Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1875 — Normal Institute. [ARTICLE]

Normal Institute.

Camp meetings are in order. Biing in your job work to-this office. Purdue Univdieity will re-open in September. North Judson wants a tinner, and wants one bad, too. Rumor has it that thef e will be another marriage or two very mooCheek wins in this world, especially if the cheek is dimpled and rosy. Y - The work oflayiflgthe brick on Goddard’s new building has '£btnmenced. Elma, infant daughter of Zimri and Estella Dwiggins, died on Monday morning, Aug. 9, 1876. When an Elkhart man is delivered of a thirty-foot tape-worm the band gives him a serenade. The Porter County Yuletti had seperate columns for Methodist items, Unitarian items, etc. Doesn’t your watch or clock tick corFeetly, t ake it to E. L. Price, he will fix it up in good style.

Lovers of apple dumplings and hard cider will regret the prospective scarcity of apples this season. Some unknown friend will please accept our thanks for a copy of the Macon (Mo.) Republican. Water-melons made their appearance on our streets last Tuesday. They went off like hot cakes. Mr. Simon Phillips and Mr. J. W. Norris have formed a partnership in the harness business. See card. Rev. C. E. Lambert will preach in the M. E. Church next Sunday morning at 10; 30, and in the evening at 7; 30. The man that reposed in the rag room of F. J. Sears & Co., lost Saturday, wasn’t drunk, only a little “sick ” James S. White c.lled on us last Saturday. Ho reports everybody prosperous and happy in his neighborhood. Mr. Phillips expects, in a short time to move his harness shop into the building now occupied by Goddari’s bakery. The Republican acknowledges the receipt of trie catalogue cf the Northern Indiana Normal and Business Institu.e.

Rev. H. B. Miller has our thanks for a nice mess of cucumbers, and a lot of the finest potatoes we have seen this season. Mr. Wright Williams, the railroad agent of Remington, Was in town last Saturday. Mr. Williams is one of the live men of Remington. The Northwest Indiana Conference of the M. E. Church convenes at Greencastle, on the eighth of September. Bishop Jones will preside. The news comes that Charley MeCulley, the fellow who was shot at Remington, last week, is getting worse, and his recovery is doubtful. Afl now the editor of the North Judson Couner wants an editor that can please everybody, and offers a fiye dollar bill as an inducement. The Hon. Schuyler Colfax will deliver an address at the Fair of the Remington Agricultural Association, on the third day of Fair—Sep, 9, Now is a good time to place lime about your premises where a disinfectant is needful. An ounce of preventive is worth is worth a pound of cure.

It is reported that a fatal shooting affray occurred in Kentland the first of this week. A man was shot in tho back of the head by a woman and was'lnstantlykilled. . Elsewhere will be found an interesting communication, from Mr. Alfred Thompson, our genial fellow townsman, who is at present inhaling the sea breeze in Maine. An Indiana naturalist has fried it a hundred times this year, and he finds that snakes cannot charm birds. There has been a fearful amount of lying about this thing. When the railroad prospects are unfavorable in Jasper county, the good people turn their attention to ditches. They are now digging one five miles long and ten feet wide. Monticello Herald. Shooting is now in order and base ball is doomed. Our boys'have already begun to whittle their bats into ramrods, and to burnish up their revolutionary muskets, and soon the whole county will resound like a continuous fourth of July. It is reported that the commissioners of the Kentucky branch of the Chicago and South Atlantic Railroad will meet at Cincinnati the first of September to inaugurate the work in Kentucky, and build tbo link of the great road through that State. The Delphi Journal says: John W. Fawcett has invented a Real Estate Index which makes successful claims for abbreviating time and trouble. It is claimed that by its general use a title can be traced in about one-fourth of the time it is now required. The concert held at the Presbyterian Church, last Sunday evening, was well attended. The exercises consisted of singing, prayer, review of lessons for July, and a declamation It is expected to hold one of these concerts at least one Sunday evening each month.

Scientists tell us that the sun is only ninety-five millions of miles from the earth, and at the same time tell us that the light of a star will travel two and a half miles per second, and that*it takes 14,000 years for it to reach the earth. MB. R. FENDIG, THE WELL-KNOWN AND RELIABLE DRY GOODS MERCHANT OF OUR PLACE, WILL REMOVE HIS STOCK OFGOODS INTO THE HEMPHILL BRICK BUILDING ON OR ABOUT the leth inst. We are indebted to Mr. B. M. B.itlc r, the Secretary, for a copy of the premium list of of the Remington Agrieultuial Association. The first Fair will be held September 7,8, 9 and 10, 1875, eh the grounds of the association, near Remington, Ind. A neighboring farmer recklessly vontur s the following challenge: “i’ll bo* $42 .25 that my hired man cart take longer time to get to the field, get back to dinner quicker, eat more, do less, and bear dowu harder on a panel of fence than any other man within ten miles of the Court House in Rensselaer.”

When it comes to first-class family groceries and provisions, Charley Starr acknowledges no superiority. His stock is constantly being replenished and he purchases the best goods in tho 'market. No tnan could be more attentive to business or more anxious to do the satisfactory thing for all customers. The Lowell Star says : “The grading on theC. & S. A. R. R. has been prosecuted in Lake county till it is about finished, with the exception of some narrow places where tho right of way has been resisted by the property owners. There obstacles can be surmounted in a short time, however, when tho iron is secured. Mr. Mahion F. Antrim returned home from a months visit in Michigan, last Saturday evening. He says the late flood did not extend as far north as Michigan, notwithstanding which we have better prospers for a corn crop here than they have in the Wolverine State, as corn has suffered considerably in that State by drought. We have frequently heard of instances where meh in fits of absent-mindedness have misdirected their letters, but it seems that the parties to 'whom we are unfortunately indebted are never led intd such errors.— The duns come regularly, the monotony never once being relieved by a love letter or other irrelevant document. The carefulness and punctuality of those fellows are equalled only by their infatuation.

A Normal Institute will be convened at Rensse’aer, Monday, August lGth, 1875, and continue six weeks ; tho last week constituting the regular annual County Institute.— Good instructors will be employed, alid assurance of a large attendance is given from all parts of the county. J. H. SNODDY, County Superintendent. Tho largest and cheapest school in the West. Fall term opens September Btli. No cne need fear that he will not be aocornmodated at the Northern Indiana Normal School, Valparaiso, InL Ample accommodations are being provided for all. Additional teachers employed. Satisfaction guaranteed or all money refunded. Send

for catalogue.

H. B. BROWN,

Valparaiso. Ind., Aug 3, 1875. Principal.