Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1874 — The Governor of Nebraska on Grasshoppers. [ARTICLE]

The Governor of Nebraska on Grasshoppers.

His Excellency, Robert Furnas, Governor of Nebraska, has had close inquiry made as to the condition of the crops in that State, and has issued a proclamation to the people embodying the results. He says that information derived from the-several counties (as well as extensive personal observation) warrants the assertion, that though the crops are shorter than for several years before, there is not a failure, and no ground for serious alarm as to the general prosperity of the State. The droughty agricultural year, which has effected the whole United States, and the greater part of Europe, has had its effect on Nebraska; and small grains therefore, not yielding as was expected at the end of June, are only an average yield and quality. The small grains were harvested before the grasshoppers appeared ; but, as in States north and south this year, the grasshoppers have done damage *he farmers to a considerable

Happily for Nebraska, extent. * but corn bas however, ver, , r>£»vages; and been subject to the*. ’°yed, but corn is *by no meaps desv.. ° will range from half a of®, (possibly) almost an entire failure. in a few places. The fruit crop of Nebraska is more in quantity than ever before, but, as rule, the fruit is inferior in size; and taking the wliole range of agricultural products— hay, grain, vegteables, roots and fruit—the State has never 1 efore produced so great an aggre-

gate crop. No cases needing relief are yet reported; but at a number of points on the extreme western bolder, help will be required by the poorer settlers, who have but recently come to Nebraska, whose farming operations, therefore, were not extended and not varied, and who were depending on their corn crop alone for subsistance. Even those who may have to suffer* however, show no disposition to abandon their homesteads. They need employment i and in the case of homesteaders, have to quit their lands for a tirae to work in the towns. Says Mr. Furnas: “The more fortunate of our own citizens will meet the former emergency by affording employment, and Congress, which alone possesses the power, will, no doubt, promptly meet the second emergency.”

Our Republican friends are buisily engaged in the congenial employment of fighting the dead Democracy. We are free to admit that if the Democratic party is not dead that it ought to be; but where is the consistency in the Republicans using so much powder on a dead carcass! They cannot say that the Democracy is alive, without contradicting all the statements they have been making for the last six years—both on the stump and through the press —yet strange to say, they are either fighting a shadow or a decayed corpse. The rank and offensive oder that exhales from such a contest between the living putrescence of Credit Mobiler memory, and the dead and rotten Democracy,makes a conflict, which for gastly and unaproachable hideousness has never been equalled.-/Ten(/and Press. Rather a ludicrous scene trans — pired on the passenger train between here and North Judson, one day last week. A fellow sitting in the smoking car had fallen to sleep, and drempt that the teams under his charge, which he had . been driving in the pineries of Michigan, running away; when all at oncene jumped up and yelled out “Whoa ! Whoa !!” at the sanie time making for the front platform from which he jumped, while the train was mating 25 miles an hour. He did some elegant “ground and lofty tumbling, ,r and come out with only a few scratches. When taken on board he explained that the team h„e had been driving was in the habit of running off, and he thought they were again running. One of our citizens was in the same car at the from whom we learn the particulars. — Winamac Democrat. •tB. y XT'ov«d j iae re-union Oi me A ... .o '■*....***,y took place September Bth, at the grove of Mr. Eli Faris, six miles west of town, [Gillatn township, Jasper county.] There were fiftyseven of the relatives present, and for various reasons about twentyfive did not come. It is somewhat remarkable that out of twelve children of the oldest living generation, of ages from 38 to 61, nine are living. J. C. Faris spoke in the afternoon on the past history of the family, and the meeting closed very impressively. They intend to have annual reunions in the future. George W. Faris, son of J. C. Faris, was requested to deliver an address on the occasion of the meeting of September, 1875. —Medaryville Guard. The Lowell Star, September 12th, says that the Chicago & South Atlantic railroad is being pushed energetically. “Many of our substantial citizens have pledged themselves that nothing shall interfere in the promptest measures that may be inaugurated to hasten the construction of the line between here and Dyer. It looks now as if this fall would witness the consummation of the line. The work of grading commenced here in town yesterday.”

