Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1887 — Locals and Personals. [ARTICLE]

Locals and Personals.

Irene ]>t-nton, .Saturday night. A large assortment :of trunks just arrived at'N, Fendig’s. Miss Ida Gibson, of Lafayette, is the guest of Miss Beth Richardson. Postmaster Bates has just added to the outfit of the office a new case containing 30 lock boxes ancf G lock drawers. M. H. Appleby has just left the Deaf & Dumb Institution at Jacksonville, 111., to accept a eituation in a similar Institution at Omaha, Neb.

A dance will fie given in the Opera House, on Friday evening of next week, for the purpose of assisting the members of the Rensselaer Cornet Band to buy a new bass horn. „ Ad Hess and Tlios. Robinson, of Gillam township, were in town Tuesday and started on their 20 jnile ride homeward, about three o’clock, in the face of one of the bitterest winds that ever congealed the marrow in a Hoosier’s bones. Auditor-elect John A. Barnett, was caught napping for once. He went to Jasper county, recently, to pay a visit to his brother-in-law, and made the trip in a sleigh. While there the thaw came and he was required to bring his sleigh home in a wagon. —Rochester Republican.

. Henry, tlie infant son of Harry and Alicia VVilkshire, died Tuesday morning of a lung disease. The funeral was held yesterday afternoon, and conducted by Rev. J. Zumbuelte. The,bui ial was in the Weston cemetery,, in Rensselaer. The age of the deceased child was one year and ten months. George Posey, of Gillum tp., whose sickness has been already Thursday. His sickness had lasted for over three months, and is said to have

resulted from a strain received in lifting. He was a son-in-law of Wm. Querry, one of Gillam’s best known citizens, and leaves a wife and two children. The Irene Benton Dramatic Company, a reliable combination which lias been giving meritorious and well patronized performances at many of our neighboring towns for some time past, has engaged the Opera House for next Saturday night, We are confident that it is a good company and will deserve a |iberal patronage.

Mr. E. L. Clark has closed a contract with Auditor-elect Barnett, of Fulton Co, f to go to Rochester the first of March, to assist the latter in the complicated and onerous duties of his office, with which he is entirely J uufamiliar. He has made a lucky choice of an assistant, as Mr. Clark understands the details and duties of county auditor’s offices thoroughly. T-

A great deal of wonder is expressed over the conduct of tlie young woman ot Chicago who declares her intention of marrying j Anarchist Spies, but as strange I things happen every day. It is even currently reported that a deluded female Hoosier has engag- ‘ ed herself to marry one of the lawj less Democratic members of the ! Indiana Legislature. There is no accounting for tastes.— Exchange. One of Newton townships best citizens is a relative of Sim Ger-

ard, the noted Warren comity outlaw who wsb killed sometime ago by the regulators from Battle Ground. Sim’s parents were good Christian poople and all of his Bfdthers, seven of whom were in the army at the same time Sim was, were excellent and respectable men, and better soldiers never went into a battle. Sim went west while still a mere boy and fell into bad ways while there and continued in that way, as long as lie lived.

Irene Benton at .the Opera' House, Saturday njghtMiss Hattie Hopkins, of Rensselaer, has been the guest this week of her friend, Miss Lo Wilson.—Gootlland Herald. Those who wish to join Rev. J. j Cadden’s German classes may meet at Mr. Ezra C. Nowels’ office this evening at 7 o’clock, for organization. Harry Zimmerman, one of The Republican’s lightning compositors, is iu Monticello tips week helping out the Democrat, one of whose working force, Mr. Clark, ig sick.

Rev. J. Cadden, of Lafayette, is organizing a class for the study of the German Language. He has uo end of good recommendations and is, we doubt not, an able instructor in that language. John F. Pettit, of Walker tp., called upon us last Saturday, and ordered The Republican sent to him fqr a few weeks at Kilbouvn, Ohio, where he has gone to visit friends. The Clerk has issued the following marriage licenses since last reported. \ Joseph M. Guss. | Mary Lang. ( Jacob Mitchell, j Malinda Goff. Yesterday was Ground Hog Day, and being a cloudy day the ground hog could not see his shadow and knew by that token that the back-bone pf the winter winter was broken and that he could safely resurpo active life once more.

