Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1869 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

Thursday, September 9, 1809.

Do n’t you wonder who got Hemphill's money? We do. Hather inferior pears sold at the rate of three dollars per bushel in town this week. They are paying from 85 cents to one dollar and ten cents per bushel (or wheat at the mill. After to-morrow, we believe, there will not be a liccuscd liquor shop in Jasper county. Last Monday was the Jewish New Year day, and our Hebrew citizens observed it as a holiday. Clint. Taylor is preparing to bnild a now blacksmith shop nearly' opposite Duvall’s livery stable. We renew our request to those promising us wood on subscription that they briug it in as soon as possible. We need it now. The enumeration show's 292 pupils entitled to attend the public schools of Itcnsselaer, of whom 144 are males and 148 females. Mr. Emmet Kannel, of Dr. Jackson’s Drug Store, has our thanks for a couple of ten ounce Bartlett pears grown in his father s garden.

Mr. Thomas Dougherty killed a snake one day last week that had :ifi young ones coiled away in a curious receptacle within her stomach. Lizzie, infant daughter of Mr 6. nud Mr. S. O. Duvall, of Bradford, White county, was buried in the Rensselaer cemetery, last Friday. The Commissioners refused to grant Jared 11. Fountain license to Veil liquor at Remington. So that fountain of iniquity is dried up lor .a while. Miss Lydia Dwiggins lias been engaged to teach the primary department of the Rensselaer school in place of Miss Mary ll.Shortridge v\ bo has declined. Aletha Dellc, infant daughter of Mrs. V. A. and Mr.!C. W. llcukle, died last Saturday evening, agqd .eight months. It was buried Sunday beside its twin sister. Maude Malinda, infant daughter -of Mrs. M. V. and Col. E. P. Hammond, aged seventeen months, died Monday morning, September stli. It was buried Tuesday. ■ Dr. Kelley has removed his Dcntal Rooms to Dr. W. H. Martin's on Washington street, where he will be happy to wait on all wishing the service* Of a Dentist.

~Wc understand that it is the intention of our school trustees to have everything in readiness ior our town schools to commence ion Mondajf the 20th instant. liev. Me- JBruce, an Universalist preacher, will preach at the Christian Church next Sabbath. ‘Services will commence at 10:30 a. m. The public arc invited to attend. Rev. M. 11. Wood closed his ministerial labors with the M. E. church at this place last Sunday. He startzed this icaorAing to attend the Conference now in session at Lafayette. We will publish next week, the proceedings ot the Board of County Commissioners, and the result of the vote in Marion county on the proposition to donate $150,000 (to aid in building the Indianapolis, fieiphi *fe Chicago Railroad. Since the hate refused to grant licepsp to whiskey shops it is wonderful yyjiat an amount of “ager,” .yis,” “snake-bites” and “room erti*” there is in the county. Manufactures and mechanical interests have also received new impetus jitpd arc being prosecuted with renewed vigor. Coal 6il f C. Starr's,

Mr. Joseph Garris, of Keener township, presented us fine large watermelon this week, and has our thanks. Mr. Gacris says they are already cutting the corn through the Kaukakee Valley, and that much of it is very good. The people of Remington arc to hold an election at the Haver House, on Monday, September 20th, inst., for the purpose of electing three Trustees, one Clerk, one Treasurer, one Marshal and one Assessor, for said incorporated town. A couple of cracksmen tried to break into Johnny Coats’ Cigar store last Sunday night, but made so much noise as to alarm the people in the vicinity who got lip and frightened them away. Wonder if they ain’t the fellows who got Hemphill’s money? We were premature in announcing, a week or so since, that Mrs. Emma Lester, nee Downing, would not teach in our tow’n school this winter. We have been told, and are happy to announce that she intends to fulfill her engagement as though nothing had happened. The lion. Board of County Commissioners of Jasper county on Tuesday last refused to grant license on the application of One James Maloy. The refusal was based upon the ground that the applicant had not given sufficient notice. The notice, as given, reads as follows: “application for license.” “You will take notiee that James Maloy, a white male inhabitant of Rensselaer, Marion township, Jasper county, amt. State of Indiana, will apply to the Board of Commissioners of said county, * * * for a license to sell intoxicating liquors in a less quantity than a quart at a time,” &c. It was held by the Honorable Board that the notice was deficient from the fact the statute requires that persons “desiring to obtain license Jo sell intoxicating {liquors, shall give notice to the citizens of the township in which lie desires to sell,” and the notice not being addressed to the citizens of Marion but reading, “you will take notice” w’as not a notice to -said citizens as contemplated by law.

The decision created considerable flutter among the legal fraternity. Public opinion, we believe, sustains the action of the t’omniissioners in refusing the license, whatever may be said about their construction of law. A. L. Sparling is still running his butcher shop in Goddard's room and will furnish his customers with the best of Beef at reasonable rates. Abe is determined to keep the market constantly supplied and will do so at the lowest living rates. ' Again wc call the attention of our readers to the Butcher shop ot M. V. B. Warner, w here the best of meat can be found at all hours of the day. Mr. Warner now butchers one beef a day—and the very best kind at that. lie assures us that his motto is “quick sales and small profits,” and that he is determined to keep a good supply of good beef on hand at the small sum of from five to ten cents a pound. Clearing up mysteries seems to be the order of the day among the sensational writers: Mrs. Stowe has cleared up the mystery ot the Lord and Lady Byron quarrel; some Frenchman says that in a few months he will be prepared to make publio the mysteries and secrets of Lamartine's statesmanship; another that ho can clear up the mystery of the man in toe iron mask; the Chancellor Lansing disappearaaco from New York several years ago is promised an airing; the Lafayette Courier is anxious to learn who ■truck the mythical “Billy Patterson,” while the people of Rensselaer have solved the mystery of good, chaap cigars by patronizing Petit's Barber shop. If you don’t believe it try one.