Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1877 — FATHER H. M. BABB. [ARTICLE]

FATHER H. M. BABB.

Hundreds of people of this county and scores of others whose business brings them into it occasionally, will i egret to learn that Mr. H. M. Babb, of Remington, has decided to move away. His residence iu the county dates back some twenty-five years, most of which period he has been the proprietor of a hotel, first in Rensselaer and afterwards in Remington. Ilis reputation as a business man and as a citizen has never been questioned. His morals are unimpeaehable. Strict integrity has marked every business transaction. There is probably not a more conscientious man in the world. His popularity with the traveling public is only limited by the number of those who have sat at bis tabic and rested on his beds. It is no disparagement of others to say that none who have engaged in the same pursuit in Jasper county have been more successful in winning the respect and good will of their patrons. He has grown gray in the service of the public as a caterer to the comfort of those who travel. His rules have been: To supply his table at all times with the best viands found iu the market; to keep at all times the best cooks; to’keepovery department of his bouse scrupulously clean; to enforce the most rigid propriety of conduct among his servants; to keep a strictly orderly and qniwt I house ; to treat all patrons with uniform and impartial respect; and to make reasonable aud liberal charges.

The friends of Father Babb are legion. They are to be found in mat\y states. Socially he is one of the best citizens of the comity, and, as was said above, hundreds will regret to see him move away. All who know him will unite with us in sincere wishes for the health and welfare ot himself and his family ip their new home. He moves to Magnolia in southern Mississippi to become the joint proprietor of a fine hotel already popular as a summer resort for people whose homes are on the low lands that border the Gulf and through which run the Mississippi river and tributary streams, and which it is also designed to make attractive to invalids from the northern states who desire to escape from the changeable and rigorons weather of our winter season. All reports that reach us from Magnolia describe the location as an elevated region above the reach of malarious influences, with pleasing landscape scenery, productive soil, excellent water, a genial and salubrious climate, and inhabited by a class of intelligent, enterprising, moral and kindly disposed people. Indeed it is just such a place as thousands at the north would be delighted to pass their winters; and the Central House will be made an attractive home for them.

The recent great fight over the presidency was simply a flcrht against the south. Northern republican leaders are en vious of the rising greatness, power, influence and statesmanship of the south. They cannot bea r the idea of southern men ruling the country. But they had just as well yield gracefully—the time will coine when the south will be In the ascendenev and a southern mau will sit in the chair of Washington, so long disgraced by »dieal rulers.— Magnolia, Muua&aippi, Herald. r We want no southern presidents snd no northern ones, no eastern presidents and no western ones; we Hrfftt national presidents. We want gi**t men to occupy the chair that • Washington honored and a Lincoln Men of broad and high and liberal and progressive

principles should preside over litis mighty nation of forty-five million people with their varied' interests, capacities and attainments, and not narrow, jealous bigots who strut, swear, swagger and whose mental vision reaches not beyond the limits of a section which is only a fraction, and that not the largest, of the whole.' Some of the brightest names of American history were borne by tnen born in the south, but they were not southerners, they were Americans, and the people of the north oherish their tame as ardently and as religiously as if their eyes had -been first baptised io the icyer light of northern skies. Our country—not the south nor the north —has been cursed long enough by the demon ot sectionalism. It is the hateiul heritage of a sadder age, the shadow of a less perfect civilization. Let us emerge from its baleful influence into the cheertul sunshine of fraternal affection. Like the spoiled children of a fond mother wo have quarreled, fought and wrought ourselves much harm and great sorrow; now as sensible grown-up people is it not wis'e to put away childish foibles and work together for the common good? When sach a determination pre. vails it will uot matter where the president is born. Let us be wise.

Newspapers may be called eemeteries when they are filled with the dead—dead advertisements. , * r Elder D. T. Halstead (of the Chnrch of God) and wife, from Rensselaer, Jasper county,lndiana, are now on a -visit to our town. We wish them an agreeable sojourn among us. —Magnolia ( Mist.') Ltrald. We have soma pretty good advertisers in Wiuamac, but none of them equal our old friend, A. Leopold, of Rensselaer, who occupies four columns of the Rensselaer Uniox the year round. He says it pays him, and we dj not doubt it.— Wiuamac Republican.

Representative Carr, of Whits county, has made a reputation during the present ses si on for solid legislative ability. Being a good debater, and having an inexhaustible supply of ready wit, it was not very desirable to be sat down on by the member from White—lndianapohs Herald. Bro. James of the Rensselaer Union gave his readers a columu of illustrations over the election of Hayes. Horace did his full share towards rolling up a magnificeut majority in old Jasper for the republican cause, and has a right to shout glory if he feels likeit—Winanuic Republican. Happening at Lafayette, Indiana, not long ago, we were amazed to find in so large a city such horrid looking newspapers —horrid iu a mechanical sense. On asking a typo friend the reason, be said it was because they used shoe-pegs for type aud apple-butter for ink.— Chicago Electrotype. “Ned Mason” turns up now in the role of a carver. At a low dance held in a little town near Jackson, [Michigan ?] last Tuesday night, he got into an altercation with Gus Warren, a Dutch comraedian, and stabbed him. He went into Jackson, gave himself up, and is now confined in the county jail. —South Bend Register.

The law requiring the doors of theatres, opera-houses, public hails, museums, churches, colleges, seminaries and school-houses to be hung so as to swing outward went into force last week. By its provisions all the doors to the buildings indicated above must be changed within sixty days, under the penalty of a tine of SI,OOO. — Indianapolis Journal. Mr. H. M. Babb, front Indiana, has secured a lease on the Central House at this place, and will take possession on the first of April. * * * He has been spending a week in Magnolia looking around with a view of locating here permanently. He expresses himself delighted with our country and climate, and should he supqeed ip the purchases he has in view, tye able to influence many otheip to come here. Magnolia (Mi*?.) Herald. ' " “ B I