Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1875 — Attention Grangers ! [ARTICLE]

Attention Grangers !

To-Jay is Gocd Friday. Small pox at Indianapolis. Logangpcrrt il to have a Granger Store. The Governor has signed the uew liquor law. The Remington public schools elose to 1 day. .• * & 7. y | .. —i y; Easter next" Sunday, prepare yourself with egg’. , • • ♦*“ ■ ” Mercury stood at 2 degrees above zero Monday morning £t 5 oclbck. . Price of the Rkpublioan, postage paid, only sl,so aye r, in advance. Elizabeth Cady Stanton will lecture in Delphi some time next week. . - ——— Reiser, of the Winamao RepuMlicnil,% reported to be on the sick list. —: —, ■» —... .. . There Were fifteen accessions to the Methodist Church, in this place, last Sunday. A child at Reynolds, was scaldedtto d&Mh recently, by falliaginto a vessel of hot water. The “Indianapolis. Official Railway and Business Guijje” for March has been received. Hon. Schuyler Colfax will deliveiv his celebrated lecture on Lincoln, in Lopasport next May. .. The temperance crusade has again broken loose. Commenced this time in Madison, this Statei The latest kink is to loop up street dresses on ore side only, allowing the other to hang down low. The following is given as a good motto for a temperance society: “Jug not lest ye be jugged. Only one marriage license was issued by Clerk Spitler this week : Omer Morlan to Melissa McDonald. Five persbus united with the Presbyterian Church lost Sunday ; also, five with the Free Will Baptist Church. The best place to buy t-our Groceries is at Kern’s, where you get tho best , Goods at the Lowest Prices. It is reported that the Great Salt Lake, in Utah, has been frozen over this winter, for the first timo on record. TherC is not a single unoccupied house in town. A good investment might.be made in building a few houses for rent. The Logansporl Sun establishment lias moved to Clinton, Illinois, where it will continue to shine in all its glory. Says the LCsington (Mq.) Caucassian : “Cbulk nnd ivory, heels and shins, Sambo's glory now begins,” Civil rights. Papers deposited in the post-office with a single one cent Stamp affixed will not be forwarded. A two cent stamp is required. Ailv person dosirihg to buy as organ or ' piano at two-thirds the regular price will do well to call at the Republican offiee. According to the provisions of the new liquor law,-druggists are prohibited selling liquors in quantifies less than a quart. A little boy in Scratton, California, lias 28 toes. Fortunately his parents are rich enough to hire help so keep his nails pared. When a Florida Indian lisikely to die, his friends place him where an alligator can take him in, and thus save burial expenses. Mr. A. Leopold has been in Chicago for the past week buying a new stock of goods. Look out for bargains when he returns: Mr. Williams Phillips, he of the new harness shop, was on the sick list the latter part of last week and the first of this week. “Ager.” “Old Winter has been lingering in the lap of Spring” for three or four weeks now. The young elf ought to slap his jaws good for him. Emmet Kannal, a first-class druggist of this place, has refused tc sell any more of the ardent in any quantity, for either love or money. Tho town was completely filled with wagons last Saturday, as it is every Saturday, and dry goods and groceries were pnreha sed in abundance. In all Rensselaer, there is ho stauncher, better mercantile firm than Willey & Sigler. They are prospering by energy, uprightness and liberal advertising. ‘ A candidate for county clerk in Texas offered to register marriages for nothing.— His opponent, undismayed, promised to do the same and throw in a cradle. Mr Franklin Gray, of Carpenter township came into our office on Monday, and deposited a $1.50 with us for the Rkpdbeican. He knows “which is who” every time. The Delphi Journal learns that John H. Gut cbes, the popular contractor of the Chicago & South Atlantic Railroad, has been at home isl Chicago sick for some days, but is now better. The Indiahapoiis Saturday Herald is the latest addition to cur exchange list. George C. narding, editor. The Herald is a 7-col-umn quarto sheet, neat in appearance and betokens editorial ability aad mechanical skill. We are pleased to X. The Loean sport Sun says the towns qlong the line of the proposed Chicago and South Atlantic Railroad, are feeling quite com* forfable over the presert prospects of the early building of the road. " ‘ ’ *

