Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1884 — NEWS AND PERSONALS. [ARTICLE]

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.