Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1896 — Page 5

Notice'to Contractors. *• Proposals for the Erection of A New Court House in the City of Rensselaer, Jasper Comity in the State.of Indiana. .a‘ NJOTICE is hereby given that the Bbard of County Commissioners of Jasper County. Indiana, proposes to erect a Court House on. tlie Public Square in said County, in. the City of Rensselaer, and will let the building of said Court House on the 25 DAY OF JUNE, 1896 between the hours of Nino A. M„ and Steven I*. M. All blds for the erection of said building must be sealed up and filed with the Auditor of Jasper County on or before Nine, o’clock A Mi, of said 25th day of June, LS9U, and that day tin; erection of said building will bo let to the lowest and best bidder. j The plans and specifications for the erec- ‘ tlon of the said Court House are, on file in the office of the Auditor of Jasper County, also at the office of Grindle and Weatherhogg. Architects, Fort Wayne, Indiana, and the County Commissioners reserve the right to reject any and all blds as In their opln-: ion not satisfactory. The blds must bo accompanied by a good and sufficient btjnd payable to the State of Indiana with resident freeholders as safety, conditional In the sum ,of Forty Thousand ($40,000) Dollars for the performance of the work and the payment of the debts in accordance with the provisions of the statutes of the State of Indiana. The building must be erected In accordance with said plans and specifications, the contractors to remove the old building from the site of the proposed new building and to have the right to use such of the material thereof as may be pronounced suitable by arch itects or Commlsslbners, By drder of said Board ! of Commissioners, May 12, 1896. Habry B. Murray .■ ■ Auditor. Order Your Ice, . . . . ——— ----- - , —WK-v- - - ■ Of Bit yard Clark. —He is handling lhe Lafayette artificial ice, Vhe- best, ■purest and solidtst ice made. Leave orders at down town telegraph office or at the railroad depot. Tennessee Lands For Sale. Thirteen farms, in Coffee County Te nnessee: 90 acres up to 400 acres each. Close to County seat. For particulars call on J. M. Troxell Rensselaer, Ind., Or address John S. Moore, Manchester, Tenn.

Ttahm <s4/ ■ MLILEK & Deering Binders and Mowers with Ball and Roller bearings. For sale by.... Robt. Randle Is will be an agreeable surprise to persons subject to attacks of billions colic to learn that prompt relief may be had by taking Chamberlain’s Colic, an Diarrhoea Remedy, In many instances the attack may be prevented by taking thisj remedy as soon as the first symptoms of the disease appear. 25 and 50 cent bottles for sale by F. B. Meyer. Good strong single-seat top buggy for sale, cheap. Enquire at Mackey <fe Barens’ marble shop. A VALUABLE PRESCRIPTION. Editor Morrison of Worthington. Ind., “Sun”, writes: “You have a valuable prescription in Electric Bitters, and I can cheerfully recommend it for Constipation and Sick Headache, and na a general system tonic it lias no equal.” Mrs. Annie Stehle, 2625 Cottage Grove Ave., Chicago, was all run down, could not •‘tit nor digest food, had a backache which never left her and felt tiredmnd weary T --lmt six Bottles of Electric Bitters restored her health and renewed her strength, Price 50 cents and SI.OO, Get a Bottle at. 77. F. B. Meyer. To Horse owners. For putting a hoise in a fine healtev condition use Morris’ English Stab e Powders. They tone up the system, aid in digestion, cure loss of appetite relieve constipation, correct kidney disorders and destroys wi rms, giving new life to an old or ovef-wmked horse. 25 cents per packa.e; 5 for SI.OO. Sold by F. B. Meyer. Will Make Hens Lay. 2 Wells’ Hoos er Poultry Powder is the greatest egg producer known. A small sum expended for it wi I pay one hundred per cent, on the co-t iu an increased amount of eggs, as it iurn>sees aii the material necq sary for their tonstruction, and keeps the hen in good healthy condition- Price 25 cts. Sold by F. B Meyer.

• If you are going to make garden, [ lor farm, or dig ditches——-fQ* —• —— I will interest y0u..,.,. ' / Steel Bow RUkcs, best jocts. • Mailable Rakes ~ .2 jets. > . Long Handled Shovel 6octs. 1 , _ 1 Forked Spade 6 jets. 1 , _ [ ‘ Best Hoes -. jocts. [ • 3 others down to 2 jets. • 20 inch tiling spade .. si,1 Come and examine this stuff. 1 * It may benefit your pocket-book. , FRANK MALOY.

