People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1893 — Real Estate Transters, for the Week Eliding July 10, 1893. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Real Estate Transters, for the Week Eliding July 10, 1893.

A ii.exchange in a neighboring town says that a woman whose husband is in the habit of coming home tipsy at night, decided to frighten him for a cure. The other night site arrayed herself. in frightful apparel and when the boozy husband entered said in sepulchral tones “Come with me. I am the devil.'' “Zat so?” said the man. “Shake, old boy. I am your brother-in-law; I married your sister.”

There seems to be a strange fatality in connection with the killing of women by Pan-Handle trains in this vicinity. Mary (lowland is the third woman Rilled within sight of the depot. A few years ago Mrs. James Ilennesy was killed on the bridge just east of the depot. Not long afterwards Mrs. James Wilson was killed while walking upon the track just west of where the C. & I. C. tracks now cross the Pan-Handle. —Herald. On the night of the 4th of July Wm. Hardsock Jr. had occasion to go to his barn, late at night. While going there he met a man dressed in a light suit, who] seemed anxious to avoid him. Mr. H. thought nothing of the matter at the time but went on to his barn. When lie got there lie discovered a dim light in the hay-mow. He went to see what it was. and found it to be a can in which was inserted a lighted candle held in position by rags saturated with coal oil. with the evident intention of burning his barn. —Kentland Democrat.

The Winamac Democrat says: “A company of Boston capitalists is organizing to build a railroad in Indiana. It is to be kno;vn as the Kendallville. Rochester & Western Railroad Company. The line will extend from Kendallville to the Illinois slate line and will run directly vest from Rochester. The counties that will be crossed are Noble, Kosiosko. Fulton, Pulaski. Jasper and Newton. The company will have a capital of • glUiOdJ W." A direct west line would make the road miss Rensselaer. but strike Fair Oaks. It may seem strange, but it is nevertheless trut that alcohol, regularly to a thrifty farmer’s’ stdinacli. will remove the boards from the fence, let the cattie into his crops, kill his fruit trees, mortgage his farm, and sow his fields with wild oats and thistles. It will take the paint off his building, break the glass out of his windows and •fill them with rags. It will take the gloss from his clothes, ayd ine polish from his manners, subdue his reason, arouse his passions, bring sorrow and dis gnvje upon his family, and topple him into a drunkard's grave.

“This is a practical demonstration of the saying that ev-f-rv man ought to have his name printed on his envelopes," said the postmaster, pointing to three or four letters held for postage. ••Any man is likely to put a letter in the postoffice without stamping it. With a card on the corner of the envelope we can stamp it and collect the postage when the writer comes in. We don’t know who dropped those letters in the box and must hold them until we write to the persons addressed and they send us the postage. That is the rule of the post office departnaent. —Rem ington Press. An exchange states that the story is told of a young man. who is a victim of the cigarette habit, that he heard that the manufacturers would give a haiidsoidb present to the person returning 1,000 cigarette boxes. The young man, by rigid economy in other lines, managed to accumulate the desired number c f boxes. He packed them carefully and expressed them to the firm. with Happy anticipations of the beautiful presently would receive for his trouble. Imagine his consternation, when a few days icter. he received a response from the firm and this is what it said: -'Send us another 1.000 and we’ll send you a coffin."

The Dwiggins settled with the Loweh and Hebron bank creditors and the receiver has been discharged. The bluff suit against Sheriff Friedrich was alsa dismissed. By the terms of the agreement the Dwi.ggins retain the contracts and collect moneys on same, but all receipts are to be turned over to creditors of Lowell and Hebron banks until all such claims are settled. Then the contracts and income are theirs again. We are told the amount es creditor’s claims is about *16,000. Creditors of other Dwiggins banks made no attempt to "file under’’ on the claims against the Griffith contruvts,—Hamawod Kews. I

One thing is especially notice- ■ able on our streets this year— I the absence of the girl wh.o I wears suspenders. So far this summer she has been conspicuous by her absence. This is some consolation these dull and sultry times. The men have occasion to feel good about it, because had women generally -taken to wearing suspenders there is no telling how far they would have invaded our customs. Vests they already wear; coats are very similar; our hats have long since become their property; our -rip on suspenders slipped a little and but one thing—the trousers —was left, and perhaps they, too, would have gone glimmering had the suspenders passed into a joint partnership. Hicks says of the weather for July: There will be another excessively hot spell about the new moon on the 13th, which will culminate in heavy storms on or about the 16th. The storm period will probably be followed by cooler weather up to the 22nd. About the 22 or 23, growing warmth, with all the changes tiiat precede and attend a re•urn to storminess. will appear. These disturbances, also, will in all probability reach their crisis very properly, under electric pressure of the moon's first •jiarter on the 20th. Bluster, with’ threatening clouds and local rains, may be expected al this and at all other July periods, but we think there will be a general lack of rain. During the last period of the month, from the 26th to the 30th, much violent disturbance and general rains may be expected but we need not be surprised if there are more severe bluster, electrical displays and rapid transitions from heat to cool, than rain. At all events we may reasonably expect a respite from summer heat at the close of the last July storms.

John W. (looper to Mary E. Reed. July 3. n 4 si se 8-30-6, 40 acres, SBOO. Columbia Imp. Co. to Sarah A. Knight, July 3, It 8, bl 8, Columbia, add., Rensselaer, sllO. Alfred Thompson to David Nowels, quit claim deed for 118 lots in Weston's add., Rensselaer. 82, Thomas Thompson to Lemuel and Etta Mclntire, July 1, Its 9, 10, bl 6. Fair Oaks, 830. Antonie E. Cartier to Alice A. Grisiiu. October 21. 1891. ne 9-31-5. 160 acres, qcd., 86,000. Alice Grisim to Amanda and Mary Ellitt, June 10. 1*93, ne fill-"). 160 acres, qcd., sl. John Coen, guardian, to Wm. El. Wilcox, March I*. It 6. bl 13. Vveston'.s second add.. Rensselaer, guardian's deed. 8100.