Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1874 — LION NEWS! [ARTICLE]

LION NEWS!

The eity of Logansport has a bonded debt hanging over her amounting to $254,500. Christmas comes on Friday—tour weeks from to-day. A team of ponies were recently sold in Laporte for SSOO. An observing person climbed into the Court House tower at Fowler recently to see if Remington people were church goers. A half interest in the Monticello Herald has been sold to Mr. J. B. Yan Buskirk, of that-place. Some unscrupulous individuals charge at the rate ol sls per cord for wood ia Logansport. «*» The law requiring saloons and billiard rooms to be closed at 12 o’clock P. M., is just being enforced at Logan sport. Since the cold blasts of winter have “set in,” buckwheat cakes art all the go. They “pan out” well. Persons writing for the Republican must not neglect giving their names if they desire attention given to what they write. Three decrees of divorce were granted in the Laporte Circuit court in one day last week; not a very good day for divorces, either. A beet that beats all the beets except dead beats, was recently left at the Logansport Journal office. It was raised in Marshall oounty and weighed fourteen pounds. Can anybody in this county beat this huge beet? . A new paper made its appearance in Crown Point last Saturday, called The Young Hoosier. It is a twelve column paper—three columns to a page—and is published by John J. Wheeler and A. E. Fowler,

Burglars broke into a drug store at Val paraiso recently and besides taking a dollar in money and a box of cigars, appropriated a bottle of Hostetler’s bitters. .They must have been hard up. Miami county boasts of five newspapers published within its borders—four weeklios and one daily—notwithstanding farmers in that county, last week, to oiir certain knowledge, received $7.00 per cwt. for their pork. A negro seated in Swett’s bakery, at Remington, eating his supper, the other evening created no little excitement among the Remington bloods, as several of them had never before seen a person who so much resembled the—a black Afrioan.

The lion in Benton county was killed the other day by hearing of May’s fatent Wind Engine. Price $35. Sold by T. J. CRANE, Newtown, fountain Co., Ind. A Remington young gentleman, who witnessed the play of “Ten Nights in a BarRoom,” says he bought a ticket for the ten nights and they only exhibited two nights. If they don’t proceed to give him the benefit of the remaining eight, he contemplates instituting a suit for damages. - Geo. P. Rowell, the reliable advertising agent of New York, has established a branch office at St. Louis, Mo.,' which will be managed by Nelson Chesman, under the firm name of Rowell & Chesman, Rowell is one of the most lesponsible agents in the country. A man in Cass oounty recently enclosed $1,200 in an envelope and npon retiring at night deposited the money and envelope in the strau of the bed he slept upon. In the morning the bed and covers wei e doubled up with the money still in the straw and placed in a cckner of the room. The occupants of the house went out to do their usual morning work, but soon discovered smoke issuing from the house. Upon reaching the house they found the bed all ablaze and efforts to save the money were fruitless. It is supposed a spara from a stove near by did the mischief.