Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1883 — Looks a little Snobbish. [ARTICLE]

Looks a little Snobbish.

Gougar Go Bragh—Th,e great case is ended and has resulted in a decisive victory for Mrs. Gougar. The jury in their verdict gave her SSOOO, damages. Lafayette Victorious.-A special from Lafayette in yesterday’s Inter-Ocean says that the directors of the L, N-A. & C. railroad, at their New York meeting, on Tuesday, decided to locate their shops at Lafayette, on condition of a slight change in her proposition. Observers of Celestial plenomena were favored with a rare and beautiful spectacle Monday evening. The new moon, presenting that peculiar appearance known as “the new moon in the old moon’s arms,” was in very close conjunction with the planet Saturn, the two Celestial wanders coming almost in apparent contact at one time.

We have received from the Interior Department, through request of Mr. DeMott©, (for which much thanks,)" a copy of a Compendium of the Tenth Census. We, were obliged to return to Washington a receipt for the same inclosed in a ready addressed envelope which bore this printed legend: THE HONORABLE, The Secretary of the Interior, Washington, D. C. • Now *we would rise to remark that we have no doubt but that the Secretary of the Interior is intirely deserving to be called Honorable, but at the same time we would t consider him in no wav less honorable, and a great deal less snobbish were he to eschew “The Honorable” on envelopes addressed to himself, by his own orders.

A' Beet hard to beat. —Last year J asper county got away with all her neighbors in everything she showed up with, the finest wheat, the tallest hay, the largest turnips, the longest bull snakes, the prettiest girls, the heaviest hogs, the champ-' ion base-ball muffers, &c. This year we enter the contest early, and shall stay right by it, till the end, and shy our castor into the ring in the form of a garden beet, brought to this office by Mr. Madison Makeever. It is twelve pounds long, and weighs eight inches; or is eight pounds long and weighs twelve inches, or an arrangement of weight and dimensions to some such effect as the above. We do not, nt this time, assert positively that the vegetable is wholly of the present season’s growth, but if the honcp of Old Jasper seems to require it, our devil will make affidavit to that effect next week. “None but the Brave.”—A good many of our readers will be interested in learning tile fate of the gay and gallant commander of t ie brave, but bloodless, band that put the play of “The Spy of Attn, ta” upon the boards at the Rensselaer Opera House last winter. The following marriage notice, clipped from the last issue of the “Winamac Republican,” needs no further explanation. We congratulate the Colonel and wish himself and bride much happiness. “Married. —On Sunday evening, April Ist, 1883,-at the residence of the brides parents in Winamac, by Lev. A. Lewis, Col. A. Newton Fi*LD, of Chicago, and Miss Tra- ( Baker, daughter of Mr. Heujy Baker. The bride and gfoom hft on $lO midnight train P.ankfort, this State, where they , reside lor the present. ”