Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1885 — NEWS AND PERSONALS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS AND PERSONALS.

Under the influence oi a drizzling rain and a warm wind, the splendid sledding and hyperborean cold of Christmas has vanished like magic. Married.— Dec. 28th, 18S4 at the residence of the brideVmother, in Barkley tp, by the Rev. Peter Hinds, Mr. Charles Stackhouse and Mi?s Elizabeth Isreal. Mrs. Helen M. Goujrar has; just sold her magazine, The Womans Herald, to Mrs. Elizabeth j Boynton Harbert, who will, it is stated, remove the publication office to Chicago.

m Pocket Book Pound,— The Rev. G. Havens found a pocket book, or purse, on the streets Saturday, containing a small sum of money. The owner can have the same by provingpropertyand paying for this notice. Mr. Ancel Woodworth went to Battle Ground Friday and brought back with him his aged mother, Mrs. Sarah Dunlap, who will hereafter make her home with Mr. Woodworth. She is 83 years old, and quite feeble and infirm.

The younger ladies appear to he coming to the front in the management of the Ladies’ Literary Society* if we may judge from the fact that Miss Rosa Baker is now President o# the society, and Miss Arilla Cotton Secretary. Dr. O. C. Link, the homeopathic physician who preceeded Dr; Hartsell in this place, has just removed from Altoona, Dakota, to Yankton, in the same Territory. He will practice his profession at Yankton. Mr. Daniel Dwiggins, who was near to death’s door from a paralytic stroke, on Tuesday of last week, and was currently reported dead the next day, is now very much better, with excellent prospects for being up again in a short time. The Rev. Dr. Gobin, D. D., professor of Greek in DePauw University, preached at the M. E. Church last Sunday. His visit was quite unexpected and unannounced, <#nd the weather being bad also, the congregation was very small, compared to what it would have beeu under more favorable circumstances. Mr. W. W. Wright, the deaf mute, hands us a newspaper clipping noticing the death, at Troy, this state, of a brother of his, Isaac Wright, in his time one of the most noted steamboat captains on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. He commanded government vessels during the Mexican war and the Rebellion. His age at the time of his death is stated to have been 86 years. Mr. Olliver Daugherty, eldest son of Mr. L. L. Daugherty, came into town last Priday afternoon and gathered up a crowded sleighload of pleasant people and took them out to his father’s hospitable dwelling, west of town. What with eating a splendid supper prepared by Mrs. Daugherty and her charming daughter, Miss Addie, music, conversation and the gay sleigh ride out and back, it was a happy evening for the lucky participants.

Mr. Henry Smith, a merchant of Monon, died of consumption, at that place on the 25 ult He was ! formerly a resident of Rensselaer 'and a brother-in-law of Mr. A. Leopold, of this place. His remains were boried at Lafayette, on Sunday, a number of the members of the A. O. U. W. lodge of this place, of which Mr. Smith was a member, attending the funeral. Mr. Smith leaves a family Consisting of a wife and five children. Prairie Lodge F. and A. M.. and Eastern Star Chapter O. E. S.* jointly installed their newly elected officers* last Saturday evening. In addition to the usual installation ceremonies, fan excellent address was made by Mrs, Mary E. Spitler, Grand Matron of the Grand Lodge of Indiana, of the O. E. S. After the ceremonies and address, an elegant collation was served to all present, and a season of social enjoyment entered upon. The number in attendance, hadjadmg^ members and^Jnvited • •

McCoy’s big plate "lass windows in Tutuer Bros.’ store, which were cracked at the late fire have just been replaced 'By new ones. The Rev. Geo. Havens returned last Friday after nearly two months’ visiting among friends in the vicinity of Indianapolis, and Ladoga. Notice. —There will be a meeting of the share holders of the Iroquois Library Association, at the office of the librarian, on the first Monday in January, 1883, %t 7 o’clock p. m. C. G. Sears returned home from Colorado, last week. His sojourn in the mountains did not seem to haYe benefitted him any noticeable degree, but since his return he has improved in health, quite rapidly.

Miss Alice Irwin and Messrs. P. H. Kirseh and A. E. Coen weiit to Indianapolis Monday to attend the State Teachers’ Association. We understand that a delegation from Remington, headed by Superintendent Nelson, will meet them at Monticello. Mr. Nelson has the honor to occupy a prominent place on the programme of this session of the Association. fc

Will Sears’ prospects for an early pardon aoe excellent, although it is thought likely that unless fie is pardoned within a few days, before the newly elootetl state officials take their offices, it is not improbable that it may be deferred for several months. When first taken to the prison he was sick and placed in the hospital, from there he was removad to the office es the prison physician, where his duties are simply those of a prescription clerk, and his treatment of the moat lenient character. A Double Wedding.— The wedding at Hammond, foreshadowed in a late item in this paper, came off on the (toy before Christinas, and only a double wedding instead of a triple as previous rumor had stated. The couples married were Mr. jFrank D. Brest and Miss Adeßa Florence Burroughs; Mr, John C. Jordan, and Miss May L. Burroughs, The brides were fofmer residents of Rensselaer, daughters of Mr. Thomas Burroughs, and well known in this vicinity. The Rev. D. T. Halstead, of this place, performed the marriage ceremony.