Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1859 — KANKAKEE COUNTY. [ARTICLE]

KANKAKEE COUNTY.

E. Mettee has closed up hia whisky shop here, and removed to Covington, Ind., where he takes charg • of the Brewer House. will ean electi n for Director* of the Foit VVavne Western Railroad Company on the Bth of June next, at Fort Wayne. M. Austin advertises in this paper that h.e will apply to the next Board of . County Comjnisioners for a license to sell liquor in Rensselaer. are having a splended season for planting. Thousands of acres of corn will be "planted this week. Our farmers are wearing smiling faces at the prospect of rich harvests. ur is still selling here at $3,80 per hundred. 'Potatoes and corn would sell from wagon at 81 per bushel. Butter ten cents per pound, and eggs » cents per dozen. Hams twelve and a half cents. No sides for saie.

Some s : xty-eight citizens of a strip of territory in the north part of this county, running parallel with the ivanknkee river, have filed a petition in the Auditor’s office for a new ciunty to be struck off. under the above J name. We also hear that there is some talk of erecting another county out of White, Benton and Jasper, with Reynold’s Station as the county seat. So we go. One now can hardly tel! what the boundaries of Jasper county will be one year hence.