Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1883 — Page 4

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What’sthe matter with our Town Council that they permit so many pitfalls, and mantraps, step-ups, and tumble-downs and leg breaking im perfections of all kinds, to exist in the side-walks of the town? Are they in “cahoots” with the doctors and wish to furnish them with lots of broken bones, or have they a contract with the devil for a big supply of profanity?

A Disgraceful Performance took place at the Fair Grounds last Sunday, m the shape of a game of base ball, between a couple of picked nines. Two or three kegs of beer, it is stated, figured among the prominent features of the occasion. The people and the press of this place have been called upon many times to encourage base ball playing here, and have always generously responded. It will be but a poor return for their kindness, if the good name of our town is to be disgraced, and the morals of our boys be depraved by such practices as that above spoken of. We have not heard that any member of the Comets’ Club took part in the shameful proceedings of Sunday, and hope and believe that none of them did. They owe it as a duty, however, to the people of this place to exert themselves in preventing a repetition of last Sunday’s drunken desecrations.

Our Town Dads are somewhat prone to hide their lights under a bushel, (or, if they prefer, we will make the measure a bushel and a half, or even two bushels, there being nothing small about us,-except our receipts from de* linquent subscribers), and when they pass an order, or an ordinance, usually allow the people to remain ignorant of its provisions or find them out in the best way they can. They have economical propensities, too, and will rather pay the . town Marshal three days wages for giving the people notice of their orders, than to squander a couple of dollars upon either of the newspapers of the town for doing the same work, twice as effectually. These retiarks are suggested by the fact that The Republican made a standing offer, long ago, to publish all the ordinances of the Town Board for two dollars each. ’ A sum which would little more than pay our printers’ wages while setting up and distributing the. type; but two dollars looks like a large sum to pay to an editor, and, as before remarked, the board allows the people to find out what they do, if they can, or remain ig. norant, if they must.

Manly Rebel and Unmanly Copperhead.

Henry Watterson, editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, perhaps the most influential democratic paper published, was a native of the South. He sympathized with secession ideas, and went into the Confederate army and fought brffcely against the Union c§,nse. The editor of the Democratic Sentinel remained at home during the war, and inflicted cowardly blows Upon the same cause from the safe seclusion of his newspaper office. The war is long since over. Watterson accepts its results in good faith. He acknowledges the valor and the virtues of his conquerors, and knows that the world moves. Couqare his frank and

manly .utterances in regard to President Arthur, in a late number of the Courier-Journal, with the mean, fajse and malicious flings in the last two numbers of the Democratic Sentinel. We quote from the Courier*Journal: - /TiiEre is a popular impression that we have in the White House a thorough American and a thorough gentleman. Whatever differences of opinion we may have with the. party leader upon questions of policy, we believe Mr. Arthur to be an honest man, who fills the presidential office in a manner to make us proud of him, both as the chief of the State and as a fellow-citizen. It is more than likely that our paths of political interest and duty will diveige hence to come together next year in close and sharp antagonism, for there are many likelihoods that he will bethe nominee of his party to succeed himself in the great place to which he was called by the providence of God. If so, neither withdftwing or qualifying any part of our present good opinion, we shall oppose his election, precisely as we should oppose that of any member of"a party which, to say the best for it, has been over lon<f in power. In the meantime, however, letuseat, drink andbe merry.’

A Sad Death.

Mrs. Harriet E. Rhoades, wife of Mr. M. D. Rhoades, died at her residence on Front street, in Rensselaer, on Monday morning, August, 6th, 1883. The cause of her death was typhoid fever, from which she had been sick for a period of eighteen days. Mrs. Rhoades, maiden name was Hutson. She was born in the state of Maryland, on May 22, 1849, and thus dies at the early age of 34 years and a few months. She lived in Rensselaer nearly all her life, and having been left an orphan at an early age she was adopted and raised by her grandfather, William Freeman, a man whom all the old residents of Rensselaer still hold in pleasant remembrance. Her marriage to Marshall D. Rhoades took place Oct., 19th, 1865. Her death is peculiarly sad in that a family of four young children, the youngest of whom is but three years old, suffer the calamity of losing, in their tender years, the priceless blessing of a devoted mothers’s care. The funeral took place from her late residence, in the presence of a very large concourse of friends, and was conducted by Elder D. T. Halstead of the Christian church.

FROM HANGING GROVE.

Health generally good, with the exception of Mrs. John Randle, who is on the sick list this week. Farmers are all very busy harvesting just now, as they have an extraordinary oats crop this year. They have a very goed crop of hay, also, but the wheat’ is making a very poor yield cf very bad wheat. It is reported that Mr. Will McConehay feels proud over another fine boy. Mr. Austin Moore, of this township, is learning to talk English, while Mr. J. P. Gwinn, of Pleasant Ridge, is learning to talk Wright. Mr. Charles Peregrine has just returned from Valparaiso, and Miss Ida Gray from Danville, where they have been attending school. Mt Isaac Iven and daughter, of LaPorte, are the guests of Mr. Samuel Parker’s family. Mr. John B. Leffler and Mr. Fred Rischling are at work on the new school bouse, which is to be a nice one. Mr Eli Wood is putting'up a new dwell .ng house.

