Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1874 — LION’NEWS! [ARTICLE]

LION’NEWS!

JBT.Sfr •« Horse racing lively at Winamac. Burglars are active at South Bend. Logansport wants two first-class hotels; Weather prophets predict a mild winter. The M. E. Parsonage is undergoing repairs. Four jail birds occupy cells in the Laporte county jail. Ducks are becoming scarce in the Kankakee marshes. The High School building at Logansport cost $60,000. Laporte has shipped 175,000 bushels of wheat this year. Horsethieves are invading the northern part of the State. Hemphill’s new building was dedicated by a hop last Friday night. The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows met at Indianapolis Wednesday. Circuit Court convenes in this place one week from next Monday.

Seven dollars is all it costs a man for getting druuk at Logansport. The new M. E. Church at Fowler is going tv have a-bell worth S2OO. There are 17Q pupils in the public schools at Fowl ,r, Benton county. Aboit tbve inches of sn«»w decks the ground in t! is locality this morning There are about eight hundred cases on the docket of the Cass county Circuit Cou.t. “Ten Nights in a Bar Room’’ at Remington, to bight, by the Remington Amateurs. Tbe Kent and Gazette is troubled about a lion, said to have been seen in Newton county. Mrs. R. Balter, of Onarga, Ills., after a brief stay among us, returned home last Monday. It is estimated that no less th«n 2,000,080 able-bodied workers are now idle in this country. Tbe Panhandle folks lost about 403 cord of wood by the rec .nt fires along the line o 1 their road. It is estimated that over 1,000 tons of hay have been de troyed by the recent fires in Laporte county. Carpenters are busy, if we are to judge from the clicking of the hammer in different parts of town. A man named George Grier, of Carroll county, bad two horses poisoned in Logansport a few daj s since. It will be in o der and in accordance with Gov. Hendricks' pioclamation to give thanks next Ihureday. There were sixty can loaded at Kentland in three days last week, twenty six of which were loaded in one day.

Ladies all in the vegetable business now. Even their hats are turn-ups. So says the Michigan City Enterprise. The Elkhart Observer man was recently presented with an immr-nse head of cabbage, weighing thirty-one pounds. It is reported that Will C. Moreau, forme'ly of Logansport, has been shot and killed by a negro in Georgia. Since our last issue Jasper county has been blessed with a much-needed ruin. Consequently everybody is happy. All the parties connected with the recent express robbery in Cincinnati have been arrested. One of them confessed. A good many turkeys are being fattened for Thanksgiving. Wonder if anybody is stall-feeding one for the Rkpublican? There are 1,9(0,000 adults in the United States who cannot read or write, of whom 750,c00 are males and 1,150,t;00 females. This music of the circular wood saw is heard again in our town. Some of our citizens are having their wiuter wood sawed.

The health of this town and vicinity at the present time is good with the exception that a few have slight attacks of “epizootic.” Gov. Garland still has possession of the Stat - House of Arkansas. Smith has disappeared aud his whereabouts are not known. A tnan in ‘'ass county has this season realized $1,106 from his crop of cabbages and watermelons. Pretty good for -one man. The President has dispatched Mi-nater Washburne at Paris, requesting his presence in Washington at the earliest possible moment. The Benton county Herald man wants people who have occasion to visit the Herald office to clos< the door after them. A good suggestion. There are two reasons why some peop'r don't mind their own business; one is th t they haven’t any bt«ine s, and the cth-r is that they haven’t any mind. It costs but nineteen cents per mite to run an engine on the second and third divisions of the Panhandle road. The company is certainly getting economical. Marshal Reeve is industriously engaged grading the different str-ets where needed with dirt and gravel. Mr. R. is a very efficient officer and his work gi.es genera: satisfaction. The report in circulation that the Battle Ground Collegiate Institute has bsen sold to Congressman Packard, and was being fitted up by him for a medical school and water cure, is untrue.

Tbe lion in Benton county was killed the other day by hearing of May’s patent Wind Engine. Price SB6. Hold by

T. J. CRANE,

Newtown. Fountain Co., Ind.

Thanksgiving next Thursday. We irtpe the day will be properly observed by our citizens. Mr. C. M. Donnrily and wife, former’y of Remington, but now of Wolcott, White county, are at present visiting trends in this place. According to the Millerites’ prediction, the 20th day of‘he present month (to-day) the inhabitant of thia mundane spher ■ will be called upon to settle their little account?. Are we all prepare i? The number of Remington items is rather limited this week, owing to the fact that the Retard, from which we generally glean a number of items, has been mislaid, and ‘•Hunks’’ failed to come to time. A bold robbery was perpetrated upon the American Express Company, of Cincinnati, last Sunday. A sits was stolen from the office of the company, containing $70,003, and ao due to it can be obtained. If you want a good sewing machine, cheap, apply to C W. Clifton, agent for the “Weed ” O’.e of the best machines manufactured. Make your wife happy by buying her one of these machines for a holiday present.

The Valparaiso District Conference will held in Winamac, commending the first week of December. The attendance is expo ted to be very large?. The opening sermon will be preached by Be . Claypool, on Mmday night. The Indianapolis Journal says ths Governor of Massachusetts has issued a Tiianksgiving Proclamation which “takes the rag off the bush so far in point of typographical •loudness.’ It covers as much space as a circus poster.” A family of three persons consisting of father, mother and daughter, were weighed recently in Logansport, and their total weight was 654 pounds. The father weighed 230, tbe mother even 200, and the daughter tipped the beam at 224. Pittsburgh was thronged With Delphians last Sunday. Cause—railro >d. Considerable it terest is taken by all our citizens in the success of that grand enterprise. We are glad to learn that the work on the road is progressing rapidly.— Delphi Times.

