Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1875 — Attention grangers! [ARTICLE]

Attention grangers!

Monticello is to hare a spelling match. ggg?”Choiceßeane at Kerns'Jfor*s3 per bushel. Remember Easter on the 28th instant.— Save your egg?. The Jasper Republican 13 one-half a year old to-day. Go to Kerns’ Grocery for Choice Goods at Low Prices. A little of that “ethereal mildness” visited us this week. Let it be remembered that next Wednesday is St. Patrick’s Day. Michigan City is to haye a new paper called the “Mich : gan City News.” Mr. J. 11. Knight and lady, of Remington, were visiting in town on Wednesday. Oranges and Lemons just received at Kerns’. Merchants who desire to reach the country trade should advertise in the Republican. The Elkhart Daily Observer has been received, and a handsome little paper it is, too. Commissioners’ Court proceedings will be found elsewhere in this paper. Read them. Mr. F. R. Donnelly, of Remington, called on us lost week. He talks of moving to Texas next fall. The Brookston Reporter came to our table this week in a 6 column folio form, with Chicago bowels. Only ono marriage license wasisssued since our last report—Lewis K. Yeoman and Sarah M. Norton. W. W, Reeve, Charley Hopkins and Will Sears assist in furnishing the good music for the theatre company, . Mr. N. W. Reeve has engaged himself for a year’s “sit” with the law firm of R. S. & Z. D'.viggins, as an ink-slinger.

The Benton Count, li n has reappeared on bis old stamping ground. Thirty head of hogs have been killed by the beast this time. lhe protracted ine'*t ngs are still in progress at the M. E. Church, although some of the chtTifh members persist in attending the theatre. The deeply interesting play of the “Idiot Witness,” and the laughable farce cf the “Country Cou;in,” at the Court House this evening. Another minister has fallen. This»time in Philadelphia. He trod upon a banana skin. His “statement'.’ was brief, but very emphatic. We hear that .Mr. Timothy O’Conner’s wife, of Remington, died last Sunday. The remains w-ore taken to Logansport for interment. a r. William Owens, of Rjiuington, formerly, has purchased a farm four miles north of Rensselaer, where he moved with his family last Monday. The Court House has been crowded every night this week to heir the Dreyer Dramatic Company. They are meeting with excellent success in this place. It is said nothing recall? to the mind of the married man the joys of his single life so vividly as to find that the baby has been eating crackers in the bed. The play called the “Hidden Hand,” dramatized from the New York Ledger story, will be presented by Bieyer's Dramatic Troupe, to-morrow night. The man who won’t take a paper because he can borrow one, has invented a machine by which he can cook bis dinner by the smoke of his neighbor’s chimney. Makuisd.—At the residence ofthe bride’s sister, Mrs. Yates, on Thursday, March 4th, 1875, by Rev. S. E. Rogers, -Mr. Lewis K. Yeoman and Miss Sarah M. Norton, both of Rensselaer.

| And now Rensselaer is to be blessed with an old fashioned spelling school. The time will be announced at an early day, and it is thought that this will be the worst “spell” of the season. The Weed Sewing Machine is constructed in the simplest manner, always working with tlie greatest ease. Mr. C. W. Clifton is the agent. Call on him and examine the Weed before you purchase. Mr. James Fraser and Mr. O. E. Johnson, of Remington, were in town last Monday, and failed not to drop in and sea us. They are both regular subscribers to the Republican ; hence they are happy. The well known drug firm of Harding & Willey have moved into their new brick building, opposite their old stand. They are now situated in one of the finest rooms to be found in this part of the State. What is the matter with the Lafayette Courier! We only get, on an average, one copy a month. W’e rather like to read the Courier, and if it could bo mailed to us regularly, we would be unspeakably happy. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed Administrator of the estate of Josiah Hammond, deceased. Said estate is supposed to be solvent. March 9, 1875. Cuables F. Hammonp, 26w3 Administrator. A member of the down-trodden sex in Chicago, who has buried four husbands, has her photograph, with those of the four departed surrounding it, and underneath the touching inscription : “Tho Lord Will provide!” Tho Brookston Reporter says it is rumored that J. E. Clark, of Remington, has come in possession of about $200,000, realized from an interest in a portion of Chicago. Can it be possible the Clark rcf.rrctFtt? is he of the Record?

