Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1876 — Page 4

THE RENSSELAER UNION.

Thursday,, January 20, 1876.

It is given m a matter of import* ant political news, in snch reliable republican newspapers as the Indianapolis Journal, that “third-term clubs are springing up with great rapidity in the South.” The New Orleans Bulletin says “the roll is getting very long.”

Ex-Judge Charles 11. Tost recently presided at a Greenback meeting in Indianapolis, and declared his sympathy lor the cause. There is going to be high political fun in Indiana, when the approaching campaign gets well under way. From present indications the Greenback advocates will carry the State.

During the war a paper that teemed with abuse of the government, of “Lincoln’s hirelings,’’ of the Black Republican Abolitionists who were prosecuting the war, ami of pretty much everybody except those who were in arms against the government, is uow reading lectures on ‘‘true patriotism.” Times have changed, indeed. —KenUand Gazette. Sorely that ought to cause gladness. There is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth than over the niuety and nine righteous that went not astray.

WEATHER PROBABILITIES.

According to Professor Tice’s guessing there will be cold to very cold weather from the 21st to 31st daya of this month; from the Ist to 7th of February, moderating but variable, with rain or snow; 7th to 11th, cold; lllli to 15th, moderate, with rain or snow; 15th to 19th, variable from cold to very cold; 20th to 25th, warmer, with rain and snow ; 25th to 29th, generally fair but very cold. For the region east of the Mississippi river, on the lakes, and west of the AUcghany mountains, these changes may not always take place for troni one to four days later than is here predicted ; but if the guessing hits that close it will be near enough for people to prepare for the changes and not be caught without fuel when roads are muddy or cold is severe. Professor Tice claims that these predictions arc determined by the scientific application of laws and principles which have been discovered from the observation of meteorological phenomena extending over a period of nearly one hundred years, and he thinks they can be applied with almost, Unerring certainty to the determination of atmospheric changes. Readers of this article will please keep it and note whether the phenomena occur as indicated; and during the year we will publish these predictions on or before the first of every month. If this is a scientific discovery—if the principles and laws of meteorology have really been established —it will certainly prove of inestimable value to the world.

CAMPAIGN CAPITAL.

The Inter- Ocean is well aware that the“southern out,rage”aml “Kuklux” arguments will hWe very little effect in the coining campaign. People begin to see that there are other than mere party interests to work for.— Remington Record. Herein is oar neighbor at fault. The Southern Outrage and Kuklux arguments will enter largely the discussion in the coming campaign. It is to supply campaign capital that Mr. Blaine and Mr. Garfield .nd their republican colleagues raked over the history of the rebellion and made their violent speeches last week. It is for the same purpose that republican newspapers all over the land havecaught up the echo and are now ringing their changes on it. This is why the blood is boiling in the veip| of so many store-counter 4nd beerbarrel politicians, who stayed at home and made money during the war. It is reported that Senator Morton has done little else tor six months than collect data for a great speech upon political intimidation in Mississippi, which he proposes to in the senate at the proper time. Every movement of republican leaders indicates that they mean to make this the great' and absorbing topic of the approaching campaign if possible. 1 Why do they do this? For a wry {daw reason. They know that universal dissatisfaction is caused by their legislation upon national finances; the. con traction policy is

creating suffering and alarm everywhere in the land. They know that the Credit Mobilier scandal of othei* days, the Pacific and Brazilian mail subsidy acts, the Chorpenning olaim case, the District of Columbia and Boss Shepard swindles, the salary grab steal, added to whiskey ring revelations now being wade, have, and are weakening public confidence in the immaculate honesty of those in office. They feel the scepter of power slipping from their grasp, and know something must be done to divert attention from their own dishonesty and inefficiency, hence they create false issues. By reopening the cruel wounds caused by the rebellion ; by arraying the inhabitants of one section agaiust those of another; by playing upon the jealousies, fears, hatreds and baser passions of people, they hope to prevent the consideration of questions which really bear upon the country, to prevent public investigation of their own failures and crimes, to confuse and befog the discussion of true issues, and to ride into power again by the means of the strategic tactics of the demagogue. They are shrewd, cunning, dishonest, unscrupulous; they may be successful.

