Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1875 — Big Invention. [ARTICLE]

Big Invention.

A spell to-night. Take no note of a doubtful man. The Union office has a new sign. April showrns bring spring p«>etry. Kern’s front has a fresh coat of paint. yjf* All kinds of »<ed potatoes at Ksrn’s Grocery. The business men are coming sat with spring suits. The melodious frog has tuned his voice into spring lays. LaPorte and Michigan City has a few cases of small-pox. Mr, W. H. Shtw, of Remington, was in the city last Tuesday. "General tiredness” pervades the average citizen in the springtime. Spring costumes are to oe carefully worn to exhibit "careless grace.” A ennvas awning decorates the front of M. D. Rhoades’ barber shop, The bottom has been struck everywhere, and business is steadily reviving. “Spring reigns supreme,” and the probabilities are that it may rain too much. As the base ball season has commenced, we suppose the small-pox has subsided. A man who is not able to pay for a dog is not able to meet his cur, rent expenses.

Commissioner Hoover and G. W. Hascall, of Remington, were in town on Monday. Mr. Esau Hart, proprietor es the Remington Hotel, was in town on Wednesday. We understand that there was a wedding at the Austin House Thursday afternoon. According to the new law deeds and mortgages should be recorded inside of 45 days. Marshal Reeve has been doing some excellent work in the street cleaning line this week. We noticed Mr. Frank Cotton and Mr. Ezra Bowman, Remingtonians, in town on Wednesday. The pleasant spring weather during apart of last week brought out the light iufantry of Rensselaer. The route by which a person can go throngh without change is the line of travel for a poor man. A polar wave struck Jasper county last Monday. Snow continued to fall the most part of the d iy. Rev. R. L. Adams preached his farewell sermon at the Presbyterian Church in Remington, Sunday. Prof. King gave a very good slight of hand performance at the Court House, last Wednesday evening. Only one marriage license was issued since our last report—Nathaniel W. Reeve and Ainanda P. Rhoades. The orthographical tidal wave still lin. gers in Rensselaer. Another spell at the Court House to-niglit. The dance last Monday evening was well attended. Several young gentlemen from Remington were present. At the Remington Nursery will be found a full suspply of apple, pear and cherry trees hedge plants, &c., at reasonable figures. Somebody says a wife should be like a roast lamb—tender and nicely dressed. A bachelor adds, “But without any sauce.”

Widows can properly wear mourning for eighteen months, unless the weeds aie sooner removed by a second husbandman. A little excitement was stirred up on Washington street Wednesday." Calhoon’s team ran away. There was no damage however. The latest slang with which to come down on a long-tongued bore is: “Write the rest down on a piece of paper, and we’ll read it Sunday.” When a tornado sweeps over a Southern town, have you ever noticed how many colonels are invariably singled out by the flying bricks. Wo desire to secure an “itemizer” in every township of Jasper conuty, for whioh we will pay a fair price. Now come down with your items. Talk about the poetry of motion and sylphlike grace, but did you ever stand by and see a woman use a one-tined fork to flop a stove cover off ? The English are going to make a cannon which will throw a ball thirteen miles, but the cheapest way is to get close up to a man and knock him down with a club. The Fourth Annual Fair of the Jasper County Agricultural and Mechanical Association will be held on the 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th days of next September. Mr. Jonathan Rank, of Carpenter township, paid us a brief visit on Thursday.— Such genial gentlemen as Mr. R. is always welcome to a seat in our sanctum. We understand that a railroad meeting was held in town last Tuesday evening Messrs. McCoy & Thompson and several other parties doubled their former subscriptions. ’Tis well. Not many men forget the washdays'of their boyhood, when a fond mother with parboiled fingers buttoned their collars for them. Its impression upon the heart and nose ia rarely effaced.

Remember that C.~W. Clifton, the agent iti Jasper and Newton counties for the Weed Sewing Machine Company, has just received a fresh supply of machines. Will be sold at reasonable rates. The Supreme Lodge of the Knights of Pythias meets in Washington City on the 18th, day of May, and will be attended by a large number of Knights from every part of the United States. A new hotel has been started in Rensselaer and now the Rensselaer Republican is siding around. Significant. —Mail and Magnet. Exactly; but onr “siding” ba3 amounted to naught as yet. The general trade in the country has been gradually improving, and the indications Rre that in all branches of business there will be a very decided increase over the amount transacted last year. A gentleman on the street the other dav, being asked what he thought of the Beecher (s)candal, replied that he never tried it, and didn’t know anyihing about it—that he and all his neighbors used kerosene. The funeral of Mr. Newman W. Hopkins pccured last Tuesday from the residence of his family in this place, attended by a largo number of friends. The remains were interred in Weston cemetery by the Masons. Mr. Peter Kelley, a “fine old Irish gentleman’’ of Remington, was in town Wednesday and called at the Republican office. By the wry, Mr. Kelly, next time you call weM tell you that joke about the pigs, you know.

