Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1877 — STATE HEWS. [ARTICLE]

STATE HEWS.

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

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« «•>

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.