Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1875 — Indiana and the Centennial. [ARTICLE]

Indiana and the Centennial.

The State'Board of Agriculture, in offering premiums on articles and products for exhibition at our coming Exposition and Fair, provide that all premium products not of a perishable nature, are to be at the disposal of the Superintendent of the Board, for the purpose of forming a collection to represent the products of Indiana at the Centennial Exhibition of 1876. County Agricultural Societies are specially requested to secure the best samples of grains, which have been on exhibiton attheir fairs of 1875, and forward the same to the Agricultural Rooms, properly boxed and labeled, for the purpose of forming a collection. The county and district societies can do very much toward securing for our State a good representation in the Centennial, if they will industriously heed this wise action of the State Board. ’ The Centennial Executive Committee, embracing Governor Hendricks, Prof. Cox and other citizens of the State having the subject at heart, will meet this week to put in motion other additional plans to secure for us the fullest representation of our products and resources at the Centennial. It is of the greatest importance that we act both harmoniously and vigorously in the work.— lndiana Farmer.

Farewell, for one year or thereabouts, to the startling cracker, the annoying torpedo, the detonating Chinese bomb, the impaling rocket, the sight-destroying Roman candle, the fizzing pin-wheel, the suicidal pistol, the holdcausting cannon, the necropolitan shot-gun. Thank goodness, farewell.— Ex. W ork on the C. & S. A. R. R. is being pushed very rapidly to Railroad street, on the Western limits of Monticello. This is certainly energetic work. More teams will be added to the force next week, and ere long the grading will be completed within the limits of our town. — Monticello Constitutionalist. Two Irishmen were working in a quarry, when one of them fell into a deep quarryhole. The other alarmed, came tp the margin of the hole and called out, “Arrah, Pat, are ye killed intirely ? If ye’re dead spake.” Pat reassured him from the bottom by saying in answer, “No, Tim; I’m not dead but I’m Bp acheless.”