Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1884 — NEWS AND PERSONALS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS AND PERSONALS.

The growing crops are on the boom. Miss A. W. Osborne started upon her vacation visits last Tuesday. Mr. John Zimmerrrian, is building an addition to his house, on Cullen street. Miss Rosa Eater is at Oshkosh, Wis., visiting friends. She will be gone a couple of months, probably. Mr. Jno. Priest, of Francesville; stopped at Rensselaer Monday night, with his brother, R. F-, on his way home from a hurried trip through Kansas. We bbg lieve to inform the public that we keep a full and complete line of fancy and staple groceries which we sell at bottom prices. Call and see us. Antrim & Darner. The Quarterly Meeting.—The M. E. quarterly meeting for* this circuit, will be held next Sunday and Monday. The Rev. J. H. Claypool, the presiding elder, is announced to be present and to preach on Sunday evening.

Miss Emma McCormick, with Hemphill & Honan, was called by telegram, last Friday, to the bedside of heir brother, at Waveland, near Crawfordsville, who had a Sudden-Beriods attack of hemorrhage of the lungs. Marshal Platt tells us that the cost of making the approaches to the new bridge exceeded by only about sl2, or sl3 the amount appropriated by the commissioners, but the improvement effected in cutting down Harrison street is worth much more than the above sum. Mr. Anson Wolcott, of Wolcott, was in town again, for several days, last week engaged in the just now rather common vocation of working his congressional boom. Mr. Wolcoxt is a right pleasant old gentleman to meet and his conversation reveals the possession of a right smart heap of good sound sense. The State Republican convention meets to-day. We believe that all the Jasper county delegates are in attendance. Messrs - Babcock, Benjamin, Dwiggins and Wasson, are in attendance, to our certain knowledge, while Maxwell, Nichols and Robinson, all expressed their intention to attend, and it, is to be presumed that they did so.

The Republican Congressional Cofivenhon meets, at Monticello, next Thursday, June 26th, and the Judicial convention meets at GoodlancL on Tuesday, the 24th. The delegates to both of these conventions will be chosen next Saturday. Delegates and others wishing to attend the Monticello convention from Rensselaer, should go there the previous evening on the 7/08 p. m., accommodation train. The case of Samuel McDonald, which was affirmed by the supreme court of this state last September, was published in full in the Central Law Review of St. Louis, last week. This decision will be considered a leading case in the future by the legal profession, as many fine legal questions were settled by the opinion of Judge Hammond.—[Fort Wayne Gazette.

Circuit Court Ite?w This week. —Court took a recess last Monday, until Friday. Last Week. Richard Halligan was tried last Thursday, by a jury, on the charge of gelling liquor toj an intoxicated person, and was fined $75 and costs. On two other charge of a similar character, he plead guilty, and was fined $lO and costs on each. The case again-t Halligan for assaulting 8. H. Duvall, was nolle pressed. J. G. Reynolds was fined $lO and Costs for unlawful sale of liquor. On Thursday. Geo. Stitz, the Remington butcher, gave bail, on his own recognizance, in the sum of SSOO, to appear at the next term, to answer to the charge of arson, in setting the fire which caused the late large loss in Remington; Mary and Edward Coover , also of. Remington, were indicted on the, charge of keeping an open housd. pf prostitution, but their case, tcx>, was nolle pressed.

Miss May Miller is at Witoka, Mwn,, for the vacation. Antrim & Darner is the firm name, and groceries their stock. Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Brown returned from their California visit last week. Every thing new at Antrim A Darner,s. Call and see them. Noble J. York was over from Monon last Saturday, brisk and blithe as ever. A Blaine and Logan Club is to be organized at Remington tomorrow evening. Wm. D. Owen is to address the meeting. Isaac Alter Jr., formerly of Union township, has secured a Western Union telegraph office in Chicago. Mr. J. C. Porter, now traveling in the south, sends us copies of a couple of Tennessee papers. The Nashville American and the Murfreesboro Free Press. Isaac Kepner returned from Nebraska Wednesday, after a stay of several months, fully satisfied that Jasper county is good enough for him. Mh John P. Carr, Jr., the agreeable and energetic young editor of the Oxford Tribune, was in Rensselaer Monday afternoon and did not forget to drop in on The Republican far a short time. This is the date of the summer solstice. The sun lias now reached the point of his farthest declination north and now shines vertically upon the tTopic of Cancer. The days are how the longest fend the nights the shortest of any period of the year.

A Fire.—The house of F&lix Lester, of Newton tp., was burned last Sunday, with nearly all its contents'. The family was away from home and nothing is known of the origin of the fire. The probable loss is between S4OO and SSOO. Insured in the Continental, of New York. Sunday School Entertainment. —The children of tiiq Baptist Sunday school will give entertainment at the Baptist church next Sunday. The programme prepared for the occasion is quite extensive and includes readings, declamations, music, &e., &c. It will undoubtedly be an enjoyable affair and well worth the trouble of attending. From all parts of the cdtinty corito reports of favorable prospects for the crojjs, this year. The winter was a good one for wheat, and the spring has been excellent for all kinds of crops raised in this vicinity. The wheat crop, on the whole, will be good all ovet the county, although m some localities there are fields that are poor. Oats look unusually well, grass is immense, and the chances for'a corn crop is excellent so far. 4

The Excursions.—Two great excursions run into Chicago last week over the L., N. A- & C. railroad. The first was on Thursday and started from Lafayette, on the Maine Line. It carried, in all something over four hundred passengers. At the Rensselaer station one hundred and thirty tickets were sold. The fa?e from Rensselaer, for the round trip, was only one dollar, a rate which made it possible for a great many, especially of the young people, to take a look at the great city, who had never visited it before. AL though the crowd was great, it was excellently well behaved, and the cars were not uncomfortably [crowded. The advertised purpose 'of the excursions was to give an 1 opportunity to visit that celebrated exhibition, the Panorama of the Battle of Getteysburg and nearly everybody on the excursions did so, and all pronounce it a wonderful exhibition. The Friday’s train started from Frankfort, on the Air ..Line division. It carried about 500 persons i but do tickets were sold at Rensselaer. The Rensselaer Cornet i Band accompanied both the .Thursday’* and the Friday’s excursions. 1