Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1884 — No Blood on the Moon. [ARTICLE]

No Blood on the Moon.

Among the Republican candidates for the state offices the Call has a few favorites, and chief hmdiig them is Crittendeh A. Cox. Besides being a genial,' big-heart-ed, clever gentleman he is capable and honest, and thoroughly qualified for the place. It Critt. Cox is nominated, the Call promises in advance to lift up its voice for him in season and out of season. —[Lafayette Call. >««♦» . I’he Cheapest EyeS Known Mr. John G. Eeynolds has completed arrangements with the L. N-A and C. road for an excursion to Chicago, on June 13, with the view, principally, of Staking in that woiiderful and world famous spectacle; The Panorama of the Battle of Gettysburg. The' Excursion Will start from Frankfort, on the Air Line, and Lafayette, tor Crawford sville,) on the Main line. It well pass Rensaelrer at about 8 o’clock a. m., and return at about the same hour in the evening. The fare for the round trip from Rensselaer will be the astonishingly small sum of one dollar, and about the same from other points in Jasper county.

, The Bridge.— The work of putting together the iron superstructure of the new bridge over the Iroquois river, at this place was began last Saturday. The woi'k was done with Mr. Ohas. Beaslee, of the Canton Iron Bridge company, of Canton, Ohio, as superintendent and a large force of men, mostly residents of the town, as assistants. Mr. Beaslee evidently thoroughly understands his business and the ease and celerity with which the ponderous structure has been put together has been a source of surprise and admiration to many spectators. The bridge is now nearly completed, little remaining to be except to put on the foot walks at the sides. Every one is pleased with its appearance and seem to think that it leaves nothing to be desired in the way of a bridge. Had not the contraversy - between the county commissioners and the town arisen in regard to making the approaches, the bridge could be opened to travel within a few days.

The following from a late issue of the Indianapolis Journal contains much food- for solid reflection, for all who are directly interested in the public schools: “A slender, fair haired gill, parrying a bundle of school-books, appeared at the dour of gtHUnnar school, No 45, this morning. The girl ascended the first flight of .stairs slowly and stopped at the top a moment to answer affiend’s ‘Good ruorniug’. She tried to speak, gasped, ‘I can’t breathe’, and fell backward, The principal heard the fall, and ran out from the recitation room. The girl was dead ”. The above was among yesterday's press dispatches from New York city, and the following is a current paragraph from yesterday’s papers: “Of a class of twelve young ladies in an academy in Hampton, N. H., a few years ago, eight have died of consumption.” It will yet begin to dawn on the “bosses” of school machinery that there something else to be considered beside the eternal cramming to wt,ich ptipils are regularly submitted. There is too much of it in the Indiana system. We are to anxious tp polish the intellect at the expense of the body. The “system” is too severe on teacher and pupil alike. Flesh, and blood, and nerves are not oi iron and steel, and will break down. In one of the schools oi thirf city one of the lady teachers, in addition to standing seven hours, is obliged to mount and descend the stairs Iff* teen times daily to superintend the of pupils entering and leaving the budding. The same is probably true of others. Such impositions bint of barbarism incompafblo with this enlightened age, -

JOB!* SPIES AMD JEFF DAYISi i ii In i ffcM m mm. The Laffer Says the Boquet Story Is False-Be Can Do ’ the Fahiily Fighting.

Lafayette Courier. The Courier of Saturday, May 17th, i contained an account ot the trick that had been practiced on John Spies, the Boswell grocer, by the mad wags of that village, Attorney Harris among the number. It will be remembered how spies, in a wildflight of drew the long bow and let an arrow fly into his war record at the G. A. R. camp fire. He told a cock -and bull story ol' Mrs. Jefferson Davis and the boquet she presented him for his kindness to her. This was published in a Boswell paper and soon after Spies received a challenge purporting to be from Colonel McGuire, of Mobile, Ala. He accepted and the affair was telegraphed all over the country. Jefferson Davis Came across it and wrote the Mobile Register S 3 follows: “The story is an utter falsehood, and to this general I add a specific denial. From none of our captors were such corteous attention received as would induce my wife to present him a boquet in recognition, nor, if it had been otherwise, were the circumstances such as would have enabled her’ to procure one. It is false that copies of the two papers in which the story waff first published were with the articles marked received by Mrs. Davis, my wife. The first knowledge of tbo publication was derived from the inclosed 1 slip torn from a Chicago newspaper, arid therefore most intensely false in the statement that Mi-3. Davis placed the,papers in the hands of a friend of the family for the implied purpose of being vindicated by him. In a long life of extensive social intercourse she has never required such defense as is suggested, but if she had never found it necessary, neither in the past nor in the present would she have called on any other than her husband so to defend her. “Respectfully yours, Jefferson Davis.” It seems there was such a person as -Colonel McGuire, but he has been doad these three years. The challenge may therefore be considered a dfeu-cl-lolter.

“The Dark-of-The-Moon. —— Believers in “Signs” and in the potency of the moon in regard to sublunary weather, vegetation, &c., are prone to take note of and remember tile facte and phenomena which seem to give confirmation to the things which they believe, While the occurrences which are contrary to their beliefs are promptly forgotten. For instance, just before and immediately after the frosts of last week, it was common to hear the assertion made that they wouldn’t do much damage, because frosts in the dark-of-the-moou, were always harmless. Well, sure enough no great injury ha 3 resulted from the frosts in this vicinity and the “dark-of-the-moon” people have received an accession of faith which will last them for a twelve-month, despite any number of opposing occurrences which may happen in the mean-time. Of course the fact that the moon was just as badly in the “dark” in those sections of the country east and west of us which were so greatly damaged by the frosts of last week, as she was in this part of the country, will cut no figure in the case whatever.