Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1881 — Here and There. [ARTICLE]

Here and There.

Mode Cox ia on the sick list. Datid Alter is now sol* proprietor of the store at Alter’* Mill. John Comer es Gillam township is preparing to build a uew dwelling. Jasper county affords three saw mills eacii of which have « good share of logs. Several new farms will be opened up and improved iu Gillam Ibis seassn, and still there’s room for more. Isaac Barkley and wife have just returned from a three mouths visit among friends in Henry counte this state. Jerry Bisher enjoyrd the pleasure T of a fire on the sth iustant. Lost a new dwelling and all its contents. The people living along the line of the old Continental K. R. are considerably elated over the prospect of its completion. The season drawelb nigh for the crop of oandidatei for County Superintendence to spring up. Let us hear from some of ye country pedagogues. A corps of engineers are prospecting lor a canal from Luke Micbigau by Euglith Lake down the Monon to the Tippecanoe. This will pass just euit of Medary>ille. The county {purveyor was on the Pinksrnink about two week ago leveling. We have not beaid what the results wre except that he came near getting hu horse and buggy in an air hole. A blind horse es Jok.i Alter’s walkol off the bridge near Alter’* Mill and killed himself almost instantly. If the township had to pay for a few such they would find it choaper to keep up banisters to tiie bridges.

The founder of llurleytown ie making matters rather hot f.>r some of the boys wln> appropriate sundry mink skins mud rat hides. Boys if you must steal take something of value and then the county will get rid of you. There has been an unusual amount of timber stealing done this winter. A great many people who do not own a foot of timber land hare been selling wood all winter. But that is a matter far the grand jury and I’ll say but little. * A shocking affair occurred in Barkley towa.-bip Inst week. Tba facts so far as I could learn werv about these, a man named Coleman living near Geo. Kesslers came home one cold stormy night, abused hie wife and drove his sister in-law out in the coid, barefooted, and in her clothes, in which condition she went to her mothers nearly a mile distant, her feet were badly frozen and bruised. If matters are us ba-i as reported Coleman deserves to he cloth*d and fed by the State at Michigan t'ily for •omi time to come. More enun. • Rannute.