Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1874 — REMINGTON AND HER SURROUNDINGS. [ARTICLE]

REMINGTON AND HER SURROUNDINGS.

Judge Taleoli's paper docs not announce that Mnj. -Calkins wilt speak upon the issues of the day. at his appointments in I’ortcr county, “as we arc aware of none made up.” Tlie issue with Calkins is, Shall I he elected to Congress? Only-this, and nothing moic. Just as was predicted, the Wiumnac Rrp>d>’ic<iH and Montieello Herald endorse the nominee oi the Valparaiso convention for Congress, notwithstanding their growls about what they would do to the contrary in case the claims of the Southern j art of the District were Ignored It is perfect nonsense tor editors wlro depend upon official patronage for support to talk about being independent. They dare not be if they wanted to. I>r. S. C. Maxwell, of llcmitigton, and Mr. M. 11. Ingram, late proprietor ofthe B rooks tor. Reporter, have formed a partnership and bought the material ot the Central Clarion, at Fowler, Benton county, and commenced publishing a new e|ght column, folio, weekly paper called the Bmlun County Herald.— Dr. Maxwell lias occasionally contributed to the columns of Tin: Us fox and is a forcible writer Mr. Ingram has long been connected with the newspaper business, and understands every department of a country office. If they do not make a strong team and publish a good paper* we shall be very much diaappnintvd . The admission fee to the Expo** sition and State Fair, which opens at Indianapolis on the 7th of September and continues thirty days, will be 25 cents for the first three weeks. For the last week of the live stock show it will be 50 cents. The special premiums, offered by the Manufacturers and Real Estate exchange, amount to $750. The Board has offered $l5O to the county making the best display ot orchard, garden and field crops.— The Superintendents ofthe Horticultural Department call attention to the very liberal premium list in the various branches represented in that department this season. — Valuable improvements, have been ordered to the internal arrangements of the* building in which horticultural, garden and floral products are to be displayed.— Ample ai range meins have beei) made for the accommodation of exhibitors of fruits this season. One i f the most hopeful features ot the present dull political campaign, is that it tends largely to obliterate ohl party lines. On every hand are heard such expressions as “I do not care ahout party names any more;” “I propose this year to vote for those men whom I believe to be the best qualified to fill the offices lor whk-li. they are nominated “1 am waiting to see '.\ ° V what candidates are out before making up my mind bow to vote ; ’ ‘•ln times like tire present, when there arc —ntr-impoH-airt —general issues, I believe in scratching tickets;” and. many other modifications of the same idea. During the war when questions of vital importance to our national existence were being discussed, issues were sharply deand voters did not ask so particularly about a candidate’s competency as they did about Ids sentiments; lmt the war is over) its issues are - settled, and now honesty and capability are tlie ‘prominent quallieations : to be sought in a public officer. Elect ’•the best men regardless ot political affiliations, A terribie tragedy was enacted at' ‘ Indianapolis Hist* week, which created an unusual sensation throughout the country. Miss Flora Harding, nineteen years old, daughter of George C. Harding, of the Indianapolis Sunday Herald , took a dose of opium which resulted fatally. Previous to her death she revealed to her lather that the act was instigated by remorse and to hide her shame in the grave—she having been seduced by 'Solomon Moritz, a wealthy married man and intimate acquaintance of their family. Upon meeting Moritz next day, Mr. Harding discharged six barrels of a revolver at him, two of the shots striking, one shattering an arm from the elbow down, and one passing through his lungs. ' At latest advices Moritz was alive. Harding was adtoitted to bail to appear f»r trial upon the charge of assault with intent to kill. Public i sympathy is strong for Harding, 1 great indignation is expressed by the newspapers against Moritz.— The latt*f"*Bserts his innocence of the crime charged upon him, and published a card reflecting against i Mis* Harding’* reputation. J