WE WILL NOT BE THERE.

A blood-curdling circular “to Auxiliary Publishers” has been issued from the Gazette office, Kentland, Ind., recently, and mailed to the newspaper fraternity in Indiana, Illinois, lowa, Wisconsin and Michigan. The circular reviews somewhat the causes which led our lorefathers to inaugurate the Revolutionary War, is illustrated with extracts from the Declaration of Independence, and adorned with a statement of matters pertaining to the private hffairs of a' very tine and clever gentleman who does business at Nos. 77, 79 and 81 Jackson street, Chicago, with branch establishments in St. Louis and Cleveland. It declares that all who patronize the gentleman referred to “are slaves to-day and furthermore states that these very same slaves, of whom it is admitted the proprietors of the Gazette establishment are a portion, are paying “25 per cent, blood money” to another firm doing business at 41 Park Row, New York, with a branch office in St. Louis. Resides these awlul statements and '‘horrid admissions our Kentland neighbor announces that in company with “a little band of publishers” it has “perfected an organization looking to the throwing off of the . oppressive yoke.” Here Tim Union claps its hands and excSffims: Rally for you and that little band! Yank off those yoke, and with it erect a rectangular head on Ansel N. Kellogg, George P. Rowell, Hannibal Hamlin, Luke Poland, Zachariah Chandler and all others who attempt to enslave, harrass, downtread or otherwise maltreat a freeborn press —or words of similar import. If any man attempts to haul down our grand and numerous couutry newspapers, or refuses to transact business and furnish supplies gratis, snoot him on the spot, without benefit of’clergy or jury, that in dying he may leave no sigu. Do this friends, neighbors, intelligent countrymen, and unborn millions shall rise up and call you blessed; even thousands of centen nial epochs hence, when ourselves and all that at pvesent inhabit this globe shall have become extinct, and are known only as the petrified remains of a paleozoic past.

Badinage aside, however, it is possible that th& patrons of the co-operative plan of publishing newspapers are paying dearly for their whistles. We pay Mr. Kellogg 47£ cents per quire for 6-col-urno quarto sheits (instead of 36 cents as the circular before us). An office that uses 20 quires per week (the number upon which estimates are based in this circular) pays him nearly SSOO per annum. In addition to this price he reserves nearly 7 columns for the use of his own advertisements —space that we receive no pay whatever for. But in dealing with this gentleman for a period extending 1 over ten years—eight years of the time as principal—we have found him straightforward, upright and honorable iu all trauaactious. lie

has often extended favprs seldom granted by mere business acquaintances, and we would be very mean indeed to forget them and ungratefully conspire to injure bis business. We* shall have nothing whatever to do with the proposed meeting at I Chicago on the Bth day o( next) month. Whenever our interest demands, and we find that we can do better somewhere else, our patronage will be withdrawn from Mr. Kellogg and taken to that better place. But this act will be performed quietly, without a flourish of trumpets, in a gentlemanly and business-like manner, and without consulting Simon P. Conner, George Burt, jr., or anybody else.

California Letter.

WOODI/AN’D, Y OLA Co., January, Centennial Year. Friend Horace: To-day is a dismal, rainy one, and as quietude within doors becomes monotonous my thoughts turn houipwards and to the many friends I am accustomed to meet in every day life. I have not singled you out especially as the one on whom to inflict the common humdrum of newspaper cor-, respondents who seek notoriety, but to write a social letter. As easy as it is for me to write friendly letters, I am not a professional correspondent of the press; but if I were the experience of six trips to the Pacific coast might furnish interesting material for many communications. To the many unsettled minds, particularly of those who have a longing desire to emigrate to this State, perhaps my ideas may be of value. Most letters to the press are written in the interest of parties who hope to make pecuniarily by them, and arc apt to be altogether one-sided; either all light or all shadow. I have no special interest in California, only a natural regard for the welfare of our common race. Experience has taught me that sunshine and shade, financially considered, are to a great extent governed by circumstances. This is my idea of California in a nutshell. If one has plenty of money, this is the best State in the Union. If a man is dependent upon his daily labor, or even has the assistance of small capital, Indiana is far better for him. Ife, one desires to engage extensively in farming, and lias the means to invest in lands at a cost of from 150 to §2OO per acre, California is the region to move to. No lands are to be had in San Jose Valley for less .-than 8150 per acre. In this vicinity they command 8100; and from here northward over one hundred miles, land can not be’ bought for less than 850 per acre. Land for renting is very scarce. I know parties worth 825,000 that are trying to rent. A few days-since I made the acquaintance of a gentleman who owned, last year, three quarter sections of land near this place and was offered the use ot 1,000 acres five years for one-fourth the crop produced each year, if the land was summer fallowed. He sold 160 acres of his land to raise the necessary means. Last winter the sod was all turned over; before the fall rains commenced it was sowed in~ wheat, and the whole field is sure to bring a good crop. A company from Napa Valley with 8100,000 capital has leased lands north pf here to sow in grain, and gives one-third of the crop. They make money, where a person of small capital could only make a living. The following newspaper clipping is another illustration of the manner in which farming is conducted here:

