Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1882 — “OLD MASSA SEED ME COTCH A COON. [ARTICLE]

“OLD MASSA SEED ME COTCH A COON.

A colored boy about 16 or 17 years old, who gave his name as Henry Jones, and who has been working at Johnson's Mill in Union Tp., was on Tuesday afternoon an'ested and brought into town, on the charge of attempted rape upon Emma J. Kenton, a 13 year old daughter of Jasper Kenton of Surrey, and a descendant, by the way, of the family of old Simon Kenton the great indian slayer of Kentucky. The same evening while at supper, in charge of the deputy sheriff, the sinful young moke took advantage of a moment’s inattention and slipped out of the room and although diligent atid unremitting search was “made, he was not seen again until the following morning when Deputy Sheriff Robinson found him secreted in the Remington fair grounds. There is a proposition to build '« branph from the C. &G. 8. starting near Goodland, north-east through Rensselaer and join the jN. Y. C. & St. L. railroad, which is being built. This would afford Oxford another outlet to the East

A curse on your paltry cry about any man’s divine right to be a hog. A dozen curses on the heads of the party whippers-in that bawl like driveling idiots about ‘sumptuary’ laws The slavery issue is dead. The prohibition issue is alive, very alive. The battle is at hand.— Hoopeston Journal. The Northern Indiana Conference of the Churches of God, convening at Rensselaer on Friday next, 24th, to continue over Sunday, will have public services each day and night. Preachers: —S. A. Chaplin, of Plymouth, J. F. Wagoner, of Denver, and H. V. Reed, of Chicago, will doubtless be in attendance. The public is cordially invited to at-

tend.

D. T. HALSTEAD.