Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1879 — SHAKE! [ARTICLE]

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Pr. Guthrie’s Specific sos intermittent fever, or fever and ague, has never failed in a single case to break and permanently cure ttgue chills, if taken according to directions. Persons suffering from the above .trouble will find it to their interest to‘give the Doctor a call. Prescriptions famished /ree. Judge Charles H. Test, who celebrated his seventy-seventh birthday a few days ago, was aroused by the snake stories in Saturday’s Journal, He says when he was cartying the Chain and keeping field notes for the-original survey of the city of Indianapolis in 1820, rattlesnakes were so abundant that be was compelled to wear leg covering made of dressed buffalo hide; that the rattlesnakes would, ptrjke at his legs and fix their fangs in his leggings, and he not unfrequently had two hanging tp him at the same time, and would often'strike back; with his blaz-ing-ax and cut off their heads, which he Would ’detach at night. The Judge affirms when he gives evidence.—[lndianapolis Journal. ; ••• . I -a - Acouple of runaway lovers had a license, to marry in Clarke County, this State, but the traiu on which they were eloping only touched the corner of that county, without stopping. The ceremony would not be legal ►if performed in another county, unless a license was obtained. In this dilemma they appealed to the conductor, who stopped a few minutes on Clarke county' soil,' while a clergyman tied the knot. The passengers were permitted to kiss the compensation for the delay.—[Waynetown Banner. Those financial idiots who made themselves miserable for several years, because government bonds were not paid in greenbacks, ought to be happy now. Under resumption the bopds are paid in greenbacks. Of $587,670,550 called tXmds redeemed since January 1, 1879, every dollar has been paid in paper, which, thanks to the Republican policy, is now as good as gold.— i polis Journal.