Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1875 — Attention Granger! [ARTICLE]

Attention Granger!

Common pleas—please shut the door. fgyßuck wheat Flour at Kerns’ Grocery. It is proposed to reduce the size of eggs during hard time*. < - -- - -r -r- ■■ 1 "" Terre Haute is to hare a new Republican newspaper. Greencastle has had another fire. Tola time a $50,000 one. . .. People who are always wanting something new should try neuralgia. Poor men and hem- aie obliged to scratch to get along in this world. Judge E. P. Hammond was visting friends in Logansport last Sunday. Printers consider every letter a capital one that contains a remittance. Never fool with a dancing master. If be is not a revolver, he is nothing. Ndw that the theatrical season is over, lets have that spell “rightswayquick”. It is now a violation of the law of the State to sell dead lywen pons to n minor. Pay your taxes by the third Monday in April; otherwise they become delinquent. No longer do they say * according to Hoyle.” Now it is “according toScbneck.” The slowest time on rekord it skool time, and the fastest iz sparking time, quoth Billings. A new business firm is soon to be established in Remington- —KenJall & Rawlings. There is a “charm” jn March. Everyone can find it by transposing its letters, if in no other way.

A pail or two of water in a convenient position in houses or storesmight prove very aervicsble in case of fire. Somebody sa> s beef tea between waltzes, instead of wine, is very highly recommended to young ladies. And now conies the season for boiling over the oil stock of maple sugar to supply the early orders fbr ne»i

The Per ter County Vidette and the Mishswaka Enterprise came to our table in a half-sheet form this week Mr. N. W. R»wlings perambulated our streets on last Monday, noswichstandiog the alarming depth of the mud. The Better Age, Chicago, has suspended publication, and must he placed on the list of papers which “died of starvation.”

All persons who have left watches or jewelry with me can obtain them by,-calling at the Austin House. W. S. BEDFORD.

At this writing there is a serious belief that many children unless carefully watched may be lost in some of the mud holes that abound.

Ifyou wish to know how many friends you have, get into office. If yon wish to know how many you haven’t, get into trouble.

Last Sunday was a beautiful, warm day. Several persons thought of taking down, the shovel, rake and hoe; but, on Monday, changed their minds.

Mr. Frank W Babcock, our efficient and irrepressible Auditor, left here on A onday morning for Delphi, on a visit to friends.— Will return to-morrow.

George G. Thompson has declined the office of township assessor of Carpenter townsh p Verily, the time has come when the office hunts the man. B. B. Daily, of Delphi, has been commissioned by the Govorner as judge of the newly organized Circuit, composed of Carroll White and Pulaski counties. The Tilton-Beecher case still drags its slow length along, and occupies large portions of the leading dailies to the exclusion of better and useful reading. There’s where aman has got the ad vantage. He can undress in a cold room and have his bed warm before a woman has got her hair pins ont and her shoes untied. Mr. Parish Lyon, of the firm of Church & Lyon, an extensive mercantile firm, of Remington, was in town on Monday, and. galled at the Rjbpublicax office. " Persons desiring calling or business cards can be supplied at the following rates, by calling at this office: 50 cards for 80 cents, 100 for 50 cents, 500 for $2.25, 1,000 for $3.25. Miss Lucy Daugherty will commence a subscription school in the Rensselaer school house, Monday, A arch 22d, 1875. Will teach a term of ten weeks at two dollars per scholar. There is no use in saying spring is with us. It will not be until the sun crosses the line about the 21st instant. Until then, at least, keep up good fires, and don't hang on the garden gate. Brigham Young wi;l not allow any member of his family to see the newspapers nowadays as he is afraid their morals wll be corrupted by reading the details of the Beecher scandal. - Th is steady cold weather which elderly people are so fond of praising as healthy and bracing, is really unhealthy and should be guarded against by plenty of comfortable clothing and jewelry. Rev. W. A. Jones, Agent of the Amrican Bible Society, will preach in the Prsbyterian Church on Sunday evening. He will also visit the families in the county, and supply the bible firoely to persons who cannot buy.

