Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1877 — Page 1

VOLUME 9.

BMUCB K. J AMC*. MSRVIS O. CfSSSC. HORACE K. JAMES & CO.. PiiiJinluTH ami Proprietor* of THE UNION, Indiana. On* wmiv one yenr, *2; »lx mouths, |1: three month*. (thirtee* weekn), 50 rents; always in udannre. Stnirie copy, 5 rents, AdvartUlnc SatM. Onerolumn, one yefcr. lin.no Half column, ,l ..... 40.00 quarter <ml. “ 20.00 Eighth ml. “ 10.00 Ton (10) percent. added to foregoing price if advertisements are set to occupy more than Mingle column width. Fractional parte of a year, at equitable rates. Business cards not exceeding one inch space, a year, $8 for six months, $2 for three months. All legal notices and advertisements, at established statute price. Heading notices, first publication 10 rents a line, each publication thereafter 5 cents a Mae. Yearly advertisement* are subject to three changes (one change iu three months), at the option of the advertiser, free of extra charge. Advertisements for persons not residents of Jasper countv must be paid for in advance of flref publication, when lees than one-quarter •column iu size; and quarterly la advance when larger. • To'o Frlxa.tLm.gf.—A large assortment of -tvpc and other material for posher, pamphlet, circular and kindred work. Prices lotv.

RENSSELAER BUSINESS CARDS*_ Dr. g. a. m<*s, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office in SpiUer’e brick building, opposite Court House. R. J. H. LOOGHRIDGE. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Washington street, below Austiu’s hotel. R. MOSES B. ALTER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office iu Llardinff &. Willev’a drug store. Dr. r. y.martiil - PiIYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office on IVash'ltgtou street, one door above Stone Building. Nr. bowman, • TAILOR. Cutting done to order in latest styles. Charges reasonable. Shop north side of \\ ashington rtivet, iu Leopold's Stone Building. J ZIMMKHMAN, • FASHIONABLE TAILOR. Garments made In latest stylos. Cutting a specialty, and satisfaction guaranteed. Shop <na Washington street, one door boiow bank. CHARLES I*. HOPKINS begs leave to inIbfw the public tliat lie is now prep acts l to do house painting, paper hanging, oaleimining. wt prices tieycmd <s«mi>et*tion. (an ht! found at Ids rooms, up-stairs hi Liberal Corner Imildiug, 9-29-1 y. \\T ELXS.-AIITKSIA.S AM) DiIiVKN. ft .lAMBS W. PORT Kit. The only water wlzzard who insures living water and liacka up his insurance by work. No water no pay. Insures an ample supply of water in all his wells for ui e year. 9-21. M _ r. ohilooteT . ATTORNEY, AND COUNSELOR AT LAW. Office ou Washington street, opposite the Court House square. SIMON’ r. THOMPSON, DAVID J. THOMPSON, Attorney at Law. Notary Public. Thompson 4 dro, U KNSS4CL A Kit. INDIANA. Brattice in all the Courts. Wo pay psrticafar attention to paying taxes, ••ding and teasing lands. Mamjod L. SrirtiiH. Collector *ml Abstractor. a- «. DWIGGIN*. ZIMEJ nWIGGINS. RB. £.2. DWIGGIN?, . ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Practice i n all the courts of Jneper, New to u, Hentou aud Pulaski canuties ; also iu the fiupreiuo an«l Federal courts. Make collections a specialty. IjißA* E'lVTll A I»C< )C K, ' ATTORNEY AT LAW, Notary Public, Beal Estate Broker and InsurAnoe Agent, Kensselaer, Indiana. Lands examined. Abstracts of Title prepared and Taxes Said. Collections a specialty. Office in Spitler’s riok building, opposite Court House. 8-W-ly. *1 McCoy & Thompson, BANKERS. Buy uud sell domestic exchange, make colloctious on all available points, pay interoat on specified time deposits, etc. Office hours from 9 a. hi. to 4 p. in.

