Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1877 — Page 1

VOLUME 9.

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RENSSELAER BUSINESS CARDS. DR. G. A.MORB, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office in Spitier’s brick building, opposite Court House. R. J. H. liOUGHRIDGE. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Washington street, below Austin’s hotel. R. MOSES B. ALTER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office lu Harding At Willey’s drug store. DR. R. y. martin] PHYSICIAN A«ND BURGEON. Office on Washington street, one door above Stonn Building. N. * ~ Cutting done to order in latest styles. Charges reasonable. Shop north side of V> ashIngtou street, in Ixiopoid’s Stone Building. J ZIMMERMAN, • FASHIONABLE TAILOR. Garments uindu in latest stylos. Cutting a •peaialtv, and HatUfaction guaranteed. Shop «a Washington street, one door below bank. '/NHAH MSB I'TiIOfKIXS bogs' lea to inV 7 form the public that he 1* now prepared to do hqu*c painting, paper hanging, calclniinlng, etc., it prise* Iteyond competition, tail be found at kla room*, un-etair* In Liberal Corner building. 9-29-ly. WELLS A UTKSI AX ANIJ DRIVEN. JAMKHW. PORTER. Tha only water wiszard wlio insaro* living water and back* up Id* in*ur*ht-« bv work. No water no pay. Insures an ample supple of water in all Hi* wells for oi e year. S-Sl. r.OfULCOTE, * ATTORNEY, AND COUNSELOR AT LAW. Offie* an Wash lug ton street, opposite the Caurt Haute square. . ante* r. Thompson. patio j. THoareox, Attorney at Law. Notary Public. rpHOMPSOX A 880., A RENSSELAER, INDIANA. Practice in alt the Court*. Wa pay particular attention to paying taxes, nailing and leasing lands. ’ M axiom L. Spitlkk, Collector and Abstracter. a. a. BwroeiNS. siSai nWraais*. RS. ft. Z. DWIGGINB, . ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Prsetiea In ail the courts of Jasper, Newton, Beaton and Palaakl csuutie* ; alee iu the Saprema and Federal eoarls. Make eolUeiiaaa a specialty.

¥**** Sotarv rublle, Kexl Estate Broker and Insur*kw A font, Rensselaer, Indiana. Land* exjunlaod, Abstracts of Title prepared and 'faxes •aid. Collections a specialty. Office in Bui tier’s brisk building, opposite Court House. 8-40-ly. A* McCOY & THOMPBON, • BANKERS. Bay and sell domestic exchange, make collections on nil available points, pny inter* est on specified time deposits, etc. Office bear* from v a. m. to 4 p. u. • CAMP. ERWIN, O BLACKSMITH. Vow brick shop. Front street, above the old taw mill, A Iso, I a connection, a WOOD SHOP where ail kiads of wood work repair. 4»g will bo done to osdor. ft less below -eons petition. *»r.-» —7o. QHINDLER & ROBERTS. O BLACKSMITHS. At Warner's old etand on Froat street. Horseshoeing, machine repairing, carriage ironing, etc., done neatly and cheaply. T EBI.IE GRANT, JLi BLACKSMITH. Shop on Front etreet, next doer above the stage office, at Duvall & Goff's Old aloud. faWenagesoitciled. Tljstin’s hotel; A 3. AUSTIN, PROPRIETOR. This house ia eantralljr located in the bus}, anon part of town. New bouse, npw furuitnre, good lableo, experienced landlord- lo recommended to the traveling public. TTOPKINB HOUSE, xl R.J. HOPKINS. PROPRIETOR. Rxoolloat table, eonvontoat location, careful atwutiou to wants of gnosis, and sxpori- . oncod manngomaut nro its reommendations If popular favor. • ■ , .... -ey , ■ —W'» ■ ■ - DENTIST, B-dtonl A JwUra’. bnfMln,, RENS SE L AER. IND rA NA^

TEH RENSSELAER UNION.

