Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1883 — FROM DEMOTTE. [ARTICLE]

FROM DEMOTTE.

The Republican is a good local paper, and we don’t cate who knows it. It is fuller this week than that gang of hoodlums were Monday night, after the - circus. And they were too full for any use. The Valparaiso Messenger has been enlarged to a seven column quarto, and the day of issue changed to Wednesday. The Messenger and its Republican contempo- j rary, the Porter County Vidette are txvo of the ablest and best county papers we ever saw. Judge William C. Talcott, the oldest and most respected newspa. per man in the State, has purchased the interest of his son, Mr Charles R. Talcott, in the‘Widette’. printing establishment. We wish Judge Talcott long life, good health, and prosperity in this world. “Valparaiso Messenger.” Republican Voters of Rensselaer should not neglect to attend the convention at the Court House Saturday evening. A corps of good corporation officers is a matter of importance to every citizen, and as the republican - nomination will be equivelent to an election, every good republican should feel in duty bound to turn out and help to nominate good men. Work on the new school house is going forward with a rush. Eight or ten biick-layers are at work, with a probability that the number will be increased soon. If the building, when completed, meets our expectations it will be a noble and beautiful structure, the pride and joy of Rensselaer.

Briefly stated, the modified propositions which Lafayette assented to in order to secure the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago R. R. Shops, are as follows: Four to seven acres more land, the land tn lie graded by the city, the donated money to be subject to no contingency, and the shops to be removable by the company after twenty-five years, from January 1, 1884. The shops will be twelve in number, all the principal ones, end will employ 490 men. The round house will be built this year, the others next year. BrnyrtoetWikm.’ w.B—MIJH '->m ~ Demon Engine or Demon Drink? —Switch engine No. 92, of the Wabash road, at Lafayette, according to the “Courier” of that city, numbers its slain victims by the score. On Wednesday afternoon of l istweek, with an interval of a few hours between the accidents, it killed two men: Clark 0. Moore, of _ West Point, Ind., and James O’Brien, a canvassmau with Van Amburg’s circus. Both men were drunk. Whiskey was the murderer, and “92” only the instrument.

The' last Legislature passed a law authorizing County Boards of commissioners to oiler a bounty of one or two dollars for hawk, owl or skunk scalps. Now so far as the Mephitis Americana, or skunk, as aforesaid, is concerned, he is clearly an individual in bad odor, literally and figuratively, and it would, perhaps, be a wise plan .for the Jasper county commissioners to offt.-r a bounty on their scalps, \vith the proviso that the person killing the skunk should undergo a thorough process of disinfection, before coming to town to claim the bounty. As for hawks and owls, however, v.e most consumedly doubt the wisdow of attempting their extermination. That they sometimes gobble a chicken or two from the j poultry yards fact to for denial, but * whether, on the I whole, their habits of destroying ■ the injurious vermin of the fields,' such as rats, mice, moles, insects j and the like, do not far more than j overbalance the damage they do in | the Len roosts, is a view of the cas-e v Lieb, to us at least, appears•' more L.an probable-:

A High Lonesome.— The presence of the circus was a suffi ient incentive for a number of the “hard bats” of the town and surrounding vicinity, to get on an extensive drunk Monday night. One of them whose name we refrain from mentioning on the strength of his promise to do better, in future while not being any drunker than a number of his companions, was somewhat more demonstrative than the others, and as a result was taken in charge by Deputy Sheriff Robinson. Tuesday morning, before Squire Wood, he | plead guilty to a plain drunk, and was fined one dollar and costs.

De Motte has a Rail Road at last; the first freight was put off there Monday, amid the acclamations of the people. Bronson Harrington’s saw-mill got on a “High-Lonesome” and blew up the other day, but no serious damage was done. The city had quite an interesting fire Sunday, it broke out in the rear of the livery stable, and destroyed several buildings. The principal loss was Ben. Dolson’s wagon shop and jack planes. Keener is having no summer schools. Measles are again raging. Cattle are doing well, and farmers are beginning to sow oats.

THOM B.