SAMP. ERWIN, BLACKSMITH. New brick chop, From *tre*t, above tile old now mill, rtico, iu connection, a \yooD SHOP ▼ v when* all kiads of wood work repairing will be done to order. Piicea below competition. SHUS DLER t ROBERTS.” BLACKSMITHS. At Warner’* old stand oil Front street. Horseshoeing, machine repairing, carriage ireuiug, etc., done uoally and cheaply. LEBLIE GRANT, . BLACKSMITH. Shop on Frout street, uext door above the Otago office, ut i>ttrall <so Goff ’s old sluud. Paironare solicited. A'~USTIN’S _ HOTEL. J. AUSTIN, PROPRIETOR. This house is centrally located In the business part o( town. New house, new furniture, good tallies, experienced landlord Is recommended to the traveling public. OPKiNS HOUSE. R.J. HOPKINS, PROPRIETOR. Excellent table, convenient location, carefnl attention to wauls Of guests, and experienced management are its reemmendatious to popular favor. * To, u it, JBk l iNt Ac., d:knt x s t , Bedford A Jackson’s budding, up-stairs, RENSSELAER,INDIANA. Dr. Hatnsr offers his professional services to the people of this vicinity. All the modern appliances that are no necessary to perfect operutions on the teeth, are used by him. Tlie old practice of destroying the nerves is cntirely snperaeded bv the beautiful process of capping and preserving the tooth alive and rendering it scrriToahie during life. Plate work in flrstclaas style. All fees will be reasonable. an *,■' -y- - : ’ *

THE RENSSELAER UNION.

Just as wo ex pec tea Horace E,; Janies, of the Rensselaei Union, ban been appointed postmaster. Btraws allow which way the wind blown, and we have now an explanation of why and wherefore It was that iu the interval of one week Iris paper switched clear around from an Independent and launched forth as a republican journal. —LaPorte Chronicle, ° Jasper Packard , Editor." In 1872 Jasper Packard was a representative in congress. On the 21st day of May, 1872, Jasper Packard voted against the Brazil mail steamship subsidy bill. On the 27th day of May, 1872, only six days afterwards, Jasper Packard voted/or the Brazil mail steamship subsidy bill. That bill involved lhe government expenditure of $60,000 per annum for four years; and Jasper Packard also voted for the salarygrab and kept what he got of it. If straws show which way the wind blows, is it not easy to guess an explanation of the why and where-' fore it was that in the interval of less than one week Jasper Packard switched clear around from opposition to the Brazil mail steamship subsidy bill and launched forth as an advocate of it when the question came up on its final passage? Furthermore, it is not true that Horace E. Janies has been appointed postmaster —though Jasper Packard once did tender the appointment to him for the political influence of Tub Union, which was not sold.

A couple of weeks ago a little squib appeared in these columns referring to the practice of the editor of it Itoiuington newspaper now defunct of revamping sotjie of his In st Ideal items from callings from the hind page of Rowell’s American JS'etcspiiper Reporter ; but gave neither tire nanle of the publication nor of its editor. Last week lilts Montieello Democrat, which is published bv one Al. J. Ivilt, who once edited the Remington Record, assumed that the latier publication and its editor were referred to in |he squib, became ireful and most abusive. i:i its resentment. When it is recollected that two newspaper* besides the Record have been published ut Remington and that half a dozen or more gentlemen besides the American Neiuspujicr Reporter and Mr. Kitt contributed to their literary conduct, it will he conceded that the editorial staff of the Monti cello Democrat possesses a gentleman whose talent for guessing is remarkably acute. Indeed it is a subject of wonderment that such perspicacity is permitted to go to waste ou a te nth rate country newspaper when there is such a great demand for editors of patent medicine almanacs.

The contract for printing 20-page premium list pamphlets covered, 200 whole-sheet posters, 300 quarter-sheet posters, 2,700 ad mittance tickets (nine different forms), 50 illuminated complimentary tickets, 20 silk badges, 1,000 printed shipping tags and S2O worth of newspaper advertising for the Fair of the Jasper County Agricultural and Mechanical Association for 1877, was awarded to J. W. McEwen, of the Sentinel, by the committee on printing, last Saturday, ,he agreeing to do the whole SBO worth of work for the sum of $35. That is business, and the society is to be congratulated on having succeeded in contracting for its work for less money than the prime cost of raw.material. Acknowledgements are made to GeoH. Spaugle, a former Rensselaer boy, for recent files of the Monroe City, Mo., Rates. George, with a partner named Tompkins, is engaged in amateur card printing and he sends samples of their work that are very creditable. But No. 5 is not near so tasty a Combination as No. 7 is. Ex-Governor Hendricks has returned home from California, where he has been rusticating for several weeks. In a few days he will sail lor Europe to be gone a year.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, MAY 17, 1877.

STATE NEWS.

