Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1876 — Republican Convention. [ARTICLE]

Republican Convention.

Whxbxas, The State Central Committee of the Republican party, of Indiana, has reeonmeoded the holding of Coerauttosa ia the several counties of the State, on the Mi day of February, 1876 ; and Whxbxas, The counties generally have sailed Conventions accordingly, A call is hereby made to the Republicans *f Jasper county, to assemble. io Maas Convention at the Court House in Remroelser, Indiana, on Saturday, the 6Aday of February, 1876, at 1 o’clock, p. M., for the purpose of, First, The selection of tea Delegates to the State Convention. Second, The appointment of a County Central Committee for the ensuing CamP***- 12 2 Third, The fixing of a time for holding County Nominating Conventions, Fourth, The transaction of any other business that may properly come before said Convention. January 6, 1876. By order of the Jasper County Republican Central Committee.

JAMES A. BURNHAM,

Chairman.

▲ bill has been introduced in the legislature of Ohio taxing Church property. There will be five eclipses this year—two of the sun, two of the moon, and one of the Democrat party. For publishing the Bristow sensation, Guy Magee was discharged from the editorial staff of the Inter-Ocean. Ten million dollars worth of new building, says’the jErenfny Journal, were erected in Chicago in 1875, making a frontage of over ten miles. Chicago, Cincinnati,,! Cleveland and St. Louis have already put in claims for -the next Republican National, Con vention. Others are to be heard from.

Hendricks and Bayard seem to be uppermost to-day as the Democratic candidates for President and Vice President. To-morrow it may be Bayard and Hendricks. Ab anti-Masonic r paper is soon to be established ia Cincinnati, with J. H. H. Woodward as the publisher. The Indianapolis Herald says it will create a terrible rattling among the dry bones of the lamented Morgan. The Democratic members of Congress have given up their investigation programme, and fallen back on retrenchment The Republican officials are doing their work so well that investigation was found to be simply a waste of time. f For some shortcoming a St Louis wife (a strict church member) knocked her husband down with a pudding stick and then held his head in a tub of dirty ■water until he was just ready to expire. Then she laid him on the lounge, and, sitting by his side, read aloud a chapter in the Bible, and wound up the exercises by asking him if be didn’t believe the time is coming when all men will be good.

Tweed is a regular J Jack-in-the-box. Now he is here, dow there. A little while ago he was in Havanna, sure. Then that was denied with absolute certainty. Now it transpires that the great" Boas’* is sojourning at Uxbridge, Canada, and that he has been stopping at what was formely known as the Plank Hotel, kept by an American. His friends are keeping his whereabouts a close secret, you see.

The third term business was a sort of Democratic jelly-fish. There were no bones in it. From first to last the Republican opposed the idea, not that there was any great danger of its becom ing popular, but from principle, and, further, because we did not wish to see Republicans deceived by any sush transparent dodge. The Democrats made the most they could of it, simply as a matter of policy. However, now that the third term is a dead cock in the pit, a few weak and time-serving Republican papers, in their haste to get on record as against it, think to add seal to their protests by indulging in flings both low and mean at President Grant. This is contemptible. The question of a Presidential third term should, stand or fall upon its merits, regardless of friendly or unfriendly feelings for Grant. Third term or no third term, low flings from friend or foe can not obscure the fact that the country owes President Grant a deep debt of gratitude. His place in history will be an enviable one, for there he will be recorded as one of the world’s greatest generals, an executive officer of rare ability, a stataaman of high degree, and one whose devoted patriotism to country was pure and unquestioned. ' ' ?