Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1859 — CENTRAL COMMITTEE. [ARTICLE]
CENTRAL COMMITTEE.
Tii« members of the Republican Central Committee are requested to meet on Thursday! the 23d day of June, at five aind a half o’clock P. M., at the Treasurer’s office. A full attendance is requested, as business of importance will come before the Committee. Ezra Wright, Chairman. Odd Fellows have leased the second story of Thompson dz .Son's building for a lodge-room. 1 ' Alex. Rowen has turned out a full-fledged lawyer. He pettifogged a case before Esq. Sayler last Monday afternoon. OiT'Captain Schenck, United States navy, is now staying with bis son-in-law, Judge Crane. He is to leave for the coast of Africa in a few days. (£]~A wolf was discoverd on the prairie on the north-east side of town ycsierday afternoon, and some ten or twelve horsemen, a-med with guns and clubs, turned out to capture it, but without success. Norman Warner requests us to announce that his Artillery Squad will meet for drill, to-morrow afternoon, at four o’clock, on the Artillery Parade Ground. Every member is expected to be present. ■*»«. Masonic Fraternity are to have their public installation of offiers at the Court House to-morrow. Friend Babb is to provide the dinner, which, of course, will be excellent, as he never gets up any other kind. (KrN umerous parties have gone to the Kankakee river this s ason to tish. They have generally had pretty good luck, and it is said there are larger fish in that river than ever were known before, and more numerous at that. Thompson &. Son are to-day moving into the new building just erected by them. It contains the fineststore-roOms in town. In the rear is a room for the grocery department, thus separating them from the dry goods, which is a decided improvement. Of course every one will step in and see them. ■ ~ \ ( German, named Charles Amen, was arrested on a State warrent last Sunday morning, charged with shooting a horse belonging to George R. Thornton. He confessed to shooting the horse, but said it was lying down in the brush, and he mistook it (for a deer. He was brought before Esq. Hopkins in the afternoon and discharged, in consequence of the absence of the prosecuing witness.
