Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1876 — Jasper County Annual Teaohers' Institute. [ARTICLE]

Jasper County Annual Teaohers' Institute.

The Annua] Teachers’ Institute tor Jasper county will convene at tho school house in Rensselaer, Monday, September 11, 1876, and elose with public examination on the Saturday following. Oliver Phelps, of* Wisconsin, formerly editor of the Indiana School Journal , and other good instructors have been secured. The bestschool law Indiana ever had has been restored by the supreme court, and every teacher is expected to do his duty

this year.

J. H. SNODDY,

County Superintendent.

For several days past the democratic papers have been cackling over a letter written by Gen. Kilpatrick to Gov. Hityc-s, urging the national republican committee to send money to this state, as the contest would be close The democratic version of the manner in which the Sentinel came in possession of the letter is that, after Carefully writing it, the General threw it into the waste-basket; but tlte fairer presumption is that it was stolen out of the hotel letter box by some sneak thief and turned over to the Sentinel. Whether the letter is genuine or forged is of no consequence. There is no disgrace connected with it except what attaches to the Sentinel for publishing it. Wo do need money—not to corrupt voters, but to pay speakers, to scatter documents, and to provide for the legitimate expenses of the campaign.— lndianapolis Herald.

That story about Mr. Hendricks is very generally believed. Mr. Hendricks was a member of the First Presbyterian church when the war broke out but left it after its pastor, Dr. Nixon, preached a sormon in which he declared it to be the duty of loyal Christian people to stand by the government. It lias always been supposed that he severed his connection with the church because he was a rebel at heart, while its pastor was a Union man. The rector of Qhrist church at that lime, Horace Stringfellow, was a pronounced secessionist, whoso church dispensed with his services because of his open disloyalty. Hendricks headed a party of secession sympathizers in organizing a a church and enstalling Stringfellow as rector.—lndianapolis Herald.

In the north part of the city, as a veracious reporter rtports, a young lady ami hyoung man get on the steps, of a Sunday evening, and enter into a contract. For each shooting star he is to receive a kiss. On one of these interesting occasions a half hour passed away and not a solitary star shot across the sky. But after a while the cherry lips ot the young lady parted and called her young man’s attention to the Hying meteors that were about to escape his observation; then she got to calling his attention to the lightning bugs, and finally got him down tosteady work on the light of a lantern a man was carrying about the depot where the trains were switching. girl! —lowa State Register.

I ask my southern bretherr. who know tne, and whom I know, do not in this liaur ot national counsel, this hour of national preparation for the great conflict agaist the radical foe, led, us was will said by the distiuguished gentleman from New York, by the pirate’s flag of bloody shirt arrayed against you men—-do not in this hour leeve us -in the Notrthwe&t wounded, helpless, to he scalped and murdered upon the the field of battle. —Extract from Hon. I). IP. Voor bees’ Speech in &t. Louis Convention. ' • ■ i jk Clarence Buskirk,the democratic candidate for attorney general, went all the way to Canada in IBG-J, to assure the exiled Vallandigham of his sympathy with his schemes for “reforming” the govermneul.—>7 w/m Herald. .• * - U--.. -' w-V