Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1885 — from Our Gxchanges. [ARTICLE]

from Our Gxchanges.

■ i, W Journal. I.t is rumored that Lafayette clainas Belva Lock wood ns an old resident. This may be true. We won’t be surprised it Lafayette would claim the grave of Shakespeare next, or try to i prove the hi k rested on Oakland hilL .'• ' • I Lataj.ettc C»nricr. 1 Rt. Rev. Bishop D wenger, of this j diocese. baS been selected by Arcfibishiop Gibbons, of Baltimore, the apostolic ! delegate of the ree-mt plenary council, ■ to leave for Rome and represent the I hierarchy of the United States before the college of cardinals in the adoptior of the' measures adopted in the council of Baltimore. The distinguished churchman leaves within two. weeks. I

■ Valpariso Messenger, , This is the way it works at Michigan I City, according to the Dispatch: ‘‘Yes'’, 1 said a Washington street girl to her escort, as they glided around the rink, “I do love roller skating. When we are sailing around -this "Way my soul seems to Le—to be floating toward ■ heaven, and- By some mistake in ' the programme, at this point both her souls floated toward heaven, while the rest of her smote the hard 'woed floor with a mighty smote. Some weeks ago a young nepfiew bf Gus Mitzuer, a farmer re-iding dear Koutts».came her from the Fatherland. He found employment on the farm of W. L. Maxwell, near Tassifiong, This young German was the possessor oTa splendid pair of mittens. Maxwell succeeded, as the story •runs, in trading another pair forthem. In a day or two the young man repented and expressed a strong desire to trade back. To this proposition Maxwell flatly refused. The German, however, succeeded in getting hold of the much coveted mittens and deliberately made the exchange himself, and concealing them in a secure place. Upon discovering the exchange a demand was made for their return. This the German refused to do, and thereupon Maxwell, Ira Stoddard and two others took it upon themselves to force the German to divulge the place of epneeal merit-. They procured a rope and told the German to bring back the mittens or tell where they were ’or that they would hang him to a tree. Still refusing, the rope was placed around bis neck and he was strung up. When let down life was almost extinct, in fact, fears were entertained that he could not be rescpscitated. The case, we understand, is to be proecuted by Mr, Mitzner.