Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1880 — SMALL TALK. [ARTICLE]

SMALL TALK.

—A little daughter was boro to Iff. and Mr*. L. L- Daugherty, last week, —The County Auditor’* office has been supplied with some new furnltuie and otherwise much improved. —Samuel McCullough, of Gilliam township, an old resident of this county, has been quite sick for some time. —Harvey McCullough and family, of Gillam township will spend the summer in Kansas, visiting relatives and friepds—Mrs. Fannie Roth rock is making a three-weeks visit with her father and other relatives and friends at Monti* j cello. —The population of Rensselaer is | wonderfully interwoven by marriage, j If you slap a child you slap the whole community—March didn’t come in like a lion, neither was it very lamb-like, so we are unable to prognosticate the weath- : er for this month. —A can-can troupe, from Lognnsport, talked of doing Rensselaer, this week, bat at the present writing they have failed to materialize-

—Miss Clara Mcllhaney; at Stroudsburg, Pa., will please accept thanks for copies of the Btroud9burg papersWe found much of interest in them. —Rev. Geo. * Guild, the pioneer Methodist preacher of Jasper county, has been quite sick for some time, but we are glad to learn he is better now. —Rev. Father Kroeger. “of Loganaport, spent Saturday and Sabbath with friends here and at the St. Joseph Orphan Asylum, a mile south of this place. —As soon ns the roads are in a passable condition we hope all parties owing us wood, and those wishing to pay their subscriptions in this useful commodity, will report at on.ee. —The religious interest in the neighborhood of Watson’s School house is very good. Notwithstanding the almost impassable condition of the roads the boose was well filled with people, last Sunday. —Rev. and Mrs. B. F. Fereuson have mbved from Francesville to Mr. W. Cleveland’s residence in this place. They are valuable accessions to Rensselaer, and we trust they will be cordially received. —Have you seen the new spring goods at Jones's Merchant Tailoring establishment- Their nobby, ar’n’t they? Jones does good work, makes good fits and charges very reasonable prices. Get your work there. /—Robert Phillips expects to start for Hutchinson, Kansas, next Tuesday tq clerk in a Wholesale store for an untie. Robert Is a steady young man and may eventually become one of the solid men of the west. —Two little girls born in Rensselaer on the last drty of February, will have birthday anniversaries only once iu four years. One is at the residence of Judge Hammond, the other at T. M. Jones’s, the merchant tailor.

—Thus. Robinson, Esq., one of the solid men of this county, is a shrewd business man and a successful stock dealer, but he paid a hundred dollars one day last week to let goof a“buncli” of hogs that had been bought to high. —The spring crop of babies promises to be more numerous than usual, but so fur they have been principally of the feminine gender, especially iu Repub* ■ liean families, which is not very promising for the future success of our party iu.Jasper.county. —New subscribers are coming .in pretty lively, but there are yet many fumiiies in Jasper county that have no communication with theoutside world except an occasional conversation with their neighbors, and know but little of what transpires form year to year at their county seat. —The managers, of the 1.,' D. A Cnarrow gauge railroad have concluded to change it to a standard gauge. They have advertised for twenty-one thousand ties to be delivered along the line of said road on or before the first day of April, 1880. The Delphi Times says “at that time the narrow guage system will be abandoned and the standard width adopted. This is but the first step toward what it is expected will develop within the. year into a standard guage through line from Indianapolis and Chicago.” —Mason A Morgon’s Uucle Tom’s Gabin Combination played Friday and Saturday evenings last at the Opera House. Friday evening they had a full house and ihe audience was well entertained, Uncle Tomls Cabin is their ihaster piece and they render it in good style. Saturday evening the crowd was not so great on uceount of the inclemency of the "weather. The company expressed themselves as well pleased with their patronage, the town and the people, and expect to make us another visit some time in the future.

—Lyman Zea wants to be a candidate for town marshal, and is willing that either party shall-nominate him. But Lyman will discover before the end desired is accomplished that trancendentalism is the spiritual cognoscence of phychological'irrefraglbility, connected with concutient ademption of incolumnient spirituality and etlierealized contention of subsultory concretion. But our poetic pencil desires to present a prophetic stauza: A boom for Z«a! aye, let it roll Throughout the land to his renown ; The ‘'Champion Shuckcr,” who knows, may poll Full votes enough To make him marshal of the town! . —The Republican is the best local paper ever published in Rensselaer. That’s what the people say, and it ‘must be so. And it will be better by and by, when the Democratic nominations are all made and “the band begins to play.” The candidates will skip into the arena aud the performance will commence. First will be a double somersault by the Democrats and Greenbackers, in which the lastnamed party will disappear as by magic, and the abdomouiul regions of the first-named party will be very much inflated. Both being disabled the Republicans will proceed with the show and receive the applause of the people.

