Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1877 — Page 1

VOLUME 9.

■MAM *. J aMM. Mkrt* 9. CIAIBA. HORACE E.JAMEB fa CO.. FuHfotars sad Proprietor* to THE UNION, Remaeelaer, InMaaa. One eopy one year, W. Six meeths, M; three auraths, (thirteen weeks), M eeMe; alwaye in ndvAnoe. Single eopy, 4 cento. jLA-WMrt&ntsMr Stateo. One column, cm rear. rfo.oo Half column, “ 40.00 S muter eel. “ , tote IghtteeeL “ . 10. W Ten CIO) percent, added to foregoing price if ndrertiaemeato are rot to occupy more than •4agio oolumn width. Fractional parte of * year, at •quitable rates. Buniness cards not exceeding one inch space, <4a year, fS for sixteenths. rs for three months. All legal notices and advertisements, at esteblished statute price. Reading notices, drat publication to cento a Una, each publication thereafter t eeats a line. Yearly advertisements are subject to throe ■ehangaefone change in throe months), at the -option of the advertises, free of extra charge. Advertisements for persona not residents of Jasper countv mast he paid for In advance of first publication, whoa lees than oM-quartef •column iu site; and quarterly la advance when larger. R*o“b large assortment of type and other material for poster, pamphlet, circular and kindred work. Prices low.

RENSSELAER BUSINESS CAROS. DR. G. A. MOM, PHYSICIAN AND SUAGROM. Office in Spitler’s brick building, opposite Court House. R. J.H. LOUGH RIDGE. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Washington street, below Austin's hotel. R. MOSES B. ALTER. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office iu llnrding At Willey’s drag store. DR. R. Y. P.iYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office on Washington street, one door above Stone Building. Nr. bowman. «b • TAILOR. Cutting dona to order ia latest styles. Charges reusonabl*. ’flop north side of Wash* tugtou street, in s Stone Building. J • FASHIONABLE TAILOR. Carment* made In latest styles. Cutting a speelaitv. and xatisfretion guaranteed. Shop •a Washington stmt, one doer below bank. j'IHARLttS P. HOPKINS tyg7 h-ttV« to inform the public Hint he is now prepared.fo. do house painting, paper hanging, culcimining, eta., apprises Iwyund <M>m|ietitiqu. or found at his rooms, up-stairs in Liberal Corner building. »-t»-ly, -IV ELLS.-A RTfifHAN AND DRIVEN. VY - JAMES w. PORTER. The only water witzard who insures living water and hacks np bin insuranre by work. Me water 110 pay. Insures an ample supply of water in all his wells for oi>e year. 1-tl.' f.ohilcote, • ATTORNEY, AND COUNSELOR AT LAW. Office on Washington street, opposite the Ceart Haute nqaare. SIMOK r. THOMPHOX, PriftP j. THOXteOX, Attorney at Law. Notary Public. tTWIOMPiiON A BRO.. , k 1 RKNMELAER, INDIANA. o Practice in all the Courts. We pay particular attentkm to paying taxes, selling sad leasing lauds. M axiom L. Sr«TLXU. Collector and Abstraeter. a. a. DwraoiNS. zimbi •wkkmns. RB. &Z.DWIGGIN*. . ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Praatioe in all the eourie of Jasper, Newton, Beaton and Pulaski caatitles ; also Iu the Baprehre sad Federal eenrts. Makectlloctieua a specialty. * ’ piANtW.BA BLOCK. T ATTORNEY AT LAW, u Notary Public, Real Estate Broker and !n*uranee Agent, Rensselaer, Indiana. Lands examined, Abstracts of Title propnrod and Tates Kid. Collections aspeobilty. Office iu Spitler’s Ok building, opposite Court House. f-44.1y. A~ McCOY ... BANKERS. Bay and mH domestic exchaagt. make •olioctiow on all available petals, pay Interest on specified time deposits, etc. Office hours from » n. iq. to 4 p. nt. SAMP. ERWIN, BLACKSMITH. New brick shop. Front street, above the old saw mill, also, ia csttseoli*a,a WOOD SHOP v v whom all klnda of wood work repairwill be done to order. Prises below 1 eom poll lion. p* Hl* DLEfFiTioBERTS. BLACKEMITHS. At Warner’s old Maud an Free* street. Morseahoeing, mucliiao repairing, carriage trenlng, eta., dune neatly and cheaply. T miEGRAAT, l_j BLACKSMITH. Shop ba Frout atreot, neat door above the •taga offiae,ut Derail A Gaff’s aid stead. Pbiroaajps sa!icite4* ÜBTIN’B HOTEL. J. AUSTIN, PROPRIETOR. This heaauiaaaatnlly located In tho business part «f towa. New house, now furaitara, goad toHaa, Mpor|sncad laadtend- la rocaainiiadid te tlte travoHng public. PROPRIETOR. Eaoalloat tabla, oouvssioai lecaiiou, earefal attaatiaa te teaate as- pesto, aad sxperlnsrori use Ito rsemmoudaiious to popular ftvor. Xi.XA.MAII, ~£> E NT I 8 T, total 8 > Jaatteii’HalhUng. JTCiiBBELAEtt,INDIANA Dr.fltaaar trifero Me aMMaional semoto to «bojpoleof Uite vitiiAy, AB the sagera HsZtSR