WALKER ITEMS.

—» — Weather is favorable for haying and corn growing, which is very much appreciated by the fanners. Isaac Clayton and wife have lately made their home in Barkley township. Owing to the rapid settlement of the country, some of our farmers are obliged t > rent blowing ground, which was formerly uut on u>e commons. Miss Amelia Bouk is attending the Normal in Gillam township. Rev. T. R, Falkner preached at the Hershman school house last Sunday at 10 oc.uck a. in; Miss Ollie Zick is working with her sister in Rensselaer. Horse shoe;

President Arthur.

President Arthur and his party passed over the L., N-A. & C. railroad, the “Monon Route,” in a special train last Thursday, \ The train was said to have been the finest ever put together in this country. It consisted of a Bogers engine, profusly ornamented with flowers and patriotic emblems, a combination caY, a dining car, and two parlor cars. The most conspicuous ornament upon the engine was an immense .floral horseshoe, surmounted by a splendid picture of the president, also framed in flowers. The dining car took the first premium at the Chicago exposition, and this was its first trip. One of the parlor cars was Mr. Pullman’s private car, the other • the private car of President Young of the L., N-A. &C.

It having been decided that the president’s train would make a stop of some length of time at Monon, excursion trains were run to that point from Michigan City, from Indianapolis, and from Lowell. About 125 persons from Rensselaer took passage upon the Lowell excursion train, which consisted of extra cars attached to the regular 11 o’clock a. m. passenger. The ciowd gathered at Monon, was pronounced by the Metropolitan press reporters, on board the train, to have been the largest assemblage that greeted the presi-, dent along the whole route, their number being estimated at two or three thousand people. The train arrived at Monon at 4:30 p. m., and remained about 15 minutes. The president, Secretaries Folger and. Lincoln, Postmaster General Gresham and Lieut. Gov. Hanna came out upon the rear platform of the last car, and after a few pleasant words from each, the president devoted himself to shaking hands and exchanging pleasant words of greeting with as many members of the waiting crowd as get near him while the train remained. “The president’s personal appearance is very much in his favor and the current pictures of him do not do him justice. He is a magnificent specimen of physical manhood, and his manners and conversation are those of a polished and dignified gentleman.”

The remains of Samuel Hurst were deposited in the cemetery last Thursday evening, attended by the fnends and acquaintances of the deceased. Young Hurst was a man of more than ordinary intelligence and ability, and was loved and respected by those who knew him. He leaves a widowed mother, who resides at Fort Scott. The young man, we are informed, had just proved up his' land, and was on nis way to Indiana to accept a situation in the auditor’s office in the county where he came from. —“Kingman Citizen.” The Town Council. —The Board of Town trustees held their regular meeting last Monday evening. A number of claims against the town were considered and disposed of, and the Marshal was directed, in an informal manner, to suppress the practice of ball playing upon the streets and to enforce the statute against property owners allowing weeds and grass to grow along the side-walks fronting their propertyt or allowing the limbs of shade trees to overhang them to the detriment of passers-by.

Our young friend, David W. Shields, the same being a white male inhabitant of the State of Indiana, and of the county of Jasper, not heretofore aforesaid, is whiling away the summer in studying law in the office of M. F. Chilcote; and whereas, if the said Shields moistens and macerates the dry dustiness of the law, aforesaid, with an occasional chapter from one of the many excellent novels which fill the shelves of the Iroquois though the indulgence be not strictly in accordance with any known statutes of the Commonwealth of Indiana, in such cases made and provided—well we don’t suppose that anybody Will understand just what we are trying to get at in this article,-but that’s a peculiarity of legal documents, generally. A big ditching outfit, loaded upon three wagons, and drawn by eleven yoke of oxen, passed southward through town yesterday after* neon.

UNCLE BEN.

NOTICE -- Having turned over oar stock ; of hardware to ' Nathan V. Cleaver And added thereto a large assort- • ment of all kind of goods usually kept in a first-class HARDWARE STORE. We ask for him a liberal share of the trade. Mr. CleavEr makes his home here, and we <ire satisfied he will, by honest dealing, merit your continued patronage. • All goods will be sold on a small margin of profit, and priced to customers on the LOWEST CASH BASIS. Givs him a call before purchasing. ( MARION L. SPITLER, 1 THOMPSON & BRO. We come to Rensselaer to Sell Hardware, And can assure the people of Jasper and Newton counties that the stock offered for sale by us, was, and will be, puYchas* ed at " BOTTOM BBT CBS. We are thus enabled to offer to customers superior bargains in all kinds of goods usually kept in stock. We keep in our service an honest and skillful Tinner, and are prepared to do all work in that line promptly and on SATISFACTORY TERMS. Call and see us, in Nowels House Block. NATHAN V. CLEAVER.