The Rensselaer UmoN argues that our present Jury system often punishes the juron more than criminals whose cases they are called to try, and urges that among the ventures of reform required oue should be an election by the people of a set of men for jurors. We see no particular objection, though It does not gdun Important, They are qow virtually chosen by county boards and other county officers, perhaps as satlafactorlly as if chosen at a popular election. As they undergo a strict examination of their fitness, how they are first chosen is of less importance, To avoid retaining them in waiting for employment we believe the best plan is to call a Jury newly from the, people for each case lequiring it, when the demand is made, as in a justice’s court; and this especially if, us we think, a judge should sometime be provided in each county to dispose of business, an a justice does, whenever it is brought before him.— Valparaiso Vidette. Tills view may be sound as far as it goes, but does not oi itself reach out to remove the hardships to individuals—the jurors themselves — that are entailed from the present system, though possibly it might lessen them quite materially. Some substitute for the presentlaw should be adopted which would not have the effect of conscripting the services of individuals for the public good without making up the losses their business sustain by reason of their compelled neglect of it. If the jurors were elected for a term of years as judgt.B are and paid adequate salaie* they, at least, would uot be made to suffer as they may now' do from loss oi time, and the public at large might be just as well served, proportionately, in matters that would fall within their jurisdiction as it is served now in the questions of graver magnitude that 1 are tried by the justices of the supremecourt of the United States. Tlie people begin totloubiMfvHayes. We uiean many of those who helped to elect him—the others have done that all ulmig. The Inter-Ocean * * * —South, Send Register. There, Mr. Register , that will do. When you find it necessary to quote the fater-Ocean to make a premise or sustain an assertion it is j«*t as well to begin to study what has deceived you, and look for the weak place iu your argument. What it some people do begin to distrust President Hayes? Is that any reason why others should desert him? Because Peter denied his Lord and Thomas doubled His resurrection was it any happier for them, or any worse for Jesus? The United States has enjoyed a feast of blood and bayonets until a vast majority of the people are surfeited with the diet and want a change of dishes, now for humanity's sake let us have a little peace—let it be plain and natural, without any French dressing, Mexican sauce, or Spanish gravy. Gen. Grant sighed for peace but his methods failed to produce the perfeot fruit; perhaps Gen. Hayes has discovered the remedy for his failure. The viviseclionists have had their long experimental watch with the body, now let them quietly turn it over to the and patiently await the results that follow. \

A great many people think that a newspaper should have a page of local news whether anything happens or not. All editors cauuot make people break their necks, commit suicide, etc. hence it is that the paper sometimes does not contain a great deal of home uews. Fjirnisbing domestic news when there is none is much like ex< tract!ng blood from a turnip, or greenbacks from delinquent subscribersValparaiso Messenger. There was once an editor over at Remington, and it has not been very long ago, either, though his paper is dead and almost forgotten, who found a prolific field of local incidents on the hind page of the American Newspaper Reporter , when it was being published by Geo. P. Rowell A Co. There is at present a gentleman on the local staff of the Chicago Tribune who gouges very fine local items out of the Detroit free Prets and Burlington UawJcege, using for that purpose only a pair of shears. Occasionally we have noticed a passably fair local item in the New York Sun wfrioh, though somewhat faded, found its Way into the Rensselaer Sentinel Uyee orHour weeks afterward*, but ibis is not frequent for brother Me- ■ ' ' -‘jpt&R . /li'iii 'M i 'Mi

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, MAI 3,1877.

Ewen is constitutionally opposed to carpet-baggers exoept in a few special instances where they are found with peculiar relations. Thus it is shown that genius, judgment and scissors may invent locals, even thongh it be unscientific to pump blood from a turnip, or impossible to eolleot a just debt< from that agricultural monstrosity the dead beat or delinquent subscriber. The republican party wants a new set of principles. Tlie democrats needs none. Principles embarrass it.—lndianapolis Run. The .Sun is burdened neither with principles nor knowledge. One of the best investments it could make of a portion of the draft Uncle Peter Cooper sent it, would be to buy a grammar and learn to speak the English language correctly. If it had more knowledge it might not talk quite as glibly about fiuanaial theories and other matters of which it knows so little, but the loss of volume of sound might be more than compensated by the quality of sense. At any rate the recipe is a free one and worthy bf trial.

