Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1881 — Profit $1,200. [ARTICLE]

Profit $1,200.

The man “win t.ff-J you bo h ia exceedingly numerotin. Thfi as»ngsiufi of the Czar have ; been sentenced to hang. Tax payers should not neglect bring their roml receipts when they come to |«y their taxes. • m'uj. -v a_ l x, ll It is exjiectetl tliat Hon. Will CJninbaci; will be present at the ikxiicntinn of tlie Delphi Odd Fellows' Hall on the inat. 13y the new sheep and (k>g law owners of th° canine are required f » have their dogs jirojierly registered in addition to the tax to lie paid. • In tab Senate, Friday, a bill was pasted making the term of all county officers, four years, and making those officer* ineligible for fasecoiul term.* The Wisconsin Legislatum has p issed a law imposing a fine of from five to ten dollars on any one treating another t * intoxicating- liquors in a public place. A recent deck, ion of the Supreme Court says that the county commissioners have no authority to offer a reward for the nrrebt of per-fc-us charged with crime. The B-cirb-m Democrats are very Hpprehbnsive that Senator* Malione .may make a breach in their jmrty. They would rather be without breaches.—[lndianapolis Journal.

"From the American Almanac the \»Ae for President appears as follows: Garfield Hanh K‘k, 4,442,035: Weaver, 306,807. txai-fiokb plurality, 015. This is official. The Kentlnnd Gazette talks cvf the establishment of a telephone in tliat place. The most extensive And effective system of that kind in Kentland, will be -established by the frog.; when spring opens. Why should the Democrats com- ‘ plain of the actions of Malione? Of the two, Davis and Malione,, both Independents, they have the more weighty. They may mourn because of Davis' frequent iKisition on tlie , fence. Thu head of .Senator Kahlo is n ell poised. Hd prcqxises to fix the oiemliersliip of the Senate at thirty, and the House at sixty members. Ho has introduced a joint resolution providing for' a constitutional waendment to that effect. t Selitiyler Col£tx and the Studebnl.ers of South Bend have gone into the railroad business. They * have organized ocompany to build a - read 2*2 miles long, between South Bend and Plymuth, giving the foruior city a southern outlet. POSTMASTER-GENERAL JAMES has effected a total, saving in the expen•s s of the Postofliee Department of ei23,01t), as compared with the c';jlenses of the previous month. Of this saving, $157,765, was made in tte star-route service, $55,725 in. tteoniboat service, and $7,529 in mail messengers.—[lndianapolis Journal. , f 1— - - ■■ J _■ J» Govenor St John of Kansas is the recipient of frequent letters from liquor men predicting trouble to himself if he attempt to enforce the liquor law. By sucli a course the whiskey venders are placing iti the hands of tenqiemnce people < ;ne of the > meat effective cudgels that could be directed against their »airiness. W. T. McNeil thought the lamp that lights the pathway of the Eye needed a new wick to inake its light ►huie brighter, and tp enable it’ to dispel the thick gloom of yitemper•mco that has settled like a pall upon Fowler; so lie ’ has associated , with him in the editorship of that paper, Mr. E. N. Wicks, a young ' lawyer lately located in FowlerThe new dog law provides that the owner of a dog shall have the same registered and provided with a c* >llar and a tag. and exacts a tux of $1 for each male dog and $2. for a female. This law took effect, April first, Any ode has authority to kill a dog not ee registered and collared. Owners of dogs would do well to take notice of tliis requirement and comply, or their e mine pets may turn up some fine mjring, missing. From conversation with'a person , who occupies a position in railroad circles which enables him, to know t hereof he speaks, we learn that the Chicago <fc Indianspols Air Line have now bought and paid for enough standard gauge iron ami 64s to complete that road from this t its to Chicago, and tliat the, road will positively be completed through to Chicago this summer, all of which sounds vary pleasant, and we earnestly hope may come to pass.— i Delphi Jburra'.

Down in Mississippi the courts restrain the farmers - from rotating their crops. A farmer of that state wished to sow his land to grass, when the neighbors served an injunction to restrain him from sowing the seed, on the plea that the grass would spread to their \ fields, injuring them for tlie production of ootton. The court granted the injunction. It is rather a remarkable fact that ns soon as the Republicans elected a Govenor and n majority in the State Legislature, we had to i pay forty thousand dollars for an ! extra session of that body. Here l is economy for you.—[Winamoc I Democrat. j Not so very remarkable Mr. 1 Democrat. Tlie Legislature had I ! to clear away an immense amountof rubbish left by the Democratic Govenor and legislature. J.J J . -L IM The following is being circulated by some of our exchanges. It is not for a moment to be supjKised J that it could be applied to Jasjier i county newspapers, nor to any per- ; sons in the county: “How few real- ' ize the cons taut, ceanless expense of rnninng a newspaper, even in the country. Many who are benefitted by the paper being published in tlieir town will sponge its reading in n store and let their families go ■ without or borrow it from a neigh- . bor, while they neglect to give the pajier any support. Yet if any ! anything occurs that they are in- ; terested in, the paper must give an ) account of it-; whether it is personal or a puff, and they are ready to blame the editor for its shortcomings and to take it as a matter of course that he must do all possible to sustain the reputation of the ; town and the people in it, while they refuse to either assist or encourage him by giving him their patronage."

“To sum it up, six long years of bedridden sickness, costing S2OO j»er year—total sl,2oo—all of this j exjiense was stopped by three bottles of Hop Bitters, taken- by ray wife. She has (lone her own housework for a year since, without- the loss of a day, and I want everybody to know it for thair benefit.”—[N. I E. Farmer. ,