Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1876 — Page 8

INDIANA MATTERS.

r«n. liu thre® lodge! of Odd Typhoid fiver i* raging to an alarming extent in Indianapolis. A German swallowed forty raw eggs the ether day, in Indianapolis, on a wager. He still Inpes. Jn Lake ooanty Death, Coffin and Graves, live, move and have a being, and make themselves agreeable to other people;# ; F. Cooper, of Richmond, is Hkaaocerafal candidate from (he Hh dietriot for the appointment to a West Point cadetship. Country watermelons oholio Cass county communities. A local editor of a Logansport paper looked upon a load of these luscious fruit and languished with longing. Thomas Parley committed suicide at Marion, on the 17th inst., by taking morphine. He was in the employ of a mercantile firm in Chicago, and is supposed to have lived at Fort Wayne. At Colfax, one day last week, a boy named Elmer Spenoer attempted to iump on a moving train bat missing his hold fell under the wheels, receiving injuries which render his reoovery exceedingly doubtful.

A sou of Sheriff Savery, of Stark county, was carrying a pistol cartridge in his mouth, recently, when chancing to bite too bard it exploded, sending the bsii out through a cheek and terribly lacerating his tongue and mouth. On the 17th instant the town marshal of Merom, Sullivan county, * attempted to arrest a man named George Newman. The latter resisted, whereupon the offieer of the law shot him, inflicting a wound whieh caused his death in a short time. At Fort Wayne on the morning of the 10th inst , a desperado entered a saloon and oalied for a glass of beer, at the same time declaring that be did not inteud to pay for it. The bar-tender refused him the beer oa those terms, whereupon the daring wretoh drew a revolver and fired, the ball entering the bar-tender's thigh and making a very dangerona wound. The villain made good his escape. A man named Woodkirk was run over by the cars, near Rochester, on the 10th inst., and his body horribly mutilated. His head was out to pieces and nothing but his ehln whiskers were left by which he could be identified. Roth legs and an arm were out off and his entrails strewn over the ground for quite a distance. The railroad company is exonerated from any blame whatever, the victim having laid down upon the track while in a state of intoxication, thus virtually causing his own tragio death. Elgin watches for sale by Willey A Sigler.

Friday

It wm on Friday, the 3d of August, 1492, that Columbus sailed from the harbor of Palos for the New World. It was on Friday, the 12lh of October, 1492, that he first saw the land, alter sixty-five days of navigation. It was on Friday, the 4th day of January, 1493, that he started on his return to Spun to anuounee to their Catholic majesties the glorious result of his expedition, and on Friday, the 15th of March, 1493, he disembarked in Andalusia. It was on Friday, the 13th of June, 1494, that he discovered the American continent On Friday, March sth, 1497, Henry VII, of England, gave to John Cabot his dispatch for the voyage which resulted in the discovery of the continent of North America. Ou Friday, September 3th, 1565, Mendez founded St. Augustine, the oldest town in the United States. On Friday, November 10th, 1720, the Mayflower first disembarked a few emigrants on American soil, at Provincetown, and on Friday, December 23d, 1620, her passengers finally landed at Plymouth Rock. It was on Friday, February 22d, 1731, that George Washington, was born; It was on Friday, June 16th, 1772, that the battle of Banker Hill was fought, and on Friday, October 7th, 1777, that the surrender of Saratoga tooV place, which event denied France to give her aid to the Americans.. The treason of Arnold was disoovered on Friday, and on Friday, June 17th, 1776, Richard jlenry Lee read the declaration of independence to the continental congress— Prairie Farmer.

