Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1881 — Republican Meeting. [ARTICLE]

Republican Meeting.

Roavroll C. Smith, publisher of Scribner is an Indianan., His birth place* was Lafayette. t ■ Up at farmtington the people will bare th eir ice cream carted to them this Summer. That’s «ooL $> The anxious'seat is getting crowdel, and yet the Senate refuses to pick the deadlock and confirm. • The women of Indiana were made eligible by the Legislature to hold any office under the school , law. £ V' ’ - / A late demomatic dodge is to prefer charges of disloyalty against union leaders in the war of the ref : Because of some, defect in its construction the anti treating liquor ltfyr'of has been decided unconstitutional. r * 4 mm < ,; 898 bills were introduced in the v legislature during its regular and special sessions; in the Senate, 378; in the House, 520. A Mo non correspondent to the MonticellS Herald, last week gave Rensselaer’s visitors to the lumber piles, a very windy breeze. . Illinois has a local-option law. Tlie |)eople of Sheldon; on Tuesday of last week, carried the election in that town in favor of local-option. Under the,new tak law persons refusing to give to the assessor a true list of his taxable property is fined not less 'than SSO, nor more than SSOO. I . » The bourbon Senators *were honed by Mahone, and rkldlqd on account of Reddlebeger and now; worse than all, they have been com/pletly Fryed. • * > A f'rown Point Merchant advertises in the Register, „boys suits; * three years Qld and upwards.” Some of those suits must be slightly antiquated. * •' „ II I ■ -'V The neiy tax law* makes the Board of Equalization consist of the County Board together with four freeholders, appointed by Circuit Judge, toehold tlitfir offices four years. ! . One’ of the most J humiliatiug scenes that the union,* soldiers have ever been called upon to witness will be enacted next .Monday—the, unveiling of the Fanragut statue by Senator Yorhee»> ; /l

The German government takes advanced ground cm the temperance question, prohibiting the use of to.bacco by boys under sixteen, and haying uride? Consideration the •prohibition of the use of beer in the army. - . V Many people are predicting that the standard gaage road will not lie completed to this city. The editor of tins paper predicts that standard gauge trains will be running between this city and Rensselaer inside of sixty days or ninety days at the outside. Now let’s see who guesses best. —[Delphi Journals Delphi Journal: . Eight car loads of standard gauge iron arrived last Wednesday at Bradford for the I. k C. road, also the authorities were notified that five car loads a day would arrive at that point until fcfiMr entire order was filled. That which was received Wednesday was shipped for use on the north end of . the route. , Newton county has a new town; it is on the line s>f the C. & I. A. L. its name is Rose Lawn, and it is full of business, the first building having been erected only about a month agp; it has six or seven dwelling houses, one blacksmith shop, and one dry goods store. Rose Lawn is about two miles South of ih'e Kankakee river.

Miss Alice Long of the State University was awarded the second prise in the oratorical contest held * recenty at Indianpolis. This is the first time a lady has been a contestant for honors in an oratorical contest in Indiana. It is a matter of just pride to the ladies of the state that erne of their number has been thus successful in an intellectial tilt with the “lords of creation." ' , ~ ” \ ' # = ' Dr. Homer Iddingß of Noble . county was appointed, by the Prison Directors at their recent meeting, physician for the Northern Prison. Dr. Vandewalker of Bradford was prominently,named for the position bat, was ineligible because of his relationship with one of the directors, Mr. Horine. The numerous fiends of Dr. Vandewalker regret this construction of the law which prevented his appointment to the position which he sought, an appointment which would have been eminently fitting, not less in view of the doctor’s effective work in the recent political campaign, than for his abilii ty m the profession which ! he graces; , . :

The Indianapols Sentinel, discussing the vote in the Legislature, on the prohibition amendment, gracefully swings the democratic party into line with the whiskey element. Hie New Albany Ledger Standard, the representative of respectability in that party, would Imre it on the side of temperance. Does the exponent of democracy in Jasper—the editor of the Democratic Sentinel occupy any position on this subject? If so, what ia it? r- Hid Indiana Legislature cuts the price of publishing the delinquent tax list down to 15 cents for each description. This same body of men proposes $4,000 a year aa salaries for the new offices it creates! Its estimate on labor is low; its conception of a fat thing ia high. It proposes starvation rates for real labor, and a princely income for toasting one’s shins before s coal grate in the winter time! Verily the Indiana Legislature is a wise body—in its own estimation.

L&Porte Herald: “And now township trustees are going for their back pay. They are entitled to $1 a day for overseers of the poor in l addition to their other allowance. The law was only recently unearthed, and trustees and ex-trustees throughout the State are presenting their claims. The law was discovered by an ex-trustee of Vigo county. His claim amounts to SI,OOO. The commissioners of his county having declined to allow it, the case was carried to the Supreme Court which pronounced a decision favorable to the trustees.

There will be a meeting of the Republican voters in the town of Rensselaer, J asper county, Indiana, in Starr’s Hall, Saturday April 30, 1881, at 8 o’clock p. m. for the purpose of selecting candidates for the several offices to be filled at annual election to be held Monday, May 2,1881. V. N. "W ABATER, C. P. MAYHEW, S. Phillips, A. Leopold, E. H. TtfanreJ. F,Hardmax, W. H. Lego, WoL A Rhoades, D. T. Halstead, O. I. B. Washbubn, M. F.J'/Hilcote, R. S. Dwiggins, P. &'oixßKiss, W. E. Templeton, R. YsMartix, M. B. Alter Eiptefr Kjlnnal, A. McCoy,

L. B,®Brant,

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Sears.