Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1887 — Locals and Personals. [ARTICLE]

Locals and Personals.

A son nt Chet Cunningham’s, since January sth. Cut prices on Rubber Goods at Hemphill & Honan’s. Dr. J. W. Horton will visit Mt Ayr, next Wednesday, Jan. 19th. Men’h arctics at sl.lO at Hemphill & Bonan’s. Miss* Etta Spitler has returned from Terre Haute, and herself, sister and brother have set up house keeping in the rooms over Hemphill and Honan’s store. The records kept by the secretary of our County Board of Health, show for the year 1886, 69 marriages, 58 deaths and 216 births. Of the deaths only three were acj cidental, and of the births 113 were female and 103 male. Dr. Washburn has lately done a fine thing for the school library by presenting to it the “Noted Men of Indiana” in two splendid quarto volumes. They make a desirable addition to the library and the presentation of them is an act well deserving of imitation. The Hon. U. Z. Wiley, of Fowler, was a candidate for an important clerkship in the house of Representatives, at Indianapolis, but failed of election. We are sorry he got left, for he is an able man and has deserved well of the party. Considerations of locality, in distributing the positions, probably were the chief causes for his defeat.

The Circuit Court adjourned last Thursday until* Monday of this week. It is new engaged upon the civil docket. No state cases have been acted upon other than were reported last week. The Grand Jury reported 17 indictments, Tuesday, and are still grinding.. Most of the indictments laws. Mr. A. Partisan, temporary superintendent of the poor farm, is managing the affairs of that institution with characteristic zeal and sagacity. About 1500 or S6OO worth of the live stock and otherproperty which it is his duty to dispose of, have already been sold, private sale, and for its full value. Mr. Parkison is confident that the new ’method of dealing with the institution, to go into effect in the Spring, will result satisfactorily, all around.

Oiu universally popular and esteemed townsman, D. J. Thompson, who, by-the-way, has heretofore been suspected. of a leaning towards rationalism in matters of religious opinion, is now a faithful and efficient teacher of a class of young ladies, of course, in the M. E. Sunday school. As an example of Mr. Thompson’s original methods of dealing with his class, and. characteristic of his native generosity, we mention the fact -that he has presented to each member of the class, sixteen in number, that 1 excellent publication, The Youth’s Companion, for the year 1887. Ed. Parcells, the barber, and some others, discovered a fire in Warner’s wagon and wood shop, on Front street, back of old liberal Corner, Monday night, about 11 o’clock, and extinguished it before any serious harm was done. *lt had apparently caught from the stove, and as it had burned through the floor and burned off a large sleeper, it had evidently been burning for some time. Had the fire got under good head-way the chances for saving any of the wooden business buildings on the nerth side of Washington street wduld have been pretty slim. This narrow escape from a destructive fire is another powerful reminder of the pressing necessity of fire defenses, in the town.

Mrs. A. Parkison is visiting the family of her daughter, Mrs. Chas. Moody, at Jefferson, lowa. Millinery at cost now. Until all sold, at Hemphill & Honan’s. Dr. Quivey will be absent upon his sad errand, in the eastern part of the state, for about a week, and upon his return will resume his dental practice. Edward D. Rhoades is no longer connected with the Trade Palace store, his services there having been discontinued last week. He has been a salesman in the Trade Palace for twelve years, and is one of the best and most trustworthy salesmen to be found any place. Mrs. Ora Thompson Ross is home from Montana, visiting reU atives. She came through alone, and without delay or inconven-. lence, until she was within thirty miles of home, when a wreck at I - Paisley delayed her train about 12 hours. She arrived Tuesday Morning. \ The executive officers of the Jasper County Agricultural Society give notice that the annual meeting of the stockholders will ba held on next Saturday afternoon, at one o’clock. Officers for the ensuing year are to be elected and the accounts of the Secretary and Treasurer are to be passed upon. A freight train wreck on the Monon, at or near Cedar Lake, is of regular weekly occurrence. This week it occurred Monday afternoon or evening, and delayed trains about 12 hours, the Crawfordsville accommodation, for instance, due here at a bout 8 in the evening, did not reach here until about 7 the next morning. William Mabbett, father of the. missing Luelia Mabbett, pronouces the recently published statement that his daughter and Green were married and living in Texas, a base fabrication. He knows nothing of her whereabouts and believes she was cruelly murdered by Green, and her body concealed. He has paid S6OO to detectives to work on the case, and they have found out nothing.