The General Supply Store sell the Waverly, an Indiana Wheel.

Mrs: Maggie myers. WiliiJinspOrt, Ind., writes? “I suff- ! ered for months of severe stomach • by indigestion and constipation. My trouble seemed al-iri-st unendurable. I purchased a bottle of Dr. Cildwell7Syrup Pepsin of Armstrong and Swank and as soon as I had taken its contents I was like a new person, and now I feel better and weigh more than I have in years.” It is sold in 10c, 50c, and SIOO s'zes at F. B. Meyers.

HAVE YOU A COLD?

If so, then instead of taking so much quinine and other strong medicines, lake a pleasant a*d mild-stom-ach and Dowels remedy, which will cleanse the system, and you will be surprised how quickly the cold will leave you. Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin will do this better than, any other. Trial size 10c (10 doses 10c)’ larger sizes 50c and sl, at F. B. Meyers.

THE IDEAL PANACEA.

James L. Francis, Alderman, Chicago, says: “I regard Dr. King’s New Discovery as an Ideal Panacea for Coughs, Colds and Lung Complaints, having used it in my family for the last five years, to the exclusion of physician's prescriptions or other preparations.” Rev. John Burgus, Keokuk, lowa, writes: “I have been a Minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church for 50 years or more, and have never found anything so beneficial, or that'gave-rqe suck speedy relief as Dr. King’s New Discovery.” Try this Ideal Cough Remedy now. Trial Bottles Free at F. B Meyers.

Home-Seekers' Excursions To The South.

On June 15 anti 16tTJtily 6 and 7 r —2O and 21, August 3 and 4 —17 and 18, August 31 and Sept. I—l 4 and 15, Oct- 5 and 6—19 and 20, 1896, Home-Seekers’ Excursion Tickets may be sold over the Monon Route to points in the followingnamed territory at rate of one firstclass standard limited fare (plus $2 ) Selling agent to collect one fare for the round trip from passengers, the additional $2 00 to be collected by agent at destination when executing ticket for return. Territory. - All poi n t sin—Alabama, Flor ida, Georgia, Kentucky (south of apd including Bowling Green, Nortonville, Livingston and Somerest,) Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee (except Memphis and points within 38 milts of Memphis,) Virginia (to following points on C. & O. R’y: Lynchburg, Williamsburg, Newport News, Norfolk and Richmond; also to all points on N. & W. R. R. north or east of Radford ) Tickets must be presented to agent at destination to be executed for return passage on any Tuesday or Friday within 31 days from date of sale, and return trip must commence on such date. Tickets to be good from starting point only on date of sale, and to require continuous passage going trip to first point in Home-Seekers’ Excursion territory eh route, being good thence to final destination within ex treme going limit of fifteen days from date of sale, : s punched in lefthand margin of contract of ticket by selling agent. Stop-overs will be granted on going trip after reaching first Home Seekers’ Excursion point en route within extreme going limit of fifteen days. Return tickets will be good for oqptinuous passage only from point of destination to original starting point commencing date of execution. Frank Reed. General Passenger Agent.

An Affidavit. This is to certify that on May 11th, I walked to Melick’s drug store on a pair of crutches and bought a bottle of Chamberlain’s Pain Balm for inflammatory rheumatism which had crippled me up. After using three bottles I am completely cured. I can cheerfully recommend it.—Charles H. Wetzel, Sunbury, Pa. Sworn and subscribed to before me on August 10, 1894.—Walter Shipman, J. P. For sale at 50 cents »er bottle by F. B. Meyer.

CORRESPONDENCE.