Dr. Glenn lias commenced shipping his wheat crop, amounting to eight thousand tons, to San Francisco. The grain is placed on a boat at Jacinto earried to Knight’s Landing, thence by rail to Vallejo, where it is reshipped by water to San Francisco. The crop at present prices will net §320,000, the freight on same amounting to §40,000, leaving the Doctor the the snug little sum of $280,000. In a short letter it is difficult to pht one’s ideas into a shape that will carry a correct understanding of matters and things in a country of this magnitude. California is known by name in every household of our land, if its fame has not reached every region of the earth; but the conceptions of this country are many times erroneous. Your children imbibe your ideas, and they may be very far from correct ones, too. Many persons living here now frequently acknowledge in conversation that they had made of California a kind of dream land, before they had seen it. They had thought its winter season was like unto the balmiest spring motaings. and never considered °that a-, cloudy, blustering, or dreary day was possible here. To theirimagination the entire country was ever clothed with greenest verdure and brightest flowers, and no possibility of roads deep iu mud ever

entered their conceptions. California boasts her varied climate, with whioh I am well acquainted, and which I admire as much as its oldest inhabitant; but in order to realize and enjoy it fully one would need a railroad built from the snow-capped mountains to the sea, and a palace on wheels, like Senator Jones’ or Charles Crocker’s, that he might move as the season or his inclination should dictate. One car load of the silver bullion we saw stacked up bv the roadside in Nevada would help him out.

BUSINESS CARDS. T\R. G. A. MOSS, U PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office between McCoy &. Thompson’s bauk and Kanual’s drugstore. DR. J. H. LOUGHRIDGE. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Washington street, below Austin’s hotel. DR. MOSES B. ALTER, PH YSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office in Harding & Willey’s drug store. Dr. r. y. martin, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office opposite the postoffice, above the stone store. MF. CHILCOTE, . ATTORNEY, AND COUNSELOR AT LAW. Office on Washington street, opposite the Court H onse square. Simon P. Thompson, David J. Thompson, -Attorney Ht Law. Notary Public. LAW AND REAL ESTATE OFFICE. THOMPSON &BRO. Our Simon P. Thompson attends all courts of the 30th Circuit. MARTIN & HEALEY, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Wm. H. Martin, Kehtland, Joshua Healey, Rensselaer. Will practice in the courts of Jasper and adjoitiing counties. Office Washington street above Front, Rensselaer, lnd. TRA W. YEOMAN J- ATTORNEY AT LAW, Notary Public, and Real Estate and Collection Agent. Office in the Court House.

A McCOY & THOMPSON, • BANKERS. Buy and sell domestic exchange, make collections on all available points, pay interest on specifisd lime deposits, etc. Office hours from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. JW. NORRIS’ • HARNESS SHOP. Harness and saddles kept in stock and made to order. Washington street. All work warranted, 7-24 George robinson, HOUSE BUILDER. Wili make estimates aud contract to build houses, barns, bridges, and do all kinds of general carpenter work. SAMP. ERWIN, BLACKSMITH. New brick shop, Front street, above the old saw mill. Also, in connection, a 'VS/' ODD SHOP v v where all kinds of wood work repairing will be done to order. Prices below competition. SIIINDLER &. ROBERTS. BLACKSMITHS. At Warner’s old stand on Front Rtreet Horseshoeing, machine repairing, carriage ironing, etc., done neatly and cheaply.

