Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1876 — Hanging Grove Items. [ARTICLE]

Hanging Grove Items.

Wh.< b„ mm. ->t Uu~ Ml H-l™. anyway? .>»■-. Charley Starr moves into the new brick next week. . - . < • .“Balance aH I” is the effort now with our business men. The heaviest rain of the season fell last (Wednesday) night. Have you paid for the Christmas present your wife madejyou? It’s about time to lay your diary aside. Four week’s keeping is sufficient. Everything is “centennial” now except the girls. They tWe g*eet sixteen as us**/. The 48th Indiana Volunteers holds a reunion at South Bend, on the 27th day of February. If the Columbus Republican would discard that black spot in the centre of Us headline, it would look still better.

Marriage licenses were issued, this wetk, to Adrian Smith ami Sarah E. Sacre, and Frederick B. Rishling and Mary M. Redd. Some of our merchants took advantage of the stagnation in trade, which always follow the holidays, to take an invoice of stock.

To those who get the Republican regularly and never pay a- cent: Sometirte, when you are in town, step into the office and settle up. Nr. F. L. Cotton is the sole proprietor of the lumber yard in Rensselaer. His brother who lives in Remington, is not, and never was, in partnership with him. We learn from Sheriff Daugherty that Rev. S. E. Rogers is now holding a protracted meeting at Francesville. He is meeting with success, having succeeded in organizing a church society. The Rensselaer wing of the Indiana Editorial Excursionists returned hoine last Monday night, having made the trip from Washington to Rensselaer in about thirtysix hours. They all report as having ajolly time.

No Adulteration —Best Chemical Salerafus, made by De Land & Co., is absoutely pure, hence is much cheaper and better for cooking purposes than Baking Powder and most other wands of Suleratus. Try and convince yourself. A narrow-gauge railroad is to pass through Stockwell, near LaFayette, and is said to be the cheapest road ever built. Thirty miles of the road is already completed at a cost of less than six thousand dollars per mile, so we learn from the Granger and Home Journal. < . _ An exchange “ wants somebody to invent a new dance for the girls;” Yes do 1 Get up one where the young ladies dance around the house helping the old lady get breakfast, wash the dishes and sling dirty shirts in a wash'tub. Do, and see how the girls won’t—dance worth a cent. Sheriff Daugherty started for Indianapolis last Wednesday. He conducted Elisabeth Bisher, a girl under the age of fifteen years, of Gillam township, to the Indiana Reformatory Institution for women and Girls, “she being destitute of a suitable home, and of adequate means of obtaining an honest living.”

Dr. S. W. Ritchey will deliver a free lecture at the Court House in Rensselaer, on Saturday, January 29, 1876, at 7 o’clock p. m , in answer to a sermon by Rev. W. P. Shockey, recently delivered in Rensselaer, on the subject of “Bible and Science.” It js particularly desired that the people turn out en masse and give the Doctor a respectable hearing. The following is a report of Pleasant Ridge school, district No. 1, Gillam township, for the month ending Jan. 7, 1876 : No. enrolled, 42 ; average attendance, 36 J. Those perfect in attendance, punctuality and study were Ella Long and Thomas Freshour. Those present every day were Callie Robinson, Alfred Robinson and Chas. Hanley. D. A. Rorgbrs, Teacher. Married.—By Ret. Granville Moody, D. D., on the 19th inst., at Pleasant Grove, Jasper county, Ind., at the residence of the bride’s parents, Mr. Granville Moody, Jr., and Miss Jennie Farkison, only daughter of William Kenton Parison, Esq. We acknowledge the receipt of an unsually large B upply of the wedding cake. May the future of this happy couple prove altogether happy, and the inevitable shadows and disappointments of life only serve to augment their domestic felicity.