Messrs. Harding & Willey are going to build a large cistern in the rear of their drug store that will hold one hundred barrels of water to be used in case of fire This is a move in the right direction, and others would do well to follow their example. * We, the citizens of Keener and Wheatfield townships, would be greatly obliged to non-residents who have heretofore brought cattle into our neighborhood for herding purposes, if they would not do the same thing this summer, as it is very disadvamageous to us. MANY CITIZENS. Our Remington callers have been numerous this week. Among the most prominent were the names of Mr. Frank Jouvenat, Attorney D. B. Miller, Mr. N. W. Rawlings, Mr. Licklider of the firm of Licklider & La Hue, and Bros. Kitt & Clark, of the Record. The spelling mania has taken a queer phase in Madison county, 111. A damsel has offered herself as a prize to the one of four suitors who outspells the others. The The match will be held in a seboolhouse an admission fee of twenty-five cents will be charged, the proceeds to go toward furniaing a house for the young couple. “The Secret of Success” as a dealer iu all kinds of goods is exemplified in a Cash Store, Not an idea just discovered, but before the existence of the grange Li d l Hopkins adopted the Cash Basi3.. He buys what his cash will pay for, and sells at lowest possible profit for what your cash will pay. Bargains open to-day in Summer Goods. Prof. Peters, who is at present instructing a class in the art of voeal muiic, at Remington, will visit this place for the purpose of organizing a class. Prof. P. is highly spokea of by the Remmgton folks, and, no doubt he clearly understands his business. We understand that his terms are very reasonable, aud hope he will succeed in obtaining a large class here.

We hear that a contract has been closed by M. A. Halstead with the C. & S. A. R. R. Company, by whichjthe former lays the iron from the north bank of the Kankakee river, in Lake county, Indiana, to the city of Chicago.— The work commences all along the line the first of next month, in good earnest, —Lowell Str. Mr William Phillips, the proprietor of the new harness shop, is doing a “smashing” business. There has been added to his shop a building about 14x24 and an experienced carriage and buggy trimmer, who, in a short time, will move his family to this place, a large stock of saddles, and other goods in his line of business, which will be sold as cheap as any other house in Indiana dare sell; and in no case will he be undersold. The attention of the Vice Presidents of the Jasper County Sunday School Union iB called to the 9th article of the constitution, and are requested to govern themselves accordingly. The following is the article referred to: Art. 9. The Vice Presidents shall have the general supervision of Sabbath School interests in their respective townships, collect Sunday School statistics and report to the Permanent Secretary, at least ten days before the annual meeting in each year. The Lowell Star, in speaking of the prospects of the C. & S. A. R. R., says : “We hear that M. A. Halstead, Esq., has been awarded the contract of finishing the grading from the State line at Dyer to Chicago, and upon such favorable terms in contract as to insure its speedy construction as soon as the weather will permit inaugurating work. Mr. Halstead, has also been awarded the contract for laying the iron from Chicago to Delphi, so we hear.*’ “The Lan and the Lady.’’ by Wilkie Collins—his last and greatest woik—is just out, hflvihg bedfa jfublished simultaneously in England and America. It is hardly necessary to say it is of most in tense and absorbing interest. The plot is intricate, the characters well and strongly drawn, and the story splendidly told. It is the crowning work of one of the greatest living novelists. We can promise our readers that it is a rare treat. It is issued in a handsome and wonderfully cheap form, in two volumes, illustrated, ofThe Lakeside Library edition of Standard Novels, and sent postpaid for only 26 cents, by Donnelly Loyd & Co., Publishers, Lakeside Building, Chicago, Ill's.

The writer of tbis spent last Friday, Saturday and Sunday in the thriving little town of Remington,'Jaeper county, situated on the P. C. & St. L. Railway. It was reported there that business had been lively, but just at that time was a little dull New buildings are springing up rapidly, however. There are probably twenty ®i twentyfcve buildings in the course of erection. Remington has a population of about a thousand souls among which are not a few of go-abead, enterprising business men, which will insure success and prosperity toany town. While in Remington we met several fomilliar and friendly faces, and would be happy to speak of many of themj and their good qualities here, but o'T space is limited ani will not permit of snch lengthy remarks, for, indeed, it Jwould be a subject that would more than fill our c.lunuM.

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