Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1885 — NEWS AND PERSONALS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS AND PERSONALS.

“Thawin.” Still a Thawing. is heartily glad to see the snow depart. Mrs. Tom Hammaker, of Uniontp., has erysipelas of the face. The Rensselaer public schools are having their Spring vacation, this week. Ason was born to Mr. and Mrs. Albert Lowman, of Marion tp., on Feb. 25th.

Miss Mary Washburn; lias so far recovered from her sickness, as to be able to sit up a exhort time, each day. Mrs. Mary Wright, daughter of Robert Kepner, is very low with lung disease. Her death is liable* to occur at any time. ‘ Sale Bills gotten up on short notice and in good shape at The Republican job printing office. Prices as low as the lowest. The ancient and worn out seal of the Jasper Circuit Court in the Circnit Clerk’s office, has been replaced by a new one. Four persons have united with the M. E. church since last reported, Frank Wood, Lee Catt, a son of Mrs. Phillips, and Mrs, Mackey, J. F. Warren, the Deputy Auditor, has just bought the O. C. Dickey house,-south of the M. E. church. W onder who is going to keep house for him ?

It is stated that Lew Morrell, predecessor of Charley Claypool in the Michigan City Enterpriser will resurrect that defunct paper some time in April. Coke Henkle, of Wichita, Kan., came home last Saturday to visit his mother, Mrs. L. W. Henkle, who has been very sick, but is dow better.

The Methodist ladies had a big time at their fair and supper, last evening, and also accumulated a goodly number of shekels—about S4O, clear, probably. The Rev. T. C. Webster, of the M. E. church, goes to Valparaiso, today, to assist in a revival meeting, in progress there. He will not return until towards the end of next week.

Trustee Wm. Myers -and his neighbor Young Holle, were down from Walker last Thursday, with sixty bushels of wheat for grinding They weropreparing for the.breakup in the wea,ther. ' Sheriff Yeoman brought Frank Hopkins to this place from the asylum last Thursday night. The unfortunate young man’s mind is an almost utter blank, but he is docile and harmless. Married. —At the residence of Mr. John English, in Barkley township, on Wednesday Feb 26th; Mr. L. R» Florence to Miss Eveline English. The Rev. R. C. Mcßeynoids, officiating. The Rochester papers still talk encouragingly of the Rochester Rensselaer & St. Louis Railroad, and think there is good grounds for believing that the road will be put through this year.

In the absence of the pastor, there will be a class-meeting at the M. E. church next Sunday morning, in lieu of lhe regular services. In the evening the Rev. George Haveps will preach. A week of moderately warm weather, without rain, has carried off a large part of the snow which had covered the ground in this section, in a slow but safe manner, and without the danger of high waters.

J. W. Groom is the last Jasperite, so far, to make a break for the new town of Greensburg, in Edwards County, Kansas. He reports that the old Jasper folks in that vicinity are happy and well pleased with the country. Our former townsman, Mr. Geo. W; Norris, has just removed from Franklin county Nebraska, to Buda, in Buffalo county.] He says they have had cold westher in his locality, but no storms to speak of. His health is much improved since he moved to a dryer climate. Auditor Robinson has filled*the Assessorship bf Carpenter township, made vacant by the resignation of B. C. Coover, by appointing W ; B. Price, Sr.j to the place A better man for the j place than | PriM vefliabebjard ... - . • ‘ : a . ;

F. W. Cole has accepted a good offer to work for a pump factory, in Lafayette. He will remove there shortly. Mabried.-Ou Sunday afternoon, March Ist 1885, at the residence of the bride’s father, Mr. EliFaris, in Gillam township, Mr. Charles Sprague to Miss Malinda Faris, the Rev. John. Sebring performing the ceremony.

Messrs. John, Florence and his son, L. F. Florence, of Barkley township, give notice in another place of a public sale on the 12th inst. The elder Mr. Florence intends moving to town shortly, with his family, and will buy or build a residence. That jovial boy, % J. McCoy, is working on an invention too. Something about a gun or ammunition, or something of that kind, of course. There is nothing small about Tom and he has agreed to give us a thousand dollars as soon as he has cleared a million on the invention. Ti

Mr. D. F. Yenrick,whose departure for the West was mentioned last week, writes to have his copy of The Republican sent to Tyler, in Decatur county, Kansas, at which place he expects to settle. He likes the country well, and says the weather is very pleasant, and no snow. , . DeWitt Talmage, the celebrated hew-gag preacher of the Biooklyn Tabernacle, will lecture at the Grand Opera House, at Lafayette, on the evening of March 14th. Bro. Talmage is a mighty man of words, mid we think it more than probable that some of our citizens will find it worth their while to go down and hear him. If March comes in like a lion it will go out like a lamb, and vice versa, according to the old saying. Last Sunday was the first day of March, and it was neither lamblike nop decidedly leonine, but a sort of compromise between the two. Considerable snow flew during the day but the weather remained warm and the snow melted about as

Monticello Herald: Of all the victims of “Patent insides” among our exchanges, neighbor McEwen fared the worst during the blockade. Hip Chicago side failed to arrive, an 4 he had no blank papep from which to print a half sheet.' He surmounted the difficulty by issuing a hand bill containing all his live advertisements, and the usual amount of reading matter contained in the Sentinel.

