Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1876 — Page 4

RE NBSF. LAE R UNION irharaday. SO, 1876.

THE POLITICAL SITUATION.

It Milt to annonnce positively the f*»«U of the presidential dectioh. The retnrtiing board of Florida has not yet antonncM its decision. Gen. Lew Wallaces of Indiana, recently sent a telegram to the Indianapolis Journal that the returns from all but nne small oonnty had been canvassed and showed upon their face, withont thp rejection of precincts wWich were contested by the republicans majorities of thirty-six and forty-two for each of the Hayes electors. This report was substantially confirmed by the associate press dispatches. There is another report, however, from democratic sources, which elects one or two Tilden electors by five majority; while another report “holds the fort” by one hundred and eighty tnajoiity. From the tone of the editorials in democratic papers we consider the probability amounts almost to certainty that Florida will be shown to have given a small minority lor the republican ticket. With Louisiana appears to rest the decision. According to the Chicago Tribune, which gave a reluctant support to Mr. Hayes during the campaign, but which has since adopted a conservative apologetic tono, the face of the returns from the parishes in this state shows ■about 7,000 majority for the democratic ticket. This majority, it claims, cannot be overcome, even should the returning board decide to reject the vote of parishes where the fact of systematic frauds of stupendous magnitude .are established by incontrovertible testimony. On the other band, such papers as the Inter-Ocean, Indianapolis Journal, Cincinnati Commercin', New York Tribune and Timet, all lay stout claim to Louisiana upon a eount of the lawful votes only. The returning board have given notice that all testimony and arguments must be concluded by to-morrow, in order that they may announce their decision on next Monday.

Complications of a serious character threaten the peace of South Carolina. Upon completing thtir labors Inst week the returning board issued certificates of election to the republican candidates for state officers, and members of the legislature from Edgefield and Laurens counties. This action was in open defiance of the supreme court of that state whieh had issued an order restricting them to ministerial duties. They were at once arrested by order of the court and thrown into prison where they remained over Sunday. On Monday a writ of Aafiew cwytw was obtained from Judge Bund, of the United States district court, who subsequently released them from custody. The next movement was a concentration of armed bands of democrats at Columbia. Gov. Chamberlain applied to President Grant tor a detachment of United States troops to prevent threatened revolution, which was promptly responded to, and Gen. linger with several companies of infantry reported for duly. When the legislature came to assemble, a guard was stationed at die door of the

assembly room and none were permitted U> past* in without they could show certificates of election from the returning board, or were in possesKioii of passes from Gov. Cliambcriaiu’s deputies. AH those who had writs of election issued hy tho supreme court were denied admittance. Tl»e gentlemen who claimed to be elected members of the legiaiatnre, but who were thus denied admittance to the assembly room, immediately convened at another hall, and both bodies went through the prescribed forms of organisation. £ach now claims to be the legislator? d» jure and de facto. That ons which occupies the capitol building is recognized by Gov. Chamberlain, who is, tor the present, the rightful governor of the state. Both these bodies recognize the same senate, but the senate has not yet had occasion to indicate which it will act in conjunction with. It is an interesting Bettie of fish and there is no predicting how it may terminate. But this imbreg. lio does mJ affect the presidential dTmoorats tha" MrJsTyi is eJrttkd w the electoral vote of the state.

PUBLIC CONFIDENCE.

Notwithstanding the sensational tone of the political intelligence which has prevailed since the election, that moat sensitive ot public barometers, the gold market, has not shown the slightest tremor of alarm. Greenbacks have maintained a constant upward tendency, even when the revolutionary threats of influential partisans and journals were fiercest and almost universal. Such a condition of the monetary market would seldom find its parallel in any other country. This fact shows, better than any other circumstance possibly could, the profound faith which the mass of the people of this country have in the stability ot their form of government. .It also shows that they have unshaken confidence in the loyalty of President Grant, notwithstanding its frequent impeachment by malicious enemies, and a firm belief in his determination Snd abirity to maintain the peace and execute the laws of the land until the expiration of his term of authority. Another fact is also exemplified by the quietude of the gold market, which is that men who deal in government securities and obligations have confidence that whichever way the presidential contest shall be decided the government credit will not be injuriously affected by it. Evidently they du not anticipate any backward steps will be taken in the policy of specis resumption whether Mr. Hayes or Mr. Tilden is inaugurated president.

