Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1894 — BRECKINRIDGE FORGIVEN. [ARTICLE]

BRECKINRIDGE FORGIVEN.

At Lexington, Ky., Saturday evening, at a meeting of the session of the Mt. Iloreb church, of which Colonel Breckinridge is a member, and over which his father once presided, he was summoned to appear. Col. Breckinridge confessed his guilt in about the same way he testified in the case just decided, and prayed for forgiveness, saying that he had repented and would live a new life in the future. After a consultation he was forgiven and taken into the church again. Tills is the second Kentucky statesman who has embraced religion in the past two months, Joseph Blackburn having confessed before Moody, the evangelist, and was converted. This move, it is believed, will put Breckinridge in good standing with tho church people again. _____ Mishawaka is to have jy new paper mlffr Tho Methodist revival at Rockport closed, Thursday night, with 103 conversions. The saloon that wa ; recently blown up with dynamite at, Burlington by the temperance people is to he rebuilt. Congressman Jason IV. Brown, Seymour, has recovered from his recent illness and has resumed his canvas for ronoinination. An apple tree, measuring nine feet six inches in circumference, grows on a farm in a: Brazil. It is said to be the largest in the State. The township in which Martinsville is located is opposed to a subsidy in aid of the proposed" Indianapolis, Bloomington «fc Bedford railway. Goodwin Siddoqs, arrested at Green castle for drunkenness, committed suicide in his cell by hanging himself. He was a young man addicted to intemperance. Burglars rifled the postofiice at Sa!em« blowing the safe open and stealing $153 in ca di and a liberal supply of stamps. It is the second loss sustained by the postoffice within a year. Judge Creighton, of Springfield, 111., held the National Marriage Endowment Association wa; organized for a purpose contrary to public policy and declined to order the issuance of a license. At the Genoral.Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, it was stated that there are now 341 moro local preachers than last year and 163,00) more enlisted members. The bishop's address deprecated tiie increase of the peripatetic of the Sam Jones kind.

A Frankfort schoolboy put on three pairs of trousers the other day. fully expecting to get a whipping from the teacher. The latter, however, got onto the scheme and instead of wasting his strength greeted the boy pleasantly. The next day he took his revenge. Judge Thomas M. Cooley, an authority on constitutional law, in an address to his law students at Ann Arbor, said that individuals had no right to go to tho seat of government and present petitions in person. Tho wheols of government might thus be stopped. Bo was referring to the Coxey movement. Three boys near St. Croix undertook to drown a cat. while a fourth tried to save the animal. In doing so he struck Abram Findley, eight years old, with a stone, fracturing his skull. Findley was standing waist deep in the water at the time, and ho sank underneath, and with difficulty was dragucd out and resuscitated. If tho skull is not too badly fractured he will recover