Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1881 — Union Utterings. [ARTICLE]

Union Utterings.

Non whofiild fail to attend tbe Lawn Fete, Friday night There will be xpanj interesting features. The County InstitnWeommsnops Monday, and it is expected that every teacher in the county will be in attendanoei. The doctors report considerable dd—i among the little folks. Principally dines nor incident to the halted term melon-cholic days. John Gillespie has a young son that had five fingers on each hand and six toes on cme foot. Dr. Washburn dipped the extra fingers off and the young child was doing well at last accounts. Warner k Sons* is where you g jpL, to purchase your Hardware, Furniture, etc.

The improvement in the condition of the President the past week has not been so marked as before. Another pirn sac formed in the cavity of the wound which necessitated an incision, and a consequent increase of fever. Tne outside of the wound has healed, and there is but little cause for alarm as to the President’s condition, although he is still very weak. Farmers, take your grain to Bates k Havens, at the Cotton elevator, where you will reoeive the highMt cash price for it. Many of the feminine bo vines of this vicinity appear to be losing the sight of their left optics. Whether it is caused by their vain efforts to peruse the “bulls” issued against their running at large during the hours of night, by the city fathers, and posted up in every obscure spot within the corporation limits, or whether it is the extreme heat which is causing it, is a question which will probably remain unanswered.

Bates <fc Havens are the men who will pay you the highest cash price for your grain. The Jail. —The Beard of Commissioners met yesterday, as per previous notice, for the purpose of considering the plan for a jail, as amended by the architects, since their last meeting. The plan of the St Louis firm has been definitely accepted, and the erection of the jail will be proceeded with at once. The Board did not consider it necessary to make any change in the previously selected site, Mid the jail will accordingly occupy the southwestern corner of the public square. C. 0. Starr & Co. still keep the largest and beet selected stock of China, Fancy and Staple Groceries in Jasper county and at prices that defy competition. A shocking and disgraceful affair occurred in Jordan township, six miles south of Rensselaer, on Wednesday of last week. Mrs. Peraine Fleming was assaulted and beaten in a terrible manner by her husband Ephriam and his brother Anthony. Dr. Doming was called to administer to the woman, and found, hsr wounds so serious'that her life was in imminent peril. At last accounts she was better. The difficulty of obtaining evidence which always attends these dreamstances renders a prosecution difficult and improbable. - Bat *8 k Havens, at the Cotton elevator, will pay you the highest cash prioe for your wheat, oats, and corn.

This dry weather is evidently propitious to that puerile little cuss, the cricket. He is very numerous, in fact we believe him to be übiquitous. He eats up your wearing apparel- and at the same moment he sings you to sleep; he crawls up your trousers yet before you have left them, and perchance his stinging bite may cause you to utter an exd amation, perhaps breath an oath from between your set jaws that said cricket must die ; in truth, he is a nuisance and thus he should be declared by the powers that be, and straightway he should be abated. Fob Saxe ob Rknt.—A house conveniently located to the business part of town. Will be sold cheap, or rented at a low rate. Inquire of G. G. Skabs, at the furniture store of Sears k Bon. O*L A. Wood Merry weather, whom everybody ia Senates, Pa., kmows, write* sad “7* “I had long suffered from a derangement of the bladder and kidneys; it hjul made my general health very poorly. I aim was troubled with saver* indigestion; pills gar* mo only temporary relief, aad I experienced groat anxiety of mind, as w*K as physical distress. A friend reeommendcd Brown’s Iron Bitters. I have used it with most gratifying results, and just now ay health mover was better, had 1 feel that the care is permanent.”

More farm hands wanted in this township. ; We hare been longing and looking and looking long for that refreshing shower of rain. Thanks, Py&ias, for the compliment. We are now truly glad jou returned in time to save Damon from the tyrant’s hand. Dare Altar's horses ran away twice, one day last week, with the hay slide, damaging horses, slide, harness and fences to some extent. The house of the widow Wilson, of Barkley, took fire from a burning rag, the first of last week, and burned to the ground. Nothing of importance was saved. This leaves the family in destitute circumstances. Another fire broke out in Jim McCleary’s stubble field, last Thursday morning, from burning stumps, and burned all his wheat Mr. Robert Swaim, while mowing grass last Friday, cut the leg of one of his mules so badly with the sickle that it will probably cripple him for life. George Warren, Theodore Warne *nd others are digging wells this dry weather. The ague has made its unwelcome appearance in several households during the past week. Order and attendance were good at the basket meeting. Billy Bull and Frank Parker were driving over the river bridge tow ard the meeting grounds when their horses sprang from the bridge a distance of eight or ten feet A broken buggy tongue and bruised horses was the only. They and their sisters, however, barely escaped being hurt by jumping from the buggy as it went over. Bill Bat.

The case of a former member of Capt. Chiloote’s company furnishes *A very good illustration of the working of the arrears of pensions law. The man who formerly resided in Jasper county but has remored to » neighboring state. CSJM to Capt. Chilcote, the only surviving officer of his company, about a year or more ago, and requested the Captain’s assistance in obtaining a pension. To Mr. Chilcote he stated that he had been detailed at one time during the war to assist in unloading a cargo of provisions, and that a barrel of flour had rolled against him, and hence resulted the injuries from which he suffered. Mr. Chilcote remembered clearly the circumstances of a man having been injured at the time and place, and in the manner described; and having been assured by a number of reliable men that the applicant was all right, he furnished him with the necessary papers and the man reoeived the lump sum of 91,800 in cash and $lB per month thereafter. Now the truth of the case, as Mr. Chilcote has just ascertained, is that the man who was really shot by the barrel of floor has been dead for years, while the injuries of the creature who drew the pension really resulted from a loathsomqoontagious disease which he had contracted during the war by his own gross immorality. Out of regard for the feelings of the man’s friends his name is withheld, at least for the present

That ancient soak, Edward Miller, in order that he might have wherewith to replenish his supply of the ardent, surreptitiously possessed himself of a horsebrush belonging to J. W. Duvall, for which transgression of the law Edward was, on Saturday last, haled before his Honor, Squire Wood, charged with larceny, more or lees. Deputy Prosecutor Watson upheld the outraged dignity of the law, while E. L Phillips looked after the interests of the defendant. The court decided that Mr. Miller must appear before the circuit court in October, and fixed the bail at the not extravagant sum of twenty-five dollars, bat inasmuch as that was just twenty-five dollars more than the defendant could furnish, he now languishes in the White county jail. Lawn Fetx.— A lawn fete will be given by the ladies of the Presbyterian church, on Friday evening of this week. Thoee attending the temperance meeting, will please stop around to the lawn fete and get a dish of ioe cream or a glass of lemonade. The grounds will be beautifully lighted with Japanese lanterns and reflector*. Admission only 5 cents. Tby the stock of "Henry Clay** cigars at Tharp’s,