Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1885 — Page 8

IW “ * THE REPUBLICAN. QIItAM ITEMS, “ riS£Qs'-4\ ; * ' '■■ 1 f y IK SfJUffJIVE rOBtRT. - The gentle spring has come at last, And trees begin to bud. Soon will the flowers begin to grow, The son dry up the mud. The summer schools h&ve just begun, There being only four, , Two being taught in but one term, The-reason there's no more. The teachers met in Institute, . The eleventh of April in eighty-five, With H. McCullough, their trustee. They keep the schools alive. ■ • i On the eighteenth of April, so we hear, Examination at Center will be, For graduation, and teachers too, We hope a nice crowd there to see. Some weddings in Gillam have lately L’ occurred, : * We do not now remember the date, ■ One, Thomas Stover to Jennie Newcomb Rosa FulUns and William Streigbt. The quarterly meeting was held at the Chapel, Service conducted by Presiding Eldair, Although the crowd was not very large, A better meeting was never held there. The Gillam items in last week's paper, Spoke of Rev. Guild imMedaryville; •Since, he has moved back to the farm, Ills health is better, yet pulpitcan*t fill The live stock men have held a meeting To make some laws for them a guide. And, by the way, to D. B. Coppess, Wa» born a fine, young, baldfaced Clyde*

BARKLEY ITEMS.

' The grass is growing nicely. The wheat is thought to be badly damaged by the cold winter. The farmers are making preparations to sow oats. Mr. John Pullins is quite low with lung fever. , Miss L. E. Rathfon commenced school at South Lawn, last Monday. We are glad to have Miss Laura with us again. Little Lizzie, enly child oi Mr. and Mrs. James Paraison, died last Thursday morning, of lung fever. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Mo Reynolds, Friday, at 11 o’clock. The bereaved parents have the heartfelt sympathy of the entire community. Rev. Mcßeynolda preached at Pleasant Grove last Sunday afternoon and evening to a rather larger congregation than; for; sometime, owing to the good weather and roads. Mr. John Lewis and family, Mr. Wal Mce Nichols and Miss Rhoda Daniels, started Fast Thursday for Gl'eetisbure, Kansas, which place we understand ;hey intend to make there future home.

Two Divorce Cases.

August Makus was married to Amelia Makus in the province of Posen, in the kingdom of Prussia, iu September, 1874. The fruits of the marriage are two girls, one seven years old, the other live. In 18S0 August came to this country, with the consent and at the re. quest <ff the his wife, the said Amelia. He made a home in Union tp., Jasper county, Indiana, nnd kindly invited his wife to come and live with him, and offered to pay her <p:penses; but she was engaged in the pleasant and profitable business of keeping a saloon, in the fatherland, and : selling beer, whiskey, cigars, Ac, j and refused to cross the briny ! ocean, at the request of her loving husband, and declined to live with him ally longer as his wife. The result has been that August has lost all affection for the cold hearted Amelia, and at the March ! term of tire Jasper circuit court'j he asked for and obtained a divorce on the grounds of abandonment. The children are with the mother and August wouldn’t get them if he could, and couldn’t if i he would. The decree of divorce ! prohibits August from taking j another wife for a period of two j years. A provision which is said ! to have grieved him to the beyrt; as it was whispered that a succes- i sor to 11>e fickle Amelin had StlJ ready been selected. Abigail Eadus, dfJßarkley tp., obtained a divorce from Geo. A. S Eadus, on the grounds of abandon- : anent and failure to provide. Abi-' gnil is said to be about 65 years l old while her J a te husband, if he ; is Irving, which is very doubtful | niust be near eighty. The Teal reason for procuring the divorce was to. give to Mrs. Eadus absolute control certain real-estate which she desired to dispose of. The Chicago & Great Southern i Railway company will hold thenannual election in the depot at Fair Oaks, in this county, at noon, I on Monday, May 4th. A board of directors will be elected and other MB poi tent buvisMti fermwcted

RELIGOUS MATTERS.

BY REV. T. C. WEBSTER.

