Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1879 — State Gossip. [ARTICLE]

State Gossip.

Gen. R. 11. Mih'oy was at. Dylplii last week. The growing wheat looks splendidly in Pulaski county. If the Tribune is reliable a terrible lawless condition must prevail at South Betid for even the maple buds are shooting. A contract has been awarded to a Chicago firm for the delivery of 2,500 cords of stone for harbor ipiprovemonts at Michigan City. The Herald tells of a saloon keep--al Lupuriu, Whose name m John West ens el ter, having recently closed up his business for conscience sako, Elijah Massey, of Rolling Prairie, has a daughter five years old that weighs 84 pounds. She is said to be unusually bright, perfect in form and feature—“as pretty as a picture.’' Preparations are being made for ■ffTo,building of a first class flouring, mill at Otis, the crossing the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago and Michigan Southern tfc Lake Shore .rail roads. Governor Williams in his message to the special session of the legislature expressed an uncomplimentary opinion of that democratic body, and the popular verdict en dorses his views on that subject. Phillips, Goff and Barkley, the Jasper county youngsters who were recently indicted in Porter county for stealing wheat, were tried last week, convicted, and sentenced to one year each in the northern pen

ilentiary. Mr. Fred Schausten, of Michigan City was appointed to an SI,BOO clerkship in the war department at Washington City. He made a gal lant but unsuccessful race for sheriff of Laporte county at the last election, having been nominated by the republicans. Captain Manning has taken harbor sounding at Michigan City and tells the editor of the Enterprise that there is good eleven feet of water in the channel. Upon which that paper continents that it is the first time in many years that it has not been necessary to dredge out bars between piers on opening of navigation. 11. N. Ingersol of Newton county thinks that the time has about come when “silence under oppression has ceased to be a virtue. Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.” In other words Mr. Ingersoll thinks it would be a good thing to inaugurate a little rebellion. And possibly it might be for a few such greenback idiots.