Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1876 — Walker Township, April 3d, 1876. [ARTICLE]

Walker Township, April 3d, 1876.

We are etill having disagreeable weather and as changeable as some of oar would-be’s hearts. What have yoa done, Messrs. Kditors, to prevent the appearance of ripiing? A peep behind tbe scenes this morning, and behold her attired in that old brown robe, gently reclining upon tbe bosom of old Winter. Oh how long must we wade throegh snow and slash f The M. D.’s have no riding to do here. The protraoled meeting closed last week, with quite an addition to tho onhroh and neighborhood deepiv impressed. It ia hoped much goo». was done. Superintendent tinoddv has been here looking after the schools, and eays “all is well.” Walker sohool ia a success with Soott Brown in charge. The •‘sin/rin’ skewl” has dosed and quiet is resVired to the neighborhood. No longer are the auricular appendages of the denizens of Kershraan City captivated by tbe melodious strains of harmonious disooid that were wont to float triumphantly out over neighboring frog ponds to the no little disgust of na’.lvo musicians Alas I poor Yoric ! The last noto is sung, the musical pedagogue has packed his kit, wrapped his mantle about him aud departed in seero’j of new worlds to conquer. Anna Brown’s sohooi, assisted by ■ the s, reoflntly "ave an exhibition in Walker school House. The stage wa* appropriately decorated. The programme was good and comprised many exoelleul pieces, and some not so good. The capacity of the room was tested most uucomfortsoiy. They were sitting, standing, and some piled up two or three deep. It is to be regretted that the vooal apparatus of many was out of regreater part of the exercises were inaudible to those far away from the performers, and the writer hereof was just so uncomfortably situated. A disposition to applaud the low, and pasa by the -ine unnoticed was too manifest. The Creole’s Defense was well rendered by Harry Gates but was received iu comparative silenoe, while a Dutch comedy, the Coon Hunt, was nprourously applauded, as was also a solo by Henry Sommers entitled When They are Flf een. Will some people never learn to appreoiate things at their true vorth ? iiev. Mr. Scott performed the mar- age ceremony, veiy solemnly—“ Two souls with but a single thought; two hearts that beatas on«r--wUb Itsnda asindependent members—“ Only this and nothing more.” Hala Wiloo::acted the part of Grandmother Cole splendidly. Minnie Olstein proved herself a perfect little prodigy in singing. Her last solo the house a deathlike s'.illness. “The Little Fellow,” by Mollie Brown, was indeed superior.. But the most conspicuous one was Jimmy, the cu. Lain drawer. «* Ex Tudacogci;.

1 M "RCHA'i. —As yon uxbus .0 ->lr « ycuv ot: .oma.it, ;-rci. tiy ti,e dies? Then soil L*. E, DeL.ad & Co.’a t (7lea ver?nd yon wfll ue rs onishou ibe ti-tie you w : ’l OiiiM apwiiii it. H. A DaL. uu & Co. wt r_at it to uiit io rH craes; hence yon uc ao ilsk; and ’ lioy know whereof bey -pvk. Do* ling che ferventy-ii've , .rs 1 h\v b;ve menou Ctuved it they tot lei fd a oompLint, and they tend out .008 dai'y. £p: lug work crowds f. mers tb is sc son. WL vt end o. *s sowing ..nu x Cvting for corn planting oome 1 oge.bor ell in a heap. Besides ihe sirpljs product ions u bst season in v ? not aeeo hauled to market yet ana only a few were able 10 get up their woo« for .'’ummer, on account of tbe execsaively muddy condition of ltxids uud Uelds, which piecluded travel with (earns dm log winter. There ia not much time 0 iDuf on a firm now, certainly. ' Now is tbe ime of year that peop,< n. indly m-ke a gene?. 1 house oleming. Tuts is atao oonaidered an especially good sea. on for yxpeung rooms aod tk ioiing, which reminds us that Thos. iS. Gilley, of he famous and popular I Old Line D ug Stole. bi-s this week re ieived the lurgirt stock ol wall paper ?ver brought to Rensselaer, running 'hroug’i a grades, irom common ;o ex r tiae. Go and see him if yon in eod to paper this season. Cinrley Shut.*, who was Liken 10 jail at L»fbyeUe last week fbr safe keeping an H he ix.u be tried on the of burglary, peiwatently re.usod to divulge the namo of his companion who wrs drowned while endeavoring to eserne capture, maintaining (hat ‘it w.'uid be wrong to tell.” He accepted jrb*. sit nation of his own ineoiceration jgjj phi'oeophieslly, end seemed to feel perfectly at home and contented in his cell nnuer look and key. Mr. Ed. Rhoads ha 3 returned Irma Connc 1 Eluftis after an absence of sever V'wreks. Ho reports ctndde..>b-e excrement there over (ho Blue'.: Bi’ s gold count.* e.iu s. ys men are oonstin.iv going ijto til. t eg : o.i and ctn. atng .rom -bore. As yet gold has not been discovered to paying quunti y, though It is a prevailing mp.eaaioa But it M Am ana will be Ibnud as soon as the season opens ao men tun work, which will be about (he middle of June. At pr leant ihe 00.12 «In the Bilie ie covered with snow. Bareness is very doll at Counoil Bluffs and Omaha. Miss Ada Btrayer, teacher of the primary department of the Rensselaer school, report* for the month whieh ended March 24th, 1876, sn enrollment of 5J pnpila. Aver, ge t ?Uy attendance, 44. Number legacy be oagtog to the school 47. 7'hoso who were oetther absent nor tnrdy cu. ng ihe month were David Platt, Lid.. Belle Kelley, Marti" Worden, H-tta* Zimmerman, Eddie Hopkins, Ellic Evcison r Frederick Cis-

Its Hutson, Charles Daugherty, Arthur Hopkins, Crtlly Huisoa, 9eou Seward, Grace Reeve, John Falloran, Mary HaL lorsn, Simon Leopold Albert Hopkins [ and George Btrow*.