Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1876 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

Ltd* comity hm ninety ochool Strict*, with fifty schools in setak»«. SUSuA?.. JL: “Best boech wood, sawed reedy “for the stove, for •« per cord,” at K y d ~*** 'Wtl Northern Indianian Nearly old enough to vote it is «Btimated4hat the surplus h'heat crop of4Rke oouuty, this year, will be 100.000 bushels. _ Mr. Will Kara, » tnerohaut of Logaosporl, well known In jAiit vicinity, was reported very ill last week. Mr. John Smart, a well-known resident and early settler of Newton county, died st his home near Morocco, on tbo 25th of June. • A twenty-five foot American flag was reoently purchased by the commissioners for the nso of White cooat?< It floats from the court bouse. Mr. D. P. Skinner, of Porter county, declines to be eunsidered In the list of democratic eongres-' sional aspirants in this district, and has published a card to that A balloon wedding, or the dwriug feat## a marriage in midair, was one of the attractions of the Centennial Fourth at Indianapolie This was what might be called marriage in high life. Horace Tucker, of Kosciusko county, has on exhibition at Philadelphia, threo steers, triplets, which unitedly weigh 950 pounds. They were calved on the 4th day of last February, and there is •candy any difference in site, color or markings. A two-story building in rear of, and connected with, the Merchant’s .Wl si was undermined by the rains and fell into the cellar beneath, on Monday evening of last week. There wus nobody in or about'it at the time, and no other damage was done. ....... White county is advertising for bids for the construction of six new iron bridges; one across the Tippecanoe liver §t Norway, 390 feet long; three across Moo tzoreek •ear Brookston, each 190 feet long; one across Spring creek, near Springboro, 50 feet long; one across Big MosOU one-fourth of a mile cast of \V«6t Bed fold, 120 feet long. That naughty fire-cracker did its usual share of devilment ou the Fourth. At Indianapolis a number of accidents w ere caused by the careless handling of these annoying and dangerous crackers, and in almost every paper we see recorded reports of eyes being put out, fingers mutilated, fires findled and various other aeciderrtS iestilting from tbs use of the tienteouial fire-cracket. ■ “ An effort was made to get the Chinese, of whom there are sixty head in our midst, to participate m the celebration of Tuesday last. Alfirst they thought favorably of it, but <*« consultation among them selves it was deemed best, in view of the excited state of the public mind iu California on the Chinese question, to take no part in the celebration. They are fully posted in regard to the discussion now going oa as to the proposed modification of the treaty with China, by which the importation of Chinamen is to be prohibited.—lndianap•lie {Jerald. He stood by her at the piano while she sang “My countree ’tis •f thee, sweet laud of fiber***, of thee I sing” As the mAodious notes dropped from her lips, his bine redder Q si*li sh he remembered the gallant deeds at Bunker Hill, snd his white alabaster brow shone with sweat patriotism. He was bo longer himself, but inspired by her sops fie went cavorting back through the -—he was Israel Putnam with his horse-—he was Marion with hie atffeet potatoes—he was the stepfeßfef of his country. Lincoln with the slaves—he was Andy Johnson wit** the constitution—he was first* with hU bull-pup—be standing in s defensive position inf frool’ «ft* an irate young lady, who was brandishing a piano stoulj-and vowing shf’d knock bis cussed head off if he pot his arm around her waist again. —lndimiapolit Herald.