Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1885 — Publisher's Announcement. [ARTICLE]

Publisher's Announcement.

Owing to the snow blocked*, we have failed to receive our regular shipment of paper,] and must ask our readers to content themselves with a paper of half the regular size, .containing nothing but tlie local news, for this week. Twin girls were born to the house of Mr. Joseph Sharp, the poultry mau, Wednesday, Feh,, UthrlSSo. There was the sound of wailing in the Cotton House, Tuesday morning. The five in the ba.seburner went out over" night, and in the morning a fine collection of house pipnts were found “stiff and cold”.

Messrs. York and Downing, of Monon, and Imes, of Monticello, grew weary of waiting for the 1 rains to resume running, and followed .Mr, No wets’ example, and took tie tickets for Monon, Wednesday morning. Mr. Allsberry, Bob. Phillips’ successor in the barbering business, has betaken himself back to Chicago. The last we heard of Bob, b} r the way; was that he was selling cigars iu Missouri, for a Chicago house. It is rather old as a news item; but we somehow never heard until a few days ago' that Circuit Clerk Irwin had purchased the Dern, formerly the La Rue house, near the “Broad Gunge” church, and had made liis.domicile therein..

Miss Mary Washburn, whose illness Math typhoid fever was mentioned last week, is still very sick, and, although her illness has taken a rather more favorable turn during the last few days, her condition is still critical, find will, undoubtedly,. so continue until the crisis of the disease is reached, which will be within a few days. Thursday, February 10th, is the 21st anniversary of the founding of Pythianism. The Knights of Phthias lodge, of this place, wRI celebrate the occasion Cry au Entertainment in their hall and by a sheet and pillow case dance at the Opera House. It promises to a fine affair. See announcements and programme printed elsewhere. Mr. E. C. Nowels came up from Indianapolis to spend 'Sunday with his family, and, of course, was un able to get back again on account of the snowing up of the trains. Wanting to get back pretty badly, and being full of the everlasting grit, he walked to Monon Tuesday afternoon, hut, as we are informed, reached there too late, to make the train that evening. The Baptist Meetings. —The series of meetings at the Free Will church, came to an end last Sunday evening, There were three accessions to the church that evening: Mr. and Mrs. John | Ramey and Mr. John M, Gant. The accessions previous to that time number 14, the names being |as follows: Mrs. Lewis Day, Mrs. Hawkins, Misses Condra,"Lizzie 1 Cover, Maggie Cover, Alice Shriver; Edvard Smith, Thomas Grant, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Willis, Mr. Ousley, C. C. Brown, David Marion, and Miss Cora Catt.

We have heard from “The Oldest Inhabitant”; in fact from several of them, and tlmy are unanimous in pronouncing the present winter the severest they ever knew, iin Indiana. The venerable Squire I Lewis, of Jordan township, says j he lias talked the matter over with: the other old people of his ac- | quaintance, and all are agreed on the above verdict. Mr. Jonathan Peacock, who has Jived iu Jasper . county twenty-five years, says that i he has known as severe winters in j Eastern New York, but never in 'lndiana. v -*• 1 ' ■ . ' . " ..

The trial of Florence White, the young woman of Brookston , who murdered her illegitimate child, came to an end, at Logansport, last'Thursday, the jury, after being out eighteen hours, bringing in a verdict of manslaughter, and fixing her punishment at two years confinement in the State Reformatory. The evidence showed conclusively that the woman was very deficient mentally, and that fact evidently accounts for the lightness of the penalty. The Smalls woman, who and assisted in the killing of the'babe, was much the more guilty of the two, «nd deserves a severer punishment.