Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1869 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

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The Jasper Common Ileus Coart begins its June term next Monday. ■I. I«■ »»U I r— . t . Mrs. Makeover, of Newton town» ship, is sold to be over 102 years old. Five soldiers of tlie war of 1812 are living lu Ju»i>or county. i Mr. Samuel Hemphill hiul his osr boxed by a horse, last Friday’. It was a stunner and knocked’.him Insotish' bio for a few minutes. Hon, Wm. Sprague, United j States Senator, of Rhode Island, has favored • us with a cony of his s|»oc<-h**H, dcllv*. cred during the lastsession of Congress. Pat. Barton didn’t get a license to sell intoxicating liquors in less quantity than a quart at a time, in the town of Rcnsselaor. Reason, failure toprovc sufficient moral character. The enterprising citizens of Remington have taken the preliminary stem to incorporate their thriving town, ns will be seen by reference to .the incorporation notice in another column. fcomcof our farmers think their Wheat-fields will be ripe and ready to harvest by the first of Ju y. There Is but a small breadth of fall grain in the county, but what thero is promises finely. The County Commissioners nrej in session at the Auditor’s office. Good deal of important business is before them this term. We will give a synopsis of their proceedings next week. Mr. A. D. Swain, living about six miles cast of Rensselaer ou tire Hanging Grove road, will please accept our thanks for a generous wedge of cheese. Mr. Swum is from the great cheesemaking Western Reserve and is thoroughly posted in the art, or rather science of making good, rich, well-fla-vored cheese. All wanting to test f or themselves can find one of his make at C. C. Starr’s Grocery. Dr. A. H. Wirt, of Monticello, will he in Rensselaer next Tuesday, (Juno 15th.) All who require theservicesof n first class Dentist can avail themselves thereof by calling at Dr. J.H. Loughridge’s office early in the week. Dr. Wirt lias been eminently successful in Jasper county and we have yet to hear tlie first word of complaint from those who have employed him. Prices reasonable. Satisfaction certain. A dispatch received here last evening states that Col. Joseph G. Crane, U. 8. A., acting mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, and formerly of this place, was shot and killed by K. M. Yerger, a few days since. The alikir grew out •of the action of Col. Crane in seizing Yerger’s property for taxes. Hismiirderer was arrested by the military.— Colonel Crane was a brother-in-law to ■Congressman Kchenck, of Ohio, and related to the Misses Bmith, of Utc* town. Clinrlcy Starr's Ice Cream Saloon Is visited every evening by dozens of young people who increase the pleasures of social intercourse with the F,picurian delights of a delicate, refreshing lee. Charley is an adept in the science of Cream flavoring and freezing, and then everthing is kept so neat and clean about the Saloon, 110. . sides making Ice .Cream for those who drop in for a dish or so, lie is prepared to make it by the quantity for Parties, Festivals, Pic Nics, Dinners, etc., etc. Give him your orders. Mr. W. W. Bussell, of Hanging Grove township, tells us that his little girl about nine years of age met with <» severe accident last Friday. She was playing with her little brother in .the yard where an older brother-was mowing some weeds, fn the excitement of her play she ran hr front of her brother’s scythe ami was liot seen by him until she was struck. The {{ash is ou her left leg extending diagonally upwards across the limb from about an inch above the knee six or Seven inches and (dear to the bone. Had the Wound been-on the Inside of her legit would have severed the femoral artery and she would have probably bled to death before surgical assistance could have reached her, as it is she will he some time recovering.