Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1884 — A Tax Truly Burdensome. [ARTICLE]

A Tax Truly Burdensome.

In his sermon last Sunday morning the Eev. T. G. Webster took occasion to state that he had lately visited all tlie business men in tliis tdwn who dealt in tobacco, and frohi inspecting tlieir wholesale dfenlfei's’" statements lie had made, wliat, fit first tliouglit, seems the astounding discovery that in the town alone twenty thousand dollars are spent every year for tobacco. How much is spent for liquor the reverend gentleman did not ascertain, as indeed, lie could not had he tried. That the sum would l>e much less than is spent foV tobacco there is probably no doubt, for ours is a temperate community. It would probably hk a safe estimate, however, to say that, for liquor and tobacco together tlie people of Jasper county spend seventy-five thousand dollars every year.

, A Narrow" Escape.—Two ladies had a very narrow escape from what threatened to be a terrible accident, oh Washington street last Saturday. Mr. Chits. Pullins and the two ladies Imd driven up to one of the stores in a double buggy, and Mr. Pullins had gone into the store, and on coining out directed the ladies to turn the team around and drive up the street while himself would walk". The ladies turned too short and *»s the wheel began to grind on the buggy box, the horses, which seemed to W» pretty wild pair, began to get frightened, and the ladies, of course, pulled on the wrong line, the buggy was overturned and the ladies thrown forward upon the tongue and whippletrees, just behind the horses heels. The horses were already plunging wildly and had they been left free for a single second, a runaway, with probable fearful consequences for the entangled ladies,, would have 'been the result. Bj* gotxl fortune however, Mr. Pullins had been near enough that he was able to spring from the side-walk, catch the now thoroughly frightened horses by their bridSt§, and by an exercise .oE strength such a few men are capable oi, and of a manful courdeserving of the highest pMise, he brought them to a standstill, and thus allowed tin? ladies to be extricated from their exceedingly perilous position. They ★ere somewhat bruised by their fall, and Mr. Pullins received a pretty severe blow from the end 6f the wagon tongue. And was also Otherwise nsg^iisdamage