Very interesting programs were rendered at Numbers 1 and 2 school houses, and also at the Presbyterian church, here. R. R. Petitt and wife returned Friday from a two weeks sojourn at Cameron Springs for the benefit of their health. •’»' Misses Myra and Nett-v Price returne i from the South last w°ek. Miss. “May Peck went to Indianapolis Thursday to visit Mrs. Jennie Mclntire Conard. 1 Mrs. Thrasher and children of Brookston visited h r neice Mrs-J. D. Carson last wetk. Mrs. Opdyke returned Friday from a two month’s visit with her father and son in Streator 111. Dr. Bond, who accompanied the Goodland cyclone excursionists to St Louis reports an indescribible scene of devastation. Mis. Grilling of Wolcott spent Sunday with her daughter-in-law. Mrs, lea Morris. Little Wellington Morris went home with her for a weeks visit. Miss. Grace Thompson has returned from a visit to her relatives in Vai poraiso. ; • Mrs. Rufus Lock wood of Lafayette has been in attendace at the beside of her sister-in-law Mrsi Ellen Lockwood whose condition remains much Qie same as last week. Mrs. John Meighan has bought tenant house of J. F. Ellis on Sonth Railroad St. and will move her family into it as soon as possession c- n be gained. Miss. Alice Patton returned from Bloomington Saturday. Miss Fannie Jones, second daughter of D. R. Jones graduates from the State University this week. Last Saturday night two men in an advanced stage of inebriation passed north on the gravel road enlivening the way with unearthly screeches and screams. At the corner of Superior St. they overtook Bert Schuester who was also going “hbmekTrivmg"a spirited span of horses. The men’s noise so frightened the team that they became unmanageable and threw Mr. Schnester out. # The wagon passed over his limbs, seriously injuring one of them. The team was captured by Charles Beal, no damage resulting to them. Bert Patton, son of Rev. Patton one of lhe earliest pastors of the Presbyterian church here spent Sunday with his aunt Mrs. D. H. Patton. Mr. Patton is on his way to accept the position of leader of the orchestra at that famous summer resort Lake Minnetonka in Minnesota.

How to Prevent Fires.

It is the old maxim that fire is a good servant but a bad master. Fires are the result of accident, of spontantous combustion, of design. If the following precautions are taken, fires from accident will seldom occur: Keep your house, store, or shop clean. Never allow rubbish such as paper, rags, cobwebs, old clothing, boxes etc. to accumulate in closets and unused rooms. Never keep gasoline or benzine about the premises. Nevir fill coal oil lamps after dark or near an open fire. Never run your stove pipes through a wooden partition, or through the roof without proper protection. Never put ashes in a wooden receptacle. Never keep matches in any but metal safes, and when you light one never throw it on the floor. Never allow smoking near inflammable merchandise or other materials. Never take an open light into a closet. Never read in bed by lamp light Never close up your place of business before going over the premises to see if all fires and lights are extinguished. Never forget that carelessness and negligence are the cause of over two thirds of all the fires. Never forget to have pails or buckets of water near at hand for immediate use in case of emergency. Put ash pans in all newly built chimneys, C. B. Steward Fire Warden. Remember we still club with the Weekly Inter Ocean and the New York Tribune at the same very low comtination rates as before. Republican and Inter Ocean, 31.85. Republican and Tribune 11.75. All three, 12.10.

SOME HARD FACTS.

PHEY hit telling blows against “ FREE COINAGE AT 16 TO 1. The people of this country make their contracts payable iu dollars. They do business in dollars. Uncertainty as to the meaning of the word dollar must create doubt as to the effect of contracts and general distrust iu business. The dollar of the United States at present has a distinct (meaning. It is equivalent to 23.22 grains of pure gold. ' Paper dollars are’ mere promises to pay lin coin. Silver dollars, while they contain bullion worth only about 50 cents each, haye been surrounded by safeguards of legislation limiting the number coined and supporting them by the credit of the government, so that they have been kept on a parity with gold dollars. Twenty-three-twenty-two-one-hundredths grains of gold therefore measure the value of what is meant by a dollar, when the term is used for trade here, and this has been true for about 50 years, with the exception of the period during which paper dollars were depreciated. Upoirthe floor of the house of representatives in 1853, when the bill was pending which made fractional currency subsidiary, Cyrus L. Dunham of Indiana, who had charge of the bill, said: » “An objection urged against this proposed change is that it gives us a gold standard only. * *- * Gentlemen talk about a double standard of gold and silver as a thing that exists, and that we propose to change. We have had but a single standard for the last three or four years; this has been and now is gold; we propose to let it remain so and adaptsilve# to and regulate it by gold. ” After this long experience in the use of dollars based upon 23.22 grains of gold the advocates of silver demand its ■ free, unlimited and independent coinage at the present ratio. This is really a proposition to remove from silver dollars the safeguards of legislation which surround them, to withdraw the limit and to take from them the support of the government., It is an effort to reach a bimetallic currency by the free and unlimited coinage of two metals at a fixed ratio which places 100 cents’ worth of bullion in the gold dollar and 50 cents’ worth of buillion in the silver dollar.

