Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1877 — “On Call.” [ARTICLE]

“On Call.”

Ex-Governor Hendricks contemplates whiling away the heated term in Europe. 1 ' ■ , T .". T» The delinquent tax list of Cook county, Illinois, to which The Union called attention a week or two since, swelled the exchequer of the Inter-Ocean company $50,000. Such a crumb as that is worth having. The Turks raised the double Greek cross recently, the standard carried only in a religious war, and the Russians soon after tallowed suit by unfurling to the breeze the holy banner, with the motto: “God, the Emperor, and the Fatherland,” inscribed thereon. This means business, and the peace prospects which have been lurking in the background for several days past are now entirely dispelled.

Dr. Mary Walker is in a bad way. The men won’t take her in, even if she does wear bifurcated garments, aud the women repudiate her. At the National Woman’s Suffrage As-, sociation, held in New York recently, she was ordered off the platform, and a policeman called to subdue the irate woman.— Mishawaka Enterprise. Alas, for man’s inhumanity and woman’s cruelty to woman! When such a noted character as Dr. Mary Walker is repudiated by both sexes It is high time she should get up on her dignity and waltz off on her ear. She has our sympathy in this affliction, and any assistance in our power that may tend to allay her grief will be cheerfullv given. Recen t ad v ices from south western Kansas report tremendous rainfalls in that section of. country. At Wichita, Sedgwick county, the rain came down in such torreuts as to overflow the rivers and small streams and deluge the city with water. The principle streets and thoroughfares were submerged in water from six inches to three feet Aleep, making navigation with small boats necessary to carry on business. This flood is something the like of which the oldest inhabitant has never before seen in that country, and the name of droughthy Kansas is now washed from the pages of history.

Advices from Erzerourn to the London Daily Telegraph, bearing date of June 2nd, give particulars of the most horrible event of the war. A party of 4,000 Circassian cavalrymen, commanded byMousha Pasha, were completely surrounded by a large force of Russians at a place called Pekli Ahmed, where they were encamped for the night, and all but about five per cent, of the band were totally annihilated. When the Circassians realized their true condition they fought desperately to secure means of escape, but all to no avail. They, were overpowered by the Russians and had to submit to their doom. In connection with this terrible slaughter it would be well to state that the condition of affairs in the East is becoming more and more critical and an engagement between the Turks and Russians is expected to take place soon which will probably decide the struggle between the two gieat powers. The present outlook is not at all favorable for the Turks although they have been Ruccesstul in capturing several Russian forts, the last one captured being Fort Zill, near Sukum Kaleh, where the Russian garrison, 5,000 strong, were compelled to fly, leaving behind their tents and munitions of war, and sustaining a loss of 300 men and eight guns. On the Danube the Russians occupy all the important positions and as soon as the water in the river returns to its summer level the army will cross and prosecute the campaign with renewed vigor. But, as was before stated, the contest cannot last long, for the Russians have the decided advantage in pointof numbers, and one Turkish defeat of any magnitude will be about all they are able to sustain.

Encouraging reports are received from all parts of the state about the wheat prospect. The oldest inhabitant never seen a better prospect for a good yield of this cereal. The only trouble is the fact that the wheat crop has failed so often in this region that the farmers did not plant a very large acreage this season. Dr. Ayer, the patent medicine man, accumulated a fortune 0t515,000,000, and then lost his mind. Oh, if he had just willed The Union a slice of that sum—say, for instance $14,500,000 —before he became insane, his mime would have been sung by our children and our children’s children as long as a dollar of the money lasted. The hearty, receptions given ExPresident Grant by the people of the Eastern continent are certainly high testimonials to the character of the man as a chief ruler of a great and powerful nation and also to his merits as a commander in chief of the armies. They are but proper tributes of respect to the popular esteem with which his administration was held by the people of foreign luiids during his two terms of office, and show their hearty good will toward the United States as a nation.

“1 can’t jess git it frow my head how dose business men can borrow money on call an’ make it pay,” Brother Gardner was explaining at the market. “De odder day I borrowed t.vo dollars of dat Mister Brown on Grove street, and I was jess dat fool ’miff to show off a leetlv, so I told him I wanted to borrow dat two dollar bill on call. Well, what you s’pose happened? “He didn’t have any two dollars to lend!’’ called out one of the whitewashers. A “You got de money and jrtmped de town!” put in a second. “Gemlen, I know dis town, an’ dis town knows me,” stiffly replied Mr. Gardner. “I believe my money is as good as my word among de business men. No, sir; tuk .de money, w> nt home, an’ I hadn’t been in de house ten minutes whyn dat Brown came alorg and sung out: “Brudder Gardner, I’se calling you—l’se calling over de fence for dat tWo dollar bill!” “Dere dat money was on call, an’ dere he was calling for it, an’ I had to hand ’em ober. When an ole man like rne hez got his mind made np to have fried oysters for breakfast, an’ a finanshul smash like dat comes down upon him, it jess make de shivers go up’n down his back widout regard to ceremony.”