Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1877 — STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

STATE NEWS.

The clnciag quotation of gold in New York on Tneeday was 1.07{. ' Last Tuesday witnessed the with* draws! of the United States troops from tho Loaisiana stale hone* at New Orleans and the consequent downfall of the Packard government, leaving Mr. Nicholls in possession of the gubernatorial ehair. Mr. Packard protested against the withdrawal of the troops to the last, and yielded his claim with very poor grace. At last the Osar of Russia has declared war upon Turkey, and ordered hie aimieß to cross the Turkish frontier. This action upon the part of Russia Is taken in behalf of Europe and humanity to ameliorate the condition of the Christains who have been subjected to the most inhuman treatment by the Turks ever known to tho civilised world. Indeed, it is enough to make the stoutest heart quake to read of the outrageous murders committed and the fiendish atrocities perpetrated upon those Christsin people, and the Turks will likely be made to pay dearly for these heinous crimes. The contest threatens to involve all the European powers except, perhaps, Franco and Italy, and will be the bloodiest and most expensive to life of any previous war.

If lhe democrats in the town of Rensselaer propose to test their party strength at the corporation election that oeears on the 7th day of next month, it will be very well for them to nominate for trustees and other officers the very best men they can induce to accept their iiominatiops. Heretofore at these elections partisan considerations have l>een kept in the background, and the policy was good; but if a full-blown ticket of democrats is to be sprung on the voters on the morning of the election some of the candidates will likely be defeated. Republicans are largely in the majority in the' town of Rensselaer, and should party lines be drawn every man that is elected will be a professor of that political faith. Last year by “working pretty fine” three of the five trustees elected were democrats, which secured two members of the school board and the marshal to them. A little foolish boasting was indulged in immediately after by certain indiscreet persons, which provoked the metal of some of the more ardent republicans, and it will only require a hint to set them at work most vigorously to prevent the recurrence of that incident. ' —'

It b amusing to notice how Gingerly turfite republican papers speak of the withdrawal of the troops from the support of the republican governments of the southern states.— LaZ’oijte Argue. i Well it |s an experiment. If we mistake not the sentiment of republicans they desire that peace and prosperity may dawn upon the whole country regardless of sectional tines; bet they also feel that no permanent peace or prosperity can be established upon a foundation of violatpd laws, terrorism, and Ihfi deprival of the freedmen and white republicans of the rights of citizenship. They will all be satisfied if the president’s policy accomplishes the desired result, but do not feel like giving an unequivocal «d SRtbusiaatm endorsement to an experiment that may result in great disater. sip far as HR -Union is concerned it is wall phased with Mr. Hayes’ course I thus far, pud has long contended for a modification of the southern policy that was enforced by President Grant and supported by Messrs. Mpfton, Blaine, Garfield, the InterGcsse and the school of which they >rp the representatives. One thing is very w*' the policy of these gentlemen was awarded. a long, patient and thorough frigl, yet few MAple oaa be fogpd who are hardy enough to claim $4 ft was perfectly successful. Afford years of as honest trial of Mr flayes 3 policy, if it proves as ineffectual as did that of President ixfaut, something better may be discovered by statesmen to substitute for it. President Hayes was worded * fajr ftwpL now

The expenses of the last legislature, regular and special sessions initiative, amounted to <101,990,29; Of which *04,000 was the per diem of members, and *68,000 for other accounts. Tho Winamac Democrat claims to fiud this information in the report of the auditor of state. It will be noticed that there is a discrepancy of about *30,000 between the amount first stated and the sum of the two factors, which makes the figures unreliable. In the possession of the editor of Tax Union is a private letter of late date from an ex-soldier at Hot Springs, Arkansas—a gentleman who lived in Jasper county several years, but who settled in Arkansas at the close of the war—in which he expresses great satisfaction and “heartily endorses the policy of the administration, trusting that the President’s honest and earnest efforts to secure peace, prosperity and happiness to our whole country will be crowned with success.” According to the report made by the experts that were employed by the commissioners of Newton county to examine the books of the county treasurer’s office, Cnpt, Pfriminer, the late treasurer, is owing to the various public funds the amount of *15,079.02. His friends claim that the defalcation does not rest on him, but elsewhere; and that at least a portion of it was committed before he entered upon the duties of the office. As a strong circumstance in confirmation of this theory it is said that there Is certainly one book, possibly two, missing from the auditor’s office, which, if found, would shed light upon the subject sufficient to fix the responsibility where it belongs, and relieve an innocent man from embarrassing and unjust suspicion.

Tippecanoe county pays her paupers $35,000 a year. Hon. Orlan T. Baker is writing a history of Vincennes. The Booneville Enquirer reports pears and cherries in full bloom. A South Bend firm will manufacture 15,000 croquet sets this season. The new postmaster at Laporte, had about 700 signatures to his petition for appointment. A fire visited South Bend Wendnesday night, doing damage to the amount oftlo,oooorsl2,ooo. A pickerel that weighed eleven pounds was caught in a shallow stream near Lowell, on a recent morning. Lon Crossby was Tuesday last, convicted of horse-stealing, by the Benton circuit court and sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. Dr. Young, a new physician in Fort Wayne, has been arrested on a charge of depositing in the mail a postal card addressed to W. H. Meyers, also a physician, whereon the latter was denominated “exhbrse thief and coward.” John Baker, of Greene county, was fined $75 and sentenced to four months imprisonment, by a jury, for attempting to kill his daughter. He forced the child, scarcely two years of age, to sit upon a heated metal can until it was so horribly burned upon the seat, back, limbs and abdomen that life was despaired of, and not content with this, he thrust the quivering, suffering little creature out of doors in the piercing cold.

Eli Brindley, a granger living pegr Newport prescribed the following recipe for a sick cow: *>Tak® PBS peck of corn, burn it brown, then roll it in bran, and sprinkle with gunpowder.” Brindley requested hip wife to prepare and administer this strange compound to old brindb). While the obedient wife was sprinkling fhp powder on the burnt corp from a horn the powder ignited, bursting the horn/ which was half lull of powder, to atoms, and filling the room with fire and smoke. The woman’s clothing eaught fire, and she tpbplj have burned to death if her jta*bap4, who was near by, had not run tg bpr resell) and torn off her cloihipg, JSer arms and face were se/ioqsly burned, and she will probsjby /carry the sears made by tbe in per grave.