Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1881 — News-O-Graphs [ARTICLE]

News-O-Graphs

Writing ink fire cents a boule a* the poet office. The In'orunry Magazines—Scribner, Atlantic, Harper, North American Review, Popular Science Monthly, Artbar, Peteravn, Godey, Ballou, G lea so a, Waverly, Leslie’s Popular Monthly, Leslie’* Ladin's Mngaaine, ece.—Coicago and Indianapolis daily papers, all the popular Uury papers, Detroit Free A rest, Burliugton Hawkeye, Toledo Blade, Danbury News, llliuois Blasts Zcituiig, Ac, —first cleat stationer, etc., fur sale alike pusioffiee. Ex-President Gram baa an article in the North American Review fuoFebruary upon the Nicaragua Canal; among other contributors to tbit number art Oliver Wendell Holu.es, Judge Tourgee, author of Fosla Errand, James Freem«m Clarke, Senator John T. Morgan, Wa tWb :ut*n. Fur sale al the pottothce. Also all the |K>puiar magaa.ues, a lory papers, dailies, statiuuery, etc-

Jacob West baa rented the Swain farm. Four farms tu rent. Fbsxk W. Babcock. Bedford keep- all kinds of garden seeds. • Sauer-kraut and pickles at C. C. Starr & Co. 'a. The elevator ia now running day and night. Venabib's school stage Dialogues al Tharp's. Buck wheat flour and corn meal at C. C. Starr A Co 's, f Another lot of fine Michigan Jell at C. C. Starr-A Co.'s. Cranlterrie* only 8 cents a quart at C. C. Starr i Co.’s. Go out to the ball at the Opera House to. morrow nigh t- ■ .A sob of W. E. Templeion is very ’ow With diphtheria. Fifty bu*l>ei« of prime liinolhy seed so vale at Belford's. Ca me<l-fruits sn-1 vegetables a s|»eci-ilty at C. Stirr A Co.'s., Just Received —annthrr carload us flour at C. Starr A Co.’s. E H . Tharp keep* a full stock of all the stHm’anl Patent medicines. 'Mohe.Tuteur.and Frank'Lewis both claim .the p.ueniiiy of bouncing boys. John Ro-s <>t IL-uh, Benton county was emiriin* in Ren«clier Wednenrhiy. The hand boob of Peiiuianahip—-just wh it every teacher wants. At Tharp's. If yon nee.-| gla-s or queensware don’t fail to.give 0. C. Starr & Co. a eall. M rs. Chu». Jiyivenaut, of Crown Point i viiiung iu Beua-elaar this ' week. Mr*. W. N. J-ine«. of Medaryville, is visiting her mother, Mrs. Mary Tharp. Quite a number us attorney* from neighbor ,ng counties a r e in town this week. Jriscph llvwen h-s rented tb* farm o Wm. Timmons, bear E.>ypt school house. llengs'ach & Belfo'-l expect Io make m 'e* of tiling next spring and'stiminer. Bright Orleans sugar—l 2 pound - for (I a big bargain—at C. C. Starr and Ce.’a. Tho Kent land papers nn-i.'Uiice Schuy'er Colfax fur a lecture at that place February ]«t. Some fine Plymouth Rock co< kerels for aalehy Norman Warner if called for soon . We are under obligation* to several of our aubecr.bsrs for w od, brought on subscrip t)Q. I .

Horace C i*», 'one of Fowlp>’s cititens lia<» a ease an trial before the Jasper court this week. Charley Wren han gone to housekeeping in part of the dwelling ocupied by Mr. Fred W. Cole. B. M. D<nnelly started Monday for Rich Hill, Mo., where he will probably locate in business. Mr. John Sayler west of town, we learn is sick with diphthera. One vs his children is also quite sick. < Look out for a wedding soon, as the young 'aly’s tnuernal parent has concluded to oppose it no longer. P. H. L.dly was in town this week. Rensselaer deni tens are always glad to, see Pat on thnir streets. Colds, colds, coughs, coughs, effectually cured by the use of Harding's cough syrup, for sale by E. H. Tharp. A teacher at Wanatah who recently punished a pupil, was prosecuted for the offense', but on trial was acquitted. The pockets of but few of the frequent visitors to “Red Hell” present the appearance of containing quart bottles. i The stone for the foundation of the hew hotel come from the Daugheity quarry and are now being hauled to the place of build*“g- ,

