Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1890 — TOWN AND COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

“Scheming for a Fortune” at the Opera House, to-morrow night. All wool underwear for 75 cents a suit, at Ellis & Murray’s. Miss Lydia Paris, of Xenia, visited her parents and other friends here, from Friday until Tuesday. “Sell cheap and they will buy” is a truth that is being demonstrated every day at Ellis & Murray’s store. Geo. W. Spitler rejoices over the advent of a first born. It is a fine girl and arrived last Saturday evening. Red flannels at 25, 30 and 35c, be st in the market. You Will want some. We can save you some money. Economy Stoke Co. . Dr. Horton has removed his dental office and housekeeping rooms in - to Hemphill’s rooms over Ellis <fc Murray’s and Hemphill & Honan’s stores. Those wishing to buy anything in the line of Cashmeres or Henriettas will do well to call on R. Fendig and inspect his new line of Dry Goods and learn low prices. Graham Earle, the well known actor and theater manager, has deserted-his wife, or the woman who purported to be such, and has married another. lAt last accounts he was under arrest at Albion, this state. The public installation exercises, in Odd Fellows’ Hall, last Thursday evening, were successfully and interestingly conducted, and attended by a large audience. The address by Mr. McQuiddy, of Indianapolis, was an especially fine effort. The drawing of the crayon painting at Hemphill & Honan’s will take place Monday of next week at 2 p. m. Call and buy a dollar’s worth of goods and get a number free. They also give a number for each dollar you pay on your old account. Rev. M. L. Tressler, pastor of the Presbyterian church, at this place, has resigned hist-charge to accept a call from Buchannan, Michigan. The resignation is to take effect at the end of the present month, or as soon thereafter, as the church here can secure another pastor.

Tue 'Republican's information regarding the result of the trial of the assailants of Levi Reynolds, at Chalmers, was partly incorrect Only one of the parties, Overtree, was convicted, Tucker having been acquitted. Overtree’s fine and costs amounted to $375. The stock agent of the Louisville, New Albany A Chicago road says that it makes a wonderful difference whether it kills a hone on its tracks in Indiana or Kentucky as to its value. In Indiana SBO will usually satisfy the owner of a hone which chances to get killed, but on the Louisville Southern, operated by the L. N. A. A C., it costs SBOO to adjust the loss of a hone, regardless of its age or condition.

To-morrow night, at the Opera House, ‘‘Scheming for a Fortune.” All winter goods sold regardless of cost, at Ellis & Murray’s. It will pay you a big per cent, to buy Cloaks and Overcoats of Ellis & Murray now, for next winter’s wear. Mr. A. R. Spalding and Miss Anna Weathers, both of Lafayette, spen t New Year’s with the mother of the latter, Mrs. C. G. Weathers. Please call and settle your account and get a number on the picture, free for each dollar. Hemphill & Honan. See Miss Grace Roseberry and her powerful supporters in the great comedy, “Scheming for a Fortune,” at the Opera House, Friday evening. Mrs. E. T. Harding departed last Thursday for New Orleans, where she will spend the winter with her daughter, Mrs. J. B. Tourne. She will also visit her son in Texas before she returns. Miss Grace Roseberry and her comedy company will appear at the Opera House, Friday evening of this week. The company has a good reputation and we belie ve-will-de-serve a liberal patronage, on the part of our theater going people. Dr. Recher, the physician, of Morocco, who lost all his personal effects in the recent fire at that place, was treated to a surprise party, one night last week, by the good people of the place, and a full outfit of office and bed-room furniture left with him. The people of Mt. Ayr have done a good thing for themselves by subscribing a pretty good sum for a free circulating library. W. J. Miller, the popular and progressive druggist there, was the leader in the movement, and the headquarters of the library will be in his store. - The people of Francesville are not burning gas yet, or at least were not up to the last of last week, but were waiting for the gas company directors to arrange a scale of prices. From all indications, the prices for heating by gas will be about as high as by coal or wood. Gas at such prices will be a great convenience, but will not produce a boom, by a long ways.

Goodland Herald: ‘"Expert” testimony is still considered of value in the courts, as the Smoot case probably hinges upon that class of evidence. In his plea for damages the plaintiff claims to have received injuries that resulted in Pott’s disease of the spine, and Dre. Hatch, Chaffee, McCain and Bitters concur in this opinion; but a demurer is entered by Drs. Triplett, Pratt, Davis and Loughridge, who assert that such are not the facts in the case. The Morocco Courier says that the Masonic building lately destroyed by fire, in Morocco, was insured for $1,600, or about half its value. The loss of Dr. Becher on library, furniture, instruments Ac., is put at fully $l,lOO with no insurance. Shafer A Lamb's drug stock was pretty well insured. The fire originated in the rear room of the drug store, and is thought to have been of incendiary origin, from the fact that an outside door was found open, by the first arrivals at the fire. Children's cloaks and overcoats sold way below cost, at Ellis A Murray's.

