Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1876 — Mass Convention. [ARTICLE]

Mass Convention.

All voter* of Jasper county, irrespective of former party affiliations, who are favorable 'to the Independent Movement, are invited to meet in muss convention, in the court house in Rensselaer, Saturday, January 29th, 1876, at 1 o’clock p. m., for the purpose of appointing delegates to attend the Independent State Convention at Indianapolis February 16th, 1876, to reorganize the county central committee for the approaching campaign, and to consider such subjects and transact such business as may be brought before it. A full representation is desired, and promiuent speakers from abroad will be invited to attend and deliver speeches upou questions pertaining to the welfare of the people and nation. A. D. Swain, Chairman Jasper County Independent Central Committee.

Kern buys all kinds of poultry. Bring that wood right along now, before the roads get bad again. Licensed to marry since last report: George Martens and Esther York, and Benjamin F. Lamborn and Mary E. Timmons. Sunday evening, summer weather wound up with a jerk and hailstorm. Sunday night and Monday night were cold, but the weather has since moderated. Ice men begin to look anxious about the prospect of a light harvest this season. But there is time enough yet to freeze two or three feet deep before spring/. Father Hartmann of St. Joseph’s church has a class of a dozen of the business men of Rensselaer whom, he is instructing in the German language. Ttry meet at The Union office. Mr. Henry A. Barkley, county auditor, has been confined to his bed several days, by an attack of erysipelas; we are happy to add, however, tint he is now rapidly convalescing. Jimmy Abbott and Frank Myers are again seen in Rensselaer. The former has returned from Indianapolis; and the latter from Dixon, 111. Both well and ready to ■“bounce a sit.” The chandaliers recently furnished for the court house hall, by Mr. Emmet Kannal, by the authority of the county commissioners, are very tasty, adding much to the ap - pearance ot that room. There was a fair attendance at the temperance meeting Monday might, and the lecture of Dr. Kayner, essay read by Mrs. Dwiggins, and other exercises, were attentively listened lo by the audience. The next meeting will be bold on the ti lth instant. Reader, Stop and Think. —We •suppose the most of our readers buy and use I). B. DeLaud ifc Co.’s Rest Chemical Saleratux, but if there are any ot you who do not, just .stop and think; if you buy the best Chemical Saleratus you get the Rest Saleratux made. B. C. Boroughs, teacher, reports for the month ending January 7, 1870, an enrollment of 20 scholars in school number 7, Barkley township, with an average daily attendance of 15. Carrie Funston, Bur, tie Funston, Harry Barkley and Louis Bull were perfect in attendance. Miss Ada Strayer reports for the month that ended December 24-th, 1875, an enrollment of 56 pupils in the primary department of the Rensselaer school, and an average daily attendance of 49.2. There were nine eases ot tardiness. Twenty-three were neither tardy nor absent. We notice the change in Sir. A. Leopold’s dry goods department. He has engaged a thorough dry goods salesman—one who is willing to show goods, whether you buy or not. Give him a call. .Mr. Leopold’s drygoods department is now complete, he having received a large stock this week. Call before you purchase and compare prices. The blacksmiths of Rensselaer have entered into an agreement, which will go into effect on the Ist of Febuary next and remain in force one year from that time, not to permit any kind of work they do to leave their respective shops until it is paid for. They propose to inaugurate the pay-on-delivery system, and adhere to it. 10-3 t Felix Lester, mail carrier over the Remington route, left Rensselaer Friday without thinking to take his mail bags, and did not discover his omission until nearly over tp Remington, about thirteen miles away. Then he returned over one of the muddiest roads in Indiana and made an extra drive of twenty-five or twenty-six miles as the penalty of his forgetfulness. A call has been published by Mr. Burnham, chairman of their central committee, for a mass convention of the republicans of Jasper county to be held in the court house Saturday, February sth, to appoint delegates state- convention, reorganize their county committee, fix a time ifor holding their convention to nahuiuate a. county ticket, and transact any other business that may be brought up.

Mr. Johu I. Purcupile, (jf Monticello, visited home and The Union office this week. Dull times prevail at Monticello, but they still hope for the building of the Chicago & South Atlantic railroad at an early day. The Leavitt Bell Ringers are meeting with unprecedented success; the balls and churches are in many cases not sufficient to hold the people. As they travel with their own conveyance, they can visit inland towns, inaccessible by railroads, and give all a chance to hear the celebrated and curious “Swiss Bells,” as well as beautiful ballads, a fine orchestra, humorous songs, etc. Parties wishing to engage this company can leave, theii names at this office, and the agent will call on them.

Yesterday morning Mr. Simon P. Thompson and Mr. John Eger left for Indianapolis to join the excursion of Indiana editors to the Centennial grounds at Philadelphia, to New York city, Baltimore and Washington; they represent the Republican . office, and are expected to write up the sights for publication in that paper. True to its traditional interest in the welfare of Jasper county people, and knowing the snares and temptations a wicked world spreads for the allurement of the innocent and beautiful front paths of virtue, The Union detailed Messrs. M. F. Chileote, Daniel 13. Miller and Elza Phillips to guard these lovely innocents abroad, protect them from harm, and conduct 'thqm back in safety to the loving bosoms left behind. Telegraph dispatches to the daily papers last week announced that Messrs. Church & Lyon, of Remington, had failed; their liabilities amounting to 830,000, and theii 1 assets about $40,000. These gentlemen were doing something like $75,000 worth of business a year in the dry goods and general commission line. It is said they were fortunate in obtaining a Battlement with their creditors, who gave them an extension of six, twelve ami eighteen months time, and permitted them to make an advantageous sale of certain property which materially lightened the burden of their indebtedness. They have the sympathy of community and their acquaintances, have acted honorably with their’creditors so as to preserve confidence, in their integrity, and it is thought will be able to come through their embarrassment with some capital left to each after paying up all present indebtedness; which is certainly very fortunate indeed.

Therefore, all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. Was ever a better rule laid down to-guide men in their business con(|uetV It cve-rybody would always remember to jnTtctiee that precept how much worry, care, trouble, vexation, hardness of feeling, sorrow, disaster and suffering would he spared the business world! But people are so heedless about these things. And this carelessness is not confined lo the unregenerate. There are professors of religion, well to do and in comfortable pecuniary circumstances, who attend church services regularly, and pray, and sing, and exhort sinners to forsake iniquity and embrace righteousness, who on week days go to the physician, merchant, grocer and butcher and procure medicine, goods, groceries, and meat for their families on credit lor “a day or two.” Day after day passes by and accumulate into weeks, weeks multiply to months, months drag along years, and the account grows but no payments are made. When asked to settle they are seldom ready to so, but postpone payment day after day, week a f 'ter week, and month after month until sometimes even years elapse. They are perfectly indifferent to the pinching necessities of him whom they owe, and ungrateful for the accouunodations he has shown them. This is no fanciful or overdrawn picture, as the books of Mart. V. 13. Warner will attest. Numbers of the class here described have owed him for years for meat furnished their tables. Times are now hard, creditors press him, and he needs his pay. Those who are not hypo-' crites, pharisees, will do unto him all things whatsoever they would that he should do to them were they in tiis place and he in theirs. Ungodly debtors can be sued at law, if it becomes necessary.