Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1870 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

Thursday! March 31, 1870.

Frogs croaking. Gardening perilous. Circuit court is in session. All-Fool’s day to-morrow, if fair. Good many salmon taken by the fishery. Wood is becoming scare* in this market. Petit, the Barber, has a new stock of notions. Potatoes 50 cents a bushel, on the streets. The Nagle House is having a big run this week. Ring your bogs—or find them in the publio pound. Untrimmed bacon hams sell for 20 cents a pound. Fresh butter, made of salt, retails lor 30 cents a pound. Mrs. Joshua Jones died very suddenly, Monday evening. Warner is busy manufacturing liis new style of shovel plow*. Mr. James’ sale was again postponed on account of bad weather. Beautifnl looking honey is held at 25 cents a pound by our retailers. Mr. Henry C. Travis waa Admitted to practice law in the Jasper county courts, on Monday. Father William Grant and Father Moore, survivors of the War of 1812, called on us this week. A bill of divorce was granted Dr. Stephen Fisk, in the Circuit Court, yesterday. '? Jaokson’a drug store has been moved into the room lately occupied by the city drug store. Air. J. D. Morgan caught a pike last Thursday night, that weighed 10 pounds—the largest fi6b of the season. Cattle feeding was commenced in Jasper county, in’October; to-May, March 31 st, the prospect is they will need feeding for a month yet. Professor G M. Smith, Professor C. P. Hopkins and Professor T. E. ‘ .Willey open their several schools in.the School House, next Monday. Job printing done as neatly and cheaply at this office' as anywhere in the State. Patronize homo industry any save express charges. There are four soldiers of the War of 1812 living in this county, William Grant, William Moore, Phinea* Thornton and Cornelius Hutton. The Jasper caunty republican nominating convention will be held in Rensselaer oa the 4th of next June. Announcement fee $2 la advance. Our friend S. P. Thompson, is on the war path, vigorously working ~ior the nomination for circuit prosecutor. Tippecanoe county is the battle field. Now is the proper time to graft cherry trees. Mr. George Nagle, on Two-Mile Prairie is said to be very successful in this business.— See liis advertisement. Day before yesterday, B. B. Patton was mulct to the tune of $450, by the Circuit Court, for becoming the father ot Rufina C. Hopkins’ boy, without having first obtained license. In recent a list ofpatonts issued to ludiauaiane, we see that D. At of Leoti, lias invented a prafchine for bending felloes. In this place are three shops for binding fellows , without a patent. Wm. H. Martin, jr., oi whom cv r\ t.oV>Clu ItPiissdaer has favorsWJc knuw-ledgi;, is attending court ih's week. Mr. Martin has the reputation oi* being one of tho most promising lawyers in ICentiand.

Progressive Spiritualists’ meeting Sunday, April 3d. Essayist— I. M. Stackhouse. Twelve Tribes of Israel. ij We were in error last weeC.Kin stating that the Commissioners did nothing at their special session, in regard to the poor farm. Mr. C. M. Watson, informs us that he was appointed by the Board to rent the farm. We arc requested to give notice that religious services will be held in the Rensselaer M. E. Church on Sabbath, April 3d, at 10$ oclock a. m., and in the Saylor School House at 3 o’clock p. tu. All are iuvited to attend. In speaking of the material from which the republicans of tho llth district have to choose a candidate for representative in Congress, the Valparaiso Vidttte says there is “in Jasper, R. S. Dwiggins and Colonel Hammond, both well-known and able men.” Tuesday evening Iroquois Lodge No. 143, I. O. O. F., elected the following officers for the term commencing April Ist, 1870: R. 8. Dwiggins, Noble Grand. C. C. Starr, Vice Grand. Ira W. Yeoman, Secretary. G. W. Terhune, Treasurer. Enoch H. Pettit, Representative to the Grand Lodge. E. P. Hammond, Alternate Representative to the Grand Lodge. Hon. Charles H. Test, of Monticello, is presiding over the Circuit Court now in session in this place. The Judge is hale and hearty, and we don’t see that he appears older than he did ten years ago. His charge to the grand jury is spoken of by a gentleman who is competent to decide, as one of his best efforts, indicating a well-balanced mind, diciphned by education and toned by a clear perception of justice and equity. As a jurist, Judge Test stands among the. first in the State. „ Under an act of the last Legislature, each incorporated town is a separate road district, and is entitled to its proportion of the taxes collected for road purposes. This year the proportion due Rensselaer Is $226.76, of which perhaps two-thirds may be collected. This sum properly expended, together with from two to four days’ labor which the law provides may be required of each voter under fifty, ought to make our principal streets good the year round. Several of our Remington friends were over here on Tuesday, armed and equipped for catching pike, salmon, cat, bass, red-horse and dog-fish which plentifully abound in the limpid waters of the meandering Iroquois; but their eyes were dim and their hands unsteady and only a few unsuspecting little fishes were taken by these tyro Nirarods of the water. Our native sportsmen wer* more successful and numbers of four, five and six pound pike and salmon rewarded their greater skill. Dr. Fisk informs us that he has been recently employed by one of the largest publishing houses in New York to travel through the Biblo lands, spending at least a year and a half in visiting all the towns, cities and sacred places; giving a minute account of their present condition, which is to be published in book form. Dr. Fisk will leave for Europe the last of August and will spend his time visiting the German states and in Italy (Rome) until next spring.— He will then go up the Mediterranean to the Holy Laud, and will spend at least a year in the countries mentioned in the Bible. Until the departure, Rensselaer will be his address. Rain or shine, Mr. R. B. James will make a public sale next Wednesday, April 6tb. Ho will offer three head of horses (one span of match bay mares), eight head of cows and young cattle, three head of hogs, six swarms of bees, one two-horse wagon, a set of double harness, plows and other farming implements, beds, bedding, bedsteads, three stoves, and other household and kitchen furniture, 500 ft. of soft lumber, tools, 20 bush, els ot seed oats, potatoes, etc., etc.

Nine months credit, without interest, will bo given on sums over five dollars, purchasers to execute note with approved security, payable in bank, waiving valuation and appraisement laws; sums of five dollars atfd under cash in hand. Twelvd per cent discount will be allowed for cash in lieu of n No private sales, no by-bidders, no postponement on account of wekther. Sale to commence at ten o’elook >. nj.