Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1883 — The Worlds Cyclopedia of Biography. [ARTICLE]

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v Jtote-the following article was intended for last week’s issue, but too late for insertion. Ed. Republican. Died —Sunday, Feb. 4th, 1883, at iierkome in Gillam, Miss Celia McCullough, aged 22 years, 11 months and 9 days, Once more the “Grim Monster” has visited our community, and taken from us a fair one. Once more \re have been called to surround the bier, and consign to ‘Mother Earth’ the remains of a loving sister, a j»entle schoolmate, an affectionate friend. It seems hard to have her taken from our midst, and just in the bloom of youth, but God knows best, and when he saw tit in his divine providence to take her, we feel it our duty to be resigned to his holy will. While we. miss her, sadly, and feel that our home, and society, will be very-lonely without her, we mourn not as those-who have , no hope; but live in expectation of one day (meeting her where sorrow and separation can never come. During her last illness, which lasted for seven weeks, she was very patient, and although .her sufferings were intense, she bore them without a murniur, and was perfectly resigned to the' will of the Lord. She put her whole trust in Jesus, and said he was with her, that without. him she. would be unable to bear her great afflictions. The funeral services took place Monday, Feb. sth, at 11 o’clock. There was a large attendance, considering the obstruction of the roads by the storm of Saturday. The services were conducted by the Rev. Geo, Guild, who gave a very appropriate discourse from a part of the ) 6th verse of the 7th chapter of Job: “I would not live alway.” y We feel that A loved one Lias gone from our circle; On earth we shall see her no more. She has gone to her home in Heaven, And nil her afflictions are o’er.

ANNA DESELMS.

Died;—Jan., 2lst 1883, at the residence of her parents in Keener tp., of measles, Nina Fairchild, aged 13 years and 27 days. We would say to our friends and acquaintances, that the other members of our family who. have been dangerously ill with the same disease are all convalescent. All spared to us but our Nina who, just when she had reached the place where • Standing with reluctant feet, Where the bffiofe and river meet. W r omanhood and girlhood fleet. The fell destroyer came, and in ten short days the busy brain and willing hands were stilled forever. And vve, her stricken parents, can only murmur low, “Thy will be done.” v ■ ' Elam and Effte Fairchild.

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selaer the foolish practice of sending pointless, so called comic, caricatures was indulged in to a considerable extent’ In the year 1882 the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago road handled 14,490 car-loads of Clay county coal. The heaviest business was done in December, they hauling out 1,530 car-loads-