Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1884 — NEWS AND PERSONALS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS AND PERSONALS.

Mrs. Al. Keister, of Jordan tp., js very sick, with a disease of the nervous system. General Van Rensselaer returned to his home kt New Brunswick, Now Jersey, last week. Thets ev. M..C. Miner performed the rite of baptism by immersion, upon VY. W. Wright, the deaf and dumb man, last Sunday, at the usual place in the river. Mr. and Mrs. John Antrim and their son-in -law, Nathan Weathers, of Rice county, Kansas, were visiting old friends and old scenes in Rensselaer and jvicinity last week, Mr. Antrim is a brother of Dr. Antrim, the recorder. The Drill Corps of the K. of P, lodge, have changed the time of their Ice Cream and Strawbery festival to next Tuesday evening, June 17th. It will be given at the Opera House. The corps will give an exhibition drill on the street, at seven o’clock. Quarterly Meeting.—The next regular quarterly meeting, of Rensselaer Circuit, of the M. E. church, will be held at the church in Rensselaer, on Saturday, Sunday and Monday, June 21st, 22nd and 23rd. Elder Claypool will be present and preach Sunday evening, June 22na.

Mr. J. C. Porter, in company with his step-son. Wm. Salter, will start to-day for Tennessee, with the intention of looking up a possible future location, more agreeable to his health than this and also to visit some of the old battle-fields of the late war, as Nashville, Chattanooga, Stone River, Ac., at all of which battles Mr. Porter was present. A couple of females whose virtue was not entirely above suspicion, and who are said to be the same whom the officials of Kentland lately succeeded |in firing out of their to vn, after much tribulation, settled in Rensselaer last Week, but on the strength of a gentle request from Sheriff Powell they departed after a sojourn of not more than two or three days.

The Teachers.—Mr. Kirsch went to Crawfordsville, last Saturday. Miss Bartoo returned to her home near Remington, Tuesday. Miss Miller expects to start to-day for Winona, Minn., to visit friends. Miss Osborne will start next Tuesday foi a several weeks visit at Rochester. Ind., Whitehall, Midi., and Npw Albany, Ind. Miss Irwin, we are informed, will soon go to Richmond, Ind., to attend a suminer Normal, and Capt. Burnham is busily booming Blaine’s big book. Another Change of TiME.-Peo-ple along the New Albany and Chicago railroad were surprised by another general change in the time table of their trains. The two passenger trains which pass Rensselaer in the night, viz: south at 10:29 p. m., and north at 4:38 a; m., still run on the same time as before. The time of all the other trains is changed, as follows: The former 9:55 a. m., south-bound train now passes at 10:33, nearly the same as previous to the change made a few weeks ago. The 7.01 p. m., accommodation is seven minutes later, and passes at 7:08 p. m. The northbound, accommodation which passed at 8:17 is ten minutes earlier, and passes at 8:07 a. m. and the former 5:28 p. m. train now passes at 5:02, p. m. 26 minutes earlier.