Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1883 — President Arthur. [ARTICLE]

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.