Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1888 — Locals and Personals. [ARTICLE]

Locals and Personals.

llobt. Paris expects to,open his new bahh at Kewuunn, this week. Ban’ey Phillips nnd J. A. Bridge are buying horses in this vicinity. Emmet Kannai ar;d Mel Laltue are in Chicago, buying some horses. Whoa! .Tanusryi quit kicking hut come in and buy n jiair t'if belt ]--■ 1 jots. at.'Hemfihtlt A lioiiau’s. Mr. E. S. Banes, a typo, has been visiting relatives in Rensselaer, for a few days.

Eikck Savin, an employe of the Bodge paper mil), at Delphi, was caught in a shaft,’ hist Thursday, and instantly killed. Say! Pap! you'd better buy a pair of Arc tieo at Hemphill and Honan’s, tli- y’er seljiu em for a dollar. r I Mrs. Rachel Knox, of Chilicothc . ’ Ohio,is...Klay.ii.ig -with Mr friends | ; here for a si'tut time. She mine to ailoul the !a.s f . si(.-kness of her! mother, lift. S\. C. Pierce. AY. E. Jirown has bought a farm j near Stock well, Tippecanoe county, ’ and expects to make his future ; residence there. Mr. Brown is a 1 good citizen, and of.the kind whom j we dislike to see leave this county. ■ Frank Bern, •of Montezuma,' Kahs., and: a lonm-r residn.it of • this place, was mended at Reynolds, Wlpte Co., on the Bth inst,, to Miss Jessie Willioms, and departed with his bride for his wes- j tern heme, the following Monday, j Trenton Rock wall No. 2, at! Fraticesviile, will be -liot with, nitro-glycerine, some time this j week. The new company, the j ; forming of which was mentioned., I hist week, has e attracted for a we 1),! to be bored a litiie vo st of the §u t j well bored. We have good authority for say- 1 ing jthat the Ferguson mill, lately | destroyed By tire, will lie rebuilt j this year, and be a larger and much Better' mill than was the] former one. This is goad nows; and we- earnestly hope that no un- j foreseen contingency will arise to ; prevent ihe erection of the mill. 1 Wo-wLsli-to to tha ladles : of JtensselMr uiuf'vicinity that we , ’ have opened a ‘Bretsnnking Shop ! up stall’s in Liberal corner, just, opposite laud'd Hopkinh’ Dry goods ; . tuore, omi we wood iyspee.itoTTy iuvhc ihem In gftH and sec us. pSttfiofactittn guaranteed, M iKTUf- Castor. A Hugely. ! Get It 1 1 win .soi l mjQanK-d the She rid to Ipdlar-apoha This wrelt, : when tlie frdtev went after Win. Price, and Vrliiletheve inquired into the eoiid? i imref the t:cway>y 1 rna for ii.curuble lunatics, at Logaimport. He found that it would not be ready fur the reception of pai t-ients for some months yet, and that when ready' it wo ill d probably not accommodate nea ly all of lire -inearablcs in the state. An alleged “well authenticated” i rumor lias lately been published to the efleet that the L., N. A. & C. company was about to, remove their machine shops from New Albany to Hammond. A counter j rumor, equally as well autlxfintica- | ted, denies that the shops to ; be removed, until the company :-e----feureß an extension to Cincini'.ati, i and that when that result is aci Coiiiplislied, 'the shops v. ill be re- } moved to indianapolis.

Air. Henry Mackey, our artistic and reliable marble monument man, has completed in his- shop aud ready for erection a handsome and tasteful monument for the grave of Edwin Halstead, son of M. R. Httletead, of Newton tp. The material of the monument is Georgia marble, a handsome but peculiar stone, which is just coming into use for monumental purposes. It seems to possess many admirable qualities, besides its evident beauty. w Tlie man known as Homer Danger, who, about a year, ago, was arrested in this place, charged with having etoleu a watch of Abe Ilalleck, of-De.Motto, some time previous, wr.s nabbed last Friday, at Cedar Lake, by Sheriff Yeoman, .Who kuaw thaUhe, was wanted at Gofehen, tbe county seat of Elkhart county, for grand larceny. He broke jail at that place two years ugo. —Mr. Yeoman kept him Aia charge until Monday, when the sheriff of Elkhart county arrived and took him. away. Langer’s reM name is Charles Bratz, but he several aliases, as Homer Langer, Cha*. Pratts, Homer Price &c.

