Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1880 — SMALL TALK. [ARTICLE]

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has been plMked. T? aiFi.Hjxffi.TT rVvrtvti-w Hnnvanfinn gloves and at MrsHeatoy’s new Millinery Store. —Purs cider vinegar at C. C- Starr A Co’s. Also a new arrival of latest style bird cages. —Trout will bite sharply at a pleee of onion, but bo other fish will associate with them for a week afterward. —Minstrel troupes are going into summer, quarters and the old jokes will be packed in ice until the fall season.

—ln some parts of the west it is so healthy that undertakers have to depend on lynching and shooting affrays for a living. —Mrs. Dr. C. A. Barns, of Indianapolis, is here visiting her mother, Mrs. Mary Tharp, and other relatives and friends. —Love and hopes are the horse and wagon good temper the axle greese of me. Few burdens can be carried far without them. —C. C. Starr A Co. keep a full line of fine cigars, fine cut, plug and smoking tobaccos. The latest patterns of flower pots, window vases, and hanging baskets. —Nature evidently Intended that women should look prettier after marriage than before. There are plenty freekle-faced girls, but freckle-faced married women are rare.

—•‘Our Bimon” is young yet and very willing to abide his time. His record is good (second in the race) and the chances are that he will yet become the winning candidate. —Drs. Link A Owens, Homopaths, have dissolved partnership. Dr. Link continues at the old stand. Dr. Owen occupies rooms at Lawyer Babcock’s office. Cards corrected next week. ~ —The rules for leap-year picnics are very simple. The girls -bring the lunch, Including lemons and sugar, and the boys furnish the water and make the lemonade. The girls must also put up thq swings. —Charles H. Price, president of the Blue Ribbon Society, requests us to say that he- very much desires a full attendance at the meeting, Friday evening. The election of offices will take place at that time. Every temperance worker should make a special effort to be present

—The Ninth Annual Commencement of the Terre Haute State Normal School, was held Wednesday of this week. We are in receipt of a programme of exercises, centaining the name of Miss Lydia Dwiggins, of this place. The theme of her essay is*‘•Woman, Yesterday, To-day and Tomorrow.” - Every young gentleman who has a desire to appear well in society will never be fully satisfied with himself until he gets his clothes made at T. M. Jone’s Fashionable Merchant Tailoring establishment. He keep a stock of the best and most fashionablegoods and makes suits for less money than they can be obtained elsewhere. —The secretary of the meeting held two weeks ago to make arrangments for celebrating the Glorious Fourth, in transcribing the proceedings for publication, omitted the names of the committee on music. The following are the committee : James T. Abbott, Hale Warner, Edward H. Tharp.Mrs. Norman Warner, Mrs. LuddHopkins, Mrs. Lota Chamberlain, Miss Mary Ralph. .

—Grandpa and Grandma Rial Benjamin will celebrate thelrGoldenWedding, at their residence, on South Cullen street,to day(Tburaday). Their children, grand children and a large number of old friends are expected to be present. They were married la Ross county, Ohio, on the 24th day of June, 1530. Mr. Benjamin was born in New York, Mrs. Benjamin in New Jersey. —Mother McCord, about seventy years of age, living on the Bradford road, suffered the amputation of the second phalange, disarticulating at the metacarpophalangeal articulation. Cause, traumatic. That’s what the doctors say—Lough ridge <fc Bitters —who performed the operation. The< plain English of it Is that they amputated the big Auger of the right hand at the knuckle joint. Cause, she injured it bn a currant bush some months ago, and it became an incurable sore.

—A Rensselaer dry-goods counterhopper recently bad a little experience with a young woman of easy virtue that perhaps he does not care to repeat. Gossip has it that he called at the residence where the young woman was employed, late in the evening and ascending a back stairway was admitted to her room. Becoming overjoyed In the licentious amusements they created more noise than they intended, which aroused the man of the house, who proceeded to investigate. Inclining his ear to the door be was soon enabled to comprehend the situation. But what should be done? After contemplating for a moment he rapped on the door and informed the girl, that his wife was very sick and" she should get up and attend to her while he ran for the doctor. The girl made all possible haste to obey her employer, but as she unlocked the door to step out he stepped in and encountered her lecherous companion in a nude state endeavoring to secrete himself in acloset. “You young rascal! If I bad a revolver here I would be tempted to put a period to your existence,” Ac. The man of yardsticks was greatly alarmed, and like the reveling king, smote his knees together with Year. Mr. turned and left the room with hasty steps, and the clerk supposing he had gone for a shooting Iron or some instrument of torture, grabbed his breeches, bounded thro' the door, down the narrow stairway, and oat the back way at a break-neck speed, the naratjva of bis nether garment snapping Id the breeses. He left behind him his shoes, coat, vest and bat,which still remain the undisputed property of the house-holder. The girl received the g. b. at break of day, and packing her little bundle she silently stole away, taking the first out-going train for home. —Mrs. H. W. Snyder, of Remington, is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Janus C. Morgan, and other Rensselaer friends this week.

