People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1893 — Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The latest scheme of counterfeiters is to manufacture silver dollars that are exact sac simile lof those made by Uncle Sam, j containing the same amount of silver and precisely the right weight. The actual cost of a silver dollar is about 69 cents, making a profit of 31 cents on a dollar. The extent to which they are made is not known, but is said to be alarming, and no expert, no matter how skillful he may be, can detect them.

The Louisana state lottery has been granted a charter by the Republic of Honduras and will remove its business to that country on January 1, 1894. It is given many privileges and is under no restrictions of law. In turn the republic is to receive §1,000,000 a year, three per cent, on face value of tickets sold and to have free use of a cable which the lottery company is to construct to the United States. The government is to superintend all drawings. From a commercial point of view, there can be no doubt of the advantages of these roads. Millions of dollars are appropriated every year for river and harbor that bring practically no commercial advantage except to the immediate district in which tee work is done; but if this money, or a part of it, were devoted to the construction of suitable highways, the expenditure w mid appeal to the interest < f nearly every class in the country, and bring a splendid return for the outlay.—Brigadier General W. Merritt.

We suggest to Bro. McEwen, that if unsuccessful in receiving the appointment of post master at Rensselaer, that he transport his printing office, building and all, to the World’s Fair and exhibit it as a curiosity. By charging a small admission he could make more during the five months of the fair than the post office would pay in four years. He should not forget to take along his rubber bo#ts, fur cap and overcoat, and two or three of his Jersey cows to make the show complete. But * joking aside, Bro. McEwen will probably be our next post master, and his years of hard work for his party will at last be rewarded.

Nearly all of the many creameries that w’ere built throughout this section of the country a couple of years ago are either closed or about to close. The one at Rensselaer is the only one we know of that has held out. The reason given in every case is that the farmers failed to patronize them. Fowler, Remington, Chalmers, Delphi, Buffalo, Lafayette and several others we do not call to mind just now’, are shut down and the property offered for sale. It seems strange that at the price butter has been selling at during this time that they should go to the wall. They were all built to benefit the farmers, and then the farmers failed to support them.—Remington Press. Four characters, two males and two females, formerly of Rensselaer, are reported to have had an exciting experience at Hammond during an extremely cold night recently. The four persons had taken up their residence in that city and renting a house in the front of which was a store room opened a cigar store in the front and in the rear made their residence, ■which was much frequented by the hard characters of that town. The night mentioned the house was filled with drunken toughs, who became angry, and threw the inmates and goods into the street. The four former Rensselaei’ people were badly hurt and one of the women was reported to have been nearly killed. The toughs were arrested, but we have not learned the outcome of the affair.