The experience of every country which has attempted the free and unlimited coinage of two metals at a ratio disregarding the commercial value of the bullion of each metal put into a dollar has been the coinage and use of the cheaper metal and the loss as money of the more valuable metal. The principle is thus expressed by Sir Isaac Gresham: “If debased coin is attempted to be circulated with full valued coin, all of ..the . latter-.will. disappear from circulation, and the overvalued and debased coin will alone remain, to the ruin of our commerce and business. ” This indisputable doctrine was taught in the fourteenth century by Nicholas Oresme and again in the sixteenth century by Nicholas Copernicus. Coming down to 1717, Sir Isaac Newton, at that time director of the mint of England, declared: ‘ ‘lf silver Jeaves the shores of England in crowns or in ingots, the produce of coins remelted, and gives place to gold,, it is because the value which the monetary legislation assigns to it, in relation to gold, is not correct. ’ ’ Apply the lesson practically to our own money. With free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 silver monometallism would result, and the measure of the value of our dollar would be 371)4 grains of silver, worth about 13 grains of gold. But the advocates of silver coinage insist that with 371 grains of silver admitted in unlimited quantities to the mints for coinage, free of charge, the bullion value of this number of grains would necessarily be equal, before coinage, to the coined dollar. This is true, and it would be equally true of 100 grains, or of 1 grain, if admitted free and in unlimited quantities to coinage. Indeed, if chips were admitted free and in unlimited quantities to the privilege of being stamped into dollars, the chips, before they were stamped, would be worth as much as the dollars after they were stamped, but unfortunately the dollars would be worth no more than chips.

Another favorite argument of the free silver advocates refers to the experience of France, and they have claimed all over the country that France, from 1808 to 1874, by fixing a legal ratio for the coinage of silver and gold (at 15X to 1), kept the commercial ratio between the two metals at the same figures. This inaccurate statement has been one of their principal arguments. If they will really examine the history of France, they will find that before 1820 the difference between the commercial value of gold and silver exceeded 15% to 1, and France became silver monometallic. Later on, between 1840 and 1850 the commercial difference was less than to 1, and France became gold monomotallio. FrOm 1792 to 1860 the subject of coin- , age of gold and silver was frequently discussed by American statesmen, and no suggestion can be found, from any of them, that the government could overcome even a small difference in the commercial value of metals by free and unlimited coinage at a fixed ratio. This country failed to add 8 per cent to the value of silver and make it equal to a ratio of 15 to 1 with gold prior to 1834, and it failed to add 6 per cent to gold and make it equal to a ratio of 1 to 16 with silver subsequent to 1840. No limit can be placed upon the mass of silver still unmined. Good authority indicates that the present annual volume can be produced for about 60 oents an ounce. It is impossible to place and maintain a price upon such a commodity which would give it a profit entirely disproportioned to that earned by the average enterprise. Yet the advocates of free coinage of silver now propose to undertake the experiment at a local ratio of 16 to 1, although the commercial ratio is 81 to 1. We are therefore confronted with a proposition to change the meaning of the dollar from 23.22 grains of gold to 371J£ grains of silver. As 371J£ grains of silver are Worth only about 13 grains of gold, it is practically a proposition, at a single blow, to reduce the value of a dollar ope-hulf. _

