Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1888 — Locals and Personate. [ARTICLE]

Locals and Personate.

An old and familiar but not altogether welcome acquaintance, the Quinsy, has been staying With the editor for the past week, and has stayed so mighty close that skid editor has had to devote all his energies exclusively to its entertainment. Hence this issue of The Republican is edited mainly by the shears. C. J. Brown expects to start for Florida, soon. The beat felt boot in the market $2.50, at Hemphiil & Honan’s. No school will bo held to-day on account of Thanksgiving. •Open your pocket books to-day for the beuefit of the poor. Give thanks indeed. Ladies, please call and let Mrs. Honan show you our styles in Millinery. Hemphill & Honan. Mr§. Belle Kerr will start today for California, for the benefit of her health. She may b.e gone one year. 601 majority for Harrison is nothing compared to the Bargains in Shoes and Millinery at Hemphill & Honan’s. James Whittaker, of Gillam tp., has recently had three attacks ot hemorrhage of the lungs. He will start for East Tennessee next week. Married. —By Rev. E. G. Pelley, at the M. E. parsonage, on Wednesday, November 28, 1888, Mr. Geo. yV. Spitler, of Rensselaer, to Miss Aldord Sharp, of Lee, White county, Ind. The mysterious movements and guarded conversation makes some people think one of the brightest young widows of the vicinity of is going to . Don’t all guess.

The Union Bible School will give an entertainment Friday eyening, December h. A varied and pleasing program will be rendered by the children. You and your friends are cordially invited. The County * Commissioners meet in regular session, next Monday. The board will contain one new member, at this session, Mr. P. M. Querry, Who succeeds Mr. A. C. Prevo, whose term has expired. , Mrs. W, T. Perkins has lately returned from a several week’s stay in Quincy, Mich., bringing back with her, her aged mother, Mrs. Susan Nichols, who is in very poor health. She has reached the age of eighty-three years. gone to visit friends in and about the home of the former’s ancesters, at Luray, Va., and will probably be absent until Christmas. They will visit various places of public interest, especially the city of Washington before they return. Roscoe Conkling was once ash-; ed what he thought of the habit President Hayes had contracted during his administration of using the plural ‘,‘We.” „He replied, "The ‘WeV is permissible, qnly when used by crowned heads, .editors, and people troubled with tape-worms.” The latest heard from William Morris, of Wh&atfield, the young man who was so, badly cut by Ozro Wallace, on election night, indicate that his chances for pulling through continue to improve. He is a young man of extraordinary strength and endurance, otherwise his injuries must have proven fatal.

Some of the papers are agitating the question of organ izing a new county by taking a slice from, Boone* CUnion, Tipton and Hamilton. Some favor Sheridan as the seat of the proposed new couutyj while others cling to the little liamlet known by the suggestive nsmo of Tailholt, as it is geographically located nearest the center of gravity.—Fowler Nutshell; . The little fifteen months old son bf Felix Barker, of Hanging Grove tp., accidently burned himself, about 12 o’clock Wednesday, by upsetting a cup of hot water upon hiS. left breast and arm. All me dqne that could be for him. He lived m great agony until 9 o’clock sl> an. Saturday, when death relieved yhim. The sorrowing parents have the sympathy, of ajl their neighbors and friends,

Mrs. C. C. Sigler is Bick in Chicago. . V " * S. A. Fulton, north of town, has moved to LaGrange, Cook county | Illinois. r - The show r \vindows around town are beginning to contain fine dis--1 plays of Holiday goods. Eugene Sayler has changed his place of residence from the house on Front street into Mr. Steward’s house near the Christian church. Whats the use of shivering and sliakibg these cold mornings when Hemphill & Honan are selling underwear and mitts so cheap. Over a hundred tickets were sold for the Fat Stock Show excursion to Chicago, last Thursday. B. F. Ferguson’s free excursion was also run on the same day. Arctics, felt boots, chamois lined shoes, flannel lined congress gaitors and felt lined shoes, as cheap as dirt and ten times as warm, at Hemphill & Honanf. J. H, Lewis, publisher of The Kitchen, • the Republican, at Fowler, was in town Monday, in the interest of the former publication. The family of Charles Gurtner, of Barkley township, are recover? ing fiom a long illness. Several of his family \vere sick. Mrs. Gurtner suffered a relapse, but is .now some better. J. H. Hyland, landlord of the Nowels House, is preparing to take possession of the Makeever House very soon. Mr. Hyland in-! tends funning both hotels for the r present. ,

Samuel Scott, formerly of this place, now of ; Lakin, Kansas, has since the death of his wife, which occurred some weeks ago, lost two of his children, aged aboqt eleveh and two years, respectively. Philip Blue, our new sheriff, moved into the jail building yesterday. Mr. Yeoman moved into the Raunal property, on Front St. He will live there about ten days and then occupy the J. Q. Alter property, on the same street. The president of the Women’s. Relief Corps calls a special meeting on Saturday evening. Bust ness of importance to transact. All members are requested to' attend. Hettie E. Reynolds, Secretary. E. 0. Green, M. O. Halloren, Lorenz Hildebrand and George Strickfaden, of Rensselaer, t and Boleslaiv P.. Druzak, of Remington, will apply for saloon licence, before the County Commissioners, next week.