A simple cure for boils is giveu as follows, by a French physician : As soon as the culminating point of a boil makes its appearance, put a little camphorated alcohol in a j saucer, and dipping the end of a * linger into it rub gently the inflamed j surface, especially the central part, ; repeating the operation eight or | ten times for about half a minute, j Then allow '(he surface to dry and | place over it a slight coating of \ camphorated olive oil. It is said that tour such operations—which | arc to be performed morning, noon ! and evening—will in in almost .all. ! cases cause the boil to dry up and ! disappear. The Republican party boasts of its wonderful efforts at self-purifi-cation. It is the party of the people—a great liberty-loving aggregation of noble souls intent upon keeping intact the principles of freedom inculcated by our Revolutionary sires. At least that is what its advocates claim lor it. How truthful these professions are is well illustrated in Vermont, where they recently renominated for Congress Judge Poland who was chairman of that wonderful House committee to whitewash members implicated in Credit Mobilief transactions, and wTio became infamous at last session of Congress as the engineer who forced, through the House of ; Representatives at Washington that villainous measure known as lire newspaper gag-law—which* was plainly designed to destroy | the independence of journalism—and thus pave the way fur still greater encroachments upon popular liberty, and prepare for tlie ultimate triumph of despotism in America. Judge Poland ougtit to be defeated, and those Republicans who have bolted and refuse j to endorse his nomination, deserve | the commendation of all patriotic i people. Why is it that the Republican parly has not been able to reconstruct the South in its nearly ten years of tinkering? llow does it come that just about tlie time important elections are to be held in Northern States, Republican journals arc filled with column after column recounting political outrages ia the section which* their platforms claim -their party has thoroughly reconstructed ? Somehow another Republican papers get thingsmixed up. Either the party lias been powerless to restore order in the “late rebellious States,” as its platforms and speakers claim, or else the reports of political outrages which fill the columns of their orominent journals are fictitious. If the newspaper reports are true, their platforms are false; ! if their platforms are false, then it j is high time to change the policy | Of the government towards those | sections where lawlessness prevails. | If it is-desiruble to make a change ; in this respect, there must be a | change made in the legislative-dc- | partineiit of government, because j the party now .in power con templates i nothing oi that kind, but rather I ■. " ; points to its past record as a | guaranty and indication of what j it will do in the future.

A newspaper correspondent, alluding to a recent visit, says : ‘•The next j'lace of importance i where we brought .up, was Reiti- [ ington,in Jasper county. It is a | smart, thriving town of 000 or 700 ! inhabitants, and despite the hard ; times flic re are several new buildi ings now in progress, including a fine, two story drug store. Taking our leave of there, we went about ’ ten miles south, and • die whole ; distance seemed to be one continnj ous cornfield, witli an occasional field of oats; and we don’t think a better or more promising, crop was ever grown on a Western prairie. Four years ago we went the same ! piece of country; then one conld ’drive m almost any direction, as there were no fences and only a few cultivated fieias in the way ; but now it is nearly all fenced, with miles of corn and oats surrounding fine farm houses.” Quoting the foregoing in his paper, the Laporte Chronicle, Mr. Congressman Packard adds: “We know the beauties of the surrounding Remington, from personal observation. If we had never seen Laporte county, we should affirm that the magnificent prairie lauds about Remington, aud thence westward to Goodland, in Newton county, and southward to Benton county, make the real garden spot of Indiana. Six years ago we visited the locality for the first time,) Far as the eye could

reach were countless herds of cattle, and millions of wild flowers. These have largely given place to luxurient grain fields, which exhibit the wonderful fertility of the soil. The northwestern part of White county, k. large part of Jasper and Newton counties and Benton, make up a body of land destined to enrich the whole State by its illimitable agricultural resources; and its beauty of situation, its rolling grandeur, and sealike proportions, make it a picture of loveliness, unsurpassed in the Mississippi Valley.” The natural advantages of Jasper county are only half appreciated by the people who live here, while elsewhere there is only now and then a person who has even a faint conception of them. We have hero a section of country in which is a diversity of soils adapted to grain raising, fruit growing aud the breeding and fattening of live stock. Grass, corn, oats, flax, potatoes, vines, all kinds of garden produce, and wheat may be raised here profitably with reasonable cultivation. Apples, pears, some varieties of cherries, plums and grapes seem to bo almost indigenous. There is no locality in the latitude where all kinds of domesticated animals can be more successfully bred. For butter and cheese making, there are few localities havirg superior advantages naturally. In Jasper eounty, although prairie lands predominate, there are groves and belts of timber, which increase the beauty of its landsc ape s by in ter rup ting what would otherwise be monotonous scenery, sufficient to supply fencing and fuel for several centuries to come. The streams of flowing water in this county are the Kankakee river which forms its north* ern boundary, and the I> oquois river rising near the center and running in a southwestern direction; into the Iroquois unpty the Pinkainink, Carpenter and Curtis creeks, besides several smaller streams. — In the northern part of Jasper is a deposit of iron ore covering an area twelve miles square, which some day will prove a source of much wealth. Specimens of tins ore have been smelted and proved to be of excellent quality. Land is quite cheap here yet, unimproved tracts being worth five to ten dollars an acre, and good farms on which are fences, small orchards and dwellings, can be bought for ten, fifteen, twenty-five and thirty dollars an acre, owing to location and character of improvements. — Society here is good, the people being quiet, temperate and intelligent. Perhaps there is not an equal population in the United States where more periodicals are read, or there are fewer offenses against the laws, moral or civil.— Public school houses are numerous ; there are three mills in the county; ten church edifices we believe (besides the school houses aud other buildings which are frequently used for divine worship); fair roads (better than the average in neighboring counties) with good substantial bridges over the principal streams; a court house ot sufficient capacity for all county business, but no jail. There is room in Jasper county for double its present number of inhabitants, and good, industrious people would receive a hearty welcome.