmirlenraiv xrho' had sent n » i m ":iI i inquiry: yVou ask- me j: 1 am et the same opinion as Dr Livingstone on . the us : of .’spirituous.lt<}upiS by travele rs. 1 answer tlfiU if a man i> i.uiaecti-to'.nevMo. '.ffeyettsojot; Fept,-rs .aJL... ic;;. . certain not t - need t! ttn-in Ciutra! Africa ; tb.it it V -s aye tt>tent d to drink . - : : ’i.oiuo, tw - Very eerf.v;, to nced'tbc:, in Africa to stain !. n .'ugh : ri. tv. • , s-d S' t he therefore, totally' unfli for• hard a e:k and eoattu :eel fatigue, atvl had better'sti-p at For:. ; f.it t:o e.ntrvjru can uve itt Africa-- — T; : Very iewr J.'..-r< !•- v. . ;A ; f---tiit. attacks hint am!-HID• him. Ik e\\ . thing iu rb : his i.: rib’e i recurnhig malady previous to my -V;':man experka .1 1 had -good-cause before l c-ndcd ny- mis-, i sie*ri to know that a drunkard is least able to withstand a tropical | and malarious climate." t

The Democratic State platform recommends that the office of county school superintendent hj abolished, but a. bet tec plan, would be to. have that officer elected by the" people: In much. of the legislation of the last ten or twelve years there has been a constant tendency townrds centralization of power in the hands of a Jew persons, which is contrary to tin- gonills of true Republicanism, and which some day may produce the bitterest frnits. It :s trite that during the yiermd uieueioiiod -the eleetive franchise has* been extended, but at the same time the rights of the grand aggregate have been circumscribed in many respects. The people are. just as competent, to elect one officer as another, and to elect all as a few. They are fully as competent to elect judges of the Supreme Court as they are to elect Presidents to appoint them; and it is just as safe to trust the election of County Superintendents of schools to a popular decision, as it is to trust theit appointment in Die hands of the-township trustees or county commissioners, while the Tcsnlts upon - rfro wclfare of .schools are likely to be fully as good.

Senator Logan is reported to have asked in a recent speech “If the two existing parties are corrupt and rotten, out of what class of people is the new, honest party tobe formed ?” Although a memb;r of an orthodox Christian - ohm-cli, the great Illinois Senator does not stfem to remember those terse passages of Scripture which lead) that out of the mouths of two or three witnesses shall every tiling be established, and by .the fruits thereof shall the quality of a tree be known. If there ate honest men who vote the Republican ticket, then are there corrupt men coutroling the Democratic party. If the leading Democrats are not-hars, then do wicked men prevail in Republican Council's. If those credit mobiIkr transactions, salary grabs, Sanborn- Contracts, Shepherd jobs, etc. etc., were evil fruits, then' an . —•——.... ;.~Y sJ fr: —; •' *--••• ■ evil tree produced them. If that tree, extends the ramifications of its roots into the two political parties which have controlled pub-” lie affairs for years, and if that tree drew Biistinhn.ee from’ each of those parties, then do both of them contain Corruption. Senator Logan knows, and every intelligent man who reads it knows, that his question is unfair, undignified, pettifogging. The great mass of voters who sustain either party, are no more that party than is a jury the. court. Neither are they any more responsible for party corruption than a jury would be for the corruption' of a judge, a sheriff, a clerk or the attorneys at the bar. Voters, as a body, have very little to say in making up issues, or nominating ; candidates; these preliminaries are monopolized bv individuals who really constitute the party. Parties are composed of comparatively few persons, and but a few are accountable .for party failures, party wrongs and party frauds. The mass of voters who support uther party are less liable to be. corrupt than those, who shape the,hue of party conduct- Parties rarely purify themselves, but the people may purify .the government by overthrowing old' corrupt parties and giving control of public affairs over to a new party, organized tocorrect abuses and reform evils. The interests of the Slate of Indiana demand that this shall be ckonfe at once.

\V heat in Boon county will hardly average 12 bushels to the acre; New wheat is coming into Laporfe at the rate .of 1,000 to 1,200 • tm-dn-1- a day, Tlic'..Baptists, of Lebanon have purchased the "United Presbyteri-.ln eliurehj tor $ 1 ,300. f __ b . It is said that 100,000 bushels ,ot flax seed will soon be placed in the market in Ili an: county. ■'About fifty persons are employed h; I.apunte making cigars and the business is steadilv increasing. At a-wU'ettng it.ehl last Saturday, i’ was decided to abandon the idea fa r at Attica this year. The tobacco crop of .Southern 1: liar;.! this year will be the smallest that lias been raised since the war. -: . : .

A Montgomery squash vine grew three fiet ami tour inches'-in two amt a half days, by actual measurement.. The Fort Wayne organ factory now enroloy s sixty hands, and turns .out one hundred and; fifty organs per month.

A call is being circulated in Gibson county for an Independent County Convention to be held in Princeton tiiis week. A gentleman near South Bend has over two .hundred swarms of bees and sells over three quarters of a ton of honey yearly. An anti secret .society, or American, ticket was nominated in Hamilton county last Wednesday, headed by George Simons for Representative.