There was only a small attendance at the meeting of the stockholders of the Jasper County Agricultural and Mechanical Association held at the court house on last - I Saturday afternoon. Reports oi the secretary and treasurer were read and referred to an auditing consisting of Messrs. Henry A. Barkley, Simon P. Thompson and Horace E. Janies. A committee, the chairman of which is Mr. Eldridge T. Harding, was appointed to solicit subscriptions to the stock of the society. Messrs. George 11. Brown, William K. Parkison, David Nowels, Btrry Paris, Charles Boroughs, Charles C. Starr, Norman Warner, Allen J. Yeoman and bfij'W. Yeoman were elected directors for the ensuing year. At a future time we shall take occasion to speak more fully in regard to the society, its condition, its prospects, what it lias accomplished and what it proposes to do.

Mr. James McEwen, of the Monticello Constitutionalist, Vfts in. Rensselaer yesterday. He came over to visit Auditor Barkley and other cousins and acquaintances, and to reconnoitre the ground for an opening fur the establishment of a democratic paper should Mr. Tilden be the next president and other preliminaries result satisfactorily. Mr. McEwen’s faith in the most ultra of the dogma* of democracy as a specific for all the ills of the body politic is profound, and should he decide to move to Rensselaer it will become the duty ot his parly friends to insure him a generous support. Wo earnestly hope that events may shape themselves so that he mav decide to become one of our fellow citizens, providing it does not depend upon the contingency of Mr. Tilden’s election to the presidency.

Something worse than bulldosing is reported from Cave City, Ky., where a mob of blacks visited the house of a man of their own color on Friday night, dragged him away from his wife and children, and bunged him. The man had been guilty of voting for Mr. Tilden at the presidential election, and no other crime was alleged against him. The murderers have been arrested.— Chicago Time*. ‘‘The murderers have been arrested,” and, it is hoped, may receive speedy punishment commensurate with the enormity of their crime. But is it not somewhat remarkable that nobody seems to think it necessary to arrest or proper to punish the scoundrels that flog, hang and shoot black men whose only crime is that they vote the republican ticket ? Wednesday’s Chicago market quotations for bogs were: Packer’s |[email protected]; bacon grades #5.50@ .6.60; fair* to prime heavy ahip‘pmg [email protected]; extra t5.90@6. Cattle; good butcher’s stock, $2.75 @3.25; shipping beeves, sa,so@s.

Next week we shall publish a list of the newspapers and magazines with which Tub Union has club arrangements. This list embraces some of the leading daily and weekly newspapers and popular magazines of the United States. Their range of topics includes domestic and foreign news, polities, religion, agriculture, the arts and sciences, fashions, literature, travel, etc., etc. On Wednesday evening the quotations of New York city markets showed a slight decline in the value of gold, as compared with greenbacks. The opening rate was 108|,declined to 108|,closedat 108 J.

An interesting letter from Mr. S. P. Howard, who is visiting a son and two daughters near Wichita, Kansas, will appear in the next issue ot Tub Union. —————< w The officers of the Grand Lodge of Odd bellows of Indiana, recently elected for the ensuing year are as follows: , Grand Master—Leonidas Sexton, Rushville. Deputy Grand Master—W. R. MeyeiS, Anderson. Grand Warden—Enoch Cox, Delphi. Grand Secretary—B. F. Foster, Indianapolis. Representative to the Grand Lodge of United States—J. B. Kimball, retiring grandmaster. Alternate Representative-Tbomas Underwood, Lafayette. Trustees of Grand Lodge—William Wallace, J.'B. McChesney and Alexander Metzger, of Indianapolis. Messrs Perrin, Gaft* & Co. have contracted tor the employment of about one hundred of the convicts in the Jeffersonville penitentiary to work upon the manufacture of small kitchen hardware. Two cupolas for melting iron have been erected on th® grounds and a .brick shop, 32 by 322 feet in dimension has been constructed, for the use of the contractors. Mr. Lionel W. Thompson, a former citizen of Newton county, who was well known in this place, died recently at Effingham, 111. • ° . ~-.4