THE RENSSELAER UNION.

tMUmSTpM BtISIMESS CARDS. JAMRSSPttCE the p>AC - Uakes prompt collections at reasonable rates. Office » Spencer's drug store, north side of Ruiiroffid . ' t■ t • . '■, i Ki Fees moderate. Call on him. •-*> ■ North side Rffilroad street. Jumps Hpenror, proprietor. Hush drugs, pure medicines, elegadt soihst aHtaMa,chou» cigars and tobaccos, flue stationeHFafc. niyulcians’ prescriptions carefully eonyunded. >-» W. A. RAILSBACK, Druggist ad Apothecary, ILDMXNGTON. XMOXANA. Decltr in Paints, Oils, Window Glast, TolUl and Fancy Articles, and s in fnct, everything usually kept in a firsl-class Drug Store. CELLULOID TRUSSES a speciaUy. Will convince my customers that f sell AS CHEAP AS THE CHEAPEST. ffave recently secured the vice of an Prescrip' lion Clerk. . .1. A DTYfi __Lnte*t and nobbiest styles V>A.lLlJi3»nf Canls. printed on new tvf>e* of the moss I'wcnt anil impulur designs. A dozen tint* and « of qards. Fifty design* and/izes of «£!>*• Address, business, and camng ciirdL XvGrit nent. »Ux-A best qnatftv. I'rtven below Competition. SaL «»n guaranteed. L. JAMES A ensaelqer. Indiana. , ' r _ y nJi li VXl.„.a.aU.‘.; -sU vmMeT kannal, r Drugfiat and Pharmaceutißt, BKAl.rn in DRUGS, PATENT M&DICINM, PAINTB, OILS ANortXK BBASMOF CXOFjURto AJSTX) WOSJLOCO, Washington Street, Remwelaer, Inißann. ,—— -.■+*rrf .-T '• ■ - A ipod tarrtn of 165 Afire#, (bur miles from Retitwelaer on Remington yoafl. Terms cany. Atldreab ’. * 388. O. XKXXaXtaXBXv Lock-Box 1.362. Richmond, Ind. May l|tb. 18". 84-4 MONEY TO LOAN AT NINE PER CENT. INTEREST, IN SUMS OF SI,OOO TO SIO,OOO, ON FARMS AND CITY PROPERTY. FOR FIVE YEARS’ TIME. ETThla is the cheapest mow y ever offered the public west of (he AllegliaWy mountsine. Cull ou, or address, R. 8 & Z. DWIGGINS, A ttorneys and Loan Agents, Renasglaer. Ind. to The Celebrated Thoroughbred Stallion NIGHTSHADE will be found at my stable-in Renszelaer, Indiana, during the ffiHAffiOWOl’lß77, Insurance. 115; season service, fto. Should service prove unproductive in any case thia veer, the use of the borae for those mures during the season of M7B, if he lives, will be free of 30-to SC ‘ JAMTO BALOT.

flow to Save Money. TO THE OWNERS~OF LAHOS IN JASPER COUNTY. We to.* have a complete ABSTRACT OF TITLE t« all land* U Che county, carefully praf sred from the record* by experienced men. a compiling thia work we have discovered tho Act that there are *AXY WSI’SOTXTB TXTI.MB which should be adjusted without delay, while parties interested are still living. Jha expense will be light if attended to scan, and may save costly litigation at some Mure time Theae defective Titles are n Marios id by * variety of censes—deed* uc recorded' error* in making and recording, etc. All persons owning land in the oounty should call on, or write to, us at bm« and have the title to their land examined, R.B. fa Z. DWIGGINS, 8-40. Reuwelaer, Ind.