,o|H%e supplied-»t,4hc fo%wing ra|ps, by JOOf<*so«mts.sOO f0r:52.25, 1,000 for §3.25. , ; All the iawyers'. doe'teA, fd«c4ers, p*ea<*_ers an--else .ane iyiviisd to attend Ah i4inssit>n fefe off ID : —ySi ■Wecan poir.t \ou oat*a Michigan woman who refused to go to a festival because she wanted to socks. A S:mHar case W»A beard from in New York State Ljpme fifty years ago, but it was not wfcll authenticated. — * .■: ;•*- £r~ Mr. C. W. Cltada still sdks the Weed. Well/tile people know whet they want and what they want topiy for it ; and they in- , variety Mi llie‘‘Wfeid'Shwing Machine because it is the deepest fnd best Machine in the market. There are young moo who cannot hold a ykieh of Jftrti for their mothers without Evincing, but will hold 156 lbs of a neighing faintly for the best part of the night, with the patience ana dolility that are certainly phenomenal. One of our Southern exchanges speaks of ,“a gentleman who was arrested on the Charge of counterfeiting nickles.” It is impossible to believe that any gentleman in possession of his five ecutses would be engaged in so base a business. We are informed that there will be a meeting of tho stockholders of the Jasper County Agricultural and Mechanical Association held iu the Court House, in Rensselaer, onSaturday, Apr : 134,1875, at 2 o’clock, r. ii., for tho purpose of electing officers. Young McConnell, Deputy Treasurer of Benton county, discovered the other day that, forty acres of choke l<n 1 in the south part of the county, hod neverbeen entered, ahd now lie holds a government patent at a cost of $1.25,' for the same —-Lafayette Courier. . t » c .Tho Ecntland Gateite, of last week says: “Circuit court is frti!l-*in session, Judge Ilammond presiding. Amoiig the attorney’s from a distance we notice Prosecutor S. P. Thompson, who is always at his post, Ms. Travis, Hon. R. S. Dwiggins and 1100. J. IL Cofroth.”

Dr. Winegardcn controls the editorial department of tho Winamac Democrat while the editor is off excurting with the so-called Inuiaiia editors. Dr. Winegardcn was, formerly, the quill-driver of the almost forgotten Francesville ’‘Local Topic,’’ and he understands the “highland fling” pretty well A heavy excitement is getting up over the Black Hills gold prospect. Parties are forming , 'in various parts as Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska, and will start as soon as grass comes. It is possible that, this is another humbug, and that tho fever is being increased by nun Who intend to speci - late.The briny torrent was so great atone time last Monday that it threatened to inundate the agricultural department and State library. The janitor mopped the building with the scalding tears shed by retiring members, and the cracking of their heart strings was like a fire iu a eanebreke. —lndianapolis Herald. A naw ballad announces that, “the moon has raised her light.” It doesn’t say how much she has raised it, nor do we remember the old price, but wo suspect this will be unwelcome news to j'oung men used to ting her by moon-light alone,” on account of its cheapness. But disapointmeht Is the lot of all, Mr. B. M. Butler, Mr. T. J. Hollet and Mr. Ch.is. Jouvenst, R-mrington gentlemen, were in town last Monday. Y/e hereby cheerfully acknowledge a pleasant call from B. M., who has lately been chosen as Secrotary of the Remington Agricultural Association, and was in. town on business for the Associaticn.

The Jasper County Central Association Patrons ’of Hnsbandyy will, convene at tho Court House on Saturday* the 27th inst, promptly at one o’clock. - Bech Grange in the county is requested to send delegates, as business of much importance is to be transacted. C. J. Brown*, Riley Nowels. President. March 9th, 1875. Secretary. We desire to call special attention to the new advertisement of Harding and Willey’s Drug Store. They are now well established in their new brick building, on Washington Street, ono door east of F. J. Sears and Co’s dry goods establishment, where will be pleased to meet all their old customers, re gardles3 of color or previous condition. Call and see them iu their new quarters. The impression is that under tho new liquor law a saloon keeper will be obliged to procure a license under it as soon as he ean, regardles of his permits under the Baxter law. This opinion is endorsed by Dave Tnrpie, Speaker of the late House. A clause in Section 16 protects the vendor of liquors from prosecution under the law until the last day of June term of the Commissioners’ Court. Hence the old Baxter law being no longer in force, anybody can open and run a whisky shop, from now until June without any dang- rof being molested. Probably a groat many will, thinking “there’s millions in it.’ ’ —Logansport Journal •