Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1881 — City and Country. [ARTICLE]

City and Country.

BY U. B. DAMN.

Newton Jackson,of Logansport,is visiting his cousins, the Purcupile boys, and working in the interest of the Equitable Man-iage Benefit Association of that city. M. E. Baylor is again smiling on his old friends across the counters of A. Leopold. Isaac J. Porter has a little Porter at his house who will vote the straight Republican ticket 21 years hence. A new floor was put down in the Auditor’s office, and the occupants now step high. J. P. Warner is making some very' substantial improvements on his home property, on front street. The roads are in a deplorable condition and the only way to keep them passable is for tlie good people to donate work to repair the w r orst places until we have some Toad officials elected next spring. The Rensselaer schopls are progressing well so far this year. Bennie Fendig is tlie best pupil in his grade. Several of those who rather play than study have been “demoted” instead of promoted. Miss Alice McDonald was teaching the Independence school, in Barkley township. Tlie school house caught fire and the fright prostrated her so that she is now sick and will probably have to give up tlie school. They have a bit of a sensiticn up in Walker township. The report is that a well-known and highly respected citizen butchered some hogs one day last week, and left them out over night to cool, and the next morning one of them was gone. Two or three days after the same man killed a beef aud left a part of it out an I watched it. Well along in the night the beef started off and somebody fired a gun at it, and they discovered that there wa a man under it, and that several buck-shot had struck him. The latest report is that he i>F'in a very critical condi ion. C