Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1877 — STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

STATE NEWS.

A Pike county farmer produced 27,000 bushels of corn last year. A Pike county gentleman tape 472 trees in bis sugur orchard this season. At Washington 182 persons have been converted to the religion of Christ Jesus this winter. Perry county has this season shipped a crop ot 175,000 hooppoles to southern markets, wheia the cane aud the orange g’-ow. Wiliam Lochenour and wife, near Bourbon, Marshall coouty, have been married only ten years and are the happy parents of leu children. Last week Judge Gresham assessed a fine of S3OO each against Drs. H. G. Farr and F- M. Abbett and Si 00 against Dr. J. D. McCann, all of Indianapolis, for sending obscene publications through the mails. I. A. Davis, of Frankfort, estimates there are 25,000 temperance voters in this state. Not that can be relied upon to break away from party trammels when a warm political campaign is about to be decided, we fear. There may be even a larger nnmer of voters in Indiana wh.o practice total abstinence. In that district designated on the maps by tlio name of Monticello, chivari parties are yet in vogue. When people become ‘civilized their taste for discordant -noises,ceases. The Chinese, South Sea Islanders, Western Indiaus, Patagonians and other tribes and races introduce the gong, tom-tom and similar instruments at their feasts and marriage festivities. The latest convert from the masses of dentocraoy to the glorious truths of republicanism is Prof. A. C. Hopkins, son of the late Milton B. Hopkins, and for many years assistant superintendent of public instruction. For some weeks past the Professor has been closely watching both sides of the polities! question, and at last has made up his mind. Last Saturday eyening while a party of republican gentlemen were sitting around the stoye in his store, on College avenue, he took the floor and opened with a tarrifie triade of abuse against the democratic party, and stated his intention of entering the rank and file of the only party in the world—the republican party. He said, in the ceu r *« of his speech, that after life-long devotion to the democratic party he was obliged to leave it. It was aomposed of dishonest men and practiced discreditable modes of rghpjpg election#. He cited the case of Eliza Pinkston and the election trophies in Louisiana and Florida. His speech was a strong and exeped W*f bluer one. This move of lUp Professor may possibly induce Some of bis democratic friends ti> see die error of their ways and mend their *» ath s. —lndianapolis JOurnoi, r