Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1877 — Mrs. Hayes as a Reformer. [ARTICLE]

Mrs. Hayes as a Reformer.

Whatever mistakes the President may make, Mrs. Hayes undoubtedly deserves the thanks of every true woman for the stand which she has taken against extravagance in dress. She has carried to the White House the s&me quiet dignity aud ladylike simplicity for which, according to all accounts, she was distinguished at home, and her dress on public occasions, while invariably handsome and becoming the wife of the President, has also been invariably unostentatious. At the inauguration she wore merely rich black silk with real laces, and no jewels save the broach at her throat. At the state dinner given by President and Mrs. Grant to Mr. and Mrs. Hayes her dress was a cameo-tinted silk, high in the neck and trimmed with fringe and lace. She wore no jewels, and her thin, brown hair was brushed plainly over her brow and fastened at the back with a tortoise-shell comb. Mrs. Grant was the only lady in low dress, since the other ladies present wore high corsage in defereuee to Mrs. Hayes’ taste, of which Mrs. Grant, it seems, was ignorant At even 'her first reception as mistress of the White House, her toilet was remarkable for its simple elegance rather than for brilliancy or cost, while the dress of her daughter marked her as the child of a sensible and wealthy mother, instead of a premature woman of fashion or oyer-dressed doll. Thus early was the example set. —Philadelphia Times.

In the Starke countycircuit court last week, Judge H. A. Gillett presiding, the case against Wm. Chapman, his three sons, and Marion Horner and Vaukirk, in which they were charged with the murder of Lemuel Collins in 1868, waß nolle prossed by prosecuting attorney Youche.. tphe defendants in this case are pretty hard customers, and consequently, say* a dispatch, the trial offered a splendid opportunity for fellow roughs to congregate at Knox, wliich they did, and proceeded to make day and night hideous by their drunken carousals. Followiug the murder trial were some cases in winch a number of bad citizens iu the uor}hern part of the county were charged with stealing limber off land owned by non-resi-dents. These oases were all worked up by Prank Howe, the detective, but knowing there could be no conviction without his evidence, the roughs concluded to put him beyond reach of the court. Orders that he should leave town, and that immediately, were conveyed to him in terms more positive than elegant, accompanied by a first-class display of ancient navies, bowies, shot-guns, etc., which were held in an unpleasant proximity to his person. He went into the court-room, followed by a hundred or ntoreof the roughs, aud demanded protection of the eourt, but was answered by the Judge that in the absence of any overt act he could do nothing. Howe did uot deem it safe to start out on foot, neither possessed he a dollar with which to hire a conveyance, but every moment he lingered the fury of the motley crowd was multiplied. A number of attorneys sympathizing with him contributed... sufficient to hire a teamster to place him beyond danger, and while the highest court in the county was in session Howe was driven out of town, flanked and followed by those infuriated raacals, who were tiring guns and revolvers, beating drums, hallooing and swearing, and making a scene seldom if ever witnessed in a civilized community.— Crown Point Register.

Mrs. MoMoy, at the close of the meeting Monday evening, gave notice that an effort would be made to raise four hundred dollars to furniah the room of the Reform Club. Among its attractions are to be a reading-room, a billiard-table, a Smoking-room, games, and other elevating and refining associations. This on the theory that young men must liaye some place to go of an evening—young men jfho have no homes and rpight gq JO a worse place.—£©*44 Jjtmd jisgUler* ■ ... • • . ‘_4' Get your job printing done at Tub Usios office. t, f