Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1877 — STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

STATE NEWS.

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.

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