Grant a. downing, BLACKSMITHS. Shop ou front street, next door above the stage office, at Duvall & Goff’s old stand. Patronage solicited. G< W. TERHUNE’S r - BLACKSMITH & WAGON SHOPS Front street, above Washington. All kinds of blacksniitliiug and wood working done to orJer at reasonable prices, by the best mechanics. Particular attention to shoeing horses, ironing and repairing wagons, &c. AUSTIN’S HOTEL.*” J. AUSTIN, PROPRIETOR. This house is centrally located iu the business part of town. New house, pew furniture, good tables, experienced landlord Is recommended to the traveling public. Hopkins house. R.J HOPKINS, PROPRIETOR. Excellent table, convenient location, careful attention to wants of guests, and experienced management are its reemmendations to popular favor.

Restaurant. S. HEMPHILL Keeps a choice assortment of Sugar, Coffee, Tea, Crackers, Nuts, Confectionery, Fruit, Oysters, &c. Best brands of Tobacco and Cigars in the market. Warm meals served at all hours. Washington street, north side, between Feudig’s store and Platt’s grocery. INSURANCE. —If you are aware of the importance of Fire Insurance, you will insure your property in the Hartford, the oldest fire insurance company in America , organized in 1810. Jasper county represented by Ira 'W. Yeoman, Agent, Rensselaer. TNSURANCE. 1 M. H. RICE, FRANCESVILE, Solicts iu Jasper and Puiftiki counties for the Continental Insurance Cbmpany, of New York. Risks taken against fire and lightning. Policies issued oil the installment plan. 8-2 m Livery stable AND HACK LINE. J. W. Duvall, Livery Keeper, Front street, above Washington, is prepared to furnish horses, carriages and teams for any part of the country, either with or without drivers. Daily mail hack conveys passeugers and express goods to »ud from Francesville. Freight wagons on the road daily. $500,000 ou real estate security, for long time, and in' amounts to suit applicants. No insurance required. Apply to, or address by mail, giving location, value, atii full description, - R. ■S. Dwiggins & Co., Attorney* and'Loan Agents, Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana. John Miller, Thos. Boroughs, Surveyor. Notary Public. <ll TILLER & BOROUGHS, XVL DEALERS IN REAL ESTATE. Make collections, pay taxes, rent farms, buy and sell real estate, furnish abstracts of title. Have a large sod select lot of laud on baud for sale at low prices aud easy terms. Office on Washington street, in Spitler’s brick building, opposite the Court Hook.

IN-DOOR AND OUT. THE GREAT PICTORIAL MOETHjjr. *■ FOR 1870. Brighter and Better than Ever Before. Sixteen pages size of Harper’s Weekly filled with the productions of the best writers of the present day,and adapted to the want*, of every member of the household. Thrilling Stories, Narrations of Adventure, Geological Wonders, Farm and Honsehold Affairs, Natural History, Children’s and Grandparents’ Miscellany, etc., an 3 each'* Department beantilied with engravings from lbs best artists In the country. Two great original serials begin with the new year: Betrayed by the Wind, a tale of the Western Islands, by “White Hand;” and The Boy Captive, Or Liijrfn the Great Forest, by C. Leon Meredith. Short stories in svery number, and two full-page engravings. One dollar a year, postage ten cents. Send for it. Agents wanted everywhere. Cash commission paid and premiums given. Sample copies free to those who will get up clubs. Address PICTORIAL PRINTING CO., 1, 3,5, 7 and 9 Michigan Ave., Chicago. 111.

