Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1883 — The Comity Commissioners. [ARTICLE]

The Comity Commissioners.

The Circuit Court will not be in eeseion next week. The Dakota capital was located at Bismarck, on the Northern Pacific road, last Saturday. The members of the canital commission were unanimously in favor of that town. The large, or Hippodrome tent ■of Barn urn’s Circus, was burned Monday night in Chicago. None of the animals were injured, and the show goes on without any inteiruption. A copy of certain resolutions adopted by the County Board of Education were handed to us yesterday afternoon, but too late for publication this week. We shall insert them in our next issue with a good deal of pleasure.

The public debt statement for May shows a reduction for the month of $4,890, 470. The sum total of the ing is $1,876,210,421. total debt less cash in the Treasury: $1,569,189.408. Total Debt bearing interest $1,338,229,050. We moss-backed Hoosiers who have never been any place or seen anything, ought to" “brace ourslv -s' tip and have, some style about us ’ and go with the cheap excursion next Saturday, to see the big elephant, and the Railway Exposition. What’s in a name? Tile new post-office of Opal, in Walker tp., has gone glimmering dispite the possession of a perfect jewel of a name. The P. M. has sent his key back t) the department, the mail matter for Opal goes to Wheatfield, and Opal is among the dreams of things which were. Another Fine at Kextland. — A fire at Kentland, Sunday night, destroyed the barn and contents, including a fine team of horses, of Jas. T. Sannderson, the attorney. The roof of the M. E. Church building at one time took fire, but the building was finally saved. The value of Mr. Saunderson’s barn and contents is estimated at about $75 te,— r -

Tke New Town.— De Motte, tlio now town in the northern part of Keener township, is likely to'experience -a good deal of a boom pretty soon. It already lias several stores and shops, and a postoffice; and as the 1., 1., & 1., railroad has located its station there, there is no good reason why it ehonid not soon grow into a pvdsi ous village. Success to BeJ.UG k LO • Two years ago, upon the occasion of Mr. Nowels’ re-election to the office of county superintendent, this paper expressed the opinion .that Mr. Nowels would continue to be, as ho had been, a good and efficient superintendent. . We believe that his official course, since that time, lias fully justified our favorable opinion and that lie lias made an able, conscientious, public officer:

The commissioners simply met and organized their court Monday afterhonn, and at once adjourned to meet as past of the Board of Equalization. Their duties as members of the tatter kept them occupied until Tuesday fore- ' noon. On Tuesday afternoon the application of Thomas Harris, of Remington, for a license to keep a saloon was taken up. David Nelson appeared as a remonstrant against the granting of the license, by F. W. Babcock, his attorney. M. F. Chilcote being attorney for the applicant. The Chief point sought to be established by the remonstrant was that Harris employed a habitual drunkard as a bar keeper. The hearing of the case occupied all Tuesday afternoon, ahd an hour or two Wednesday mofntofg. At the conclusion of cotinsels’ the Com. mission era announced that the case would be taken under advisettbni uut»l this, (Thursday) morning*;