Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1895 — ADDITIONAL LOCALS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL LOCALS.

j Sheriff Hanley sick with a ' sore throat. Good house to rent. Six rooms. Enquire of- J. C. Passons. Mr. Potter, the new owner of the C. J. Brown place, south of town, moved in yesterday j H. C. Pierson has moved from the C. J. Brown farm, south of town, to tlenry Harris’ farm 7 or 8 miles west of town. - B. F. Fendig has a live prairie dog, from Dakota, in his drug store window. He (the dog, not Mr. Fendig) is a very gentle, playful and amusing little critter. MONEY—Not to loan but to buy com with. The way to prosper is to sell what you raise at goed figures. Therefore consult C. W. Coen before selling your grain and hay. A report has been in circulation that Jack Leahy, E. P. Honan’s nephew, formerly living here, had been killed in a front end collision between a broncho and a, freight train. It was a false report.

. Money to loan on Real Estate in sums of SSOO to SIO,OOO. Call on or address J. M. Winkley, Monon, Ind. Office up stairs in Blakley block. J. M. Winkley, Monon, Ind. There have been some changes in the new fee and salary bill, so far as it effects officers in this county. As finally agreed upon, the salaries in this county are:'Clerk $1,500. Auditor $1,700. Treasurer $1,200, and 4 per cent, of delinquent tax collected. Recorder, $l,lOO. Sheriff, $1,400 and all - foreign fees. The Sheriff and Treasurer with the addition of the 4 per cent, to the Treasurer, and the foreign fees to the Sheriff, will each receive about $1,600. These salaries will take effect when the laws are published, about the Ist of July next, except that of the Clerk, which will take effect at the beginning of his next term, which will be next May.

If you want to laugh. If you want to hear good singing and “see” good dancing, if you want to see bright comedy go and see Hascall Comtdy Co., at Opera House Beginning Monday Meh. free tickets opening night with each paid 35 cent ticket. The case of James Snyder vs. the Indiana, Illinois- and lowa Ry. Co., was affirmed by the Supreme Court, last Friday. Snyder sued the Three I. as administrator of the estate of James Pickner. Pickner was a section mau, at DeMotte One day, while helping “pump” the hand car, the wooden handle thereof suddenly broke, and Pickner fell off the car backward, but falling in front of the rapidly moving handcar. The fall on the track, and the impact of the hand car running upon him, so injured Pickner that he lived but a few hours. The suit for damages brought by Pickner’s administrator was tried here, at the October term, 1889. The broken handle of the hand-car was shown in evidence, and was proven to be a very poor piece of timber. The jury found for the plaintiff,. the verdict being $4,000. This sum the three I. will now have to pay, together with 6 per cent, interest upon it from June Ist, 1890, and the costs of the trial.

J. M. Patchett, of Lee, Indiana offers his services as an expert pruner and planter of fruit trees, shrubs, vines, &c. The present month is the proper season for pruning vines. Satisfaction guaranteed, in work and prices. Address him at Lee. T&ere will be a total eclipse of the moon, next Sunday night, and occuring in the earlier part of the night, it will be very favorable for general obs ervation, if the weather is pleasant and the sky is clear. On this meridian the eclipse will begin about 8 o’clock in the evening. An hour later the total phase will begin, and will continue about an hour and a half. For the benefit of many young re aders and possibly some older ones who do not understand the cause of eclipses of the moon, we will here give it briefly: The moon shineti only 0 by reflecting the light of the sun. The earth casts a shadow out into space, many hundreds of thousands of miles. Once or twice a year, as a general rule, the earth passes directly between the sun and the moon, and the shadow of the earth then falls upon the moon, and thus cutting off the sunlight from the moon, causes thfit body to be eclipsed. As it happens, however, what

is called a total eclipse of the moon, never absolutely total, as even in -fee densest portion, of -the earth’s shadow, the moon can always be seen “as through a glass darkly,” and at such times it is usually of a copperred color. The reason why the “total” eclipse of the moon, is not quite total, is that some light from the sun still falls on it, being light that is bent or refracted from its course by passing through the atmosphere of the earth. There will be an election of two trustees at the Missionary Baptist church at Rensselaer, Ind. on Saturday, March 9lh, 1896, at 2 o’clock p m. Done by order of the church, at its regular session Feb. 9, 1895. Judson H. Perkins, Sec’y. Pro Tern.