Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1884 — Page 1

THE RENSSELAER REPUBLICAN.

VOL. XVI.

TIIE REPUBLICAN. IfcStJED KVKBY THURSDAY BY CS-EO. E. PUBI.ISHKR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE Up stairs above Hemphill & Honan'h, opposite Emmet Kannul's drug Store. Terms of Subscription; -Oheyesr.-. ’ .81 60 fix months 75 Three months 50 'The Official Paper of Jasper Coiinty.

PKOFESSIONA'L CARDS. PHYSICIANS. XeW. HARTSELL M. HOMEOPATHIC .I’liysiciaaa. axiA Stxrgfeoxi, Rensselaer : .Indiana. Diseases a Specialty Oilice East Washington Street. 3-Jau-84. Resilience, Alakeever House. T\R, I. . B. W ASHBUFN, and SURGEON, Rensselaer, Indiana. Gives special attention to Diseases of Women aril ( hihlren ahiTClironic Diseases. • Remembercalls arc promptly attended when not professionally engaged. ATTORNEYS. Simon P. Thompson, DavidJ. Tho pson , Attorney at LatA. Notary Public. THOMPSON & BRO.. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Rensselaer, Ind. Practice in all tne courts. We pay pnrtieul attention to paying taxes, sei ling and leasing lands. M. L. SPITLER Collector and Abstractor JAMES IV. DOUTHIT ATTORNEY AT LAW, Rensselaer. - - M«“011ice up stairs in Makeever’s new brick building, three doors 'cast of XV-40. . . • |_|ARP®R W. SNYDER. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Remington; Ind. Practice in the courts of Jasper, Newton and Renton counties. [? RAN K W. BA B C OCR, ATTORNEY- AT LAW, And- Real Estate Eroker. Hico next door to Postollieu. Practices in the courts of Jasper. Newton and Ben ton counties. Lands examined, abstracts of titles prepared, taxes paid, and collections made. y-ORDECAI F. CHILCOTE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Rensselaer, livl. . trends to all business in tlisi .profession with promptness and dispatch. Office in second story of the Makeover building. R.S. DwnmiNs. Ztmki DwrboiNS. S. <2e JZAttorneys it Law, Rensselaer. -------- Indiana. Special attention given to collecting, and ptaeticein Com tv Commissioners’ and Jnetice < ourfa. Practice under the new LTti'liing l aw. a specialty; ■j,, , .. . , MISCEDI -AN EOUS. Alfred McCoy. Thomas Thoxcson Banking house of a. McGOY .ft t, THOM I’S'ON,(successors to A. MeCoy & Thompson, Bankers), Rensselaer, Ind. Do.a general banking business. Buy and sell ex change. CoTlections made on all available points. Money loaned. Interest paid on specified time deposits, etc. At tiie same place as tile old firm of A. McCoy & Thompson. It. 8. Dwicgins, Pres’t. Z- Dwigoino,Cashier. CITIZENS’ BANK, RENSSELAER, INDIA NA. ‘ Does a general bankmgbusfness : gives snecia attention to collections; remittances ‘made on • lay of payment at current rate of exchange ; interest paid on balances: ttertiticates bearing interest issued ; exchange bought and sold. Vollmacdten angefertigt. Kebschaften.ShuWforderungen u. d. gl. in Deutechlands, Oester-St-weiz. Weceset An die beileatesten Bankgescliaefte in alien Saedten Europa’s augesteilt Billetten von undiiaeh Etirpna ueber die Dampfsdyff Li'nien zu verkaulen; John Makeever, J ay W. Williams, I'reshlcul. „ Cashier -pARMERS’ BANK, jL Opposite Public Square - I: ESSttE I. A ER 7NP/AA r A Receives Deposits. Bu? and sell Exchange. I Collectionsniade and promptly remitted.” Money Loaned, ami does a general ... • Banking Business. X \ .48-y. ■ \ I’ It A C. KELLEY DENTIST, _ Rensselaer. Indiana. . Dr. Kelley has,hail thirty years’ experiortee hl the practice of Dentistry, and refers to his limner ous patrons as to the duality of work turned out. lie uses no ’‘Granite Teeth- nor any spurious and worthless material. Special- attention given to the preservation of the natural teeth ar.l tiie natural ami useful adjustment of artificial teeth. AHoperations warranted.and prices t« correspond with quality of work-. Office over Leopold’s new store., <£&♦ la. WILLIS, GUN arid LOCKSMITH (Shop on Riverbank, south of School House, RoNssklaer. Indiana. Al: kinds of Iron and Wood turning; mid fine '•York in iron, s-tee! and Brass, bn short notice, and at rpasonabterates. Give me a mill. Tlxe ITi-rr MiIWM BB Rensselaer, Iyf>. 3FUST OPENED. Newly furnished' By Cool and pleasant'rooms. <TableLtePlktd with the best the market affords. ; 9octl Sample Rooms ou first floor. Free Bis to and from Depot 1 , PHILIP BLUE, X\ -jty-tf. Proprietor.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, THURSDAY, APRIL 3,188 L

COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE.

KEESEB ITEMS. Plenty of water in the marshes. The sand is better than the mud, this time of the year. is not good this spring. Guess game’s one north. De Motto is to havea “G. A. R.” Post. They have received their charter, arid R. W'. Marshall, Commander of Rose Lawn Post, has redbitod orders to muster them, which he will do in good style. Dr. Robbins reports considerable sickness through the northern part of the county, say he is.on the go all the time. '« Not niuch interest is manifested in the spring election, only for trustee: the offices of lust ices, Constables, etc., are below par in this section. Joe Fairchild, Fred Schwankie and Ralph Bongart, are the candidates for trustee, all good men; good judges think Schwankie is ahead. . Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Francis, of La Porte, Ind., have returned home after a week’s visit with the family of their son-in-law, R. W. Marshall, of Keener township. , TromgillaA. Spring hns come, and with it plenty of mud. The farmers are busy repairing fences burning brush, etc. Duek-s and geese are plenty, the hunters are busily engaged. A load of disrespectful men passed the Chapel, fast Sabbnth, with their boat, guns, tents, &c. We presume they were imigrating to mardi where they expect to have a jubilee. Such persons are a disgrace to a community, and we are glad to say that “They do not belong to Gillam.’’ Mr. Nelson, the conuty superintendent, paid the schools a visit-, last week. Quarterly meeting at the chapel Saturday and Sunday last. Services on Sunday were large.ly—attended: consider! ng the roads. Elder Claypool deiivorCid a very able discourse, which well entertained his audience. In qur last items, stating that. Mr. Roberts would set up a bine Ifgmifh’s shop at tne Falkner stand, we would just say; that he has changed his mind, and expects to rem.nin at Medaryville. A Mr. Black has moved in the house, but the “smith’’ and “shop” will come ujk minus. The schools'- of Gillam are nil filled at last. The folio wing teachers "are For Center. Miss Frta Massey; West VertiOß, Miss Ella Lang; Pleasant Ridge D. B Coppess. Institute at Independence, next Saturday ---BidS.---' UNION ITEMS. March has been unusually civil. The saw mill is in operation Satai. Fay has gone back to the Valparaiso Normal school. Mary Fay, Mrs. George Anderson. Mr. qnd Mrs. Michael are on the sick list. Ida Burgett, aged 17, died of consumption, on Saturday,—March 15. Amos -Alter has moved to his farm. He boards with his tenant, John Obenchain. Tom a.smile of pQde, as be ilraweth nigh to the cradle side, Jobnpy Hardesty has just returned from Lafayette,where be has been spending the winter. Our candidates for trustee are, Stephen Comer, Republican, and John Humfes, Democrat. Both good men, and the Contest will be close. J. E. and I. V. Alter are cutting the channel of the Iroquois riveri deeper, by mentis o£a sulkcy plow, drawn by the current. ,A diminutive cyclone passed through this vicinity, Tuesday, 25th, in the midst of a rain storm. The funnel form at the t»p, from which the vapor-like clouds rolled arid twisted like smoke, was connected to the earth by means of a long, twisted, ropelike co.umn of whirling vapor, very conspicuously outlined against the d<*rk back ground of storm cloud. The, view was grand, but the effect was different. Lrj-ge saplings were twisted together like riding whips, fences were moved and thrown flat, eyen the ground rails were carried some distance. No great damage was done, however. The snow fall. for the month of “March was 4 inches; rain fall 4} inches. .Coldest day, Tuesday, 4th,'B degrees; above zero; w armtsi <lay, Thursday, 27th, CU degrees above zero. Mean daily temperature for the ipou'b, 86 degrees above xero. Observations taken at sunrise. .Fiji. Bat. . _____ —— _ No ftTnity khou'ii be ■w thout Kellogg J t'alunibiiin Oil. as it.■te the best thing -on a burii in existence. It rec moves the lire instantly. at;d cures AU aches xod pains as if ?y Blatnc. —A; - 16-2y-t6,

NEWS AND PERSONALS.