Rev. J. C. Thrawls will occupy the pulpit of he M. E. church next Sunday morning. Millinery at cost now at Hemphill & Honan’s—not what it costs you but at wholesale prices. First class shows have been as rare as angles’ visits, in Rensselaer this winter. Don’t miss the one at the Opera House, Friday night. We are determined to sell goods at prices to correspond with the prevailing low prices paid for produce. Ellis & Murray. Quarterly meeting for the M. E. circuit win be held next Saturda^arodj. : Sunday, at the Egypt School House. First service Saturday, at 10:30 a. m. Benj. Barger, whose amputation of a finger and a part of the hand was mentioned last week, is at the Uotton House, and is doing fairly we 11. Jacob Shrum, the teaming man, has relucted on the idea of moving out into the solitudes of Keener township and has rented his farm there to B. F. Ramey, of Rensselaer, who is moving out there this week. Rev. B. F. Ferguson will have to be out of town next Sunday, and Rey. McGuire will fill his place on the Week of Prayer Programme, by preaching at the M. E. church, Sunday evening. The high wind of Sunday before last made the air so thick with flying sand, at Michigan City, that people could scarcely venture upon the streets. In some places it was piled* on the sidewalks in drifts four feet deep, it is said.

Marriage licenses since last week, j Frank Wingate, ( Lydia Sprig. ( George W. Tilton, ( Flora E. Collins. ( Patrick R. Mullen, ( Mary Kearney. The real Russian La Grippe is said by high medical authority to be now in Chicago, and if it has not already struck Rensselaer, will be sure to do so pretty soon, but it is doubtful if the real article is here yet, although a number of persons are or have been sick with complaints which resemble it very much in their symptoms. Among these are Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Thompson, T. F. Clark, Ludd Hopkins, C. F. Wren and Wm. Meyar. John E. Burk, of Surrey, also is sick in much the same way. Several neighboring papers have imitated the long established custom of The Republican of publishing an itemized list of the improvements for the past year. Among these the Goodland Herald publishes a list which makes a most excellent showing for that prosperous town. We must fain admit, however, that Bro. Kitt must have made quite a slip in his recollection when he included their new brick school house in the list for 1889, for, to our certain knowledge, the building was in use in the fall of 1888.

The January apportionment of school money, for 1890, has been made. Jasper county’s share is $4,526,40, on a basis of $1.15 per capita of enumeration. The number of children in the couuty, between 6 and 21 years Of age, being 3,936. The amount raised in the county for school purposes by taxation is $3,232.38. These figures show that this county raises a little more than two-thirds as much money by taxes, for schools, as it receives from the state fund. In many of the counties the proportion of money by taxation is much less, but in some it is much greater. The boring at the well at Fair Oaks was discontinued, at the depth of 1000 feet, 50 feet of which was in Trenton Rock. 1 Two h undred pounds of dynamite were lowered to the bottom and the “go-devil,” a heavy, sharp-pointed piece of, iron dropped upon it, but for some unknown reason the dynamite failed to explode, and the same result has followed several later attempts. Mr. Miller, the superintendent, has bad another mechanism arranged by which he hoped to explode the dynamite. This he expected to have ready for use by yesterday, but if so, and with what result, we have not learned.

D. L. Richardson is yet in bed from the effects of his fall, but is still making fair progress. Births.—At Frank Kenton’s, Newton tp., Jan, 4, a girl. ' At Wm. Jacks’, Hanging Grove tp., Jan. 6th, a boy. A daughter at Frank Welsh’s, Jordan tp., last Monday. “Johnny” Smith, a boy about 15 years old, and a son of Wm. Smith, the carpenter, was handling a fourbarreled pistol Tuesday, and got a bullet into the palm of his hand. Dr. V. E. Loughridge dressed the wound, but the boy conld not endure to have the bullet probed for. It may be far up in his wrist or arm, and is likely to give him much trouble. Yesterday was for awarding the contract for building the new Catholic college to be located at Rensselaer. The letting of the contract was to take place at Fort Wayne. Whether it did so or not,; we have not yet been informed. The; plans and specifications of the build- j ing were at the Makeever House for inspection Monday. An examination of the drawings showed that it would not only be a very large building but also a very handsome structure. In size it will far exceed the Indian Sehool building, across the road from the site of the proposed college, and in a far greater degree, it will surpass that structure in architectural appearanee. The building will be the pride of Jasper county, without doubt. The ornamental glass windows for the new church arrived from Chicago the last of last week, and were immediately placed in position. The Wells Glass Company, which had the contract, liave taken a long time to fill it, but they have done a splendid job. The windows as they appear from the interior of the building are very beautiful indeed, both in character of the designs and in the colors and forms of material used. The large front window is especially fine. This is the Monnett memorial window and bears the inscription, “Sacred to the memory of Mary Delamer Kinnear Monnett.” The entire cost of the glass in the church was $475. The kinds used are Opalescent, Cathedrial, Ondoyant and crystals of various sizes and colors.

