Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1879 — School Reports. [ARTICLE]

School Reports.

Where do you hold Ppn rtb ? RliorifT Robinson with the consent of the commissioners is having the eourt-ho.UBo fence patched up. Ejc-Oounty .Superintendent Snoddy has secured an cngAgcment witli the pulilislurs of tho Kdlectlc scrieii of school books. Jasper county has 83 school houses, Newton county (i 3. In 1853 there were only 8 school houses in the entire territory. A basket meeting will bo held Jr. Oiishwa’s Grove, eight miles south of town, next Sunday, by the Protestant Methodists. Pesklcnt Lusc will conduct the services. The Rensselaer school will be reorganized this coming fall witii a partially new corps of teachers. J’rof. Allen is retnined ns principal, and a better selection would be dilfiCult to make. A strong temperance reform sentiment is developing in the western part of Jordan township. An organization lias been perfected which bolds stated meetings at the Ixecne school house. In (ho interim between locomotive ■whistles it would lie an excellent thing for Henalor Major to define the shade of color which distinguishes a national greenback labor reformer from a copperhead when 1 hey come to vote for a United States senator. Trustee Rich of WhonlfieM township was in town Monday. Reported everything lovely in northern Jasper; log pickerel, salmon and bass being caught in the Kankakee; and live wheat crop first class; also, an abundance of huckleberries and other small fruit, both cultivated and wild. J. 11. Ash, Esrj., of lventland, was in town Friday and Saturday of last week. He was counsel for the .defense in an action brought on a -writ of habeas corpus before Judge Hammond in banc, wherein Frank Pierce, father, sifeil Joseph and Mary Slowart, grandparents, for the custody of Myitie Pierce. Decision given for the defendants. Northwestern Jasper county celebrates Independence Day with a good old fashioned programme, at Keener Center. Dr. Antrim, president of tlieday, William Van’t Woud, marshal, Moses SI. Tyler, reader of the Declaration of Independence, Klder Lemuel Shortridge and Hon. I. 1). Dunn, orators. In-the afternoon base br.ll, dancing, etc. Fireworks at night. It is the only celebration in tlio county. Tiie Clown Point Star, a democratic newspaper of strong copperhead propensities, observes that “there has not "beep a straight-out reliable republican paper in Jasper county since “H. K. James started liis Union.” if true, this horrible discovery must cause Hie democracy unmeasurable anguish of soul. Nothing seems to afflict these tender-hearted patriots more than to learn that republicans elect t<» the presidency one wbo “carries out tlnrtiemerratic policy bet“tcr than Mr. Tildon could have done.” or to find a republican' president with a rebel brigadier in his cabinet, unless it is the finding of a little obscure two-cent country newspaper Unit is not reliably republican in its political views. It is a sad reilectiOn upon tliesagaCiiy, perspicacity ’and penetration of the editor of the Star that lie should havc-bcen nearly eleven years in making bis remarkable discovery ami formulating his original and very valuable opinion. (Still the discoverer is entitled to fitting recognition as such, and his neighbors will never prove their appivoiattori of genius until they decorate him with a calfskin medal or buy him a rubber teething ring.

Jesus of Nazareth didn’t perform wonders nearly so mni vellous as some modern healers are doing, hence it wouldn't have paid him to have published the story ol his works by hand bills, even were printing presses as numerous in Galilee in ids day as were the locusts on the plains of Idumea. If published reports be true there are modern physicians that can double discount the edres of Christ with one hand tied behind them; they but crook a little linger and chronic dyspeptics have better digestion than a carboy of nitric acid; they wink and more all-curing electricity is set free for tlie gratuitous healing of widows and orphans Ilian can be evolved from seven common thunder clouds. Where they sojourn n day or two desolation eafs broad avenues through the tribes of | undertakers, and poor grave-diggers’ children cry for food. One of them located in the midst of a malarial district proves a better anti miasmatic than agroveof eucalyptus trees. They are as chaste as Joseph, as wise as Solomon and more modest titan tartar emetic. What Rensselaer needs to make her a health resort more popular than the ancient poolsofSiloamis to import two or three of these prodigies from Europe, where they are so plentiful that they run to seeii. They should be taken young, however, before their vitality had been scattered over the great capitals and populous districts of the Old World. The case of, K. SI. Dodson vs. 11. C. Harris which was remted from this [Beaton] county to Jasper, after a trial lasting; seven •lays, was on Friday of last week decided in tavof of Mr. Harris. The Sint grew out of soino old partnership matters. The partnership censed in the spring of JS7S, and thepjfdntHl after thinking the matter over three or four years, came to the conclusion that tie had not had fair play, amt so spoke his piece to a hungry lawyer wlio Went U> work to make out it case; hut twelve jurors of Jasper county, after hearing all the evidence and argument, of course decided, they had no cause of action. Aamcei! Ayim/e Vval. The trial occupied within one-half a ddv of otic-half of the entire Vein of court; at a cost of more |h'iui $230, exclusive of attorney's feel, incidental expenses and waste of .time, not to say anything about the vexatious care, anxiety and general annoyance that are unavoiftatdo attendants upon litigation. But then fi.dOO was at issue, and nobody wants to loss such a sum of money these times through nogligeuce •>r earlossness, or from other cause. Justice 15. T. Ilartling and A.Jgillue hage t.wiped a partnership. They will deal tfi drugs ami groceries—fwid slid physic I