Arbor Day has been postponed until the 14th. Mr. J. J>\ Hemphill started back to El Paso Tuesday night, going by way of Chicago. Mr. Daniel T. Sigler, a merchant of Hebron Ind., was in town. TueSday, on business. D. W. Will ey, old est son of J. H. Willey, .is suffering from severe attack of rheumatic fever. - Mrs. M., O. Cissel is staying with her mother; Mrs, Shields, for a few weeks, at Mexico, Miami county. Last Tuesday, being the first day of April, was All Fools’ Day, the only universal holiday in the calender. The Rev. B. F. Ferguson has bought, and on Monday moved into Miss. Nancy Reece’s house, on Diidsion street. Mr. Walter towel!, the prosecuting attorney of Tippecanoe county,—visited his cousin j Sheriff Powell, last week. Mrs. J. W. Powell is still very seriously sick, and her friends now entertain very grave apprehensions as to the result. A valuable pointer for the farmers: If any man attempts to sell'you any Kansas or Nebraska seed-coin, kick him on the—spot. Sickness of the rink manager, D. W. Willey, prevented the Opera house skating rink from being opened last Saturday night. Mrs. H’ E. James, with her two youngest sons, returned last Thursday from Lansing 111. where she had been the guest of her mother for three weeks. Generous Groom.—A happy bridegroom, in Rensselaer last 7 week, rewarded the officiating elder for his services with the munificent sum of fifty cents. The board of township Assessors met at the Auditor’s office last Thursday. The official report of their proceedings will be found in another part of this paper. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas McCoy, of Rensselaer, Sundayed with Mrs. McCoy’s parents, Major and Mrs. William Taylor, of the West Side. —[Lafayette Courier. . Reports as to the prospects of the wheat crop in the vicinity of Rensselaer continue favorbie in the main, although it is said to be a little thin, in spots, on some fields. The Rev. J. H. Claypool, presiding elder ot the Lafayette district, and family have taken up their residence m the elegant Ewry property on Chauncey bluffs, in Lafayette. • Mr John Groom, who has been liv iug in Texas for the past two years, started again fpr that state Monday evening, after a couple of mouth’s stay with his parents, in Barkley township. Mr. Elljs Walton returned on from a four weeks’ visit among his brothers and sisters and their families in bumner county, in Southern Kansas. Miss Maggie. Cowden, a former resident of Rensselaer, was married, at her father’s residence, in Michigan City, on Monday of last week, to Mr,. H. E. Brisbine, a young business man of Yankton, Dak. A fire in Remington last week burned the old Downing hay barn and an adjoining dwelling house, both the property of Mr. Alfred Thompson, of this place .The loss was nearly covered by insurance, we understand. The place for holding the Gospel Temperance meeting, of next Sunday evening, has been changed from the Opera House to the M. E. church. The programme for the meeting appeared m the “Temperance Colunin,” last week. Married. —At the residence of Mr. K. F. Priest, in Rensselaer, op Saturday March 26th,. 1884, Levi W. Masterson to Ida E. (Javinder, both of Jasjier County. Elder A. E. Pierson, of Union township, officiating. C. H. Price the circuit clerk, aud Samuel Caldwell, from near Mount Airy togeMier started a carload of household goods to Dakota, night, the car being ill vHnrge Or ivtT. -x Rittwrii. dIT. Price and family will start for the territory lytween the 10th and the 15th of this mbnth.

