Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1883 — The County cominissioners. [ARTICLE]

The County cominissioners.

The county commissioners comtheir work Saturday and --adjourned. Aside -from the coasidcration- of liconso- applications, with results already mentioned, die session was devoted mrd.Jy to the adjustment of claims against.mu ty. sad -to roavi and-bridge business, !'.f no p uticuiar general interest. Tli© contracts, for supplying The Court house and poor farm .with coal for the ensuing winter wt re awarded to J. £■, Porter and 3). C. Nowels. Rortor to furnish tha “nut” coal at 88,20, swul Nowels to furnish the “egg” coal at 88,10; botii kinds to be deliyefecl wlibre needed. The bounty on wolf scalps, of wolves ihore tlini? six months old, was increased to ten dollars. On wolves less than six months old the bounty still remains at B>, the largest sum which the law permits to be offered on young wofoes. Tlie list of allowances made forms us, be ready for publication this wee!:. Tlaui) ox i Telex. — According to a correspondent in the North duflson Cyclone, Judge Gould, of Delphi, who tried the Cougar-Mand-ler case, recently stated, in an interview at Kucn:, that the best doors in Lafayette were closed against Mrs. < bniear: and that the strongest _ evidence against her came from the pastor and members of her own church, Who all leetiiied that her reputation for edmstity. was b;ul, ami that tlie blear-eyed. bur.uneVs of Lafayette were her best witnesses. , The Judge scouts the idea that there was -a conspiracy against Mrs. Cougar, among the whisky men of Lafayette, ■. n account, of her prohibition principles; and says that Harry 31 am tier is a good fellow, who stands well in the community, and, its the judge thinks, was honest in his opinion. that Helen was guilty, of tho charge he matte Against her. The Rev. and Mrs. -J. J. Claypool took their-’ final departure l from Rensselaer, for Morion, Putnnan county, last-Friday, greatly to tJie regret of the very- many friends whom their amiable andgfeifial qualities have bound to theifi by powerful ties. As for the character of Mr. Clnypool’s mmisterial work, in Rensselaer circuit, it is not too much so say that, taken in all its results, it is, by far, the most successful of any, for many years.