Ira C. Kingsbury, Remington, wob in town Tuesday. •*. ’>• c John Mlnnictia Is hack again mini Downgiue, Michigan. Town council meets in regular session next Monday night. Will Powers is an enieJent town ninrslinl-~tlie right man in the right filuce. Mrs. Lancaster of Ft-Wayne, is tlic guest of Mrs Leroy Sayres of Newton township, Bedford A SI mrp arc,occupying their new meat store room on Van Rensselaer street. i The festive.huckleberry sporteili a ten cent price and maketh a gorgeous pie or an enormous cobbler. A number of she yougsters about town will visit Michigan City on the 4th, for patriotic recreation, Jlufty and Ad Reward of Pilot Grove shipped two cars of bogs from Rensselaer, Tuesday morning. Divine services will be hold at the Methodist Episcopal church next Sunday, morning and evening. Lizzie Purcupilc is called “the little girl with laughing eyes, from Ronssolaer,” by the Moutlcello Democrat. E. L. Clark lias moved his stock of hardware into the new Newels block, third door above the Citizens bank. Mis. Tlios. Hiser of Valparaiso is visiting her husband this week. Uiscr is the gentleman who keeps fine livery rigs. Now potatoes charged to the muzzle with cramp colic or double si Kit tod with cholera morbus, aro worth eighty cents a bushel. A nice little hop was held in Starr’s hall, last Thursday night, which was attended by the young elite and a sprinkling of elders. C. D. Stackhouse & Son’s Jersey Red swine are rapidly growing in popular favor. They have a few choice select pigs for sale. Hamburg lace, edging and ombroidery at Miss Meredith’s millinery parlor, over lines’ drug store, sold very low to close out tlie stock. The funeral discourse of the Dillavoo children, who died last winter, was preached in the Methodist Episcopal church last Sunday morn^ig. Don’t neglect to call at Miss Meredith’s for bargains in millinery goods. Everything sold nt an immense reduction from regular prices to close nut. The wife of Sheriff Harmon of Benton county, is visiting relatives In the town. Site was May Grant in girlhood days, ami one of the loveliest of Jasper. Frank Shaw, of Remington, irradiated the gloomy nooks of Rensselaer with the effulgence of his smile, last Friday. J. W. Poweii was his aid-de-camp in chief. An almost endless variety of offered at an immense rcdiictioii from regular prices in order to close out, at M iss Meredith’s, over lines’ drug store. Stock new and good. Ho! yo toothless! Why gum it any more when Dr. Haiftar will make and warrant a set of teeth for 88? Office two doors above the Austin House. Refers to his many patrons. 42-4 It matters little who leads the clothing trade, but the fact is A. Leopold has the stock. Ho has a larger stock by Jinlf than any other house ; buys for cash only with a discount; pays no high rents. This is the secret. Lord John llunkin has left a desolate void or two as monuments that ho practiced long-bow archery in lovely Jasper. 'His conversation was more gorgeous than the poetry of the orient, more luxurient than the verdure of the tropics. Ask Charley Rears at Orwin’s to show the new musical instrument called the orgumei. It, is a novelty that promises to revolutionize the science of instrumental music. It plays its own notes without fingering, keys, stops, or springs. It is simple, nearly faultless, wonderful. Miss Meredith will give more millinery goods for a given sum of money than was ever sold in Rensselaer. 81 ic wants to close out her entire stock, and offers overytbinsfe'tm her shelves for one-half the regulur prices. Now, ladies, is the time to secure famous bargains In oil goods of this line. Rensselaer Lodge No. 82, Knights of Pythian, on Thursday evening lust elected Nathaniel W. Reeve, Ohaiveellor Commander; Robert Ji. Patton, Vice Chancellor; Erastus-.. Peacock, Prelate; Mordecai F. Chileote, Treasurer. The installation of ollleers will ho conducted this evening at thy lialL It is not public.

Miss Ella r.urk. teacher o( Union eclivol, M.vrlon township So. 2, report* for the month umlttlK J title XW.li, ISHL tlu) enrolling of I’ll seholars, with an averagu daily attendance of 2t>.. r >. Those perfect in attendance, dnguirtinunt-anul »ttuly, were John , Hardesty. Arthur Mowers, May Xowels, Aticlms Howel*, l.noy Nowel*, Ktnina Kenton. Maud Iletupliill. Kltli; Yeoman. Those perleet dtirimfUic entire Icrrn, were John Hardesty, Arthur N'owets, Virgil Noivets, May Xowels, Adelina Xowels, Lucy Xowels, Emma Kenton and Maud Hemphill. Miss Clara (Xicn. teacher of Barkley township school No 2, reiiorl* as follow s for the term that closed June 27th: The enrollment for the first month was IC, average daily niton deuce 13. C. Second ujonth enrollment 13, average attendaneo J 2. Third month enrollment 13, averag-e aUenuam’e 12.4 Those perfect in attuudanee and punctuality were l-ottic ltnndle, Lizzie Kwen, Laura l’arhison, Stella l’arklsoii. <»llic Kcod, Charley U.Vil, Mattie Moore, Willie Moore. Each scholar was industrious and orderly. The patron* have the teacher’s sincere thanks for their eo-operutiou and encouragement.