is a movement more radical than one to reduce openly the; bullion in a gold dollar to 13 grains. This would be a step dangerous, but definite. No one knows what grains of silver would be worth under free and unlimited coinage. It is impossible to say whether the increased demand for silver wquld carry 371 X grains of Silver somewhat above 13 grains of gold, or whether this increased demand would shortly produce a disproportioned increased supply and cany the value of grains of silver somewhat below 13 grains of gold. I am aware that the of free coinage of silver object to estimating the value of silver hi gold, but all international trade js measured by grains of gold. No matter what system we adopt, unless our international commerce is abandoned, our dollars will be actually measured by gold, even though we fix them upon a silver standard. The movement for the free and unlimited coinage of silver is therefore an effort not only to reduce the value of a dollar about one-half, but to leave it in a state of uncertainty. It threatens a complete change in the meaning of the term dollar to some meaning in the neighborhood of one-half its present meaning. It threatens an entire change of the value of the term by which contracts and credits are estimated and by which business is conducted. In every country where progress and prosperity are found the great bulk of business must depend upon credits. The credits are estimated in dollars, and whatever creates a doubt as to the meaning of a dollar must tend to suppress business. The mere threat involves uncertainty, and this uncertainty must be removed to bring back to business normal prosperity. " To appreciate the importance of removing doubt upon this -subject, contemplate briefly the process of reaching the proposed silver standard. We saw in 1893 a paralysis of business, in large part produced by the threat of a silver standard.

If a president and congress were elected in November committed to the free and unlimited coinage of 37grains of silver into dollars, nearly six months would pass before they could be inaugurated and six months more before the proposed legislation could become law. During that time creditors would seek to protect themselves against being paid in dollars worth only about 13 grains of gold, and they would endeavor to make collections before the unlimited coinage of depreciated dollars began. The debtors would not be allowed to remain debtors until they could get the advantage of paying off what they owed at 50 cents oh the dollar; they would be forced to immediate settlements. Sheriffs and constables would call upon them without delay. Depositors in banks would withdraw their money. The large merchants, forced to settle their foreign indebtedness, would insist upon immediate payment of debts due from smaller merchants. The smaller merchants in turn would be compelled to force-collections from their-customers. The great volume of business conducted upon, credits would cease. Manufacturing enterprises could not afford to continue business or make contracts until the value of the new dollar could be settled by the determination of just what grains of silver would prove to be worth. Manufactories would close. Business houses would fait Banks would be raided. The unemployed would be numbered by millions. The farmers would find few purchasers for their products. Want and - famine would pervade the land. At the end of a few years, when business settled down to the new meaning of a dollar, fluctuations in the commercial price of silver would still keep our dollars of uncertain value and hinder domestic trade. Business interests, reaching from the richest banker to the poorest paid laborer, require the removal of all doubt about the meaning of a dollar. No man should bo trusted even with an important nomination who does notrecognize that the value of a dollar is now measured by 23.22 grains of gold, and who is not willing to openly declare his purpose to help keep it there.

Ferguson <fc Wilson will give you the privilege to pay 1-5 of your oan each year and put the contracts in the mortgage. Which is the cheaper ? money at 6 per cent int. and 5 per cent commission, or money at 7 per cent int. and 3 per cent commission. Call on Warren & Irwin for answer. During the winter of 1893, F. M. Martin, of Long Reach, West Va., contracted a severe cold which left him with a cough. In speaking of how he cured it he says: “I used several kinds of cough syrup but found no relief until I bought a bottle of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy, which relieved me almost instantly, and in a short time brought about a complete cure.” When troubled with a cough or cold use this remedy and you will not find it necessary to try several kinds before you get relief. It has been in the market for over twenty years and constantly grown in favor and popularity . For sale at 25 and 50 cents per bottle by F. B. Meyer. Tile Per Sale. Tile of all sizes, from 4 inches up. Enquire at our office over Ellis & Murray’s store. Burget Penn. Bob Phillips Laundry. Ladies’ Shirt Waists, and Collars and Cuffs, a specialty. Done in fine order. Sent out Wednesdays; received back Saturdays. ■e> Ferguson & Wilson loan money at 6 per cent interest James H. Chapman has a special fund of $20,000 to loan on Real Estate or personal .note, long or short time. Office over Ellis <fc Murray’s store. A fine lot of Picture frames just in at the Pavilion. 16x20 inches in size only. Your choice for $1.50 i 1 First come first served.

PRODIGAL WITH HIS WEALTH.

