Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1875 — JASPER COUNTY SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION. [ARTICLE]

JASPER COUNTY SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION.

Women are now eligible to election as school officers throughout Winconsin. Attorney General Williams’ resignation is to take effect on the 15th day of May. No successor has jet been named. He’s the same old Parson Brownlow as-ever. “You toothless, fimgless' old reptile,” is his latest pet a name for Andy Johnson. =' A Louisville womauhaa sued a Lodge of Knights of Pythias for $50,000 fer having fatally injured her husband during initiation ceremonies. A strong effort will be made to raise $500,000. by subscription for the purpose of completing the Washington monument before the Centennial. It is apprehended, apparently not without reason, that great damage has been done to fruit by the cold snap, sven as far south ns Corinth, Mississippi. Vice-President Wilson says there are not a hundred Republicans in Massachusetts who favor tbejthird term, and that he has not met a man who did not’scout the idea.

The St Louis Globe says: “The next President of the United States will be named in a Republican National Convention, to be held in the city of Philadelphia on the 4th of July, 1876.” President Grant recently purchased forty thousand dollars’ worth of real estate in Prince George’s county, Maryland, a few miles from Washington, to use as a stock farm. The foreign elements have become so important in St Louis politics that the Globe recently said on the morning of election: “The great House of Ireland and the great House of Germany will fight it out to-day, and the little House of America will look on in silence.” The municipal elections in Ohio are spoken of in some quarters as Democratic gains, which is not the case, the Democrats not having carried a single city there that they did not carry last fall when they had immense majorities in Cincinnati and Cleveland, and when, besides, they carried Toledo, Steubenville and Mansfield, that are now Republican, and had 900 majority in Columbus, which now elects a Republican Council

The Neto York Herald Bays the “third term agitation" is “dead at last." As the Herald had the honor of its paternity this announcement of its decease ought to be authoritative. It was manufactured as a sensation; it has served its purpose; it has run its course ; and now that it is declared dead by its chief nurse, it may be supposed that those who have been alarmed and apprehensive at the dread bugaboo will recover their equanimity. On the 19th inst., the people of Massachusetts celebrated the centennial of the first battle for freedom in America. On the 20th of May, the inhabitants of North Carolina will celebrate the centennial of the first Declaration of Independence, which took place at Mecklenburg, in that colony, May 20th, 1775, and, it is said, was the first open announcement .of the intention to cut loose from the mothea country made in the colonies in any official capacity. The Solicitor of the Treasury has written an opinion on the authority of Internal Revenue officers to examine the books and papers of National banks for unstamped checks. He affirms the right to make such examinations. After reciting in full the statutes referred to, he says: “I am of the opinion that sections 3.163 and 3,177 confer authority as claimed by the Commissioners as Internal Revenue, and are not inoperative as to banks because of section 5,214 or any other statutory provisions.” Impartial observers of the course of the Democratic party during the past winter, especially in the Western States, are not overwhelmingly impressed with the conviction that the good of the country demands a restoration of the Democracy to power. The Cincinnati Commercial asks if the Democrats hold out a promise of meeting the people’s demand for an honest party, and then answers its conundrum in this way: “Tried by its record in the States where it has been tested, in the towns and cities where it has control, and the only difference, if any, to be observed is in the eagerness to get hold of the money and spend it. Changing from Republican to Democratic administration is likely to prove as Valuable an experience as that of the fox, wich swam a river to free itself of a swarm of pestiferous flies, and found, on landing, on the opposite shore, that he had exchanged one swarm that had been sated with his blood for another whose hunger was yet to he appeased."

Parson Brownlow has been dissecting Andrew Johnson’s last speech, and. convicts the ex-president of the grossest falsification. He shows that Andrew Johnson interfered in the most scandalous manner with the Tennessee Legislature; to absent themselves from their seats, so that ratification of the fourteenth amendment might be defeated at all hazards, and endeavored to bully and bribe the Legislature of a sovereign State. The Parson writes as vigorously as ever, and certainly convicts Andy of being tro übled with a treacherous memory.

The first annual meeting of the Jasper County Sunday School Union will be held in the Bapffst Church in Rensselaer, Ind., on Tuesday and Wednesday, May 18th and 19th, commencing Tuesday, at 10 o’clock, A. M. , PROGRAMME. 10,00—Open Exercises by the Pres. 10.15 rßeport of Permanent Secretary. 10.45 — Appoint committees on enrollment and nominations. 11,00—Manner of conducting Sunday schools, by Hon. R. S. Dwiggini. 11.15 — Remarks on same by members of the Union. 11.45 Miscellaneous business. 12,00 —Adjourn. * Afternoon Session. 2,00 —Opening exercise. 2.15 — Object of Sunday schools, by John Henkle. 2.30 — Remarks Ac. 3,00 —Report of committee on nominations. 3.15 — Election of for the coming year. > 3.45 — Miscellaneous. 4,00 —Adjourn. Evening Session. 7,oo—Praise meeting. 7.30 — Superintendents’ co nf e r ence, conducted by the President. Morning Session, May 19. 9,00 —Opening exercise. 9.15 — Relation of ministers and churches to Sunday schools, by Rev. 8. E. Rogers. 9.30 Remarks on same by members. 10,00 —Temperance as related to Sunday schools, by Elder D. T. Halstead. 10.15 Remarks on same by Union. 10.45 — Class exercise, lesson for May 23, by Rev. F. E. Pierce. 11.15 Teachers’meetings, by S. A. Morgan. 11.80 — Remarks on same. 12,00 —Adjourn. Afternoon Session. 2,00 —Opening exercise. 2.15 — Duties and qualifications of Superintendents of Sunday schools, by Bev. E. A. Andrew. 2.80 — Remarks on same. B.oo—Children’s meeting, conducted by Elder W. B. Hendryx. 8.45 — Miscellaneous * business. 4,oo—Adjourn. Evening Session. 7,00 —Praise meeting, 7.30 — Question drawer; to be answered by whom named. 8.80 — Adjourn. D. J. Huston, C. E. Lambxmt, J. H. WILLXT, E. A. Amdbew, ( H. B. Milueb, Eecutive Committee.