Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1870 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

Thursday j May 26th, 1870

Therinonreter reached 02° in the bhadu Sunday at 1 o’clock. The day was very sultry. Hon. Schuyler Colfax has again placed us under obligations for files of the Congressional Globe. We notice that strawberries, raspberries and blackberries, both cultivated and wild arc covered with bloom. Attention is directed to the advertisement of Messrs. Newcomb <fc Vaughn, of Remington, which appears in another column. Onions and lettuce arc now in Reason and people who have the Smell of.garlic on their breath arc ho longer suspected oi asafeetida hnd whiskey. Mr. J. P. Dunlap, a former posthiaster at this place, was in town Sunday. He has recently married and is now living at Greencastle, Ave believe. ■■■'—< Mr. Henry Bowman has withdrawn from the contest for nomination to the office of county recorder and his name will not be presented hi the republican convention.

tTiiCle Charley Rhdadeß has just finished making the finest harness ever manufactured in Jasper county. Jt was made for Mr. Alfred Thompson and cost in the neighborhood of SBO. A good substantial fence has been erected the past week around the lots to the east of the public square. It is “a ornament of its sex’ 1 and affords a fine study of geometrical lines and angles. * -s The Marion -township convention for the purpose of nominating delegates to the republican county convention for the., nomination of county officers will be held next Saturday. A full attendance is desired. A good soaking shower of rain fell here Monday forenoon, sufficient for present needs, and all Jcinds of vegetation is now growing rapidly. The prospect for good •crops was never more favorable in Jasper county.

Business has attained such magnitude at the Nagle House that supplies for the table are now purchased by wholesale. We saw the proprietor the other day rush, ing acrossjthc street with hall a dozen eggs in one load. Norman Warner made a decided hit in his advertisement declining the congressional nomination and announcing that ho would try and supply the demand for his improved shovel plows. Last week the South Bend Register commented upon the sensation he has made. The fadt is when Warner sets about anything something has to be done. The number of children between tho ages of six and twenty-one years in Jasper county is 2,364, and the amount of common school fund they are entitled to receive from the revenues of the State is 751.64, as shown by the statement of Professor Hobbs, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, in his apportionment for the fourth Monday in May."

At the auditor's office is a box of volumes bound in green, with gold letters and a golden sheaf of wheat printed on the backs. They me the “Indiana Agricultural and Geological Reports” for 1860, and contain several plates of fruit, buildings and farm machinery, together with statistical information relative to the agricultural and mechanical interests of the State and its mineral resources. “Most of the people in Rensselaer, this State, have gone crazy about music. Music hath charms but not enough to charm a fellow crazy, if said fellow had good sense in the first place.”— Anderson Herald. Hardesty has never been in his right mind since the keeper of Forepaugh’s menagerie chased him (town for an escaped Chimpanzee, however he is perfectly harmless and it is safe to let him run at -large. A very nice shower of rain visited 'this place on Friday. A few large fell during the rain, but not enough to do any damage. A i few miles southwest of here, on ‘Carpenters creek, the 'hail stripped the apple and peach trees of most i -of the fruit, injured the trees badly by bruising the Lark, {>nd flattened down the gardens. We are told that chunks of ice fell as large as a man’s fist and that an hour afterthe shower had passed (it was of about forty minutes duration) hailstones as large as hen’s eggs were quite plentiful on the ground..