Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1875 — Fourth Of July meeting. [ARTICLE]

Fourth Of July meeting.

Indiana has 2,025 subordinate Oranges. Read the Auditor’s annual exhibit in this paper. Only about one week till the ga-lorious Fourth. Odd Fellows picnic at Battle Ground on the 30th. A regular “rush” at Willey & Sigler’s last Saturday. Oxford will celebrate on a grand scale, on the 3J of July. Rensselaer has conculuded to celebrate on the third dayofJulj. Advertise in the Republican, the best advertising medium in Jasper county. Ju lgo Hammond is presiding in the Cass County Court, at Logansport this week. Commissioners adjourned last Saturday evening after a busy session of two weeks. Mr. George Norris, of Rochester, Ind., was in town Monday, prospecting for a brick yard. The potato crop bids fair to bo the best we have had’for years. The bugs do not appear to be very troublesome. According to the bills, Mr. S. P. Thompson will deliver an address at tho Goodland celebration, on the third of July. Old mother nature wept great drops of rain, on Monday, which was hard on the chinch bugs, but made the farmers laugh. P. H. Lully, T. E. Donnelly, Jay Cherry, William Price Jr., and John Miller, all of Remington, were in town last Sunday afternoon. Mr. C. P. Wright was on the streets this week with his arm in a sling. While wres* tling, the arm at the elbow joint was put out of place.

“That Pacific Combination” did not arrive about the 23d as was reported. Well, Rensselaer has had enough “combination” anyway. A man may occasionally kiss the wrong woman by mistake, but when he makes a practice of it, the right woman finds it out, and that’s what bothers him. Don't doit. Don't advertise your business ; its paying out money to accommodate other people; if they want to buy your goods, let them hunt you up. Owing to a press of other matter we are unable to give to our realers the proceedings of the Commissioners’ Court lliis week. Will appear in our next issne. Last Saturday the town wa3 thrown into a state of excitement over a regular oldfashioned fight, between two bullies. As a matter of course, whisky was the foundation of the affair. Vol. .1, No. 1, of tie goodland Courier, has been received. L. West, editor, and E. F. Maxwell, publisher. The number before us looks neat and clean—just the reverse of the old Reporter. Koutt’s Station correspondent of the Valparaiso Vidette says: J. Vantwood, of Chicago, has moved his family t 9 Jasper county, und will try farming instead of being justice of the peace. A gentleman oil Front * street is not so anxious to know what “true inwardness” is as he formerly was. At breaks ist tho other morning he put the question to the wife of his bosom—and hu bosom’s wife thew a cup of hot coffee in his face.

It is reported that honest citizens of Rensselaer sprinkle salt on the grass in the neighborhood of Tuter’s saloon. As a consequence the cows stay ia that part of town. In the evening they go after their cows. “Only that and nothing more.” A poet sang: “I’m sitting sadly on the strand that stretches to the water’s brink, and as the day slips slowly by, I idly fold my hands and think.” His ardent admirers did not know that, while he was sitting on the strand with idly folded hands, his family at home were in w»nt. The proprietors of the Kentiand Gazette have purchased tho Goodland printing office, and have engaged our old friend and former partner, E. F. Maxwell, to do the mechanical work on the pa per, and a Mr. West, as local editor. May peace and prosperity attend the new combination. The postmaster, Geo. Sigler, notice that on and after July Ist, the fees for money orders will be as follows : On orders not exceeding $5, 10 cents ; over sls and not exceeding $30,15 cents; over S3O and not exceeding S4O, 20 cents ; over S4O and not exceeding SSO, 25 cents. Tho citizens of Jasper county living near Sutton’s mill, twelve miles north of Rensselaer, will celebrate the Fourth inthatneighborhood, on Saturday, the 3d day of July. Good speakers are expected to be present. Good music has been secured, and a bowery will be erected, for dancing. Everybody invited. We would suggest that when meetings of any kind are held in the Court House, at night, it would be well to place a lamp in the stairway. It is generally as dark as Erebus out there, and groat care is requisite in order to keep from reversing the natural order of things in descending the stairs. Geo P. Rowell & Co’s American Newspaper Directory, for 1875, has been received at this oflioe. It contains the description of 8,348 newspapers, an increase of 564 over last year. During the last year there were eighty-four newspapers started in Indiana —twetty-nine more than in any other State in the Union.