Get your job printing done at the Union office; for good, neat work is alwftvs cheapest and best. Si. * Willey have .men at work laying the foundation of their new brick drug store. Z Mr. Charley \Y. Clifton has taken an agency for selling the Weed sewing machine in Jasper county. 'Ml''.Joseph H. Willey was nominated last Saturday, by the Republicans ot’ Marion township, for township Trustee. Frost w*as visible in this place last Monday m orning. On Wednesday of last week it was seen in various local" ities over the county. . Mr. Isaac V • Alter has thanks for a mess of new corn meal. There is not a more enterpr ising or liberal-hearted man in the county. May he live long and prosper. At the solicitation of numerous friends and neighbors, Mr. William Coen has consented to be an Independent candidate for Trustee of Marion township. There are four or five persons in this place afflicted with the Black Hills gold fever. Perhaps they may be cooled off when the snow s melt on those distant mountains. A new grocery store is soon to be opened in Rensselaer, we are told, by a gentleman named Curran. It will he kept in the room recently occupied by Mr. Charles Platt. Jasper is one of the highest taxed counties in the State of Indiana.— The People’s party promise to reduce taxes in Jasper county, if it is permitted to have an opportunity. Somebody went, into Mr. Jonathan Peacock’s stable last week in Iris absence, and borrowed a pair of lines and other parts of a harness, which he desires to have returned.

The White County Agricultural Association will hold its"first annual Fair at Monticello, Feptember fSbth, and October Ist, 2d and 3d. We return thanks for complimentary ticket. Mr. John Horn, the gun and lock .smith at Erwin's blacksmith shop, is one of the best workmen in tlje State. Those who have machinery that needs neat repair will find him just the man for the business. Mrs. Emma Malloy, editress of the Elkart Observer, and a pleasing, talented lady, is expected to deliver an address this evening in the Court House, upon the subject of Temperance. Let there be a large audience to greet her, - Twenty thousand dollars’ worth of dry goods, clothing, hats, caps, boots, »• J «V.O| 1 V- Li OIIM4 V | *. ■ furnishing goods, etc., at F. J. Sears A Co.’s (formerly J. I. Purcupile & Co.) store. Remember the brick store when you want goods. At their last session, upon the petition of Hr. James Ritchey and others, the Board of County Commissioners entered up an order annulling the proceedings at their March term changing the boundary line between Marion and Jordan townships, and reinstating the former boundary. At the solicitation my neighbors I will be an Independent candidate for County Commissioner in the Second District. If elected, I promise to favor a decrease in the expenditures of the county, and a decrease in the rate of taxation so far as practicable.

George Kessler. Wanted.— The committee on fruit preparations at the 3d annual Fair of the Jasper County Agricultural & Mechanical Association, to explain why thirty-five varieties of jelly was awarded the premium over forty-three varieties, and why the latter were not tested ?— Stockholder. Being convinced that the so-called Republican township convention held last Saturday was-a set-up affair, manipulated by certain parties in the interests of a clique, I do not consider any person bound by its action, and, therefore announce myself an Independent candidate for Trustee of Marion township. Jonathan Peacock. W 6 desire to extend thanks to those friends who have taken upon themselves to increase the subscription list of this paper recently. The , Union enters upon its seventh year with a larger circulation than it ever had before. Through the instrumentality of a Ring who propose to crush all whom they cannot control, now and then an old friend has severed company with us, but thus far another recruit has stepped up and filled the place made*vacant temporarily, and the ranks are not only uudjminished but today we publish the largest edition we ever issued. Again we thank our friends for the efforts they have so kindly < made in our behalf, and shall strive to prove our gratitude for past and any favors by increased devotion to the interests of people. Will not each reader who favors the breaking up of the Ring which now controls public sffairs in our county induce his neighbor to become a subscriber to our new volume, ah'dthus aid in the {rood work?

Messrs. D.„ W. H. Howard, President of the Toledo & Grand Rapids Railroad Company, George W. Reynolds, Vice President, Thomas Pray, Director, of Toledo, Ohio, and Messrs. Wm. D. Smith, • President. of the Keithsburg & Eastern, Narrow Guage Railroad Company, John A. McDowell, Chief Engineer, Hon. J. K. Hornish, of Keithsburg, 111., were in Rensselaer last week, and Friday evening addressed an impromptu meeting of the citizens upon the advantages which a three feet guage road ha.** over ose of wider dimensions. The cos 0f con s truction was said to be less than J*h'e-half, the cost of rolling stock about seT <ul '* en^ )P ’ the expense of running and we 7. r material far below, while the capacity for travel and freight was at equal proportion or greater compared with the original outlay. The Ohio company has about ten miles of road in satisfactory operation and desire to push westward, heretofore looking towards St. Louis as an objective point. The Keithsburg people have several miles of their road bed prepared and under contract for iron.— They want an eastern outlet, arid are trying to persuade the Toledo folks to abandon their St. Louis idea and unite with their enterprise. For the purpose of ascertaining the nature of the country through which this line would pass, and also to learn the sentiment of the people, who would be directly benefited, towards the enterprise, these gentlemen were traveling over the route. The road if built on the route these gentlemen were prospecting would start from Toledo and pass through Maumee City, Grand Rapids and Van Wert, Ohio; Decatur, Huntington, North Manchester, Rochester, Winamac, Francesville, Rensselaer and Morocco, in Indiana; and Cbillicothe to Keithsburg, 111.