Goshen pines for an opera house. Richmond has 137 factories and mills. Richmond is to have an Arlington Hotel. A South Bend lady iongs to be a life insurance agent. S. D. Terry is going to resurrect the Terre liaute Journal. Columbus druggists have invested SI,OOO in soda founts, this spring. Ilulinan & Fairbank’s distillery in Terre Haute is the largest in the world. Smith Bend Reform Club rooms are well patronized by the young men of the city. Laporte city free masons are considering a proposition to build a Masonic temple. Mother Dresden, an inmate of the Laporte county poor asylum, is said to be 102 years old. Between scarlet fever and the measles South Bend children are having a tough lime of it. There were 3,992 letters mailed and 3.769 received at the Valparaiso postofßce -week before last. E. C. Overman, formerly of Indianapolis, has begun the publication ot a paper at Marion called the Star. For tampering with a sweet girl’s affections, a Warrick county wid ower pays two hundred and fifty dollars damages. The Terre Haute Council has offerered a reward ot S6OO tor the arrest and conviction of the murder of A. C. Mattax. A man with a monkey and a hand organ has been delighting ihe citizens ot Valparaiso. “Mali wuuts but little here below. ’’ It is reported by the Laporte IJeruld l\\nl hundreds of cattle are being driven to past tire on thw Kankakee river marshes. A reunion of the members of the 13th and 14tli regiment Indiana volunteers has been appointed on the 4th of July at Columbus. 0:i Monday of last week, at Wheatland, Knox comity, Mrs. Mary Bteen, aged 83, was burned to death l»y her cloths taking fire. A company from Michigan are erecting a building 40x10, three sloi ius, at Walkenoii, for the purpose of canning sweet corn aud small fruits. The boiler at, the Otter Creek mines of Niblyck, Zimmerman <& OtH, near Brazil, exploded Thursday morning, at 7 o’clock, and seven men were badly injured. There is a man in Columbus who has not attended church for so long that he says he does not remember whether they knock at the door or not when they want to go in. A Ijogausport belle hung up her stockings recently, and some boys, just for fun, threw into them an old wheelb rrow, three coasting sleds, four base ball bats, and other articles too numerous to mention.

Myers, who murdered Blackly at Lowell, Lake county recently, withe*ut cause or provocation, pleaded guilty to murder in the second degree, and was sentenced to the penitentiary for life lie was seventyfour years of age. The name of Logansport was given to the original survey of that town in 1828, by Colonel J. B. Duret. who won the right to name the place at a shooting match. He named it in honor of the services of Captain Loga“, the Shawnee chief. - Mr. Dick, of Logan sport, while passing along the street, was killed by the debris from a blast discharged in an excavation made by the City qulhoriries. Mrs. Dick brought wut against the city for $•>,000 damages, and has received judgment tor S3,SUU. Cyrusßall, who married a daughter of Charles Miller, of Decatur, Adams county, some three or four years ago, and ran off anti left her, marrying again, has been tried and convicted of bigamy at Marion, and sent to the penitentiary for three years. He was arranging for the third marriage, when arrested, Diptheria has prevailed to an alarming extent among the children and youths of Fulaski county, since last fall, a great many having died with the disease. The VVifiamao Democrat of the JOth instant says: “One gentleman troin Cass township, 'informs ns that he has lost two boys within the last two weeks, and that the graveyard is visited almost daily by processions burying the dcaff.” v

EXCHANGE CLIPPINGS.

Says the Fowler Era: The directors of the Remington fair are endeavoring to make their coming exhibition the beat ever held in Jasper county. Dr. Jfelley, of Rensselaer, ia a dentist and photographer. He pulls a tooth and then takes a picture before the sweet smile which plays upon the countenance fades away into the somber expression.Kcntlund Gazette. A model man lived in Valparaiso. His creed ia briefly as follows. ,“I never go home till all the other places are dosed; I never strike a man when he is down; I never drink except when somebody else defrays the expenses.” We have a few models ot that description here, and who can claim the additional quality: “I never pay for my paper unless I am dunned six times or sued.”— South. Bend Herald. There is a baker in this city who put up a sign on his bake-shop door —“No loafing here.” We suggested to him, how in the name ot common sense he expected to supply his customers, if that was line, as a baker is supposed to be a