About one hundred persons met at the Free Will Baptist church last Sunday afternoon for the purpose of organizing a Sunday school. The organization was effected by the election of Rev. B. F. Fer« uson, Supt.; Dr. Washburn, Assistant Supt.; Thomas Warren, Treasurer; John Gant, Chorister. Seven classes were organized and teachers appointed for the same. I’he hour of meeting will be 3 o’clock p.m.

That ornary and treacherous lunatic, Tom Coghill, makes ho end of trouble out at the poor farm. Last week he made a sudden and vicious assault upon Superintendent Phillips, with a big club in his hands, and mnrdar in his heart; but with the efficient help of Mrs. Roberts they soon thrashed the fellow out and locked him up in the jail room of the institution— the only safe place for him.

Mrs. Mattie Small, the Logansport woman charged with assisting Florence White, of Brookston, in making away with the latter’s baby, was acquitted last week. The only witness of the crime was Miss White, herself, and Judge Winston having decided that she could not be compelled to testify, she refused to answer a word to the prosecutor’s questions, and there was nothing to do but to dismiss the case. r Mr. and Mrs W. B. Price Jr., of Hand county, Dakota, who are passing the winter with their relatives at and near Remington, were in Rensselaer Friday. Both of them are pictures of health, while the appearance of Mrs. Price, formerly Miss Mary Draper, is especially, so very robust as toi anggest the suspicion that the (Immigration Bureau of Dakota, ym bribed her to corns east as an ftdVcrtiiMmeut of the eatatokrae 0! the Dakota dto&t*

Mrs. M. J. Cole is going to Kansas, shortly, and will jell her household effects, Saturday afternoon, on the vacant lot on Van Rehsselaer street, between Grant’s blacksmith shop and Bedford & Warner’s store.

Squire James Yeoman, of Newton township, started for . Ohio, Tuesday evening, called there by the sad news that his son David, a student in some college' in thr.t state, had died after a few days illness. We have learned none of the particulars of the death.

The Town. Board, at their meeting last Monday evening passed on a number of claims, and also passed an ordinance of considerable interest to owners of “gentleman horses’’ and ordered Susan street to be ’opened through the old school house lot. The damages allowed the school trustees is $250.

Mr. Zim Pans oF Bridgewater Dak., returned to Rensselaer from his eastern and southern trip, last Monday night. He has taken in the New Orleans Exposition, and thinks it is a pretty big thing. He left for Chicago last evening, from whence after a few days stay,, he will return to Dakota.

Clerk Irwin has received notice that Wesley Price must be ’removed from the insane asylum, at Indianapoliti. His condition is unimproved. He was a resident of Barkley tp., before his insanity. It is probable that he wilt have to be kept at the poor house. He lias been in the asylum since the fall of 1881, if memory does not deceive us.

Licensed to Mabry.—The Circuit Clerk has issued marriage licenses as follows, since our last report: j Leroy Florence, j Eveline Faris. j Chas. Sprague, ( Malinda Faris. j Valentine Seib*. ( Rosa Eaker., j Wm. P. Poisel, 1 Lillie C. Reed. The Rochester Sentinel “pitch-

es into” the Rutledge Publishing Company of Easton, Pa. and calls that institution a fraud and says it owes the Sentinel two books in payment for notices, which it refuses to send. Our experience wilh the company has been that they have always been prompt in doing what they agreed to do. They expressly state that thay will pay nothing for notices published too late to be of any benefit to them, and it is just possible that our friends of the Sentinel have over looked that proviso in their advertising propositions. The case of the Chicago & Great Southern rail-roacj, was to have come up in the Newton circuit court yesterday. An attempt will be made in behalf o£ these having small claims against the road to have Receiver Shnmway removed* and another appointed in his stead. It is said that a Senegambiah of cullossal proportions is somewhere ensconced in the woodpile, —in other words that the big claimants are trying to gobble the road and squeeze out the small ones, and that the present receiver favors the interests of the former. The matter will probably be thoroughly ventilated before the end of the week, and Judge Ward, we doubt not, will do what justice demands in the case.

Side-tracking the moon.— Ed Sampson, night operator at the Rensselaer depots saw a big, bright light down the track other night, and rushed into the office and the following interesting dialogue between Mr. Sampson and Train Dispatcher passed over the wires: Rensselaer night operator. Train in! Train Dispatcher. How did she' get there? R. N. O. Its here all the same. T. D. You saw a lantern. SR.N. O. I know a head-light from a lantern. „ T. D. Look again. «R.N. O. (Looks again,) O. K. no train. T. D. What did you see? R. N. O. O. K. no train. T. D. What did yon see? R. N. O. The moon. Ti D. Kristi Don’t ride track: the moon* {mil the rope end let her go,