Begin the day with prayer and meditation on divine things, it will help you through all its hours of toil. Fill a sack full of pure wheat, and there will be no room for chaff. 11 you let God fill your heart with his grace and love, -there will be no room for sin. Martin Luther was heard to say: “I have a great deal of hard work to do to-day, and I must spend a great deal of time in prayer ;” and it was said,- by those who knew him best, the more he had to do, the more time he spent in communion with the Lord* Oh! that every one would learn this lesson.. Our intellects are the gift of God, and no hand but his can brush away the mists. The human mind cannot comprehend the immensity and grandeur, of the wonderous works of the Almighty, in the realm of nature. Look, if you will, on the sun, moon and stars, as they march through the fields of light; trace the measuring line of the divine power, Which goes throughout the earth; go down to the shore of the sounding sea, and gaze with awe upon God’s wonders in the mighty deep; listen to the hymn of praise, lifted up by that mysterious main, whose goings forth are unto the ends of the earth, and whose secret chambers no eye hath seen.. Go, stand under the shadow of the great mountains, and think of the mighty power that piled the rocky mass above the clouds, and ‘-sunk their sunless 'pillars deep in the earth.” Look out over the green landscape, and see the grazing flocks, as they find pasturage upon a thousand hills: inhale the fragrance of the flowers, “bright alphabet of angels, whereby-God writes mysterious trift-hs on mountain, hill and plain:” listen to

the hum of wings and the voiee of song, warbled forth by the birds of the air; look upon the fleecy vapors of the morning as they wander like flocks in mid air, see them as they increase in power and volume, until we behold clouds of thick .darkness, and hear the trumpetings of the storm; and when the warring tempest has swept the plains of heaven with its “wild artillery,” God hangs out his how of peace upon the retiring cloud, and bids us look upon the token oi his covenant with all flesh. The air, the .water and the earth team with myriad forms of life. The systems of worlds-extends so far over the immensity of -space,- as to sweep beyond our loftiest calculations, and-stagger human thought. But as. we Come to sound the deeper and more awful mysteries of our spiritual and Immortal.being, wo pass over depths and abysses, where no measuring lines of thought or reason cam find- a shoal' or a shore.. But if these things in nature, all about us, are so fa" above our comprehension, how much more astounding a e the marvelous plans and provisions of God, in tire higher and purer realms of giace Mau was created in the-image of* the Infinite One. endowed with faculties of vast com pre-hen-ion, blest with the glorious privilege of cloudless communion with his Maker; and surrounded with every, thing to make him happy: but in the face of.all this, of his own will, and by , his own act, be forfeited this higr, estate, and became a rebel against the divine government.. Notwithstanding ■ all this, God stoops in mercy to his. vile abode, besfows'hiis best gift upon the fallen wretch, to win him back from ; siu to gives his grace to j sustain and keep -him in the way of j peace, sends his angels to guard him j in the way, and gives unto him the | Holy Spirit to lead Mm into ail truth. When lih heart is treed from sin, and bis whole being is filled with light and ; peace, he sets before him still greater' I riches of grace, and graciously invi.es him to partake of the feast of everlasting love. Oh, ■ wondrous grace! Oh, matchless love! No wonder, Paul said: i “Eye hath not seen, ear hath not heard. 1 nei.her bath it entered into the heart of J man to conceivu o! the things that God hath prepared for them that love him.” And yet, blessed 'thought; we may kn >w i‘. well enough to enjoy al? tlia pur hearts arc capable of conti-inii g. and bs abundantly satisfied.

A New Day of Issue for "TheCentury."

The ediiiuns of Tim (fcnfury Maaaare Eo v so large that it has become accessary either to go to press at [an curlier date-or to postpone the day : <»t issue. The latter alternative has be«m accepted. [The At-ru number, tr.e edition of which was 225,000, was delayed uutii tlie 25th of Match. The M.-fy number—edition, 250,<100—Will he issued oa the first day of May, thus inaugurating with the first number of the thirtieth Volume a change which lias long been considered desirable by lb© publishers, and which is believed will be heartily commended by the public. Future liuthbers of Tm (Jcntury Atitftr/siitc Will bcrlrtucd puttie day Of the tugbti of whlcU -each iklr.

