Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1870 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

Thursday, June 23d, 1870.

Splendid new honey sells for ,20 cents per pound. Thermometer up among the nineties the first of this week. Hon. Schuyler Colfax and lion. I). 1). Pratt have our thanks for recent congressional documents. Jim Maloy’s bay Star Davis, beat Jake Sell’ll black mare last Saturday m a halt mile dash Under saddle, for 120. It m said that the town marshal intends to up-end the ditch on A an Itcnsaelacr street and make an artobiati Well of it as soon as it i» Walled. Wo have only space to direct attention to the advertisements of Common Sense Sowing Machine, and Egg Preserver in another column. Blue huckleberries are being brought into market. fltcy aic very nice and sell for GJ to 8| cents a quart. The crop is said to be immense this season. The trustees of Weston Cemetery have given public notice by posters that they will offer the lots nt auction, week from next Saturday commencing at ten o clock A. M. Charley Starr's new soda fount is all the attraction. It cost 8125 ami makes the fizzing beverage taste good deal better—more aristocratic and recherche. Call and see it and patronize it. ■ - -r‘s We shall not issue the .Union next week until Friday that We may be able to give a report of the proceedings at the Wanatah convention for the nomination of a candidate for congress. Mr. J. C. Faris, of Medaryville, writes to us that he has made arrangements by which delegates attending the Wanatah convention arc taken up and returned for half fare on the 28th and 20th. Mr. Andrew Satehell presented us with a nice mess of new potatoes, day before yesterday; they were of the Goodrich variety and very fine. He has our thanks, lie also showed us specimen heads of the Michigan red wheat that were large and plump.

We learn that Mr. Geo. M. Smith la suggested by prominent republicans as a suitable-candidate of Jasper county.—lt is understoo«l that the convention left the Domination tor this office with the central committee, but as the report of its proceeding furnished us by the secretary did not so state we suppose tire people can ■decide the matter for themselves. Mr. Smith is a school teacher, is said to be a practical surveyor ami hio doubt would make an efficient officer. It is perhaps unnecessary to add that he is a sound republican. & - «•» We are requested to announce that Re v. D. W. Hull will lecture in the Court House at 101 o’clock Sunday morning upon the text “What think ye of Christ?” and at 8 o’clock in the evening upon *‘What is. and what is not, religious worship.” Mr. Hull also proposes to discuss this proposition before the public with any person ■who will meet him: ‘ There is a spirit in man which is conscious after the death of the body, and ■which can hold intercourse with men in the earth-life;” he to take the affirmative. „ -—■ ——--4 In this issue of our paper will be found an advertisement furnished by Mr. Livengood, who, it seems, has been commissioned by the Vermillion circuit court of this State, to sell at public auction, a certain body of desirable lands, situated in the northern part of this county, belonging to the heirs of John Davidson, deceased. The sale will take place at the door of the Court House, in Rensselaer, on Thursday, the 21st ■day of July, and those who want a bargain will do well to attend.— Read the advertisement, it speaks for itself.