Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1869 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

'Thursday, August 26th, 1869.

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Pidgetms have made their appearance in considerable numbers. Abo Sparling yesterday killed a hog fpr Messrs. Pierce A Grant *fhich weighed 608 pounds. It Was rendered into lard. The first watermollons of tlio Season, measuring about six inches In diameter, sold in Bensselaer, last Stftttrday, for fifty cents apiece. Mr. J. W. LalWs son Amzl, a lad thil-tefcn.br fourteen years old, Was kicked by a Morse last Sunday lihd severely bruised on the thigh, oitt no bones brokeri; Messrs. Picrbc & Grant delivered •jf Jit'afl 6'f hogs; this tVeckj' avorageirg 28# pounds. They Were sold on contract at *8 per cwt. and brought the sellt-l-S about $4,800. Don’t fail to attend the ( meeting at the Court House next Satttrday, August 28th, for the purpose 6'f organizing a company to straighten and lower the bed of the Iroquois river. Mr. It. B. James tells us he has already gethcrcd fully ripened seed corn from a new large early varietygrown on his place this season.— Who can beat it? Apples arc worth from 40 to 75 cents a bushel; tomatoes from 50 to 75 cents; potatoes 40 cents; onions 75 cents to $1; blackberries 10 cents and huckleberries 8 cents a quart and most gone. Dr. Ritchey says, in his article on “Water Grass,” in another column, “Providence always shows a good head to the faithful laborer,” and wc guess the observation is sound. The question “Who gave Peter Wilkins the money?” is still agitating the Indianapolis Mirror , but the question agitating the people of Rensselaer is “Who took Hemphill's money?”

Mary Ann Wishard, of Pilot Grove, Newton county, died August 23d, and was buried beside her mother, in the Rensselaer cemetery, day before yesterday. Bho was the daughter of W. W. and Mary A. Wishard. ller age was eleven years and three months. A drove of eighteen Jack asses was driven into this place yesterday. They were from the neighborhood of Nashville, Tennessee, and soino of them were very fine animals of the kind; one said to l»e but three years old was upwards of fifteen hands high. Mr. Alvernioe Sheppard tells us he h»s received a pair of Chester White pigs, -‘as handsome as a picture.” This is a step in the right direction. Farmers should look to tlio improvement of. their stock ns much as the improvement of their lands. In another place will Ik- found ail account, furnished by our Remington correspondent, of the death by stroke of lightning of Mr.loseph Spangler, well known by many of our readers. The deceased had been a citizen of Jasper" county for twelve or fifteen years. His family have the sympathy of a large circle of acquaintances. The weather has been purgatorially hot for the last ten days.— The thermometer has ranged in the vicinity of 00° in the shade during the daytime, while the nights are like those told ot by the Kentuckian, “just the weather to make cawn grow", so hot a man has to lay awake and fan himself with his shutt-tail.”

Wo learn of two, three or four slander eases pretty noarly ripe enough to court. A female going l»y the name of Scan. May. is said to lie unpleasantly mixed up in one or two of the fusses. Better not have much to do with her during dogdavs, there is danger of going mail. That large star to he seen in the •cast a little south of the Plcaides or Seven Stars, between eleven and twelve o’clock at nightiß not the fast approaching comet that is soon to Knock the earth skywards, but the harmless, brilliant and benignant planet Jupiter. The star of the first magnitude about 30° north, isn’t the comet either, but is called Anriga-Capella, and is an harmless fixed star. Need n’t dodge either of’em. Some very fine cat fish were caught in the Iroquois at this place last week. Kart. Warner gobbled one weighing ten pounds on Thursday. Others weighing from four to eight pounds were caught by other persons. They were the real bine river cat, a kind of fish seldom seen here. Besides catfish there are plenty of pike and bass in the river and they take the hook greedily, affording infinite sport and princely eating to our resident Isaak Wnltons. Coal Oil, at 0. 0. Starr's.

“W. H. of Remington, will please accept our thanks for his communication of August 24tli, but which was not - received uutil after the information had reached us from another source and was in type. Please next time write your name in full below your initials, not for publication, hut that we may know what friend has the kindness to show us these favors. Some sneak thief‘‘wont through” Mr. Samuel Hemphill's residen oe last Thursday uignt after the family were asleep, and carried the ofothing of Mr. and Mrs. Hemphill out doors, rifled the pockets and left them hanging on the fence where they were found next morning. Mrs Hemphill lost about SSO and Mr. Hemphill $25 or S3O by their visitor. Of course parties are suspected, and they will he arrested as soon as the chain of evidence is completed a little further, unless they take the precaution to “iitc out.” It is 100 bad, but it can’t be helped—everybody regrets it, although they know regret is useless. Both of the young ladies selected by the people of Rensselaer to teach their schools the coming wir.ter have declined. Instead of being teachers they have made arrangements to become patrons. One was married last week, and the other, it is reported, will soon “go and do likewise.” In the meanwhile it is well for those interested to look nroiind for other teachers to -fill tile vacant places.