A. Punter, of Paxton, lib, is bak-* ing for T. W, liaus. ldobt. Kepuer, the faithful janitor of the Rensselaer school building, has been granted a pension. Gee! Whiz! Bill they are selling Mens’ Arctics at Hemphill & Honan’s for a dollar, lot’s buy a pair, Dont blame *us if. you freeze your dumb-gasted feet off, we've jskads of Felt .Boots (>' $2 50. i pimp:iill a Hokan;

; The great storm of: last week, in the Northwest, destroyed more human lives than the great wreck at Chatewcrth, twice over. ! How selfish it seems to see men and women wearing Arctics and, : their children none. Go to Hemphill & Honan’s and buy thorn some.! i The tern per at urp was lon below , yesterday morning. A keen wind | accompanying the low temperature : I made pretty severe weal her. j. Mrs David Daniels is dangerously sick with lung fever, at the home of her so r in-law, Sol Me-i ;Curtain, of Barkley to. I J. F. Bruner, of Rensselaer, has bought the stock of tue basted firm |of Sayers & Tyler, of Deklofte, and' will take possession of the | same, next week. —:—- _i- r - j Mar’ioge licenses since last rciported:- ( John Kidder, •’( b'lora ktrip’.nyir. 1 Sylvesti r A. Austin. Jr., ! The credit of suggesting tn Uie , Town l'omd that a fire alarm f;c ] attached to the court house bell, ] belongs to Mr. J. Id. S. Ellis, of j the firm of Eflis &■ Murray. It ! was on excellent, valuable and eraj inenfly practicable suggestion. ; The men who were putting the [fire alarm oirfhe court house boll | Tuesday, rang a lively tattoo, by ; way of testing its qualities and. ; thereby caused a considerable ex- | citemeid around-town, many tliihkiiig thnt there must be a lire in ' ' Sbme place. j Sheriff Yeoman went to Iml-; ! ianapdlis Monday night to bring | the asylum Wm. i’mie, ’of Barkley tp., who lias been there since fliirFis pinuioUnced iioi curable, lie is quiet ami pe:v* rtTje; and not wholly, without • uii- ! (\c j sumding. His family are pre-i-paring to take care of him at home, 3.t LiiwL. © wic, si Mot t, tune y |county, one of tlie jurors trying, the ( Vy gang, at ImliauapoiL:, is a ' com in of Lawyer Graham, of - ..Jifnssebmr. Ho is an Jionest f;.r----j mer and a hater of ail kinds of | ! villainy, ami if the’rest of the juror.-? are like oic. i.e’ tally--shd-ic j forgers are in a fair way to receive : j their just deserts. An Omission. —ln our account; of Recorder Antrim's golden wed- j ding the ms met? BE the following j donors of the gold ppectfeclf s were \ 1 acc-identiilly—omi tied: Mr.—and j ' Mrs. A. Parkison, Mr. and Mrs. E. i |H. Moreland, Mr. and Mrs. C. A.; •Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. O.! Hoover, Mr. and M rs. N. S. Bates, dihemames of Mr; and Mis. J, C.! M rgira wer .e in tit e s a live w ay, • omitted from the li.it of donors .of' | the rocking.chair. !

A fire in Kcniland, Dec. G, start-; ing in thh.kifelien of Wood?’ res- • tnurant, destroyed the building be-, longing ■ l;> F. Cunningham . anil : worth BXOO, insured for 8500, and also all the stock and fixtures 'oU the restaurant, valued at 31,500,J with no insurance. Gauthier’s fur-, niture building, worth Si .200, in• ] suml for 8800, mid 81.200 worth of his stock, fully insured/. G'nthberYslqerhouse was alsp destroyed, loss 8250, uo insuranefif. Kentland has a fire engine, but lost its T-er-vices on this occasion, from tlie bursting of the hose. A • *' ‘ A The ship railway is apparently iiot only not a “hew thing,” but a j very old one. It has been a scientific and engineering reality since 500 B. G. In 1438-9 the Venetian 'engineer, Bobolo, successfully | n ovod the Venetian fleet over land from the banks of the Adige to .Lake Gurda, crofsiug a high jmountuin on his way. With this : incident as th? principal text, F. L-. iia gat ley n has written airih]structivc, iid-rcSting. and tiihely • paper o>i ‘ Ship Railways - -Ancir ill and Modern,’' for Harper's February Magazine. It was not intended to help on Captain Eads’ idea of a ship-railway across thS Isthmus of Panama, but it is entirely favorable tp such a project, Six ib

