Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1875 — A Magnificient Offer. [ARTICLE]

A Magnificient Offer.

The spelling Schools have “busted.’’ The garden sass continue to look sick. The trees are putting on their verdure. Pure Maple Molasees, >1.25 per gallon, at Kern’#. “Hunks” is of the opinion that it rained hut Sunday. Ge to Kem’s’for groceries—a new stock jnst received. The Jasper Connry 8. 8. Union convenes next Tuesday. An advertisement works on Sunday and all other days. Leave orders at the RbVußMcan office for wedding cards. Miss Mattie Misner returned to Remington, last Tuesday. Remember that the Jxspbk Republican is but a J 1.50 for one year. Farmers are all busy between showers getting ready to plant corti. Chas. McCully and T. J. Ho Rett, of Remington, were in town on Monday, Benton county, it is repotted, is to have a Democratic paper, published at Fowler. There are counterfeit fives on the Tradur’s Bank of Chicago afloat. Look out for them. On Tuesday, the 11th instant, a marriage license was issued to Henry S, Willett and Melvina Coe. “Borrowed clothes never fit?* If they would fit, thnwhances are that you couldn’t borrow them.

Anoflier dance was held in the hall last Monday night. We hear it was quite an bn* joyable affair. E L. Price, jeweler, gives special attention to repairing fine washes and jewelry. All work warranted. With care a man can walk uprightly!— One who is on the alert will not be found on the orange peeL According tv the Reporter there is an opening in Brookston, White county, for a jeweler and an artist. Court commenced l«fel Monday, with the dignified aud efficient judge, Hun. E. P. Hammond, on the bench. Our old friend Barney Patton of Romirlgton, called on us Tuesday. Mr. P. Reports business brisk in that burg. - Turkish Prunes 12} cents per pourtd, Early Rose Potatoes $1.60 per bushel, a|.d new Onions, at Korn’s Grocery. It is taking longer to find out whether Beech'-r is guilty, than it did to frame the Constitution of the United States. Bittirday last was an excellent day for chasing hats. The gray-haired, as well as the youth of the land, we«e noticed in the chase. A religion that shows itself in two or three parties, sociables, or dances or theatres a week, and in but one prayer meeting, is a humbug. Good aud evil are always paid off; sumtimes immediately, and sumtimes not untjl after they have run at a spell—Josh Billings. Major Calkins, of LaPorte was in attendance at the court room on Tuesday. He represented Gen, Packard in the James & Healey libel suit. We have been having very nice weather this week, but we would not be surprised to hear of a snow storm somewhere next July. After the Beecher trial is over the signature of the United States Treasurer will furnish “mighty interesting reading” fur a few months. e

—— —— — ■ Proper arrangements will be made for the entertainment of dWegates to the Sunday School Convention, to bo held next Tuesday and Wednesday, in the Baptist Church, Jasper county is cursed with the Winneshiek fraud, several of her citizens being notified of suits pending against them in the United States Circuit Court at Indianapolis. —Lowell Star. Mr. C. W. Clifton, Weed Sewing Machine Agent, has the famous Goodrich Hummers, Five Widths and Dress B'.hder for sale.— Five Hemmers and two Binders will only cost one dollar. Marshal Reeve gives notice that he has in the public pound, a stray pig, mostly white, which will be sold, to the highest bidder, next Saturday, if not claimed by the owner before that time. My stock of men’s shoes and ladies ’ fine shoes and gaiters being very large, I have concluded to reduce is 7 if low prices for cash will do so. See the quality fore buying. LUDD HOPKINS. The Indianapolis Journal is aj*r authority for saying that wtthin the next thirty days ten townships on the line of the Indianapolis Delphi and Chicago road will vote on the proposition to donate aid- to the new line. Jared H. Fountain and Timothy O’Connor have inserted their card in the Remington Record to the effect that they will apply to the commissioners of Jasper county, for a permit to sell intoxicating liquor by the small.

Wc hereby apologize for not mentioning the visit of Mr. Ralph Fendig and Mr. Ira C. Kelley to Chicago, last week, but human perfection in any person is and impossibility, much less a printer, and this will have to be our excuse. The case of Jasper Packard vs. JameM & Healey came up in court on Tuesday, and a change of venue was taken from this to Newton county. The case will probably be tried at the October term of the Newton Circuit Court. Leopold Tuteur gives notice through the Union that he will make application at the June term of commissioners’ eoUrt fur the privilege of dealyjg out death and destruction by the inch, in Rentselaer. Temperance id®!, stand to your colors. It has been intimated that Paul Boynton, who recently tried to swim fr >m England to France, is a Democrat. Ho may bo, but if he is, he Is th# first Democrat who was ever known to endure water fur fifteen hours. We question the intimation, The Indiana State Sunday School Union will meet in c. nvention at LaFayattc on the Ist day of June. The Courier says arrangements are being made for ’he proper entertainment of guests, and that the matter is in good hands. Will Jasper be represented ? When you see a gang of men crowded around a defenceless editor who is vaii.ly struggling to get through With his work, and carry on a loud-voiced argument on »ome extraneous Subject, you may calculate that their chances for heaven are thiuuer than dishwater. Last Tuesday morning about H o’clock a prairie schooner cast anchor in Washington street, Rensselaer, near the office. The propelling power of the vessel consisted of three oxen. The party hailed from Illinois, but we failed to learn the port of destination.

