Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1885 — NEWS PERSONALS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS PERSONALS.

Come to Rensselaer on the Fourth. Miss Mable Campbell of Oxford, is visiting her old friend, Miss Birdie Hammond. ...- 1 H . The Rev. Peter Hinds lias been recalled to preach another year to the Pilot Grove Baptist church, near Mount Airy. All lovers of the beautiful should 3Tbit the Ladies’ Bazar, to see Mrs. Workman’s samples of embroidery and Repoussee. Mr. Bailey Martm, lately Superintendent of the Carthage, Ind., schools, was in town this week, as on applicant for the Superintendency of the Rensselaer schools. Mr. and Mrs. Berry Paris started across the country last 3veek, in their carriage, to visit friends in Oxford and Attica. They returned home yesterday. , Some of the gypsy wagons were 3 T eny handsome. One of them, especially, was a palace on wheels, on a small scale, it is said that a Gypsy Queen was an occupant of that vehicle. Messrs. Senator Hoover and O. B. Mclntire, the two big \ Moguls ot the Remington Democracy, were in town last 3veek. They had just returned from a political pilgrimage to Washington.

The new postal laiv nosv makes the taking of ane wspaper and the refusal to pay for the same, theft; land any one guilty of such an action is liable to criminal proceeding, the same as if he has stolen goods to the amount of the subscriptionKentl and Gazette. A letter addressed to the “Falls of The Iroquois, Fez Postoffice, Newton county, Ind.,” would not be likely to 63*er reach Rensselaer, but that was the style of the place fifty years ago, according to Mr. Van Rensselaer’s history, publish- ' ed this week. The M. E. Sunday School had a big picnic at Peacock’s grove, 3vest of toivn, last '.L’hurbday. Scholars and teachers were nearly all present, and many invited friends besides. It 3vas a very pleasant day for all the participants, and especially so for the children.

Mr. Ed Sampson has resighed his position as night operator, at the Rensselaet .depot, and will soon go to Michigan, fpr a month or two. Mr. Sampson’s place has heeitiilledby its old incumbent. Sam Nichols. Mr. Nichols, by the way, is a married man now, having taken a wife, shortly after leaving this place, last year. Uncle Moses Davisson, whose sickness has already been mentioned in this paper, died of chronic bronchitis, at the residence of his son-in-law* Clement Timmons, at Pleasant Ridge, on Wednesday of last week. He was buried on Friday at the Barkley cemetery, in Barkley township. His age was 74 years. The Porter County Yideite has but one blemish. It has an old font of Crank Spelling Reform type eked, out by stars, daggers, inverted figures and letters, &c, which it uses in its editorial and State News columns. Matter printed in it looks like Josh Billings’ copy set up by the youngest Devil in the office out of the Sheol box; and that is where we advise Bro. Talcott to throw the stuff,

Robert Ri.shling, a well known and very estimable resident of Hanging Grove township, died at his residence, last Thursday morning, of blood poisoning, after an illness of about three months duration. His age was about 45 | years, and he leaves a wife and | five children to mourn his death. ; The funeral took place Saturday, I the interment being at the Osbornp cemetery. „ it Miss Efiie Shepard, daughter r.£ Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Shepard, formerly residents of this vicinity, jdied at her parents’ residence, in | Humeston, lowa, of variola, June j 20, 1885. She was a little more | than 10 years of age, and a most : excellent and attractive young I lady. She was sick but a few days and had just returned to her home after an extended visit with friends in the east; and among the •last plaees she visited was Rensselaer, where sh§ passed several weeks, leaving her friends here but a very short time before the melanckolly news of her death came back to them.

A good old fashioned “Celebration” at Repsbelaer on Saturday. The gypsies broke camp yesterday, and departed > for parts ilpknown. The body of a fourteen pound still-born son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Duvall, of Chicago, was buried in Weston Cemetery, last week.

The Oxford Tribune man has come down to a patent seven column folio. “O what a fall was thtere, my countrymen.”—ldaville Independent. The Ladies of the Missionary Baptist phurch, will have a Raspberry and Ice-cream festival, on Thursday evening, July 2nd, 1885. Every body kmted. W. W. Watson, the Pension Agent, reached home last night. In company with about 80 other special agents his term of services ivas terminated yesterday. Come to Rensselaer, Saturday, and celebrate while you have a chance. Next year Independence Day will be on Sunday, aud “Every Day will be Sunday, by-and-by.” The spelling mania has struck Rensselaer, and the W. C. T. U. will give a series of spelling matches in a few weeks. A prize will be awarded to the best speller.

