Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1869 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

Thursday, November 25, 1869

Two barber shops in Rensselaer. Wasn’t last week artflhl for weather? Look out for yotfr potato heaps—thieves arc about. Dressed hogs sell at ten cents a .pound, or did last Saturday. Mart. Warner corns mess beef to •order at seven cents per pound. Sheriff Yeoman has twenty barrels of lime and cement for sale. Keep your barn doors and,smoke Louses locked for thieveswre about. Subscribe for the Renssklakk Union if you want the American Stock Journal free. Of course, circulars, envelopes, cards, programmes and other fine printing is done at this office. Six or eight inches of snow fell here last Monday, and sleighing has been good, in town, ever since. A sausage maker could find employment for several months at this place, by working up the surplus dogs. The people of Jasper county have already begun to import flpur to make up the deficiency of their crops. , ( —' 4 Hou. Ezra Wright is attending the session of the United States Districtcourt at Indianapolis, in the capacity of juror. - -' ■< •— ——-—- Our grocers are asking seventy- ■ five cents a bushel for potatoes: two weeks ago they were only worth thirty-five cents. Thanksgiving services were held at the Baptist church last Thursday. The Rensselaer school also observed the day with appropriate ceremonies. “It is an ill wind that blows nobody good;’’ and the storms of last week raised tjie river so that the mill is running, which is a great accommodation to the public as well as a benefit to the owners. Dr. J. 11. Loughridgc, Thos. J. Spitler, Esq-, and HoraceE. James, of this paper, attended the,session of the Grand Lodge of OJd Fellows of Indiana, at Indianapolis, last week. Dr. J. W. Laßue delivers the address before the Society of Progressive Spiritualists next Sunday, November 28th. Subject: “What and where is God ” Cordial invitation extended to the public. Hall over Willey & Sigler’s store. Professor Norm an Warner, him of the blacksmith shop, last Tuesday evening organized a singing class at the Christian church. — Norm, is popular and we predict a successful music class will result from his enterprise. The Masonic fraternity at this place have a school of instruction in the work of the Order on second and fourth Saturday evenings of each month, conducted by W. M. Isaac M. Stackhouse, Grand Lecturer of Indiana. From preparations on foot, we are led to think the people of this burg will not lack for music during the approaching long winter evenings. The brass (cornet) band, a string band, the martial band, two or three choirs and a quartette are having weekly rehearsals, and if they don’t attain perfection it will not bo for the lack of perseverance. , The “Society of Progressive Spiritualists of Rensselaer” have purchased a new organ for their hall over Messrs. Willey & Sigler’s store. The instrument will be placed in their hall this week, and all who attend the meeting there next Sabbath will be (to use an expression of one of the society) “entertained with good music if not with the doctrine.” ■ » I , I. The stormy weather of last week interrupted the work on the masonry for the new bridge across the Iroquois half a mile above town, and Sheriff Yeoman was quite indignant thereat. It is to be hoped he will get in good humor again when the weather becomes fair. Since the foregoing was in type, the work has been, completed and our friend’s countenance is again overspread with its usual smile. The following spicy correspondence is reported as having taken place between two neighbors living within a thousand miles of Rensselaer, a few days since: "M. in account Dr. one hammer (borrowed and not returned' 7Sct«. •‘Reapectfiilly, .” The reply was: n. ~ In account,Dr. r*To 1| lallona aolt soap (borrowed . ?®‘ "turned) ..... . 371 co. oKn.uZJlfTl'j'L 75 cenU - Bnlnnce due 31J ct«. find 38 cent.. Plmum receipt aud re»uvn. Very le.pectfully, ! How is that fpr business? W inter has set in unusually eatly this year. In view of thfe fact people should bo as eoonoqjieal with their hay, grain, etc., as possible and keep their stock in good order. There is nearly double tie amount, of hay in this county now that Wap ever in it before, but it is better to have it stand in the stack another season than to waste it. "Keep stock in good order—give them enough to eat —all they will cat—but don’t let them waste feed bepjqisc it is plenty.