loafer, and it was preposterous to say “no loafing here.” He saw the poult and tore the sign down with an emphatic—*‘Py tarn you no foolish me any look shust a (eedle oud, py sheemany.— Columbus Republican. A few (lays ago the Chicago Times published a lengthy communication giving adetailed account of the lynching of the Benders. The writer claims to have been one of the party that did the lynching. This reminds us of the fact that about the time Senator York and others first commenced their search tor the Benders, a gentleman from the vicinity of Cherry-vale was in our office ami made the assertion that the search was useless, as tlie Benders were no longer alive, having been’ Lynched near some stream by a jiosse of men as they were trying to make their escape from tfifi country. —Girard, Kansas, Press. Columbus Democrat: “A young man named Mack Filch, of Ohio twfiship, was T on Friday last, killed by liie kick of a mule. Desiring to pull oil' one of the shoes on the nude, Fitoh raised one of of the hind legs of the animal for that purpose. Just as the foot was raised the mule jumped forward, disengaging it flow the young man’s hold, and immediately kicked, one fool striking Filch just behind tiie ear, break mg his neck, and killing him instantly. He was but eighteen yeais of age.” A commercial traveler is going to build a hotel. All the rooms will he front rooms on the second floor. The landlord will be abolished as a nuisance, the clerk will be an angel with his wings concealed under his coat and will attend to every want personally, a pretty chambermaid will be attached to every room to answer bells, etc., meals will be served at all hours of the day and night to suit each palate and board will be $1.50 a day and no extras. Such a hotel is just what the American traveling public wants. —South Bend i.etald.

A plucky voting lady teaches school out in tlie northeast corner of Porlttg** township. Returning irom her school .late one afternoon she was stopped in a lonely part of the road by a big tramp who made indecent propositions to her. Suiting the action to tlie word he attempted to lay violent hands on her. Here is where he made a mistake. The young woman has a quick intellect and presence of mind in a sound body. She didn’t run, nor scream nor anything of that kind, but whipped out a shooting iron, cocked the weapon quick as thought and brought the muzzle tt» such (dose nroximity to the ruffian's head that he set up a cowardly howl for mercy. After making hint walk along some distance in trout of her at the peril of a btibet in Ills eareass, tlie brave girl finally let him off and he gladly beat a retreat for the brush. That girl ought to have a gold medal. —South Bend Herald. *•— Section 1 of an act passed by the legislature of Indiana last winter and approved by Governor Williams March 13ll», 1877, is as tullows: Be it enacted by the general assembly of tfcie slate ot Indiana, that all theaters, opera houses, public buildings, museums, churches, colleges seminaries, and school buildings shall hang all doors for the purpose of ingress and egress thereto, bo that the same shall swing outward; provided that rooms in school houses or churches where the scholars or meeting* assemble are on the ground floor are excepted "from the provisions of this act.

Five Kinds of Paper Currency.

Our paper currency at the present time is exceedingly mixed and diverse in its character, consisting of no less than five different kinds authorized by law. These kinds are as follows: 1. The gold certificates issued by the secretary of treasury, representing individual deposits of gold in the treasury and payable on demand. 2. The gold notes issued by tnree banks in California, payable on demand in gold. 3. The legal tender notes of the-United Stales, now irredeemable, yet payable when the government shall choose to pay them 4. National bank notes, redeemable in legal-tender notes. 6. Fractional currency, exchangeable tor legaltender notes, , All these forms of currency circulate as money andlpractically perform its functions. This ia ndtia normal Condition of the curreiioy. With the exception of the first two forms, comparatively small'in amount, the whole of it is irredeemable in the standard money of the world, and, hence, circulates at a discount, as compared with gold. The only aiffeienoabetween naiional bank-notes and legal-ten-ders is the one that law makes Practically they are the equivalents of each other, being equally guaranteed by the government Two things are needed to,restore our currency to the normal state. The first is its redeemability by gold at the option of the holder, to be gained only by the resumption of specie payment. The second is the payment and withdrawal of legal-tender notes, and the substitution therefor ot national banknotes, payable on demand in specie. This and this only will bring the conntry hack to a settled and stable standard of value. We should then have one. legal-tendev, and not two, in which to compute and express the value of connnadities.—A'ew York Independent.

An Important Decision.

A decision of some bit crest and importance to residents fffrinHlan* was made by tiie supreme court of the United Slates just prior to adjournment. The title oi the case was Joel Davis, W. C. Adams et al. vs. the Btate of Indiana et ah, board of commissioners Bartholomew' county. Justice Miller delivered the opinion affirming tho decision of the oourt below, which was based upon the following facts: Congress iu the act admitting Indiana declared that every sixteenth section of a township iu the state should be appropriated lor the use of schools within the township. In 1854 the state legislature passed an act providing that the money derived from the sixteenth section should be mingled wit!) the school moneys derived from taxation and other sources into a common fund and be apportioned among the counties in the state according to the number of pupils therein. As this might have resulted in a diversion of some of tlie money derived from the congressional grant to other townships in which the land lay, it was declared by the supreme court of the state to be invalid. An act of 1855 stated that in uocase shall the congressional fuud~ be diminished by such distribution, ind diverted to any other township. This equalized the distribution, and where a township had already an ascertained sum from its sixteenth section it received nothing from the lunds from other sources until the other townships had equal amounts; Having regard to the number of pupils ascertained "h/ a legal census, the same town of Springfield that brought a suit to test the original act brought one to test this, claiming that this act was in conflict with an act of congress. The supreme court of Indiana said it was not, and Justice Miller affirmed its decision.—lndianapolis Journal.

