Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1870 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

Thursday > June 9th, 1870.

It is raining here this afternoon, Commissioners’ court is in session. Common Pleas court convenes nbxt week. Mr. J. R. Vanatta, of Valparaiso, is in town. ■ A “right smart” shower of rain fell hero Monday night. Rev. D. W. Hull, spiritualist, is lecturing in this place. Plenty of water for grinding at the Rensselaer mills this week. ■ Col. Healey is taking the census of (Carpenter township, this week. Thousands of cabbage plants were sot out in the vicinity this week. Buyers are paying from thirty to sixty cents per pound for wool in this place. *— ' Mr. James Steel, formerly of Rensselaer, now of Topeka, Kansas, was in town this morning The board of school trustees have had $75 worth of lightning rod put up on the school house.

Only one marriage license issued by the county clerk during the month of May. Jesse L. Goff and Mattie J. Duvall were the parties. Strawberries 15 cents per quart, green currants 5 cents and green gooseberries G cents. Any body can have a good cholic now for a nickle. A drizzling rain storm set in yesterday about 7 o'clock in the morning and continued all day. Rain was very’much needed but we are having altogether too much of a good thing. Messrs. R. S. Dwiggins and I. M. Stackhouse started to Cedar Rapids, lowa, last Monday, to attend .the meeting called for the purpose of consolidating the Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and lowa divisions of the North American Railroad. A splendid shower of rain fell in Jasper county on Saturday. At this place the storm was of two hours’ duration and attended with considerable wind. It was very .much needed an<l came in season to make the meadows, oats, wheat, early' potatoes, corn and other crops. There never was a better season for farmers in this county since it was settled by white men. Jno. M. Austin, the popular proprietor of the popular Austin Hotel, broke through one of the slats of the contraption for crossing the race to the artesian fountain, above Mr. Jesse Goff’s residence, and alighted astride - of omT of the stringer poles, which was consider-nblybarkcd-asivattnlßA“mino host’s” shins and a little dog standing by. We sympathize deeply in our friend's affliction, but recommend liniment as a more portent cure. By-the-way a good footbridge acrost the race in the vicinity mentioned would be an accommodation to a good many people.