Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1874 — Press Reports. [ARTICLE]

Press Reports.

The lion was chased two days last week and seen by many persons, but u still enjoying its freedom. —Kentland Gazette. There is a young lawyer in our town who claims he is a woman. How is that forhigh? —Oxford Tribune. House flies and corner loafers don’t appear happy this kind of weather.—Mishawaka Enierp'.-ise, Some wild animal is eating up the porcine crop in Warren county. No well regulated neighborhood ought to be without a lioness. —Lafayette Courier. Our “relief” meetings have all proven flulures. We now propose that one be called to give relief to our own destitute.Crown Point Register. It is reported that there are several thousand Chiistians iu Turkey. Last Thursday there were several thousand turkeys—no. that won’t do.— CrawfordsviU* Journal.

Joe Metz, brakeman on local freight of the P. Ft. W. & C. Railway, fell under the train at our station and suffered serious but not fatal injury.—- Valparaiso Vidette. James Spears wants to bet SI,OOO that the C. & S. A. R. R. will never be built. Let him bet. .“You bet” he is mistaken.— Delphi Times. And now comes the report that the Benton county “haste” is a big Kansas grasshopper, which is given as a reasou why dogs cannot follow its trail.— Winamac Republican.

TltflMfeiMlrtfeag squeal, grunt and sob of the pig. is heard on almost every freight train that ppsses through the city, from wMeb we infer mat the hog trade is lively. —-Laporte Chronicle. Logansport is losing its former reputation as a “good show town. ' Wherefore is this thusly, with all oar improved facilities? Is it a blessing or • calamity?— Logansport Journal. ~ David T- Wagoner, whose bowl of soup was seasoned with arsenic, died at his residence oa Tuesday evening from the effects of the seasoning. It is thought there is some mystery in the ease which has not bean cleared up. —lndianapolis Sun. A twin daughter of Mr. Stahlman of this place died on _the 24th. The death was caused by sodding a few' days before, the child having pulled from the table upon itself a vessel of hot milk. —Brooksion Reporter.

Mr. Olmstead and corps of engineers arrived at the heed of Washington street, Rensselaer, last Thursday noon, on their way south surveying the lino of the Chicago & South Atlantic &. R. through Jasper county. —Monticello Herald. Plymouth is to have another paper—the Restitution we believe, with Rev. H. Y. Reed, formerly es Chicago, as editor. Now we’ll have to quit using slang phrases or we’ll get told of it. —Plymouth Mail and Magnet. The lioness was chased by banters, on Friday afternoon and Saturday last, but without suceess. Leroy Templeton, who had a good view of the animal, thinks it is a Colorado or Mountain wolf. Its height, he says, is three feet, and its length about six feet. —Fowler Herald. H. T. Howard, Esq., father of A. F. Howard, of this place, at one time e citizen of this county, died very suddenly at the supper table in the Junction House, at Reynolds, on Friday evening last from apoplexy. His remains were interred at this place last Sabbath.— Monticello Constitutionalist.