Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1883 — UNION ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

UNION ITEMS.

Weather changeable. Our schools are all closed. Robins and Blue birds are heralding spring. Cattle have wintered well considering the severity of the weather. Hands are scarce, S2O per month is being offered for farm help. I- V. Alter & Son are rebuilding their sawmill. A. E. Pierson has purchased another piece of land. Willis MeColly and family will return from Delaware Co., soon. Jack Frost has softened hundreds of bushels of potatoes for us. The measles are on the wane but still have full control of the township. The spark of life has not been entirely extinguishing from our Wheatfields yet. The vast wreck of timber, caused by the heavy sleet, is being converted into rails and wood. Everybody is expressing wonder and astonishment at the suicidal act of our neighbor, Mrs. Jenkins. Blackford Hurley received se-. vere injuries from a fall one day last week. His condition is critical. Business is somewhat dormant on account of sickness and the polar waves which sweep over us every other day. The banks of the river are lined with fishermen. The fish are small but vgry abundant. The snow storm on the night of the 18th, was accompanied with an unusual amount of thunder and lightning for the date. Our Debating clubs and Literary Societies have been a decided success during the past winter. We think that exercises of this kind, when properly conducted, are second only to the Sabbath school in imparting moral instructions, and that they stand as peers to all other institutions for the attainment of general information, and for the proper culture and development of the mind.

BILL BAT.

The Circuit Court. —A large amount of guardianship and other probate matters has been disposed of. Fred Bloomer plead guilty to the charge of assaulting John Chamberlain and was fined 82.00 and costs by the court. The trial of • Charles Roberts charged|with attempted robbery and other offenses committed at the Reunion last fall, was begun Wednesday afternoon, and as w r e go to press is still in progress.

Judge Hammond arrived on Monday evening and is presiding this week over the Court. Attorney Frank W. Babcock presided two weeks of the term' in a dignified and able manner and giving good satisfaction to litigants and to the bar. As former prosecutor, of this circuit, Mr. Babcock was successful and his subsequent practice has served to still increase his legal abilities. Attorney Babcock is a good student and there is no reason why he may not at no distant period wear the judicial robes of authority. He is at least to be numbered with the well informed attorneys of the Circuit and nothing attests this fact more than his increased business at Ins home bar. Besides he is an obliging and a genial gentleman in all his walks, both public and private.—“Kentland Gazette.”.

Change of Time. —A new time card went into effect on the L. N-A. <fc C. railroad on Sunday March 18th, and sqfar as Rensselaer is concerned of the changes seem to be very much in the nature of improvement. The night train from Chicago now reaches Rensselaer at 10:10 in the evening instead of 2:24 in the morning as heretofore, leaving Chicago at 7:20 in the evening. A much better time than at 11:24 in the old arrangement. The South bound morning train passes Rensselaer 12 minutes earlier than before. The time of the North bound rooming train is 10 mirfutes and of the North bound evening train 20 minutes earlier than before. ■ ■ ■ 1,1 * '—■■■■. "H The 1.. N-A <fciC., Railroad owns more mile; of track, within the limit? of'the state of Indiana, than any other raihoad company.