Prosecutor Marshall was called by telegram to Lafayette, Monday, by Coffroth & Stewart, to prepare papers for the requisition of the eloping minister Stull, of Oxford, and his paramour, Mrs. McCoole. On investigating matters however, and talking with the husband of the missing woman, Mr. Marshall found that McCoole and his attorneys had not a particle of evidence showing that the couple had committed any statute crime while in the jurisdiction of this court. John McGregor, the man charged with burglarizing Tilton’s store, at Wheatfield, and who has been treated with great leniency by the sheriff, quietly walked away, last Monday afternoon, and nothing more was seen of him until,by a strange co-incidence, he walked into the depot at Shelby, at the crossing of the Monon line and the Thi ee I road, late Monday evening, and ran right into a crowd of men who were waiting fpr the train for Rensselaer. Among these was Mr, Tilton, whose store was robbed, and deputy sheriff Yeoman, who had been serving papers up in Northern Jasper. Of course they brought McGregor back with them. He was decidedly drunk \Hiehheblunderedintothedepot at Shelby and had he not been so he would probably have known better than to have stopped there. His ißtory is, that after he had slipped j away from the sheriff he walked to Surrey, then rode to Fair Oaks on a hand-car and at that point boarded the north bound mail train and was fired off at Shelby.

Mrs. Thomas Florence is getting somewhat better of her severe attack of rheumatism. Prices on Rubber goods all smashed to pieces. Mens’ Arctics @ sl.lO, at Hemphill & Honan’s. Willey & Sigler sell the best Boots and Shoes to be found in the market. Their goods are warranted. An appropriate monument to the memory of our late venerated townsman, Willis J. Wright, will be erected in the spring. Henry Mackey, Rensselaer’s reliable marble man, doing the work. The schplars in the high school have organized a mock Senate and will hold their first session next Friday afternoon, at which they will discuss matteis of public policy, introduce and consider bills Ac. i i The Delphi Tinies thinks that twenty-two new houses in Delphi in one year is a big showing, but the yearly average in Rensselaer for the last five years will not fall very far below that number, and ten buildings in Rensselaer is as large a proportionate growth as twenty in Delphi. A suit for SIO,OOO damages has been begun at Lafayette, against the L., N. A. & C. Railway company for the killing of Martha Miller, at the “man trap,” near Lafayette, last June. Another suit for a like amount will be brought for the killing of the husband of the above, Alexander Miller, who was killed at the same lime.

A carefully prepared list of the improvements in Fair Oaks for the year 1886, sent by a resident of that place, shows th at we Pin itted several buildings in our list of last week, as well as greatly understated the total value, of those feKitioneiL Tfib list-"as the Fair Oaks man, shows that the total value of the improvements made by individuals will aggregate over $7,000. Commissioners Prevo and Watson met last Friday, as required by law, for the purpose of appointing a Secretary, for the County Board of Health for the ensuing year. Dr. F. P. Bitters, the present efficient Secretary was re-ap-pointed. His salary is $75 a year. This work of the commissioners, by-the-way is one which the law requires but makes no provisions for paying for, and the commissioners therefore receive nothing for it. ... ■ -cu. ' " ■ j Grace, the oldest of the two j motherless children of Alvin Clark,' died suddenly Tuesday morning. She had been attacked with croup the night before, and at the time of her death was sitting up trying to eat a little canned fruit, and suddenly began choking, and lived but a very short time. Dr. Wash - burn was called, in great haste, and reached the house just as the little one was breathing her last. Her death took place at the residence of her grandfather, Holdridge Clark. She was between 3 and 4 years old.

The south bound mail- train of last Thursday, due here at 11:27 a. in., did not arrive here until about 4 p. m., much to the inconvenience of a number of citizens who had designed taking it for Indianapolis. The cause of the delay was a collision in Chicago, which just escaped being a great disaster. At Sixteenth street, where the tracks of the Monon route and the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern intersect, the Monon train ran into a passenger train of the other road and threw the baggage and smoking cars off the track, upset the latter and badly damaged both. The smoker was full of passengers but fortunately none were seriously hurt.

Meeting is still in progress in the M. E. church. The youngest son of Auditor Robinson has been suffering greatlyfor several weeks with a large abcees upon his head. Fine new line of Calf-skin boots and shoes, for winter wear, at R. Fendig’s. Uncle Ward Anderson, of Morocco, is visiting J. W. Duvall’s family. He was postmaster in Rensselaer 25 years ago.' Nathaniel Scott is still slowly and peacefully sinking away, under the weight of his many years, and the final end is probably a matter of but a few days more, or weeks at most. He is ten years older than the Nineteenth Century. Elder U. C. Brewer, of Danville, Ind., will preach in the Free Will Baptist Church, commencing on Thursday evening, January 27, and continuing each evening for one week. Mr. Brewer is an able preacher and will interest and instruct, All are invited. A fellow known by the names of Yance and Field, was drunk and indecent on the streets, last Friday, and was run in by Constable Wood, and the Old Squire fined him one dollar and costs, and in default he went to jail for about nine days. When searched in jail a new towel, identified as stolen from Ellis & Murray’s store, was found upon his person, and it is likely 'that the offended majesty of the law will work further vengeance upon him for hie transgressions.

