Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1875 — ITEMS OF INTEREST. [ARTICLE]

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Sugar dealers are always ready for a tare. A slow match—a ten years’ engagement. The roll of honor—A big roll of money, as the world goes. When a man gets tired of himself ho generally tires other people. An old man says: “Were it not for pretty darters, Cupid would have no darts.” Boston has a new charity in the shape of an institute for invalid female schoolteachers. Are your words of more weight when you propound anything than when you announce it? The Detroit Tribune felicitously refers to a lively divorce season there as “ the era of unhitchments.” A quart of kerosene oil will often last a poor woman her life-time, especially if she fills her lamp by candle-light.— New Orleans Republican, “ Patrick,” said an old gentleman to his servant, “ we are all creatures of fate.” “ Well, if it wasn’t for fate how the dickens would we walk, sure?” A newspaper letter-writer comments upon the skill and popularity of the men milliners in Boston. That city, he says, is also well supplied with men dressmakers. A cynical man insists that the fewer relations or friends the happier we are“ln your poverty they never help you; in ' your prosperity they always help themselves.” The suggestion is made that the city of Philadelphia be decorated with flags of all nations on New Year’s Day, being the opening day of the centennial year at independence. The New York correspondent of a Western newspaper informs the readers of that journal that ladies in that city wear “ dog collars of jet, steel and gilt, close around the neck." It is reported that several well-known men of New York have determined to send an expedition to the Arctic regions early next spring in search of the records hidden by Sir John Franklin. In the line of “ How to bring up parents” is the speech of the little boy who said: f ‘ Father, I think you should give up swearing or family prayers.” The boy recognized the fitness of things. . “ I’m twoyears older than you,” said a little eight-year-old girl to a New Bedford boy the other day. “ Weil, I don’t care,” was the reply. “ I’m going to wear trousers soon, and that you’ll nev-, er do.” . j a A lively girl had a bashful lover, whose name was Locke. She got out of patience with him at last, and in her anger declared that Shakespeare had not said half as many things as he ought to about Shy Lock,

E vary Republican in the county should subscribe for Tub Jasper Republican at once. Next year being the Centennial year of the Nation, 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, focone dollar and twentyfive cents per year. “Boss” Tweed, of New York, made his escape last Saturday evening. It is generally supposed that it was a “put up job.” Mrs. L G. Bedell, of Crown Point, is attending medical lectures at Boston, and she writes some very interesting letters to the Crown Point Register. General Benjamin Harrison declines to allow his name to go before the Republican State Convention in connection with the nomination for Governor. lion. M. C. Kerr, es the third Congressional District of Indiana, was nominated Speaker of the House last Saturday, in a Democratic caucus on the third ballot. There were cast 101 votes, making 81 necessary to a choice, of which Kerr received 90, Randall 63, Cox 7, and Sayler 1. On motion of Randall the nomination of Kerr was made unanimous. ' .

On Monday of last week Murray, of the South Bend Herald was shot; but he is recovering rapidly now. On Thursday evening after, McDermott, who had temporary charge of the Herald, was set upon and brutally beaten by three men, while returning home. It is supposed the injuries sustained will confine him Io the house for some time. The Herald has its third editor, and we will not be very muih surprised to hear of his having met with an attack similar to his predecessors. The Crown Point Herald has been merged into the Register of that place, and Mr. C. W. Ainsworth has become associated with Mr. Frank S. Bedell, in the proprietorship of the latter. The Register is to be enlarged to an eight-col-umn folio, and otherwise improved, on the first Thursday in January. Mr, Ainsworth will not take up his residence in Crown Point until next spring. The Crown Point Register has long been an excellent paper, and now it bids fair to equal anything in the State. • Some of our exchanges are publishing as a curious item a statement to the effect that a horse in lowa pulled the plug out •of bunghole of a barrel for the pnrpose of slaking his thirst. Wo do not see anything extraordinary in the occurrence. Now, if the horse had pulled the barrel ■out of the bunghole, and slaked his thirst with the plug, or if the barrel had pulled the bungbole out of the plug, and slaked its thirst with the horse, or if the plug had pulled the horse out of the barrel, and slaked his thirst with the bunghole? or if the bunghole had pulled the thirst ■out of the horse, and slaked the plug with the barrel, or if the barrel had pulled the horse out of the bunghole, and plugged its thirst with the slake, it might be worth while to make some fuss about it.

This removes from earth the last of the great leaders in the early days of the struggle for freedom—Abraham Lincoln, William H. Seward, Horace Greeley. Salmon P. Chase, Charles Sumner, John P. Hale—one after another the giants fell. And now the name of Henry Wilson is called for the last time, and the roll is closed forever.— Exchange. These were the leaders, and noble ones they were. Probably the history of the world cannot show their equals, certainly rot their superiors. But there was a grand army back of them—an army whose whole heart, whose every impulse, was in the great work of making American soil essentially, wholly and forever, free soil.' The leaders originally belonged to different parties—Abraham Lincoln, William 11. Seward, Horace Greeley and Henry Wilson to the Whig party, and Salmon P. Chase, Charles Sumner and John P. Hale to the Democratic, but upon the great question of freedom and free soil they could clasp hands, forgetting all minor political differences. And as it was with the leaders, so it was with the rank and file of the army. It needed but the bugle blast of Liberty to sound, when they all sprang to arms for the great contest, and then under one organization they fought the grand battle that broke the fetters and scattered the chains of Slavery forever within the boundaries of the United States of America. • The leaders are gone, and the army roll is getting less year after year, but there will be no brighter page upon American history than that which records their glorious deeds in behalf of freedom and humanity. The historian can truly say of them that “their vestments had the silver sheen, and that around their heads sparkled the stars of glory.”

— t JThe Hon. Matt Carpenter, of Milwaukee, is counsel for the defendants in the whisky cases now on trial at Milwaukee, and the Tribune J jurnal. of Chicago, have published severe reflections on hfe connection witlf the same. la an open letter he threatens as soon as he can get a little leisure from attending to the rights of citizens in the United States courts at Milwaukee, to sue the editors of the Tribune and Journal for libel, and thus afford them a fair opportunity, to prove their charges, if true.

The, Kentland Gazette of last week issues a call to publishers using patent insides or outsides to meet at the Commercial Hotel in Chicago on Thursday, December 23,. 1875, for the purpose of consulting together and making arrangements to purchase sheets without advertisements, compelling foreign advertisers to contract with each publisher and pay him his price, or constitute Mr. Kellogg, or whoever may furnish the sheets, as the publisher’s agent to solicit ads at prices fixed by the publisher, allcwing them a fair per cent., and making them accountable for every line of ads they insert.— This we hold to be a move in the right direction, and our sympathy, though we may not be permitted to attend the meeting, is in full accord with the work. It is high time the ready-print publishers assert their rights. We will try and be present, Mr. Gazette, or “send a hand.”