Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1875 — MODESTY AND INFLUENCE. [ARTICLE]

MODESTY AND INFLUENCE.

Helmbold; the Bucho m«n, has been sent tolßloomingdale Insane Asylum. 1 .> ' ■ ; y ; ' Last Saturday was the fourth anniversary of the “big fire” at Chicago. Since the 27th of September over 11,000,000 new postal cards have been issued. “Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are coming,” is what the Indianapolis papers have been singing the past week. ~ 'J“ ' It was rumored in Washington on Tuesday that ex-Governor Dennison, of Ohio, had been appointed Secretary of the Interior to succeed Delano. J . . Michigan City is clamoring for a Centennial Baby Show. Five babes were recently .added to the population of that city, three of them in one night. Wendell Phillips has been nominated by the Labor Reform party in Massachusetts for Governor. Uis advocacy of inflation caused his nomination. ? Elections will occur on the 2nd of next month in Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Texas. It is reported that the fast passenger trains on the trunk lines between the East and West are to be discontinued, aud that the fast mail is also in danger. Hon. Robert Dale O .ven, who has been confined in the State Insane Asylum lor some time, was recently discharged from that institution and pronounced cured. A Wisconsin railroad conductor kissed a school ma’am recently without her consent, and the Su preme Court of that State has just awarded hvr #I,OOO damages.— Don’t meddle with school ma’ams. The war cloud that has been hanging over England and China, presenting so threatening an as pect for sometime payst, has cleared away and the difficulties between the two countries satisfactorily settled. lion. Alexander 11. Stephens was taken seriously ill at Augusta, Georgia, last Saturday. He is afflicted with stone in the bladder and is in a very critical condition. His suffering is represented as excruciating, and it is feared he cannot recover. The jury in the third trial of John D. Yandekarr, for the murder of young Wallace, at Rochester, this State, on the night of Feb ruary 20, 1875, returned a verdict on the 10th inst., and sentenced him to imprisonment in the penetentiary for twenty year's. Application was made for a new trial. The Plymouth Mail and Magnet has consolidated with the Republican of that city, and will hereafter be known as the Plymouth Republican. In its last issue the M. and M. announced that the paper had been a success, financially’, and that the consolidation w’as effected merely for the purpose of combining the strength of the two papers into one, give their patrons a better paper. Success to the new venture.

We would modestly suggest that the Jasper Republican is the best advertising medium in these parts, both on account of circulation and iuflue n ce.— Republican. Oh, modelsty! Where art thou ? We think modesty has either ceased to be a virtue with the editor of the Republican or else he never had any. The readers of this paper will remember the proposition its editor made Mr. Johnson in, the issue of The Union of September 30th, which proposition has not yet been accepted. All The Union asks of J. is W either put up or shut up about the circulation of his paper. As we said before, his failure to accept our proposition is a virtual admission that his state-

1 ments from time to time about the! circulation of the Republican arc. false, and the public will so consider them. Ab to influence we freely admit tjhat the Republican has a greater Amount than the Union. \For instance: In 1872 the llepublicans j had a majority in Jasper county for Browne -for Governpr of 431, and in 1874, under the influence of! the Republican that majority was entirely wiped out, and the Independents elected their auditor by a majority of 62. Oh, influence , thou art a jewel! * ...