Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1876 — Something New. [ARTICLE]

Something New.

* I Mr. Willis J. lines Lis moved back to ReiuueLe'r again. Emmet Kananl sells good cigars; if yon doubt it try thorn, For paint of best quality go to Tom Willey gt tbe Old Lino Drug Store. llcneselaer toglori are rewarded Kith Ado strings of pike, bus and catfish. A nioe line of dress goods at the old Pioneer Store of F. J. Sears & Co. s. Marshal Reeve is scraping Washington street aud hauling off the lubbiah. ~ The best trble linen for 40 oents a yard ccn bo found at F. J. Seats & Co ’s. Tbc tinest shoe in the market and heavy boo s at reduced figures, at Ludd • BaaldiHft " ~" T r~ ‘ If you are fond of a good cig'Jt and enjoy a oomtortable smoke, trv Torn Willey’s stock. Spring prints and a fe\ dress styles at lowest figures are now on the counter of Ludd Hopkios. Mr. Ed. Rhoads has returned from Council Bluffs. Re didn’t visit tbe Black Hills country. Standard school books, stationery, «to- in large assortment, at lowest prices, at W'lley’s drug stoic Toe Remington Record is requested to copy programme of Jasper County Sunday School Union. The bot gaiter shoe for ladies that •cuu be found in the west, at $1.50 a pair, is nt F. J. Soars & Co.’s. Next Sunday is Easter, and tbe day following is the limit for paying taxes without penalty attaching thereto. Consignments of new goods rre being received at Leopold’s stone store. Cell ami inspect them ami learn prices. ATI kinds of job printing don# at tuis office. Owners of stock horses will pleaso make a memorandum of this fact. Call at Starr’s for molasses, vineg-., soda, baking powders, spices, soap, or anything in the grocery or provision lino. Elder'Wm. P. SbPokoy is Snnor need to preaeb in the Conrt House next Satu dry night and Sunday. He is In own te-d.y.

- A marriage license was issued yesterday by the clerk of Jasper county to William B. Bullock and Justina R. Bid well. Numbers of farmers in Jasper county have coinmenoed plowing and n considerable breadth of spring wheat and oats is already town. Jilxa Phillips -la Med on Mondayto Peris, Texas, whore lie will engage in business with Mr. Alfred Irwin a Connor citizen of this town. Green apples bring tho giltadged ptiee of 13 a bushel in Rensselaer, while potatoes are down to 25 cents and onions only 40 ocuts. In our homo market butter is retried at 20 cents a pound, country cured hauis 16f, bi con sides 15 cents, shouldeti 12' oents, egg* !0 cents a dozen. r s hioe lues burn constantly at Sempoom Erwin’s bLcksumlishop, where they are kept busy tepairing plows and o:bor farm impleuionts for spring service. A stock of spin ous and malt liquors has been received at Mike Halloran’s hotel this week, to be sold by tbe quart. It was shipped to Charley Edwards.

Two numbers of Tint Union aro issued th’’s week, to straighten out the Link into which it had boon crooked bv the impassable condition of the roads. Hopkins’ Mills at Rensselaer are having a good run of custom at present willing. There is plenty of water now to kdlp the burs spinning night and day. Mr. Frank Meyers is again established in Willey’s drug store. He is industrious, attentive, patient and agreeable to oustomers, and a first »!»<« young salesman. It w published that a meeting of ibe lioquois Ditching Association will be held at Miller & Boroughs’ office on Saiuvduy, April 29th 1876, to elect officers for the ensuing year. George Sigier, of tho post office tore, is in Chicago to buy goods for the spring trade. When ho returns Messrs. ViUey & Sigler will have a splend'ii s ock ou iheic now well filled eholves. Picture frames and moulding kept by Norman Warner. He has recently made large additions to his stock of chairs, bedsteads, bureaus and other house furniture. Mr. C. C. Starr announoes that he will make large reductions in the pi ice of groceries where purchased in hulk and cash paymonts made. Fanners will mako a note of this. Friend Wm, M. Lukin has turned middle man, and is running a peddling wagon than San Pierre westward. Ho gathers up butter and eggs in exchange for such necessary articles •• he carries ibr sale.

