Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1877 — STATE HEWS AHD GOSSIP. [ARTICLE]

STATE HEWS AHD GOSSIP.

! A starch factory at Vincennes employs 170 hands. Kent land has nine base ball club.*, and the teuth one sprouting. , About 400 of. the inhabitants of Brook- ! villo I‘dnre U> do right.’’ The Y. M. C. A. of Logansporl conducts . tiR meetings per morilt. | Over- 1,50(1 persons have signed the temperance plodge at Anderson. Warren county has 2,747 persons Who 1 exercise tho right of "stiffrage. It is estimated that the wheat crop of ' Lal’orte county is 759,000 bushels. 1 ' At Oinncltbn potatoes are sold for thirty ! cents it bushel, And nre very line. A widow living near LaPorte sold $490 worth of strawberries this season, p Vermillion county enumerates a papulation of 2,792 males over 21 years old. ! r The pay rolls of the Richmond sit nn and factories aggregate over $1,09) it day. I There aro 7,040 mules over 21 years old ' in Cuss county, and 85,099 inhabitants. Thomas Bench is tlie oldest fiuit in Luke couuty. Be is 03 by the fatuity regie)or. lion. David Tut-pic will address tlie old settlors of Carroll county, tho 14th iitstan). A bear was discovered recently tu tbe woods between Bourbon and Tippecanoetown.

A nine foot rnltlo snake, with fourteen nilths, was billed iu Fountain couuty recently. Jackson county reports 4,797 male inhnhitams 2j years old and over, 65 of whom are oolored. l’orter county farmers nre sowing an unusual acreage of turnips, the Valparaiso Videite says. There never was a better flax crop in the. i region about Fortville Utau the one promI isc-d this year. | An insane man named Abraham vis roai niiig nt large in the woody near New : Ripley county. The Indiana State Christian Situday ' School Convention i.-s in session ut Ituipf vilic this week. A free use of disiqfoctanU at this time of the year frequently .saves large doctor bills. —LuPbrte Argus. Mrs. Ann Brown recently died in Delphi at the age of IC4 years. £>hu was loin in Limerick, Ireland. „TLe Baltic Gronftd camp uicefliqf «IH be commenced next TL-p.ahiy, a.i.! voai.nuv ova- two Sundays, A Congregational church with 70 members has heeft organized at Peru. Buy. J. B. Pariiilco is pastor. lion. D. W. Voorbees has written a lecture j;pon_ 'j homas. Jefferson., u.: W ill. be dolive ml next season.

