Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1887 — A Thoughtful Condueter. [ARTICLE]

A Thoughtful Condueter.

The people of Royal Center are ryilii over their recent discovery oi j oil. It is lubricating oil, of ft it 3e f quality, and worth $2.50 a burr 1. olany more wells will be bored. ’"~777" ' . ' ••'rf 7 The platform of the newly organized American party, promulgated last week, is a very temperate, conservative and state,s-mrn-J ike declaration of sound princig.’fs. It would for the most p; rt do to incoporate into the Repul :i----ean platform, bodily. The continued absence of our a 1 primer leaves in': Rbp6Bl iaN very short of help in the mo'ehanical department, ami 1. u? caused come drmunition in oar v 5ual large amount of home leading matter, but we get there with t. about ail the , local nows, ju : the same. - - ‘ . L. M. M jrrelh ex-editor of U•“ j h . City Ihd r;':'iee, la ’ k »avi ii... r? v T : iaci a t ~ tho Dispatch, a richly, do - awe , i i ..mm ■ Inn. for at- achs made <- on jjorrell after his r *iiremer: j r -:ii til ?£ i:-rpn--e. I'can ads ’is .. : ui'! *'i > a id’ u: ' ii.::: v . v:?..". -.. Id. :*r v- c-.ii.iio; g >t. -

■ Zlvt'i r'ersov? Viii3_.s m" 1 p'V ' ‘ j• s' 1 v "-'i 1 "ivo: Mi tli.'-ir vivYof fM ' rvt""'vw iiw ' f. : . : •••. . ■ > i? ■ ■ *- . ■ • • _ ' ■. Jl i: ■ i ■'! ■ fe* V •. q? , ■'.-.l' & eVKI . . • ’t draw:!. *• linn to ail. ’ r fV •Vte > i H>3 S ':;s am ri to c ,;.i .:v, about tag ’-icatto-tr-m t'.g-ftar ; > ~.'.-4, in vtoiyh he .-a*''-canoes rjstotiii controversion’©? lE£ ; of I aiz week The eoinfiunication ’-as xecci.vc".! •late hud besides the question ~oTT (he locution of the weli is now a “dead issue" r.nd therefore we feel : - -' ■'■ . ——- —■— —rconstrained to lay^the eommuni‘Aation aside, for the present week, B 4Heask L

The Eomiuglon gas well \vas j il as a ba/l job, at adoj-ith [x4 nlmuf leu;lj v 1 The fact tn»f i a littlo ).: .s was found l.as caused . s-o-.ae to b'rdi»A.. i ti'.-it < c: be ■f. 'Ui: :.v,d ’]Tea|.L't'.v 0,.d 1 . :i vo.Titlh.yJ i citizen is Irnving ruolhr-r 1 svell b:>r. J. by the same ■ naY.ti.es, on property he o'.vues near Llputiog-* Um 5 ; ! The ih'in c -atic Seirirad, with colossal but cknraVterlstie gall. ! j -h-uio ilhi.t the-Tippecanoe county . - •...n.i.-- I. i) ; t r • v. h > matte tin* .pic v -' ; j• ■ .-'.erous/in li .\u.g coutract with Auditor lb, re.- , were. r democrats, , HU' * th/'t tllT'N WITH tt* .pupbcittiF.r '.Ttil:!- fact tliat they 1 w.tre tleiAocrais i.-> pt.r-fectly. notori’«Ul-, r.nd ;.■> oils tmt.-the BeiltiflCP

would presiiihc to deny ib Even the huhanapoiis S- inii ; ], wiio.se ntterntices Itro- AleEwrn regards as nuth' rity not t-> be (juestioi.ed, has pr.blishe 1 the iucl ti.at the eonnuisioners w< re democrats, that paptT having b.telyjured these words: “Mr. Barnes and the. CoramisEioners with whom ho made the-conduct are Democrats, bat the bill is legal and v, ill be so proven." fetill more c!k ,ky is tire assertion that Barn ?, in this indexing joly roltbeiy, “ Was employed to perform an accumulation of wor k unaccomplished by his .Republican predecessors.” An assertion which the language of the- contract between Barnes and the €k)muii >sienerw wholly disproves. The-opening sentence of of the contract expressly declares that the indexing was made necessary b_. tie eimnge iu the she of the li e boxes in the county offices, caused by removal into the new court house. ' y-~-

They had an 50 1' rs meat... mg in .White county last week, and filter a number of the old settlers had told the incidents’ of the early t ime, and Dave Gooding had made the set speech,, the old settlers cl oir gave specimens ot the mu.de of the good old days, and old lady Timmery had her old fashioned spinning wheel, and Spun off the flaxen thread by the yaicL The big. wheel was there on which tho woolen yawn was spun for tli 1 stockings as the wheel turned, backward. Other old settlers wielded the flail on the unthreshed grain. Then the old settlers indulged in the old fashioned dances, and “money musk" sounded upon the air from the fiddle. The affair wound up with an old fe.s.hiened game of ball where “a . tic-kand a -catch fetch. ’ ’ —Rochester Tribune. v .• ■ -♦ ♦ ♦- ——— The mail service between BoSweli and Rensselaer must be in pie. L.mda of -sonir?- ignorant route agent or agents that cannot read. We received this week the -Rensselaer Ropublicin four days after 'it was published, not over forty miles from hero, marked “nnssenf,'* notwithstanding the addres-y ."Argus; -Roswell, md.,” was.pi'intd ami was as. Vasily ' read as the: a Ldr sS here f ive .. Duel > .*■- i i wants io cad <ii a f :\v of inis, nincompoops.—Boi .veil Argus. .

Once there was a ceriiluetor to whom it occurred, without toiiy : ructions from thfesaixTittU-ndeist.’ that if vonM ba a do.vor thirg'to have the porter Of the ska viivT-car taka r-v that,chats, so that the paas-mgers .who'had to go to ••bed late ami get xrp borar«~tajfjijriif might- not be aroused htoween 'times - with cries of ;ho-w yoitirTtekbts. ” One day a rich old g<mt:c-;nan, who was sur--Prised at such theughii'nlness, inquired the rams qf this mobile benefactor, and, making his will shortly afterward, left the good conduct "r $19,000 in United States 4 per cents. This occurred oa ,r. Takcta road.— SL Paul Pione-,r-P.t>s.