The Pall Creek Agricultural Society of the counties of Madison, Hancock, Henry and Hamilton, will hold their fair at Pendleton, from the Bth to- the Hth of September. Theodore McClellan, of Yaloai; aisa, i s sa id to have accepted the appointment of cadet to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, which young Davis, ,of Kentlaiid, declineil. They boast of having sqld eighty kegs of beer in. Valparaiso on the 4th,- and declare the Baxter Law a failure in that crusaded city. It is a good place to hold a Republican Congressional Convention. K. J. Mills informs the Brook-ton ■Reporter that the chinch bugs would probably ruin twenty acres of his corn. lie thinks they are more destructive to crops on clay lands than to those growing on black prairie soil. A. N. Grant, of Carrdll county, a nice youflg man just twenty-five years old, yearns to be nominated by the Republicans in the Tenth district for Congress. Since Packard has been there, he di'cads not its gloom. At a recent, public sale of personal property in Lake county, belonging to a couple of English lords who bad a large stock farm there and became financially embarrassed, some fancy imported bird dogs sold for *17,5 a'liair.

It is reported that young Davis, of Kentlaml, who passed examination at We stville and was recoin- j mended to the vacantcadedship in the Unjust'States Naval Academy, has bqcked out, and declined the blue jacket and brass buttons. While unloading a box containing three plates of French plate j glass for the Studebaker building, j at South Bend, last Tuesday, the box fell to the ground, shivering the glass to pieces, and causing a loss of from §7OO to §9OO. Lew. Wilkerson, of Warren Center, St. Joseph county, recently declined an appointment as postmaster. The bond required was only §6OO, while the salary amounted to '§2 per annum. Mr. Wilkerson is understood to have no official aspirations whatever. Isaac Wardell and Samuel Bardwell were shot in a fracas at a dance in Newton county, Thursday before last. Wardell died from his hurt. A man named Jones has been arrested for the shooting and held to bail iq the sum of §I,OOO to.answer the charge in court. t On the forty-ninth ballot Hon: B. F. Claypool was recently nominated by the Republicans of the Richmond district, to succeed Hon. Jeremiah Wilson in Congress.— There were two other competitors, but one withdrew on the fortyeighth ballot. *

Mrs. Carpenter and Mrs. Dudley were recently picking berries in Import e county when a thunder •storm,came up, and they took shelter umlep a trpe. The tree was struck by lightning and b’oth ladies were considerably injured, though neither one was killer].

j ’ A youthful couple 'were in Delphi one day recently; begging money enough to take them to Lafayette. The young mail claimed to he 108 years, 2 months and 20 days old, and the maiden with him was 02 years ol age. The ■Timet ertu-1 ly • remarks “they have outlived their usefulness.”

It is avjth a sad heart, says the i local of the Lapoiie Argus, that we | announce our inability to fill our contracts for supplying our friends witli pickles. Our twenty months old Imj* walked into our ravishingly beautiful garden, one day last week, and deliberately pulled up every cucumber vine we had. It troubles that boy to sit down now. Crown Point.people ai’e canvassing for the establishment of a National Bank at that place.— Messrs. Hazard & Murphy, of Newcastle, w ill open one the re, subscribing stock to the extent of *40,000 if the citizens will subscribe $15,000 to $20,000 more. They propose to start with a bank issue of $50,000, which will be increased as the commercial interests of the county demand it.

The Valparaiso Vidette says that lion. T. J. Mcrrifield lias gone to a medical watering place in Michigan to try the virtues of the water to cure rheumatism in his feet. His friends hope- that an abstemious hygienic diet and the use erf spring water exclusively for drink will afford him permanent relief. Water is a tolerably fair exclusive drink anyhow, whether one has the rheumatism or not.

A Driving Park Association lias been organized at Crown Point, which lias leased, for a term of thirty-five years, a track around, the edge of Fauelier lake, sixty “feet wTde and IfalF a hlile 1 ong, that is to be graded ready for use by the Ist day of next September. Sbeds, stables, and a restaiiranL are to be erected near the grounds for the accommodation of visitors, . and the pecuniary benefit of the association.

ICis-very strange indeed for the. Kokomo Tribune to assert that Congressman Tyner “earnestly opposed the passage of the salary bill,” when the facts on record show that his voles Were in favor of a bill which has almost: ruined the I Republican party. — Indianapolis Sun.

That resolution in the Democratic: platform demanding the repeal of the County Superintendent law is a sharp dig at Superintendent Hopkins. That gentleman, although-a stanch Democrat, will take the stump in defense of the law. Being, the father of it he couldn’t consistently do otherwise. —lndianapolis Sun.

The Democratic platform favors educating all colored children in separate schools from those of whites, but the colored' are so few in this State that the -separate, schools could not be afforded— W bat folly then to forbid them the use of the free public schools with the whites; white and colored children play together freely enough, and without harm.— Valparaiso- Yidette. 7-

A letter from the indefatigable President ot the Chicago & South Atlantic Railroad states hhat an- | other ten miles of road has been i put under contract, and that the I engineers will be *in Delphi some ! time next week, who will immediately be fallowed by the workmen. It seems from all the evidence we call gather, that the road will surely be built,; and it it only remains for us to say whether.it will pass through, or near our city. Delphi Jour n u/^.

The Congressional Convention of the “People’s” Party will meet in Lafayette, August 11. Archibald Johnson and J. A. Mount, of Montgomery county,,and William C. Wilson and G. S. Orth, of this county, have been named in connection Wirli the nomination, with what authority we are uliable to state. The current at present, in this locality, seems to be setting in favor of Mount, who is spoken of in terms of higlr commendation as a public speaker, and has the advantage of being .a man new to political life.— Lafayette JournaK