Don't burn your garden garbage after dark. The smoke of it hangeth low and stinketh loud, at that time of day. Licenses.—The month just closed was about the dullest on record for marriages licenses, in this county, only-two having been issued, viz.- ' Richard M. Halligan to Maggie Kelley. ■ ■“ —7* ■ ■ jLptd W. Masterson to Ida E. Cavinder. The so-called white elephant, just imported by that monumental old fraud P. T. Barnum, differs in nothing from an ordinary elephant except that he has a few pinkish or flesh colored spots upon, his forehead and some other parts of his body. Lafayette has a. Harry Mandler, a Helen Gougar, a Dr. Washtyurn, an artesian well that scents the air for miles around, a womans’ suffrage newspaper. a . tremepdous debt, and to add to its other dfficulties a home talent minstrel company has been organized. Lafayette will stand anything. —Crawfordsville Argus.- • Arbor Day.—Owing to the fact that the 11th of April,' the day regularly set apart for observance by the public schools of the state as Arbor Day, this, year happens to come on Good Friday, tiie state superintendent of public jnstr uc^ notice that, for this t ime » the 14th of instead of ie 11th will be observed for the purpose. A Veritable Cyclone.—Union township, on Windy Tuesday of last week, was visited by a genuine cyclone, with the regular double twisting, two headed, back acting accompaniments; for an ticcount of which see Bill Bat’s letter from Union. It was not such a very large cyclone, but whoever, in his senses, will find fault with it on that account? Its diminutive size was the only good thing about it. Item from Mount Airy, in Goodland Herald: “Messrs Willie Seagler& Wishard are very cozily nestled on the corner, promptly administering to their many calls.” Should any of our readers not know who Mr. Willie Seagler is, we don’t mind telling them that he is “two gentlemen in one” as Mrs. Malaprop says,, viz; Messrs Willey & Sigler, the well known merchants of Rensselaer and Mount Airy. Our venerable and greatly esteemed friend. Judge S. A. Huff, of had a sudden and severe attack of some kind of sickness, last week in Lafayette, which caused an excessive and dangerous hemorrhage from the mouth and nostrils. The attack left him very weak and, to some degree caused a temporary empairment of his mental faculties. At last accounts h« Was much The Last Wreck.—We gave” an account last week of the wrecking of a lumber car'and a caboose just south of Rensselaer. The lumber from tliewrecked car was loaded upon another car but was put on in such a way as to throw so much weight upon the rear trucks as to cause the front trucks to become deI railed, a short distance north from 1 the Kankakee river, resulting in the ; wrecking of half a dozen or more ! cars at that place. At the last accounts received from our young printing ProdigalSon s-of-guns, Karsner, Clark and Zimmerman, who skipped out between two days, and between two i cars also, about ten days ago, they had got as far west as Washington, Tazewell county 111., where they were working, for a short time, in printing offices. They are headed for the Grasshopper state, where jit is said Jhey have prospects for a permanent job with a man who is about to “start a newspaper.” jWe trust that.-the boys’ hopes iu i this respect may be realized, although our. observation has made uS look with some distrust upon the promises of men who are . “about to start a And now comes Mr. J. H. Karsi ner, father of the above mentioned Wesley, who asserts that his son is the soul of honor amUscr-far: from having ihe_other: boys to leave hdme the real facts :of.the case ;are that the* other iboys enticed hiui.

Census Returns-A new daughter at Wm. Day’s and a son at Stephen B. Coen a. James and Joseph Schindler of Newton township are rebuilding the houses bn their respective < farms. 1 . , t We hear complaints that the Supervisors dp not compel hedge trimmers to clear ihe brush and tho rns out of the highway. The venerable Samuel Warren is lying at tho point of death, from old age, at the house of his son-in-law, W. J. Norris, in the west part of town. His death may be looked for at any hour. The .Goodland Herald persists in spelling the name of the new town, just west of Rensselaer, in Newton county Mt. Ayr. A pracwhich, as it strikes us; the people of that place ought to wet down upon, as Mount Airy is a mmeh more euphonious name. The public schools of Rensselaer are preparing to celebrate Arbor Day, but in just what manner it is to be done we have not learned. It is much to be hoped, however, that the true purpose of the holiday will not be lost sight of, and the planting of trees and shrubs, rather than the firing off of empty rhetoric, be made the leading feature of the day’s exercises. The Presbytery of Logansport is to meet in Rensselaer next Tuesday, as per notice in another This is the. first meeting of this body in Rensselaer, for a great many years, and it is .to be hoped that our people will take an interest in the sessions, and _accord to, the visiting brethern such hospitable, treatment as to make them all feel that Rensselae r is a good place for them to come to Some one, $ young lady of Rensselaer we presume, who takes issu e with Mrs. J. H. Claypool’s decidedly extreme viaws on the subject of round dances, as set forth in an article from her pen, copied in last week’s Republican, has sent us, through the post office a brief but caustic criticism of the article above mentioned. She> forgot, however, that universal and necessary rule of all respectable editors, which requires that they should know the name of the author before publishing any communication and we must for that reason, if no other, decline to publish the favor from the “Lover of round dances.” We are quite willing to allow the friends of dancing to defend that amusement through these columns if they wish to do so, but cannot publish anonymous articles nor those which are offensively personal. Our unknown correspondent appears to think that because we published Mrs. Claypool’s letter, we must necessarily endorse her views, which does not follow by any means. Without expressing any opinion as to the effect of round dances upon morality , in geneial, we certainly do not believe that any serious harm can come from dances so respectably composed and decorously conducted as have been all of those of Rensselaer, of which we ever had any knowledge. An Elopement, or. what?—Mr. Charles McCulloch, of Remington, the gentleman whose “late unpleasantness” with his father-in-law, R.E, Pettit, of Remington, resulted ip his involuntary retirement from public life into the classic shades of Michigan City, for about five years, was in town over Sunday a -guest in the house of James Warren, also late of Remington. On Tuesday he departed taking with him the sixteen year old daughter of the Warrens. Mrs., Warren as we are informed was not at home at the time, and had no knowledge of her daughter’s intended departure.