Hr If a dozen pleasuro bouts are now or red by purtios in tins town;, among llic number i.i one propelled by a stern wheel, built by Mr. Norman Warner for iiis own amusement, that at Iraota much attention, Several mrgnifiocut salmon have boon caught on iho Iroquois rapids during tho past week. Thuy weighed t. om six to ton potukU each. Besides these line pike, baas and catfish luve boon taken in considerable number*. Gr.ua has storied uicclv, and in the n< 1 them p>trt of the oounty cuttle have already been turned out on the prairies. Winter feed is still abundant, both bay and corn fodder, but on account of the i cab £l.l*l cu.tle will cut only a li »ie i f the dry — 1 —■ —————-— : Mr. lioberi Quin returned a week or two ijitioe from a winter’s sojourn in Ve Indian Teiilujry. He ra *e well placed with theoonntiy down tliere and the* trade openings that ho talks* of lelurniug at an early day. .

w:s awarded tbe contract for carrying the mail between Rensselaer and Fr»noesville; al .o that he will open a livery stable at the letter named town. Dnyail has the mail oontract ou the Remington route. So little extra flour being kept in this un. lias induced me to add to mv superior atock of groceries brands of MinucsoUi il'.tra Spring, and St. Lon's and Micbig- n w’ni'e wheat flou., vrb ta can be depended upon rs repre €Uiod. j I * LtriiO BIP/.iMS. | Tbe senior editor of this papa ac- | Knowledges, with customary thnnhs, % I rcT..nuue,.on Monday nigbt, by Mebsrs. j Abbott, C. F. Hopl Vs, R. H. 11'iiroupile and Charley who »:* i recognized by competent j as amc- . teur musicians of fins cttaiuneula. Roads are reported in it woi-so condition for hauling he-vy freight than at my time previous since Jonu. y Ist. I From 1.500 to !\OOO pounds is conaiaI oied u veiy hoavv lore, for four oi-ses, and it takes all Jay long to gos r-U;oagh whh such a load irom euhor o.‘ tho i r.llvoad station.) 12 to 16 miles distant. Mr. H. H. Downlug h?s witud.-wn ; fom ihelirm ot Grant A Downing, ’olrcksm’fbs. and movqd to Remington, | Eu. hr o'--ving bellows still b'ow, the fierce dros still glow, and the sounding auv'l f),'H '■iuys with measured beet rod slow, in tin old shop, you know. Thu.'s so, he'gbo! '• Bill., Phillips, whose acting iu the court Louse host winter dieted such unive, pr.- v e, has been solicited to accept an engr-ge-oent with a tif.ui -l comI paiij now organizing at Ch'cago to make a our of the country noat fr’l and j winlar. He will probably iieci : ne the ; proposal. It is repotted that Al. Snyde , who sr.aauA iu taO x'. c.theiit . pcahanuary two ye. w ago for shooting the Wo.met fiTjiy. is iasaue. He ,is now iivit g. at ill. Webb’s in tlie nort’oe- n i,r, t of the count;', hi> te. n» of imprisonment having 'uxnived sometime hot .aV. i Tire ■ Wflship assessors TfcT It the' auditor s uiiioe last week rnd agreed upon a bad" of appraisement of personal piope.ty. They adopted sujstuatially the same rates of last year. Corn and hgy, and perhaps Qua ,*r two other artitl.a Wc;c iviu-red a ffitlfc Corn is value! at tv.ou y i_vc oa..ts a bushel.

There arc m. mechanics ta the Stale , who do better blacksniithkig ban fMessrs: James Shintller and Charley A. ItobciThere is uo discount ou their rc: : through nil its departments of nntchica i-paiidoy, wagon sod carriage >■ oning. or horseshoeing. No botch or j dighreu woi k is done at their shop. j Mr. I’, lph Feauig is in Cnicago this . week to mrke purchase of a stock of I general merchandize with which iu fib • the shelves in h>s store. Mr. Fendig’s i eckngwletlged judgment aud long experieuc? in the business are sufficient i ’oarvatifF tliat a ime assortment will be j e’oc'od by Idui. Watch for his new i advertisement. , Mr. L. T. Harding, w>:‘e and son . Cua-les, left Rensselaer on Monday on a r. ip to Liitle Rock, Arkansas, and eke where about the Staic as inolinaaion •any d J ' ecu '1 hey expected te be absent about three weeks. Col. Healey deputed Tuesday morning and Thomas Boroughs and wife ycsteidav morning for <be seme destination.