The difference between bavingatootb p operly draws by a professional dentist, and having it knocked out miscellaneously by a fall on the ride-walk, ie only a slight distinction -ofia is dental, nndlhe other is accidental. ' • -J* . .

A New Hnven man, 76 years old, who has been s habitant gin-guzzler for more than sixty years, figures out the amount ani value of bis potations to be 50 barrels of 31 gallons, at a cost, with interest at 6 per cent., of SIO,OOO.

It is our opinion that Rensselaer needs a few good ridewalks—and needs them badly. But then it has been so awful muddy they could not build them, and when the ground is frozen We dont need them , and so they go unbuilt.

The Francesville mail wagon failed to leave Renas laer, on Tuesday; but being induced by four or five passengers, the Remington mail wagon came over as usual.— Tuesday was another one of those bad days which “you read about.”

Under the late liquor law saloons are allowed to be kept open from 6 o’clock a. M. to 11p.m. If they are found open between those hours, the keeper will be liable to a fine of $lO to SSO, and upon a second conviction shall forfeit his license.

A neighboring editor bemoans the calamities of 1874 in the following touching strain: “First, thaU Beecher business, then the grasshoppers, then the Democratic victories, and now an inc-eased t-ix on whiskey.— What is this poor country coming to 7”

Every one seems to regret the loss of Judge Hammond upon the bench in this county.— He has won g tldcn opinions from the bar nnd people for the very able and impartial manner in which he has discharged the duties of his high position.— Winamac Democrat.

A temperance bill has passed both branchs of the Legislature which provides for a license, the amount required being SIOO. The local option clause failed. In many respects it is similar to the one in force before the Baxter law, with several important additions.

There was more water in the Iroquois river on Sunday and Mondav than has been known for years—savs one of the oldest inhabitants. The ice floating d<'wn, on Sunday, was the cause of many persons going down to the river’s brink to witness the beautiful spectacle.

We are indebted to S. H. McCrea & Co., of Chicago, for the Seventeenth Annual Report of the trade and commerce ot Chicago, compiled for the Boar 1 of Trade by Chas. Randolph, Secretnjy. It io a finely printed work of 130 pages, and full of valuable information and statistics.

It speaking of the Chicago & South Atlantic Railroad, the Delphi Journal says, as soon as the frost is out of the ground sufficiently, we may ex<>eot to see the work pnsh forward with a rapidity so characteristic of the energetic contractors into whose hands the work has been entrusted.

The superior knowledge of his business gained by experience is of great advantage to the customers of C. W. Clifton ; and the superior qualities of the Weed Sewing machine need no comments; therefore if you are going to put chase a machine remember the Weed and C. W. Clifton.

*@“REDUCED PRICES IN GROCERIES at Kerns’. Choice Coffee'2s cents per pound. Light -Brown Su/ar 11 an 1 11J. White Sugar 12J. Choice Carolina Rice 11. Six pounds of hominy for 25 cents. Great Bargains in Teas. Choice Michigan Peaches at 12J cents per pound. Fair Dealing Guaranteed.

Miss Mattie Benjamin will open a subscription school in the school house in Rensselaer, next Monday, tbe22d instant. This la’y is well qualified to perform the dirties of her profession, has taught two terms in the public schools ofthis town, and has given general setisfaction. We anticipate that her' qualification and popularity will procure her a lutt school, and a successone. *

Charley Roes is still being looked after.— Mr. Ross and a detective went to New York on Friday to look up a clue that it was thought might lead to the recovery of the nrssing boy. They consulted with the police authorities, but it was finally concluded that it was only one of the many false scents upon which the search has been led since the bey disappeared, from his home in last July.

A writer in the Ma r ch number of one of our magazines argues that the Atlantic oc*»an is gradually drying up. This will be pleasant news to those persons who want to goto Europe, but are deterre-i by a fear of seasickness. In two or three bundl ed thousand year;, perhaps, they can go overland. And steamship comjianies had better make preparations to put wagon wheels on their vessels.

