Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1882 — A FAMILY REUNION. [ARTICLE]

A FAMILY REUNION.

For The Republican; The descendents of Henry and Elizabeth Sayler had a family reunion at the residence of Michael Sayler, three miles west of Rensselaer, on Monday Oct., 23,1882. Brothers and sisters met for the first time in thirty years. Cousins met who had never met before. It was truly a grand meeting. Shaking hands and talking of by-gono days was the order of the day. Greetings were scarcely over when the friends were invited to gather around the table on the lawn. When all were arranged at the table prayer was offered by Rev. J. J. Clay pool, and all joined in singing the Doxology. After all had partaken of the good things spread before them, the artist, Mr Joseph Sharp, took a picture of the table and the happy ones around it. This over the brothers and sisters formed a circle aud Mary Sayler Monnett, passed around and named the missing linksAll present wishing to have a memento of the reunion, they arranged themselves in front of the house and had a family picture taken.

Barnhart Sayler read a history of the Sayler family: They can trace their ancestry back to the Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers. Jacob Sayler, father of Henry Sayler, was a gunsmith and made guns and swords for the army of the Revolution. He was a gen eral in the war, and a member of the first Continental congress that met at Philadelphia. The chair in which he sat was at the Centennial Exposition. *He was a general in the war of 1812, and an old chum of Andrew Jackson.

A large bible which belonged to Henry Sayler Sr. and was published in 1609, was shown. It sank with the ship which brought it over and was picked up the next morning. Henry Sayler came to Ohio from Penna., on horse-back in 1713 when but 17 years old to look at the country, and moved from Bedford county Penn, and settled on Salt Creek, in Pact away co., Ohio. He married Elizibeth Kepner, Dec--25, 1805, in Pack away co. Ohio. He died Jan. Bth 1854, aged 71 years, and was buried in the fami-, ly grave yard in Marion co. Ohio. Elizabeth liepnor Sayler died, May 22nd iB6O, aged 78 years and was buried in th -nine place. They . • t id,: parents or 13 children 0 >i w • ; are still living, viz: .lac*>*- age 76; Isaac, 73; Mi . i 1 ! t ay, 68; Samuel* 61 ■: ■ ,61; Sarah A * in ' . • Aarnhart, 53, died in 1825 n ;‘v: .Uyler Kiuoar I John died • ’ • inion died in

indents of Snyler •' . : d as follows: < l -Liklren 123, ■ i : u 113, great- : ,iu 4. Vi ii s attended by i t tp ’.used with prayer i v • Syier, singing, * [ Irovi a trom whoip all Oiu . >» i-y all present, and beneu.v .1. n i-y Isaac Sayler. in tne evcmug the young folks had a liveiy time at John Suyier’s. —7 Lalougrin thus wee-, and if the non-polilical readers find but little of interest in the paper they can consul theinst-lves with the thought (that the cum pa ignis nearly i u^od

Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks says, “I will drink ivhen I please and what I please.” All right, Mr. Hendricks! You can driuk poison if you want to. There is nothing to hinder you, nobody proposes to stand guard over your tabulating; but is that any reason why you should ally yourself with the liquor traffic and deny the right of the people to vote upon prohibition, woman suffrage and oflice-tenure reform ? Is that any reason why you should endeavor to cram your opinions down the throats of your equals by gag law, caucus tyranny and Big Four rule? Is that any reason why you should make the liquor traffic “the power behind the throne” and supreme influence in tile politics of the great Stute of Indiana? Why are you not content with your undisputed privilege to “drink when you please and what you please,” without insisting that other men must be tempted to drink and destroy themselves by one enticing drinkerv to every 370 inhabitants in the State? Is Mr. Hendricks so utterly bigoted in his bossism that he feels free to trample upon other men’s rights to secure to himself the uttermost licence of a privilege? So utterly heartless as a man that he nas no thought of the woes, and waste, and hideous horrors flowing from an unrestricted liquor traffic? These are question that every man should consider, and questions that appeal with special force to those who have been in the habit of looking to Mr. Hendricks for counsel. Can men who respect themselves, and the rights of their fellow men, submit to liquor traffic dictation with Mr. Hendricks, aud adopt his creed of soulless selfishness?—Logansport Journal.

For velvets call on J. Y W. Kirk. Paints, Oil and wall paper cheaper than ever at Kannal’s Drug Store Look at my new Black silks. J- V. W. Kirk. Slates and Book Satchels at Kannal’s, The Ladies Literary will be held at the Misses Smith’s on Saturday Nov. 4th 1882. School Books for town and country schools at F. B. Learning’s —Thar’s old stand. If you don’t believe that Mrs. S E. LaKue makes the nobby dressescall and see for your self. Lamps and Lanterns Cheap at F. B. Learning’s Drug and Book store. Leopold has a fine assortment of Children's Cloaks, and they are Cheap, you bet. If you want a dress made in the latest style don’t forget the place. Mrs. fc>. E. Laltue, Good Concord Grapevines;— for sale at the Thomas xVloimett furm, one mile north ol lieusseluer. « Mrs. E. P. Honan went to Chicago this morning to purchase a winter btock of millinery gouts. • Another handsome lot received during tne present week, coiieDAiug Ot ClOUKfc dUCAeIS, UniUlUAla, uurtouts ut A. Leopoiu a ar, Ladles call .and eAamme Dox-n’e you purchase. If you wish to see the ui.esfc stock of clothing ever oiiercd in Rensselaer, and at pricea m.. > ..re lower lnan luA lowesi, ua.i at Leopold s great La/iaur. . rge us-iuidneni m l 1 Ui'niouiag ~m. Boarders Wanted, oy u. ...y, or by tne wee*, or transient,. pply to Mrs. L. ii. Ciosti at a. . osnlence on Van ItensbeAuer .-n ot. Her old place. Dress Making:—Mrs. Lillie Hausinau has returned from Momeuce 111., where hits Ueenehg. ged at dressmaking, she now tiw romus with Mrs. Tharp, on Front St. where sho would be pleased to see her old customers, au.\ till others wL lii-g work done in her line.