Wc bought one pound of Early’ Rose potatoes last spring and planted thcul nbout the 10th of May—they liavfi had but indifferent cultivation, and nearly one-fourth were “scalded out” by the wet weather —they had scarcely half a chance. On Monday about fcwhthirds of them were dug, being ful : ly ripe, and measured out a good, plump bushel of sixty pounds. The rest of the seed was planted in a richer place and is still growing; it will probably yield half a bushel or thirty pounds more. This will make in.all, ninety pounds of yield from one pound of seed. The potatoes are of fair size, with the eyes on the surface, cook easily, are dry, mealy ami fine flavored. They are very early. Mr. Albert W. Cleveland, residing about, a mile and a half northeast of town, was severely bitten by a rattlesnake yesterday morning, while mowing weeds in the garden. After tightly bandaging the ancle lie hurried to town where he was attended by l)r. Lough rid go. We went to see him prepared to sympathize with him in his trouble, but when we siiw him sitting up on a lounge in the Dr’s office, looking comfortable, with his foot bandaged, and drinking whiskey without any visible effort on him, wo felt lie Was no proper object of sympathy. lie killed the snake, which was a great misfortune to the soakers of the place, and we have no doubt that snake could have done a good business if he had been saved. A chance to drink all the whiskey one would want this hot weather without any effect is not lost without making one feci had. We-arevatht-r"inclined to envy the possessor of the snake bite.

On Sunday the 22nd iiist., Ilcv. Isaac Sayler, of Newton township, performed the ceremony which united as man and wife the faithful and loveiog souls of Mr. Christian Wirtliner and Miss Sarah Leuch, of Baden, Germany. Considerable romance attaches to this wedding. The parties have been engaged for a number of years, but. were anxious to come to America, and* delayed their marriage from year to year, until about two years ago Wirthner had saved means enough to bring him to the fertilo prairies of Jasper county, where he bought a few acres of land, built a cabin, and commenced to save money to send for his betrothed. Last week she came on. Leaving family and friends, without escort, she braved the perils of land #md sea, and came a distance of nearly six thousand miles, to a strange hind, obedient to the dictates of love and placing implicit faith in the word of her lover. Wo hope they may live long to enjoy the happiness such confidence merits.

“General” Hedge came to town last Saturday riding a mule. The “General” is not very active, and-in endeavoring to dismount, his toot bocamo fast in the stirrup, which fright cned the aiule. The mule reared and plunged tossing Hedge up in the air and letting him down on the sidewalk so hard that you could hear the concussiou half a square; Iledgo hung manfully to the reins with his bauds, while his foot was entangled in the 6tirrup, and yelling lustily at the tuulo until a jolt more severe than the others knocked the breath out of the old man and caused him to let go with his hands and at the same moment his foot became disentangled, and he was left lying on the sidewalk, stunned and bleeding from a severe gash on his head. It was supposed by many that he was fatally injured, but when he was raised to his feet ha assured them that such was not the case by at once enquiring “What went with mo muler’ Wo do not think that Hedge had been taking any tanglefoot, but *the actions of the mule ,wdre not above x Abe Spprling has fresh pork for sale. - * . The best cigars in town aro at the barber shop. Fancy Goods at Harding «& Alter'd.

The red, white and blue building between Austin’s Hotel and C. C. Starr’s Groccfy is no longer a tonsorial institute. The sweot perfumes of pomades and soaps and capillary washes »o longer issue from door and window, crack and crevice, lading with stifling weight the circumambient air; for Professor Petit has moved. Ilia bulletin board now hangs out across the way informing the passer by in letters of brown, blue and duu, of “shaving sham,” “pooning hair,” “cutting cigars,” and “razors collars.” Without doubt Petit uuderstands his business (which is more than can be truthfully said of the man who painted his sign) and is worthy of patronage. Call and sec bow he ha 4 things fixed up in his new rooms in the famous “Liberal Corner.” The Front Street meat market has again changed proprietors. Mr. Mans. Starr has disposed of his interest to Mr. Martin V. B. Warner, who, as soon as his arrangements are completed will be prepared to supply the detriaud of the market with the best beef and mutton to be found in tlio country, at greatly reduced prices. He is now building anew slaughterhouse and until Monday will not have any beef, but the finest of mutton can be found there Saturday. When fairly opened Mr. Warner intends to sell at prices below competition, and desires us to say that poor people, unable to purchase meat, will be supplied free of charge on making a statement of their circumstances to him.