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

STATE NEWS.

The members of the Louisiana returning board do not like to be kept In close confinement during their enforced stay In Washington; but the whole country will now agree that it is dangerous for such frauds to be at large a single day of their lives.— New York Sun. Mr. Dana knows as well as any man that the action of Mr. Tilden’s house of representative* towards these men is a blot upon the civilisation of the nineteenth century. The members of the Louisiana returningboard have been summoned to Washington as witnesses, and are not convicted felons. To imprison these men is nnjusL And in this case it is no more and no loss than the hateful malignant spite of a defeated presidential aspirant, moving through a body of corrupt conscienceless zealots, to punish with the callous cfuelty of a tyrant those who are standing between him and the IVuition of his passionate ambition. Mr. Dana has permitted the intensity of Ms rankling hatred of President Grant to blunt his usually keen sense of justice and right in more than one instance. A bill has passed both branches of the legislature, and probably will receive the governor’s approval and become a law before this paper reaches its readers, which changes the time of .holding courts in the 30th judicial circuit. According to its provisions the terms will be as follows: In Benton county commencing on the first Monday in February, third Monday in April, firffii Monday in September, and third Monday in November; in Newton county commencing on the fourth Monday in February, second Monday in May, fourth Monday in September, and second Monday in December; in Jasper county commencing on the third Monday in March, first Monday in June, third Monday in October, and first Monday in January. The terms are each three weeks long in each county.

Major George Washington Russ, formerly secretary of the state organization of the independent greenback party, was recently commissioned by Governor Williams adjutant general of Indiana, with a salary of 1700 per Thus, one by one, those democratic decoy ducks ns Cooper and Cary chickens are thrown crumbs of comfort from the feast of the faithful, for their fidelity to Peter’s pure political principles. Beautiful Buchanan, Bliss and Russ, reformed, regenerated, righteous, revel rewarded. Next! Sulphate of zinc, 1 grain; digitalis (fox-glove), 1 grain; half a teaspoodful of sugar. Mix with two teaspoonfuls of water; when thoroughly mixed, add four ounces of water. The above formula is going the rounds of the press as an infalibU cure of small-pox or scarlet fever. The dose is a ♦easpoonful every hour for an adult; for a child, proportion to age. A correspondent of the Stockton, California, Herald, states that either disease will disappear under the treatment in twelve hours. He has tayowu a hundred cases where it was tried and in none did it fail. A democratic friend remarked an evening or two since that he contributed to the support of the world, the flesh and the devil in his subscriptions to newspapers. He was taking the New York World, the Chicago Timet and the Rensselaer Union. Should that tripartite arrangement ever become disturbed it is easy to foresee the result. The flesh will overcome the democrat, the world will trininph over ths flesh and finally the devil will get away with all of them. Hon. James B. Belford, representative in pongress from the new State of Colorado, »* a brother-in-law of onr townsman, Mr, James W. McEwen, the proprietor of the democratfo paDer th<t ijijq he >nblished in Rensselaer;

We believe that it it not any mofe necessary to have a returning board to foot up the returns and decide elections in Louisiana than it is in Indiana or Ohio; bnt that is something over which the people of each state has control. Neither the general government nor any other state has any right whatever to interfere with it or the n in relation to it. Nor baa Mr. Tilden nor any other outside democrat any business with it. “Al. J. Kitt and D. A. Fawcett, editors and proprietors,” is the legend at the head of the Monticello democrat, a neat 8-colmnn folio, which has succeeded to the Conititutionalift. A copy of the first Issue of this paper was received last week. It presents a creditable appearance and Ths Union extends fraternal greeting. The sew paper has an auspicious opening in a fair field and ought to prosper. Senator J. H. Winterbotbam, of Laporte county, has thanks for copies of the annual reports of the officers and directors of the state’s prisons north and south. Senator Wln’.erbotham, ft may be said in this connection, is one of the most efficient members of the general assembly. He ranks among the foremost of the rising democratic politicians of Indiana. Colorado has been fully recognized as a state by both houses of congress. The senate admitted the two senator* to their seats some time ago, but the democratic house of representative* would not permit Mr. Belford to take his seat as a member of that body until last week. gg j'nyni'.'es=a Like good win* is the Warsaw Northern Jndianian— the older it grows the better it becomes.»A remarkable amount of editorial labor is manifested in each issue.

