Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1859 — REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET. [ARTICLE]

REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET.

! CLERK, D. i. Jackson. j, RECORDER, C. W. HENKLE. AUDITOR, D. T. HALSTEAD. f .' (• ■ COMMISSIONERS, ist District—s. McCullough. 3d District— . BENJAMIN. the new advertisements in this number. Schuyler Colfax is now in Minnesota canvassing the State. We expect to heir a good account of him at the next election there. advertisement of John Goetz, over the way, will be inserted next week—too ltite for this. He says he “will not be undersold by any one this side of Lafayette.” 0C?“Willi8 J. Wright commenced his duties ais Sheriff last week, and ’Thos. S. Peacock ;,as Coroner. Ezra Wright entered upon this second term as Treasurer on tin? 12th Inst. yoke of steers attached to a load of wood ran away through our streets on Monday. They did no harm, but were accompanied with clouds of dust and the uproarops laughter of the lookers-on. Beck, of Delphi, delivered two lectures on Spiritualism at this place last j - Thursday and Friday nights, to large and attentive audiences. She invited questions at the close of each lecture, which were propounded by several gentlemen, and answered by the lecturer to the evident general satisfaction of her auditors. (ttrJ. S. Wigmore, watch and clockmaker, \ of Lafayette, will visit Brook on Monday, September 5; those having work in bis line will niake it their interest to call eatly, as he wijl remain but two days. After that, he mary be found at the store of E. T. Harding, in Rensselaer, until the close of the Circuit Court. American Agriculturist for September contains an engraving entitled,“Going to Law.” The plaintiff is holding a horns, and the defendant by the tf.iL while a lawyer is quietly milking her. itJatrongly reminds us of the cattle case in our last Common Pleas Court. Thus ,t ever is in litigations--the lawyers generally get all the cream. have received the first number of the Laporte Herald, edited by C. C. Powell, formerly of the WestyiUe Herald, which is now discontinued. We see that friend Powell has lost none ol his spice and vigor by the change, for his Laporte paper In bet- | ter than ever his VVestville paper was, ai--1 .though the latter was far ahead of the common ?un of our country exchanges. Here’s our Charley, in your new field. seems to be the prin- j cipal business of the people of Kankakee City, ill., just now. We learn from a citizen of Bunkum, Iroquois county, 111, who here in search of a stolen horse, that fourteen horses have been stolen from the neighborhood of Kankakee City wit.hin;two or three weeks. J_,ast week a team of s two horses, wagon, harness and was stolen from that neighbor- j hood.