Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1879 — 4th of July Excursions---The "Pan Handle” to the Front Again. [ARTICLE]

4th of July Excursions---The " Pan Handle” to the Front Again.

The Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and Louis Railway, familiarly known as the “Pan Handle Route,” will place excurslen tickets on sale July 3d and 4th, 1879, to and from all stations on their lines. Tickets will be good to return until Monday, July 7th. which will enable those desiring to do so, to remain over Sunday with their friends. This is a very liberal concession on the part of the Railroad Company, and will be appreciated by, patrons of the road. The will be low, and ample kccorbmodations will be provided for all who desire to avail themselves of this opportunity to visit friends in adjoining and distant cities and towns

LAFAtETTE, June 23.—The failure of the banking house of John 8, Williams is all the talk. The prominence of Mr. Williams as a local and State politician, and his popularity as a citizen, no doubt has been one reason why the suspension is the subject of so much' comment. Among those having deposits in the bank are Trustee Gallager, $5,800; Trustee Lupton, $4,500, apd County Treasurer Foresman about $6,000.

A man coming out of a Texas newspaper office with one eye gouged out, his nose spread all oVer his face, and <me of his ears chewed off replied to a policeman who interviewed him: “I didn’t like an article that ’peared in the paper last week, an’ in ter see the man who writ it, an’ he war therel”