Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1886 — Locals and Personals. [ARTICLE]

Locals and Personals.

Mies Rena Layton iB the guest of Miss Beth Richardson, on Cullen street. Bricklaying began on the Eiger Brothers’ new business building, Tuesday afternoon. The Republican from now till January Ist, —5 months—for fifty cents. Monticello Herald : Prof. Gunning is now doing Rensselaer. He believes Delphi can find natural gas easier than Lafayette. Frank Molloy, the 16 year old son of Emma Molloy, the temperance evangelist, was drowned in Pine Lake, near LaPorte, last Thursday. Mr. J,- J. Williams, youngest bfotlier of Jay W. Williams, visited the family of the latter from Thursday till Tuesday. He is with a hardware house, in Cleveland, Ohio.

There seems to be plenty of work, at good wages, for all who want it, in Jasper county now. The contractors of the C. & I. C railway are advertising for hundreds of teams and men, and offering good pay. Mason Kenton, who lives east of town, had the e&d of his finger torn off Monday afternoon, in the pulley of a horse hay fork. He came to town and Drs. Loughridge and Bitters dressed the injured finger. It was a very painful injury.

A report which seemed so well substantiated as to receive general credence, was in circulation last Saturday, to the effect that Milton Chipman, a well known mechanic of this place, had been drowned at the Kankakee river, but there was no truth in it. Mrs. May Hawkins, daughter of Dr. I. B. Washburn, left Monday evening for Chicago, intending to start the next day for Los Angelos, in California, to join her husband, who is now in that part of the west. She will go by one of the southern Pacific railroads and will be six days upon the way.* The threshermen are beginning to get in their work, in various parts of the ootuity, and their reports indicate a heavy yield and a good quality of grain. For instance the wheat of John Humes, of Union tp., is reliably stated to weigh out at the rate of 68 pounds to the bushel, struck measure. A remarkable and unusual result.

Landlord Blue, of the Makeever house, has just possessed himself of a Jersey cow, and it would appear that in her case the characteristic docility and affectionateness of the breed has run a little to excess, and it is no uncommon thing for her to walk right into the rooms of the hotel whenever an open doorway catches Her attention. Michigan City Dt&paich : We heard a lady the other day ask her husband to subscribe for a paper. “I can’t afford it,” he replied. “No,” she said, “but you can afford to smoke enough cigars in one day to pay Tor the paper a whole month. This is some men’s idea of economy. I want the paper and I am going to have it.” She got it, and he will read this item.

W. J. Bell, of Valparaiso, Jnd. will run his fourth annual excursion to Niagara Falls, leaving Valparaiso at 10 a. m./Aug. 9th. Parties desiring to visit Cleveland and points east should accept of this great opportunity. Mr. Bell prides himßelf in furnishing for his patrons the very best accommodations at a very low rate. Parties desiring tickets to eastern points should correspond with bin.

Miss Sarah Ellis, of Kokomo, visited her brother, J. H. Ellis, the merchant, oyer Sunday.| Two of the best Stock Ranches in this part of the country are for sale by Coen and Warren. The Rev. B. F. Ferguson has been in yery popr health for several weeks. General debility resulting from overwork seems to be the malady. The G. A. R. post, of this place, went to Lafayette last night, in a body, to visit the Military encampment. To-day occurs ‘the grand free-for-all prize drill, and is also old soldier's day. D. E. Fairchild, of DeMotte, and S. L Swain have the subcontract for a large amount of grading on the new railroad. They want 50 more teams, and 20 shovelers, for both of which they will pay good wages.

The old Schneider house, at the corner of Washington and Cullen streets, opposite the Makeever House, has been greatly improved lately, by an addition in the year, a porch in front and a general repainting and repairing. Among the pieces of real-estate now being advertised for sale at Sheriff’s sale, by the Sheriff of Jasper county, is an 80 acre piece a couple of miles west of Reiningon, and sold as the property of Fred Hoover, at the suit of Edward Ferris. Large numbers of our people have already gone to Lafayette to visit the military encampment, see Barnum <fcc., and many more will go to-day, tomorrow and Saturday. The fare for the round trip is only the price of the ordinary fare one way.

The Monon Dispatch insinuates that the Rensselaer Kids are really about as much kids as the boys who marched with Sherman from Atlanta to the sea. This is unjust for, if we are correctly informed, all of the Kids are under seventeen, with two exceptions. A horse belonging to Elmer Vincent, who resides a few southeast of here in Jasper county, was stolen from the hitching rack near the New York Store, last Saturday night. This is the third horse tokrhgßCeS'gtotonirom hitching racks in Goodland, and it is about time some horse thief was hanged or the town moved out of range of the hitching racks .—-Goodland Herald. The railroad company has delivered a considerable portion of the 200 yards bf gravel lately contracted for, by the town authorities, and the same is now being placed upon the streets. Washington street, Division street and Main Street, from the town to the railroad station are receiving the principle amount of attention. The gravel is from the company’s gravel banks near Lafayette. The tiles for the sewer on Harrison street have been delivered on the ground where they are to be used. The action of the Town •Board in choosing this kind of tile is to be greatly commended. They m evidently very strong and dqrable and better in every way than the soft, porous and easily broken tiles that have been so extensively used in the street sewers of the town heretofore.

The Rev. O. Hicks, pastor of the Baptist church, is sadly afflicted. He is bedfast with a severe attack of that dread malady, Bright’s disease of the kidneys. It is probable that the disease has been making its insidious approaches for months or years, but a severe cold taken last week, from getting wet while fishing, was the immediate cause of this developement at its time in a malignant fcZIB.

