Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1859 — ATTENTION, MILITARY MEN! [ARTICLE]

ATTENTION, MILITARY MEN!

(£s”Extensive preparations are made in all parts of the State to observe the Fourth. (Xs”The contractor yesterday commenced putting up the fence around the Public Square. , ’ , , (£7* A lady of this place, anticipating the frost on Friday night, covered her cucumber vines with newspapers, and on examining them in the morning, discovered that every vine Was preserved, except one cov-n ered with a Buchanan paper. 00~ We had another frost last Friday night, but have not heard of any material injury done by it to the crops of Jasper county. All sections of country have not been so fortunate, as we hear from various parts of injury done the crops. friend, Thomas Clark, butted the engine off the bridge at Lafayette one day last week. Th? suit brought against him by the exploded Fort Wayne and Mississippi Railroad Company, came off at Lafayette, and the Company was non-suited. The amount involved was ten per cent on Mr. Clark’s stock of $19,500.

A meeting will be held at the Court House to-night, at early candle-light, for the purpose of organizing a military company. All friendly to the movement are invited to attend. j