—Dr. Link retained from Cincinnati. Tuesday noon. Mrs. Link is expected to arrive to day (Tkarsday). —Mr. and Mrs. Z. Dwlggin’s little daughter, at Oxford, was dangerously ill the forepart of this week with diphtheria. —Dr. J. 8. Owens went to Chicago, Wednesday, to attend the spring course of lectnres at the Hahnemann Medical College—Jerry Cowden and family moved to Michigan City, Wednesday. Maggie will be missed by the young people of this place. —H. B. Murray, Robert Barkley, John Barkley, and Miss Maggie Barkley started for Kingman, Kansas, Tuesday morning, with the expects, tion of buying land and growing up with the country. —The chairs in the Opera House are too close together for persons above the average size, except unmarried indiduals in love. In that case one chair will hold two very comfortably provided one sits on the other’s lapBut such things are not practiced under tlie gas.light. —We want to say to every man, woman and child, iu Jasper county, and those who may inhabit other locations on this mundane sphere, who owe us money, no matter how small the sum, that we shall want it and want it bad on tbe 15th day of April. The sum desired is two hundred dollars. That is not very much, and yet experience proves that it is a large amount to collect from delinquent subscribers. But we have faith to believe that it can be raised. Now we say to all who are behind an subscription please give us a lift. We wanttomake some improvements in tbe office and in the appearance of the Republican. Fay up if possible on or before the loth qf April. —An effort is being made by some parties in this congressional district to unite the Democratic aud Greenback forces with a hope of defeating the Republican nominee, but the People’s Press, published atKentlaud the, most able and influential Greenback organ in Northern Indiana, denounces the scheme with bitter emphasis. It adjures the Nationals to keep hands off aud not be found bartering their principles for a mess of pottage. The editor of the Press closes a two-col-umn editorial with the statement that no good reason can be found “why the Greenback party should afiliate with such a Janus-faced, time-serving, Shylock-ridden, double-dealing chronic bluudcrer as the Democratic party is arreigned for being by the thinking men of its own party.” —A confidence game was played on .Uncle Billy Hamilton, in Carpenter township, last Friday, by a man who gave lilsnameas Johußay, which ex. cels any tiling for cheek that we have heard of*for some time. Said ltay, a comiuonplace-looking individual, got off the cars at Goodland one day last week, aud during his circumambulati«*ns called at tlr& residence of said Mr. Hamilton. Ray represented {bat ho had just sold a farm for big in Illinois, and was desirous of purchasing laid In Jasper county, Indiana, provided he could get it at reasonable rates. It so happened that Uncle Billy had a mortagage on his farm for $3,680, including costs and interest, which had been forclosed and the land advertised for sale by Sheriff Robinson, the samo to take place at the door of the court house In Rensselaer, on Saturday last. Uncle Billy thought this a Gofl-send to save him from'los ing the farm for the amount of his in. debtedness, and proceeded to take the stranger iu. After the bargain and sale were completed Ray stated to Hamilton that he had but five hundred dollars with him; the rest of his funds being iu the~bank at Kcntlaud, and there not being time to return for it before the sale, he requested Hamilton to let him have what money he might have in his possession iu order to pay a sufficient sum down to satisfy tbe plaintiffs that the balance would be forthcoming. Uncle Billy had seventy-five dollars which was handed over without any thought of being swindled. Saturday morning Ray, one of Hamilton’s sons and his son-in-law, Ed Bartley, mounted horses and came to Rensselaer to attend the sale. Tbe farm was bid off and everything seemed lovely and satisfactory. The young men were sent to the Treasurer’s office to ascertain the amount of taxes against the laud while the sheriff, aud M. L. .Spitler, who was looking after the interests of the plainitiffs, were arranging the papers necessary in the case. About this time Ray said he would step down to the bank aud get tbe money. He went and possibly he is going yet. The parties waited and waited for Ray’s retnrn, but alas, be came not, when the sheriff began to conclude that Ray was a snide. During the conversation Bartley mentioned the fact that the old man bad loaned Ray seventy-five dollars, which satisfied all concerned that Ray’s honest countenance would possibly illum iate their presence no more forever, and they adjourned to look for him, at the depot and other places of escape, but they looked in vain. The farm was offered again and sold for the amount of indebtedness, and the old man received nothing in return for it and his seventy-five dollars but experience. N-'

—M. F. Chiloote is taking tbe enumeration of children for school purposes. —Reader, whenever yon see or hear something that would make a good item of news, tell it to tbe editor. —Tbe voiee of an infant Son was beard at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. H. D. MasteHer, Tuesday evening. Tbs ticket agent smiles serenely. * —“Remingtonßambles”are sorrowfully crowded out this week. Those that will “do to keep” will appear with the regular letter in our next, v —Many who heard Rev. Wood’s sermon last Sabbath evening speak very highly of it The text was, ‘"Behold what manner of man is this that even the winds and tbe sea obey him.” —Jones, the Merchant Tailor, has returned from Chicago with a splendid line of new spring goods, embracing all the latest and hamsomest patterns. If you want a coat, pants, vest or suit made, give him a call. —County Treasurer Adams requests us to say that he will be compelled to return the tax duplicates of ’79 to the Auditor promptly on the third Monday of April, 1880, and no taxes will be received after that date without penalty. —A Hoosler gal recently sent fifty cents {to the Irish Relief Fund with the statement that it had been received for a kiss. If tbe youug lady’s big brother don’t object we say go on with the good work, for the poor peopfe in Ireland are very much in need. —The time to transplant trees is any time after the frost goes out of tbe ground in the spring and before they begin to leaf out The place to buy trees is at the Rensselaer Nursery, John Coen, proprietor. He has a fine Jot of fruit trees which he is selling low. See bis “local ads.” elsewhere in this issue.

—The greatest difficulty to contend with in this prairie country is the ter. rileness of the public roads during the spring of tlio year. But if the soil was of a kind that does not become soft and pliable it would not produce such abundant crops of corn, wheat, etc. For the past three weeks the merchants have had but little to do, and their faces are nearly as long as their yard-sticks. Editors, of course don’t mind the pressure so much, for they are accustomed to hard times, andean live on the wind for a few weeks without materially lessening their avoridupois or ebauging the expression of their benign countenances. Our Greenback friends of this county, have resolved to have no more coquetting with the Democracy and no political fellowship directly or indirectly, but have sued for and obtained a bill ot divorcement. We believe the law in this State prohibits a re-marriage of the divorced party for two years. Now the question is in view of the close relations heretofore "existing between them, have the Greenbackers the virtue to withstand the seductive wiles of the Democracy for that length of lime? We shall see. —Kentland Gazette.