Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1877 — President Hayes’ First Month. [ARTICLE]

President Hayes’ First Month.

To-day complete* the first month of the term of the new president. Who oan truly say otherwise than that within tie brief period be has dens sgreat deal toward restoring political tranquillity to the country? Who can honestly say otherwise than that he has tried, and with success, to earry into effective opeiation the doctrines declared in bis letter of aeoeptsnee and reiterated in his hisngaral address? He stands firmly by his purpose that merit, ability and good conduet shall be the basis for tenure of office in the.oivU service as they are in the two military branches of the government. Who can recall the time Within’ (be last forty years when, upon a change in the presidency, there were so few removals from office? Who esn name the months of Maroh and April after the beginning of # new presidential term when there were so few clsmorons office-hunters hanging about the White House and in the lobbies of the departments ? These gentry have nearly all been waved home by the polite, gentle, bat extremely firm notice that no changes were to be made in the subordinate national offioea simply because there bad been a change of person in the office of the chief executive; that where official commissions have some time to run, the holders of them are not to be distal bed unless they give causes for suspension dr removal; and that where office* shall become vacant, those who apply for them shall have some additional qualifications to party service as a basis for appointment. “The wild hunt for office” has not received So effective a check within the memory of the present generation upon the ineoming of a new president; and all this has been accomplished With .the least possible fuss by the president, simply by adherenoV frank ana manly declarations.— Philadelphia Ledger. ;

On the 27 of March,*' a man by the natnewf Johnson, changed cars at Logan sport and took the cars for Peoria, in company, with his mother whom he was conveying to some private asylum; but where we were • uqable to learn. Tim old lady was apparently about 85 0r.60 years of age, and her hair, “white as *lte driven snow*’ fell in clouds stalest to her waty. There waa awaoant, far-away look in her eyea and it would net have required a close observer to see that she was insane. It waa necessary to keep her handcuffed for if her handa were unconfined she would pail out her hair by the handfulis. The history of her life, as gathered from her aon is something as follows: She was from Stark county, Ohio. She was the mother of six sons, two of whom swung on the gallows. Auother was convicted of/orgery and sent to the state** prh**n for twenty five years. Another filled » drunkard*! grave, and the fifth a professional gambler. Of the disposition and character of the sixth of course little could be learned, but he claimed to be a Methodist preacher, but his appearance sadly belied the assertion., This is truly, if true, a sad, sad history—enough to drive any mother with a heart hopelessly insane— Press.

Mr. Jno. P. Carr, of White county, Indiana, at one time owned a saw mill at Bunkum, and had Dr. Secrest in hi* employ. Last summer while Mr. Carr waa at work ou bis farm, the republican convention of his district nominated him for the legislature, and on the very same day, the republican convention of this district nominated Dr. Seoreat for the legislature of this state whil • the Dr. was hoeing in hia garden. Both Were elected, and entered upon thejr duties the same day. Mr. Carr was in Watseka last Saturday Co. (IU.) Timet. fr - - - * mm Messrs. Dodd and Clark, the gentlemen employed by commissioners and the boudsmen of D. A. Ptrimmer, ex-treasurer to examiue the books in the treasurer's. - office, after ten weeks of diligent labor, reported to the board last week that the deficit in the- bounty treasury accounts amount* to fitft,070.02. — Ke*tta»d Prm. . - . i — — 1 — The Statu Board of Agriculture has decided to hold the next state fair in Indianapolis iustcudjul Fui t, Wayne, as was first talked oft mm