Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1884 — NEWS AND PERSONALS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS AND PERSONALS.

The biggest Teachers’ Institute in Jasper county, on record. County Surveyor Alter, rejoices in the possession of a new boy, born last Sunday. Postmaster James went to New York last week. He will be absent about two weeks, probably. Miss Mary Washburn returned, Tuesday, from her vacation visits, at Jjogansport and KokomoL* Murray Keller has not, as yet, concluded to accept the position of General Passenger agent, on the L., N. A. & C. Mr. and Mrs. A. Purcupile, and daughter Lizzie, returned last Saturday, from a foW week’s visit in Oxford and in Warren county.

Mr.’ Cephas Atkinson, of Benton county, bonght a large drove of cattle in the vicinity of Rensselaer last week. Some 350, we are informed. Mrs. F. J. Sears and Miss Lizzie Purcupile started for Oshkosh, and other places in Wisconsin, this morning. They will be absent -about two weeks. A Basket Meeting will be held 'near Surrey, in Newton township, Jasper county, Ind., on Sunday Aug. 31st, 1884. Everybody is cordially invited to attend . Uncle J eduthan Hopkins is up from Dayton, for a few days. He is anxious to return to Rensselaer to end his days among the people where so much of his life has been spent. Prof . J. W. Holcombe, the state superintendent, will not Visit the Teacher’s Institute until Friday, He will give a public lecture, pt the court house, in the evening of that day.

An infant child of Mr. Charles Benjamin, of Newton township, very suddenly of cholerainfantum, last Thursday, 1 and was buried on Friday. It was about :five months old. Mr. C. F. Wren’s term of service as station agent at this place came to an end last Monday. Mr. W. J. McClellan, of Brookston, an old agent has been made agent in Mr. Wren’s place. The .Hon. U-. Z. Wiley, of Fowler, will make a republican speech in Rensselaer on Saturday evening, Aug. 30th. Mr. Wiley is well known as an orator in this place, and deserves a crowded house.

Miss Tarney has cancelled her contract with the School Board of Rensselaer, and the board has again engaged Capt. J. A. Burnbarn as,teacher of the Third Grammar Department, in the public schools. Mrs. Applegate, ,of Delphi, widow of the late J Applegate, has just married Mr. Vine Holt, 74 years old and one of the wealthiest merchants of Delphi. Mrs. Applegate was comparatively a young woman. Tile Chicago and Atl antic have served an injunction on the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago against their crossing the “Y” and sidetrack. This will probably delay them a month or more. —[Hammond Tribune. It is rilmored that the New Albany will put on a night train that will arrive here from Chicago between 10 and 11. This would be a very convenient train and would drait ( a large amount of travel.— [Hammond Tribune. Returns are coming in from The Republican’s prize sunflower .of last year. Mrs. John Zimmerman, of Rensselaer, sends up a fine specimen raised from its It is 15 and: | inches in djamei-er, and well shaped and full of seede. Mr. M. P. Nolan, of; Dayton, Ohio, and Mr. Joseph Diißois, of Warren county, in the same state were in town Tuesday. Mr. Nolan, who is a prominent lawyer and politician of Dayton, owns a large tract of land in Union township and has visited the same while here. ,

A Blaine and Logan Club was formed in Kankakee township, on the day of’ the primary election, with a membership of 25 voters, a large list, considering the small number of voters in the township. The club will meet again, to perfect their organization, next Saturday evening, at’ Dunnville. (Tefft P.O-) ' ■

The Rev. J. W. Starke will soon return to the Baptist Theological Seminary, at Morgan Park, 111., and will preach his last sermon in Rensselaer next Sabbath evening at the Baptist church. For the benefit of the Jasper county members of the old Ninth Indiana Infantry, and theft friends, we gladly give space, elsewhere, to a notice of their second annual re-union, which is to b‘6 held fit Elkhart, August 27th and 28th, 1884. The Tariff ’question is to be .thoroughly discussed in the Nobth AsteitifcAN Review. Free Trade arguments will appear in the September number, and Protection views in the October, Tlfe ablest writers. on 4 both sides hate beefi' engaged. The Bev. J a fries T. Abbett will attend the Northwest Indiana conference of the M. E. church, at Attica, on the 27th inst., and will be examined for admission to the traveling connection. He will undoubtedly be accepted and appointed to a charge somewhere in the conference, and Rensselaer will know him no more as a constant resident. Quarterly conference of the Church of God will be held with with the church at this place, commencing Friday-evening ne|t; 22nd inst, .to .Continue over the following Sunday.’ Preaching each day and night during the session. The community at large are cordially invited to attend. Elder Daniel Howard, of Wisconsin, just returning from Jerusalem and the Holy Land is expected to be present. . D. T. Halstead. .

A good republican meeting was held at Egypt school. house house, in Jordan tp., last Saturday evening. Speeches were made by Messi’s. F. W. Babcock and S. P. Thompson, of Rensselaer. A Blaine and Logan club was formed with 18 members. H. I. Adams was President and Edward Snodgrass, Secretary. The club will bold another meeting on the evening of the 28th.

At the M. E. church, last Sunday evening, Miss Alma Steirs was taken into full membership, and received the rite of baptism by suffusion. On next Suqday morning Mr. Webster will preach his last sermon in Rensselaer,’., for the conference and after the service the qtdipance of Baptism be administered to several candidates. - He w/11 preacli at Sayler school house pX 3:30 p. m. Mrs. Zuba Duvall, widow of the late Daniel Duvall, together with her entire family, are about to remove to -Kansas, with the intention of taking a homestead next Spring. They left Rensselaer last Monday in.a covered wagon, but will go no further than Iroquois, 111., until about the Ist of September, where they will be joined by quite a caravan of people from Jasper county, who intend to start for Kansas at that time. Among these last, we are informed, are John Kimble, Theodore Warne, Jasper Fleenor, and G. L. Thornton.

The interior of McCoy & Thompson’s bank has just been fitted tip, regardless of expense. The walls and ceilings have been frescoed in a beautiful manner, new floors have been put down, a new and differently arranged counter has been Ridded, and an ornaments) wire screen, six or seven feet high, surrotinds the counter, and separates, the public portion of the room from that occupied by the bank officials. McCoy’s entire corner, inside and out, is now fully worthy of its prominent location, and an object of just pi ide to the residents of the town.

Editor * Bepublican Please permit me through the columns of your paper, to publicly express my thanks to my many friends in Jasper County for the hearty and faithful manner in which they gave me their support at the late primary election; and to assure them that their efforts in my behalf will not be the less greatfully remembered because they failed of complete success. Assuring the successful candidates, and the members of the party generally, of my intention to do all in my power for the success of the whole ticket, I subscribe myself: •

ERASTUS PEACOCK.

The Rev. M. C. Miner of the Free W ill Baptist church, left last Saturday, to visit his parents at Bone Gap, Edwards county, 111., and W?ll be gone for several weeks. He hfis lately received inquiry from Ridgeland, Ind., church whether hte could return to them, but he will return to Rensselaer after his pre’serft visit and resume his ministerial wort here. The Rev. B. F. Ferguson will fill Mr. Miner’s pulpit next Sunday morning at 10:30 o’clock.