Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1889 — ADVERTISED LETTERS. [ARTICLE]

ADVERTISED LETTERS.

The snide school-book law has received another knock-out in the courts. Judge-Fraser, of Warsaw, has decided that the law does not make -lie use of the books in the schools, obligatory. Silcott, • the absconding democratic cashier of the House of Congress, got away with $l,lOO of Hon. W. D. Owen’s money among the rest. The total amount of his stealings was about $130,000. Aaron Rodgers, of Vnlpo, has just got his money on a Starke county ditch order, which he has held for ten or a dozen years. Ten years behind in payments is not so very bad for a county that never knew what a Republican county officer looks like. Justus H. Rathboue, founder of the order of the Knights of Pythias, died at Lima, Ohio, on Monday, at the comparatively early age of fifty-two years. Great honor to his memory is being shown by the prosperous and popular order his genius called into existence. tx -MM UlMl'WiraWllllillirTll The coroner of Cass county, in an inquest held on the body of a little girl who died of. diphtheria, recommended that several so-call-Chnstian-science healers be held for mai-praetice. The child had no medical treatment, other than the hocus-pocus of the faith cure fanatics. ~-—. - * ""-rrrrTßrwiiy urn tb m—a—t The Superintendent of the Eleventh Census, Robert P. Porter, has divided Indiana into six census districts. Jasper county is in the fifth district, which is composed of the following counties: Benton, Carroll, Cass, Fulton, Howard, Jasper, Lake, LaPorte, Pulaski, St. Joseph, Starke and White. The district wall be under t-ha direct charge of a single supervisor.

Speaker lieed is making up his important committees with most commendable alacrity. He does not intend that the public business shall suffer on account of any dilatoriucss upon his y art. His appointments of McKinley as a chairman of the ways and means committee and Cannon chairinan of the committee on appropriations, are the best that could have been made. The Chicago Auditorium, the finest building of its kind in America, if not in the world, and the finest ever erected anywhere by private-enterprise, was formally opened last Monday, with most imposing ceremonies. The building has been three years in construction, cost three millions of dollars, and is built to endure for ages. Ou the opening night the president and vice-president of the United States were present as guests, and the greatest of living singers, Adeline Patti, was among the performers. The copperbeaded chaplain of the House of Representatives in-

salted the loyal people of the nation, by praying for Jefferson Davis, at the opening of the daily session, Monday. The retention of this clerical Bonrbon as chaplain of the House is due to Joseph Cheadle, the Republican member from the Ninth Indiana district. It is not the first time Cheadle has has shown himself to be a stupendous chump, and the Republicans of the Ninth district must be in a poor way for congressional timber if they can’t find any better representative than Cheadle.

Chicago is the place for the W orld’s Fair, because it has the most central location and is the most accessible to the majority of the people who will wish to visit j ir; because it has the best railroad [fttcilitiesf the largest and purest water supply; the best summer climate; the best and most'extensive hotel accommodations; the most convenient and“ accessible sites for the fair, within its limits. Moreover it ought to have the fair because the people are with it. They feel that Chicago deserves the fair because of the wonderful zeal and enterprise which it has shown in working to get it. They feel tnat the city which shows such magnificent enterprise in its measures for securing the fair will be equally enterprising in making it a success, after it is secured.

Sundry papers are predicting that when Dr. Talmage gets to the Holy Land he will deliver a sermon on the Mount. But it is very unsafe to predict anything in regard to the genial Brooklyn divine. Besides, where would he get fits congregation ? It is not to be supposed that the folks about Jerusalem, who like to steal out in tlie gloaming and hear some howling Dervishes preach, would take any interest in the eloquent American preacher. And then who would agree to pay him five huudred dollars for his discourse? His services come high and he is- not the the man wfio works for nothing aud boards himself, even in the Holy Land. —Rochester Republican. “Where will he get his congregation?” Where did he get his congregation when he preached at Mar’s Hill? He doesn’t need any congregation except a stenographic reporter; and the newspaper syndicates will pay him liis price for the sermon, wherever it is delivered. Nobody need fear but what : Talrmige knows what he is about, and how to get the most money out of his eloquence. But what colossal cheek. Preaching on Mar’s Hill and on the Mount! If the Savior of men should come back on earth again Talmage. ~ would offer- to exchange pulpits with him, before fie had fairly touched the ground. ..

The latest scheme is worked by swindlers who go about the country representing alleged wholesale grocery houses and claiming to be able to sell staple groceries at greatly reduced prices. The agents carry samples of the best grades of sugar, coffee, tea, etc. Tiiese they exhibit, giving prices far below the lowest that can be obtained at the local groceries. There is a class of people wh© seem to think that their local merchants charge them two or three prices for all they buy, and among these people swindlers find ample encouragement. These schemes have been aired in The .Republican and by almost every country newspaper in the land, and yet the old idea that the home grocer is charging too much for supplies leads farmers into the same trap where thousands have had their eyes opened to the fraud.

Matilda Beover. John S. Brown. Mrs. Lizzie Cox. Maurice Chamness. Miss J. Fox. Jonathan Holmes. Al. A. Good. J. M. Markley. Chas. Lang. B. Risling. Otis Risling. j ,m . ‘ , i Itch, cured in 30 minutes hy Woolford’s Sanitary Lotion. Sold by Long ft Eger, druggists, Rensselaer.