Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1869 — REAL ESTATE SALES. [ARTICLE]

REAL ESTATE SALES.

Meat’s;- l>wiggins & Thuuijispimy port sales as follows: No. 4. AV. il. Kirby to Thompson & Bro. South-west l see. 11, town. 31, R. G South J “ 10, ” 31, “ C S. E. \ S.E. J“ . •9, “ 31, ” G Mr. Dvriggins, the senior member of thbr well-known- firm, .has just returned from an extensive tour through Illinois, lowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri, and from his reports none of theso States have lauds offering greater natural inducements to actual settlers than those iu..Tnspcr countv. while in many respects ours oiler advantages theirs have not. We have no hesitation in rccommendintr this firm to the public as reliable in their business transact ttonß. Oxford, Bentop county, is taking the iuitiatory oteps for incorporation. 7 , Winamac has a gobd prospect for a two-story brick school house, 52xG0 feet in size. The public -debt was decreased during the month of April $0,399,070 65. It is reported that Lopez will soon take the field again in Paraguay, at the head of 16,000 men. The Galveston, (Texas), Bulletin favors the election* from that Mat£, of General Joseph J. Reynolds to the LTnited States Senate. The JSenton Tribune toys “two or three thousand acres of sod corn will bo planted on the Hickory Grove farm,” in Befiton county,, this season.

At the request of the latter, Gen. Robert E. Lee had an interview with'President Grant, on the Ist instant. lie expressed himself in favor of the 15th amendment.' Mr. Pollard’s paper, the Southern Opinion, has expired. Its last words are significant. “The dUP tinct Southern principles upon which this paper was founded are dead in the hearts of the people.” Amen! The Chicago Post says that Crawfordsville “oan /boast the most beautiful, accomplished, and intellectual ladies es any town of its size in the State.” Perhaps it *can. So can Rensselaer. The wojd “size” qualifies the sentence.