Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1869 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

Thursday, February 4. 1869.

t3?“lligh win'd and snow storm, yesterday; to-day, galey, chilly, snushiney, cloudy, Marcby. WA heavy thunder storm, attended with hail, passed over hero last Friday. Cleared up mild. Onr thanks are tendered Mr. Jonathan Frazee for recent files of Cleveland papers. ~CafcF“A.*B. Tharp,Esq., wifi lecture in the M. E. Church next Sunday evening. Subject, “The Divinity of Christ.”

are requested to announce that Rev. James T. Patterson will preach in the Presbyterian church, in Rensselaer, Saturday and Sabbath, February 13th and 14th inst.

are sorry to leitrn tjjat Mrs. J- R. Vanatta, St., gppidentally fell on a slippery plank, last Thursday, receiving bruises that have confined her to her roopi ever since.

of our readers will be pleased to learn that Mr, Samuel Hemphill has established a Hack Line between Rensselaer and Francesville. Regular trips arc made triweekly.

ffjgT’Onr thanks are due Hon’J. P. Barnett, Representative from this district in the Legislature, for a copy of the Twenty-fifth Annual Report of the’Trustees and Superintendent pf the Indiana Institution for Educating the Deaf and Dumb.

genial and modest County Auditor has the past week added to the rare collection of pub. docs, in our office library, a well-bound, profusely-il-lustrated copy of the Indiana Agricultural Reports—lßoß, fop which our thanks are tendered.

BkjFThe February term of the Jasper Common Pleas Court will convene in Rensselaer Monday; the 15th inst His llonor 4 Judge Hiram A» Gillett will preside. It will be remembered that Judge Gillett received 1160 votes out of 1164 east in the county last fall. j •

election will be held at the Regular Baptist Church, ju Rensselaer, on Saturday, February 13th, 1868, for the purpose of scvelecting Three Trustees of ChuTeh property. (Published by request j

J-F?"If in accordance with timcfionored custom, the liir.torical •ground hog came put of his hole on ('ahdlcmas day with the expectation ot viewing the model proportions ol his “shudder,” lie was badly mistaken ; and will not have the cluHice to loal in his subterranean domicile for

six long weeks :wul no hash. From present indications, it’ his hogship slays .«ul-of his hole under impress sjon that spring lias come, he will super another disappointnient. Query: Is aground hog ever made into sausages'?