L. H.

'VICE’S Flower and Vegetable Seeds are the best the world produces. They are planted by a million people in America, and the result is, beautiful Flowers and spleudid Vegetables. A Priced Catalogue sent free to all who enclose the postage —a 2 cent stamp. VICK’S Flower and Vegetable Garden is tne most beautiful work of the kiud in the world. It contains nearly 150 pages, hundreds of fine illustrations, and four Chromo Plates of Flowers, beautifully drawn and colored from nature. Price 35 cts. in paper covers; f 5 cents bound in elegant cloth. Vick’s Floral Guide. This is a beautiful Quarterly Journal , finely illustrated, and containing an elegau t colored Frontispiece with the first number. Price only 25 cts. for the year. The first No. for 1876 just issued. Address JAMES V|CK, Kocncster, N. Y. OUR Winter Stock Dry Goods, Clothing, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Cape, Furs, Gloves, Shawls, &c. Is not excelled in quality or cheapness by any in the market. Among the dry goods are Prints in great variety and of the latest patterns, all wool dress goods, Alpacas, Reps, riaids. Flannels, Water Proofs, Silks, ,Sr.c. Foi men and boys we have some of the best piece goods in market Casimeres,Trecos, Broadcloths, Jeans, Beavers, Doeskins Shawls, Furs, Dress Trimmings, Uuderwear for ladies and gentlemen. We sell the very best quality of boots and shoes, and standard rubber goods. Gloves, mittens,comforts, scarfs, &c. FAMILY ' GROCERIES. Sugar, tea, coffee, soap, spices, saleratug and all standard articles in this line kept for the accommodation of such customers as prefer to buy all of their supplies at one place. Good urtie'es of chewing and smoking tobacco also kept in store. Do net forget the place, but call at Mrs. Hemphill’s new brick buildiug, north side of Washington street. R. FENDIG.

E_ 3L,_ PRICE DXALXR IN GMGHSI, WATCHES, Jewelry, Spectacles, Notions, &c. Repairing done to order, and promptly. All work warranted. Store north side of Washington street,second door below Van Rensselaer, Rensselaer, Ind. 7-34 f LET THE LOUD-MOUTHED CANNON HOAR! DEACON TUBBS Founder of the Old Line Drug Store And all his men have keen heard from They have crossed Washington street, fortylive degrees southeast of their old stand,and taken up quarters in TI)E NEW BRICK BUILDING At the point of the bayonet, after six month of heavy bombardment, and now have peat able possesion of the position where the calculate to remain and do business, nnlei dislodged by the enemy, which event, fror the best information we can obtain, is m Itkelv to transpire very soon. They have very large assortment of

DRUGS, MEDICINES, STATIONERY BRUSHES, GROCERIES,&C. All of which will be sold low for cash. Yo will find Deacon Tubbs end the two imp Frank and Will as busy as bees iu clove fields compounding aud putting up medicin'ee while the handsomer and more proficient MAJOR MUCKLESWORT* Is standing guard on the other sfee of th house, handing out Books, Pens and Pape) and wrapping up Soothing Syrnp, Wallace’ Bitters, Indian Cholagogue, Climax Salve HOSB POWDERS, Stove Polish, Roback’s Pills, Vinegar Bitters Itch Ointment, Anderson’s Dermador, Uuch Beu Joe’s Bell Tongue Syrnp, Hair Oils Pepper Sana, dec., dec. ” Come all and see us in our New Bricl Store—we will sell Drugs, Medicines,Paints Oils. Varnishes, Dyestuffs and Grocerie cheaper for cash than can bo bought in an; other house in town. HARDUVe & WILLEY

THE WEEKLY SUN.