C. C- Starr A Co’s Mammoth Grocery. Also a fresh supply «T sugar-cured h«m« shoulders and breakfast bacon -The recent graduating clam of the Rensselaer High School, held a Reunion at the residence Hon. R. 8. Dwlggf ns, on the Went Bide, Wednesday evening. The programme of exercises were about as follows: Music, vocal solo, Lolo Moes. Opening address,: L. Hollingsworth. Recitation, “Jennie McNeal’s Ride,” Delos ThompsonMusic, instrumental solo, Belle Alter. Select Beading, : ArillaCotton. Recitation, “How the Old Horse

Won the Bet,” Elmer Dwigglns. Music, vocal solo, Hattie Coen. Refreshments. Toasts and responses: “Gradatim” our Motto,Mattie McCoy. Class of ’BO, Chas- C. Warner. When shall we meet again? V. E. LoughridgePromenades. —All kinds of sewing done at Mrs. Col. Healey’s Millinery Store, in the second story of Leopold’s stone building. Give her a call. —C. C. Btarr A Co. have received a full invoice of Glass and Queensware, of new and elegant patterns. Their store is also the place to go a fishing. Tljey keep a full stock of salt fish at rock-bottom prices.

—Sharpe, Gray A Co’s New Cheap Store will close Its sales on the 3d of July. Until that time goods will be sold at greatly reduced prices, and those who want to secure bargains should call early.* Goods have been marked down in order to reduce the stock. Cail at the Cheap Store—Mrs. Rehberg, formerly with Mrs. Purcupile, and Mrs. M. O. Cissel, have formed a copartnership in dressmaking,and occupy rooms overFendig A Jost’s stere. They have had entensive experience as mantuamakers, and possessing all the late models and fashionable designs, are prepared to please the most fastidious. The ladies of Rensselaer and Jasper county will find it to their interest to patronize this new firm.

rv>mfn«tlnn for ThompCOU. . ' il Mr ”**l rttwiWFLTi ha* m wvm aidta for mr. 1 uOLupßou ni— s wwijuu biw sva At the conclusion of Mr. Thompson's speech, endorsing the nominee, throe rousing cheen were given for the speaker. The delegates from Case county l thought no good man could come out of the swamps of Jasper county, and taking their cue from the Pharos voted against our “back-woods statesman.” . ? The delegates and volunteers from this judicial district, assisted by those from Pulaski and other friends, made a gallant fight for Mr. Thompson, and came out of the contest with flying colors, all solid for the nominee. The delegates from Jasper speak highly of the presentation address delivered by Ulnic Z. Wyley, of Benton county, announcing the name of Bimon P. Thompson It was said by some that it was the best speech made in the convention.

No “Flowers” for the Sentinel. The course of the Indianapolis Sentinel with reference to General Garfield is more infamous, if possible, than usual. It knows he is one the purest, moot conscientious men in publio life, and yet recklessly assails him as if he were a base and corrupt man. This sort ot warfare will not avail as against him. Last winter, when Gen. Garfield was elected U. 8. Senator, he made a speech before the Ohio Legislature, thanking that body for tbe honor, in which he said:

“I recognize the importance of the place to which you have elected me; and I should be base if I dik not also recognize the great man whom you have elected me to succeed. I say for him, Ohio has had few larger-minded, broader-minded men in the records of our history than Allen G. Thurman. Differing; widjy, from him as I have done in’ politics, and do, I recognize him as a man high in sbaracter and gnat in intellect; and I take this occasion to refer to what I have never before referred to in publio—that many years ago, in’’ the storm of party fighting, when the air was filled with all sorts of missile aimed at the charactor and reputation of public men, when it was even to his partjk.interest to join the general clamor against me and my associates, Senator Thurman said in public, In the campaign, on the stump —where men are as likely to say unkind things as any place in the world—a most generous and earnest word of defense and kindness for me which I shall never forget so long a* I live. I say, moreover, that the flowers that bloom over the garden walls of party politics are the sweetest and most fragrant that blossom in the gardens of this world; and where we can fairly pluck them and enjoy their fragrance, it is manly and delightful to do so.”