Don’t advertise, for it brings people in from the country (country folks, you know, are of an inquiring turn of mind), and they will ask you many astonishing questions about prices, try your temper with showing the goods, and ever vex you with the request to tie them up, which puts you to an additional trouble of buying more. Goodland Courier local: Mr. Fester has been having a well drilled close to the New York Store, and on Thursday, when they bad reached a depth of ninety-one feet, gas began to issue from it with a rush, continuing to escape for an hour. Quite a quantity of water was thrown from it to the hight of ten feet. When a lighted match was applied to the escaping gas, the flame immediately leaped to the hight of fifteen feet. From the Monticcllo Constitutionalist we learn that on Thursday of last week, a contract was made for making and delivering 24,000 ties, for the new railroad, to be delivered on the line between Montieello and Delphi. Also, that a contract for grading ten miles of the road north from Montieello was awarded, last week, to Messrs. Patton & Stephens. They are under obligations to have their contract ready for iron by the first of October. L. Hopkins, of Rensselaer, advertises that he is selling “splendid sugar-cured hams at 14 cents a pound.’’ Sears & Co , of the same place, advertise that they are selling “standard brands of prints, such as Merimacs, Cochecos, Richmonds, Spragues and Allens, at 6 1-4 cents a yard.” Rensselaer merchants wagon their goods fourteen miles. What’s the matter in Kentiand? —Kentiand Gazette. Kentiand needs a' lot of business men. This is the way the Record man talks about our new surveyor: Mr. D. B. Miller has been appointed surveyor of Jasper county, and has concluded to move his reidence from this place to Rensselaer.— Danlias been one of our true friends, through good and bad during our stay here, and we dislike to see him depart. But we feel assured that he will succeed, as he has grit and principle that are necessary requirements of a young man'who starts out to hew his own way without a helping hand.— Ho has our best wishes for success, as of many friends whom he leaves here.

The People’s Friend.—lt is susceotible of easy proof that the Sewing Machine has been a greater blessing to- the American people than any invention of the present century. Nothing else has done so much to save the lives and health of the wives and mothers, and the patient overworked women of the land who, as a class, most needed relief from the burthens of every day life.— Every father and husband faii-q in his duty if he n gleets to endow his with such a triumph of science as the Wilson Shuttle Sewing Machine. It is the cheapest and best sewing machine ever offered. Machines will be delivered atany Railroad Station in this county, free of transportation charges, if ordered through the Company’s Branch House at 197 State St., Chicago, 111. They send an elegant catalogue and chromo circular froo on application. This Company want a few more good agents. Remington, Ind, June 16th. The friends and advocatos of temperance of this place to their kindreds and associates in the same cause at Rensselaer, Greeting: Rejoicing in the vindication of justice and right before the law in successfully remonstrating.against the granting of license to Timothy O’Conner and Jared H. Fountain, ne hereby express oar thanks to you for your cordial support and encouragement in our recent contest before the Commissioners of Jasper county resulting in a verdict conclusive and favorable. Our labor indeed is not in vain, nor will it, or can it be, while we hold faithfully tho trust reposed ip us.— Let us be alive to tho conviction that our devoted thanks are due to Almighty God for the growing ascendancy of moral strength and courage, as opposed to intemperance and the unlawful traffic of grog sellers. In behalf of the Remington Temperance Advisory Committee and others.

W B.H.

In pursuance to a published call, quite a number of our citizens assembled at the Court House, last Saturday evening, for the purpose of making preliminary arrangements for the celobration of the Fourth of July at this place. On motion Col. Joshna Healey was chosen Chairman, and M. O. Cissel, Secretary. On motion it was decided to celebrate on Saturday, the 3d day of July. On motion the following committees were appointed. On Programme—Dr. G. A. Moss, E. T. Harding,, Rev. S. E. Rogers and Norman Warner. On Finance—Jno. M. Austin, Norman Warner and Jno. B. Spangle. On Grounds—Harrison Warren, Clarence Travis, Charles Steward, Shelby Grant, Elza Phillips, Jno. B. Hemphill, George Morgan,jßurt Hudson, Oliver P. Robinson and W. S. Smoot. Committee on Program the following: That the bells of the town be rung, and cannon fired at 3 o’clock A. M. The people to meet at the Court House at 10 o’ clock A. M. and with music march in procession to the grove where the exercises of the day will take place. The exercises to consist of Prayer by the Chaplain, Music bythe band, Vocal musio, Reading of the Declaration of Independence, Oration, Toasts and Picnic Dinner. On motion report of committee was accepted. On motion Dr. G. A. Mo3S, E. T. Harding and Joshua Healey were chosen to act as an Executive Committee. On motion Chas. P. Hopkins, Miss Lily Tharp, Miss Mary Cole, Wm. Warren and Remus Rogers were appointed oommittea on vocal musio. Motion to adjourn. Carried. Joshua Healey, M. 0. Cissel, Chairman. Secretary.

Rev. C. E. Lambert has written a letter to Mr. Harvey Wood stating that be will start home to-day (Friday). Therefore, it may be presumed that he will preach in the M. E. Church next Sunday evening.