Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1880 — SMALL TALK. [ARTICLE]

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it —Ladies, read Mrs. Chileote'a Millinery advertisement published elsewhere* She has nice geods. ; -Vo man should be supported for town ecuncii who will oppose the re-' pairing of Washington street. —After s shower the filth on Washington street smells to heaven, and the man in the moon Is required to hold his nose. ' ' —M- D. Rhoades and Tboa. McCoy shot forty jack snips on the wing, Monday afternoon, within two hours time, and It wasn’t a very good day for snipes either. —T. M. Jones, the Merchant Taflor, fa prepared to do cutting and trimming in the latest and moat approved styles, and at the lowest prices. Good fits warranted. —Every reader will observe Sharpe, Gray A Co’s advertisement on the opposite page. Perude it carefully. They are selling goods at low figures and can give you a bargain. —Bro. Zimmerman,-editor of the Valparaiso Messenger, has again submitted his neck to the matrimonial yoke, and If reports are true he is well pleased with his bondage. —Wild geese and ducks have baen unusually plentiful, this spring, and yet It is Almost impossible to purchase a wild goose in this market. We are getting goose hungry. —Since our last report the fnilowiug persons have been licensed to marry, multiply and replenish the earth: Frank Leres and Thresa Kane; John Krug and Dena Haaseibring; Wm. D. Van’t Woud and Clara Shortrldge; John F. Davis and Charity Erwin. —The Republicans in Newton township have chosen H. E. Coen as a delegate to the Congressional convention, J. B. Hemphill to the Representative convention and John Warren to the Judicial convention. For the nomination of county officers they favor a primary election, held in June.

—The Blue Ribbon Choir were disappointed in not having an organ, Friday evening. The organ used for some time had been removed and the new one, recently purchased, not having arrived, the singers were in a provoking dilemma. The choir has become one of the principal attraction? at the Friday evening meetings, and without its assistance the exercises are not what they should be. —Considerable indecency was practiced in and about the hay press sheds, Saturday and Sabbath, the particulars of which are to revolting for publication. Some girl, said to be from the country, about fifteen years of nge, made headquarters in that locality and was visited by a number of young men and boys who seemingly entertain very little respect for themselves or relatives. Report has it that the girl has been removed to the poor farm. —Some figures have been made by the town council on the expense of building a calaboose. It is estimated that one hundred dollars will erect a good one, say 12x15 feet, with a hall and three cells, all made of two-inch oak except the cell doors, which can be constructed by any blacksmith with wrought irou. There will be use for 9uch a building long before the completion of the Indianapolis A Chicago Air Line railroad.

—Now that the spring time haß come, gentle Annie, every front yard, back yard, door yard, celler. outbuilding, alley and street should be thoroughly cleaned. Only-through these precautions can we expect to avoid a visitation of the diseases common to Northern Indiana. Diphtheria usually afflicts familes that use impure water, where filthy water is allowed to stand In pools or ditches, where piles of rubbish and manure accumulate, and where the residence is not a propper distance from the stables, pens and sheds. "An ounce of preventive is better than a pound of cure." .

9 —We ire iu receipt of a communication from Mrs. E. R. Littlefield,who is at Sugar Hill, New Hampshire, but it is so destitue of news or new developments pertaining to her recent domestic troubles that we cannot find room for It. She says In conclusion : ."I thank God that I cau once more breathe the free air of my native bills. I wish Mr. Littlefield a nobler, purer life than in tbe past. I hope all who have so cruelly wronged me may see their error before it is too late. God pity them all.'A The strongest evidence of a failing mind iu any individual is the constant lamentation over the desertion of friends. The facts are that when the complaints come friends are driven away by their unpleasant surroundings. Persons usually are drawn to together through pleasure and profit, and when both are gone they seek compaionship elsewhere. Companionable people always have plenty of frieuds.

