Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1881 — Profit $1,200. [ARTICLE]

Profit $1,200.

The bill for the castigation of wife beaters failed in the House. Lake county is entitled to the Itanner for giving the largest ma- ' jority in favor of the amendments. Jimmy Dunn has been lecturing to the tipplers at Frankfort. As a result 119 have forsakek their cups. . Crown Point is taking Queen Either. Prof. W. Byron Rice, of Boston Mass, will administer to the Crown Pointers. • The Chicago Tribune is of the opinion that an Indianian can now take down the constitution of his suite and read it.without a blush.

At lowa City an old lady has abstained from food now 25 days, and from sjieeclr 3 years, as a religious duty. Bhe is likely soon to die for lark of nourishment —I Valiiaraiso Videtfc. The Vidette should explain whether it means that the lack of nourishment is the result of abstinence from, food or from talking.

The legislature in trying to regulate the doctors has before it two bills, one having passed the Senate and the other the House, neither of which will harm any doctor who has a diploma*from a reputable medical < dllcge, ten years, or has attended one course of lectures and practiced three years. If it will protect the people from quackery let either j>ass.

President Garfield Las expressed his determination to proceed vigorously against Mormonism. He solicits the aid of congressmen against the growing evjl. It is encouraging to know that the ideas of the president are reciprocated by leading legislators. The country may expect something to drop very heavily, soon, on this blight upon civilization.

Senator Sherman, who succeeded Thurman in the]Senate, was out of office on March 3, about eight hours. This is the first time in twenty-six years]*that hejhas not held office. He resigned, on that day, his office as Secretary Treasury, and the term of his predecessor in the Senate did not expire until midnight of die game day. The circumstance was treated as a great joke by his associates at Washington,

A Correspondent of the Lafayette Courier, from the south part of Tippecanoe county, tells of horses dying from starvation in his locality, the farmers having used up all their feed. He censures severely the land lords who are holding their corn in the crib waiting for 45, and 50 cents per bushel, which in market is worth but 30 and 35 ciants, while the less fortunate tenants suffer for bread and are losing their stock by starvation.

This from’the New Haven Register is as sound as a nut: Does a man ever go into a grocery store and say: “I will give you five cents a . I>ound for sugar,” and expect to be treated with respect? Not at all. He asks thejprice of sugar and pays what is asked, or goes without. But the same man will offer a price twenty per cent, below rates for a given space in the advertising col-* urnns of a newspaper and feel offended because it is not taken.

The Senate, by a majority 'vote, has said that, hereafter county commissioners sliall give bonds in the eum of $5,000 before entering upon the discharge of the duties of their office. If the same bill should pass the House, there will be but few men w|io will want to be elected county commissioner. It is an unthankful and unprofitable position at best and hereafter, with that incumbrance, it will be a clear case of the office seeking thb man.—[Rochester Sentinel.

New Music.—The latesj and best song and chonis is entitled, “The Flower of Tennessee,” by James E. Stewart. This song has one of the most beautiful melodies ever published, and is sung with immense success by the prominent minstrel troupes throughout the country. The music is very simple and can be played on the organ or piano. Price, 35 cents-per copy, sent to any address 'upon receipt of , price. Address, F. W. Helmink, Music Elm Street, Cincinnati, O.

Indiana is cursed with a large number of ten cent Representatives, who love their six dollars a day, and would vote Lor an extra session - every sixty days. This same class would vote starvation prices for printers, then come home and expect printers to favor • them for pffice. They are a cheeky set of political selfishness, better calculated to be set up as mohuments of pusilanimity than Representatives . to make laws to protect the rights and interests of the working people. - rkc County Ledger.

The Kansas supreme court has decided the constitutionality of the amendments prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in that state. A general routing of saloon keepers will take place. Progressive Kansas! Whiskey soaked Indiana!

Those who favor cremation as an economical method of disposing of the dead are gaining some converts. It is now proposed to establish a crematory in the city of Brooklyn* A society is to be organized for the construction and operation of the crematory and for the collection and promulgation of statistical information relating to cremation and the advantages arising from it It is intended to diminish the cost of the operation as low as five dollars for each subject.

Our recent brief mention of im* provements in’progress in' Rensselaer, we sec are copied by some of our exchanges, and by this means the superior advantages our town presents as a place of residence are being laid before readers of other papers in other localities, and the attention of those about seeking new homes and new enterprises are being directed hitherward. And yet some men stand aghast at the idea of placing an advertisement of their business in the newspapers.

Bro. McEwen seemed a little worked up over the allusion we made tlie other day to certain unheld by a Monticello saloonist, for sundry small drinks. He protested earnestly against any imputation that he was in the habit Jof indulging in the ardent and solemnly avowed that he had never tampered with the evil thing. Such a stout denial would seem to us indicative of fear on his part that some one might get the idea that, at some time in the past, he had dealt in spiritual matters. -No suspicion, ere this, had ever been entertained by] our citizens as to the temperance principles of our democratic editor. It is to be lioped he will maintain his equilibrium and not become unnecssarily agitated. *

The fellow, Reynolds,Twho obtained license in ourj-court to sell liquor in Rensselaer, has threatened the editor of the Republican of that place, with a “punching" because Corkins saw proper to comment of his qualification for the business. We’ll go a big apple that Reynolds comes out at the little end of the horn if he undertakes it. —JKentland Gazette.

We rise to explain. The “punching” proposition was only suggested as a probableresult of our course by ’the editor of the Democratic His warm ‘love for us aroused his fears for our safety, and knowing us to be an “amateur,” he was’charitable enough to [interpose a’warning'note. We have never had the least fears as to any violent or spasmodic pugilistic (hostile to us) action on the part of Reynolds; for is he not “proven to be a moral man? Yea moral to such a degree that no man in Jasper comity Could be found so moral that he wns fit to engage in retailing liquor. It is a sad comment upon the morality of our citizens; but a Newton county jury has so decreed. We cannot go behind the retuns.

We are glad to note that our representative in the legislature, during the entire session, has stuck to his temperance principles in a manner that reflects honor on himself and the people he represents. There is no playing around the bush for influence in this case; Gilman is a temperance man at home and a temperance man in the legislature.— [Goodland Herald. The Herald does itself credit and but simple justice to Mr. Gilman in such favorable reference to him. Much was expected from Mr. Gilman by those of his constituents who exerted themselves especially in the cause of temperance. He was a vigorous, energetic, unflinching temperance 1 worker previous to, and during his candidacy for, a seat in the legislature. This gave temperance people hope, and, while he was the republican candidate, and known to be strictly republican politically; yet he was accorded the support of the temperance element in other parties. He has not betrayed his trust On other questions, as well as that of temperance, he has given evidence of progressive republican ideas. He fought earnestly against the attempts of old fogy ism and predjudice to cripple and break down our admirable system of county superintendency. Jasper and Newton counties are creditably represented in the person of Mr. Gilman. ;

“To sum it up, six long years of bedridden sickness, costing S2OO per year—total $1,200 all of this expense was stopped by three bottles of Hop Bitters, taken by my wife. She has done her own housework for a year since, without the loss of a day, and I want everybody to know it for their benefit”—[N. E. Farmer.