J. L, Fatout, the well known builder of Indianapolis and J. Ettenbnch, lof J. Ettenbach & Co., of the same i place, were in town Monday figuring .on the plans forthebig College. Mr. Morehouse, of Chicago, was also here at the same time, and a little before, for the same purpose, j On Monday evening the following representatives of all the divisions of the ; building trades arrived from Lafayette: J. B. Wallace, AV. 11. Graves, J. T. Davis, C. C. Davis, George S. Brown and F. Platt. They wovkeA on the plans all night, and left for i Lafayette on the first train Tuesday. ; They expected to secure their bond that day and send a man to Fort • Wayne, with their joint bid, in time to be present at the letting, on Wednesday. They evidently meant busi- [ ness.

The Rei i bLican is glad to be able: to state that the parties in the Center I School house troubles, in Barkley tp., i have wisely allowed their better reason j to prevail, and that no further action. in the matter has been, or will'be taken. The school will go on as usual, until the term is completed. The attendance at the school is fully up to the ■ mark, only one patron having withI drawn his children. All the others iare reported as fully satisfied to have ‘ Mr. Hammond complete bis term. In 1 this connection it is due to Mr. Hammond and the patrons of the school to state that the report, alluded to last week, that a majority of the patrons had signed a petition for Mr. Hammond's dismissal, appears to have been a great exaggeration and that the number signing was much less than a majority. Men's boots at $1.25 worth $1.50. Ladies' shoes sl, worth $1.50 and $2. Children’s shoes 50 c., cost us from 40 to 50 cents more money. Come and see us if you want real ‘ bargaiiu*.

ECONOMY STORE CO.

Any person now applying for the good-as-new, second-hand marriage license, lately issued to Frank Sunderland and Alice Wood, will find themselves too late, as the original parties concluded to disregard the injunction of the lady’s father, and the license was therefore withdrawn fronrthe market and used as originally 1 intended. The wedding took place on Wednesday evening, of last week, in the office of Justice J. C.

Morgan, who performed the ceremony with his usual neatness, celerity and reliability; in presence of a large and aristocratic company of (self-in-vited guests —from the top boxes on the street corners. —-- The requests addressed to dear delinquents in many Colorado papers, f inviting them to come in and whack up the amount they owe on subscription, are becoming stereotyped and hackneyed. The Sparks offers the little gem of poetry appearing below ito supply the dearth in this resjiect, promising that it will not be copyrighted. It originated in the wilds of western Kansas several years ago, but the name of the gifted author has been lost in the shuffle of intervening moons: “Tell me, ye angelic hosts, ye .messengers of love, shall swindled printers here below have no redress above?” The angles flapped their wings and said: “To you a hope is given. Delinquents on a printer’s list can never enter heaven.”—Lamar Sparks. .

The above clipping was sent to ns by a well-meaning friend; but,alas! it brings no comfort to our sorrowing soul. The reflection that delinquent subscribers can never pass the pearly gates, is one that may well rejoice the hearts of many of our esteemed contemporaries, especially those of the democratic persuasion, but it has no joy for us; for by that same token we know that where all the good editors go, the condemned delinquents can never more be seen and dunned. Old Jacob Dluzak, of Carpenter township, who had lately turned all his earthly possessions, and there is no reason to suppose that he had any other kind, into cash, with the evident intention of leaving the state. On Friday he was arrested on a capias, at the instance of a neighboring German named Jacob Meisure. The case was tried Saturday by a jury, tiefore Squire Morgan. It was a badly mixed up affair, but the jury found for the defendant and gave him a verdict of one cent damages against Meisure. The old fellow’s joy over his victory was somewhat dampened by being arrested, immediately afterwards, on a charge of plain drunk, lie plead guilty and was fined $3 and costs, amounting to $13.80. This he paid from the contents of a mighty well filled pocket-book and then took the [first train towards Chicago, and is supposed to have gone to Kansas. A

remarkable fact regarding him, i’brought out in the trial above mentioned, on the evidence of a stepdaughter, is that Dluzak, about 26 years ago, in Prussia, while poaching on one of the king’s preserved hunting grounds, got the drop on and killed one of the guards or keepers of the grounds, and for that offense is now a fugitive from justice, from his i native land. Another circumstance I which was related to Sheriff Blue, by a son of Dluzak, woulij. if true, furnish further and conclusive reasons for believing that Dluzak is a mighty tough old case. It was that he had lately attempted a criminal assault upon the person of the son's wife, and failing in that sought to kill her. .