Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1870 — Neighborhood Items. [ARTICLE]

Neighborhood Items.

Mr. L. Pierce is establishing a first class dairy of 00 cow power near Monti cello. S. P. Connor, editor of the Iletald, has been appointed postmaster at Monticello vice Daguo designed. The Monticello Herald says Judge Alfred Reed is “fixing things in nice style” at his residence near that place. * Tho South Bend Register says that real estate business is lively in that city and “the ice-wagon has commenced running.” Hon. Jno. Reynolds, who was stricken w ith paralysis in Chicago a few days since is reported to be able to be abont again. Mrs. S. D. 11. Ireland, of Mishawaka, has a hen that recently laid an egg weighing nearly a quarter of a pound find which measured in circuinfyrcnoc 0J by 7J inches. Individual subscriptions are being tasen in Whitley, Wabash and Fulton counties to aid the Ft. W. & P. Railroad. Fulton voted a tax of $60,000 and proposes to raise $65,000 by subscription. Thomas Rockhill, of St. Joseph county, over seventy years of age, is doing his plowing this spring with a span of horses one of-which is twenty-six and the other twentyseven years old. Mr. Rockhill is not a robust looking man, but last summer he mowed over twelve tons ot hay. All of which statement is vouched for by the Sooth Bend Register. «