F& A. M. ELECTION NOTlCfc..—Tito an- • nual election of officers for Frairie Lodge No. 125, F. AA. M., will be held at the Lodge Hall, hi RenMelaer, Indiana, on Saturday evening December l(itl», A. D. 1876, A. L. 5876. The Worshipful Master, Senior Warden, and Junior Wurdeu, will be cx-ofitvio Trustees of said I.o<lge. M. F. UHIDCOTE, W. M. 8. I*. Howabd, Secretary. Noveuilier ?3,1876. LEGAL NOTICES. dmTnistrator’s notice of final SETTLEMENT AND DISTRIBUTION. In the matter of the estate'Of John Clark, deceased, bv David Nowlcs, administrator. Notice is hereby given to the unknown heirs of said decedent that It final settlement ;tnd distribution of the personal estate of said decendent will be made at the December term, A. D. 1876, of the Jasper Circuit Court. Witness mv hand and the wal of ZbLTvXsaid court, this Ist day of November, ( JA- D- M««. CHARLES 11. PRICE, 7-ts. . Clerk Jasper Circuit Court. COMMISSIONER’S SALE OF REAL ESTATE.—No. 1,162. Louisa E. Harrison vs. Luba Harrison aud Nathaniel L. Harrison. Decree of Partition. Notice is herebv given that by virtue of an order of the Jasper Circuit Court in the above entitled cause, recorded iu Circuit Court order book 5, pages 159 and 160 of the records of said court, X will ofl'er at private sale for not less than the lull appraised value, on and after Saturday, December 16, 1876, at the law office of Thompson & Bin., Rensselaer, Indiana, the following real estate, to-wit: The west half of the southwest quarter and southeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section twenty-seven (27), ami the northwest quarter of tlic northwest quarter of section thirty-four (34), all in township twenty-eight (28) north, of range seven (7) west, in Jasper county, Indiana. Terms of sale: One-third cash in hand, and residue in one and two years, with interest at six per cent, per annum, without relief from valuation or appraisement laws, with approved personal security. * DAVID J. THOMPSON, Novomlier 11, 1876. Commissioner. Thompson & Bro., Att’ys. 9-9-3 t

Notice to non-residents.—The stalo of Indiana Jasper county: In the Jasper Circuit Court, December term. IH<<U Complaint No. 1,113. Jesse J. Brown vs. Newton Gordon, Hugh Parker. John Parker, Zita F. Little, John Wilson,'Hamnel ML Dudgeon, Miami E. Dudgeon and Thomas Hurford. Now comes the Plaintiff, by Thompson * Bro., his attorneys. and files his complaint herein, together with an affidavit, that the residence of the defendant, Thomas Hurford is unknown, and that diligent enquiry has been made to ascertain the residence of said defendant, but that said inquiry has not disclosed, the residence of said defendant. Notice is therefore hereby given said defendant. that unless he be and appear on the first day of the next term of the Jasper Circuit Court to be holden on the second Mbnday of December, A. D. ISTti. at the Court House in Rensselaer, in said county and state, and answer or demur to said complaint, the same will be heard and determined in his absence. In witness whereof. I hereunto set t cw it\«Y hand and affix the seal of said i Jeourt, at Rensselaer, tills I3th day of v --- 7 0 A. D. 1318. CHARLES H. PRICE, Gletfe Thompson A Bro., Att’ya for Pl’ff. J. C. C. 9-9-8$

XTOTICE TO NOX-RESIDENT.-The State of Indiana, Jasper county, sa: In the Jasper Circuit Court, December term, 18.-0, Complaint N'o. 1,195. State of Indiana vs Martin V. B. Warner, Charles B. Steward, J««mb Johns, Josiah Gains and Thuinas N. Morrell. ■ Sow comes the plaintiff, by Simon I*. Thompson; Prosecuting attorney; and . files its complaint herein, together with an affidavit, that the residenceortho defendant, Martin V. B. Warner, is unknown, awl that diligent intpjirv has been wade to ascertain the residence Of said defendant. tart that esi<l l»<fi»iry has not disclosed the residence of said defendant. Xotice is therefore hereby given said defendant, Hunt unless he be and appear on tlie first dav of the next term of the Jasper Circuits C ourt to he holdeu on the second Monday of December A. D. 18,(1, at the Court House in Rensselaer, in said county and state, awl answer or demur to said complaint, the same will be heard and determined in ills absence. In witness whereof, I hereunto set hand and affix the seal otgald ( /court, at Rensselaer, this 3d dav of A D 1876 ■ OKARLESH. PRICE, Clerk Thompson. A Bro Atty» tor pltt. J. C. Qt u-8-« ■■ T._

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