ADVERTISED letters. Letters addressed as below remain uncalled for in the Post Office at Rens--1 selaer. Jaspsr County, Indiana, on the ;29?h. day of March 1884. Those not [ claimed within four weeks from the * date before given will be sent to tfir dead Letter Office, Washington, D. C. ’’Miss Ella Adams. Sylvester Martin. Charles Boroughs. Eiizish Mfnex ! Miss Mary Burns, Henery Ifohl- ' John T. Davis, Samuel Tbofnas, i Miss M. DeHaven, Samuel Thompson iDr. Hall, , Miss Lv Wolf, i Persons calling for any of the letters in the above list will please say they are advertised HORACE E. JAMES.’

New Springs Hats, at Mrs. LaiRue’s. The Flying Dutchman, at L. C. Grant’s blacksmith shop. Haus, is the place to get you? nice fresh Bread. Wood Base Bui aers, at Cleaver’& they are daisies, cheap, warranted, Ladies, bring iu your orders for l>ro<<>-niakiiig to Hemphill & Honan. .Prepare for a good crop by get ting the best tools to work with L. C. Grant has them. Millinery 'goods have reached bottom prices. Call a,t Mrs. 'Sadlg Laßue’s, aud see if this is not a fact. When in town, be sure and call at Hemphill $ Hanan's and learn prices of Dress goods, Millinery, Notions and furnishing goods as it will pay you big. ■ I have received my Spring Stock of wall paper and paints. Be sure to cidl and see the new patterns and latest tints. Emmet Kannal. To the Gentlemen of Jasper county:—Everything in the line of Gents’ furnishing goods, can be bought very cheap of Hemphill & Honan. Farm Loans.—§3oo to §IO,OOO Partial payments. Reasonable terms. The Rensselaer Loan and Insurance Bureau, opposite Court House, next door to post-office. 15-39-ts. Hemphill & Honan, as evei ahead in Millinery, are the .first to show spring goods on their counters. Oh, they are beauties! Call and see them." / If 25 per cent Reduction.—Samp Irwin, would most respectfuully ask hie farmer friends to bring in their plows and other farming implements needing repairs, as he warrants all work, and make the above reduction over past price. 2-t-p To the Public:—We have ser cured the services of Miss Emma McCormick, of Crawfordsville Ind., who comes to us with the best of references, as to being a first class dressmaker and is a lady known to- some of our best citizens; Ladies desiring work done artistically would do yell to give this lady a trial. Please call at once; Ever yours. Hemphill & Honan. Having secured the services of a first class baker, I will keep on hand, at all times; fresh Pan Bread, Cream Bread, Spanish Twist, Viena Bread, and all kinds of Cookies, and large ’ Cakes. T. J. Farden invites an inspection pf bis fine line of SPRING GOODS including LudloW, lieviS & Brozhohn and Newport warranted fine shoes for Ladies. All . kinds of “Gentlemen’s Shoes” and the celebrated Chaplin Hand made, solid whole stock Calf Boot at $2.50» . ♦ "i DEKTiSTRY. i. c. Rensselaer - - Indiana. Teeth inserted from one tootli to an entire set. Satisfaction guaranteed, or no pay. ygixu&aro® ti ■■— we will extract teeth, posiFvely without pain or harm.

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