Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1905 — Old Time News Facts from Jasper County’s First Paper, March 16th 1854 [ARTICLE]

Old Time News Facts from Jasper County’s First Paper, March 16th 1854

Mr. R. Fleming, “the indefatigable secretary” of the much talked * of railroad, and Mr. Tigar, editor of the Fort Wayne Sentinel, had surprised the editor with a visit. Mr. Tigar was considered the oldest editor in Indiana. The Spring term of the Jasper Circuit Court was in session, with Hon. T. Stanfield presiding judge. Military titles were more common here then than in Kentucky now and the visiting attorneys were Maj. Gen. A. L. Deavitt, of South Bend, Col. Turpie and Corporal Reed, of Monticello, Capt Everett, and 2nd Lieut. Woodman, of Lafayette. “The Rensselaer contingent were Snyder. Odell and and alas they had no titles. “The business of the term was closed with promptness and dispatch and closed with the most perfect accord.”

Col. J. S. Freeman advertised that he had opened a “traiding house” in the former J. W. LaRue room. He handled many lines but advertised no dry goods. He was Lieutenant Colonel of the Jasper county militia regiment. Silas Dawitt’s grist mill was said to be in successful operation. “Our Marshal” an energetic and faithful public servant had been improving the streets and things about town. Regret was expressed that the “Regulators” had forestalled some of his operations. Why didn’t he tell us what the Regulators had done, and whom they had done it to! A letter was said to have been received from Paris in which Napoleon 111 was said to have given up all hope for an heirjand was moving for a divorce from Eugenia. It was prophesied that Nap would step faster and fall lower than the great Bony. Well he got his heir all right, and he got his fall all right, and the heir met with a melancholly fate, and Eugenia still lives, old, lone and desolate.