Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1884 — NEWS AND PERSONALS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS AND PERSONALS.

Jerry Healy lias retiirned to Frankfort, after a week’s visit at home. A new announcement for Commisfeioner in the Third district, appears this week. Sells arcus is exhibiting in Chicago this week and is said to draw large crowds. Rosa Lyons, of Delphi, is visiting Misses Maiy and Maggie Healy, of this place. TW» Hon. R., S. Dwiggins and his son Jay did hot leave for Lake Petosky, Midi., until last Monday iriorniiig. Col. Bennett H. Young, lately president of the L., N. A. & C. is now president ofjthe Louisville Great Southern Exposition. Our thanks are due J udge Hammond for copies of Minneapolis papers, giving accounts of the big G. A. R. reunion. It was a great' success. .. ~ < The Battle Ground camp meeting will open next Wednesday, July 30, and close August 13. No Sunday excursion train will run this year; . ME H. R. W. Smith, one of the ablest associate editors on the Cincinnati Enquirer, is taking his regular summer vacation at the Paxton place, in newton township. Mr.; x4lfred Hoovbi' was thrown from . Hie top of a high wagon and seriously injured, iriternally, about two w.eeks 1 ago. At last accounts his prospects for recovery were fair. The Rev. W. H. Vance, of Remington, preached in the M. E. church last Sunday. The sermon was a fine effort, but the attractions of the camp meeting left him but a limited audience. The official call for the representative convention appears in this issue of The Republican. As will be seen from the call tjie convention wilt be held on Wednesday, August 20th, and irrßensselaer. New wheat of a good quality is beginning to come into this market, at the rate, as we are told, of about a dozen loads a day. The amount will be increased soon, wp presume, and the effect upon business will be good. Mr. S. C. Venridk, a format resident of this vicinity, writes us from Bradshaw, Neb., to the effect that his section of Nebraska was Visited by a destructive cyclone on Sunday evening, the inst. It is the first storm qf the kind remembered m that part bf the state.

Harry Wilber ail it Harvey Qtierry got drunk, last Saturday, Wilber was andj after having compelled Eminet Bergman to give him a severe .thumping, he was taken in charge by Sheriff Powbll. Young Querry made himself obnoxious to the sheriff, when the latter was doing his duty in arresting Wilber, and was choked into good behavior, and arrested. A little later, they #ere taken before Squire Purcupile, and fined for drunkenness. Wilber, five dollars and costs, and Querry, two dollars anjl costs. Querry paid at once, and was released. Wilber remained in jail until Monday morning, when his fine, too, was paid, by his wife, it is said. Ditched. —On Friday evening, after the colored camp-meeting, while driving home from the camp grounds, in intense darkness, Capt F. W. Babcock missed one end of a culvert east of Mr. Willey’s residence and overturned his carriage, containing himself, wife, Miss Lucy 7 Patton and Mrs. Mos&. The horses were controlled and kept quiet until the buggy was set right side up again, b< u t the parties were all more or less bruised. Mrs. Mo 38 received sundry bruises and abrasions on the head and injuries to the right shoulder that disabled her right ar m for several days. Miss Ppiton was thrown upon her head and badly shocked for sometime. Mrs. Babcock got a’ general , sinking ujj and Mr. sorely bruised on the ■back, narrowly escaping serious [injury. By the kind Leip of Mr. Burgess Dillon and some others, the party were delivered at home with but.a few minutes delay., We will buy your produce and psry highest market price for it, ami sell you groceries at the lowest market price. Antrim A: Darner.

Judge Hammond and family returned home last Tuesday morning from their week’s attendance at the National tncampment G. A. R. at Minneapolis, Minn. The Judge waxes almost enthusiastic over the pleasures of their journey and visit. He is also greatly impressed with the greatness and beauty of Minnesota and the city of Minneapolis, in particular. This place, though substantially built, has now a population of about 120,000. More than double what it had in 1880. The judge was thb recipient of higher honors from the encampment than any other citizen of this state, having been elected member of the Council of Administration for the Department of Indiana. A Leading Texan—A very remarkable and eccentric appearing old. gentleman, with long, white hair and venerable beard, who was in town “between trains;” last Saturday, was Mr. A. B. Norton, editor of “Norton’s Union Intelligencer,” of Dallas, Texas. Mr. Norton has long occupied a prominent and honorable position in Texas. He was General Houston’s Adjutant General, when that fine, old was depbsed from the office of Governor of Texas for the crime of being an unswerving Union man, at the out-break of the war. Mr. Norton was also an ardent Unionist, and was compelled to leave Texas during the war, to save bis life. Since the war he has been the republican candidate foi- Governor, for State j Superintendent of Public Instruction and for Member of Congress. He was a delegate for the state at large to the National Republican conventions of 1880 and 1884. Blaine and Logan was his ticket, from the beginning of the world. j\lr. Norton’s system was badly inoculated, many years ago, with the virus of the so-called poison Oak, a species of poison ivy, common in the south-west and suffers greatly frorii the effects of it every year unless, he spends his sdnimers in the north.