Snowballing is fascinating sport for. children, both boys and girls; nnd many older persons also like to participate. YJlien the suow has newly fallen, is a little damp and packs nicely, then to have a jolly romp for half an or so. with the school boys and girls is to enjoy a pleasant episode in our lives of toiLj To go out from our desks, workshops and offices and onco more be as children with children—laying aside the dignity oi manhood, forgetting the duties, cares and perplexities of lifts is to break away from the grasp of the inexorable, and breathe again the breath of the careless and contented. Then to mingle, as in childhood’s days, with gay, light-hearted, hilarious youth, is a pleasure, pure and unalloyed. But snowballing may become a nuisance. When old men, verging close upon the end of life, gray haired and feeble, whose joints are stiffened with age are passing quietly along, it is an outrage for children to pelt them with snowballs, and it is an outrage for which there is neither palliation nor excuse.— Some of the children of Rensselaer were guilty of this outrage Monday. When people are driving into town, on business, with perhaps unbroken colts, thishidiscrimate snowballing becomes a nuisance. Some of the school children, we learn, were guilty of .this nuisance last Monday. When men, women and children are passing quietly along minding their own business, then an attack with snowballs becomes assault and battery and those who indulge in it are guilty of a misdemeanor which is punishable at law. Mrs. May, of Lebanon, Indiana, widow of Col. Allen May, formerly of this county, is causing quite a sensation . throughout the State wbero her husband formerly owned landed property. It is estimated that at one time Col. May owned 4;5OO,OOO worth of land in Indiana, but becoming involved in his speculations he mortgaged it to parties who foreclosed and obtained possession of it. We understand that many of these mortgages were made out and delivered without Mrs. May’s consent ami her signature attached to them without her knowledge. She now comes into court and demands her third of all this property. In Jasper county there is not less than 20,000 acres affected by’ this movement. Much of it has passed into the hands of innocent purchasers who have made improvements under the impression their titles were good and are now unprepared to fight a law suit or pay much to compromise. Any person who has traveled knows that it is impossible to buy a gOod or even a faircigar anywhere along the railroads for less than ten cents apiece, yet Petit the Barber, sells them for five cents, and where one buys a dollars’ woi-.h, at three amTone-tliird cents. We know Petit’s cigars are as good as those sold at Chicago and Indianapolis for double the price. Try Petit’s cigars, chewing and smoking tobacco, collars, neckties, suspenders, razors, perfumery, hair dyes, hair restoratives, pomades, etc. Everything warranted ns represented. Mr. J. W. Laßue (Wesley) advertises by posters printed at this office that he will make a public sale in Rensselaer, this week Saturday, November 27th, 1860. Mr. Laßue advertises fifty head of yearling steers, six head of cows, six head of work horses, a span of mules, seven head of sheep, ten hogs, a wagon, a two horse buggy, harness, plows, etc., something near two thousand dollars’ worth in all. He gives nine months' credit on sums over five dollars, with the usual provisions. The rate oUtTiter est is ten per cent, instead of six, as erroneously printed in one or two of the bills first struck. ■ Johnny Coats lias not as yet received a correct solution to the re- 1 bus printed in another column and the reward is still offered to the person who will solve it. Johnny has some very nice holiday presents for the price offered for the solution of his rebus, and it is singular some ■ intelligent boy or girl does not find out the riddle and secure the prize. Grown up people are entitled to the reward the same as others.

C. C. Starr, the popular grocer, has just recovered from a severe attack of the quinsey and is barely able to attend his business, but his sickness does not seem to ifitYS linE aired his enterprise as is shown y Ins new rebus issued for the people of Jasper county to exercise their ingenuity upon.’ Here is opportunity for fun, study and pay offered nt once. Call and sec Mr. Starr’s prize rebus. Dr. Jackson, of “The Old Line Drug Store,” is out with a Tebus advertising his truly excellent stock of medicines, school and blank books, memorandums, paper, cards, envelopes, ink, etc., and offers five dollars reward to whoever will send him a correct solution of it before the first of January, 1870. Call at Jackson’s and see the rebus. A rare chance is offered by Messrs. Stackhouse & Bro. to industrious pqoplc who desire some light work to do those stormy wintci* days and long nights. They want to buy ten dozen home-made, hickory axhelves. Here is an opportunity for somebody wanting employment. Eli Heidleberger has from fifty to one hundred pounds of good honey for sale. I

Clint. Taylor, has got his hew blacksmith shop in operation on the safr »mill yard opposite Duvall's exproM office. Mr. Taylor is a first class workman and worthy of patronage,. Scq card. If we did not think the American Slock Journal was a good publication, and particularly useful in this locality, we would not offer it as a premium<o our patrons. Hand in |2 and secure your county paper and the best live-stock journal in America for one whole year. Maltby’s celebrated fresh Oysters at C. C. Starr’s. The best of winter wheat flour for sale at C. C. Starr’s. Tobacco, Cigars aud Pipes at C. C. Starr’s. Queenswarc, Glassware, table and pocket Cutlery, Spoons, etc.,, at C. 0. Starr’s. A largo lot of. Sugar, Coffee, Rice, Soda, Spices, Cairned Fruits, . Soap, Candles, &c.,atC. C. Starr’s. Large stock of Imperial, Gunpowder, Young Hyson and Japan Teas just received at 0. C. Starr’s. B® I will give 50 cents in trade to the first of .my customers who will solve the above rebus. J. W. Coats, Dealer in Tobacco, Cigars, etO. sign of the Big Indian, Rensselaer.