Rensselaer Nursery The undersigned now has on hand and for sate at living rates, several thousand APPLE TREES, PEAR TREES both dwarf fad standard. Cherry Trees, Siberian Crabs, QbDUAJPXI 'VXXWO. two aud torso years old, Ui.Majli.Kiiiniio.tließaiißiilCatulM and ofair popular varieties of OniMtaMteA taCtoatoL* «*M«. STRAWBERRY PLANTS to several popular varieties, by the hundred or purchased Mr. George Nagle’s stock EVERGREENS AND SHRUBBERY leaaropplyeusSovnera aaythtag they dwire fa Kouvlng nothing but dead brush for your mon - •y. 1 My stock <3 trees, shrubs, vines, steals MOdafa healthy, al vlag uni ver«al satisfaction. Thanking too juMiaftr Mto fovora, they are raafatfully invited to oentlnue their ptaronage. Terms c*isb,orrxrd bearing mtaros*. JDHM COEN, Ms WW> OCF3WJBWSM.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, MAY 31, 1877.

It ia said that the friends of Gen. Pillow are urging hia appointment to the vacancy caused by the death of United States judge Emmons. What are the friends of justice doing? While the population of northern Indiana and the Northwest generally were enjoying the cool temperature of last week, those of Berkshire county, Massachusetts, reveled in the luxury of a snow storm. ’Twas* ever thus. It always happens that other people have something better than we do.

Some of our democratic exchanges relate with ill-concealed satisfaction that Prfedident Hayes was grossly insulted Bt the uh veiling of tile statue nf the poet Halleck, in Central park, New York olty. It seems to be the characteristic of a democratic crowd to outrage decency and propriety at the north, and to murder people for political reasons at the south. And democratic newspapers are the only ones that ever justify, palliate, rejoice oyer or excuse riotous conduct. There must be something lacking in the civilization of men who are guilty of ou 1 rages such as • nrb here referred to, and a bluntness of the perceptions of those otherwise seemingly good people who uphold them.

"It is reported that Gen. Packard has recorded a fearful oath fhal he will take satisfaction out of the peadlenlial editor of The Union if be has to engage the assistance of the whole Indiana congressional, delegation together with all the liv ing ex judges of the snpreme bench. From the malignancy of his,newspaper assaults and the ferocity of hia legal it might be suspected that be bad dieted dlinoat exclusively upon grizxly bear ateaks while in Arixoua and California last winter and the past spring. His vote hi congress on the salarygrab act indicated a raveubha dis|KHf!tion which the hope of grab bing 810,000 from a former constituent appears to intensify. If we mistake not Gen. Packard will learn in the course of years that it will require more money than he ia likely to receive from hia libel suit to repair hia self-polluted reputation. He ia not the first man in the world’s history who has cried “out damned spot.”

Those Turks and Russians are engaged in what their rulers call a holy war. That ia to aay, murder sanctified by prayer. The Turks pray and fight for the privilege of butchering every body whose religion w not like theirs, and the Kusciaiie pray and fight for the conversion of Mohammedans to the ; faith of the Greek church, or at tobst to establish iis insignia above that of Islamism. Both of them areequally positive that God is especially pleased with his own peculiar devotions. Between the two forma of religion engaged in bloody conflict there is little upon which to base a choice. Both are fanatical, both oppressive, and both despotic. Perhaps the Russian himself occupies a position that is a step nearer our own civilisation, is by nature less voluptuous, and is capable of being more easily impressed by the spirit of progress which prominently characterizes the age in which we live. As a nation, or rather as a government, the Russians appear to be more enterprising and progressive. The sympathies of Christendom seem to incline towards the Russians in the present struggle, but for what reason, unless it is because she seems to bo the stronger power, it is perhaps difficult to determine* The reason that the masses in the United States side with Russia is probably because she was among the most friendly of all European powers towards the Union sentiment during the late war in this country.

Rev. H. V. Reed, Adventist, of Chicago, recently lectured at Kentland upon “The Religious Aspect of the Turoo-Russian War,” in the course of which he is reported to have advanced the opinion that it will ultimately resolve into a conflict between the Christian and Mohammedan religions, and result in the downfall of the latter, the restoration of the Jews to Palestine, and the establishment of the Kingdom of the Messiah ou earth.