A number of the metropolitan newspapers of America announce that they will keep a corps of correspondents in Europe during the continuation of the Eastern war to transmit graphic reports of all battles, military operations, political complications and remarkable incidents as they occur. The Union has not command of the financial resources necessary to enable it to embark in such an enterprise, but it will endeavor to display remarkable euorgy by stealing liberally from tlie columns of those that are able to do so. Already do outrageous caricatures of huge elephants, roaring lions, cruel tigers, obscene monkeys aud evil acrobats choke the columns of our provincial exchanges announcing in stilted language that circuses and scantily attired nymphs are roaming through the laud, sowing seed of questionable morality and beguiling people ot their hardearned and very-rauch-needed money. It is to be hoped that none of these strolling bands of devastators will visit Rensselaer this season. Mr. Dana of the New York Sun is making a fool of himself. — Indianapolis Sun. The mysterious operations of nature have made it absolutely impossible for the editor .ot the Indianapoiis luminary to imitate Mr. Dana, which fact possibly may aocount for his display of jealousy. - A couple of Knox ladies think some of going into the undertaking business,— Knox Enterprise. Well, young man, whatever business they undertake they will make successful. You may pin that to your sleeve for a token and a sign. There Is a great need of local greenback papers.— Exchange. Might experience be permitted to speak we should say there is great need of greenbacks among local papers.

Pretty much all the “state news'’ on this page was stolen from the Indianapolis Herald and other equally oredible sources, henoe may be considered authentic. ■ ■ - A new illuminator has been recently invented, and after having been tested in various places in France and Germany is pronounced a decided sftcoes. It consists of electric candles, or sticks of charooal, surrounded by isolating matter which gradually consumes, the charooal acting as a wick, and slowly melting away under the brilliant glow of electricity. It is claimed that each electric candle will give as much light as fifty gas jets, and one eleotro-magnutiu machine is required to keep twenty charcoal candles burning. The cost is reckoned at less than half the cost of got, while the light is of the purest and brightest kind. It is claimed ’ that there is no danger whatever offire from it, which /is certainly a recommentiaiiqn possessed by no other illuratuaior-r-np* even the tallow caudlSi— fildtonapolis Herald, to*" ,}ri&Ws, -%as vo« «•>

STATE HEWS.

A new opera home is being built at Bedford. Marion countyY sheriff’s force will soon be uniformed. A fire alarm telegraph is being established in Evansville. Logansporl boasts of four daily papers—the Journal , Newt, Star and Pharos. A lady in Brazil recently gave birth to four children, ail of whom are doing well. Hamilton county is to have a new court house, built of stone, fire-proof, and to eost SIOO,OOO. Mrs. Heryden, was struck by a tram on the Panhandle railroad, near Mier, last Thursday, and fatally injured.. A South Bender recently erected a gallons in the back yard and deliberately and Successively banged his quartette ot ours to save dog tax. Bonneville had the peep show, tho candy puller, the walkist, the little man and the powdered wig of ’7O, all in one week, and still is uot happy. In a game of baseball at Indianapolis, last Friday, between the Syracuse Stars and Indianapolis Nine, the latter woii by a score ot 3Tb 0. Twenty cars loaded with cannon, apd eighteen with bomb-shells, parsed through Union City one day last week on their way east fur Russia. A young lady in Idaville, White county, recently cowhided a physician named Platt, for some slighting remarks he made concerning her character. A young men’s Christian association has been organized atLsporte. Ajuong the members the name of L. A. Cole, formerly a citizen of Rensselaer, is enrolled. John O. Hardesty’s new Terre Haute paper was issued Saturday. It .is called the Saturday Courier , uM is a four-page, nine-coluinu p#per, republican in politics, fAn Indianapolis grocer was reftly surprised to find a large le in an honest appearing roll country butter. He may, be thankful it was nothing wors«*. The car factory of Jacob Romp, at Columbia City, was totally destroyed by fire last Thursday night. Supposed to be the work of an incendiary. Less, $4,500; insurance, $2,500. The grave of John Purdue, in the campus ot the college bearing his name, has been ornamented by the officers of the institution as a mark of their respect fur the deceased. Hon. Robert Rae, Vice President of the Chicago ft South Atlantic railroad company, reports the prospects very good for the speedy completion of the road. —Monticello Herald. A young man named Henry Hiddens, of Logansport, attempted suicide last Friday morning, by taking strychnine. Cause of tho act unknown. His recovery is considered doubtful. William A. I>ailey, a Walkertou lawyer, has been sued for damage by One Levi Hummed, of the same town* for the alleged seduction of his wife, Emma A. Hummed, at LaPorte, on the 10th of last February. Harlan Bond, a greatly respected farmer of wealth and good social position, committed suicide near Washington, Wayne county, last Thursday, by hanging in hia barn. Domestic trouble is supposed to be the cause of the act. Evansville's 5,000 pound bell, costing $1,400, baa s throat affection, and rings in a hearse and husky voice that is altogether unsatisfactory to the citizens of that place, who expeoted the huge bell would fairly howl. A fire at Loogootee, lastThursdav morning, destroyed J. Ackerman’s hotel and stable, together with fifteen horses. Loss, $ 10,000; iusured for $3,000. Ten dwellings were also btrned. Loss, $12,000; insured in the ./Etna,- Amazon and Hartford companiesGeorge Southgate, who has been suspected as the robber of tho Indiana National Bank at Indianapolis about a month ago, was arrested on Wednesday of iaat week, in Norwalk, Ohio, by a Cincinnati detective. It is claimed that he has been recognized by * the bank officers as the robber, and after being kept in private confinement there for two days, he was committed to the station house. It is hinted that he .will tell a talc of official connivance with his escape after being shaken down for a large percentage of his ill-gotten gains.