Rider E. O. Burgess of Irvington dedicated a now VWrislian church at i'lty oticville, a week ago lost Muuduy.. A coffiu minafui tu ring company «t Ihmnersville has received mt order for tbuir wares from London, England. Dissension io the Prosbyi-erian o'furch of Valparaiso has caused its p utor, liev. ilr. Beer, to oil'or his resignation. Ten shows are nlro.niy booked f<>r (he South Bend opera house, lo lie exhibited during October and November. South Bend practically solve:; the tramp qdistich so fir as site is concerned by compelling them to work on her streets J. B. Halvey, three njilct) from Plymouth, threshed 900 bushels of wheat- from 15 acres of ground, or 40 biwhels an acre. A circus company took s2,sijf) of ticket money out of Madison, one day last week, notwithSyiiuliiig life'llwful hard times, . The LI gentler Banner has found itnecessnry to contract, itv size. It is among ihe best Democratic newspapers in the slate. Hobart hosts two ban Is. But it is a nice town, nevertheless; and good, quiet people live there who nre remarkable f >r patience. Property in tho town of Garrett, Do Kalb County, is valued for taxation at o"‘i. The town is only two years old. It is estimated that hunur.ds of acres of meadow in Carroll county yielded an average pf ttvb tons of hay per acre this year. A New Albany . puper think J ,Utfit_ the wheat crop of Indiitna this year is nearly double that of any tw.o'seusons stneo 1c59. The Fowler Era speaks of the oats oropuf Benton coun'y as immciuic, nnd thinks that thq price will start at about twenty cents a bushel Cntnpetent-judge* ostiumle that I.aPorle county wiij export not less th-AU t,'.if9,( (‘0 bushels of wheat lids season.—Lal’orte Argus. Edward Dupree stole a watch at Orleans last Friday,, and .was in stale's prison for two years at by 7 o'clock p. ut. Saturday. s(rs. J.. 0. Pray And daughter left f.,r Denver, Colorado, Tun lay Horning [last week], for a visit oT three months.—South Bend Register. ‘ The superstructure on tlie breakwater in iltp Michigan City liiifbnr is.nearly completed. When it is done, the season’s work will bo concluded. The average yield of wheat this year in Clinton county is thirteen bushels an acre on prairie land and sutccu to eighteen tmdiois on tin Wr. Union City is proud over a weeping horse. When tke owa r can find a in-tL-li lor iiiiti ho will rig ujt a hoarse nnd win a fortune attending funerals. The German Methodist Eniscopul conference will be hold in I,aPorte September 19lh. Bev( nty-five ministers arc expected to be in attendance. » ■ A physician of Huntington is rfwiAetjtKd i r* w jwrwknrftv ■-tn’ ■ ved a™v«tijfcg j over having srtKCtNsitf:ij . . \..{ • man of that portion of his anatomy known as the left lower maxillary The sale of tlte Detroit nnd Kel River railroad for .$750,900 gave IV. P. Lontlmin, sheriff of Ctjsi county, a nice little per cent, Raiti to amount to 5v!7,590. Col. Healoy, right from the swamps of Arkansas was in Fowler last weak. Tlte t’ohntel thinks of locating hero iu tho pmctice oi law.—Fowler Democrat. The first schooner built at .ioffersonvilla was Intinclie.d last week. It was named the James Howard, in honor of a gentleman who was drowned some tiino ago. A camp mectiug of the Seventh-day Adwtll bc hold nt-K-okrunfr framrlic oth to-Mth (trthis month. Elder White of Battie ('rejtk-r M.ichigwo, will prvsido. .it is reported liv tlie South Bend papers as being very sickly in that locality and its vicinity. Most of the doctors spend a portion of their nights in their buggies. A Winauao hen was killed recently which upon dissection revealed iifieeu perfectly formed, full «i?ed eggs in the sack. All' they wanted of bcipg perfect was the shells. ‘

Two little girls at Prancotrille, Kellie Wilson and Nydy Dasoke, wer® *ociou«iy, but not fa billy, poisoned by etrting *e d poJa of stramonium or jirnson w*e»l, week before lasi. , .'v'' The LaPorte district oon'ercncc of the Methodist Kpiscopal church will boiiehl at Rolling Prairie, 7th and Btb instants. Rev. J. H. Cissel is among (fie ministers who arc to newt id tho exercises. Marshall county’s enumeration of main inhabitants 2J ywns effi ar.d evet, Js fi,li'L of whom 3 were ooloreU. Siuc« fbe.rfj,yrt was inndfe two of the colored men have gone away, and now there Is oiM. ' Myers, a Ft. Joseph counjy distiller of illicit whiskey, bus compromised with tho revenue officers by paying SI,OOO fine riikrl $285 lux on thi whiskey manufactured, which liquor was restored to hiip. A sido premium of a cook stave As otfertUl by thoso interested in the' (T.iiilon county fair, to the couple ft em Center township who will get married in their flora] ball during thetitne the fair is being held. Mrs. Betty Degrafunreed was fined $t find trimmings recently, at Danville, for flogging her husband. She peons!sctH‘’t'V de Laud” never to strike Adam splits, “Slo he is de mos’ ’vokinist niggttb in de Reliable information lias reached the bogaot-port Journal that counterfeit money is being made in Casa county. Bogus fiftycent and twenty-five cent coin is reported in circulation at Various places about the state. Michigan City dealers report a revival of business ih the lumber trade. On® firm reports orders to the amount of f.OUQ.nO > feet, to be delivered within the next sriety days. Other firms have proportionate orders. !<■ Royal Center htfs borne (he repnlntion of beißgdbe hartlest town in Csos vCoawty, jf not the hardest of He sis®Oß-the stale; but recently ademperanee strike was declared thete.and -about 150 people donned .the blue ribbons, hi *s4 Buelttiftgsloewen’s bakery at LAPerte was entered by burglars not. lor.g since, who took away several -.-watches that bad been If U with a silversmith who had a stall in the house. JJutthey didn’t uckle.tfie sign ; it is still there- ‘ * . * *' ’-1 v xf, p J . A man in Johnson county plowed into -a snake's nest the other day and killed one old snake and fifty-six young ones six to seven inches long, one of which had a double head. This was before the Murphy movement got there. A daughter pf Sebastian Gross nt Minamac, a few days since, was shot in the head with the load of an air gun, by iicr brother who carelessly thought it was nut loaded. Fortunately, though painful, the wound is not serious.

