Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1874 — Go to the RAILROAD STORE for the best Table and Pocket Cutlery. [ARTICLE]

Go to the RAILROAD STORE for the best Table and Pocket Cutlery.

Hie Greensburg Standard editor has on hands a $5,000 libel suit. Happy man, that. The Treasurer of the Missouri State Grange is in default to the amount of $20,000. Mr. Mart. Warner, the butcher, brought in ton dressed hogs, Wednesday morning, to supply the home demand for pork. The Bunday school of this place ought to get up a Christmas tree, and wake up an interest in the good work. The lower story of the building opposite the bank is now occupied by A. Leopold with an extensive dry goods establishment. Don’t toil to call on Dr. Kelley at his new gallery, up stairs in the Hemphill brick, opposite the post office. Go to the RAILROAD STORE for Best and Cheapest Undershirts and Drawers.

Attention is directed to Mrs. Hemphill’s new advertisement in another column of this paper. The attendance at Sunday school last Sunday was rather small; owing to the depth of the snow, many who are in the habit of attending were loth to venture furth. The Logansport Star says a colored gentleman who calls himself Dr. J. A. Hunt, a Liberian traveler, giving lectures on Africa, is a fraud of the worst stripe. Dr. Kelley’s dental rooms are complete. For relief from toothache and good dental work in every branch, call on him. Rooms in photograph gallery, in Hemphill’s brick) up sUirs opposite postoffice. The Monticello Herald makes the following blood-curdling statement: “Many a voice that yesterday was loud in happy clucks and glad gobblings, to-day is hushed in the pot.”

Greenbacks are scare but local items are scarcer. —Crown Point Register. Right the other way with us, Bro. Bedell. Local items are scarce but greenbacks are scarcer. An economical tourist has written a pamphlet on “Where to go when you haven't much money.” It will be read with interest, for there is not as good a place to go to in this world, under such circumstances, as to go to work.

When a Brooklyn woman feels that resistance to tyrants is duty to God, and kicks her husband through the front door, she borrows the sugar plum language of the pastor, and calls her action an outward manifestation of “true inwardness.” Married, November 26, 1874, by Rev. R. L. Adams, Mr. William Dexter and Margaret W. Kirkpatrick, all of Remington. Mr. Dexter and lady have the best wishes of the Republican, and may each succeeding year of their lives be their happiest. The nicest holiday present imaginable to send to an absent friend would be a year’s subscription to the Republican, which contains more local reading than any other paper in the county, and can be had cheaper by fifty cents per year than either of the other three county papers. We will send the Republican from now until January 1, 1876, for $1.60. The farmers in this vicinity have their granaries full, and prices are high, so they can realize a good profit for all they have to sell; yet we keep hearing much complaint about hard times w hen there is no cause for it whatever. It seems too much the case with our farmer friends to cry hard. times every year, whether everything has been favorable to them or not.

The following is a report of the second intermediate department of the Rensselaer schools for the mouth ending November 20, 1874: Number enrolled 47; average daily attendance 445; number perfect in attendance, study, punctuality and deportment 11; their names are Mary Beck, Anna Sigler, Dannie Willey, Louise Platt, Oliver Rhoads, Fred Cfailcote, Mary Healey, Mary King, Maggie Healey, Georgie Conwell and Callie Beck. Mattie Benjamin, Teacher. The following marriage licenses have been issued by M. L. Spitler, Clerk of Jasper county, during the month of November, 1874: John Mitchell and Kidday Nash. Frank Clouse and Louisa Stooll. Benjamin Richardsesnd Electa Page. Charles M. Johnson and Lora A. Misner. Eusebius Overton and Martha E. Coppess. Cyrus W. Duvall and Maggie J. Thompson. William Dexter and Margaret W. Kirkpatrick. William Madison and Emma J. Craig.