Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1875 — Estray Notice. [ARTICLE]

Estray Notice.

Green Apples at Kern’s. - Christmas next Saturday. Ge to Kern’s Grocery for flour. s ‘ J Go to Kern’s for choice candies. It will soon be "swearing off” time. The Circuit Court is still in session. Craaberrises, 15 cents a quart, at Kern’s. Diamond oysters, 40 cents per can, at Kern’s, - Great bargains in Christmas toys at Ken’s. , Choice Canned and Dried Fruits at Kern’s. New Orleans Seger, 10 cents per pound, at Kern’s. Lemons and Oranges just received at at Kern's grocery.

* Mr. J. L. Moore is running a new restaurant in Goddrrd’s old stand. It need to be gog and magog, bat now it is straight grog and crooked grog. A merry Christmas to each and every one of the readers of the Republican. Remember the Christmas tree at the Presbyterian Church on Saturday night. Joyce and McDonald are in prison, but Democratic Boss Tweed is at liberty. The new branch mint for the coining of silver is to be established at Indianapolis. m e ■ There will be a vacation in the public schools from the 24th inst., to January 3rd. On the 15th inst. a marriage license was issued to William J. Cotton and Myra E. Tilton. The Terre Haute Mail nominates Mr. Linus A. Burnett, of that city, for Treasurer of State. A marriage license was issued on the 20th inst. to Joseph F. Rank and Sarah A. Raven scroft. The Independents will hold a State Convention at Indianapolis on the 16th day of February, 1876. Coughs and colds are on the increase.— Put your trust in warm underclothing, and keep your feet dry, • Hon. John Ratliff, of Marion, Ind., will be a candidate for Auditor of State before the Republican State Convention.

The ice crop will soon be in bloom, and if no untimely thaw occurs to prevent, the crop will doubtless be a large one. Remington Record". Joseph Patton, of Cincinnati, formerly a resident of Remington, burieff a child at this place Saturday. Husbands, be careful; & Virginia woman recently died from fright at seeing her busband’s coat-tail set on fire by a hot stove. Of the thirteen members of the National House of Representatives from this State nine are Democrata and four Republicans. Subscribe for the Republican and send it to your absent friend as a Christmas present. One dollar and a half pays for it one year. Some’folks don’t seem to have any faculty to get ahead except by hanging on to the coat-tails of others. This may be honest, but it is poor. The Remington Record premises to be the largest paper in Jasper county at the expiration of six months, provided a liberal support is given. In discussing bow tall a girl ought to be, the Chicago Tribune is of the opinion that one who can lay her head on your shoulder exactly fills the bill. We give our local page, wholly and completely, over to our advertisers, this week. Next week we hope to give our regular amount of reading matter. It ia now announced that in the course of the next ten thousand years the whole globe will be covered with water to the depth of thirty feet. Seleet your trees, gentlemen. Holiday goods now Crowd the shelves of all the stores, and much amusement and comfort is afforded our youth in the daily inspection of the wonderful eights which they reveal. ■■ Apples are quite scarce this winter, but ot.ions are plenty. Onions are ft poor substitute for apples. A young man going to see his girl would rather have one apple than a dozen onions. Mr. S. P. Thompson of this place will represent the Jaspkr Rbpubl-can, and Mr. D. B. Miller, the Union, on the editorial excursion to Philadelphia, which leaves Indianapolis the 15th of January. In future, young men who appear in public with books under their arms, will bear watching. A patent has just been issued for a whiskey-flask put up in book form, having natural backs and leaves. Mr. F. L. Cotton, the new lumber and coal dealer, has fully become a citizen of Rensselaer. He has moved his household goods to this place, and has subsetibed for the Republican. Succes to him. "It makes a hen tender to let her lay a while after she is deqd,’’ says an exchange. And we would think about three weeks would be long anoogh to let her lay to make her tenderness apparent. Ann Connolly, of San Francisco, aged 73, has sued for divorce from her husband, Henry, aged 75, because he had failed to keep the promise he made to her before they were married and give up tobacco.

See change in carl of Thompson & Bro. attGruQS rr»t estate 'dealers • That is one of the old, reliable firms of Rensselaer, as is well known in Northern Indiana. Any farther commendation from us is unneo ssary. — —o. According to the Indianapolis Hereto, Glasgow, Scotland, has a citizen of wealth and influence, who, in the year 1333, was a resident shoemaker in Indianapolis, and a frequent contributor to the Journal.— A likely story, that. e Mr. S. Warren Treesb, of the firm of Shaw & Treesb, Remington, gave us a pleasant call on Monday last. Mr. Tieesh seems to be quite a genial gentleman, and we would be pleased *to have him remember the Repcblicax office when in Rensselaer.

Mr, Mark 11. Pomeroy, familiarly known as "Brick,” is to transfer his Democrat from New York City to Chicago, where he will Continue to publish an old-fashioned Democratic paper—with a platform in favor of free trade, home rule, and repudiation. Some of our Democratic exchanges accuse President Grant with guilty knowledge of whisky ring frauds, and entirely ignore the fact that the President inaugurated and has continued to press the prosecution of Offenders. Such aceusasions are simply silly, and show a dirty animus. We issue the Republican earlier than usual this week, that we may Le permitted to attend the publishers’ convention, at Chicago, on Thursday. At this writing, everything indicates that there will be a large attendance, and with a judicionsaction on the part of the publishers, success will be the result. Mr. C. W. Ainsworth, the veteran excursion manager of Indiana, is now taking steps to perfect arrangements for a grand excursion of Indiana teachers to Philadelphia, next year. lie is of the opinion that the railroad fare will be ouly ten dollars for the round trip, and board and lodging one dollar and fifty cents per day.

Taken up by J. E. Lamson in Jordan township, Jasper county, Ind., one two-year-old, spotted, roan heifer; brand on right hip, but not distinguishable. Appraised by John L. Turner and Morris Gorman at $20.00. From docket of John Lewis, J. P. Jordan township, Jasper county, Ind. Dec. 20, 1875. Attest: M. L. SPITLER, Clerk. Report of Center School district No. 3, Gillam township, Jasper county, Ind., for the month endirg Dec. 17, 1875 : Number pupils enrolled, 41; average daily attendance, 36j. Those perfect in attendance, punctuality, deportment and study were Fiank L. Hunt, Judson J. Hunt, Davis Hess, Martha L. Land, Amos Laue, Austin J. Rathford and Lizzie B. FarriSj Jas. R. Guilu, Teacher. The Texans are in some things quite original, and in nothing more so than in matters of education. They have hit upon a plan regulating the pay of teachers that may stimulate the pedagogues to extra efforts to please their patrons, though it looks as if it might result in the total neglect of schools in sparsely settled districts. A bill hasjust passed the Legislature fixing the remuneration of the common school teachers of that State at ten cents per day for each pupil in actual attendance.