—A jury trial was held in Esquire Harding’s court, last Saturday, bro’t on a change of venue form some outtownship justice. Mrs. Martha A. Dart brought an action against her lawfully wedded hosband for surity of the peace, claiming that on account of certain manifestations and peculiarities of her more muscular half, her life was in constant danger, and in some unguarded moment he might put a period to her precious existence. Her husband, who is doubtless a little lame under the hair, testified that for -the past two years he has been burdened with a presentment that some evil genius is seeking an opportunity to make his wife a widow, and to prevent such a terrible calamity he has constantly kept aq ax concealed under their bed. This and other evidence satisfied tbe court and the jury that the real cause of the existing unpleasantness originated with that greeneyed monster, Jealousy. Alfred was bound over to the Jasper Circuit Court in the sum of one hundred dollars, but just who or what will stand between a keen-edged, murderous ax, in tbe hands of a jealous husband, and the pliable cranium of the loving wife, we are unable to divine. —A first-class drew suit made to order from genuine English and French goods for $26, $27 or S2B at Jones’s.

gMSSSWSSSM rived too late for this lame. It will appresided (ft the Superior Court yesterday— Loeansport Journal. —The County Commiselonersare In session this week making settlement With the township treat tea. —Dr. Godfrey preached - a masterly sermon at Mason’s school house, GHlans township, last Sabbath. His theme was the "Unity of the Trinity?” —We were misinformed last week as to the number of Mrs- Howard’s husbands. The correct count is three. We are sorry for the error, but it was net ell our fault. * —George Meson, one of the pioneer settlers of Jasper county, Is seriously afflicted with a cancer in one of his eyes. Unless hs soon finds relief his days on earth will soon be numbered. —Master Max Price, eon of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Prise, celebrated the fourth anniversary of bis birth, Monday evening, by givlog a party, which was attended by abo«f twenty of his young friends, and they had e right royal time. ' —Tboee in need of lumber or any kind of bolldlng material will find it to thier interest to buy of Mr. B. F Ferguson, at his lumber yard nearthe depot. He is a liberal gentelroanand will give you a bargain. Bee hia advertisement at the head of this page.

—Mr. Clifton, Proprietor of the Iroquois Poultry Yards, offers eggs from his fine fowls at from 50c to $3 per 13. "Golden Champion" and "Victor Buffi*,’’ Light Brahmas, Leghorns, Houdans, Ac. Eggs from Hybrids— Buff, White and Partridge Cqcliln, Ac.—bens weighing from 7 to 9 lbs., only 25 cents. —The Remington Reporter, speaking of Carpenter township’s retiring trustee, says: “James F. Irwin, who has held the office of township trustee for some ten years, retires with everybody as his friends. The books not only shpw that he was in every way competent, but that he has at ail times used the best judgment in the execution of his official duties.’’ —When you uo to Lafayette take your meals at the St. Charles Restaurant, in Lahr House Block. Square meals for a quarter. Mr. Charles H. Powell, the gentlemanly proprietor, will receive you cordially and feast you sumptuously. Tell him you are accqualnted with the editor of the Rensselaer Republican and you will receive a pressing invitation to call every time you are iu the city. —Several parties bargained for trhe Republican during the past fall and winter, promising to pay for the same in wood, just as soon as it was possible for a team to pass over the road. We have been paying cash for wood ever since. Ail these owing wood on subscription must pay the same before the 10th of May or their papers will be discontinued- "Business is business and uo foolin’ ’round."