The eighty-third birthday of the grandmother of Dr. F. P. Bitters, of this place, was celebrated at Akron, Fulton Co., last week. The yenerable lady not only has numerous grand children and great gland children but two or pore great-great-graud children, or is' at the head of five generations. Dr. Quivey, the dentist, started 'for North Manchester last evening j I taking his motherless infant son j j Ito leave in care of the doctor’s ; mother. He will return in about | ! a week and when he resumes den- : tal work he will remove to the trear room in Hemphill’s new .building, over Ellis & Murray’s I store.

! The Monon Leader reports that | our old friend Jas. H. Turpie, has just given his hand to the church and his heart to God, in the Bap- | tist church, at Monon, and is soon :to be baptized. This fact causes !us to venture the suggestion that ! inasmuch as Bro. Huff, of the Monticeilo Herald is now a good Methodist, he and Brother Turpie 'had better shake hands over tlie jJhloody chasm and compromise i that ancient libel suit.

Sam Young, who, ia .company’ i with Henry Reprogle, of Monticeilo, bought the Delphi Journal some six or seven mouths ago, lias made a bad break. It seems that when he bought the Journal, he hadn’t ready cash enough to pay ; for it, and forged the signature of a brother-in-law, named Pierj son, to a note and got the same cashed at a bank in Monticeilo. ; Pierson discovered jthe forgery ; last week, and preparations were ! made to arrest Young, but he was warned in time to get out of the (way. Young was married only a few weeks ago to an estimable j young lady of Monticeilo, named Roberts. His prospects as half j owner and manager of one of the jmos.t promising country newspaLpers in the state, were excellent, and what madness led him to the commission of so ruinous an act as this, is inconceivable. Later discoveries have developed other forgeries than that mentioned above, swelling the total to S2OOO. The Journal has been put intq the hands of a receiver. Later: . Young was arrested at Greencastle Tuesday but as yet nothing has been done with him and it is|probable the matters will be settled without prosecutions.

’Alpheus Woistel, of southeast Marion, has a Dew son since last Monday. . Senator 8. P. Thompson spent Saturday night and c Sunday with nis family, and returned to the {capital Sunday night. A. E. Pierson, of Union tp., and three of his children have been sick for a few days past. The youngest child quite seriously. Auditor Robinson’s youngest son is still seriously sick, and is now threatened with lung fever. Mrs. Robinson has also been quite sick but is now much better.

The storm of Tuesday night was rather remarkable, consisting, as it did, of a vast fall of fine but solid hailstones. During the storm there was considerable thunder and lightning. Mr. Hal B. Smith, formerly watchmaker and jeweler for Emmet Kannal, of this place, now orders The Republican sent to Madison, Florida, in which place he is now located. The three-year old son of Henry Mackey, the marble man, is just beginning to recover from a dangerous attack of lung fever. Mr. Mackey himself is now sick, and threatened with the same disease. D. S. Straight, a prominent member of the Fowler bar, has begun proceedings for a divorce from his wife. Incompatibility of temper is alleged to be the grounds upon which the proceedings are instituted.

The, series of meetings held in the Free Will Baptist church, by Elder Brewer, have been well attended notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather and very bad roads. The sermons pf Mr. Brewer J<mve well received and highly commended. His engagement closes this evening. His subject to-night is “How to come to Christ.” AH are invited to attend. A partial eclipse of the moon will be yisible next Tuesday morn,ing, Feb. Bth, to such of our read- ! ers as will get up early enough to i see, supposing, of course, that the weather is clear. The beginning of the eclipse, or the entrance of

the moon into what the astronomers call the penumbra, or tne partial shadow of the earth, will occur at about’lo minutes after 2 o’clock in the morning, and the middle, or most interesting portion of the eclipse, will be at about half past four.