z Sheriff s Sale. BY virtue of a certified copy of a decree, to me directed, from the clerk of the Jasper Circuit court, in a cause wherein Samuel J. Wirick and George W. Cook are plaintiffs, and Olinthas V. Walters* Euphie Walters and Sechler & Co , (An incorporated company of which David M. Sechler is president and Thomas M. Sechler Is secretary ) are defendants, requiring me to make the sum of Seven hundred and Thirty-eight dollars and Fortyseven cents. ($738.47) together with interest and costs, I will expose at public sale, for cash in hand, on Saturday August 18th 1883, between the hours of 10 o’clock a. m., and 4 o’clock p. m.,of said day, at the door of the Court House, in the town of Rensselaer, Jasper county, Indiana, the rents and profits, for a term not exceeding seven years, the following described Real estate to-wit: The South-west quarter (14) of the North-east quarter ( z q). and the'North-west quarter (>4) of the South-east quarter (X) of Section Fourteen (14) Township Twenty-eight (28)North, Range Six (6) West. Jasper county. Indiana. And should such rents and profits not sell for a sufficient sum to discharge said decree, interest and costs, I will, at the same time and place, expose to sale the fee simple of said Beal Estate, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to discharge said decree, interest and costs. Said sale will be made with relief from valuation ano appraisement laws and in accordance with the order of court in said decree. JOHN W. POWELL, Sheriff Jasper county. Thompson & Hro, Attys JorpVtff. July 26, Aug. 2-9-16,

APPLICATION FOR LICENSE NOTICE is hereby given to the citizens of the town of Rensselaer, and Marion township, in Jasper county. and State of Indiana, that the undersigned, a male inhabitant of said Township, County and State aforesaid, over the age of twenty-one years, not in the habit Of becoming intoxicated, and a fit person to be entrusted with the sale of intoxicating liquors, will apply to to the Board of Commissioners of Jasper county, in the State of Indiana at their regular September Session, A. D. 1883, for a license to sell spirituous, vinous, malt and all other intoxicating liquors, in a less quantity than a quart at a time, with the privilege of allowing the same to be drank on the premises where sold. The precise location of the premises wherein said liquors are to be sold and drank is in tlie lower story of a two storv frame building fronting on Washington street in the town of Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, and situated upon the following described premises, to-wit: Commencing at the corner of lot nine (9) in block nine (9) att.ie corner of Washington and Van Rensselaer streets, in the town of Rensselaer, Jasper county, Indiana, running thence north 57 degrees 10 min’ East, parallel with Washington street, twenty-one i2l) feet; thence north 32 degrees 50 min. West, twenty-eight and one-half (28J4) feet; thence South 57 degrees 10 min. West, twenty-one (21) feet, to the easterly line of Van Renssselaer street; thence South 32 degrees 50 min. East, twenty-eight and one-half the place of beginning. Said premises being known and designated as t Saloon ami all on lot nine (9) block nine (») in the town of Rensselaer, County of Jasper and State of Indiana. Said license will be asked to be granted for a period ofoue year EUGENE O'NEILL. Rensselaer, Ind August 6, 1883.

Notice to Non-Resi-dents. fiTATEOF INDIANA,) Cause County of Jasper, ]**?«♦ No. 8089. Millard J. Sheridan. Lois Sheridan, Azuba Ann Dutton, William M. Richards. Richards, wife of said William M. Richards, Jacob Peitcher, James Coyert, Wilhelmina Stamp, Riley Stamp and Louisa Peitcher are hereby notified that David J. Thompson has tiled his complaint against them, in the Jasper Circuit Court, to foreclose a tax lien, and quiet the title to certain Reni Estate in said County, and that said cause will stand for trUl on the llrst day of the .next term of said Court, to be held at the Court House in Rensselaer, Indiana, commencing October 15th, 1883. e Witness my hand and the seal of said Court. CHARLESH. PRICE.CIerk, by James A. Burnham. Deputy. •.Thompton <<t Pro. Attynfor Plntff. Aug. 9-16 23.

IRA C. KELLEY DENTIST, Rensselaer. Indiana. Dr. Kelley has had thirty years’ experience in the practice of Dentistry, and refers to his numerous patrons as to the quality of work turned out, lie uses no “Granite Teeth’' nor any spurious and Worthless material. Special attention given to the preservation of the natural teeth and the natural and useful adjustment of artificial teeth. All operations warranted, and prices t» correspond with quality of work. Office over lines & Meyer’s drug store. Dealers in Agricultural Implements, BRICK and TILE. JUST RECEIVED: Glassware and Queensware, Which will be sold at prices that defy O oxxxx>etltioix Rensselaer Loan ? Insurance and Oollection Bureau. FARM LOAMS, • S3OO, to §IO.OOO, sto 10years* full term or partial payments, Low interest, and commission. Fire Insurance in Six Companies. Life and Accident Insurance in the old reliable Travelers, and Life. Policies written immediately on application. The Lowest Rates, and —perfect— Security. ■ —» ■ —* COLLECTIONS on all points in the U. S FRANK W. BABCOCK, Proprietor, Wifi. W. Watsi&j Solicitor,