People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1893 — A Treat For Rensselaer. [ARTICLE]

A Treat For Rensselaer.

J N. Harman, pastor of the Morocco circuit of the M. E. Church, recently took a census of Mt. Ayr and Morocco for religious purposes. Mt. Ayr contains 54 families; has a population of 214; 138 persons are over 15 years old; 46 between 5 and 15; 30 are under 5; 87 attend the M. E. and Baptist Sunday schools of the village and 65 belong to some church. In Morocco there are 121 families, 483 persons live in the corporation; 289 are over 15 years old; 112 are between 5 and 15; 72 are under 5 years old; 162 attend the Disciples and the M. E. Sunday schools, and 189 belong to some ch urch.—Kent land Democrat. A newspaper man is in some instances like other people. He respects tiis friends, appreciates a kindness, and is always 'willing to return a favor. In another respect he resembles his fellow man. He will not cotitinne to pat a man on the Duck. tell what a good man he is. and how much he has done for the town and give him a fret business puff every day when the man will not, though personal prejudice or otherwise, continue in supporting his paper. In other words, he stammby the man who stands by him. That’.-' about lii? way of the world, and ■ :■ newspaper man can't be expected to be so much different from other people. —Ex. / n exchange says; People v.Vio t k articles of foreign i:mimfaeture at the XYorld’s Fait as souvenirs of the great ex po dti-m should be careful to get D.-e genuine. Turks. Japanese. Arabs. Calcuttans. Italians and other shrewd tradesmen there go down daily to the wholesale establishments of Chicago and pur chase for a few shillings bushels of trinkets made in Americai which they palm off at fabulous 1 prices on ciayy so tvenir hunters : as curiosities fashioned by i native geniuses across the sea. , There are many tilings that ben the stamp of genuineness in the i foreign booths at the great fair, bu’ there are lots and lots ol frauds and deceptions, also. Don’t forget the Pilot whim ; you have a news item. If youi o whips you speak up and i I’C as know. It will be intercut- ! i.;;. rending to the public. If ■ ou have company tell us, if you ; re not ashamed of your visitors, if a youngster arrives and re i .••litres food and raiment, buy a ..:arter\; worth of cig.;:’- and ‘ >:ae around. If yon arc a. cash ; subscriber we will furnish a name i f ir dm) or her. as the ease may I If you have a social gatl.ering or wedding bring around a

big cake. ice cream, six pies and j e iiam—not to ear. out as a guui- ■ aiuee of good faith. If yon ra'.-;f> an especially large water melon or anything of this naoriiig it in and the Pilot >rce will take pleasure in samp- , ting it for you and giving a les-I thnoni&l through the columns of I liic paper. Wo mention these things because we want the news. Sixteen young ladies were I Laving a party down the river | one day last week and were cm j joying themselves when a tramp appeared among them. with ragged clothes and the customary stick over his shoulder. at the end of which hung a bundle done up in a bandanna handkerchief. The ladies ran screaming in all directions, and their tears were not allayed until they ■discovered that the tram]) was' Lot Kohler, who had dressed up as a male tramp, for the purpose of giving the ladies a scare. The indies were then invited to the residence of John Kohler, where refreshments had been prepared, and. were treated to *i *e cream, etc. It is needless to ray they did full justice to the repast.

The viewers have made a rough estimate of the proposed gravel road and the following facts are gleaned from their estimate: Estimated cost of gravel roads—College Road, 811.810.3-1 or ; 2.545.43 » per mile; Long 1 lidge Road t? 10.716.64 or £2. 503. - ; -i ]K?r mile: Poor Farm and Pleasant Ridge road. ¥17.103.76 or ¥2,193.42 per mile; total cost 539.630.74 or *2.37:5 per mile. The road bed will be constructed thirty feet wide, ditched so as to diain at least one foot below surface grade not exceeding tlvefeetinone hundred. Twelve fe?t in width to be graveled or inac.vdamized. The material will be as follows: Good gravel 14 incites in center and 10 at edges. Good broken stone 10 inches in center and K at edges. Broken stone and gravel 12 inches in center and 8 at edges. The report is subject to correction and will not be executed tmd Hied until reviewed.

Two more prize fights came off at Roby Monday "’ght. A riot took place just o.. t .dde the club arena before the fight proper took place. One man was shot and fatally' injured, stones and clubs were freely used and the scene was quite exciting for a time. The riot was caused by a crowd bf toughs from b’outh Chicago and Whiting attempting to force an entrance through the wall. They made a battering ram of a heavy post and soon broke a large hole in the pine structure. Captain Forsythe and several other Pinkerton men ran out of the door and tried to disperse the mob with their clubs. As they came out a shower of rocks fell upon them. Forsythe was hit on the leg and another guard was hit on the head and knocked down. As the howling crowd scattered in front of the detectives’ clubs several shots were tired and a young man in the crowd was hit by a bullet, which struck him in the left breast and passed through his body. He was too weak to give his name to the doctors, who say his recovery is doubtful. The Pinkerton men carried no revolvers and say the tiring was done by some one in the crowd. The prize fights which came oft’ later were interfered with in no way by the officers and fisted far into the night.

Ed Anderson's dramatic company will appear at the Opera House on the evening of August 11th. That Mr. Anderson’s thrilling, railroad drama, “The Lightning Expiess,” is to be me of the sensational successes of the season no one will deny. Prom the time the curtain goes up on the first act until it falls on the last, the audience simply goes wild, with excitement. •‘Brooklyn at Night” is the scene of the first act. Thscene is handsomely illuminated and shows an exact reproduc’urn of the great Brooklyn . Jridge. Act third brines to ’lew a grand piece of scenic art. iTe lonely hut in the mountains, the great mountain pass, with iwo realistic waterfalls, and a working moon that gradually ■ii-ks behind the mountains, are mnrvals of Hie scenic artists nm.sh. In this scene t lit strongst acting <>■ the play is done. Ju'-k Heli;-.*..m. the villain, has kidnapped too daughter of old Jasper Morion amt is kceping her a prisoner until a certain sum of money is paid him. Nellie Morton. the heroine, appears on tne scene disguised as an old woman, and through a clever ;m-ce of Tratogy she . gains adm'ss’os to th- hut, and is in the i■; of liberating the prisoner v< lien she is caught by Herndon and the Italian, and is quickly made a prisoner also. Later in

die scene, and baffled at every' turn, the two scoundrels come Lo the conclusion that the old woman is a detective in disguise. Herndon tries to extort a confession from her but is unsuccessful, when he suddenly turns upon her with knife in- hand, and to his surprise the old woman has disappeared and standing before him is- a “Big Booby Boy." This thrilling change is made in a second. Tiip railroad scene in this act simply beggars description. Throe trains are used, Ihe first is seen 'faraway on the mountain and grows larger as it approaches. The largest train is 9 feet high and SOO feet long, and dashes across the stage in pi seconds. During Hie fiigiitof “The Lightning Ex- ; press" a lenitic struggle is beI :ng done by .Herndon au.dLaziola; : 'is the train approaches the spot : Herndon throws the Italian in • front of it. and he is hurled I thirty feet in the air. It is conI ceded by all to be the greatest I railroad scene ever produced, i Home very clever specialties are I introduced in the second act by I leading lights of the vaudeville | stage, making the performance [complete in every detail.