H. It. W. Smith hrs resumed work on the editorial force of the ’Chifcngo Tribuue. He has a better i and easier place than his. previous |one. • b. , Cnpt. J. M. Wasson, is now ! grandpap, owing to the birth, a few | weeks ago, of a son to Mr. and ! Mrs. A. E. Coen, of Greensburg, Kansas. t . Miss Lida Slnughler, nvimsmtli. east of town, has beep staving in iJLftfftye.t te foi siirm) -weeks,-bnt.. r.iturnnd hojue sick with the chills, last Friday.

i Newton township lias np.q>]ftee in tile delinquent tax list, this year, while Hanging Grove has , only xma dalinqu-uxcyaula MaiioiL. township has only two. The cold wave of Satuiday and |Sunday .was flic severest of the, season, so far. Sunday night, oa--1 j eciaily, was intensely cold, the :thermometer showing from 20 to 22 degrees bi.b w zero, early Mon-. day Baortiug.' . _ j Mrs/ A. J. Hylclntosh, the oldest. : daughter of the late W. G. DePiitiw, • l of Niiw Albany, who has entered ! sui-fagainst tile executors, Sieirs, legatees and benollci.u ies under the wifi, iffis siibihitted a Uropositiornu in which she offers to enter into an agreement w ith the it irs at law to ! observe the suppoted last will of her father In regard to tbe 'payment of h quo te to charities and public in-titufioUß should she sue- i ceed in breaking the will, and to pledge the entire estate to the dis- 1 charge of these <>b! igiitions. Unless this is approval by the other- nat- j viral ire in-, if tbe will is broken,: the entire c.st .te will revert to the | DePauw fau'dllyand the other le- 1 gtiteea will receive no part of tlm j amounts bequeathed to them. j Witli a firm grip upon what is best in Li ertdure and Art, the February number of Harper's Magazine issues in excllcrit form ; from the great presses in Franklin j square. Its.pages contain the most j receiit eii’’a t.-.' of such writers as Henry James, William Black,: ■ William Dcau Hoveells, Charles-; Dud 1 y Warner, the Hon, George j F.-Edmunds, George William Cur- j i.hs, Bicdy*) Hunt, J. H. Rosny, j F, L. itegodoni, the late . G>m. ; U \‘~a , ,-r ■ O TT ■",-vy v, e- h V Alias hi V■“ - so;:. Am die Rives, and 0. PA Ci Mich; and the latest aUosiic \ ~ik of Frederick ihumartl, Kruell,: Hi-awl, i hnebnrh '■ ’. Par-ions, Blew - art, 3 ; 1 1:; ■ . or, Hw l d Ry'.", R. : Ih idad,B- ;d, Du Mgm i r :r, and a shore of other iirtists and eugrav-, ■s • • : The animal delinquent fax list--appears this week. The. teu.deucy of dm ii-d to guow s:u dh vby un- ■ giocs, and beautifully less, still! 'continues. The greatest cause lor : iids constant decrease is undoubti edtv, found in; the fact that vast (jU iUlitios (vs til,i low p!'!---ld lands [xif the county which form-, riy be- | longed to non-residents, and were bsufi’ered tTgo delinquent, are now J I owned by. residen ts of the. county,' | who get- some benefit from The | land and are therefore more care|ft,! in paying the taxes thereon, Thau' were tbe Who . derived no. revenue from | their' possessions.

Another very prominent factor ] tin this constant deduction of the' | delinquent list- is the result of a ’system employed by a prominent |_ypid-estate and law iiViu of Items--1.-claer of notifying each year all Uion-reeideut Tend owners, whose : placeau.i.f residence are known, Of ji he amount of taxes c'.rargod ] against their property .in this county. This action result ■in the payment of many taxes which otherwise.would be. forgotten and suffered to go delinquent.