The series of exhibitions given’by Breyer’s Dramatical Troupe closed on Wednesday evening, after hiving exhibited their skill in Rensselaer as “playists” for nine evenings. It is estimated that the proceeds amounted on an average, to SIOO per night. So, as a community, we are S9OO poorer than we were two weeks ago. “Sich is life.”- They left here on Thursday morning for Remington, where they will play the balance of this week.

Why is it that Ohio is always doing something outrageous ? Fir it came the crusade, then the “spelling skule,” and now a hew religious belief is gaining ground in that State. Its adherents are called Eternalists. They hold that a soul is immortal, and that it occupies a succession of bodies on earth, both of men and animals, and when disembodied. by death it hoveo in the air until by some subtile process of materialization it forms or enters a new infantile body, the the character of that body—whether of hog, dog or man—depending upon the manner of life which the deceased person from whom the soul comes haa led.

The Jasper County Central Association Patrons ofHusbr.tidrj will convene at the Court House on Saturday, the 27th inst, promptly at one o’clock. Esch '{range in the county i- requested to send delegates, ns business of much importance is to be transacted. C. J. Hpown. Rilxy Noweijs. President. March 9th, 1875. Secretary. « . ■ ■' O ■— w-’“ - John Morrissey hsss*art«d that.“gilledged hell” in Jacksonville, Florida, for the benefit of visitors. A clerical looking, gentleman, with a bald head keeps the shebang, and the rule is to exclude nil the natives and thresh the visitors, using the profits for. the benefit <>f Jacksonville mercUau t«. The eetabHsbment has not commenced paying an yet ;~but a large and handsome fe to be erected shortly, wbieh t will draw full houses.-s-LaFayctte dwrforv- . _ . -. ■> . . ..... , .

The new postal card-is tQ be a violet blue, and print d with black ink. There will be noborder. Near the left hand corner will be the large monogram U. S., across which will be printed the words Postal Card. The ilgnette in the right hand corner will represent Liberty, with the back hair entram* meled by a band or cap. The whole design is to be simple and neat. The paper will be calendered harder than at present, so as to take ink better. The cards are to be ready for delivery about |he middle of April.

General Packard has arrived at home, in LaPorte, and it is believed that his whole time will be devoted to his excellent and interes ing paper—the Laporte Chronicle—since the cares of a Congressional life has b-< n laid aside. May his fondest hopes of success in journalism be fully realized The Chronicle as it is, is one of our best exchanges. It is fearless and outspoken on all public points, and the Republican party of Northern Indiana should be proud of such an able defender of its rights and privileges.

Mr. W. S. Bedford leaves us this week, and moves with his entire stock of goods to GoodlaniL Thus, Rensselaer looses a goo 1, live, bus'r ess man. The citizens of Goddland and surrounding country should be satiefied with a man like him,- as he is a first-class clock, watch and jewelry repairer as woll as a good auctioneer, and we regret to loose him. He will change his business somewhat, in Goodlaml, and will keep agricultural inu plements for sale, and the farmers of that community will Jo well to call on him before purchasing elsewhere.

Wo have been informed that there are certain parties in this city who make it a practice to visit Weston Cemetery at the opening of spring, and gather the flowers in bloom around the graves. If these persona do this without due consideration. —not remembering that they are robbing the dead of that which is placed there as a lost momenta of love and respect by friends and relatives—then they, perhaps, might be excused for what they have done; buf.if ir( thbßfce of the knowledge and appree&ti.qn of these facts, this thing has boo'd recklessly-done, and if it is continued in,aCity Ordinance should be passed to punish tW’guilty party. The theft of flowers is as great a crime as the the theft of money.

There is a law against publishing or circulating obscene literature, and the fine and punishment in such cases are very severe. Would it not be well to call the attention of printers and publishers to the law on this subject ? What more obscene literature has ever appeared before the public than the Brooklin scandal? The papers containing that scandal have bean sent broad cast over all the land fur the last six months, and are to be found in every public hcuse, and in nearly every private family. W e ask, does any man wish his wife, or his sons or daughters, to read such a scandal ? Is it not calculated to have a demoralizing effect upon allminds,old and young, and has it not been tolera ed long enough? If public sentiment is against it, and the law condemns it, some measures should be adopted to put a stop to it, and punish those who are guilty.