Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1888 — Locals and Personals. [ARTICLE]

Locals and Personals.

Mrs. H. A. Sparling, south of town, is recovering from a serious sickness. An elegant selection of Mufflers and silk handkerchiefs can be seen at R. Fendig. Joseph C. Henkle, of Barkley tp., has been re-instated on the pension list. He was in Company “A” of the 87th Indiana. Please come in and settle your account. We need the money and you know we can’t do business on wind. Hemphill & Honan. Several Lafayette papers announced the intended wedding of Geo. Hollingsworth, of this place. George has been receiving numerous congratulations. The sparkling effect of a delicate stimulant upon the jaded system is never more apparent than it is when drinking a cup of Mr. C. C. Starr's pure Jewel Tea."~

I , ~ Mr. J. P. Ryan, of Monon was greeting old friends in this town, Monday. He was formerly a resident of this county and in war times belonged to Company B. of the old 87th. Indiana. The sale at the A. J. Yeoman farm, in Jordan tp, Tuesday, was j attended by an enormous crowd, ow ing largely to liberal advertising., in The REPUDLiCAOEChe. property offered sold, at moderately satisfactory prices. Mr. Martin Cook of Rensselaer, and Miss Lucy A. Marion were last Saturday evening, nt tfag home of L. D. Marion, thej r bride’s father, a little east of town. I Rev. S. B. Grimes performed the i ceremony. The young couple will reside in Rensselaer. John H. Gilmore says “you can go to Mike Halloran's and get two | glasses of beer or one glass of I whisky for 5 cents and two men to hold you while the pugilist, C. F. Harding, knocks the nose off of you.” John speaks from actual personal experience, we understand. The I*., N. A. & company is replacing all the light rails on the ' main line, where there are curves*, with a seventy pound rail. The monster freight engines which they have recently placed on the road are very severe on tracks where there are as many curves as are found on tbe southern division of this road. » f The Knights of Pythias elected new officers last Thursday night and will install them to-night. They are, C. C. Warner, C. 0.; W. C. Babcock, V. C.; F. B. Learning, K. of R. and S.j E. D. Rhoades, Master of Exchequer; D. S.~A¥illey, Master of Finance} J. H. Hardman, Prelate; Vai Seib, Master at Arms; G. E. Murray, Representative to Grand Lodge. The New Era reports that the people of F.rancesVille, so far from being discouraged by their repeated failures to strike oil, had gone to work vigorously to form another company and that half of the capital stock, 81,250 had already be en subscribed when the Era went to press. This well, if bored, will be located not more than 000 feet from the one in which oil was found last summer.

W* W. Corcoran, the Washington millionaire philanthropist mentioned recently in this paper in connection with his ownership of Jasper county land, in his benevolent life of 90 years he has given away in charities nearly $7,000,000. One of his most patriotic acts was the removal of the remains of John Howard Payne to American soil and the erection of rt monhment to the author of “Home, Sweet Home.” A couple of weeks ago the Monticello Herald contained an account of a strange deaf and dumb boy wandering into Monticello, and who, (from his having the word “Jasper” in hisdnemoradum book was supposed to belong in this county; an assumption which was not correct, however. Som e charitable people of Monticello gave the boy some pecuniary assistance, and he wandered on westward. The sad sequel of this incident is probably found in the fatally injuring last Monuay, at Rockville of a deaf inute named Jasper FToycf, by a locomotive, as he was sitting on the railroad ties. His home was at Jacksonville, 111., and he had been attending a deaf mute school, in Indianapolis. Cranberries at Newels’*

Miss Ora Duvall has gone to Indianapolis, to visit relatives for a couple of weeks. Fire! out your old suit and buy a new one at reduced rates. R. Fendig. E. O. Green and family occupy as a residence John Makeever’s tenant house, corner Weston and Harrison streets. _ Lost.—Between my place and town, a gold pen with holder. A liberal reward will be paid the finder. AM. Baker, i Last week was the biggest week on record for marriage licenses in this county, ten having been issued during the week. Three were issued on Monday of this week. D. C. AVarren, writing to order The Republican sent to his address in Omaha, Neb., says that the large colony of ex-Jasperites now in the Nebraska metropolis are “all O. K.”