Please remember when you want anything in the book or stationery line that E. Tharp keeps a full supply and sells very cheap. We are indebted to Will Moes for the Detroit Free Preu, for which paper he is engaged part of*each week In posting the books. Sheriff Powell went to Williamsport, Monday, to attend court as witness in a ease brought against some parties for horse stealing. Liver oomplaints always yield to a few doses of Rinehart's Liver, Pills. Only one for a done. Sample dose free. For sale by W. J. Imes. . 2t A citizen of Wisconsin has just succeeded in perfecting a mower which can bo readily adjusted no as to serve as a front or rear cut mac bins. ' - *• '

| We see veveral of our eitixens with their !*ecfc*‘ bandaged. Na sign that they have i been shut in that region, but simply bad colds and tare throat. Harper W. Snyder, of Remington, was shaking the bands of Rsnsselasr people Wednesday. Harper is one of your Jolly, companjonsble fell o'a. Johnnie Bingman, the leadline shoemaker us Remington, is happy in ibe possession of a new daughter, who arrived at Johnnie * house on the 13th instant. L. B. Smith, of Faribault, Mitin .says:— I am still wearing an “Only Lung Pad, au-l it bus helped me; 1 intend to have another of extra strength soon.—See Adv.2t Dawson Smith and J. T. Brown, Fowler attorneys, gave us n pleasant call Wednesday. They were attending court in the case ot 11 Case of Fowler vs., 0. Dusk of Sheldon • ni.. Our postmaster, Mr. James, solicitous for the welfare of the public, removed the partition in the postoftice building this week, . which gives mors room for those wailing lor mail. Joe Hardman says he is under the weather. We are nut certain what that means, but suppose its a b<>il. If so Joseph is a modern Job. for he is very patient under the affliction. Miss Fannie Jouvenat, sister of Charles Jouvenat, of Crown Point, started from this place yesterday to her home in Kndxville, Tennessee. She bus been visiting here at Mr. Walton’s. Mr. Leopold has purchased tho stock of clothing formerly owned by L. B. Warner und has pl-iced them in the corner store room, where Eli lltidelbergnr will act as salesman. Our young friend, Mell La Rue, is branching out in business. He has now in training ti.e fatuous trotting mare, “Liglilfoot,". an 1 will probably eider her fur the races at our flair next fall. ' . A Late Village correspondent says: The railroad company is piling the Kankake - river near that place. TLe cars are south of Luw«ll and ninth of the Iroq-iuis river.— KeuHaud Gazette, W. R. Tappan, Contractor and Builder, Toledo, Ohio, says:—Au Excelsior Kidney Ibid ralittV -,1 me of pain in the side of fifteen' years' stan ting. Please send me another Pad.--ti.e Adv. 2th B.las Swain perambulated the streets of R -us-el .er yesterday. Silas comes often bails ever welcome. He lingers much about tlas C erks office, but thuQd »u’i imply anything strange, he says. R 8. Dwiggiiis w 11 lecture in the Christ anohurcli, in this place Sunday next, Jun. 21th. 18H1. at h: ls past ten oclock. On the suiject of ihsJews; their future. A cordial welcome is extended to all.

W. IV.Wriubt the painter, living near the depot, is (I elicited over the arrival of a new I.oy which ca nt io his hous.i on the 10th hurt. The b*»y and mother are doing well and the father is Convalescent. lu the case of the state against Asa Stuniph. which came up for trial Monday, the state' being not ready for trial, Mr. Stuinph was released from custody, oh his own recognizance until the next term of court. *' • No i reaching at the M. E. Church last Sunday because of the absence of Mr. Wood at Kentl md/ who was detained nt that, place on account of the sickness of his wife who hut been there for some lime attending her mother. Three carloads of silk worms’ ergs bound for France were shipped across the United States from San Francisco to New York City, striving at the latter city January sth. They came from Chinn. The value of these eggs is estimated al $1,000,000. Only four appeals to higher authorities have been taken from the decisions of Mr. James, in post office matters, during the time ha has served as post master. In ' each of instances hie decision has been sustained by the authorities at Washington. u Kentland had a fire last week, which resumed in the burning of a barn with its contents of hay and grain and a team belonging to Dr. Chaffee. The fire was thought -to bo the work of an incendiarr, and a man was arrested on suspicion, but on preliminary trial was acquitted.

Mr. John Makeever closed the contract last Friday for the atone work on the foundation of his new hotel to be built in -the •pring. Jim Maloy has the contract. He has put in the stnne work for most of the substantial buildings in Rensselaer. We are glad to see that Mr. Makeever appreciates home labor and patronizes it though workmen from other places would bid lower. Delia Bums died December 8, 1880, aged ninety-three. She wafijpartied in her fifteenth year in Chilicothe, Ohio. She was the mother of eight children, sixty-eight grand children 113, great grand children, and two great great grand children. She ■lived for 6 years with her daughter-in-law. She was very kindly cared for by the family. We sympathize with the relatives and friend* in their loss. The following is a list of the board of di-r-clois and officers of the Jasper County Agricultural association, elected at the official meeting last Board of Directory. Wm. K. Park toon, Marion L. Spitler, David H. Yeoman, George H. Brown, Berry, Paris, Norman Warner, Willis J. Imes J. E. Lawson, James Welch, John M. Wasson, .William S. Coen, Horace E, James. Officers: President, Geo. H. Brown; Vice President ,Wm. K. Parkton; Secretary, Horace R. James,- Treasurer, Willis J. Imes; Superinendent, James Welch; Marshal, M. L. Spitler