The Chicago & South Atlantic R. R.

This new aud important, enterprise ia now attracting the public attention. The president, Hon. W. 8. Haymond. has o|fcnea an office in this city and is now devoting his energies to the prosecution of the scheme. The prospects for the early completion of the northern division are favorable, and it Is the expectation of the company to be able to put a considerable portion of it in operation during the present season. The enterprise is favorably regarded by capitalists and others who have given it consideration, and it Will be among the first ot the projected roads that will receive attention whenever a revival occurs in railroad building. The road intends to connect Chicago by a direct line through Cumberland Gap with the southeast Atlantic seaboard. From surveys already made and other reliable data it can be demonstrated that the proposed road will be the shortest practicable line from Chicago or Indianapolis to the seaboard. Port Royal aud Charleston are to be the southern termini. A deep intetest prevails among the people along the entire route in favor of the road, and liberal aid has been given at some points and promised at others. The work has been commenced at both ends and a considerable amount of grading and bridging done. For the present the company will devote its ohief energies to the completion of the division between Indianapolis and Chicago. The road will be adirect line between these cities, and will run through some of the very finest country in Indiana. It has become a commercial necessity to the people of a broad belt of the atate, stretching out from this point to the state line. After leaving Marion the road will run through the counties of Hamilton, Boone, Clinton, Carroll, White, Jasper, Newton and Lake, ail of .whioh are unexcelled hi the fertility and productiveness of the soil. It will also pass through the thriving county seats of Fraukfort, Delphi, Monticello and Rensselaer, besides numerous other flourishing towns and village* About fifty miles of the road between Delphi and the state line ha Ye been graded and partly bridged. This embraces the heaviest and most costly portion of the work on this section; that remaining to be done is mostly on smooth and level prairie land, which oau soon be put in readiness for the superstructure.

The most of the right of way has been secured on the Illinois division, from the state line at Dyer to Thirty-first street or Archer avenue, and on a considerable portion oi this but little work will be required to prepare the roadbed fur the iron. Considerable energy has been displayed in the south in the attempt to build the connecting link from Ashville, North Carolina, to Spartanburg, Sooth Carolina. This division, seventy-four and a half miles, will carry the line across the Blue Ridge. The grading is now far advanced, and it is believed by the close of' the present seaeon will be completed. It has been prosecuted mainly by cheap couvlct iabo** from North Carolina. The officers of road are men of energy, and bavo manfully struggled through the perilous times with their enterprise. They are sanguine of ultimate success, which will follow quickly upon the general revival of business and the establishment of confidence in railroad investments.— lndianapolis journal.

Our Profit In The War.

