Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1874 — INDIANA GOSSIP. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA GOSSIP.

’Lowell is to have a half mile race track. Laporte county pays her paupers §12,000 a year. A pottery at Crown Point manufactures jugs, crocks, tile, etc. There is talk of the Independents nominating.a county ticket in Cass. . Howard county people estimate their wheat crop, at 2(50,000 bushels. The Lafayette Independent Granger J’eople’s.Movement is_gaim ing popularity daily in Tippecanoe county. Porter county people are talking about organizing an Independent party, and nominating county officers.— Posey county farmers estimate their wheat crop at from 750,000 to 1,000,000 bushels. • The Independents have nominated a full epunty ticket in Clinton county, and a candidate for the legislature.

Posey county will have a Working Men's convention day alter tomorrow, to nominate candidates for county' officers. Hon. Graham N. Fitch will deliver the principal address at the Did Settler’s meeting at Delphi, day' after tomorrow. According to one of their local papers, there are only' twelve or thirteen aspirants for the office of treasurer oi Lake county. The common council of Plymouth wants to borrow SI,OOO the grass and weeds from the streets of that bucolic hamlet. ' Michael Barew i-nger, of Lake county, was cut to pieces by a reaping machine the other day.— ..He_livcd. one day after.tlie accident. The eighth annual Fair of Stark county will be held, at Knox on the Ist, 2d an 4 ffiTdays ot October. — 'Premiums range irom 2 5 cents up to $6. The Republicans of Laporte county endorse salary grabbing Packard by appointing him a delegate to the Congressional convention at Valparaiso. St. Joseph county will have anIndependeut Coun-ty ticket in the field, though the Patrons of Husbandry as an organization retused to stand sponsor for it. Work on the Crawfordsville railroad will be commenced soon, and the five mile gap completed Logansport and Clymer, there making a junction with the Detroit road. The Independents of Benton county made themselves obnoxious to the only party that ever struck a national blow at the liberty of the American press, by nominating a county ticket last Saturday. Hon.G. S. Orth does not want to be renominated for Congi css by the Republicans of his district, aud-now-the Lafayette Journal speaks favorably of Judge Vinton’ for that position. Judge Vintoh peremptorily declines, however. The Independents nominated a county ticket in Marshall county, on Monday. The’ Plymouth Demo-aar«lwai-ns,sthe old Bourbons that it is a Republican do.dge notwithstanding that the latter are to hold a convention next Saturday to nominate a ticket. Report says that 'the board of White county commissioners will be called together at an early day, for the . purpose of ordering an 1 election in Monon township-to vote upon a proposition to aid the Chicago & South Atlantic Railroad project by a township taxDay after tomorrow the Independents of Newton county will be impudent enough to nominate a county ticket, notwithstanding the ! assertions of Hon. O. P,. Morton ' and Rev. W. W. Curry that there I Jijffi and cantbe only two .political J parties in the State, Over in Laporte county the Independents are talking about. county organization, much to the horror and disgust of the focal newspapers which recommend that reforms be sought within the Republican and Democratic organizations both of 1 which are coufessodly corrupt. |

= Between §40,000 ami §50,000 worth of new buildings are in process of erection in Laporte. -L. A. Cole, Esq., formerly a resident of Rensselaer, is making a §7OO addition to his residence. At Monterey on the 25th ult., the Democracy of Pulaski, I’ldtou ' and ■ Starke counties nominated ! Geo. T. Wiekershani, of Winamac, ! for J oint -Rcqiresenta tivc-in—the-State Legislature. This is the same Wickersham whom the- respectable Democracy-in Jasper-and Newton • counties repndiatm! two years ago. An old farmer of Pike township, Marion county, raised from 28 to 30 bushels of wheat per acre this year. He broke his ground in July and drilled his wheat ihe first of September, thoroughly pulverizing the ground before drilling. He attributes his success to early breaking and thorough preparation of the soil for the seed.— lndiana Partner. - At “Gentervilhe, Wayne county, the Independents recently held a nominated a county ticket, and resolved that they were unyieldingly opposed to all monopolies, frauds and rings, and that In future they would support no one for office whom they believed, to favor either. This is rather tough for the ring-masters who have so long controlled the Republican and Democratic parties, but they ruled with a rod of iron while they had power and ought not to squeal if the tip of the lash recoils into their own faces. tlnrUpatrons of llus- - bandry in Kosciusko county assembled by representative delegates from each subordinate Grange in the county and decided to call a convention to nominate candidates for county offices. Among other resolutions adopted was one declaring that they would “no longer be controlled by old party ties, and in our future elections for State, county and township officers, we will ignore partizan politics and support only men and measures; and the standard of men shall be honesty, integrity and ability; and the standard of measuresiMiMlTbv kcfoenfcfo_ ment, economy and reforms; and all who are opposed to monopolies» high taxes, • C‘Xtrav:‘.gnnt salaries, aiuLepnilllk I'iogs, .without regard to former party affiliations, are invited to unite with us and aid in bringing about the ends so much desired.”