Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1881 — He Was Posted. [ARTICLE]

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responsible for the following, which that paper gives as an actual occurrence: 8 Btroll aIon « Main street the other day, on the look-out for an item, when we heard the concluding chapter of an animated discussion between two old, weatherbeaten farmers. They sremed to be discussing the relative expense of boy® and girls. One re“Ceftainly, Mr. Williams. But * hen > you know, them furbelows and fixin’s that the gals wear ain’t near as tertoeke, and si puted.

''nyntain leaJnou AfWg” teaiperence 1 petitions. She>6i»ff» op LflOO- nan res. K«rep4tin nriyi«{*”that — March 14 1* the day to ; rr»te on th« teßUbml**iwj of ike '<vn< U tilloid a'Hopd nenU. J' .1'U413—■»■*■ • TtnrßMitW. nenp‘r of VaipFrefew will build 4 sew brick ch urdh Bribe bpring and offer th* •hl frwne -alructare for Ll . . _J_y B-'JN '* . Ao effort has baen w»-»Ue Ih Winsrose, k»r Pundsjr thrtitere. but has proven a failure for waul of 1 atronage, as justly it should. -* mF '•Senator Keiser, we .copelude from his letters to'lib piper, (he Winamac Republican, 'la in favor of stringent temperance lrgial«tii>n. > Tire two factious of the Rkpubllean party --In Pennsylvania . united last week In the election of congrreruan Mitchell United States Senator. The bill U» provide for conferring the elective frnnHilae on women was - defeated last Friday in tba Senate by a x«e of 25 against to 18 In favor. Gao’xlv is drifting Millenialward'2 Her new conrflttitinn provides that thv iifgWalure shall meet but once in two years, and the session shall o»u----tiuue iu>i more than forty days.

J. R. Ca IK us, Sheriff of Leuawee <>., Mich- «aye: f have worn an ••Only Lung Pad” for Bronchial difficulties, and have not beau troubled with a cough nights since wearing It. — Re* ad No voter who believes in and desires fair elect ions should fail to l<c at the fMills on the lltb and vuta in favor of the amendments. Let us give them a good round “conslilutohal” majority this time. - mt ■ ■ - Hayes only Im** eight more days in wbieh to took after his Ohio pct*. 'I I. popleUlll generally rejoice when this fraud goes out of office. —A'cnfZand _Ve*re. ■Yes, glad when Garfield goes in. It vas pi«"po»ed recently by some e ixeu- of Chicago to celebrate the a dveisary of the great fire. The next thing we wilt hear of Memphis celebrating the aniversary sf the ap|»earancsin that city of the yellow fever. The French have no street-corner ] e'rra. As **u as a m>n begins tn hug a lamp-post or rub a brick wall he is smilingly invited to break stone for fifteen dsya. Sueh a regulation should be enforced in every city and R»wu in the United Stales. — Ind. Herald. ' ‘ Prof.’H. B. Brown, the Valparaiso JA**wwgrer informs us, has treen buying tr wu lots wiili the intention of erecting m<>re buildings for the accomodation of students. His already large and numerooM buildings are insufficient tor the accomodation of students at Hie normal.

The Monticello Democrat at the aolii itat'oii of lady friend* to know the editor's position o«- the qUcntlou of woman’s suffrage pronounces itself in farop <>£ the same, and inya: Let the women vote and the government will be better and purer than it now is. f Last Saturday| the House bill for the reeuhmission of, the Constitutional amend in »nt» tn a vote of the people. pa<«ed the Senate and the people will have the phasure of voting On these amendments aga n on the fourteenth day o Mutch. Every vote should be polled on that day. Hancock will attend the inauguration of Garfield. The Rochester Senihel aays he will not assist in any of me ceremonies or feajivities except the grand ball in the evening. We ■upliose at the ball, the General wil( l>ohje for the Inspection of his elegant shape as produced bv the wearing of the corset. Senator Carpenter of Wisconsin died ’*st Thursday at Washington CityHe was in every senee of the word a stalwart Bepublicat. . Finn in his •wn -on vic ton* of right be dealt unswervingly and conscientiously" with n 1 public questions. Losing Senator (Carpenter, Wisconsin loses her moet honored and able representative.

The Knox Ledger has a little article vii the Sunday law before the iegiala- . turn, the first sentence of which proves it» inconsistency. The editor refers to it-as: “the new Sunday law .which the Republicans are about to enact.’’ The common sense of the I .edger man is, by such an expression, inadetu appear small and beautifully 1* M. Represenatire Gillman introduced fn trie Legislature last FHday a bill providing lor the licensing of druggists. • a fee nf $3 to be paid to the couty treaeervr for the benefit of the common, school fund. The bill stipulates that the person so licensed shall not barter or give away dntoxieatiiig liquors in Iras quantities than a quart ekcept upon the order of a physician. We received this week the “Original Chatter box” fur February. It is copiously illustmted and fnll of excellent and interesting stories for children. This excehent cbilds magazine is published by Estes and Lauriat Boston Massachusetts. Ju the publication of .the Chafterlxjx they are doing a good work fur the elevaMou and refinement • of. Youth. Parents should See that their children have access tp good . teudiwg, and such is the Chatterbox. An n reeuh of the fiftb'sectlon of the Funding bill, how I Wilding in Congress ■tie national Kinks of Lafayette have taken the steps neersaary to the aetiretoent wfthMr cupful to the nilnlnum required by )«w_-$45,000» Tills Is an • aggregate reduettoc-of Um total circu laiiou of tbeaefeßsdißof $540,000, reducing their (SMeiKL circulation to flfiO. kVO. Ti.e weaitoi of the bi 1 preferred to . irquuiiu the new Sper oegt bonds the beak for their drcula*

The Editor of the Rochester Republican enjoys the-high honor of being the subject of an Indicffnent for libel The day fixed for the reaubmisaion 1 of thi'cnnstikßkVtoa.l amendments la I March 1-kh next- W.e hope there will ■be * fuff Wife out and that meiitsjwi!! receive sneh majorities that the Buprem4 Court will be tJiorougly satisfied— Kentland Newt If there-i* uhiajority of one in-favor of then mend meals, that majority will be regarded as a Just ex press ton of the will of the people by a Republican Supreme Court and because it will be m, and because the amendments are in. favor of good and economical government they wifi be regarded constitutional by the same authority.

The Inter Ocean very sensibly suggests to the National banks the folly of withdrawing their circulation Id view of tl e funding scheme, thus causing a contraction of the currency and consequent public distress, it warns them that such a movement would on* ly be a cudgel in the hands of their opponents.' and prove a formidable weapon against the interests of the twnks. As the provisions nf. the bill are better understood less apprehension is entertained as to the effect 'of its passage- Secretary Sherman is said to favor the bill, and It gains support in Congress with eaeli d-ys discussion.