1776. NEW YORK. 1870.

Eighteen hundred and seventy-sixMa the Centennial year. It is plso the veer in which an Opposition House of Representatives. the first since the war, will be ia power ’at Washington: and tfiKyear of the twenty-third election of a President of the United States. All of these events an sere to be of great interest and importance, especially the two latter; and all of them and everything connected with them will be fully and freshlv reported and expounded in The Son. The Opposition House of Representative#, taking up the line of inquiry opened years ago by The Sun, will sternly and diligently investigate the corruptions and misdeeds of Grant’s administration; and yill, it is to be hoped, lay the foundation for a new and better period in our national history. Of nil this The Sun will contain complete and accurate accounts, furnishing its readers faith early and trustworthy information upon these absorbing-topics. The twenty-third Presidential election, with the preparations for it. will be memorable as deciding upon Grant’s aspirations fora third terra ol power and plunder, and still more as deciding who shall be the candidate of the party of Reform, and as electing that candidate. Concerning all these subjects, those who read The Sun will have the constant means of being thoroughly well informed. The Weekly Sun, which has attained a circulation of over eighty thousand copies, already has its readers in every State and Territory, and we trust that the year 1876 will see their numbers doubled. It will continue to be a thorough newspaper. All the general news of the day will be found in it, condensed when unimportant, at full Uugth when of moment; and always, we trust, treated in a clear, interesting and instructive manner. It is our aim to make the Weekly Sun the best family newspaper in the world, and we shall continue to give in its columns a large amount of miscellaneous reading, such as stories, tales, poems, scientific intelligence and agricultural information, for which we are not able to make room in oar daily edition. The agricultural department especially is oife of its prorniuent features The fashions are also regularly reported in its columns; and so ard the markets of every kind. The Weekly Sun, eight pages with fiftysix, broad columns is only §1.20 a year, postage prepaid. As this price barely repays the cost of the paper, no discount cau be made from this rate to clubs, agents, Postmasters, or anyone. The Daily Sun, a large four page newspaper of twenty-eight columns, gives all the news for two cents a copy. Subscription , postage prepaid, 55c. a month or sti.so a year.- Sunday edition extra, sl.lO per year. We have no traveling agents. Address, THE SUN, New York City.

Most Extraordinary. Tiie attention of readers is called-to the extraordinary inducements offered to all persons who will subscribe for the Weekly Indiana State Journal with the Rensski.aee Union . Both papers will be furnished at the veiy low price of $3.50 per year—postage paid—and each subscriber will receive an eulirely new township and sectional map of the State of Indiaua, 35x48 inches in size, engraved and printed especially for the Iftdlnapolis Journal. The map alone retails at $2.50. No such desirable offer was ever before made to thepeopleof this Stute. The Journal has been greatly improved siuce the recent change of management, and is uow one of the best newspapers published iu the West. A specimen copy of tiie map may be seen at this office. Agents and canvafeera wauted in every township in this and adjoining couulies. t 023

ST OVER Parlor, cook, and office stoves for wood o coal boll) hard and soft, of Lite latest improved and most popular patterns, together with furniture complete, kept m large assortment at N. Warner's famous LIBERAL CORNER HUM STORK. All kinds of tir.ware kept in stock and made to order. Special attention given to the repairing tin ware. A flue assortment of table and pocket cutlery; the largest stock of Jbujidiug, fencing, and wrought nails in the county. Bolts, screws, lodges, door fastenings, gate hasps, carpenter’s tools, farm hardware, uxes, revolvers, coal oil, shot guns, powder, shot, caps, clothes wringers, washing machines, etc. CABINET FURNITURE. - 1 Chairs, sofas, bedsteads, bureaus, stands, chamber sets, parlor sets, cupboards, safes, kitchen tables, extension tables, book cases, &c., &c., of different styles, grades of quality and prices The Celebrated COQUILLARD FARM WAGONS These wagons, manufactured at Snnth Bend, Ind., have a world-wide reputation. They are absolutely unrivalled. For finish, quality of material, durability, lightness of running and price they have no competitors in the United States. Buggies and carriages made to order, and carriage trimming done in t|)e finest style. Also, a thousand things not here enumerated, may be found at the Liberal Corner Hardware and Furniture Store. 8-11 N. WARNER.

Cheap. frnctic«l. Durable, Efficient. Two men and one span of horsek can hsul nnd stack more hay with the Hoosier Hay Slide in one day, than five men and two span of horses can in the same time with any other appliance. Easy to load,snd unloads itself. Price, 14-foot Slide, $7 ; IG-foot, SB. A. i: REED, Pleasant Grove, Jasper Connty, Ind. Agents: —F. W. Bedford, Rensselaer, Ind., Hubbard & McFarland, Francesville, Ind 44 AGENTS WANTED.—Territory cheap and on reasonable terms. Patented lato-m April 6, 1875,

A. J. REED’S HOOSIER HAY SLIDE One of the Greatest Labor-Saving Machines yet Invented for the Hay-Field.