A paper was circulated among tho business men of town last weaK and a purse of SB2 raised and pr“.:enled to Messrs. George Robinson and William l l owers as a testimonial of appreciation of tbc’r efficient services in the parstvl* and oi piure of the burglars iaßt wcel:. This v s ia addition te- tha rcw»pt. ofJ'ered bv Me - , Wood an Fegdig. Prof. Adam?’ school opened Monday, lie is an eductor of acknowledged rbility, and those who desire to have their children hist’ ucUid this sp: ing will do well to place thorn under his charge. He is nss'-t'-'d by Mira. Adam'’ and Miss. Amanda Osborn. There are upwards of sixty pupils in attendance at present vri ing. —..— *% : ’ K it” now i* mo to commence prepare(iois ior m.’king garden. To have a gr (I rdeu lust prepu’ e tho ground p ant good tieed, and i-hen keep it we' ended. Without good aood Is an .id there is »c.. 0 to be c’sHppoihlRe'.obleg. ueu seeds itg u.”u----i cdqv r. i: ,* n.. v bo proca od at \V ; '- lev'3 d ug s’ore. The best Volw-ys cbivjK i, t ‘.d he kee<i9 or*/ the brsU r i core is z. big irsh hi lire freighting bus this week, and trains of wagons arrive drily from Remington. Bradford and Fracceev’ 1 e, loaded with merchrodi xi consigned to deJeira at Rensselaer. It is cs'inuted that not less than &)0,000 war. h of groceries, dry goods, farm machinery, etc , for the trade at (his point had accumulated at the rail-. towns above u. med during tho mud blook-de. Gcod hyson and imperial teas for JO cants s pound, best brands of floor at lowest prices, driod fiidir,—apples, cvitn's, piuner and pcaoh . -h igest and finest stock of tobacco and r ; gara. gkaK vrare, queensw. re, 1. mps, lump fit nres, table and pocket cutlery, smokou aid's, haras aud shoulders at C. C. fllui .’s grocery in Bedford & .Jacksou'3 tew p. iok block. Call ind enqn' e pricer, Mss iatl.io Eonjarc'n, teacher of the second ia.ermediuto department of* the lle.ui.sei cv school, repot (s as follows lot; raon a ending March 24iu. 1876. I.n;cr"ad, 64 pupils; average dai’y s is dauco 49); perfect in attendance, pnacitpluy. s rdy and deportment 24; they were Fred iu. Cl ,looie, Oliver Bd-ocds, George Hol'itigswocth, Viotor W’Uov, Tillie FewUg, George Yeoman. Nellis Reeve, Healey, Mwf HcJey, Mrgg'c iv el. Be Lie Duval*, Louise Plait, Haule Hopkins. Addie D.ugn city, Dealie Boroughs. Mary Eswfc, j Clbiljr; Snld®., G -t Hopkins, My.de Heckle, Li ale Mor ~\a, Ca’lie Book, Bvtlo Mo.iis, An-iii . igler and Miuuv Non is. The hint armed five were pc*;, feet during the whole, six. rnouihs.

week a par ay went down tbe lr»qaois in boats -o recover the body of the burglar who was drowned in endeavoring to swim the river and escape capture. They were not long in finding the body and bringing it ashore where it was taken charge of by Juztioe Beaver, of Jackson township, Newton county, who ; acted in the capnoiiv of coroner and [proceeded to hold an inquest on the corpse. Nothing was found on the body ,to rowl his name or indicate where he l lived. Among other artistes in his poej session were a set of four skeleton keys aud four fine drills which would sseni to , indicate that he was a proieasioni l house- ; bioakor. He wore a oark CTey over-co-t, knit jacket, block vest, black oassimere prnts, overpants of light s-riped goods, red fli nncl undei'diawers, white cotton overdruwers, two undershirts, a woolen sbirt, anil a white fine shirt with pleated boixirn, two pairs of woolen socks and a p-ir of rubber boo's nearly new- c’l of which except the oveico..t wore on his person when taken out of the water. There wav also found among his effects a copy of Blanchard’s Railroad Guide Map of Ohio and Indiana in which was tbe address in lead pencil of Thomr.- Priia. 99 Bouth Canal Chici’go; a oa“d of E. P. Thompson. oont.uotor end orid«e builder, Valparaiso, Ind., a brier wood pipe, buckskin obacoo pouch, bottle of Trask’s magnetic ointment, oiieviot linen collar, a pair of common green goggles in a tin box, rnd a fragment of tho Detroit Free Pres* in which some one of thoee ar icles were wrapped.

F. J. Se ra & Co. have a patent heel and shank shoe for ladiee—the best and ' choap.Mt in the mailet. It is Hie tkoc for lie mi'lio.i. Call and tee them.