Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1885 — MEWS AND PERSONALS. [ARTICLE]

MEWS AND PERSONALS.

Next Saturday is St. Valentine's Lay.' ( Mr. and Mrs. Zimri Dwiggins, of Oxford, are snow bound in Rensselaer. There were 15‘ut three cases of tardiness in the Rensselaer schools last iveek. Next Wednesday, Feb. 18th,Ms Ash Wednesday, and Lent begins on that day. The infant child of Mr.' Simon Chupp, of Newton township, died last Sunday afternoon, of croup. Miss- Nellie. Wasson aiid Miss Bertie Yeoman, are going to enter the state Normal, at Terre Haute, soon. * Don’t you forget it; but there will be a wedding in town one of these days; in fact two or three.of them. Mrs. W. W. Watson returned to her husband, at Cliilicothe, Mo,, last week, after a protracted visit with her reiativesTiere. A certain gay young widower, of Rensselaer, or “thereabouts” is soon likely, it is said, to again fall a victim to sly Cupid’s wiles. It is hinted that some of the Rensselaer school ma’ams will 'nof re-engage to teach next year, but will fulfil other engagements. Oxford Tribune: Edwin P. Hammond and Simon P. Thompson are attending court this week. Judge Hammond seems rather to rejoice at his defeat. It is said that a, movement is on foot to attempt to induce the Governor to commute the sentence of Wartner, to imprisonment for life. Mr. Simon Phillips, superintendent of the poor farm, is said to be heading the movement— T. J. Farden went to jail last week. Not to be confined until the next term of court, however, but because he had found a pleasant and convenient boarding place, svith Sheriff Yeoman’s estimable family. The late Henry Smith, of Monon, was a member of Rensselaer Lodge, No. 100, A. O. U. W. His widow will soon receive from the beneficiary fund of the order the sum of S2OOO, that being the amount of the insurance policy held by each member of the order. Fowler Era: We*notice Judge E. P. Hammond, of Rensselaer, attending court in Fowler this week. After serving ten years as circuit Judge and eighteen months as Supreme Judge he resumes tlm active practice of his profession. He will no doubt build up a large and lucrative practice. Wartner is still reported as being, apparently, quite .contented with his prospects, and as growifig fat on the liberal board of Sheriff Yeoman. His dull brain seems hardly to realize the fact that in about three months more he must expiale a bloody and cruel murder upon the gallows. Mrs. Win. Stockton, of Lafayette, daughter of-Mr. John Makeever, has been in Rensselaer since her mother’s funeral. There is considerable talk of Mr. Stock- | ton coming to Rensselaer to live, jin which case he will probably | engage in business in one of Mr. I Makeever’s vacant business rooms.

] Conductor Francisco, who formerly run the Lafayette and Chiicago accommodation train, on the |L., N- A. & C- is now lunning one of the fast night trains, on the j same road, between Chicago and | Indianapolis. Rethinks the comjpany will put tLe accommodation train back op the road in the 'spring. ; Carl Hengeshaclt, from a short distance east of town, is now keeping Wartner company in the Jasper county jail. ?He was arrested last week charged with grand larceny, in the stealing a large belt, belonging to the engine of Hengesbachs tile works. Opinions differ widely as to the merits of the case against him. f~" v -5. There has been a marked cleari ing up of the moral atmosphere of ; the north end of town, since last Saturday. On that day the two Wilber women, mother and daughter, and Mrs. Thrasher, took the south bound train fpr parts unknown. Unless their reputations • have been much belied, they can’t «o tc*«j far nor *tay too for the guotl of thin ifoimnuuitjf.

J. G. Culp was in town Monday on the track of a Dutchman who had stolen some goods from him, He tracked him within one-half mile of Francesville. If any of you see a Dutchman w'ho has been in the army and is dying for a job of work, sieze him and send for Mj\ Culp,; who will take care of him.-Francesville item in Winaraac Republican. The Rev. D. K. Tindall, pastor in charge of the Dayton, and Mulberry appointments, has been assisting the Rev. T. C. Webster in his revival meetings, since Tues[day 0 last week, with the excep- | tion. of a few days during which he was called home to attend a funeral. He is an earnest and powerful preacher, and ha* given Mr. Webster most efficient assistance. . , The new union depot on Polk street, Chicago, at the terminus of the L., N. A. A C. is now nearly completed, exteriorly and is a splendid and imposing structure. Its most striking architectural feature is au enormously high, central tower, built of terracotta. The building is not yet quite ready for occupancy for' depot purposes, but will be within two or three months. Remington News: The News published in a former issue a rumor that was being circulated about town that Smith had made a death bed confession that he was the murderer of Cotton. We now find that the rumor is false in every particular, and an injustice has been done Smith and his friends by the publication, and from what his friends say are led td believe that the story was started through malice by an enemy. Kentland Gazette: Jno. C. New, as Trustee, for the bondholders of of the Chicago & Gieat Southern R. R., has filed a suit in the circuit court of this county, against the C., & Gt. S.-Ry. Co., qt. al. wherein he demands 81,200,000 with interest, and the foreclosure of a mortgage against the road. PI U fljflj: 0 q 1 „k fi heard at February term. This is ’ the largest amount ever involved in a suit in this court. Oxford Tribune: General Manager Kimball emphatically states that the Great Southern will be extended both north and south the coming summer. The northern extension will be an air line into Chicago, leaving the present line at or near Mt. Ayr. The road will be built south to Brazil, and eventually to the Ohio river. The road has not beep purchased by any corporation but by a syndicate of men who have lots of money. The new town of Greensburg, in Edwards county, Kansas, in the vicinity of which so many Jasperites have—lately settled, has a post-office now, but not by the name of Greensburg. There is some confusion of authorities as regards to the name whether it be “James” or “Janes”; but the official postal guide gives it as “Janes”, and that authority is probably conclusive. We undersi and that it was So named in honor of L. C. Janes, an ExTreasuier of Jasper county.

’ Messrs. Noble J. York and Okas. S. Downing, of Monoii, and Frank Imes, of Monticello, gave The Republican a pleasant call Tuesday morning. They had ventured over to Rensselaei to to spend Sunday, and were snow bouiid, and unable to get away. Mr. Downing is the new editor of the Monon Dispatch, is a right pleasant gentleman, and, we are free to say, he has made a vast improvement in the character of the Dispatch over what it was before the juvenile Stokes dropped his bundle.

While the sale of delinquent lands was in progress Monday, a well-to-do resident of Walker tp., rushed into the Treasurer’s office just in time to save his farm from 1 being sold for taxes. When askled why he had not come sooner? ;he answered that he did not take ithe county paper, and didn’t know 'of the sale; and would not have heard of it at all had not one of his neighbors, wiser in his day and generation than himself, told him of the sale, and that his property was among that advertised a 6 delinquent. A man who “can’t afford to take” his home peperi is “penny viw and pound in an eminent degree.