From the reports of many of our exchanges we learn that the old cloth package swindle is being extensively worked in many parts of this state. Many a man in Jasper county has bitter recollections of the tricks of these fellows, in former crays.- They-are-unmitiga-ted frauds, ot the worst charactei, and our advice to our readers is, if approached by any of these fellows, to refuse even to listen to their guileful tongues, and if necessary, to fire them out of the front gate, at the point of a cowhide boot - ~..^.4-;: —..." - •« V • ' ." ' - • Horace Peacock, the night watch, has been commissioned a deputy sheriff, and therefore has legal authority to arrest violators of the law and to quell disturbances. Such being the case it might, perhaps, be a matter worthy of the consideration of the Town Board, whether they would not do well to try the plan of paying to the night watch a portion of his salary, say ten or fifteen dollars per month, with the understanding that he should make it a special duty to mantain peace and order in the town, and arrest all violators of the law. Of course if it was found after a trial of a month or two that the investment did not pay, it could be discontinued,

. Clerk Irwin and Sheriff Yeoman went to Indifihapolis Tuesday night. Joseph Carr, of Monon, intends to set up his steam saw-mill on John Marti mlale’s farm, in Newton tp., about March Ist. The contractor for boring tlie gas well at Francesville has got down something like 200" feet, and is running his drill night an l day. The public is invited to hear what Rev. J. Cadden has to say about liis new method of teaching, at Mr. Ezra C. Nowels’ office, in Leopold’s block, to-night, at 7 o’clock.

Beginning with this week the L. N. A. <k C. Ry. Co. will receive two new locomotives eyery ’week and ten new freight car’s everyday until it lias received 18 of the former and 1,000 of the latter. J. W. King, the “Good Luck” grocer, has just bought a house of C. D. Novels, on Main street, near Mr. Fisher’s residence, and is erecting an addition thereto,* to serve as a store room.

J. W. Powell and G. W. Goff started for Kentucky Monday night to begin work on their railroad contract. They left this place witli 14 men and a car-load of horses and scrapers, and expected to increase the number of men largely, at Monon and other places. C. C. Sigler will Jeaye to-night with 15 or 20 men. I have been authorized by T. J. Farden to notify all who are indebted to him, that unless they settle the same on or before March Ist, 1887, that the accounts will be advertised for sale in this paper and sold to the highest bidder for cash. If you do not wish your name published, call at my office and settle the same immediately. James W. Douthit, Afty. The Indianapolis Journal is authority for the statement that the Louisville, New Albany k Chicago Ry. Co will this year lengthen their lines and strengthen their stakes by building an extension easterly to a connection with tne Chesapeake & Ohio, and another extension to a connection with the Cincinnati Southern at Danville. Ky. Negotiations are now in.progress looking to raising the funds

to build the extensions. $ The evangelists, Sayler and Harrison, have completed their labors here and will depart for their homes at Lafayette to-day. They were here, five weeks, during which time meetings were held id the M. E. church nightly, and

many conversions were made. The total number of accessions to the church membership, including those received on letters as well as probationers has been 56, a very notable increase to the strength of the church. It was the intention of Messrs. Sayler and Harrison, when they left here, to go to Remington, to assist Rev. Woodson for two or three weeks. They will probably begin their work there the first of next week. Elvin Israel’s career as a saloonist was brief, but if common rumor is not at fault, very iustruct-

ive. He had not had charge of the Reynolds saloon as proprietor, many days before he learned that in buying the saloon he had not and could not buy the licehse to sell the liquor and that he was violating the law and making himself liable -to severe penalties scores of times every day. He became badly frightened at the ' prospect of impending prosecutions, and soltTßhck the saloon to Mr. Reynolds, at a very heavy loss, it is said, variously estimated at from SSOO to SIOOO. Whatever be the sum, however, if the loss has the effect of teaching him to forever shun the saloon-keeping business, it may be au advantage to | him in the end.