Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1883 — PERSONAL AND OTHER MENTION. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND OTHER MENTION .

The Rev. A Taylor fe at Logansport this week, attending the meeting of the Presbytery. Miss Genie Osborne has gone to New Albany for a protracted visit with her sister, Mrs. A. W. Cole. Mr. F. L. Cotton informs ns that his wife and son, at Battle Creek, Mich., are improving in health considerably. The little boy' is now thought to be out of danger. Myrt Price started his car-load of stock and goods for Dakota last Saturday, in care of O. H. Reed. Frank Weathers took/ steerage passage in the same car.

Mrs. Rev. A. Taylor started last Tuesday on a visit to friends at Lancaster, Ohio. Mrs. Taylor is a delegate to the Ladies Missionary Convention to be held at Saratoga, N. Y., next June and will attend the convention in that capacity. The Right” Reverend Joseph Dwenger, bishop of JTort Wayne, intends going to Rome towards the last of April, to be gone several months. Mrs. W. J. Imes and her sister, Miss Amanda Parris, took the morning train'yesterday for Bridgewater, Dakota. They will remain during the intire summer if the climate proves beneficial to Mrs. Imes, in the hope of which the journey is made. .* The boys have organized a double nine base ball club, and intend to wreak vengeance before the season is over on some of the neighboring clubs which put it all over’em so bad last year. They intend to give a grand ball at the Opera House Friday evening of next week for the purpose of procuring uniforms for the club. The offices of both “The Newton County News,” and “The Peoples Press,” were burned at the Kentland fire last week. Whether the publication of either paper will be suspended for any length of tiffie, as a result,-we have not yet learned, but hope such will not be the case. Mr. M. L. Campbell, formerly senior partner in the firm of Campbell & Fafden, of Rensselaer, has formed a partnership with Albert Cobb, of Pine Village, and will epen an exclusive Boot and Shoe store in Oxford, in Benton county. Mr. Campbell is a good business man and of the strictest integrity. Socially, himself and family are most estimable. We regret to be obliged to chronicle their final departure from Rensselaer, but wish them well, wherever their lot may be.

It will be remembered that the car on which Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Spencer, formerly of Rensselaer, were taking their bridal tour last year was upset, and Mrs. Spencer thereby sustained injuries which, to a greater or Jess extent remain ■ permanent Mr. Spencer sued the Pan Handle railroad on whose line the accident occured, and et the first trial received a verdict of $2,000. A rehearing was granted to the/company‘ however, and at the second trial, which has just taken place, the damages were cut down to S9OO. • The Draining Association.— The pecuniary benefits Jasper county wou d derive from a thorough draining of her fertile but water burdened lands is simply incalculable. One absoluitly essew. tial step in securing such draining is the removal of the dam and the lowering of the rapids at Rensselaer. The healthfulness and also the attraefivness of Rensselaer would be much improved by the removal of the dam and the filling up of the raceway. Attend the meeting at the Court House Saturday afternoon and help to secure these desirable results.

Miss Carrie Funston has gone to Butler, Ma, to visit a sister. Little people at the homes of James Nelson. Charles Jb, Wren and Samuel Pass. ’ Mrs. Carrie Knight, and Miss Ida Gentry who have been visiting their cousin, Mrs. J. J. Waterbury, returned home to Frankfort this week. Mr.E. L. Clark, has accepted a situation in the employment of the Aetna Life Insurance company. He will look after the business of the company at Danville, this state,,we understand. * ■ "'■'‘it Wm. Yeoman of Newton township, while trying tq uncap a loaded shell, exploded it lacerating the fleshy part of his left hand. No bones were broken, but it will be several weeks before he can resume labor on the farm.

Miss Myra Price, who is now teaching school in Goodland went to Dakota during the spring vacation and located a quarter section of land and thereby tet an example which the Goodland Herald thinks might with advantage be imiatated by others of her sex and station.

Mr, Arthur A. Hargrave of Rockville, Ind., classmate of Mr. W. B. Austin, visited the latter last week. Mr. Hargrave is a capable member of the printing fraternity, and has made a contract with the Presbyterian Missionary Board to take charge of a printing establisment for them in Oroontz, Persia. He has engaged for a ten years term, and will start for the scene of his labors about the middle of May; I The Rensselaer Republican has a jury case on hand. That is a jury that could not agree upon a verdict against a proven thief. The jury is labled “d. f’s” or a portion of it The letters signify a© adjective, and according to the evidence in the case, the jury seems to be properly labled—“d. f’s.”—“ Kentland Gazette.” The president last week appointed Judge Walter Gresham, of New Albany, to the Postmaster Generalship. This is an honor to the state of Indiana, all the greater from the facts that the appointment was neither give for nor expected, and comes as a deserved recognation of great and unquestioned executive abilities and of unbending rectitude of character. The press of the country is unanimous in commending the appointment as one of the very best that could have been made. 7 . , A new cyclopedia man drops in on us about every week, but as we are already supplied with a satisfactory work of that character we are proof against their softly seductivb blandishments. They are usually very pleasant and intelligent gentleman, and in disseminating works like the standard cyclopedias among the people are really doing a good work for society. The agent of the American Cyclopedia recently informed us that, for a town of its size, Rensselaer possessed more cyclopedias than any other place he ever visited, a fact which he, very justly took as a good proof of the intellectual character of our people.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin drew an immense audience at the Opera; JHouse last night. The performance was fairly well received, although in our opinion, it was altogether too farcical. Died -Blackford Hurley of Barkley, to., whose dangerous illness has oeen mentioned several time® in this paper, died last evening at eight o’clock. He was one, of our oldest settlers, having lived in the country for forty years. He had reached the age of nearly eighty years at the time of his death.