Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1883 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

The County commissioners are engaged mainly upon claims and road and bridge work,*Hipportgpf but not interesting. Mr. Bark's term having expired, Mr. Waymifh was elected president of the board. ■ Mr. and Mrs. Zirnri Dwiggins came tip from Oxford, yesterday, to visit frends and relatives. It being Mrs. Dwiggins’ birthday, a surprise party, in her honor, was given last evening at the pleasant home of F. J. Sears, across the river. The comet of 1812 is now visible to the naked eye as a faint nebulous speck in the northwest, in the six or eight degrees north from the bright star Vega, in the consellatiou Lyra. The comet will be at its brightest about Christmas, but is not likely to be of great size, or to possess a very long tail. A Suicide: —Just as we go to press, we learn that Cicero Tatman, a former well remembered lesident of Rensselaer, committed suicide, by shooting, pt his home in Nashville, 111., on the 23rd of November. Insanity resulting from a brain disease is understood to have been the cause...