Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1876 — The Narrow-Gauge System. [ARTICLE]

The Narrow-Gauge System.

The narrow-gangs system is evidently growing in popular favor. New projects are constantly announced, and old ones revived or extended. There is le>s disposition than formerly to speak of them as oaby roads »nd microscopic enterprises, aud ihe- reason for this is obvious. The cam moos and- inflated oost of onr existing lines has resulted in embarrassment, and* bankruptcy, and any further extension of tbe system upon that basis is for the present extremely difficult if not impracticable. We want more roads, however, as feeders for those lines, and to develop the resources and business of numerous leosikies more or less remote from railway connection.—lndianapolis Juurnaf. ' ' fi 7; ', »» —, The independent vote in Indiana in 1874 was 16,229. In 1872 the vote for Owen Eddy, demoeratio candidate for secretary of the state was 188,712—a republican majority of 74. In 1874 the vote for Mr. Neff, democratic candididate for secretary of state, was 184,034. The Vote for Curry was 164,911 and the independent vote for the same office wa» 16,229- The democratic loss in the two years was bat 4,614 while the republican toss was 23,881, showing that the independent vets was mostly drsw ii: from the republican party.— wxtfA Democrat. J