A BOOK WORTH HAVING

History of the United States from the Aboriginal Times to the Present Dny. By John Clark Ridpnth, A. U., Profcsaor or Hiatory and Bailee-Letters, Indian* Asbury University. 070 pp. Ruynl Octavo, Illustrated with Maps, Cherts, Portralu and Diagram*. Sold only by Subscription. Price SB.OO. Jonee Brothers I Co., Cincinnati, Philadelphia and Chicago. The whole broad sweep of our Colonial and National life, from the birth of Columbus to the admission of Colorado as the "Centennial State” is presented to the reader in a volums of convenient size, written in a style that maintains one's interest from first to last. And yet nothing is omitted, nothing is slurred over, nor is the record thrown loosely together as a mere dry annal of disconnected facta, without the informing spirit of the original historian, On the contrary, the author unites the style of the annalist and the philosopher, closing his account of eaoh subject with a masterly summary on character and motives which the reader at once recognizes as the fitting moral of the preceding narrative. We have never found in so small a oompass so fair, so just, so fitting a characterization of the Puritans as appears In this work. '‘The fathers of New England have been aeoused of bigotry. The charge is true : it la the background of the picture. In matters of religion they were intolerant and superstitious. Their religious faith was gloomy and forboding. Human life was deemed n sod and miserable journey. To be mistaken was to sin. To fail in trifling ceremonies was reckoned a grevious crime. In the shadow of such a belief the people became austere and melancholy. Escaping from the spleodid formality of the Episcopal Church, they set up a colder and severer form of worship; and the form was made like iron. Dissenters themselves, they could not tolerate the dissent of others. To restrain and punish error seemed right and necessary. Williams and Hutchinson were banished; the Quakers were persecuted snd the witches hanged. But Puritanism contained within itself the power to correct its own abuses. Within the austere and gloomy fabric dwelt the very soul and genius of Free 111 ought. Under tho ice-bound rigors of the faith flowed a current which no fatalism could congeal, no superstition poison. The heart of a mighty, tumultuous, libertyloving life throbbed within the cold stifF body of formalism. A powerful vitality, which no disaster could subdue, no persecution quench, warmed and onergixed and quickened. The tyranny of Phipps, the malice of Parris, and the bigotry of Matliei are fltr outweighed by the sacrifices of Winthrop, the beneficence of Harrard, and the virtues of Sir Henry Vane. The evils of the system may well be forgotten in the glory of its achievements.” This volume will supply a want long felt. It has often been a matter of regret that we have hitherto had no history of our great country at once comprehensive and popular. Between the brief and unsatisfactory school histories on the one hand and the balky volumes on the ether, there has been a great gap—a gap which is filled by this work. Here we have a delightful narrative in which every material fact is set down without those dry details of scholastic research which repel rather than attract the mass of readers.

While the history of each Colony is complete in itself, the chain of cotetnporary events is shown by a new and ingenious device in tbe form of historical Charts; finely drawn and colored Maps also show the political divisions of this oountry from time to time. It is rather startling to turn to the fine map on page 557, and see that more than four-fifths of this great country was once in the indisputed possession of the French! Again it appears that we have acquired from Spain and her Colonies an area thirteen times the size of Ohio. Concerning the masterly statesmanship that perfected these vast acquisitions of territory, Professor Ridpeth says r ■■■——— “The Union now embraced thirty-seven SUtesand eleven Territories. From the narrow limits of the thirteen original colonies, with their four hundred and twenty-one thousand square miles of territory, the national domain had spread to the* vast area of three million six hundred and four thousand square miles. Few things indeed have been more marvelous than the territorial growth of the United States. The purchase of Louisiana more than doubled the geographical area of the nation ; the several Mexican acquisitions were only second in importance; while the recent Russian cession alone was greater in extent than the original thirteen States." -- -;

But if our territorial growth has been wonderful, what are we to think of the amazing development of late years, as shown in tbe author’s brilliant summary: “Daring the year 1871, there were laid and pat into operation in the United States no less than seven thouand six hundred and seventy miles of railroad! There is perhaps no fiict in the history of the world which exhibits so marvelous a development of the physical resources of a nation. Ere the muttering* of the civil war, with ita untold destruction of life and treasure, had died away in the distance, the recuperative power, enterprise, and genius of the American people were" revealed, as never before, in establishing and extending the lines of travel and commerce. In 1830 there were but twenty-three miles of railway track in the New World. In 1840 the lines in the United States had been extended to two thousand eight hundred and eighteen miles. Ten years later there were nine thousand and twenty-one miles of track. According to the reports for 1860, the railroods of the counter had reached the enormous extent of thirty thousand six hundred and thirty-live miles; and in the next toe yean, embracing the period of the civil war, the amount was nearly doubled.