Sheriff Yeoman’s venerable shepherd dog was gathered to his; fathers a few days since, at the very ripe age, for a dog, of 18 years. The old fellow had grown gray and decrepit long before his demise. The two new and adjoining and rival towns in Grant county, Kan--088, Surprise and Cincinnati, have been consolidated under the name of Appomattox. Win. Salter, from Rensselaer, is one of the leading founders of the new town and is located there in banking business. Chas. AV. Bussell, of Hanging Grove tp., was trying to remove the cap from a loaded brass shot gun shell, one day last week, when the shell exploded and tore and lacerated his thumb and one finger very badly. The shell had been snapped in the gun and failed to explode. The Recorder’s office also had a boom last week, almost equal to the big run in marriage licenses in the clerk’s office. One man brought in. 31 deeds for record, in a bunch. The fees for cording them foot up close They were for the old Air Line Charley W arner -received from Tecumpseh, Neb,funder date of Jan. 1, the following characteristic letter: Warner: A Happy New Year, ar:<l I <l»z. Mike’s Beat. How is tM Billy Goat. Clkave.” H. M. Cleaver, author of the letter, is now running a restaurant and bakery, in company with his sister, at Tecumpseh. The editors of tbs Michigan City News and Dispatch are indulging in a pleasant personal controver csy, of which the following from the Dispatch is a specimen: “Keiser, the constipated editor of the News, talks about our shape. We’re all RIGHT! Look in a mirror, Keiser; what do you see? A bald-head, d, lop eared, crosseyed, long-nosed, lantern-jawed, stoop-shouldered, chicken-heai ted, flat-bellied, knock-kneed, box-ank-led, pigeon-toed pimp.” The Oxford Tribune is of the opinion that the selling of two beers for a nick by one of the saloonists of this town is an advertising scheme to encourage immigration to Rensselaer. If John finds the prospects so alluring that he perforce must come here, hiinseif, we can only hope that he will leave that silly old “Girl About Town” of his, at home. Her presence here would be an affliction to our citizens which even two beers for a nick would not compensate for.

The Supreme court has at last made an end of the interminable case of Kopelka vs. Kopelka in denying a rehearing tp Johannes in the Case which he ap-I pealed from the Jasper circuit court. The Kopelkas are father and soil, living at Crown Point, and it will be remembered that

each brought separate actions against the other and that both were tried in this county, by change of venue. In the first case the son got a judgment of SSO against the old man. In the next case the old ;man was on top, and got SSOOI judgment. The case was tried about two years ago. Johannes, tTielbn, appeaTed tD tbeSupiemo Court and that tribunal affirmed the judgment of the court below; in November last A rehearing was then applied for and a decision refusing the application was rendered last Saturday. This finally settles the case. Sweet cider at Newels’*

The condition of Uncle Daniel Grant has changed but little since first mentioned, two weeks ago. He is* able to take a little nourishment but can not speak. AV. E. Moore got home Tuesday night from Buffalo where he had taken two car loads of hogs ajid one car load of cattle. The hog market was satisfactory but the eattle marW hardly so. Only three applicants for teacher’s license appeared at tbe reguI lar monthly examination, last Saturday, and one of them threw up the sponge before the work was finished.

Ths people in Newton’s addition are complaining of the depredations of an accomplished chicken thief and are threatening to publish his name, his identity being well known, unless he ceases from vexing the quiet slumbers of their peaceful pullets. Geo. K. Hollingsworth got home Monday night from Kalamazoq, where he attended the wedding of his brother, E. L. Hollingsworth, elsewhere mentioned. The wedding was a grand affair. The bridal couple are making an extensive trip in tbe east and will not .be in Rensselaer for several weeks. The year 1888 is notable in that one of the digits used in writing it occurs three times. This occurs every 111 years, 1777 being the last one using the same figure three times, and the next such year will be 1999. The millennial years are thrown in for good count, and use the cipher three times.

White circuit court has been again indulging in the pleasant amusementof saddling big expense bills on to Jasper county count of cases sent to that county on change of case of Faylor vs. there are addjtiotfarcosts of $32.5<X and in the Spoor vs. Yeoman the cqpteUafe $216. It must be tfiafeidur AVhrte county neighbors figuring on building a new court house and want Jasper county to pay fof’ft. This is 1888 and a leap year, and that reminds us to admonish single ladies, with predelictions for matrimony, that they will do well to be “getting a hump on them,” (this is the latest slang phrase for expressing the idea formerly conveyed by “git up and git,” “stir your stumps,” “git up and dust” &c.) as there will be only two more leap years in the Nineteenth century, namely 1892 and 1896, and after the last mentioned there will be no leap year for eight years, or until 1904.

