Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1870 — ANNOUNCEMENTS. [ARTICLE]

ANNOUNCEMENTS.

Circuit PrMtesUr. teurroK llrnsrii.aer Union: I'lcaue announce that J. M. JUSTICE, ot White county, * ill lie a candidate before the Republican Nominating Convention for re election to the office of Prosecuting Attorney of the 12th Judicial Circuit, of Indiana.

Butter 25 cants a pound. Commissioners in session. Eggs scarce at 15 cents a dozen. l'cach buds are still sound iu this Vicinity. Gold sold in Kensselaer, yesterday, for 1.12. Potatoes have rotted badly in till* bounty this winter. Township trustees all settling with the commissioners. Emigratioii ft*Ver virulent and carrying-people off rapidly. G. W. Torhune's wagon-shop is ornamented with a nCw sight Little inclined to “otlierial mild Pcss” to-day. Wind from the south. All kiuds of Justice’s and Constable’s blanks at this office. For sale cheap. We thank Hon.f Jasper Packard, "M. C., for a copy ol his speech which the Indianapolis Journal 60 cruelly ironizes. Willey & Sigler have moved into their new store room, which is now about the neatest business house in town. Go and see what a nice large stock of groceries and queensware has been opened by Mr. Imes, in the Shanghai building. All persons having unsettled accounts at the City Drug Store are requested to call and settle them immediately. Webi.y Thompson. March 9tA, 1870. Mr. Alf. Irwin, formerly of Rensselaer, has our thanks for filus of late Texas papers. We believe Mr. Irwin is doing, business iu Galvestom Checkers have been raging m Rochcsterjall winter. They rage all summer in Rensselaer. When our “East-and-West ’ railroad is built we will play Rochester for the championship. Through an error on our part the call for the meeting of the Jasper county Central Committee read “Saturday, March 28th.” It should have been Monday, March 28th, and is so corrected in this issue. The Commissioners yesterday ■bargained for Marshall Grant’s farm on the Chicago road, two miles west of town, for-a poor farm. “The farm is improved, consists of 200 acres and was sold for $5,000. It is reported that old John Baldus is coming back to the place and open a lot of dry goods and groceries iu the Liberal Corner store. Saloon nicht goot, hotel nicht goot, Indianapolis nicht goot, Rensselaer yaw. Dns ish bast. School No. 5, Barkley township, opened November 29th, 1869, and closed February 18th, 1870. Number of pupils enrolled, 55. Average attendance, 40. Number who missed no time, B—Nettie Burns, Rhoda Daniels, Alice Barkley, Nettie Price, Ella Call, Wm. Call, John Thomas and Leroy Thomas. Mart M. Nichols, Teacher. Our Irish friends down street say •we were mistaken about the nationality of the showmen who were exhibiting the six-footed horse the •other day—they were Highlanders fresh from their nativo heather in bonny Scotland. We arc glad they were not Irishmen, and hope when they have been in this country long enough to become civilized they •will behave better, i Another sale is on tho tapis.—--Next Tuesday, 15th instant, Mr. R. ‘B. James will make a public sale of personal property, at his residence adjoining Rensselaer. He advertises eight bead of cows and calves, one mare, hpgs, eight stands of bees, a two-horse wagon, a set of double harness, farming implements, beds, bedding, stoves, and household and kitchen fyjmiture.— Nine months Credit, without interest. Mr. James intends to move to New Hampshire.

I A r drunken ‘‘drfad beat,” who" stylos himself “Prof. W. E. Moore* the pupil and companion of the ‘grate’ Audubon,” is traveling over the country lecturing on his travels in South America. He claims to have found in that country a strange race of beings which is tho conneci'ing link between man and the monkey—too degraded to l>e men and possessed of more intelligence than the monkey. We don’t wish to oast a doubt assertion, but from his conduct while in this place, think that Prof. W. E. Moore must have died in that wild and far-off country and the “connecting lhik” came hero to leoturc. Wo learn this wonderful animal is now in Bradford, White county, doing the people by getting so drunk that he can not make his appearanoe on the night of his appointments. It would bo a charitable act if the citizens of that town would have the old man sent to the poor house where he could be kept out of range of benzine and morphine.