Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1870 — ANNOUNCEMENTS. [ARTICLE]

ANNOUNCEMENTS.

Clrsai* Praaeewtor. ■■ Editor Rbxrrblabk Uwiom: Plesas asseance that J7m. JUSTICE, of White county, bill bo a candidate before the Repablioan Nominating Oonveation for ro-eleotion to the offico of Praeoating Attorney of the 11th Judicial Circuit, of Indiana. Caaaty Transarer. THOMAS LAMBORN. of Carpenter town* ealp, ta n candidate lor County Treasurer, eabject to tbo decision of the Republican Nominating Convention. _

Mud deep. Weather raw. Potatoes scarce. Robins coughing. Colds fashionable. Gardening commenced. Swallows have n’t come. See new advertisements. Eggs bre 15 oents a dozen. Gutter is 30 cents a pound. ' Beef 10 tb 16f cents a pound. Fresh fish < arid 8 cents a pound. Onion sets 20 cefits per quart See announcement of candidates. Circuit Court convenes next Monday. Justice’s blanks for sale cheap, at this office. Jim Maloy owns two of the fastest horses in the West. w Salmon have commenced running in ths Iroquois, so it is said. The New York World proprietors Jiave our thanks for a copy of the World Almanac for 1870. The Republican Central Committee meets at the Court House .next Monday, at 1 o’clock, P. M. A bunch ot keys was found- by Mr. John (Jpenchain, one day last week, and left at this office for the owner. It will be seen front posters that Mr. R. B. James has decided to make his~sale next Saturday, 20th instant. Jackson’s Drug Store is to be moved acrost the street into the building formerly occupied by ‘Thompson’s City Drug Store. ' About 200 ppunds of pike were caught in the Iroquois at this place last Monday night. Among them we saw a 9-ponnder, a 7-pounder and several 5-pounders. Messrs. Alfred Thompson and Joseph A. Stepban, Directors of the Indianapolis, Delphi and Chicago Railroad Company, for Jasper county, started yesterday to attend the meeting held at Delphi to-day. ■' ■ e The cotnmisaianers adjourned their called session lash Saturday without arriving at anything definite respecting the keeping of county paupers, or renting the poor farm. AU action in the matter was postponed until the regular session in June. Mr. C. P. Hopkins desires us to say to his many friends that the report circulated to the effect that he will not teach school this spring is altogether erroneous. Mr, Hopkins will open his school, if there be no preventing circumstance, in the School House on Monday, April 4th, as has before been announced in these columns. An improved shovel plow has been recently invented by our enterprising friend, Mr. Norman W arner. The improvement consists of a contrivance attached to the plow- ; stock or sheath, as an adjustable brace, by which the plow may be raised or lowered at option, as the nature of the soil, the size of the draft animal, or the object of the work may require, by merely turning a couple of thumbscrews. With .this simple invention it takes but a -moment to adjust the plow to any .desired angle. Several practical farmers have seen it and everyone the improvement complete and of great value, preventing vexation and saying valuable time -during the busy and important season of corn tending. Mr. Warner has applied for a patent on iu Call al, d examine our Carpeting •before buying elsewhere. Prices guantoed as low as can be bought It* any jinarkst Willey A Sigler,

School J. Mariofi opened December Cth, 1869 arid closed March 16th, 1870. Number of pupils enrolled, 66. Average daily attendance, 42, Number missing no time, 9:—Wm. Greenfield, Davie B. Nowels, Flora L. Hopkins, Clara McColly, Abba McColly, Ben MoColly, Jim McColly, James Brusnahan. Stephen Biusnah an, aged five years, lost but three days. Charles F. Hopkins. Teacher.