Aapatent has been taken out for an invention by Which it is claimed that glass can be used as building material for house fronts, floors or pavements, superior to marble in durability and economy. It may be made plain or variegated, and its colors are indestructible, Here is Han’s version of Jonah and the whale: “Yonah yas a fishmaker. Von tay he gone to der goospont to cotch shrimps, und ven he vas looking for bait, he valked right avay of a whales mout in. Bnt der whales make him boody valk quick out again. Hhvos too sthrong mit der fishes stumix. n , • Henry M. Hammon, son of the late Josiah Hammon, died May 10th, 1874, aged seventeen years, two months and eighteen days. Funeral at the residence of his mother, Eunis Hammon, on the 11th instant, conducted by Rev. S. IL Rogers. The deceased leaves a mother, two brothers and three sisters with many other relations and friends to mourn his loss. Monday’s dailies brought the news of another terrible shipwreck. On Friday night the steamship Schiller, on the way from New York to Hamburg, struck one of the small Soilly islands, off the southeast coast of England,, and Was wrecked. It is reported that only about forty oqt of the two hundred and seventy-nine passengers were saved. The steamer lost her reckoning in a dense fog, is given as a cause of the disaster. A new and dangerous counterfeit has made its appearance at the currency redemption bureau. The plate from which the counterfeits on the First National Bank of Chicago were printed has been altered, and bills purporting to be issued by the First National Bank of Paxton, Illinois, printed there- 4 from. Counterfeits on the the Third National Bank of and the Merchants’ National Bank of Chicago, have been printed from the some plate. A certain newspaper man took it into his head the other day to secure a job of easy farm work, and enquired of a former what he would pay him a month to run his corn planter. The horny handed Granger surveyed him for a moment, taking in his qualities for a field hand much as the old planters used to do ip Dixie, hnd replied that about $5 Would be a foir figure for one of his capacity. . It is needless to say that the representative of the art of arts is now looking in another direction for an easy job,

gggggg** i"! i-" Track liying commenced on the I. D. & C, road at Dalton, 111., hut Monday, anjl, w« understand, will continue southward as rapidly as possible. - J The Valparaiso, Crow® point and Western Railroad Company yesterday filed articles of association, with the Secretary of State. The capital stock is $500,000. The road extends from the po ; nt where the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago railroad crosses the Peninsular railroad in Porter county to Crown Point in Lake county thence to a point on the Stateline between the States of Illinois and Indiana in the direction of Kankakee, DI. The road is thirty miles in length.— lndianapolis Journal. The Lowell Star says: “The railroad prospects appear to grJw more faiorable. Negotiations, which h#Ve been pending for several weeks, hate been finally closed, favorable to the company, and the work will go on immediately The laying of the iron between this place and Dyer will be next in order, and we presume will be done forthwith. The progress the company have niade within the last fortnight tends to inspire all with renewed hopes that we will soon be in communication with the test of tho world by rail. Judge Hammond, of the Gushen Circuit Court, who so ably presided in the trial <4 the Parsons case, returned home, after a week of patient labor, during which he acquired a good repute as Judge.— Lafayette Leader. Now Bro. McGinley, you should be ashamed of yourself, and not let the Leader say such things. Jadge Hammond ‘ presides over the circuit, and his home is ii\ Rensselaer, white his rtipute as a good Judge doesn’t depend upon the manner of his pfeei-iing in Tippecanoe county.—Oxford Tribune.

To Excel in Improvement is the leading element of this country, and ho other article of labor-saving machinery has equaled in this respect the sewing machine ih rapid stiides of improvement. Among them the Wilson Shuttle Sewing Machine may be counted the leading one in this connection. Everything has been added. to it that con stant. experimenting and science could suggest, and it is offered to the public today without an equal for family use. Light, rapid, beautiful, durable and perfect, the Wilson holds the leading place among the best sewing machine in use. Machines will be delivered at any Railroad Station in this county, free of transportation charges, if ordered through the Company’s Branch House st 197 State St., Chicago, 111. They send an elegant catalogue and chrtmo circular free on application, i f This Company want a feW more good agents.

A very liberal contract with the Weed Sewing Machine Company will enable us, we hope, to place their celebrated Machines in many families. So fine an opportunity to secure a first-class seWifig machine seldom occurs. May we nut expect our friends, and all interested in our work, to make an earnest, united effort to extend our circulation and thereby increase our influence? Cannot the reader form a club in his or her neighborhood and secure this sewing machine as a premium ? A few hours of Well directed effort will obtain it. Are you a postmaster in a county town or village? With a little thought and effort you can easily send us thirty Hames. Pass the subscription paperi Thirty names at $1.50 eaeh will secure thirty copies of this paper for one year and a $65 sewing machine. In forming such a club you will help us in our work, benefit your neighbors by placing in their families good reading, and at the same time make your your own or some other family happy in the possession of a great labor saving machine, warranted to be perfectly new, of the latest improved construction and in per' feet order.