Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1886 — County Correspondence. [ARTICLE]

County Correspondence.

BA IiKLV Y ITEM*. The ’ wedtlier in favorable and road 3 muddy. „ Mumps are ragiug intiiib neighborhood BOW. • ; -The grass is gi'owing fiuely and the wheat |B not damaged. 1 Mr. Sos Norman is a hnp;;y fatherrffrst bor« r is a girLMr. Perry Marlatt steps higher than his blind horse, since lie was elected Supervisor. , ■ _ The young ladies wish that the roads would get good, so - the match roans could go: The Blackford postmaster is looking for a change. He says Be dont care how soon a democrat steps into his shoes. Mr. John English has been patting in a ,large quantity of tile oa his corn ground this spring. He expects his spn to raise u large crop. Mr. H. Helvas and family are going to Washington Territory this summer, and he has rented his farm to G. Kesslar for three years. Ueckless Jack. '• - —r-.-REM IXG TON ITKMS, P. H. Lally and A. G. Hardy are both the proud and happy of brand new daughters .since Friday and Saturday last. The twins born to Mr. and Mre. Fred Bipomor finished their short race in a few days, both dying within a week after their birth. Mr. J. E. Hollett is laying the massive foundations for his new fire-proof building, which will lieerected as rapidly as the work 0 di be pushed. Business is fairly active iu our little burgh; especially in the way of real estate, transactions. Property is changing hands rapidly, ar.d is commanding better prices than formerly. Having closed their work here the two. young and able., workers, Messrs. Bolding and Palmer have -gone 4p leaving wit-h its new converts to the care of its faithful pastor, -Hey. J. B. Crowe. Bev. Mr. Sharp, of Watseka, is conducting a series of'meetings at the Christian church, beginning last Saturday evening. Up to this date (Monday evening) five p.ertuns had united with the church. We are glad to note the. fact that so many (ire -seeking for “the Straight and narrow way” and hope they - may hereafter walk steadily therein. The wonderful revival at the Presbyterian church closed with a “social tea” on Monday evening, a royal banquet to which the young converts and their friends were kind of farewell treat to the gifted young ministers who have labored so earnestly with them during the past two or three weeks. -Fifty-live persons, were received into the church on Sunday; thirty-one of them receiving the'rite of baptism. ‘IIEMINGTGNTAN.

f . . -4 ' 1 An interesting suit for damages ha 3 just been in the (Circuit Court. Winifred Mnlcnhy sues Jam.fr> F. Givens for •The plaihtilT? complafet alleges that oh tho2dth day of last January Mrs. Bfttkahtvittad Michael, came to town from their .jplace, six miles distant, in a sleigh. That ivhile in town Givens unlawfully sold liquor to Mulcaiiy until he v'as crazy drunk. That while on“fheif wky“tiOTn e the team vtoc allowed to run away, on account ol the drunkenness, aud tliat the sleigh was upset and Mr. and Mrs. Mulcaiiy seriously hurt. Mrs. Mulcahy asks for 15500 as a recom'-pc-nse for her own personal injuries/ and for §2,000 for her husband’s injuries; which last, it is alleged, are of such a character as to forever disqualify him from doing anything towards his own and his wife’s support;

We intencf to give our “sporting editor” the bounce iFire ever gives us another itchn so crooked as was the account of the wrestling iu the issue of two weeks ago. Lagt week we had to fix up matters for Milt Makeever, and now comes Joe Paxton, whom we stated was downed by Young Iliff, and, claims that lie, the said Joe, is now a sober married man, the head of a family, and that he no longer indulges in so undignified a practice as wrestling iu public. It was Joe’s twin brother, John, who did the wrestling. In passing, we wish to remark that in case if we do connect the wrong man’s name with a wrestling match hereafter, we shall take care to say that he downed the other man, instead of being downed himself, and in that case \ve are disposed to think that we shall be much less likely to be called on to made corrections.