Russian Spendthrift Who Squanders Millions Every Tear. Le Petit Sucrier has found a successor in St. Petersburg, He is Max H., his age is 22, his pocket money 2,000,000 rubles, and the source of his revenue is ancestral trade. The special form of extravagance which he has made popular among the golden youth who so speedily molt their golden plumage is the beggars’ cupper. It is a banquet Of extremes, says 'the Pall Mall Gazette, a gathering of the fine flower of ihe demi-monde and the most ragged and ravenous beggars who can be picked up in the streets of St. Petersburg. He lately paid 1,000 rubles to a well-known gambling establishment for the exclusive use of their salons on one particular night. He then sallied out into the streets and returned with his beggars’ opera. Then came tradesmen, bringing the richest dishes; musicians, waiters, singers, the bands of Comus and a jurf of 12 fair frailties, who were to decide what reveler had been the wildest and wittiest in the evenings revel. The mendicants received gold and the ladies diamonds, and the Christmas tree was plundered of its pearl and ruby blossoms. The beggars and nymphs hailed Max 11. as one of the wonders of the world, applauded with both hands and strewed palms on hi* returning path. Meanwhile, the family of this notable boyar are taking alarm and casting about vainly for a remedy. A gold cure has been found for the disease of drink, but who will give a cure for the disease of gold?

ABOUT SPONGES.

Facts Relating to Color, Size and Shape and How They Grow* The color, size and shape of the sponges are as varied as their distribution; violets, , reds, greens are frequent colors, due, perhaps, in some cases to mimicry, or protective resemblance. In shape and size, says Good Words, some are flattened, globular mosses of small size, others are great tree-like growths, several feet round; others wide, deep cups, and others little lacework tubes of the finest spun glass. Some are tough and horny, and live in shallow, and, therefore, rough water, and need a strong skeletal framework; others are delicate and brittle, and only flourish in the quiet depths of the sea. The horny sponge, as the sponges of commerce are called, from their tough, horny skeleton, which we know so well flourish in the greatest abundance in water from 30 to 40 fathoms in depth. The delicate silicious sponges, however, which would be utterly smashed to pieces in this rough water, are only found far below this. Along the coasts of Portugal and Brazil beautiful specimens were found by the Challenger, flourishing in great abundance at the depth of 1,00 fathoms, and from that down to 2,000 fathoms, or between two and three miles beneath the sea level, they were found lying upon or embedded in the soft mud which covers the bottom of the sea. The greatest number of sponges, however, grow in water from 500 to 1,000 fathoms in depth.

MODERN NAVAL GUNS.

Their Power Well Illustrated the Reaction of One of Them. Some time ago the English government experimented with a 13-inch gun on a ship of the Eoyal Sovea> e.gn class. At the first firing of the gun the entire upper deck was lifted from its position and sprung along its entire center, so great was the shock. The United States battleship Indiana has been specially equipped to provide against any such disaster and her decks have been constructed in such a manner that naval experts agree that no such damage can befall her when the 13-inch guns send out their fiaming message. Naval experts are agreed, however, say s’ the Philadelphia Times, that when she is in action and the four 13inch guns are performing their deadly work the explosions will shatter every piece of woodwork and glass in every portion of the vessel. That is expected and prepared for, and for that reason the battleship Indiana is composed almost entirely of iron and steel. She has been aptly described as an enormous floating steel fort with a ship built around it for purposes of navigation. Fully one-half of her could be shot away and she would still float and retain her unequaled fighting power. These facts and figures should bring us to a realization of what a serious thing war is in these modern times.

Taught by the Same Master.

A professor was waiting for a train at a railway station, and, having nothing better to take up his mind, began chaffing a half-witted fellow who did odd jobs about the place. “I say, Jamy,” said tho professor, in a tone intended to reach the ears of the bystanders, “were you ever at college?” “No, sir,” answered Jamy, “but I’ve been at school.” “Indeed,” said the witty professor. “And who had the honor to be your schoolmaster?” "Maister Black.” “Why,” said the wit, “he was my schoolmaster, too!" “Do tell me!” exclaimed Jamy. “Man, who’d ’a’ thought old Black could have turned out two like us?”

Highest Taxed Country.

Boumania is the highest taxed country in the world. Every bottle of foreign wine has to pay a shilling duty. A case of whisky went from the army and navy stores the other day. The transport tax stamps and other duties amounted to more than the price of the whisky. There is a tax even on female servants.

