Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1885 — Presbyterian Meetings. [ARTICLE]

Presbyterian Meetings.

We publish this week still an other communication in regard to the late sad death of Lizzie Israel, nee Day. This time the letter is from the poor girl’s father, Wilborn Day, who has just returned to his home in Barkley township from a visit to the scene of his daughter’s death, Mr. Day is one of the best men of his township or of the county, and that he states what he fully believes to be the truth in this matter, no one who knows him will doubt. His revelations throw a dark shadow over the character of Elvin Israel, 'and it is just possible that, in his sorrow and indignation, he judges Israel’s conduct more harshly than it deserves: we cannot deny that his assertions find strong confirmation in the verdict of the Coronor’s jury, which examined into the cause of Mrs. Israel’s deaths as the following brief item from tne Kingman, Kansas, Courier will allow. We quote from the Courier: ‘•A coroner’s jury in Edwards county fountf that Mrs. Lizzie Israel, who died recently at, Greensburg, had been grossly abused and illtre'.itgd by her, husband. The county attorney, however, did not think the evidence sufficiently strong to •fe old him for criminal prosecution.”

The following from an exchange suits the case of a few subscribers to every newspaper in the land: “every newspaper publisher is curse d with an occasional subscriber whose soul seems to have been made of the fag-end of the material, and a skimp pattern at that. We are always thankful when such lift themselves from our,, list The soonei the better. They generally refuse to take the paper from our office after taking it two or i three years without paying a cent for it—a plain * steal with an -insult added. Or else they move away without saying a word or paying a nickel. Or they all at once discover that they never ordered it. never wanted it, pever received it regularly -- not more than half of the time won’t pay for it. In either case it is a cowardly creep such as no honorable mau would be guilty of. The proper way to stop a newspaper -is to pay up first and then stop it any way you please afterwards. If you are a gentleman and don’t owe a Cent, walk into the office look the gentleman in charge full in the eyes, and tell him you don’t wish it or can’t afford it. If you pre on the hog plan, chuck it back into the postoffice, and mark it / ‘‘refused.”

Owing to the delayed trair, the Rev. Gilbert Small was not able tb keep his appointment to preach in Rensselaer last Snndhy. He will preaeh next Sunday and the Sunday following, and also hold services during tjji intervening week.