A fßrm«r *f Bbmbb county, living four oorn in that pl*c«, bm ds\y last weak, brought a load to Baaaaslstr. H« racei vwd M cents in eaah for it. hoagtH laasber with the nsonny aad retaned kaasa tb* smm day, ••▼ing ia tb* operation juat live dollars. The enterprise *f ear merchant* is building *p n gaed trade for Rensselaer. Grant numbers of farmers from the south part of Newtan aad this county have marketed graia at Nenaselaer this wiater. The entertainment “Among the Breakers* given by our Home Troupe the Bth ia*i.,wa* a grand suocess. Each charwter was wel* repreeeatod and the entire troupe acquit tod themselves with honor. But we think it simple justiee to say that Pref. Hoopur inibe character of David Hurray deserve* special notice. •J. F. Hardman as Jeremiah CHp, and Mias Lettie Hopkins as Jane £baiterly acqnited themselves above tho average amaleurs. The audience was well pleased and the nnaaimous voice was, “well done”. Avditob. We understand that Mr. J. H. Burna while boring a well on his farm two miles south and east of Kentland last week, struck a vein of coal ninety feet below t'je surface. He then bored in another place about forty rods distant aqdnwhen down tbe same distance at nick the same vein. In one place it was four and one-half, and tn the other, six feet thick. We are told that the ground has been leased and a shsft will at once be put down. M this is true ws will have no more coal famines in this part part of creation.— Neiatun County A'ema. When we look control of this paper there were but three merchants who ad ver tine-1. Now every dry goods and grocery store in Goodland i.i represented in our columns, while all (he other business institution* patronize u* in different ways. Reason: ndvertiseing in the Herald pays every business man one hundred cents on the dollar —Goodland Herald. So with tho Recsaelaer merchants who t:dk to the people through the Republican. They nil do a rushing business. No merchant who is enterprising and up with the times will fail to make liberal use of printers ink.

Muncy is an absolute necessity in the management of any kind of business. The printing business is no exception to tbe general rule. Our bills meet us regularly every week, imperatively, and we are obliged to pay them. Unless something is coming in, it is impossible for us to meet demands made upon us. We hope our subscribers get the point. W'e are making tome improvements in our office that we may be enabled to make our paper better. This tosts monty and we depeud upon our patrons to help us in the mutter. No reasonable person will fail to realixo our position and none will be nnwiding to do for us what they can. We will call on those who are delinquent, either in'person or by postal, and we hope none such will fail to respond. A correspondent of the Indianapolis Jouris engaged in tbe construction of the C. & 1. A. L. R. R., writes as follows of the progress of the work ; “The projected C. and I. A. L. railway runs from Chica;* to Indianapolis, being about thirty-five miles shorter than any line that runs into Chicago from Louisville, Cincinnati, and other huge cities in tbe south. Tho road is completed from Did; hi Io about seven miles north of Rensselaer, and narrow gauge, nnd from Dyer to Lowell, sixteen miles, the road is completed st a udc rd gauge. There is shout twenty-one miles between Lowell and Rcns.-elaer, and six miles from Dyer to Gleuwood, whore we meet' the Western Indiana Railway and go to Chicago, and then the rond is completed from Chicago to Delphi. We are grading hetween Rensselaer and the Kun kakee river; we have graded the Kankakee inarth ; have commenced piling the Kankakee river, and the people here think thst they will soon have a way to get to Chicago without going around the world.”

The A’orfA American Review for February is the literary phenomenon of the month. First we have an earnest and patriotic article by General Grant, advocating the Nicaragua Cunal project. The genial Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, Oliver Wendall Holmes, follows with an essay entitled “The Pqlpit and the Pew,’’ written in the-best spirit of tho Christian philosopher, in which ho en ieavors to show the need that he believes to exist for a revision of the prevalent theological creeds. Under the quaint title of‘‘Aaron’s Rod in Politics,’’ Judge A. W. Tourgee emphasises the obligation, imposed upon the Republican party by the Chicago platform, of making provision for educating illiterate voters. James Freeman Clarke makes a valuable contribution to the discussion of tho ajuthorship of Shakespeare's plays. The grave evils that may result form tlie partisan character of the United States Supreme Court are pointed out by Senator John T. Morgan. The sixth of Mr. Charney’s papers on the “Ruins of Central America’’ is devoted to a description of the Pyramids of Comalcalco, which must rank among the most stupenduons monuments ever by man. Finally, Walt Whitman writes of “The Poetry of the future.” The Review is sold by booksellers generally.

