Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1869 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

Thursday, August 6, 1809.

New wheat commenced being brought to mill last week. It is ol good quality and makes excellent iloiy. MTc afa requested to announce that Bev.4>»vid It. is expected to preach at the Presbyterian church, next Sabbath, August Bth. Wo have frequently heard of butter strong enough to stand alone, but last week we saw some sold that SbujitQipji, skip and jump, l’uct. * * ‘ Judge Hannah, of Laportc, 1 resident of the Kankakee Valley Draining Company, was in town Tuesday, cfl route fbr tab Valley. Jasper county iron ore brings $4 per tun at iho railroad, The ,6re regiou is twelve miles square, and ten Allies from .the nearest point on a railroad. ■ . : ■ I,— r i Quite a heavy shower of rain visited us yesterday. It came from the north, Wus accompanied with abrisk gale of wimLjHl.il loi’ half up hour or so it puuy'ed down with a vigor equal to'j|ii;y of ips. piQtiy predeoessors of tlfTl stqrmy Summer. — The to overflowing. Jffri M. LP Spitler, county clerk, h'fiitrjeolveiJ a consignment of the acts of the, last legislature, reports of"the Superintendent of Public Instruction, dt trustees of the asylums for the deat fVnd dumb, blind, insane, etc., fqj! distribution. Those entitled Mhtfiusoqfld)- docs, will call at his ofbce for them. ‘ Mrj. Wilb y, an elderly lady, was injured by falling down sttfifS, last Saturday evening. She was' standing about four feet up from t}*e floor at Mr. Sigler’s residence and in attempting to reach —for a glass of water handed hei; by Mrs. Sigler, it is snpposed she was attacked-with virtigo. Although no bones were broken, sho is confined lo her bed by the bruises received.

lluyers are now ollering but five dollars per cwt For choice smooth stock hogs weighing one hundred pounds and upwards; for lighter .hogs there seems to be no demand.' 'fhere is any amount of swine in thed6mity, and as there will-not be one-fourth of a crop of corn' raised here this season, the probability is they will be sold this fall as low as three or even two dollars per cwt. Sir. M. L. Spitler, comity clerk, returned last Saturday with his family from the sea-board. The Irontier hamlets of New York, ‘Boston and Portsmouth must he far behind in civilization and enlightenment, as he says he’did not see tWchoekerboard during the wholo six weeks of Ins absence! Why the barbarians in lfoston actually cut coil fish amt cultivate frogs for their music! As we predicted last week, pitching horse shoes didn’t take; the velocipede is “played out;’’ the ladies’ suflVago movement died in the shell, but the glorious “national game” of 1 lonssclacr —checkers—still remains calm, placid and undisturbed. its devotees are becoming daily more and more confirmed in the faith and the , scats of their pants wear constantly wide spreading and more open countenances. During the storm of yesterday the dwelling of Mr. Charles Phoads half a mile east of Rensselaer, was blown from its Tlmlcrpinning a distance of six or eight feet, springing the frame, loosening flooring and siding and leaving it standing at an angle of about forty-live degrees to the perpendicular. When the house was struck by the storm, the only inmate was Miss Caddie Rhoades a young lady about, sixteen years of age, who started to run over to a neighbor’s house for protection. In attempting to cross a ditch over which some boards were laid loosely lor afoot crossing, she .made a miss-step and fell into the water which was perhaps sixteen or eighteen indies deep, where being overcome with fright slie came near drowning. When found: she was-completely exhausted, and remained unconscious until a late hour last evening. The house was unfinished, balloon framed and rested on blocks three feet high. This morning a number of gentlemen went up from town to repair the building.