A cheese factory is to be built at Mishawaka thi* season. The Bartholomew oonnty fair grounds hare been sold by the sheriffi John Waldon, was killed near Terre Haute,em the Ist, by a falling tree. The local papers announce that a few mump* have located at Crown Point. Miss Thompson; preaches in New Albany occasionally, in the United Brethren Church. Rev. M. 8. Ragsdale has resigned the chaplaincy of Che state’s prison at Michigan City. Preparations are being made by the Hebrews at Bloomington to build a synagogue. A Cass county jury recently fined a man fifty dollars for seducing a thirteen-year old mis*. It was recently stated by the Indianapolis papers that J. W. Chambers, of Irvington, had tailed in business. Peter Long, a bridge builder at Logansport, fell a distance of about twenty lest, last Thursday, and was fatally injured. . A ditch is about to be ordered along the bed of the south fork of Yellow river in Marshall sounty, over seven miles long. The Academy of Music at Indianapolis, the finest theatre in Indians, was burnt one day last week. It was heavily insured. Courting 1* lively down in Bartholomew county. There are 831 cases docketed for the February term of court in (hat county. Rev. E. P. Hammond the revivalist is preaching to the Terrehauleutots, and many a wicked greenbacker is being called to repentance. Dr. S. L. Downey of Logansport hr.* bejn arrested upon the charge of having caused the death of Mrs. Nellie Garwood, a wlfiogr, bjr procuring an abortion,

Floraly speaking the governor of Indiana i* one of the blue aweot Williams of tali habit. • I The.municipal indebtedness of Logantport is only >450,000 bearing annual Interest of >36,000'. City taxes only tl.fiO per 1100. The insurance companies have commenced proceedings to fore> close a mortgage of 120,000 on the Smithson college at Logansport Rev. C. B. Mock of the Kent* land M. E. Church has been bolding a series of interesting religious meetings at Raub, Benton county. Indianapolis yni favored with a terrific thunderstorm on or about the Ist instant, and the atmosphere in the vicinity of the legislature was notably purified. . White Loon, otherwise Wa-pe-mung-ah, an Indian chief, recently died leaving real estate in Allen county valued at nearly ten million dollars to be divided among hi* heirs. One day last week a dog walked into a hardware stone in Winamac with his master, seized upon a skin of putty which weigted .eiglrt pounds, and trotted om of town with it.' ™ Miss Jannetta Tryon dive* st Raub. Her title to fame consists of a bed-quilt of fit,*o4 pieces, off 101 blocks three-fourths of an inch square,' all made by her industiious needle. For three long wesry week* have the people of Knox, Starke county, been wrestling in prayer; but the Ledger still advocates the cause of democracy withont any apparent signs of reformation. A manufacturing firm at South Bend, the Studebaker Bru*., presented to each of their employee* this season a year’s subscription to a newspaper, and permitted eaeh to make his own selection. t > ■'/ George A. Milner, Most Eminent Grand High Priest of the Grand Encampment of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Indiana, died at his home in Fremont, Steuben county, on Tuesday of Iqg.t week. • Highway robbers recently attacked Ed Genarty, a butcher of Vincennes, and a twelve-year old son of Mr. McAndrews while driving home a steer and took |4B from the former and shot the boy in the head. According to the IndisnapaS* Journal nearly one-thirtieth part of the property of Indianapolis belongs to churches, school* and benevolent institutions, and is exempt from taxation under the present law. The amount foots np to <1,919,900. An Indianapolis family of sijt sons and fonr daughters displays > remarkable fondness for the elsrgioal profession. Five of the sons are ministers and all the daughters are wive* of ministers. One of the latter is the mother of tht** daughters, all of whom ar* also minister's wives. Near Winamac, on the lat instant, while de* were being distributed by a construction train on the panHandle road, one of them was accidentally thrown against Terence Grimes, section foreman, fracturing his skull and causing death aL most immediately. Mr. Dodd, of (Jas* county, Mr. Clark of Jasper and Mull wayne of this (Newton) county have been resolved into a committee to sub* ject the books in the treasurer’s office to a thorough revision, and, Wpg something nke order out of the chaos, and tell the tax payers where the money ba* gone.—-A>*U-land Pve»t. A ydung Belgian, named VjW; der he then, was arrested at Goshen ou last Thursday and taken to New York City to await ths action of hi* government under the extradition treaty, be being wanted fc| home to answer the charge of forgeries amounting to 800,000 francs. He was a fine musician, had plenty ui money and was drawing all the water in the channel, so to ausax, i n Ab* upper tendons ■ ■ i county,