lial lack .Bros, are pressing a large amount of hay in-this county this year. They have a. steam press m Hanging Grove toYvnsbip at present. They are still cutting wild grass in the marshes in the north end ot the county, for packing purposes. ' , It is stated that the Louisville, .New Albany & Chicago road has one of the most valuable franchises of any road in the state, it having become heir to it through the franchise granted the New Albany & Salem road by the state when the interior improye-ment act was passed by the Legislature in 1840. Ms. Trump, a farmer aged about 60 living near Loivell, has been sick for some time; and it was supposed that he had a cancer in the stomach. A few days ago lie was seized with a severe vomiting, and threw Up a small living animal having the appeafance of a small lizard. It lived three hours. It is preserved in alcohol. —Grown Point Register.

The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows of Indiana, now in session at j Indianapolis, has made provisions i for establishing a home for the care of aged and indigent Odd j Fellows. The object is stated to | be to gather all dependent mem- i bers of the fraternity into a pleasant home and there care for them i in a manner similar to the homes j already established by that order in Pennsylvania and elsewhere,. »-< i Perhaps you .have seen it stated ip this paper that Hemphill sliouted for Harrison, and Honan shout-j ed for Cleveland. Hemphill got : his man and still shouts but Honan has something stuck . in, his throat and can’t < shout for four years. But they .will make it an object to you if -.you are needing Boats,: Shoes, Millinery goods to buy of them. , Respectfully,' - Hemphill & Honan.

The brick for the new M. Es 'church is being hauled on the ground. “ 1 .4 > . E. A. Griswold is rebuilding his dwelling on his farm three miles north of town. Quarterly meeting was held in the Methodist church by Presiding Elder Smith, last Sunday. Mr. S. Bass, of Lafayette, *is visiting his daughter, Mrs. Moses Xutuer, of Rensselaer. Mr. Wm. B. Austin has been confined to his house for a day or two this week, by a slight attack of malarial fever. T~ a•. Dr. K. E. Wendall, who has been woikiug in Dr. Kelley’s dental rooms for some weeks, left tor his home in Virginia, yesterday. Mr. A. Parkinson and his daughter, Miss Stella, have gone to Long Point, Ark., to visit another daughter of Mr. Parkinsbn and her husband, Mr. T. E. Willey. Those political poles have answered the purposes for which they were raised. .Why hot have a wood chopping and give the proceeds to the widows and others wlio need wood? . Walter Holder who lives on the Bohd faim, northeast of town, is selling his surplus stock and other farm products, and making rapid preparations to move west with his family, in about two or three weeks.

A few days ago, Andrew Lovejoy, a brakeman On the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago road, had three of his fingers crushed between the draw-bars, and his hand held in the vice for seven minutes before it was released, and although almost fainting from loss of blood, he told his next man to flag a train which wa.s almost due, lest their train did not get nut of the way. An exchange remarks: A great deal is said about ,what newspapers ought to do. for the people. It now and then might be quite proper to hint that the people ought to do something for the newspapers. If the people would do half as much sot home papers as their papers do for them, it would not only ineure a firstclass papet in every community, but would more rapidly adyance every other interest.

Genera] Harrison has an invitation pending to join Superintendent Woodard and Colonel Friedly, of the Louisville Albany Chicago road, to participate in a three days’ hunting expedition . in Southern Indiana, early in December. It is thought quite probable that he will make an effort to get aWay, as he keenly relishes an (^e-6asion&Lhunt r and was- a -pretty good shot some years ago when in practice.—lndianapolis Special. Michael Rinehart, the Winamae murderer, was sentenced to the state prison for life. The evidence at the trial, his history and previous reputation, ancT also a private confession ; which he made to Sheriff Burton, conclusively shoYved him to be a most desperate and bloody mindqd villian, for whom hanging Avould have been none too severe a punishment. It is said that only the obstinacy of one juror saved him from that penalty.

Prof. E. Andrews of Chicago i made a second operation oh Geo. i O. Hoover, last Wednesday. He opened the hip joint and cut out j between one and two inches of the j upper end of the thigh bone, and ; the dead portions of the hip bone, j Dr. Andrews thinks he removed! all the dead bone. The operation Yvas necessary to prolong his life and if successful may give him years to live.' Dr. Andrews was assisted by Drs.< J. H. Loughridge and* Son, Washburn, Bitters aud Alter. I " _ , , , *

The Auditor of State ached the 1 Attorney-general if, under Section [6426, Revised - Statutes, it is the ! duty of the county treasurer to [collect a penalty of.fi per cent, on ; aU delinqucncies of former years,: v£ben the property taxed has not 1 been sold for the amount of the. taxes' due. The Attorney-general i gave an affirmative-answer. He ! also gave an opinion that one calling himself a doctor must procure a ticense, even if he does no more than soil a proprietary - medicine which ha represents as a remedy for certain i This question arofc from the arrest of Dr. Zollers, 7at CraYvfordgvjlle, who was changed with practicing medicine jmhout a license.