Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1876 — INDIRA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIRA STATE NEWS.

in convention on the 15th™d instructed the delegates to the State Convention to j vote for Chas A Hubbard for State• W. 8. Mmlms, a prominent resident of or did not know what he was doing. • receipt for goods left at his house by some peddlers, which note was transferred to a neighbor, was the primary cause.

authorities. The receipts of Ute year wore Jdeafiok ofDr. Lemuel Mom, of Chicago, to Presidency of the institution gives and he seems to be peculiarly Which 128 are in the' preparatory department, 140 -in the course d? literature and science,” fifty- in the law c/Hlise, and 107 in the Medical School. Im a recent case the Supreme C° urt decided. that “ Citizens and tax-payers °f • city are not competent jurors to try £ cause to which the said city is a party. A verdict against the city would impose addition alburdens upon all the tax-paying residents thereof. Hence such residents are at common law incompetent to serve hs jurors in ' a case to which the city is a party. Our code does not declare the juaor in-such * case incompetent, yet it nowhere declares that he shall be competent. The decision must, therefore, be left to the' common lata. ’’ * • In Decatur, recently, at a church festival, a cane was to be voted to the most popular physician in the town, or, in other the One whose candidacy brought the most money to tbechprch treasury, Rivalry carried the receipt* upi to a fabulous figure, Each doctor present was bound to be the recipient of the* testimonial. Each was determined to get that little piece of advertising, though it cost him his wealth. Bo the war waxed strong. Money poured in before the , grinning treasurers of the festival as the contest deepened. At last, from sheer exhaustion, the “pool” was closed, the money was counted, and one Dr. Blank declared the winner of the fight and owndr of the memorial cane. A rival of the successful candidate, who had been pouring out his money like water, refused to be comforted, and has actually sued the society for the amount of money he squandered. - The following resolutions were adopted by the. Indiana editors during their recent trip to Philadelphia? WusBBAB.The representatives of the press of Indiaßa.lnaw present in Philadelphia, having seen the buildings in progress of erection for the purpose of holding therein the great Exhibition to commemorate the first centennial of our existence as a nation, and recognizing the need of some assistance from the General Government to enable the projectors and directors of the enterprise to carry out and execute their plans in* manner that Shall reflect credit upon the United States among the nations which will bo represented in the Ex.position; and, Whzbkas, We understand that Congress is at this time considering a proposition to appropriate _ the sum of f 1,500,000 to enable the Executive "Committee to finish the buildings by the time announced for the opening of the Exposition; therefore, be it Beteived, That in our Judgment this great international enterprise is worthy of the generous encouragement and support of the Congress of the United States; that its international character and the magnitude of-the interests Involved should render it superior to all considerations save those of national honor, and that we earnestly request eur Senators and Representatives in Congress to support the bin now pending before that body in behalf of the Centennial Exposition. .Resolved, That it is the sense ot this meeting that the appropriation to be so made should be coupled with the condition that the Government shall be held free from any and all liability for the expenses of running the Exposition, other than for the amount above named. The Indianapolis Journal of a recent date thus speaks of th* success attending • recent attempt to blackmail Samuel Amity, city missionary of the Young Men’s Christian Association: purlng'the past two weeks various rumors ' have' been afloat concerning the absence from the city of the city missionary, Samuel Amity, several of which have been other than of a complimentary nature. We give the facta as furnished to us from a reliable source: Twelve months since Amity was induced to attend one of the Gospel meetings held in the Y. M. C. A. Hall, and while there professed to have been converted. That this was the result we have no doubt, from the fact that his previous life was one of gross wickedness, the catalogue of his crimes embracing drunkenness and immorality of the worst kind. At thia time he was a worker in a machineshop in the northeast part of the city, and his nabits were well known to' his fellowworkmen. He became a constant attendant at the religious services of the association, and evidenced such religious devotion, the purity of which none of the association even now doubt, that the suggestion was made that he be employed as a city missionary for the purpose of laboring among the lower classes. In this work he was eminehtiy successful, and had the confidence of Ms employers and the Christian public generally. Some months since, by accident, he met a man in the Union Depot who knew his history, part of which covered a period of time whenbe became subject to penalty for the violation of the laws of the State of New York, This man blackmailed him to the extent of fifteen dollars per month, and at the time of his departure increased his demands beyond thjmeans of the persecuted man, who, sooner than submit to it any longer, fled. There was no necessity for this blind step, tor ME-fret friends were cognizant of the faets ahd Would have used their utmost endeavors.to render him that protection which his respectable demeanor during the past • twetye months deserved. It is a thousand pities that he lacked nerve, for he was a man of promising qualities. Notwithstanding any attacks that may be made on him he leaves behind him a monument of his work Ln lndianapolis which would be an honor to any man—we refer to the Newsboys’ Home. It was at hirsuggestion and earnest solicits-