Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1869 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

IStorMday, December 2, 1869.

Butter is 25 cents a pound. Potatoes still retail at T 5 oenta per buahel. Apples retail for 21 oents a peck at the stores. Tame hay is bringing $6 per ton in this place. Hen. Sparling killed three deer at two shots, one day last week. Ten cents per pound is the ruling price for pork by the carcass, in Rensselaer. The railroad meeting which was to have come off last Saturday, wasn’t held. Subject for local debating clubs: Where do the topers of Rensselaer get their whiskey? Jasper county Commissioners Court convenes in the Auditor’s office next Monday. Muskrats have built their houses way down in the sloughs which is said to indicate a dry winter. Wm. L. McConnell, Esq., was admitted to practice in the Supreme court of Indiana, last week. Wm. T. Lewis will hear of something to his advantage by calling at Hammond <k Spitler’s office. Mart. V. B. Warner has sold out his grocery. John E. Trent, the poultry dealer, is the purchaser. Mr. G. W. Terhune is preparing to erect a wagon shop on Front street, above D. C. Taylor’s blacksmith shop.

•* Three men and one span of horses killed thirty rabbits worth five cents apiece, one day last week. They hunted on Mount Gibbon. Keep off the sidewalks with your teams, there is a statute law of this State making it a finable offence to drive or ride upon the sidewalks of any A new roof is being put on the little shanty below Purcupile’s dry goods store, on Washington street. The shingles are worth more than the rest ’of the building. A musical youngster who set up a barber shop in this place three or four weeks ago, lit out in the dark and rain last Sunday night. In consequence of this escapade it is said that two or three persons are sorry from five to thirty dollars’ worth. ' ■ —. «■ —< «*•- .■ .. A culvert is being made at the intersection of Milrov and South Washington streets. This improvement has been long needed and will be a great accommodation to those having business on that side of the river.

Rev. R Hussey, President of the Methodist Church, North Indiana Conference, will hold meetings at the Burns School House, Barkley township, on the 18th and 19th of December next ’ Also, at Remington, December 25th and 26th. “H,-Sylvan” still writes for the Kentland Gazette. His last communication described a nightmare he had recently, experienced. ’Twas ’orrid. “Armageddon,” “plain spheres,” “martialed spirits,” “howlin’,” “darkness,” and “sich.” Don’t believe this prairie country agrees with Mr. Howe Green-wood. A fire broke out in the upper Story of Mr. J. R. Vanatta’s residence, on Washington street, last Saturday. The fire was communicated by sparks falling from the ■love pipe, the joints of which had become disconnected, and alighting on a trunk of clothing belonging to the family of Mr. H. A. Wix, who occupied the room. Damage about fifty dollars. The society of Progressive Spiritualists .of Rensselaer, hold their regular meetings in their hall over Messrs. Willey & Sigler’s store, every Sunday at 10:30, A. M., and 7 P. M. The public is invited to attend. The consideration of the subject “What and where is God?” will be continued next Sabbath, by Dr. Laßne. The assignees of the judgment against the McClure library^,.met last evening and voted to extend the privileges of the library to all Who will pay the sum of five dollars or more for the purpose of paying off the indebtedness (now about one hundred and seventy-five dollars) and to raise the further sum of fifty dollars necessary to organise under the present law. Simon P. Thompson, Esq., was appointed to solicit subscriptions.