Shall the Sentence be Commuted?

Editor Bejntbliccm: —la the Jasper County Jail lies a man under sentence, thei severest the laws of Indiana, under any circumstances, can impose. Such is the horror with which the people of this state look upon murder, that they have seen fit to mako it, with treason, a capital offense. That crime must be punished in some way, will not be questioned ; but in the above case, the manner of punishment is called in question. We think the law contemplates capital punishment only in agravated cases of murder. All the circumstances- surrounding the case in question: the deliberate preparations, the mode of perpetrating the crime, the final disposition of the body, and especially the hiding of the clothes, all tend to show that the whole affair was a matured plan, a deliberate, premeditated murder. The grounds of-objection to the severe judgment are: that the perpetrator jof this horrid crime was ignorant of its enormity; that he had not the mental capability to comprehend it. The story of the crime causes these groundless assertions to fall unsupported. The associations of .this man. the church to which he adheres, hold in deepest flabhorronco such atrocilies; can it be possible that he has never been made acquainted with the enormity of murder? It makes no difference, for the purposes of this case, whether we believe in capital punishment or not. Personal feeling and personal beliefs must not, and of right should not enter into thismatter; that was not the point involved;' neither can the fact, that some one will be forever disgraced. If personal sympathy, sentimental emotions, unbelief in a certain mood of punishment are to control the actions of our courts, there will never be a criminal punished hence forth fir ever. There are -always a few who are involved, indirectly, with the criminal himself-, by dint of kinship, either by blood or marriage. Are the likes or dislikes ©f these few going to rale, and even overturn, the decisions of our courts? Is the unbelief of a Tew of our citizens in capital punishment to cheat the gallows of its dues? The Court realized the solemn responsibil - ity imposed upon it—that its sentence sealed the doom of this man. The Court did its duty; its judgment should be upheld; the majesty of the law reign supreme.

A fine tombstone, of most unique design, lias just been completed, and is now ready for erection in Weston cemetery, for Mr. Simon. Phillips, in memory of his late 'wife. Jt is matte of Eliisville limestone, is eight feet high, and of corresponding size. It represents the lower portion of a large tree, broken off at the top, and with broken branches. Ivy and morning glory vines clamber up the trunk, and in an upper fork, rest two mourning doves. The mon-ument-is the work of our Iff ns seiner marble worker, Mr. Henry Mackey, and gives great credit to his abilities in his profession.

Among the items in the specific appropri ation bill, of the late Legislature was one allowing to S. P. Thompson, of this place, SofXJ for services as attorney, in the matter of escheating to the state a cartain estate in Newton' county*, several years ago. Owing to Mr. Thompson’s prompt action at the time, the state became possessed of property to the value of several thousand dollars, which it would otherwise have lost. As the bill finally failed -to pass, Mr. Thompson, in company with a good many other creditors of the state will have to wait for Iris money at least two years longer.