The local advertisement that has ! been running for some weeks in [ this paper, the principal points of ( which were “$2,500 to loan —Enquire at this office” has actually led a number .of people to believe ’that' the tW owner or custodian of this large sum of surplus cash. A country ; editor with $2,500 in his posses- j sion would be one of the marvels i of the age. The money in ques- i tipn belongs to a party who, for reasons of his own, does not care to publish his name, in connection with it. A deplorable scandal occurred last week in Oxford. The Rev. B. F. Stull, pastor of the M. E. chinch, at that place, and Mrs. McCoole, a prominent milliner of j Oxford, disappeared.at about the! same time, and are supposed, beyond a doubt, to have etoped. The : husband of the missing woman i claims to have positive information that the couple met by agreement at Danville, 111., passed themselves there for husband and wife, and from there went west. Stull leaves a wife and the woman a husband and one child. Stull ' has been in the Methodist ranks 1 but a short time, having previously belonged to the United Brethren. ’ . •

Prof. E. E. Smith, late of due University, fired five shots at Dr. Beasley, in Lafayette, on 1 Wednesday, of last week. The doctor, who is an old and intimate friend of Prof. Smith’s, chanced to step from his office, just as Smith was passing and hailed him in a friendly manner, when Smith turned and opened fire with a revolver, ami continued the fusillade until his gun was empty. One bullet penetrated the doctor’s clothing but did him no harm. Smith was marched off to the station house, where he remained in a distracted and half unconscious condition for many hours, and when he regained his faculties he knew nothing of the shooting. His mind is evidently de ranged. He was not held for the shooting, and with his wife went to Chicago, last Friday, presumaI bly for medical treatment. '

1 The trains on the Monon have, nearly all been more or less out of* time during the past week or longer. - . At the Trade Palace can be found the Lest stock of Glovesand, Mittens in the county. To reduce stock at the Trade Palace many decided cuts have been made in dress goods, flannels Ac. Call and learn prices. 1 F. -W. Babcock Esq,, and family came over from LaGrange last Friday. TLe former to finish up some old law business and the latter to visit old friends. Rev. S. W. Workman delivered: his discourse upon the Origin of The Devil, at the Court house,. Monday evening. The severity of the weather and meetings in the churches combined to give him a small audience. The first number of a paper was -issued in Monon, last Friday. Chas. E. Cook, a former employe of the Delphi Journal is the editor and publisher and Dr. John T. Reed, of Monon, is associate editor. The Monon Leader is the name of the new journal. Joseph Stripmire, Jr., who lived with his father, Joseph Stripmire, Sr., in Marion tp., several miles south of town, died at an early hour last Monday morning. His age was about 28 years. He had long suffered from epilepsy and other disorders, but the immediate sickness from which he died was of short duration.

There are now published in the United States 14,160 newspapers and periodicals of all classes. The net gain of the year has been 666. The daily newspapers number 1,216, a gain of 33. Canada has 679 periodicals. There are about 1,200 periodicals of all sorts, which, according to the ratings and estimates of the editor of the Directory, enjoy a circulation of more "crease m the weekly rural press, which comprises about two-thirds of the. whole list, has been- most marked in States like Kansas and ■ Nebraska, where the gain has been 'respectively 24 and 18 per cent. Kansas also shows the greatest gain in daily newspapers. The weekly press is gaining in Massachusetts, while the magazines and other monthly publications are losing ground there. The tendency of such publications towards New York city, as the literary centre of the country, is shown by the establishment here of not less than twenty-three monthly periodicals during tlie year.

Some of the curiosities of news- ! paper statistics are worth a paragraph. There are 700 religious and ! denominational newspapers pub- ' lished in the United States, aiitl ' nearly one-third of them are printed in New York, Boston and Chicago. New York is far ahead in this respect, but i Chicago leads Boston; Three ' newspapers are devoted to the silk (worm,six to the honey bee, and ! not less than thirty-one to poultry. ' The dentists have eighteen journals, the phonographers nine, and j the deaf and dumb and blind nineteen. There are three publications

exclusively devoted to phieately, and one to the terpsichoreah art. The prohibitionists have 129 organs to the liquor dealers’ eight. The woman suffragists have seven, the candy makers three. Gastronomy is represented by three newspapers, gas by two. There are about 600 newspapers printed in German, and forty-two in French. The towns which have most French periodicals are New York, New Orleans and Worcester, Mass. — four apiece. There are more Swedish prints than French. Two daily newspayers are printed in the Bohemian tongue. The toughest names are found, among the Polish, Finnish and Welsh press; for instance, the DzietisieteTy and . the Przjaciel Ludiol Chicago, the Yhdysuxilta in Sanomat oi Ohio, i and the Y Water of Utica, New York. There is one Gaelic publication, one Hebrew, one Chinese, and one in the Cherokee language. All of these facts have a direct interest to philosophers and stall cuts of sociology. There is no i better gauge and register of American civilization than the newspai per directory-27m Printing Press,