The Rev. C. E. lambert, Pastor of the M. E. Church, delivered an able and profoundly interesting discourse last Sunday evening. He liad been taking active part in a protracted meeting for four weeks, yet his energies seemed stronger than when the meetings commenced. The enterprise of Norman Warner is almost proverbial. With usual facilities, he is able to fully supply the wants of the public in the hardware, furniture and farming implement line. He will also sell this season tho Champion and Buckeye reapers aud mowers. See illustrated papers. Fiom present indications Fowler will double her present population in 1875. With her nice residences, on lots ranging from one to ten acres adorned with all the beauty and taste that we know our citizens evince, she will be the pride of our county and the gem of the Grand Prairie. So says the Herald. The invention for making paper barrels was patented about six mouths ago, and two factories are working—one at Winona, Wis., and one Decorah, lowa, the latter turning out 1,600 barrels daily. Their strength is said to be greater by four times than wooden barrels, only half the weight, and costing twenty per cent less. There is a clause in the “little, tariff bill” which provides that every check or paper used as a voucher, or on which money is drawn from a bank or bankers, either on time or demand, shall be stamped with a two cent stamp, which shall bo canceled with the initials of tho signer and the date. The penalty for violation of the law is SSO on the one drawing the check and SSO on bank paying it. The following named persons were appointed as Township Assessors by the Board of Commissioners: Hanging Grove township, George F. Mellender; Gillam, John Querry ; Walker, David Daniels; Barkley, Francis M. Parker; Marion, Charles Boroughs; Jordan, Henry Welch; Newton, James Yeoman; Keener, Albert Wilcox; Kankakee, Jonathan N. Wynant; Wheatfield, John M. Helmick; Carpenter, George G. Thompson; Milroy, Albert F. Israel; Union, Malachi Comer. It is said that persons who live in snake infested regions would do well to plant geraniums about their premises. These flowers so fragrant and pleasant to the human senses, are in the highest degree obnoxious to reptiles, and form a complete barrier across which none will creep. The highly scented volatile oil, which gives to the flower its delicate perfume, seems to be death to the serpent, end nothing will induce one to venture near a place that is so invisibly yet securely guarded by this aroma.

The railroad excitement in the southern part of the State is up to fever heat. Rising Sun wants the cressing of the Ohio River of the C. & S. A. Railroad at that point. Madison is also anxious to have the Road cross the river there. Vevay being the most direct line, and more natural advantages offered for a bridge there will no doubt be the favored point. The people of that town are certainly entitled to some consideration for their enemy in working up the interest of the road.— Delphi Times. Young people should acqnire the habit of correct speuking and writing, and abandon as early as possible, any use of- slang words or phrases. The longer you put this off, the more difficult theacqiiircnientjof correct language will be; and if the golden aze of youth, the proper season ofthe acquisition of language, be passed in its abuse, the unfortunate victim will in--st probably be doomed to talk slang for life You have merely to use the language which you read instead of the slang you hear, to form a taste in agreement with the best speakers and poets in the country. ,♦»♦.. A young man, about sixteen years of age, by the name of Thomas Owens, was arrested last Monday night about 12 o’clock, and taken from his bed. It was alleged that he had stolen a pocket-book containing $125,00, from a man’s pocket, while at tbe theatre an hour or two before his arrest by Sheriff Daugherty. The young man insisted that he found the pocket-book on the floor, and that lie intended to come to town on Tuesday morning and advertise it; but he was taken before Justice Jackson, Tuesday, where a preliminary trial was held, after which he was held to the Court in bonds of S3OO. On failure to procure bail he was taken to the Lafayette jail by Sheriff Daugherty on Wednesday.

We clip the following items from the Logansport Daily Star of Tuesday : Rev. Father Krrnger, who is to have charge of the new Catholic church to bo erected on the West Side this spring, is at present assisting Father Lawlor at St. Vincent de Paul church. Work on the new church will be commenced as soon as the frost is out of the ground, The remains of Mrs. Mary E. O’Connor, wife of Timothy O’Connor, who died Sunday List, was brought to this city yesterday for interment. The funeral took place from St. Vincent Je Paul church, Father Lawler officiating. Seeing some of our exchanges slinging Latin around promiscuously reminds us of a good story we once heard of an old farmer whose son had for a long time been ostensibly studying Latin in a popular academy. The farmer not being perfectly satisfied with the course and conduct of the young hopeful, recalled him from school, and placing him by the side of a cart one day, thus addressed him L “Now Joseph, here is a fork, and there is a heap of manure' and a cart ; what do you call them in Latin?” “Fo’.kibus, cartibus and manuribus,” paid Joseph. “Well, now said tho old man, “if you don’t take that forkibus pretty quickibus, and pitchibus that manuribus into that cartibus, I’ll break your —n lazy backibus. Joseph went to workibus forthwithibus. Before adjourning, tho National Grange passed a resolution declaring that the early complei ion of the Spartansburg and Asheville Railroad, a link in the Chicago & South Atlantic Railroad, is demanded by the agricultural interests of the country, and the routo is recommended to the favorable consideration of the order. This means that the National Grange can see that tho Chicago & South Atlantic Railroad is one of the greatest enterprises of the age. Of all tbe railroad projects now before the American people, this is the greatest and promises the most beneficent results, at least, to the people of tho great Northwest. Fortunate are they who live on the line of that great thoroughfare. Frankfurt Crrifcnf.

“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was played last night by Breyer s Company. The Court House was crowded full of people, from whom the play elicited rounds of applause, tears and laughter by turns. “Idiot Witness” and ’‘Country Cousin” at the Court House tonight.

The Jasper County Central Association Patrons of Husbandry will cenvene at the Court House on Saturday, the 27th inst, promptly at one o’clock. Esch Grange in the county is requested to send delegates, aa business of much importance is to be transacted. C. J. Brown, Rilky Novels. President. March fih, 1875. Secretary.