/such is the triumphant pews* of fire* iastitutions—the victory of fro# enterprise, free industry, free thought. Thorn stands (ho fact! Lot toe adhwrenU of tho Old World’s methods, the eulogists of the post, taka it and read it. Wherever the human race pants for a larger activity, a mors glorious exercise of its energies, lot tho story ho told how the United States, just emerged from the foresee of war, smarting with wounds, and burdened with oa enormous debt, built in a single year more than twice as many miles of railroad as Spain, ridden with her preoedonta of Kingcraft and priestcraft, has ever built in her whole career." Our space will not permit a more extended review, but our examination of the book justifies us in saying that it is altogether superior to any other History of the United States ever published. In addition to the excellence es its subject matter, its meohsnicsl appearance is superb. Beautifully printed and elegantly illustrated, it also possesses the additional requisite of cheapness. We have never seen* so valuable a work offered for so little money, snd we heartily recommend it to all. *#*

Despoiled of his Gold.

Last April the heart of Aaa Russell, a stalwart granger of Coldwater, Mich., war fired with a desire to invade Sitting Bull's domain and steal nnggets of gold from beneath the leet of that monarch. Asa went, saw, and conquered. The band to which he be longed was unusually fortunate not only in retaining their scalps, bat also in obtaining some valuable specimens of yellow metal. Russell arrived at Cheyenne a short time ago with three bags contain ing the product of his toil, worth about SI,OOO. His friends there suggested to him that it would be wise to dispose of the stuff and return to Coldwater with his wallet lined with greenbacks. Rnssell said, "nohe meant to take the the gold itself home, and relate horrible stories of peril in the gulches with the shining stuff by his side to aid in proving thpir truthfulness. So he took the train for Chieago with the bags tied together in one hand, and two guns and a huge revolver carried elsewhere about his person. He presented so warlike an appearance onhis arrival here that several three-card-monte sharpers spotted him immediately. They did nothave an opportunity to obtain his gold while in Chioago, but when he left Monday evening by a train on the Michigan Central Railroad for Coldwater, the chaps were on board with their plans fully matured. Russell occupied a seat in an almost deserted smoking ca>*, with his guns and his bags beside him. Presently a fine, portly gentlemen entered and dropped upon a cushion near him. "How do you do, sir? You look as iPyou bad come from the far West.” "I have, sir,” said the granger. “You don’t say? Have you been out in Sitting Bull’s country, and esoaped without being butchered? Do tell me about it.” And the stranger settled himself down and listened to Russell's remarks as attentively as if the farmer had been that eloquent speaker Boh Ingeraoll. Russell’s heart could not help becoming warmed toward the stranger, and he was in an excellent frame of mind to he gulled when the man’s pals entered. They tried to induce him to play three-card monte, but he would not do that, and three sharpers then closed around him and created a disturbance. Near Miller Station two of them jumped off with the bags of gold in their possession, and the third soon after vamoosed. Russell came baok to Chicago on the next train, Report* ing the matter to the police. They promised to keep a close lookout for his property, but were unable to offer him much encouragement, and he left last evening for Coldwater, with nothing but his shooters to remind him of the weary days of labor that he spent in the Black Hille.— filler-Ocean

The nominatun of Mr. Benjamin Harrison tor govornor of Indiana, in place of Venezuela Orth, is undoubtedly one of the best that could have been made. Mr. Harrison is in no sense a type of the professional politician, but be is oue of the ablest and most upright men in Indiana; this is admitted by those who will vote against him. —Michigan City Metes (Don.)

Call Fokthk Best. —When you purchase an artiele that is oheap, of whioh but little is used, always call for the best, for the differeLce in cost between that and an inferior article will be insignificant. Call for D. B. DeLand & Co.’s But Chemical SaUratus, and having onoe procured it yon will call for no other. Use it instead of Soda or Baking Powder—it is more healthful. ______ A few eopies of the premium list of the Jasper County Agricultural and Mechanical Association, for 1876, still remain at this office for gratuitous circulation. Call and get one.

LOCAL ITEMS.