Jam. 17, 1881. The circumstances of the death of Charles Harris, killed by tbe cars at Valparaiso on the i2th instant, are as follows : He and his cousin Elbert Harris roomed on one side of tbe railroad and took their meals on tbe other side. Going to breakfast at 6 o’clock in the morning, they saw, as they neared the track, a train approaching. Elbert waited until the train passed, but supposed his cousin had dashed across ahead of tbe train. Wbeu the smoke cleared away he passed over and called for Charley, it being yet dark. Receiving no response ho looked and found him in an unconscious state. Elbert supposed Charley must have made a inis4tep, causing the cars to strike him. Securing aid he carried Charley to the nearest house where he died in about an hour. The sad news was telegraphed to his mother and stepfather, James Randle and wife, of this county, where the body of tbe dead son arrived the next day and was takon to Newton county, his old home, for burial. His funeral was preached by Rev. Hogan to a crowded house. Looking upon the lifeless remains of tjiat noble young man tears flowed from every eye. The expression was made that that communi’y had never received such a shock since the death of his sainted father, caused by lightning, seven years ago. Charley was an excellent young man, and in his 24th year. None knew him but to love him. A Fbixxd. RxMssttAn, Jaw. 14m, 1881. Editok Rxvvblicax Let us say a few words on the pending suit for license to sell intoxicating liquors in our town. Our com-

paal wßßtah'. t* ih»dn*m«,lU applicam Mltai a eta* of ve*us and tb* ease was wait to Newtoa aawaty. Now »uppo*e a jwy of 9*wtew ***NMy citfoeaa, oa tb* aans* Bvidaataa aabaaittri to Mir ooanty cMirt, ahMtld gn*t a listoM aad and a aua b*r«> mH Hqoen cootrary to tb* «apr*M«d wiataa «f our pMpi* (•• bi* *w* oatb far a ahMtga «mM show) Would there net *««• to b* si ■Mb tog «mit aad really unjust i* Mtoha raotK? A*d would It *M be a quatoian b*w a m*a *f kiwd aad geaerous to*M—M. oourteeiea of life, a man of “good moral character, a ft person to sell iatoxkauag liqaoH” a* a brverßge. «Mdd WafOf* “P** 1 a* an wilting community, an iuatitath n whoa* only fruit ia «vil, ruinous and d*u»otalixhtg ia it* very nature ? May Le ia Howtos county they hav* tote taen of dull aeuaibililiea, like our commissioner*, who •aanot see th* ‘‘fltaes*’’ us any maa to dole oat disorder, poverty and ruin for money or any ocher consideration. We are glad that our commissioners were so constituted stmt tney could not aee the good in that which is evil aad only *vtl. *'• are down ou such Mtabliahmeuta, Democracy ia down an them. K> publicauistu is down on them. Christianity is down on them, and all that regards good government and good morals hold them in abhorence. It is said tlie law compels the granting of license on a mac's proving good character and fitness to sell liquor. Tbe courts are supposed to undersiand tbe law nnd the evidence, but one county grants license and another none, and on the aaiuo amount and the same kind of evidence. If a local option law is uneuuatiiutioual, so in practice* is tbe present law? Ont- thiuj cur courts and jurn-s overlook. According to a decision us the L'n t< d Suites s ereins court, that which is unjust and unfit is not law. But here is where we place ii. One court and jury have more sense tkiui another, and they are expected to decide cases according to their intelligence and moral sense. Jasper county seems to go on the supposition that no man or woman snould be allowed to sell intoxicating liquors as a beverage. Some temperance people *ay it fathers Dwiggins or Peacock should apply, we should grunt the license. This would look a little more like it, but we hardly tnink we could see it, then. Wo would rather conclude those worthy old fathers nad fallen down a few pegs from graee. A few years ago Prof. Stowe wa| traveling beyond the sea lor new light, when be wrote a letter home which was published in the religious newspapers. Ue wrote that he hud passed through some state where the people we.e so highly educated and punctilliou*!y honest and chaste, that before a lady could get a license to keen what, in this country would be called a hour* us ill fame, she had to produce a certificate showing that she was in good mid regular standing in some orthodox churcn. Many people might think that very nice. It may look so. But we would rather sup pose that the womnu hereelf was a fallen angel than that she cr>uld sanctify tbe business up to such a standard! Our present law is an absurdity. Il requin s impossibilities. Change the constitution, give us prohibition, let us have such teaching and legislation ns will soon make us a nation of Softer men instead of a nation of drunkardas wu were fifty years ago when I enlisted in this cause, since which lime I hove never taken a dram nor gone into a liquor shop but Io get out some customer who might be

in there.

SAMUEL W. RITCHEY.