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The imported Clydesdale horse, Young Silver,'light bay, live years old, l(j hands high, weight .1550 lbs., bred by Mas: Gibsou. Dumfries, Scotland: and whien took second premium-at the Indiana State Fair in 1883, will make the season of 1885. as follows: Mondays and Tuesdays of each week at W. K. Parkison’s place, and Wednesdays at It.-.' Ik -■Harris’ - 'place, both in Barkley tp., and the rest oi the time at my place, in Gillam tp, T@“Tkrms:—slo to insure; sl2 for season.: $8 for single service. A. POLL INS. - m ■■ i A-, T ~t 7- -r-\/-y-i —\*r y Van flow make \ Y -A ! ) V Photographs by .. I -D /U 1 the new Dr v Plate Process. —For 53-ets.we will send post-uaTd Ttoehe's Minina I for Amateurs, which gives full instructions for making the pictures. Outfits we furnish from upwards. Our "PIiOTOOKAPUfC lIP I.J.ETI NV edited by Prof. <'ll.'s. l<\ On ASnr.i:]!, fiend df tite ChemTcsil Department rt the School of Mines, Columbia College, published twice a month for only S- per annum, keeps Photographers, professional or amateur, fully posted on all improvements, r.tul answers all questions when I!itilcul ties arise. .• „. Circulars ami price lists frte E. & H- T. ANTHONY & CO , Hasfetnrers oiPtettzraplls- Anparatns and Materials, 2sr=. ssi ■NEW YORK ClTjy. Forty Year# vniiibltihed in ltd# line of biisint*#. 17-20 PIOKEER MEAT MARKET, Rensselaer, - - Indiana J. J. SIUiLESIiACIR, Pi-op’r. BEEF, I’ork, Veal, Mutton, Sausauge, l‘o logna, etc., sold in quantities to suit pur abusers r.l the lowest prices. None but. tlie bcsl stoul slaughtered, Everybody is invited all. T2ie BJighest I*rice Paid so» uuod Tat CaUte. \ ■I. .1. KJOEKSHAf IT. ; I • ■ ; j] I RENSSELAER^ .. IiMSRBLEEt SSASITE forte, I; H. MACKEY l>lt(llT.ll*TOIt. { ■* w ' * l \ , All kinds of Cemetery : i work done to order. V 1 j Also all kinds of build-; I I ling work. ~ * * j i .. li IMHI- |j

' Dai nm i the m. r i_._ . ... , - „. . ■ . j . J 11st opened, 1-1-2 miles north of town. New Works and New Machinery. Repressed bricks for fronts, a specialty. Tile of the best quality and all sizes constantly on hand. C7&H and examine goods and learn prices. J. D. MATTHEWS, Proprietor. NEW! all NEW! .§ • : - I would-respectfully announce to the people of Jasper Co. that I have made arrangements to sell Farm EMPIRE MOWERS, EMPIRE REAPERS, EMPIRE BINDERS &c. And will keep extras on hand, at all times for the machines. I am also prepared to do In the best and most workmanlike manner, and at the lowest possible rates. WAG OUSTS A NTD BUGGIES repaired, and all other work usually done in that line. NEW WAGONS AND BUGGIES Made to order, and of. the best material and workmanship. Udi’AShop on Front-Street, south of Citizens’ Bank.^JFJ R. BE. YKOOTJLM, r-a . .. Rexsselaeii, In.j>. 17-27-ts. ■ ■ - . -vy v.;A,r::; v TTW — :~7~ JX.VAUGHAN 43 LaSalle st. All GARDEN TOOLSJH fl slain y? )!« Css g » IPI-OAVEK. Hi £mm> CORIV and COMPLETE \ WfcW Bf ■SSiSKSk potatoes. list us tks; v. s. 181 SB IT IT 80ICIS! ;-*•. - * - . --ij--,"'l 1, 1..H1 HI «im.»M».wmTOi ,r ' n| in ■■■'lll ■■nilMHMumMuuumaiuMwiMra The undersigned will have on hand and for sale this spring, trees of the best standard varieties for this latitude. Also • • ' . '• hm lltaj irsis, kqmm it,

• ' " tctpi+r'"' "W agaaa KxygcacßS ggyanggiu cJwnral \/ r^y"T f » irJ».a \jj 00 KC * W fiiacaNj hllßl^ nice size for transplanting. Also . Mill, JJ, II d CilffiH T®,- / V' v .for shade and ornamental purposes and for groves; all of which will he sold at REASONABLE rates for spot GASH. , All persons wanting HEDGE-’ PLAN TS should give me their order soon, and I will get the plants for them as I do not keep them in stock. Thanking you for past patronage; I ask for a continuance of the same, p v Yours Respectfully, HH -■ c JOHN COEN,. i7«B9<tfc JPropristof jaenMelwr Kurwry . —:p:V ■ \ • ' - ,• -" N ■ : ' T H,,.p,p