Sliver batches for sale at Willey A ffigler’s. Rensselaer schools, fall term, open September 18th. , . i Call and see Willey A Sigler’s stock of boots and shoes. Rev. Joseph W. Hogan will preaoh in the M. E. Church on Sunday, September 2d. American sewing maehine for sale at Willey A Sigler’s. Call and see them before buying. Two new wagons, two span of horses, and two set of harness for sale on twelve months’ time. Enquire of A Leopold. Reed’s Hoosier Hay Slide costs only $lO. There is probably not a more useful implement on the farm.

Mr. S. Haley has been improving his property on Front Street with a new fence, plank sidewalk, etc. Mr. J. H. Wood hae gone to attend the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia for a oouple of weeks. Rev. Thos. Vansooy, of the M. E. Church, delivered his farewell sermon for the conference year, ou Sunday. Mr. John Coeu has bought Nagle's Two-Mile Prairie Nursery stock, and Mr. Nagle quits the business. Mr. J. H. Willey, of the firm of Willey A Sigler, is in Chicago, buying a full stock of dry goods with which to replenish their store. Mr. Joseph Williams has sold his snug little farm, two or three miles south of town, and talks of moving with his pleasant family to Arkansas. Gen. Judson Kilpatrick and Col. Will Cumback, both powerful speakers, and lecturers of national reputation, will address the publio at this plaoe to-morrow. Mr. Thomas Boroughs and Mr. David Nowele returned last week from a trip to Arkansas. The latter named gentlemen bought upwards of 2,200 acres of land, it is said, which be will improve this fail, and next spring stock with a herd of Texas steers.

FENDIG’S ' t ram 51m STOCK OJP DRT GOODS, READY MADE CLOTHING, Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes &c., &c., JUST ARRIVED AND IS NOW Ready for Inspection. In addition to the customary assortment of Prints, Ginghams, Percales, 4tc., ws hare a fine line of NEW POPLINS Elegant spring Worsteds, rich Cashmeres, fine Silks, &c. Call and me our spend id stock of Elegant Spring Us in new and beantifnl designs. A large lot of piece goods for men’s clothing, Including broadcloths, doeskius, fins cassimeres, Ac., as well aa leas expemlve fabrics.

MICK'S AND BOYS’ Spring and Sommer Clothing in large assortment, none cheaper In thin market when quality of goods and finish are taken into consideration. A Iso, Drees Trimmings, Hate, Caps, Boots, Shoes and articles of general roerehandiae, including a select assortment of a Staple Family Groceries Them goods wen carefully selected with apeeial reference to this market, by ono who has had long eiperioaee Is tbe trade, endue warranted os represented. Call aa it* our goods sad lean our prices. Do not forget the ptam , bet look for the sign of R. FSZrpZGb

See! See! GROCERY! Hwring moved into the new briek building of Masers. Bedford A Jackson and added largely to his superb stock C. C. STARR Invitee everybody to call and examine his Canned Fruits, Dried Frnlts. Hams, Bacon, Shoulders, Iwrd, Molasses, Vinegar* Cheese, Rice, Homony, Beans, Soap, Starch, Indigo, Bnking Powder*, Soda, Cream Tartar, Salt,

Sugars, Coffees, Teas, Spices, Sait Flab, Cigars, Tobaccos, Meal, Batmen, Flavoring Extracts, Pocket and Table Cutlery, Qneenaware, Glassware. and many article* we have not the space to enumerate, kept in etock at all times. Goods exchanged foi marketable produce. Remember the place—he has moved recently, and la now In Bedford A Jackson’s Hew Block, right band door. Tho largest, best, and cheapest assortment in Jasper county,? with out exception. Come and see for yourselves 21-3 m C.C. STARR PRAIRIE LANDS. The Last Chance for good Agricultural Lauda, on Ten Ykabs’ Ckedit, at Six feh cxirr. Interest. Don’t run any r|»ks, but go to a couutry that has been frovedto be good. Send your address by POSTAL CARD to Laud Com’r B. $ M . R. R., BURLINGTON, lOWA, and receive FREE, copy of lowa and Nebraska Farmer, with CHART OF LANDS, and LOW ROUND TRIP RATES.

J. W. DUVALL'S LIVERY STABLE AND DAILY HACK LINE. United Statee mail hacks ran daily, except Sundays, between Rensselaer and Franeesville* making connections at the latter place with trains ou the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railroad, and conveying passengers, expressage, and freight each way. Goods or money shipped by Express to auy part of the United States. Livery Teams, with Drivers, or Without, furnished upon application. Stock boarded by the day or week. Office and Sale Stable on Front street, above Washington. Rensselaer, Indiana.