Fifty cents for, the Republican from now till January Ist. J. J. Brake, of Terre Haute, a large owner of land in this county, was in town Monday looking after his property interests. The Bissendens’ residence, in Leopold’s addition, is making good progress now. The frame is up and the building nearly enclosed. ... There will be no preaching at the Baptist church next Sunday, on account of the illness of Mr. Hicks, the pastor. Prayer meeting will be held at his house Friday evening. H. R. W. Smith, who has been stopping with his relatives in Newton tp. for a few weeks, will go to Chicago next Sunday to begin his duties as a member of the editorial staff of the Tribune. Mr. Smith has been on the staff of the New York World for the past year.

Mrs. Parker, the venerable widow Of Bunyan Parker, died at the residence of her son, F. M. Parker, about two miles northeast of town, last Friday afternoon. The cause of death was disorders resulting from old age. The funeral was held Saturday afternoon, and was very largely attended. Mrs. Parker has been a resident of the county for a great many years and was well Jpaown and highly esteemed by a very large circle of acquaintances. Her age was, upwards of 70, years.

Prof. Gunning has just came from a prolonged examination of the gas and oil regions of Ohio, and we understand that he is of the opinion that the indications for those substances here are very favorable. His lecture tonight will deal with the subjects of coal-oil natural gas, and will have a special reference to the subject of their probable presence in this vicinity. Business men and all others interested in the future material prosperity of the place, ought to make it a special point to attend the lecture to-night

Ditch Commissioner E. L. Clark went up into Kankakee township, last week, and let the contraot for making the big Fisher ditoh. Matthew Daly, of Montgomery county, is the principal contractor. He will make about half of the ditch, at the price of 6| cents percubic yard of excavation, and the remainder will be made by the land owners, working out their assessments, at the same rate. This is a lower rate than any considerable piece of ditch work was ever let for in the county before. The work must be well and carefully done, however, and with plows and scrapers and not by ditching machines or dredges.

The attendance at Prdf. Gunning’s lectures, so far, has been very slim. Here is a man of wonderful, almost universal knowledge, a man who has mastered almost 0 . every branch of science, a man who has been everywhere and seen everything, an eloquent, logical and most interesting speaker,— and what then? He comes to cultured, wealthy, liberal minded Rensselaer and scarcely two dozen people will turn out to hear him! A slugging match between a couple of roughs from Nubbin Ridge would fill the whole room, at twice the price of admission to the Professor’s lectures; a vulgar minstrel show would scarce leave standing room in the aisles; a lolly-pop or blood-and-thunder drama by home talent; a watergruel exhibition by school children, any of these will draw a large audience, but the men who address themselves to our intellectual natures, who come to inform our minds and elevate our characters can talk to empty benches or not talkfttftlL

The passenger department of the Monon route have just issued a handsome book of over one hundred pages, entitled “social amusements,” containing a choice collection of parlor games, tricks, charades, tableaux, parlor theatricals, figures and calls for dancing, etc., especially arranged and adapted for home amusement. Write, to Wm. 8. Baldwin, General Passenger Agent Monon Route, Chicago Ills., enclosing three cents in postage stamps, and a copy will be sent you by return mail.

The Town Board held a special meeting, Monday evening, to take action in the matter of letting the contract for doing the work of putting in the sewer on Harrison st reet, from the river to Leopold’s addition. Bids were received from Thomas Killorsn, James Mulloy, J. W. Powell, J. C. Passons, Chas. Platt and E. C. Nowels. The bid of the latter was judged to be the lowest and he received the contract. The price is to be sl.lO per rod for doing all the work in a good and substantial manner, and to the satisfaction of the Town Board, or any agent they may appoint.

A party consisting of a man, his wife and two children got off the train at this place last Thursday. They told a pitiful and possibly true tale of a series of disasters that had lately befalle i them. They said they were on tbeir way from Warrick county to Englewood Illinois, where they had relatives. According to their story they had four children when they left Warrick county, but two of them wo re taken sick of scarlet feVer and died. The horses' and wagon were sold to pay the expenses of the sickness and funerals the family prepared to complete their journey by cars. They put up over night at a hotel, and during the night the hotel was burned, and all of their goods were either burned or stolen. Sheriff Yeoman furnished them with tickets as far as Hammond and sent them on, Saturday. Hammond is but 12 or 13 miles from Englewood and if that is really their objective point they will be able to got there from Hammond without much trouble. The Bmn gave his name as Hezekiah Wellington 1 He talked like an unusually intelligent man.

A correspondent in Keener tp. sends us an account of the shooting of the man at Thayer, last Sunday, but which does not differ very materially from the account which appears elsewhere in this paper. According to the correspondent, the man who was shot did not have a gun of his own, and when shot had taken hold of Verveault’s gun to claim the privilege of shooting with it. The gun was one of the hammerless kind which is placed in cock by the act of breaking the gun to load it. The closing paragraphs of our correspondent’s letter are here given: “Esquire W. H. Kay was called and proceed to hold an inquest, which was said to have been a perfect farce, and run entirely by the Chicago roughs, after which the body was thrown into a boat and left for the dogs and flies to watch over while the “Club” hurried back to their sport This heartless action of the drunken crowd caused some of our Indiana citizens who were there to remonstrate in such forcible and determined manner that they finally sent some watchers to keep off the dogs and insects, and made arrangements to have a box built to put the remains in. The decent people of Thayer; , Rose Lawn and vicinity, have long felt justly outraged at the Sabbath breaking, beer guzzling, carosuals which charcterize the Sunday excursions of the “Diana Hunting-Club,” and are loud in their condemnation of the authorities for allowing the same to go on.”