Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1876 — STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

STATE NEWS.

Fields of corn in Carroll county have yielded 72 bushels an acre this year. The Crown Point Herald (democratic) establishment is advertised tor sale or rent. New ice houses are being built on the shores of the beautiful lakes in Laporte county. An appropriation of $63,000 is asked lor harbor improvements at Michigan City next season.

Messrs. H. M. Skinner and Frank Gurney, of Valparaiso, have gone to engage in the publication of a newspaper at Judsonia, Ark. A half interest in the Crown Point Register office, exclusive of the building it occupies, was recently negotiated tor $1,900Judge Talcott, editor of the Valparaiso Vidette, arranges his column ot “neighborhood news” in nursery rhymes of irregular metre. Thirty residents of Goodland attended the Centennial Exposition, and money is loaned in that town at the rate ot 36 per cent per annum.

Section 16 in North township, Lake county, was recently divided into 28 lots and sold for th? aggregate sum of $8,908. Some of the lots brought $25 per acre, Joseph V. Lingle has been ad» mitted to a partnership with his father in the publication of the Lafayette Courier. The name of Ute new firm i* W. S. Lingle Son.

Tub Light of thb Houbehot.d.— Smiling faces ara the household lights. Can a wife expect her husband to smile when she aeu before him poor bread? Can a husband look for smiles from his wife if he offers her inferior materials for making bread? If you, sir, will please your wife get D. B. DeLand &> Co.'s Best Chemical Saleralut, and she will produce bread and bisouits that will please yon—that will please her, and there, will be light in the household—smiles all around. Use it instead of Soda or Baking Powder.