Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1883 — Licened to Wed. [ARTICLE]

Licened to Wed.

The Swedish Lady 'Quartette and Mis 3 Eda Eliel, at the Opera Hcfase next Tuesday evening. Dr. O. C. Link returned from Dakota Wednesday. morning. He found his land claim all right, and left the territory in company with the worst blizzard of the winter. Mr. Coke Henkle, originally a Jasper county boy, but now of Kingman, Kansas, who has been visiting his friends in this vicinity for . several weeks past started for his western homo last evening.

The Clerk’s Record shows .hat marriage licenses have been issued to the following couples since our last report: Geo. Meadows, Amzi Pillars; •Firman B. Learning, Marian E. Spitler; Christian Kopka, Caroline Keller; Eli Critser, Elizabeth Groom; Jasper B. Kavenscroft, Maggie R. Harris; Clias. A. Edmonds, Myrtie A. Williams; Frank Yeoman, Maggie Parkison; Geo. Shipman, Angalia Holycross; Benjamin F. Fisher, Mary 0. Nichols The North American Review for March opens With an article on “Money in Elections”, by Henry George, who brings to the discussion of that hackneyed subject a contribution full of originality, freshness and keen insight; he points out with admirable clearness one source of our political ills, and proposes remedy that seems both eminently practicable and efficient. Robert'S. Taylor writes of the “Subjugation of the Mississippi”, a work which, in his opinion, and in that of the Mississippi Commission,of which he is a member, can be accomplished only by employing for the purpose of deepening and straightening the channel, the forces developed by the river itself. Moncure D. Conway contributes a very striking study of Gladstone as a man and a statesman, showing now even the more or less sinister moral and intellectual traits of his nature, quite as much as his preeminent native force and elevation of character, conspire to make him the foremost Englishmen of his time. Hon. George W. Julian's “Railway Influence in the Land Office’’ is a grave, judicial exposureof the practices which, against the manifest intent of the law and the determinations of the highest courts, have won for corporations millions upon millious of acres of the public domain. Richard A. Proctor writes of the “Pyramid of Cheops”; Prof. Wm. G. Sumner of “Protective Taxes and Wages”; El- Wright of “Some Aspects of Life Insurance”; and finally, there is a symposium on' “Educational Needs”, by Prof. G. Stanley Hall, Prof. Felix Adler, President Thomas Hunter, and Dr. Mary Putman Jacobi. P üblished at 30 Lafayette Place, New York, and for sale by booksellers generally.