Dress-making, cutting and pieparing dress goods and trimmings for ladies, misses and children’s suitx, of evey description. Alse paper patterns of every desii able style cut to suitench ladyls own particular me sure without alteration, at Mrs. Halstead’s. Our subscription books are still open for the reception of subscriber-. Our list ,is already large but there is plenty of jov»n for more. So come along, pay in your little $l5O, and have the Rbpublican sent to your address for one year. You will never regret it. The Priuceion Clarion is authority for the stat ment that a family in riae county has 'en children, who are called by the tollowing nicknames: Buck, Squirrel, Y’ankee, Diddle, Dadile, Tint, Pitipan, Puss, Funny and Byron, while the childr ncall their parents Boardy Pink and Skid. According to thd 26'h annual report of the In iana Asylum for the Insane, ending October 31, 1874, there wefe 458 men and 389 women admitted during the year; 95 men and 99 women were discharged cured; 58 men and 35 women discharged, unimproved; and 21 men and 13 women died. Ash pans are not safe to deposit money in, at least so thought Jo. Cones, of Sheldon, Hl , who, a few nights since, deposited about four hundred dollars iu the ash pan of hi- parlor stove. ‘ The next morning his wife mad- a fire, and before it was discovered, the deposit was about half burnej up.

A band of masked men attacked a train on the Great Western Railway, in Canada, on the 13th instant, and after having a desperate struggle wth the train men, suc-< ceeded in capturing the express and safe and obtained therefrom SIOO,OOO. This is one of the most daring robberies on record. It would be well for our citizens to take every precaution again-tflre. Inspect your flues; be careful where you deposit ashes, especially if they contain the least bit of fire. We have no fire company to depend upon, and unless we are very cautions we may suffer a proportfonate loss to that of Greencastle. A word to the wise is sufficient. The Benton county papers each week have more or 1 -ss to say about a lioness roaming about al will in that county, seeking whom she may devour. We suggest that some of the “sports” of that county shoot said lioness, that these papers may forever after hold their peace on this subject, as it is growing rather monotonous.— Please give us a rest-. The next Congress will devel p many new names There is no Washburne in the list, but there are seven of the Williams, one e*' h from Alabama, Delaware, Indiana, New York and Wiscon* n, and two Irom Michigan. There are several Robinsons, but only two Smiths. Amvng the new and singular names that appear are New, Wilke, Tarbox and Sinnikson.— Ex.

The dry g >ods h use of Wm. Boiler, at Remington, was destroyed by fire, with the entire stick of goods, on Wednesday morning. The fire occurred ab ut half past 8 o’clock, aud before it was discovered the flames had rot under such headway th t rendered all efforts to save tbe building of nu consequence, and it was only by the greatest exertions upon the part of the citizens that adjoining buildings were saved.— The loss on stock and building is estimated at $8,500, insured for $7,000. The fire is supposed to be the work of an incendiary. The citizens worked like beroee to prevent the spreading of the flames, and. by so doing, what might have been a disastrous conflagration, was thus avoided.

A report is iff circulation to the effect that Charley Row, the kidnapped child, baa turned Bp. A man in Wert Virginia is said to have possession of him who offers to deliver him up for s>,ooo. Dr. is this week busy fitting up his new gallery room, in tbe second story of Hemphill’s new brick budding, and will open for business to-morrow. The Doctor now has one of tbe finest picture galleries in Northern Indiana, and for neatness and convenience cannot be excelled anywhere.— The sky-lights, as well as side-lights, are well arranged,'and pictures can be taken in cloudy aa well <s clear weather. If you want a good facsimile of your beautiful phis you can do no than give him caT. Remember his gr .nd opening to-morrow. Workmen have been busily engaged the past week putting the cornice on Harding & Willey’s new brick store house. This building, when completed, will be one of the handsomest as well as one of the best of the kind intown. The firm dosetv e great credit for their enterprise and spirit of improvement, and we would like to see a few more of eur business men follow their example. Mr. Rial Benjamin gives notice that he will offer at public sale at his reS detice, five miles west of on Thursday. December 3rd, 1874. the following property, to wit; eight he id of work horses and. one colt, four milch cows, some young cattle, hogs, tame and wild hay iu stack farming implimenU, one kit of blacksmith tools aud various ot her articles. A credit of eleven months will be iven on all sums over $5. This is an “off” week with the editor of tbe Republican; at anyrate he is off somewhere. He went—done—got married at Remington last Sunday night, to Miss Allie Misner, and departed, with his better-half, Monday morning,-since which time he has not been heard from. However, we hope the h >ppy swain will turn turn up all right next week. May th y live long aid -njo> an abundance of this world's goods, are the best wishes of “ye local.”

We find the folio ring words of encouragement to the friends jf the Chicago & South At antic Riilroad in the Delphi Times of the 13th instant: “The contr ctor- are pushing on the work rapidly. There are, at he present time, between four and five hundred men actively engaged grading, excavating, putting up trestle work and bridges, and must be paid for their lab r. The sooner we meet our obligations the sooner the road will be completed. We hope to be able to announce to the friends of the ro.ul that an excursion to Chicago un ti e road will take place on the 4th day es July, 1875. Uckets at half fare rates. This depends to a great extent upon our promptno -• in paying our stock subscriptions ”