Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1883 — Church Notes. [ARTICLE]

Church Notes.

The time for the evening meetings at the M. E. Church has been changed to 7:30 o’clock, instead of 8. The Covenant Meeting of the Free Will baptists will be held at the Presbyterian church, next Saturday at 2:30 o’clock p. m. All are invited to attend. The Basket Meeting of the Protestant Methodists at Alter’s Mill, in Union tp., was well attended. The Rev. Callahan preached in the forenoon, and the Rev. Bloomer, in the evening. A considerable number of Rensselaer people attended the meeting. Preaching at the hf. E. Church next Sunday by the pastor, morning and evening. This will be the Rev. J. J, Claypool’s last Sunday in Rensselaer, should not the Conference. return him to this charge. Baptist Association.— There will be an association held by the old School Baptists, comprising the Point Creek association with Union church, 4 1-2 miles North of Rensselaer, commencing on August 24, and closing Sunday evening, the 26th, 1883. The place of meeting will be on Riley Nowel’s farm, about i mile north of his house in the grove selected for that purpose. To reach the grounds, parties will go in at the gates West or South of his house, so down past house and through the am yard, from which there is a lane landing direct to the grounds. Everybody is invited.

Messrs S. P. Thompson and A. McCoy, were out doing a little volunteer missionary work among the heathens of “South America” last Suuday, and thought it would be no harm, while they were in its vicinity, to examine the ditch Mr. Humpheys is making in the Big Slough. Mr. McCoy accordingly drove his ponies into the ditch with the intention of driving along the channel for some distance. The water soon becoming deep, and the carriage swinging about in a threatning manner. Mr. Thompson thought it advisable to lighten the cargo, and instead of throwing Mr. McCoy overboard, which, seemingly, would have been his most rational course in the emergency, he jumped out himself and found ground at the bottom of four feet of water. He is well satisfied with his examination of the ditch, and thinks the water therein is a little the wettest of any in the county, and especially well adapted for baptismal purposes.

Houses Heard From.—Several weeks ago the Republican published an account of the stealing of a number of horses from Mr. Sellick’s farm in Walker tp. On Tuesday last Sheriff Powell went up into Keener tp., and arrested James Lamb, charged with being implicated in the stealing. He was taken before Squire Wood, but waived examination, and liis bail was fixed at $600., in default of which lio was sent to jail. Tho Sheriff had a little Lamb, Who could not furnish bail. He therefore took that bad, bold man, And locked him in the jail. The horses have been heard from in Illinois, add measures will be taken for their recovery. Dreadful Depravity:—James Kirkpatrick, a wealthy and prominent farmer, living near Delphi, lias just been arrested and plaoed under S3,OQP bonds for a rape committed upon a Miss Mullendore four years ago, when she was but twelve years old. She has kept the affair sildnt, through fear, but she is now dying - from the effects of her injuries. Kirkpatrick is fifty yeai*s old. ,