The LaPorte papers are very comSlimentary over the scenic painting In heir new Opera House. Did they ever know of a real practical mill being located a quarter of a mile above the dam, before one was thus represented on the drop curtain they admire so much?— Henuelaer Union. There It is again! When wiU these Country Jakes learn a little something about genuine art? The enterprising owners first contemplated building a mill below the fall according to the old fashioned custom, but there were a number of big rocks in the way and they changed their minds, aud selected the site of a rat house above the dam, built thereou a rustic cabin for the future miller to keep his pigs In. Country spoon lea sometimes think it was intended for a mill, and sometimes they, think it is a rustic cottage and imagine that all kinds of rural happiness flourishes there. But it’s a mistake. Nobody Intends to make a mill of it. It’s ouly a pig pen. When the mill is built the public shall have timely information of it. . When we have mills right in the business part of town, don’t the Union suppose we know where a mill ought io be built?— LaPorte- Argue. h That is nil very well explained;, and so kindly, too, that we venture to ask the Argux what object the architects of that pig pen had in attaching to it a Mississippi river .steamboat paddle- wheel that reaches up to the second story window? and why the owners don't have a sign painted with words “this is a’pig pen,” and hang it out of the gable window for the intorinatioii of the country jukes and spoonies who form the larger portion of LaPorte Operu "House visitors?

The Laporte Chronicle, “Jasper Packard, editor,” last week devoted, more than a column of solid type in an endeavor to prove that Jaaper Packard is the shrewdest politician and moat popular repnblican living in the tenth congressional district of Indiana, and also that The Union was not and is not capable of doing any injury to hia reputation or standing among the people. Well, the last proposition is probably true. Its truth will be admitted at any rate, for it is a difficult labor to make the fragrance of a spoiled mackerel or the reputation of a salary-grabbing member of congress more odious. It is also well enough for a man to have a good opinion of Himself, and if he owns' a newspaper it may be perfectly proper for him to advertise that opinion both tor his own gratification and to set at rest any suspicion to the contrary that his own acts might have aroused in the minds of the readers of his paper. But if General Packard is such a shrewed politician, bow did it happen that one term in the most important office was enough to transfer La Porte county from repnblican to democratic keeping ? and why was it that three terms in congress was sufficient to overcome a republican majority in oiir district of 1,200 to 1,600 and give the representation to a democratic successor with more than 600 majority of the votes? And if Tub Union never did nor nevpir can damage General Packard 1 ! popularity what motive had he in bringing an action tor libel against its proprietors in which he states as a fact that The Um ion did injure his reputation to the extent of slo,ooo—a sum which is equivalent to the amount of the lawful fees for one term in congress? The General is guilty of tergiver sation. Either he stated a falsehood in his complaint to the courts arid his prosecution is malicious, or he told a falsehood in his editorial of late publication and lacks common discretion, or he has spoken untruthfully both times and given cause for the suspicion of mendacity and knavery. I

STATE NEWS.

There are four paper mills at Elkhart. , There are ten inmates in the Nt. Joseph county jail. Clemßoberaton, in Guilford has been robbed fourteen times in nine years, with a total loss of 12,000. The Preu thinks there never was a better prospect for an abundance of fruit in the vicinity of Kentland A hennery 84x300 feet in dimensions, for the propagation of early chickens for the Chicago market, is being built at LaPorte. Tommy Martin ia the luckiest fisherman of Winamac this season. His champion haul was a pickerel that weighed pounds. South Bend people were lately startled by the exhibition in their city of a negro boy “beautifully diversified with clear white spots.” The yortAera Indianian of Warsaw threatens to speak the “forkedtongued truth” about a Princeton preacher, if be does not let up his lip.

Stale Senator J. 11. Winterbotham, was recently awarded the labor of fifty convicts in the northern prison at forty-five cents each per day. ! ; i. Major Jonathan W. Gordon/ of Indianapolis will deliver the principal address at the great soldiers’ reunion at Warsaw next month. “Asparagrass” is the way that the Knox Ledger spells it. The editor of that paper is a democrat and superintendent of Starke county. - , ■- ■_ , . . Theodore W. McCoy, formerly' clei-k of the Indiana supreme court, will engage in ministerial labors for the Presbyterian ehurcfi in Oregon.

A new hoinle of worship,,of thft Seventh Bay daptixto whs dedicated’ at Rochester on the 20th inata/nt. Six persons were immersed that afternoon and received into piembersliip. :! ■ ; . v ,-<■ James Libby, of Fort Wayne, has been awarded the contract for building the ceil bouse and new jiliopta at the northern prison,- st 139,000 for the former and 87,600 for the latter. There is a good opening at Fowler, the Herald says, fdr h first class furniture store. A Jjye, enterprising man with moderate capital it thinks could not find a better location m the state. A light-footed maiden of MishaWaka recently tripped nimbly down to South Bend and back again, afoot and alone, tonr milet and a half, to buy a pair of “those slippers you advertise to sell for a quarter.”

