Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1877 — STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

STATE NEWS.

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

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 ■ ;