The Way to Cut Flowers.

The florists employ a pair of scissors, with which the stems arc severed. But a writer in the American Garden says that the flowers should never be pulled off—nor should the stems be severed with scissors, but cutoff with a sharp’knife. The beat time for cutting flow era is immediately after sundown, unless to preserve them from a storm, which would otherwise destroy or prevent their being cut in the evening. Oo cloudy days the time of cuttiug is a matter of much less difference. The explanation of these rules as to the proper time tor cutting, it i« found in the state of tlie sap at different limes of the-day and night. From tlie earliest dawn till sundown: tiie leave* are actively draw-

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ing upon the roots, and the sap ia flowing freely. After that time the leaves are nearly dormant until morning. The plant i« then resting, is asleep. A flower cut in the sunshine will wilt at once, and if not put in water will quickly perish, whereas, if cut at sunset, they wil| remain fresh all night- In a coui place it will not appear to change for a long time, even if not put |ii water; yet, in a close, hot room jt w.lljtnde in an hour’. The usual manner is to out all flowers with a long stem. Unnatural as it may seem, the true way. (for the greateF part of our flowers) is to remove them without a stem. Rose* should be c*t with a long stein—the longer the better, provided other buds are not destroyed. The carnation and all plants that bear their flowers in clusters should be removed without stems. The heliotrope should be allowed a very short stem, and the verbenashould only be out as far down as the first leaf. A bit of wire or a match-stiek will serve for astem if it is desired to make of these stemless flowers a boquet. If they are to be placed in shallow dishes—the best way to display them'—the stems are of no consequence. Do not collect flowers in large bundles, or tie them together, as these processes also hastens decay,—New York Herald.

Good Times for Farmers.

We wish we had a table at our hands by which we could draw a comparison between the present purchasing value of a dollar and that time during the war when gold was highest and greenbacks lowest. As near as we can ascertain, our agricultural population should st this time be the most fortunate among our people. Wheat now sells at nearly the highest war prices, and the value of the money received is nearly three times that during tho war period spoken of. A farmer brings n load of wheat to town today of say 40 bushel#/- it sells for 80 dollars. There were periods during the war, if we mistake not, when the same load would have brought $l2O. But at this time the real purchasing value was worth but one dollar in gold. The purchasing value of greenbacks today is within a few cents of gold, so that the real value of wheat to-day is nearly double that of the highest period during the War: Everything but produce is down to nearly ante war prices; some things even cheaper: sugar, coffee, and tea; calicos, dress goods, furniture, hardware, etc. While this condition of things is peculiarly favorable to the farmer, it# is severe oik nearly every other class of people. The laborer’s wages have been reduced to ante war rates—to 75 cents to $2.50 per day, and flour quoted at $lO 50 per ba-tel. The profits of the tradesman and manufacturer are small. The employer cannot afford to pay more than he is paying, for he finds the market for jinx goods inactive, his competition strong, and he must sell very cheap to effect sales at all. Take it in the long rim 01* farmer has the advantage of ua all.— St Joseph Vulley Ret/uttr.

The Devil gets his Due.

On Sunday,the loth alt., in tbu town of Maple Giove, in Manitowoc county, a singular and fata! occurrence took place. It being Sunday the people of the neighborhood had generally gone to church, leaving, as is the custom, only one or two of a family at home to guard the premises. At the house when it occurred, only a years old was at home. *A man went to the house completely. enveloped in a beef hide, with horns, tail and all complete, and so tilted that nothing else could be seen. It was known in the neighborhood tlat the occupants of this house had monev, and there was thereat the time about 9200 on the premises. .The man disguised in the hide told the boy that he was the devil, and that he had come after his money, and that the boy must give it to him. The boy answered that he would not give the money. The devil then told the bov that he would kill him if he did not bring out the money. The boy then stepped into the house, as if he was about to comply, but instead of bringing the money he brought a gun and shot the mail dead. The boy then ran to the nearest neighbor, and titidlitg only a woman there, told' her that he had shot the devil. The woman went with the boy, and louud that Uie devil whom the boy had shot was her husbaud.—6’ree.* lk<y Advw cate.

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