Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1883 — Young Jasperites. [ARTICLE]

Young Jasperites.

The members of the United Brethren ehtlrch, in this vicinity, will hold a series of meetings at Brushwood school honse, beginning Friday evening June 8. A basket meeting on the following ■Sunday. The improvement of Rensselaer still goes on. Not indeed with the frenzied rush and roar of a Dakota boom, but surely and substantially. It maybe confidently asserted that the year 1883, in its net results, will accomplish as much for Rensselaer as any proceeding year. Joseph Guss, who lives one mile north-east of town, says his honse was broken into, and robbed of a coat, flour, sugar, coffee and other articles to the value of several dollars. Numerous cases of sneak stealing are reported in the northern part pf Marion township, the farmers h&ve lost corn, oats, flour, &c. A good dog and a well loaded shot gun might get away with such night prowlers, and Save the county the expense of trying such fellows when they are caught stealing. The June number of the North American Review opens with an article by Joseph Nimmo, Jr., Chiet of the Treasury Bureau of Statistics, on “American Manufacturing Interests,” in which is given a singularly full and instructive historical sketch of the rise and progress of manufactures iu the United Stateg, together with a very effective presentation of their present condition, and of the agency of tariff legislation in promoting diversified industries and encouraging' the inventive genuis of the people. Should this author’s advocacy of protective legislation prove distasteful, the reader finds the needed corrective in an article by the Hon. Wm. M. Springer, on “Incidental Taxation,” which is an argument for Free Trade. D. C. Gilman, President of Johns Hopkins University, writes of the “Present Aspects of College Training,” as affected by the increase es wealth and luxury, the development of natural science, and the influence of a, larger religious liberty. Edward Self presents some' weighty considerations on the “Abuse of Citizenship,” as exhibited in the machinations of the dynamitists against a friendly power, in disregard of the obligations of American neutrality. Prof. Isaac L. Rice criticises some of “Herbert Spencer’s Facts and Inferences” in social and political science, and Christine Nilsson contributes “A Few Words about Public Singing”. Einally, there is a symposium on “The Moral influence of the Drama,” the participants being, on one side, the Rev. Dr. J. M. Buckley, well Known as an opponent of the stage, and on the other, John Gilbert, the actor; A. M. Palmer, theatrical manager; and William Winter, dramatic critic. 50 cents a number; i?o a year. Published at 30 Lafayette Place, N. Y.

County Superintendent Novels, has kindly furnished to The Republican a copy of his report, to the State Superintendent, of the enumeration of persons between the ages of six and twenty one, for the year ending April 30, 1883. The report shows a grand total of such persons, in the county, of 3519; of these 1794 are males, and 1725 are females. Given by townships and incorporated towns, the ligures are as follows 1 : Barkley, males 178, females 165, total 343. Carpenter, males 172, females 168, total 340. Gillam. males 133, famales 130, total *263. Hanging Grove, males 72, females 65, total 137. • . Jordan, males 121, females 105, total 217. i Keener, males 73, females 60 total 133. > ' Kankakee, males 47, females 49, toatl 96. Milroy, males 53, females 50, total 103. * Marion, males 181, females, 186, total 367. Union, ’ males 126, females 94, total 220. Newton, males 109, females 104, total 213. Walker, males 125, females 94, total 219. Wheatfield, males 56, females 52, total 108. Rensselaer, males 238, females 235, total 473. Remington, males 119, females .18, total 287.

In accordance with the common custom of the country, Sanford Dorsey visited his sweetheart Sunday afternoon. Said sweetheart presides tover the dishrag department in the house of Mr. A. 'Bhompson. John L. Towne, an aged Teuton, does the out-of-door chores at the same place. The green eyed demon of Jealousy, it is whispered, gnaws daily at the liver or other vital organs of the aforesaid Towne. At any rate he objected strenously to the visits of Dorsey, above mentioned, and last Sunday ordered him to leave the house. Dorsey did not seem disposed to comply with the order, and Townegassaulted him with an open pocket knife. Dorsey proved too many for the old man, and gave him a pietty thorough drubbing. On Monday Towne was taken before Squire Wood, and fined five dollars and costs, on the charge of assault with deadly weapon.