Ancient English Bridge.

The triangular bridge at Crowland, In Lincolnshire, which was probably Intended as an emglem of the Trinity, is the most ancient Gothio structure remaining entire in the kingdom. It was erected in the year of our Lord 860.

Our Clubbing Offers.

Our clubbing arrangements with both the Chicago Weekly Inter Ocean and the New York Weekly Tribune have been renewed for 1896. The Republican and Inter Ocean both one year for $1.85. The Republican and New York Tribune, both one year, for $1.75. All three papers $2.10. These rates are open to all, old subscribers as well as new.

The Rensselaer Republican ,' -1 r" 1 -- PROFESSIONAL CARDS ‘PHYSICIANS. $ w. HARTSELL M- D. ——HOMEOPATHIC—X’IxyBtcIa.3I and. Stexffwea, tBNSSELAIB. INMANS " WChronlc Dl‘ eases a Specialty In Stockton-Williams block, oppoclteCour House. Mo. 80. I. B. Washbubn. E. C. English Physicians & Surgeons. Rensselaer - . - Indiana. Dr. Washbum will give special attention to diseases of eye. ear. nose, throat and chronle diseases. Dr. English will give special attention to surgery, in all departments. and General Medicines. Office in LeoIKjld's Corner Block, over Ellis & Murray’s. Telephone 48. DR- A. L- BERKLEY, PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, Office in Leopold’s Arcade Building, ’Phone 126. Rensselaer - Indiana. ft, MILLS, M- D PHYSICIAN 4 SUBGEON. Office in Williams-Stockton Block. Rensselaer, - - Indiana Telephone 29.

Geo.. K. Hollingswobth. AbthubH. Hopkins Hollingsworth & Hopkins, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Rensselaer - - - Ind BfOffice second Moor of Leopold’s Block corner Washington and Van Rensselaer street Practice in all the courts, and purchase, sell and lease real estate. Atty’s for L. N. A. « C. Rw. Co. B. L & 8. Association and Benssel aer Water, Light 4 power Co. Simon P. Thompson, David J. Thompson, Atty, at Law. Notary Public. Thompson Bros ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Rensselaer, - - Indiana Practice In all the courts. We pay particular attention to paying taxes, selling and leasing lands. M.L. Spitler - Collector and Abstractor. W. MARSHALL, A TTORNEY AT LA W, Practices In Jasper, Newton and adjoining lounties. Especial attention given to settle meat of Decedent’s Estates, Collections. Conveyances, Justices’ Cases, Etc. Etc. Etc. Office Over Chicago Bargain Store. Rensselaer. - Indiana F. CHILOOTE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Rensselaer, Ind. Attends to all business in the profession wttk promptness and dispatch. Office In second story of the Makeover building.

FERGUSON & WILSON RENSSELAER, ndiana. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Will practice In all the courts. Careful attention given to any and all kinds of Legal Business intrusted to them OFFICE West Side of Public Square. GROUND FLOOR. (#\HARLEB E. MILLS.... ATTOBITET AT LuA-VT BessMlser, Indians. Pensions, Collections and Real Estate. Abstracts carefully prepared. Titles Examined «r Farm Loans negotiated at lowest rates sp stairs ever CHinss Bask. JAMES W.DOUTHIT ATTORNEY AT LAW RKNMKLAXB, ------ .«- - - INDIANA. Office over Laßue Bros., grocery. SV-M. ———————————— J. *H. CHAPMAN ABSTACTOR OF TITLES. Farm Loans, Insurance and real estate. Maney to loan In large or small amounts, on real estate, personal or chattel security. - Special attention given to collecting notes and accounts. Office over Ellis A Murray’s store. RENSSELAER, - - - INDIANA. ALFRED BATES ATTORNEY at LAW. RENSSELAER - IND over Western Union Telegraph Ofs. J. F. Wakben. < J. F. IBWIN. WARREN & IRWIN. Real Estate, Abstracts I & and Collections, Farm Loans-Fire Insurance. | Office Odd-Fellows Block. R. NOWELS REAL-ESTATE, LOANS, INSURANCE, COLLECTIONS. Farms and City property for sale. Office front room Leopold's Baiaar. RENSSELAER - INDIANA.