The following is a report ofCenter school, district No. 8, Gillam township, for month ending Jan. 14, 1876: No. enrolled, 42; average attendance, 38. Those perfect in attendance, punctuality, deportment and study were John D. Brown, Albert Freshour, Paris R. Faris, Lizzie B. Farris, Nora M. Farris, Louis W. Hunt, Judson J. Hunt, Wardie Hamilton, Martha L. Lane, E. Rathfon, Rimer 0. Rathfon, Charles E. Robinson, Ettie Coppess and William Cunningham. R. Guild, Teacher. Necessity is truly the mother of invention. Down in Dixie they work it this way now: When a negro commits some trifling offense they arrest and fine him. Being unable to pay the fine he is put up at auction and sold. Some planter becomes the purchaser, of course, and Sambo soon finds the same old tasks before him, and the same old master to drive him. ' . . . . .

1 1 t .. v i< ■trinilv trne T would were pleuseu to sa-y is sinciiy true, a nuum just , wee ’ 11 h* had the pleasure of reading It is orthodox and conservative; though Presbyterian, yet not rigidly sectarian, but waging eternal war against the enemies of our Protestant faith. A. Kastbmn Cobkbs’t. . The following is a report es school No. 4, Gillam township, for month ending Jan. 7,1876 :No. enrolled, 54; average attendance, 43.3. Those perfect in attendance were Joseph Lebold, Lewis Lebold, Jehnie Lebold, William Swisher, Preston Comer, James Pallins, Preston Pullips, Wiffie Querry, Rufos Rayburn, Jam« Hilton, Willie Evans, B -rtie Dunn, Meadie Ray. burn, Mary Mitchell, Mary Hiltoh, Viola Woosley, Rhoda Hilton, Flora Querry, Eva Rayburn, Janie Newcomb, Lizzie Lebold, Minnie Dunn, Rosa Pullins, Eddie Querry, Mattie Elliott and Amanda Hilton,

P. M. QUERRY,

Teacher.

The February Sssue of Lock's National Magazine, in variety and excellence of its literary contents, will be found the most atti active number of that publication issued for many months. Among the new series of articles begun in the present number is one of biographical sketches of American men and women; a series of tery instructive papers on “Words,” by a w»llknown clergyman es-Toledo, O. ; and another of pioneer reminiscences of Northwestern Ohio, by a writer of Jwide reputation. The remaining portions of the magazine are well filled with stories, sketches, poems, etc., and as a whole it will compare with any dollar magazine bow published. ■

Health generally good. Mud has all-disappeared. Corn 20 cents, and price going down. Harvey Phillips is visiting friends and relatives in Madison county, this State. The hog crop in this vicinity is slowly moving forward to market. Price very good. W. E. Moore Ha&just returned from Miami county with a drove of young cattle. McCoy & Nichols sold their entire lot of sheep, numbering something near five hundred head. Preaching at Centre school house next Saturday evening at six o’clock. Everybody invited to attend. The protracted meeting at the Osborn school house closed last week. The meeting was continued about two weeks. There were only two accessions to the church, I believe.

The citizens of the southern part of the township met at the Smith school house last Friday evening, for the purpose of organizing a iiterary society. Mr David Culp was chosen president for the first term, and Miss Mary Bussell, secretary. I wou’d like to say something jbout the Centennial, only I might be accused of borrowing the phrifefe.—(See Republican of of January 14, 1876). For instance: “The Centennial is here..” “Prairie Jake” also says something agout the 4th of July, ’76. So I will take it for gtahted that the Centennial is here, the 4tb of July is coming, and we are under full sail for the 16th of next April—Easter-Sunday. I had not intended to write any more, but I am so worried about “Prairie Jake” that I must enquire about him. Is he still rolling his abdomen over that barrel ? If so, I hope the good people' of Remington will induce him to desist before it is everlastingly too late I also hopehe has a smooth barrel to roll on. I wish to relieve “Prairie Jake” of his anxiety as to Theodore and his pony. Theodore is calm and Elias Hammerton is the happy man now. If you want to know what Theodore was galloping over the prairie for, I will tell you in my next.

A. MERRYCUS.