The good luck which has followed eo many Jasperites in the west has struck 8. T. Warren and Geo. AV. Norris, in the north-east corner of Colorado. A new and very progressive town, at’the junction of two railroads, isjsituated near their claims. An idea of the great prosperity or the new town, the name of which is Holyoke, may be had from the fact that it already has 150 buildings completed and more under way. The town was laid out tbe 21st of last September, or only three months ago. _

The long wooden box, which! looked like a coffin case for a Go-i liah of Gath, which found temporary. storage in the room adjoining the Farmers Bank and was removed Tuesday, was the property of Signor John Montana, the stage name of John Willey, a young man raised in this county, now engaged in the travelling showman business. The principal attractions in his “Marvellous Aggregation of Nature” are a South American mummy and the skeleton of a. sea serpent. The box above mentioned contained the latter. The Signor is preparing to exhibit in some of the school houses of this county.

Billy Laßue, of Burlington, Kansas, visited his cousins, the Laßue, Bros., last week, going away on Friday.. He was born and raised in Rensselaer, but had not seen the place for 17 years. He was much impressed with the great and favorable change in the town since he last saw it- ...His father and the father of the members of the presentfirm of Larueßros-. badageii-' eral store here, way back in the forties, when they hauled their goods from Chicago and Lafayette by wagon. They built the old stone building, nqw Leopold’s, afid which was the finest building in the town, and one of the finest in Northern Indianm

Joseph Price, an insane inmate of the poor-house, die.l.l ast Saturday morning. The Baptist Sunday school celebrated the holiday season* Saturday evening. They hail a fine tree well loaded with presents:and,also rendered an extensive literary and musical programme, Mr. Frank Dexn, of Montezuma, Kansas, was in town Monday: He will be remembered as a member of the firm of Dern Bros., who were in the grocery business in Rensselaer, about five years ago. D. H. Hazen left Tuesday morning for Winchester, Ky,, where he will remain this winter working up his patent wire fence machine. He has the best machine of this kind made and there is no doubt he will meet with good success in the enterprise.—Francesville Era. J ohn Q. Beam one of the most prominent and estimable citizens of: Reynolds, and senior of the milling j firm of Beam & Beam of that place I was killed on the 23u1t., by being caught by an endless chain belt in his mill, and whirled around a shaft until the chain broke.

AVe wish to announce to the ladies of Rensselaer and vicinity that we have opened a Dressmaking Shop up stairs in Liberal corner, just opposite Ludd Hopkin’s Dry goods store, and we would respectfully / invite them to call and see Satisfaction guaranteed. Hawses Castor Hughey. Edward F. LfAey, a brakeman ion the L, N. A. & C., outof Chic- i ago, Tuesday, when rear Fair Oaks, met ivith an almost fatal accident, rendering him unconscious and in ! a condition, from injuries ■received on the head and right (shoulder. In an interview with j him Wednesday evening, he stated (that the accident occurred while i loosening the |rrake in the caboose, i While he is severely hurt, his injuries are thought not to be necessarily fatal. —Monon leader. AVe beg to thank our many custom eis for their liberal patronage i» the past year, and can assure them that we will continue to strive !to merit the same in the year that ihas just begun. To those • have never had any dealings with us, w 6 will respectfully ask them to kindly give us a trial. Our Motto has been and always will be, “quick sales, small profits and square dealings.” We remain Yours Respt. Laßue Baas. !

The Boswell Argus claims to' have located the champion mean 1 man in one S. I. Godman, of • Montmoneiici who, according to the Argus, lost a horse in November and advertised that a “suit-J able” reward would be given for its recovery. Constable Lowry of Boswell found the horse and notified the owner ,who called for and was then delivered the horse and then. tendered the constable 25 cents as a “suitable reward.” The constable ought to bring action i against the mean cuss and let a : jury detrmine what a “suitable reward’,would be, under the eircuml’ stances. “ Mr. E, L. Hollingsworth, of McCoy & Go’s. Bank, found his ’ frequent trips to Kalamazoo, Mich.,■ for the “benefit of his health” so irksome and expensive that he went up there last week and arranged to bring and locate here the “physician” whose frequent counsels have been so necessary for his w'ell-being. Her name until last Saturday evening, was Miss Fannie Allen; since that time she is privileged to write her signature “Mrs. E. L. Hollingsworth.” She belongs to one of the most prominent and wealthy families of Kalamazoo, her father being the head of a very large manufacturing establishment there.

The suit against the bondsmen of Siddall, the depraved preacher, was taken from the Newton circuit |court to White county, on change of venue/ The particular point upon which the bondsmen hope to be released from paying the SI,OOO is the claim that the i justice of the peace’who bound Siddalls over had no jurisdiction in the case; inasmuch as the de-fcnseappliedTora-Change-Qf venue from bis court; and Las they further claim th&t the justice was legally bound to grant the change, they hold that after the petition was made the justice had no further jurisdiction. The point involved has never been judicially determined in this state.