Dr. Thomas of the Wiaamac Democrat gives.es an infallible recipe for cholera morbiu, (his formula for children.: Gnnu corn, green 01100011)018, £fßen licSriß', Roll green apple pie with sweet milk. All to be taken at one meal. Try it. A son of A. Wiser of Plymouih, 7 years obi, while swimming in the river in company \vith other lads last week,, in attempting to dire farther than 14s comrades get fast under a log and was drowned before assistance could reaihhita. IVinamac Lodge No. 188, Independent Order of Odd-Fellows, has a membership of 53, owns property which with cash in the treasury is valued at $3,000 at low estimate, and has paid ont S3OO for benevolonl purposes within six months paist. Shows are said to be doiflg a thriving business in Indiana this season, Bqmtim, Montgomery, Queen, Cole, the New York and New Orleans combination, the New York circns (will tie in Rensselaer next Tuesday) are traveling through the elite,. lion. Will C uni back, obedient to flio President’s or ler prohibiting federal officeholders participating iu party politics, h *s resigned his membership bn tlic national Republican ■committee. Mr. On m back is co'lector of revenue tor the fourth district of Indiana. Governor Williams is to attend tho old settlers’ meetings in. Jennings and Carroll counties. Ho is in great demand this season for oratorical purposes, and if lie has bottom to endure the “strain may prove a formidable rival of the Hon. DanleD W, Yoorhees for senatorial honors when the next logisluturo meets. Arrangements are being made to accommodate 2,000 pupils in the normal school at Valparaiso. At the last term there was an enrollment of nearly in the institution. It is to be advertised in 1,200 newspapers in the states of Ohio, lit* diana, Michigan and Illinois. Work oti Ihe foundation of the American Odd-Fellows building at Michigan City has been commenced. ; The contrast is for its completion in November. The German Odd-Ftllows building D reedy for the roof. Wlion completed it will be one of the finest buildings in Northern Indiana. Asbury Dnivers’ty is to have fisc students next ycafr from Hirosake, Japan. Their names are as follows: S. Cbinda, K. Ka»>mur.i, A. Sato, J. Nasu and 0. Kikucii all for (be University, except Mr. Kiktwhi, who conies to learn farming, stock-raising, etc. All save Mr. Nasu are member* of tho Methodist church. Savs tho Noblesville Ledg»r: The wheat, coruj oats', buy and flax produced in Ham* ilton county, the present year, Vi Wur!t> one and # half .millions of honest dollars. Add the value of.,J)og«, oaltl®, horses, finite r, eggs, poultry, and the very hw\ o clop of vegetables yet to be harvested, and wo can afford to smile at hard times. 7he Rrookslon Reporter feljs of % man (but docs not reveal his name) who •‘<!eliUerately went to the alter during communion service, kneeled down, took the glass, drank it all, thatiked the giver diil celled for more. To tho proposition of the minister to*put him out, thoclass-leader replied tha| would make 100 much fu-s. Tki* was %t A grand, yenntou of the .stirvi\ji)g and soldiers of the war for the suppression of tho rebellion, of the war with M-kioo, and of 1812, of tho old ninth congressional district of Indian«, wfR ’Be held at Valparaiso September Ithh. Oen. Phil. Sheridan, Gen. J. W: Forsyth. Gen. Jaspttt Packard, Gen. 1. N. Stiles. 00l G. A. Pierce of tho luter-Occan, and many fameless heroovp*# : expected. A hamjuet is nn the ptngrapjnje among other special attractions. Hon. R. C. Wadgeof Hobart, fjtke conpty, who when a member of the that® senhte‘,vtg. orousty opposcu tnc pssitijp or'“W ijiito? teinpersnee.htw, «« a measuraenkulated la injuvo the influence of the Republican pnr'y j n Indiana, and because he thought the principle itself wrong, rcsetitly d*Hv. : ored a public temperence lecture l* bin town, which is said la have been a must I eloquent appeal t<> the youth to slum, the destructive vice of drunkenness. lit® toinporsuce portion of h,» nuighburs arpgrejjMrt* pleased ov«r this new and, <ltsttt»ttua.»h«4 acocfclua lu their -