Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1881 — The Very Latest! [ARTICLE]

The Very Latest!

Qlitttl warm, thank yon. A. Leopold is getting the materia] on the ground, and will at once commence work on his sew building. / Wk are informed that the cars will be likely to ran to. Delphi after this week, and that the C. and L Air Line people will probably operate the line themselves, t The Jasper County Normal opens next Tuesday. We hope all the teachers in the county will attend, and also call upon The Republican as soen as they reach town. Mr. and Mrs. 8. P. Thompson left Rensselaer on Saturday for an extended pleasure trip to the far west. We believe their intention is to be absent several months. Dr. J. S. Owens, of Kansas, HI., appears to find “metal more attractive here,” as we noticed him about this place a day or two ago. He returned to Kansas, yesterday. Where iii. C. P. Mitchell longs to go to is to go to Long. Later: He has gone to Long, but will take care not to be gone top long, as liimself and Mrs. Mitchell will be required when school opens in September. .

Advertise if you would be happy. If you are possessed of public spirit and a sensible desire to get a good trade, you will be sure to advertise liberally. The enterprise, thrift and business advantages of any town may be measured by the advertising patronage its local papers receive. Congratulate Again. —At 9 o’clock, Wednesday morning, a soven-pound boy—a stalwart Republican—arrived at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Babcock, and strange to say they at once adopted him. The mother and son are doing well and the father so far shows no fatal symptoms. Our readers will perceive that we have this week made some changes in the appearance and general make up of the paper. We have concluded to give to local affairs the prominence of the outside pages, and shall henceforth relegate our miscellaneous reading and general news matters to the comparative obscurity of the inside pages.

William H. Rhoades, whose injuries were chronicled last week, is still confined to his bed, but his condition is reported to be steadily improving, with no longer any danger of a fatal termination. Worden, who committed the assault, was on Tuesday again brought before Esq. Seitzinger and gave bonds in the sum of S7OO for his appearanco before the - Circuit Court.

Our legal friend at the other end of the hall, Capt. M. F. Chilcote, observed the glorious Fourth after his own way. On July 4th, 1864, at Kingston, Georgia, Mr. Chilcote received a clean shave at the hands of James Morgan, of his company. Until that day, seventeen years, his face has been guiltless of lathery but last Monday he dropped into the shop of tlie self same Morgan, and Jim brought his long forgotten chin once more to daylight.

Bridge at Dunn’s Fobd.— We last week received an extended and able communication in regard to the proposed bridge across the Kankakee at Dunn’s Ford. Our correspondent took strong grounds against the building of the bridge at that place, and we are disposed to believe that in this respect he expresses the opinion of a vast majority of the people in the northern part of the county. It was impossible for us to make room for the article last week if we had wished, and moreover we considered that our corrapondent dealt too much in reflections against an individual too little in solid argument. Rensselaer, like a great many other places, needs a “Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals” to protect those poor brutes of livery horses from the abase of overdriving and beating. As a rather extreme, but by no means uncommon instance, we mention the case "of one of Hallo ran and Scott’s horses, which some heartless fool drove and beat to such an extent on the Fourth that the poor brute on being stopped at the livery stable dropped to the ground in a state of complete exhaustion, and all the exertions of the livery men scarcely saved the animal’s life.

The following is a copy of the last bulletin of the president’s condition yet issued. It came by the way of Remington and is OFFICIAL BULLETIN. Washington, July 7th. . 9A. M.—President has-passed a most comfortable night; continues steadily to improve. He is cheerful and asks for additional food. Pulse 94, temperature 99, respiration 23. No more until IP. M. [Signed,] * Bliss, Barnes, Woodward, Reyburn. i • ----

The drama of “Foiled, or a Struggle for Life and Liberty,” was played before a crowded house Mqnday evening. We are glad to see the people of Rensselaer so ready to encourage home talent. The various actors had prepared themselves very thoroughly their different parts, and the play passed off very smoothly without jar or interruption. It is impossible for us this week to enter into any extended analysis of the play or criticism upon the acting, and we must content ourselves by saying that the actors all seemed to do as well as the nature of their parts permitted. We understand that the K. K. K.’s intend to put another play upon the boards before long, and, we heartily wish them the success which we are sure they will deserve.

The surveyors are at work on the Air Line road from New York to Omaha, and are now, we understand, this side of Rochester. We learn that the engineer has promised the people of Kewanna to run a line taking in. that' village. If this is done, it might be well for our people to give it a little attention and see if the road cannot be brought to Winamac. It will be a bad day for Winamac if this road passes south or north of us a few miles. Some may say the road will never be built. If it is not, there is no harm of being on the safe side; but the prospect is that it will be built. In fact, it is settled that it will be built, and that at nb distant day. The men who have it in charge are men of means and experience, and they intend to put through. Our people should be alive to their interests. Railroads never killed a town yet, and never will, and anv mau can see the advantage such a road as this would be to our county.—[Winamac Republican.

The Fourth in Keener.—As had been previously advertised) the people of the northern port of Jasper county, met in the vicinity of the pleasant Valley school house, Keener township, and indulged in an old-faehioned Fourth-of-July celebration. The news of the assassination of President Garfield, which circulated only as a wild and unauthenticated rumor among the people in attendance had the effect to put a damper upon the enthusiasm that otherwise would have been exhibited by the crowd. The meeting having been called to order, the president pro tern., Mr. Brunce Harrington, in a regulation Fourth-of-July speech, delivered after the regulation fashion, welcomed the vast multitude that had assembled to celebrate the anniversary of their nation’s birth; after which Mr. J. F. Antrim read the Declaration of Independence. Senator Marshall, of Joliet, Hl«, then addressed the audience in an eloquent speech, one of the chief merits of which -sas its brevity, after which the exercises were adjourned for dinner,' tod it was astonishing to the writer to see spread out before his vision the seemingly inexha us table supply of the most palatable viands, to which the halffamished crowd did ample justice< After dinner, the meeting being called to order* 1 the Rev. Shortridge delivered a flowery Sunday-school address, which was followed by short speeches from Rev. Bradbury, R. W. Marshall and others, after which the meeting adjourned to the dancing hall, whioh was canopied by the broad, blue sky and floored by boards hewn out of the native oaks of that immediate vicinity, where they indulged in the maizy whirl until the small hours of morning. All things considered, the celebration was a. grand success, and tlie good people of Keener have established a reputation for hospiitality and ability to manage a pnblic demonstration which virjll not fail to work to their ail vantage on future occasions of like nature.