Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1880 — LOCAL GOSSIP. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL GOSSIP.

BY IRO-QUOIS.

Dallas Nowel* has erected a wind pump. Father Bumgardner and his daughter are quite sick. Sam Duvall has given his house a flue coat of white paint. Mr*. Samuel Scott is slowly recovering from a long and painful illness. E. I. Phillip* did not vote for Wile Duvall's hastier. lie was too strong a Democrat. Mr. George Zimmerman, of Barkley, died of congestion of the brain last Sunday morning. “A friend in need is a friend indeed.” Isaac Walker was all that to us last Saturday night. Call at Bedford's and get C. P. Hopklnr to •how you a specimen of ‘-Ohio buckwheat.” The grains are immense. A number of farmers who have hedge fences along the highway* have trimmed them. It adds much to the appearance of the farms. Let others do likewise. ' Al Cat* has built a cosy little dwelling in the east end of town, which he is finishing in good style, tie has rented it to Joseph Willets, for ten dollars per month. Hou. B. 8. Dwiggins proposes to bnild a fine brick dwelling for sale or rent, between Judge Hammond's residence and the depot. It will be roomy and possess the modern conveniences. W ho next? The Democratic County Central Committee met in the parlor of the Nowel* House, last Saturday. H. A. Barkley! was elected Chairman, and D. B. Miller, Secretary. They issued a call for pt imariea next Saturday to select delegates to the county convention to be held May Sd, when they propose to nominate a county ticket. Dr. Bitter* visited the Valparaiso Normal School, las* week. He say* there are at present between seventeen and eighteen hundred students in attendance, from almost every State in the Union. There is a-paper issued now in the interest of the school. It is a bright and spicy sheet. . Simon Phillipa was the “watch dog" of the treasury the past year, and doubtless aaved the town a considerable amount. We hope the presen t Board will be aa careful and economical. The Winamac Democrat mvs the tax in that too is £.74 on the one hundred dollars valuation. Monticello I* so deeply in debt that the highest legal tax they can asses* will not pay the interest on the indebtedness. The citizen, of Rensselaer can congratulate themselves on the fact that our town 1* out of debt and has thirteen am! one-half cents in the treasury. ‘ The Indianapolis Journal and •South Bend Tribune continue to boom.for Washburn, but it is a terrible waste of ammunition.