Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1875 — Editorial Excursion. [ARTICLE]

Editorial Excursion.

Every Republican in the county should subscribe for Thx Jasper Republican at once. Next year being the Centennial year of the Notice, and it also being the year of a Presidential election, every citizen should take a county paper. In clubs of ten or more we will furnish the Republican from now until the first of January, 1877, for one dollar and twentyfive cents per year. M. Berger, a great billiard player, is dead, but still the balls roll on. Moody and Sankey are now holding revival services in Philadelphia. Guibord’s funeral which commenced six years ago was completed, last week, at Montreal. In Logansport they arrest tramps and make them break stone on the streets at the rate of seventy-five cents per day. There wifl be twenty-four contested seats in the lower House of Congress, nine being occupied by Democrats and fifteen by Republicans. Hon. T. W. Ferry, United States Senator from Michigan, now becomes acting Tice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; caused by the death of Vice President Wilson. The following stanza from a poem in one of the November magazines is supposed to be a delicate tribute to Francis E. Spinner, late Treasurer of the United States: Be wrote and wrote, but could not make a name; Then cursed his (ate and called the world to blame— The world, that knew not genius when it came. It is reported that crops in that portion of Russia which competes with the United States in supplying Western Europe with breadstufis have this year been a complete failure. These reports are probably true in part, and will have a tendency to increase the demand for Western produce, and consequently enhance the price of the same. If it be true, as one report states, that Russia will have to import food into that portion where the crops failed, then the demand for our produce will be very much increased.

Flayid Out. —Wedding journeys, like the practioe of making wedding presents, according to the latest fashionable intelligence, are out of style. Happy and favored young men and women of the day ! Fashion, then, no longer requires you to make a show of yourselves, and you can get married in peace. No lost time, no crowds, no fuss, no awkward groomsmen, no chalky bridesmaids, no marching up aisles, no execrable tunes, no splitting gloves, no dropping rings, no kissing parsons, no carriages, no receptions, no presents, no journeys, no expenses, no cards. Welcome and encouraging change. The murder of Rev. F. J. Tolby was avenged at the hands of exasperated citizens of Colfax county, New Mexico. It seems that a Mexican by the name of Cruz Vego, who was recently elected constable of Cimarron precinct, and who was, without the shadow of a doubt, the leading spirit in the murder of Mr. Tolby, was hung to a telegraph pole two miles from Cimarron, and on the day following another Mexican by the name of Greigo, who, while trying to avenge the death of Vego, was shot dead in a Cimarron hotel. At the coroner’s inquest facts were brought out implicating several other parties in the apparently preconcerted assassination of Mr. Tolby.

Tuesdays dailies contained the startling intelligence that Henry Wilson, Vice President ofihe United States, died at the Capitol building in Washington, Monday morning, November 22, 1875, at half past 7 o'clock. The night before his death he rested well, and at 7 o’clock a. m. he awoke and expressed himself as feeling bright and better. One dispatch says he sat up in bed to take his medicine, laid down on his left side, and died in a few moments without a struggle. Another dispatch dated November 22, states that “at 3 o’clock this morning he awoke, complaining of pain in his stomach. One of his attendants rubbed it, and being thus relieved he again fell asleep. At 7 o’clock he awoke, remarking that he felt brighter and better than at any time previously. He said he Was going to ride out to-day. as his physician advised, if the weather was fair. At twenty minutes past 7 he said he would get up and take breakfast. He then called for bitter water, which had

Tha Hoffman trial at Quincy, HI., has ended in the acquittal of Mr. Hoffman, to the intense disgust 0- General Prentiss, and many other former members of his congregation. Retusb’Em.—Owing to the number of counterfeit notes on the banks named in the following list, it will be safe to refuse all five-dollar notes of their issue. The first national bank, of Chicago, Ill,; the Trader’s national bank of Chicago, Ill.; the firet national hank, of Paxton, Ill.; the first national bank, of Aurora, HI.; the first national bank, of Canton, Hi. Nearly the entire amount es the genuine five-dollar notes of the banks above mentioned have been withdrawn from circulation, and no additional issues will be made. The comptroller is desirous of retiring the whole amount from circulation, and all persons receiving such notes are requested to deposit the same with the nearest national bank, or forward them to the comptroller for redemption.

People are getting tired of the ceaseless talk about hard times and panics.— They know that while it is true that much depression exists in certain branches of business, it results from over production and speculation more than any other cause. The real wealth of a nation is taken from the ground ; the crops and mines give forth that which constitutes wealth. The year has given the husbandmen an abundant harvest; here and there exceptions exist, and the crops are a failure, yet the country never produced so large a crop. Prices rule high for stock and grain. The published statements of banks show that individual deposits are greatly in excess of the amount of this time last year. Farmers, mechanics and laborers have more money now than then. This does not argue for depression, but shows that dawn is breaking and the hour of deliverance is at hand. The debt-paying process has been steadily going on ; little by little the load has been removed, nutil the burden is now becoming light, and can be bourne. Confidence is returning, and if we cast aside our debts and lay hold upon our work with a firm determination to succeed prosperity will aa surely come to bless us in the near future as day shall succeed the night

A copy of Hidpath’s History of the United States, published by Jones Brothers & Co., Cincinnati, has been received at this office. We believe it to be one of the best works of the kind ever published, and do not hesitate to recommend it to teachers and students. A perusal of its pages will win for the book the hearty commendation of every one. As a sample of the style of the author, we extract the following description of the Peqnod war, as given on page 126 : “On the evening of the 25th of May the troops of Connecticut came within hearing of the Peqnod fort. The unsuspecting warriors spent their last night on earth in uproar mid jubilee. At two o’clock in the morning the English soldiers rose suddenly from their places of concealment and rushed forward to the fort. A dog ran howling among the wigwams, and the warriors sprang to arms, only to receive a deadly volley from the English muskets. The fearless assailants leaped over the puny palisades and began the work of death; but the savages rose on every side in such numbers that Marsh’s men were about to be overwhelmed. ‘Burn them ! burn them 1’ shouted the dauntless captain, seizing a flaming mat and running to the windward of the cabins.- ‘Burn them !’ resounded on every side ; and in a few minutes the dry wigwams were one sheet of crackling flame. The English and Mofa egans hastily withdrew to the ramparts. The yelling savages found themselves begirt with fire. They ran round and round like wild beasts in a burning circus. If one of the wretched creatures burst through the flames, it was only to meet certain death from a broadsword or a mns-ket-ball. The destruction was complete and awful. Only seven warriors escaped; seven others were made prisoners. Six hundred jmen, women and children perished, nearly all of them being roasted to death in a hideous heap. Before the rising of the sun the pride and glory of the Pequods had passed away for ever.— Sassacus, the grand sachem of the tribe, escaped into the forest, fled for protection to the Mohawks, and was murdered. Two of the English soldiers were killled and twenty others wounded in the battle.”

Through the Kindness of Mr. D. M. Boyd Jr., of the C. C. C. & I. R. R., I am authorized to tender the courtesies of that popular line to the Indiana editors and their ladies, for the purpose of making a visit to the Centennial grounds and buildings at Philadelphia. The main buildings are nearly completed and afford a correct and impressive idea of what the exhibition will be. The party will leave Indianapolis the 16th of J anuary, 1876, a special train being provided for (he pleasure and comfort of the excursionists, returning about the 22d. A visit will be be made to New York. Persons wishing to participate in the excursion or desiring information, will address the underigned. Will State papers please copy? Plainfield, Ind, Nov. 22, 1876.

C. W. AINSWORTH.