Whatever may be the ultimate effect of the European war Upon American industry and commerce, its immediate effect ia sufficiently reassuring to enable us to contemplate the future with tolerable equanimty. The mere announcement of war has created a demand for grain of all kinds, blankets and clothing, boots and shoes, and all the supplies of war have stiffened in prices, aud there is no denying that America, as tbe principal producer of the supplies whioh Europe needs in time of war, will reap a rich harvest from the necessities ot the eombattants. Russia, with which our relations have always been friendly, ia by a singular coincidence our rival in trade, competing with us for the delivery of grain, tallow, bides and other rude products in tbe markets ot Europe. Instead of competing with ua now, however, Russia finds herself ent off from her ohief road to the markets, and will probably be a Urge purchaser of American supplies. Should the war become general, the direct advantage to ihia country would bemot;?ftrongly inarjk-

ed. After the plain and positive language of Von Moltkeon the army bill, it is not at all improbable that all Enrope should be embroiled In the miserable struggle* and. if this is so, we cannot help profiting by their folly enormously. Everything will be grist that comes to our mill, and tbe grists will come in from all directions.. The two or three millions of men who constitute the peaoe armies of Europe, and who, in lime of peace, take care of their clothing, quarters, accoutrements and supplies like so many old maids, are changed by a proclamation of war into reckless spendthrifts, raining arid destroying their own property even more remorselessly than the property of the epemy. Yet they must be armed and equipped, clothed, fed and cared for, and the coustant destruction of war must be repaired by a constant stream of supplies from the peaceful workers in the shrewder nations which have nothing to do with the war. Under the (stimnlus of an enforced economy, we have diminished our purchases and increased our sales so much that the balance of trade is largely in our favor, and we are rapidly paying off the debt incurred during a period of delusive prosperity. Even without a war it is very likely that ws would have been able to regain our lost supremacy in trade and manufactures, our ootton fabrics already supplanting those m England, oar hardware and cutlery finding a tain in Sheffield, and onr machinery making its way around the world. The tide which had set against qs for ten years had joat begun to tnru and the stimulus of the war will make it run swiftly. Our idle workmen will be set to work, our factories started anew, and. Instead ot working our way np by the slow and arduous path of low small profits and fierce competition, we wifi rise on the wave of a large demand in which there is no sueh thing as osmpetition. People who are called on st once to pay a higher price for flour, and who find tbe cost of the war added to other artioles of consumption, may not see the direct gain, but the farmer who has wheat to sell and the producers of all classes see it, and no nfotter that th« ultimate, lots may be, the people'of this country » r e so hard pushed and distressed shat they will welootne the temporary relief of an artificial demand aud probably overdo it in a week.— St. Louis Globe-Domocrat.

A Mississippi Hail-Storm.

On Wedneaday, the 6th of April, there was a most terrific hail-storm hers that I ever saw. I bays resided in Amite county sixty-two years, and never before witnessed anything like it. About 12 o’clock m. I observed a black cloud iu the north in dose contact with a yellowish looking cloud (which always indicates hail) and which had also the appearance of being accompanied with wind, aud seemed to move to tbe northwest. In a few minutes the wind came up, with hard rain, and in a few minutes more the hail commenced to fall, and tbe storm burst upon us in all itt fury, blowing, raining and hailing in a most alarming manner. The storm was about one or two mil** in width, and eame up from the northwest, veering aud travelling in a northeasterly direction. It was all over in about thirty minutes. My yard was completely covered with hail, and never did I aee ao much rain fall in so short a time. A great quantity ot timber was blown down, aud the feUcea were acatured in a distressing manuer. The gardens were ruined. The. fruit erop, ( think is completely destroyed. In the hollows the hail was washed down by the water and left in some places in bodie* ten feet square and from two to three feet deep. The stones were from the size of a marble to one aud one half iuobes thick. On the fifth day after the etorin there were wagon loads of the bail still to be louud under the Irpsh. After all this terrible hail storm I believe there was no person hurt and but little properly destroyed; for which we should all be v„ r y thankful.— Qor. Magnolia Herald. Now that Nleholia is to be governor and “tbe white men are to rule,” we maylook forevoy WhiteLeaguer to rnsh to the fields and begin the raising of immense crops to restore the material proa* pemy of Louisiana. We may look for every white mau to grasp the live and other plantation tool-, and begin by honest toil to restore the prostrate iudustry of the state. We may look—-but what will w® too—Burlington Hemkeyt.

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