The temperance movement has pmt.on a new phase at Remington, understand the advocates of reform in that enterprising, intelligent and virtuous community have organised a joint stock company, with a subscribed capital of |BO,OOO, upon wb ic V wey propose to issue bonds for the purpose of raising the necessary tpeans to oppose, in the courts, all applications for license tb sell liquors “by the small,” yithjr) their corporation. How is that fop determined to evil? If )the gjd saying, “Resist the devil and he wUI flee’from vow,” trye. old clpypg foot won't bo%f tW Ung-

It is estimated that more people took benzine for “coughs, colds and consumption,” last Saturday, than ever before in one day during the year of grace, one thousand, eight hundred” sixty and nine, ana that it had a more “salubrious” effect on ’em. As there is not a licensed saloon in’ the oounty, the question “Where did you getyour whiskey?” as pertinent Messrs. I. M. Stackhouse, Jared Benjamin, Thomas Boroughs and It 8. Dwiggins, of this place, started Monday to attend the railroad meetingthat was to have been held at Rochester on the 80th. This meeting is for the purpose of advancing the interest of the Muscatine, Kewanee and Eastern Railroad Company, which proposes to build from Muscatine, lowa, to Ft. Wayne. Wo saw one of our mostmild and Eeaceable citizens taking home * uge, six-shooting navy revolver, with all barrels loaded, one day last week. We guess he got it to salute the fellow who is making a business of trying to lift windows and open doors at unseasonable hours, in dwellings where he hasn’t left his card. There is going to be work for the undertaker if somebody isn’t careful who he visits after night.

Years ago the Hon. Board of Town Trustees of Rensselaer, passed an ordinance requiring each owner of buildings within the corporation limits to provide for each dwelling or store a ladder of sufficient length to reach from the ground to the eaves and another from the eaves to the comb of the roof with the necessary hook for fastening it where desired. Would it not be well for the present Board to see that this ordinance is enforced? The Presbyterian church at this place has been enjoying a series of meetings the past week, conducted by Rev. Mr. Torrence, of Frankfort, and Rev. Mr. Mitchell, of Delphi. Mr. Torrence is a benevolent looking gentleman, wearing a long beard, and creates a favorable impression upon those who have the pleasure of his acquaintance. One day while at dinner, with a gentleman whose family belong to his denomination, a neighbors little boy happened to be in the room and heard him say grace. The little fellow ran home and told his mother that Mr. S ’s family had company at the dinner table.— “Mr. C is there and two other men arc there, and one of them, I guess, is Jesus Christ, for he has long beard and looks as though he liked little children.”

Dr. Fisk having located in Rensselaer respectfully tenders his professional services to the affiicted. He gives special attention to diseases of the eye, ear, throat, lungs and chest. The poor treated free of charge. He may be consulted at the residence of Mrs. W. S. Hopkins, corner Van Rensselaer ana Angelica streets. Refers to any respectable physician who has read his medical works and to patients cured by him in nearly all the Western States. The new proprietor of ye ancient “Liberal Corner,” Mr. John E. Trent, the poultry man, requests us to say that he proposes to add to the stock of groceries now in store a bran new invoice of first class goods, which he will sell for cash, or its equivalent, at rates that must defy competition, also, he wants it distinctly understood that no intoxicating liquors of any kind will be sold in the house while he is proprietor of the establishment. A novelty in holiday books for children may be seen at Jackson’s Drug Store. It consists of nursery rhymes, illustrated with pictures, printed on cloth, in brilliant colored ink. They cannot fail to be attractive to the little fellows, and will serve to interest them in learning to read, while the substantial manner in which they are made, and the low prices at which they are offered make them the most economical holiday books published.

Petit, the celebrated barber, continues to shave, cut hair, dress whiskers, sell razors, soap, hair restoratives, pomades, gentlemen’s furnishing goods, plug, and fine cut jewing tabaeco, good cigars, eta., eto., at his well-known stand next door to corner of Washington and Front streets, in Liberal comer building. Call on him. '* ■; . One of the neatest kept business houses in Rensselaer, is C. W. Henkle’s,in the old Shanghai building. Mr. Henkle knows how to please customers and is having a good run of custom. If Ileidleberger don’t have a good run of custom before spring, it will not be because he don’t sell cheap, will it? Go and see if it will. * Have yoq read Johnny Coats' column advertisement of Holiday goods? Call and see what he has on hand—the half is not told in hie advertisement.