Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1877 — STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

STATE NEWS.

A recent enumeration of Laporte city finds the voting population to be about 1,700, which would indicate about 8,000 inhabitants of all ages and sexes. N. B.Freeman and A. L. Barnett, proprietors of the Fl. Wayne paper mill, have filed their voluntary- petition in bankruptcy. Their liabilities ar • $50,000, and assets estimated at $40,000. Last year was a bad season for agricultural societies. Nearly every county and district society fell behind, and some of them ao far as to be unable to satisfy creditors, who, wanting their money, have instituted suits in court and forced their property under the sheriff’s hammer. The state board of agriculture report their affaire in a bad condition, their indebtedness reaching the sum of $90,000. This, or a portion of it, they ask the legislature to afford them temporary relief for. Ex-Governor Hendrick’s made an allusion to their embarrassment in his last annual message, and suggested that it might be well for the legislature 4 to see what could be done for their Relief,