Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1877 — LOCAL AND NEIGHBORHOOD GOSSIP. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL AND NEIGHBORHOOD GOSSIP.

The editor of the Monticello Democrat is the same A). J. Kitt who formerly published the Remington Record. In a late number of his valuable paper he announced that his “paternal ancestor” was at a neighboring town “attending to the settlement of an estate” that had been “bequeathed to her.” Every body about Remington learnen that Kitt was a peculiar fellow and it will not surprise them much to hear that his paternal ancestor was of the feminine gender. Gen. S. B. Yeoman of Washington, Ohio, is visiting his brother-in-law, Jonathan Pancoast, Esq., four miles west of town. When a youth he was a compositor in the office of the Jasper. Banner, the first newspaper in this town and county (the latter then included Newton county), which paper was published by John McCarthy, Esq., now a citizen of Newton county. Mr. Yeoman is at present engaged in the practice of law. It is reported that if satisfactory arrangements can be made, it is Geu. Yeoman’s intention to move to Rensselaer or the vicinity.

Among the best newspapers of this country is the Indianapolis Journal. The enterprise of its preßeni proprietor has brought it up to a proud standard of excellency. Its editorial articles are characterized by vigor and good sense; its news columns aie full and complete, not unfrequently far outstripping in this respect all competitors; its selections from contemporaneous publications are governed by most excellent taste; its attention to local and state interests and news is the very closest, and a large portion of its space is devoted to the publication of events and projects that interest the people in every part oi Indiana. It is among theoheapestnewtpapers in the country, and it deserves a place in every household that desires the refining benefit of a hightoned, well-conducted, first-class newspaper. From the first day of May to the thirty-first day of July, 1877, subscribers to The Union will be supplied with the weekly Journal at the rate of $3 per annum for the two papers. For $3.25, The Union, weekly Journal and Journal premium map of the United States, sent postpaid to any address in the United States.

Our neighbor of tbe Sentinel talks of President Tilden and Vice President Hendricks just tbe same as though they had been elected and inaugurated instead of Hayes and Wheeler. To be sure there is neither railroad nor telegraph line at Rensselaer, but The Union is placed on our good friend’s table each week and there really is no sufficient reason why he should display such mortifying ignorance of contemporaneous national events. For the reputation of the inhabitants of Jasper county who are justly celebrated for their intelligence we sincerely hope that in the future our brother will devote more time to reading the current news. And, indeed, it may not be out of place in this connection also to urge upon those 848 voters who oast their ballots two years ago for tbe present auditor of our county that it will be well for each of them to apply himself dilligently to study in order that his successor may not be reduced to the humiliating necessity of importing a car-pet-bagger and expert to keep the books and transact the business of that important office. The Union is independent enough to believe the soundness of the democratic doctrine of Home Rule, and hopes to see it established in practice in our eounty as soon as citizens may be discovered that are sufficiently welt educated to begin experimenting with; and to secure this end, Brother McEwen, let us harmoniously and vigorously and indnstri* ously work.

Daviess county is to have a new court house. There will be peach blossoms in Jasper county this season. The city of Kokomp recently sold SIO,OOO bonds at par. Terre Haute Greenbackers have put a full ticket in the field. Temperance meeting at the Presbyterian ehuroh next Monday evening. ’ A new circulating library of 2,000 volumes is to be opened at Fort Wayne. There wore 1,800 students in attendance at the last term of the Valparaiso Normal school. Scarlet fever prevails at Michigan City among the ctildren, and is attended with considerable fatality. Quarterly meeting at the M. E. church next Saturday and Sunday. Presiding Elder Smith will officiate.

A recent enumeration ascertains the number of inhabitants that dwell in Michigan City to be 5,637. Miss Matio Howard is home again. She has been teaching music in the Ladoga Normal school for several months past. Isaac W. Lewis’s barn, about four miles from Fowler, was destroyed by fire last Saturday night, a week ago, involving a loss of $4,000. There is a curiosity on a farm near Franklin in the shape of a calf that has neither eyes nor tail, and its mouth is on one side of its head. The Southern Prison Commission have allowed about four hundred bills aggregating SBO,OOO. The commission will be in session all week. Mr. Henry Bowman and family have again taken up their abode in Rensselaer. They have been living at Crown Point for several months past. Mr. John W. Zigler, of Laporte county, has been tendered the position of Lecturer of the State Grange, and now has the matter under advisement. The prisoners in the Logansport jail laid a plan for escape from their confinement last Thursday evening but the game was discovered in time to prevent its execution.