The Premium lists of the Tippecanoe County Fair, have been sent out. The premiums offered aggregate $6,000. The fair will begin August 31st, and continue one week. The Hanson * household had another family fight last Monday ! night; and on Tuesday morning | Mr. Hanson pleaded guilty to the charge of whipping his wife, ! and ivas fined $lO and costs; i i The beautiful pantomime, “The j Mistletoe Bough” gotten up reigardless of expenses, and with ■ many ne v and attractive features, iat the Independence Day Entertainment, at the Opera House, i

The heirs of the late Geo. Kannal are making an amicable division of the property, without tile intervention of an administrator. Thfe excellent and methodical manner in which Mr. Kannal managed his property makes such a settlement very easy to accomplish. D, G. Fenton, of Franklin, Johnson county, a graduate of Hanover College, this state; and E. W. Reubelt, for nine years Superintendent of the Noblesville, Ind., schools, were in town this week a,s applicants for the much sought for Superintendency of the Rensselaer schools. O. B. Mclntire, banker and proprieter of the Remington News went to Washington recently, and returned with the Remington post office in his pocket. Senator Fred Hoover, who accompanied him on the trip is said to have a sure thing on an Indian agency. —Monticello Herald.

Mr. and Mrs. A. Thompson, and daughter Ora, and son Delos, returned from Ann Aarbor, last Friday. The young people graduated at Michigan University, with high honors. They graduated from the literary course, and received the degrees of B. L., or Bachelor of Letters. Mr. James W. Graves, a prominent citizen of Morocco, informed the Kentland Gazette* that the prospect for the early construction of the Rochester, Rensselaer, & St. Louis railroad-are brightening considerably. He bases his renewed faith on the strength of a letter from Mr. Lee, the President of the road, in which the latter stated that lie was to go East last week, on business pertaining to the early commencment of the construction of the road

Mr. Alfred Hoover, father of the Treasurer elect, is greatly afflicted. For many weeks he has lain in a paralytic condition, at his residence a few miles south of town, unable to rise from his bed, or in fact to move any part of his body, except his right arm. He speaks occasionally, but at long intervals and in an incoherent manner. A remarkable feature of his condition is, that on several occasions, he has fallen into a deep sleep, out of which no efforts could arouse him.-. On one occasion he slept in this manner continuously for 34 hours, and at another time for about as long a period.

The town was full of country people, last Saturday. Mrs. Michael Schneider, of Cleveland, Ohio, is making her annual visit to her relatives in Newton tp., tho Bisloskeys. Mrs. Col. Learning, of Lafayette was visiting her son, F. B. Learning and family, last week returned home on Saturday. We have received notice of a Gospel Temperance Basket meeting, to be held at Watson’s Grovrn July 12. Further notice will be given in due time >

Come to Rensselaer on the 4th of July, with your wife and your babies, 3vith your man servant and your maid servant, and join in one day of patriotic- pastime, and pleasureable rest. I am in earnest. I want to close out my present stock of goods. Every customer who visits the Ladies Bazar for the next thirty days, v ill get a good bargain. Mollie W, Babcock; Born. —Tuesday morning, June 30, 1885, at her home in Rensselaer, to Mrs. J. F. Antrim, wife of the Deputy Recorder, a son. Weight pounds and a fine boy, generally. Frank lines has left hisposition at Casad’s, and purchased a stock of drugs at Monon. Frank made many° friends while here> and while they are sorry to lose him, they will wish him success in his new ventnre.-Monticello Democrat

Mrs. Workman, teacher of Embroirdery and Repoussee,, (Hammered Brass) will return to Rensselaer, and be ready to receive pupils, July 6. Ladies of Rensselaer and vicinity are invited to call and see samp! es of work at the Ladies’ Bazar. I ha\ r e in stock 250,000 ft. of lumber, one half larger -stock than any any other man in the county. lam willing to sell this lumber on small margins. You can save money by getting my prices before jou buy. 2t R. P. Benjamin.

Under the new readjustment of salaries of postmasters, the salary of the Rensselaer office is reduced from $l,lOO to SI,OOO or just enough to still leave it a presidential office. The reduction results from the 2 cent postage rate. The next adjustment, based on the rater which went into effect yesterday, will in all probability reduce the office to the fourth class. . Mr. John Makeever, and his daughter, Mrs. Jay Williams, returned from their extended Eastern trip, last Saturday. They have been absent very nearly" four weeks. They visited most of the principal cities of the East, including Richmond, Washington,. Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Portland, Montreal Niagara Falls, <tc., stopping at each place from a day and a half to frve days. Their longest stay was made at Washington.

A big gang of those wild and wandering remnants of a long since vanished nation, the gypsies went into camp, a short distance west of the cemetery, last week. There are 25 or 30 vehicles in the camp, and a corresponding number of women, children, dogs and horses. Irreclaimable heathens and barbarians, they follow the ways of life to which they were born, and know no other. They toil not neither do they spin, and it requires only a view of them to convince anybody that bolomon in all his glory was not arrayed at all like one of these. The men, fat and greasy, for the most part, loaf around, and trade horses, while the women scout around selling trinkets, and telling fortunes to the credulous* The character and extent of the “fortunes” perdicted depend something upon : the amount paid for them. An | entirely rose-colored and gilt edged : future costs a dollar, while prospects of less attractive hues can jbe had for 50 or 25 cents. But | whatever price is paid for the ; fortune there are a few points that 1 are always present. * The “letter” jis always on the way to you, the i “sudden surprise,” and the “long journey” are always to be depended on; but on be right sure that the rich uncle will die and leave you well fixed financially? you have to pay a p’fetty liberal price usually.