Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1884 — M. E CHURCH NOTES. [ARTICLE]

M. E CHURCH NOTES.

A number of investing let* tew from correspondents ere left out this week, for wai& of time to put them in type. JL splendid monument to Indiana’s •greatest Statesman, O. P. Morton, was unveiled in Circle Park, Indianapolis, Tuesday with appropriate 'eei’feinohies. A Hook and Ladder Company; that’s the idea. It won’t cost very much and will be a long ways ahead of no protection or organanization when the inevitable fire breaks out. “An Observer,” in Kankakee township, is requested to Bend the “essential particulars” of his or her respected cognomen. It is Against all rule of newspaperdem to publish anonymous communications. Esau sold his birthright for a mess of pottage. The democratic party is the political Esau of this country and the last hard bargain they made was when the Ohio Democrats bartered away the prestige of their past victory, at the last election, and their chance lor the next by selling the United SHtes senatorship to the Standard Oil , Company, for a few measures of filthy hiere; ' ir - 1 * ' | The Delinquent list which appeal's in this issue of The Republican, must serve to excuse the somewhat belated appearance of the paper aud ,also some little diminution in the customary amount of news and editor ial matter. The list is not only unaually large this year, but recent changes |n the law haVe left the auditor but little time to prepare it for publication/ and for the printers to Jmt ft fii type. Another Railroad.— A circular letter from LaPorte states that a meeting is to be held at the Grand Pacific Hotel, in Chicago, on Jan., 22, to reorganize a Company to build a railroad and big ditch along the Kanka&ee river from South Bend to the 111. line near Momence. The dirt from the ditch to serve as the embankment for the railroad. The project looks feasible. The circular is signed by N. Gleason, E. H. Scott Win. Niles, W. B. Biddle, M. Nye, W. E. Pinney, and T. J. Wood. lie. Tribune,* of Oxford,- eays 111 at town is sure of the car works of Crawford’s new road the C. A G. S‘ and also of another railroad the M; I. St. L. which is to be j built during f the present year—perhaps. The Tribune intimates that Oxford will now “lay” for the court house. A town which for want of a few thousands of dollars, ■jrill allow an important railroad to pass wftfhfti a couftle of miles of its » *.» f 1 .4 coloration limits/ does not deserve to be the seat of justice for a great county and Fov lir would receive no more than her l ju«t deserts were the county seat to be removed back to Oxford.

Tie daily and nightly meetings still continue* The evening meetings are largely attended and are awakening a great deal of interest. It is probable they will result in increasing the membership of the church. The Ker. J. H. Claypool the presiding elder preached Monday evening to a good Congregation. • At the quarterly conference Tuesday fas taken the separating of from the athei nppointpentsSip the circuit, and. this tqwn ,a station by itself, ,1c lfi probable that this will be done