GASH! GASH! CASH! FOR CASH OR COUNTRY PRODUCE SIGLER Will sell their stock of Merchandise as low as the lowest iu market. On and l after the 15th day of February, 1876, none need ask us for credit. We Positively Mean Ready Pay. Don’t boy until you can pay, and then boy and save money. Alter long experience and carefully study lug the best interests of our patrons, as well as our own, we believe that Ready Pay is the Only Legitimate and Fair Mode of Doing Business. Men who pay as they go should not b« mads to make up, by high profits, for bad debts. W« ars truly under obligations to maDy persons iu >asper couuty, who have given us their patronage and paid promptly. Thauking you for the past, we hope all will call and see us still,and we will try and convince you that we are working lor your interest as wall as our owu. Any favor iu our power will be gladly performed, but WE CANNOT SELL GOODS ON LONG TIME. Couutry Produce and Bankable Paper (we to be judges of the Paper offered) will be received in exchange for goods. Those indebted to ns will call and settle their accounts, either with cash or no/e. As heretofore, we shall continue to keep a Xj-AJRGKb stock: of zdrtst goods consisting of Prints, brown and bleached Muslins, foreign and domestic Ginghams, Cashmeres, Alpacas, Mohairs, Broadcloths, Doeskins, Beavers, Casimer-s, Jeans, Cottouades, Dress Trimmings, Laces, Hosiery, Gloves, Cuffs, Collars, Ties, &c. Boots and Shoes a Specialty. Hats and Caps In great variety. Rubber Boots and Shoes for men, Womeu and children. Ready Made Clothing for men and boys. Uuderwear for men and women. A good stock of FAMILY GROCHiRIES AND PROVISIONS. 21 The POST-OFFICE STORE, Bedford & Jackson’s new building, Rensselaer.

Greenbacks and Silver Coin are as Good as Gold in Rensselaer! • ..w,....... W. J- IMEB Respectfully announces that he has bought the famous “Old Line Drug Store” so loDg conducted by Messrs. Haeding & Willey, and has now an excellent stock of goods in his line, which will be sold at reasonable prices for greenbacks, silver coin, or any other current medium of exchange which is recognized as a legal tender in the United States. He has now and will keep a good assortment of and all the various articles usually found at a house of this kind, including popular brands of imi imraM miiem. Tooth Powders, Preparations for Beautifying the Complexion, Hair Dressings, Brushes of every description, Combs, etc. RUBBER PAINT, Lead and Oil Paint mixed ready for use, Varnishes, and everything used in the painting business. Has a large stock of lis, School Books a&i IMuoou Works, draper, Pens and Ink. Also, a splendid and very large stock of Wall Paper. Call and see me, and give;me a share of your custom.

Lumber Yard. "r * ’T /' ”TV 1 ■ ' ' r I am now preparad to famish nil kinds of Lumber, Lath, Shingles. Doors, Window Sash, and Blinds at the very lowest prices. Lumber delivered at Franeesville by the carload cheaper than can be bought elie-where. Please call sad learn my prices before concluding contracts with other parties. Lumber delivered within the corporation, without additional uharge. Office iu Bedford &. Clark’• agricultural wareroom (old post office loom.) (21) ' p. I* COTTON.

HOOSXIR HAY SUDS. One of the Greatest Labor-Saving Machines Invented for the Hay Field! Cheap. Practical. Durable. Efficient. Two men and one span of horses can hau and stack more hay with the Hoosier Hay Slide in one day, than five men and l two span of horses can in the same time with any other appliauce. Easy to load, and unloads itself. Prioe, 14-foot Slide, $7 ; 16-foot, $lO. A. J. REED, Pleasaut Grove, Jasper County, Ind. Manulactured by C. A. Nelson & Co. r Franeesville, Ind., and G. W. Terliune, Rensselaer, Ind. Aoemt: —F. W. Bedford, Rensselaer, Ind., AGENTS WANTED.—Territory cheap and on leasonable terms. Patented late— April 0, 1875. 44ti‘.