Thomas A. Dailey,business manager of tiie South Bend Herald, will deliver the-poem at the commence merit ffxeFcifae it Notre Dsme this year. - Hon. Frank Hurd, of Toledo, Ohio, will be the orator Bn that occasion. ; . have Anqerson struck Sam Tucker with a pick at Knightstown, last Wedoeacty, ipfiioHug a probably fatal wound. They were both colored men, miners, an £ the Quarrel arose from tfie alleged friminai intimacy of the assaulted map with Anderson’s wUe. It, is stated that there ia a hegira of negroes from the southern part of Indiana. They go to seek a field offering cheaper food and less work with more money. When they have discovered that Utopia if they reveal its locality there will be a vast emigration of thoftf white neighbora. ) - Be careful about handling eggsA gentleman in attempting tp carry a basket of this luscious fruit from his wagon into a storff at Crown Point, ofio day last week, was stricken with palsy, since which time he has been partially blind, whoUyepeeohless, an# lying in a very lo'v dondhion of health. 1 ■ ;

NUMBER 37,

BUFFALO BILL.

The Way He Married a Mebraska Couple. After serving for years on inefrontiers, Cody settled in McPherson, in this state; and in 1872 wiu* elected justice of t,lie peace, am) n> the following year was chosen a member of the legislature.' A good story is told of how he performed the ceremony <»f marriage while he was justice of the peace. It was his first attenint, and the applicants were of tne true western typb. They called upon Cpdy iu the log cabin where he held his justice office. BUI had a book of form a,, wid ch he took down and studied attentively to get some idea of how he should lie the knot. There wcri! forihx for nearly every transaction of Ylfc, but he failed to find what he was looking for, and finally slamnced the book down and observed to the parties: “You two fellers join hands” — and the “two fellers” did no. r Then he said .to the groom: > “Are you willing to take this woman to be yonr lawful, wedded wife, to love her, honor her, and obey her?” ' “You bet your bntes,”’ was the response bf the bnshfol hait lifter, “And you, miss—are yon willing to lake this here mini to be yonr wedded hnaband,tolove him, hoiior him, and support hifa ?” She giggled, and nodded in the affirmative, but tlii*> didn’t suit Bill, who said: ... “See here, miss, we’ve got to have thia thing on the dead square, and We can’t marry folks by halves in this country. We ar* bonirtl to go the hog. If you want this here man for ,a. husoaqd, yon must speak out mid say so, as though yon meant it, sure. I*|l ask you again; ‘Will you take this here man jip be your lawful, .h’ldded husband, to love him, bon jr, hjin, and support bi.ni?” This time the lady responded bravely—‘‘Yes, sir, I will.” i , This satisfied his Honor, and he remarked: “That settles it Now look here, you two; you are man and wife, and. whoever Bill Cody »nd God Almighty have joined together, let no. man pnt asunder- r t

The Election of Presidents and Vice Presidents.

Senator; Morton has publixbed his views upon; the better way for c°’>gress to legislate, in order saw prevent tbeoccnrrence of complies t ion x in the election of presidents ami vice-presidents. His xnmma’rj' <»f what the law ♦«! the subject should be is as 1. The president and vtoe-presi-dent shall be elected by tfip direct vote of the people in the manner following: : {Each state shall be divided into districts, equal m. Dumber to the number of representatives to whiqh the state may be entitled in congress, to be eompoxed of contiguous territory, and to b« aS nearly equal in population as may be; and the person having tlie highest number of votes in each district for president shall receive the dote, of that dieirieW.which shall count one presidential vote. 2. The person harihgthe highest number of votes fOr preeident in » state shgll receive two presidential voted from the btate at large. 8. The person having the highest number of votes in the/United States shall be president. ♦. It two persons have the *»ame number of in any stare, it being' the highest number, they ’shall receive each one presidential vote from the state at large; and if more than two persona sunlit hfeve the satne ntimber et votes in any state, if Deing the highest number, no presidential vote sliW be counted for the statoat large. If more persons than one shall have the same number of votes, It being the highest number in any district, n<» presidential vote ’ball be counted for that district ; x‘. j 6. The foregoing provi<mfiishall apply to the election of vice-presi-dent. 6. The congress shall, hawe tho power to provide fw holding and condiiictng the elections of president and vice president, and to establish tribunals such elections as may be contested. 7. The states shall be divided into districts by the legislatures thereof, bdt the congrefa utny at any lime by law make or alter the same. "•> - **r j.’i 1 Boys are much better than they used to be. We ope yeetwKv out.mi.lhe back piazza “There is rest for the weary,” whitot hia,. mother weeding thc onkm bed.