A blue-blooded German baron, so reports the local papers, has bought a large farm in Fulton county and intends to establish his castle in the land of cranberry marshes. Great excitementexists in Princeton over the numerous burglaries that have been committed there. Twenty-five bouses have been robbed, and it is feared the place will yet be burned. Just an ordinary restaurant keeper at La Perte writes his name Bueltzingsloewen. When hie wife calls him down to breakfast the neighbors imagine a train of cars is rattling up to the depot. Mr. Heckerdorn kept a record of the snow fall at Monticello last winter, and reports that it amounted to 43f inches. From the 11th day of January to tbe 24th day of February none fell at all. Last Sunday morning a number of stables in Vernon were set on fire by an iucendiary and damaged to the amount of SI,OOO. It was an attempt to burn the town. The Plaindealer calls for a little Lynch law. Daniel Vollmer, a prominent druggist of Fort Wayne, committed suicide on the morning of the 19th instant by taking morphine. He was an old and respected citizen and the cause of, his rashness is unknown. Farmers tell us that grass on the prairies is all of three to four weeks earlier than last year. A vast amount of farm work has been done, and people are improving all their opportunities to work as in-, dustriously m bees.

Michael Calp was fatally hurt at Indianapolis one day last week by the butt-screw of his gen blowing out and striking him tn the forehead. Sealed proposals will he received until the 17th of May, for completing the cell-house and building shops, for the penitentiary north. The state has SBO,OOO on band to apply on this work. David Allen Fawcett, has withdrawn in disgust from the Monticello Democrat, on accqpnt of the uncongeniality of Monticello society, and threatens’ to inflict an independent paper upon the community of Delphi, where he was born. One hundred and one handsome, sweet and bewitching widows inhabit the town of Seymour. When in unison they heave their disconsolate sighs there is a rushing noise heard fifty miles away, as though a mighty hurricane was tearing down tall forest trees by the acre; Lyle Levi, the leader of a notorious gang of counterfeiters and desperadoes who have been plying their vocation in the south part of the slate for years, was arrested on the 18th instantjat Osgood, Ripley county, after a desperate struggle with a United States detective and

a policeman, and taken to Indianapolis, where he was examined next day and put under bond of $5,000 for bis appearance at the May term of the United States-court. A fellow named William Mobley living at Logansport, lost all interest in worldly affairs and thought he would bid adieu to them one evening last week, He tried to procure morphia of a druggist, Who, suspecting something was wrong, substituted quinine and the lunatic still lives. He threatens vengeance upon that druggist for thus blasting his fondest hope and declares he will kill himself yet. Continued failure to procure 4 employment had disheartened him and prompted his actions. Whiskey claims her victims on every hand. No compromise cau be made with alcoholic drinks. Use it ever so sparingly, handle it ever so carefully, manufacture ft ever so' purely, it will turn and rend you. A fatality fbllows,th'e drinking, the selling, or the manufacturing of whiskey that is as. unerring as the following of night after the day. When the writer was a Tad in Ohio people poihted with respect to a certain very wealthy farmer who owned a large distillery on the Scioto river. But John Davis’ riches took wings, and he went down to a dishonored grave. Personal observation teaches us that tbe man who tor any considerable time drinks, sells, or makes whiskey, will die a violent or untimely death, or fill a pauper’s grave.— Fowler Era. >'

An old sportsman dropped us a note asking us to urge that South Bend sportsmen never take any more fish from the lake than they want for present use, and perhaps, if they bite well, take a mess for a friend. It they catch a small fish, this sportsman says, take him carefully from the hook and throw him back into tbe water. Don’t throw him down in your boat and take him ashore for the purpose of counting him, and then throw him away. That little fish, if put back would grow up to be a large one in time, and the man, woman or child that does not put the little fish back is worse than a brute; for the brute, with few exceptions, will not kill anything for fun. Nearly every farmer raises chickens, and in tbe fall he counts them and makes up his mind how many he can kill. If he is a good manager be will have a chicken dinner when he feels like it the year round, and will have some left to raise him another stock the next year. But if he kills them alt as soon as they are large enough he will go without chickens for the balance of the year. The same is the oase with regard to fish. Although you cannot see tbe fish to count them as you do the chickens, yet the fact remains that there is a certain uumberof fish in each locality, and when that family offish is all eaught in its respective locality they are all gone. You cannot expect to have fish dinner;* from those waters thereafter anymore than you would chicken dinners after the chickens are all killed.-— South Bend fayitler.