—Negro Tim, who by the way is the only American citizen of African descent that inhabits the county seat of -Jasper, in order to gratify Ills curiosity, placed a finger on the revolving wheels of R. E- Spencer A Co’s icecream freezer and had it amputated In the twinkling of an eye. Tim is an industrious young man, always careful to discharge every duty assigned him, but he will doublets never again permit his curiosity to overcome his better judgment —Notwithstanding colored posters with flaming headlines were scattered throughout the county two or three weeks ago, announcing a booming Greenback convention to be held at the court bouse in Rensselaer,on Saturday the 10th Inst., at which the noted Bob Gregory was to pour out bis soul in fiery eloquence, the meeting, In numbers and party spirit, was a nauciating fizzle. Fifty all told. Poor, deluded soreheads, that duek can’t swim and you ought to know. You must make a better showing than that or even the skunk-skinning Democracy will refuse to associate .with you—We have been hoping that after the mistake made in changing the time of carrying the mails on the 1., D. AC. was fully realized the old time would be speedily resumed,-but up to the present writing the citizens are quitly waiting for better things. With the present mail system our daily papers are not received by mall until thirty hours after they are printed, ahd other mail matter is delayed about twelve hours. The former time for carrying the maifS afforded greater facilities to the business men thau the present system, notwithstanding the occasional lateness of the evening train. Rensselaer will bail the day when her citizens shall enjoy mail privileges equql to those of neighboring county seats. —Quite a number of "old time delinquents" called aud paid up during the past week—for all of which wh are truly grateful—but there are still a number whose subscriptions date back from nine months to a year. All such will be discontinued after this ireure unless sooner paid or provided for We prefer to lose the amounts due rather than continue to send the papers without pay. We are sorry to part with these readers, and hope they will not feel offended, but In order to print a good paper and make the printing business a success in Rensselaer we are compelled to pursue a safe course. 'Within the next two years we expect to make some valuable improvements in the Republican office and print a paper that In appearance, at least, will do credit to the town and county which it represents. But we can’t do this with a " pay as you please ” patronage. If a farmer would dispose of the products of his farm to a thousand individuals with the privilege of paying at will, he would soon become a bankrupt.

Friday and Saturday, otherwise we might have secured ■ full report of the G. B. P. -Charley (Wnott is the name of that good-looking young man, clerking at the new store. This foot la mentioned for the benefit of lbeyoang ladles. ' • . —Mm- Jones, s woman wifofcas acquired conaldeable reputation as an absorber of com juice and otherwise playing the role of a harlot, stepped Into Harding’s drug store, Tuesday* and signified a wf! ling ness to purchase a pocket-book in which to more carefully store tbe funds dexterously "taken in” by an earnest pursuit of her peculiar vocation.' Ed Tharp, the ever accommodating clerk, skipped to the rear of the show-case with the agility of a gazel, and politely brought one of each variety to, the surface and submitted them to tbe scrutinising inspection of his smiling purchaser. She finally ooneluded that she would not regale herself with such a luxury at that time, and leisurely commenced preparing to depart. The clerk’s mathematical eye Immediately discovered tbe absence of one from tbe number of pocket-books laid out, and ho instantly resolved to recover the stolen property if It had to be done at the risk of life or the sacrifice of hia good as the. He asserted and she denied, but Mrs. Jones was finally compelled to disgorge. From the almost impenetrable depths of a dress pocket' ahe drew oot a colored bandana, a pair of cotton gloves, a plug of tobacco, etc., and last of all tbe missing pocketbook. Of course she was greatly surprised at finding it in her poesesaion, and couldn’t "see how the devil it got there.’*

—Now that Washington street is in a reasonably good condition we hope the town council end those who own property along that busy thoroughfare, will not forget the terrible sea of mud through which teams were compelled to plung during the past winter. During that time it was not only exceedingly difficult for teams and pedestrians but the mud and filth were horrifying to beholders. At the present writing, notwithstanding the street is dry and dusty, there is an effluvium arising from the accumulations in the gutters that is decidedly* repugnant. Aside from this a street In thin condition is well calculated to breed disease, and doubtless it has much to do with the malarious, typhoid, diphtheric diseases with which so many are afflicted during the autumn season. Tbe expense of putting this small section of street (say from T. A McC’s bank to the river) in good repair would be but a trifle compared with the good that would result from it, besides tbe great improvement in appearance. The most permanent manner to repair Washington street will be to cart off all the filthy accumulations on both sides of the street, dig out and boulder tbe gutters with otones not less than five inches in diameter, firmly set. After this is done the street should receive about one foot of fine rock from the river bed and we would have a street that would last for two generations- This is tbe most important improvement Rens*. selaer demands, and this summer will he just the time in which to execute the work. The owners of the property should boulder the gutters and the corporation should grade up the street-