Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1879 — SCRAPS OF RAILROAD NEWS. [ARTICLE]

SCRAPS OF RAILROAD NEWS.

There is to be a meeting to-day at Westfield to work up an interest in the Indianapolis, Delphi and Chicago road. Mr. Yeoman, general manager of the line, will be in attendance. Other points on the proposed line will be visited in the next few days.— [Indianapolis Journal, 18th.

Three surveys have been made by the engineer corps of the Indianapolis, Delphi & Chicago road, by which they can secure an entrance into the city. The last survey developes the most favorable route. By this survey the road from Westfield to Indianapolis, a distance of twenty miles, will be a perfect air line. After reaching the city limits the line passes through what is known as the Harrison addition, then south on Bismarck street to Sheldon street, then to the connection with the Bee Line tracks. When reaching that point it is the intention of the company to lease the right of way to the Union tracks of the Bee Lino and 1., P. & C. companies. The 1., D. & C. being a narrow gauge road, it will necessitate the laying of a third rail from the point where the new road strikes the Bee Line into the Union Depot. The line is already staked from Westfield to a connection with the Bee Line road. —[Indianapolis Journal.

Estella Dern, a 5 year old daughter of Isaac Dern, living in Carroll county, east of Delphi, was brought to Cowger & Robinson’s office last Monday evening and had a surgical operation performed upon the nasal organ consisting of the removal from the nose of a woody substance which had been lodged there for a period of three years. Other physicians had treated the child for catarrhal affection, but the remedy was improperly applied, since the patient’s trouble was in no wise so caused. Dr. Cowger examined the child a few days ago and found that the affection was altogether local and was caused by a foreign substance, the removal of which was successfully performed by him last Monday evening. The matter removed is as large as a basal nut and is thought to be the pith of an elder bush. The child has rapidly improved since the operation and will soon recove.—[Monticello Herald.

In a car which arrived recently at Hays City, Kansas, were stowed two lumber wagons, two males, one dog, a pump, a cooking stove, 100 bushels of corn and oats, 500 feet of lumber, two beds, a barrel of flour, a barrel of kerosene, three men, thirty chickens and two horses.—[lndianapolis Journal. Mrs. James McKinney, of Monticello, dropped dead from heart disease, one day last week.

The receipts of the Cantata amounted to $48 25, of which $38 00 has been applied as payment on organ—the remainder being devoted to expenses and decorating the graves in churchyard in honor of Gen. VanRensselaer, who very kindly gave them two dollars for a rehearsal, and the promise of ten dollars whenever they deem proper to make use of it. Determined to earn their organ, the Sabbath School has, in Mr. VanRensseiaer’s name, offered the ten dollars to the Church for repairs and painting. if the members so desire. The little ones, not wishing to be excelled by the larger members of the Sabbath School, have expressed a desire to give a literary and musical entertainment next month, and thereby try to raise balance due on organ. The committee take great pleasure in thanking the young ladies who so kindly gave time and attention to their rehearsals: To the Ladies Orchestra and the Band who so willingly tendered their services: To Mrs. Ludd Hopkins and Mrs. S. P. Thompson, for their patient and untiring help: To each, who so readily lent an assisting hand in securing the success of the Cantata. The young ladies also tender their thanks to the public for their kind patronage and compliment of a second night’s entertainment.