Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1885 — RENSSELAER MARKETS. [ARTICLE]

RENSSELAER MARKETS.

CORRECT*?) EVERY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. j ' Wheat.. t $.75 @ .80 Corn.i \ . .38 Oats l . .28 @ 30 Eye ~ 50 Timothy 5eed............ 1.00 Clover Seed .. 4.50 Hay, Timothy. s'oo @ 6.00 fiav, Wild t 3.00 @ 4.00 sßotter .18 /Eggs.. 10 Potatoes .40 Apples .70 Salt, per barre 1........... 1.35 feacon, per fib 12^ Lard, per 12f

After a> solid week of the most objectionable weather imaginable, the sun came out clear last Sunday morning, for the first time since the Monday previous. During the present week the weather has been all that the heart of man could desire. Cloudless, balmy, beautiful and breezy, the weather seems to be tryingto make amends for its previous enormites. - Messrs. Michael Kobinson ancT W. F. Comer, two good men from Gillam township, called upon The Republican Monday. They have -just returned from a father extensive cattle buying expedition through northern Indiana and southern Michigan, during which time, they gathered up a nice bunch of young cattle, some 150 in number. Iu all their rounds* they did not see so good a prospect for wheat as their own township, Gillam, can show.

Some of our exchanges are telling tall stories regarding the number of dozens of eggs some of the grocers of their towns take in on some given day. The Kentland Gazette, for instance, says that on Saturday, the lltli inst., a grocery house in that town bought 380 dozen eggs. 380 dozen is a good many eggs, but a grocery firm in Rensselaer reported that on that same day, they bought 500 dozen, "hen berries”, and it wasn’t a very good day for eggs' either. The same firm shipped last Monday morning, 27 cases, each case containing 30 dozen eggs , or a total of 810 dozen, or a tbtal of. 9720 'eggs.

William Foster, the newly appointed receiver of the Chicago & Great Southern railroad, has fitted up for hini6cdf a private car. It consists of an ortlinary freight car divided into two apartments arranges with all the modern conveniences, colored cook, etc., bearing upon its sides the appropriate inscription ‘Receiver’s Private Coach.’ Mr. Foster and his private coach were upon the side track, at Fair Oaks, one day last week, waiting for the regular passenger train to come along and pull them into the city. The train came on time, when the receiver emerged from his palace coach and demanded of the conductor that his conveyance be hitched to the train. “I have no orders to do so", said the conductor. "Then I 1 order it”, roar ed the receiver. It would, not* work with that conductor, however, for the train pulled out leaving the irate receiver side tracked. Great men Are even subject to some of the petty annoyances of life.—Benton Review.