Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1870 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

Thursday, 'ittflfl 3(Jth, 1870.

Tbormomotfr indicated 9fi° *9 the shad* 1 oat week. Tbe Free Masons hare 425 lodges in this State. Splendid showers of rain Wednesday and Thursday evenings. • i*» They say that Jim Maloy’s “Star Davis” is to ran against Dock Moore’s sorrel mare, Saturday. We aro told that Mr. L. C. Janes, of Kankakee township, has two and a half acres of onions iu cultivation this season. jFoi* the first timo in a number of years there will be no systematic Celebration of the 4th of July in Rensselaer this year. The population of Rensselaer consisted of 620 porsons on the first day of June, 1870, as ascertained by the oensus taker. Norman Warner has sold more plows this year than ever before— The result of valuablo improvement in their make—and judicious advertising. New roofs are being put on the store building of Messrs. Heidleberger «fc Leopold and on McCoy ■& Thompson’s bank. •Charley Starr has moved into the old “liberal corner,” which has been overhauled and refitted until it is one of the finest business rooms in town./ Wheat harvesting has comrneuccd : *^f i>; “ vicinity. It is fully one week earlier than we remember of sewing for fourteen or fittceu years,. ;•■- — Auditor Yeoman yesterday (Thursday) appointed Mr. Lndd Hopkins trustee of Marion towuship, vice llenklc, deceased. Jim Maloy says wc weremisiiiformed in reference to the horse race last Saturday week. There was no purse run for. Ho never bets on a race. The public arc respcotfully invited to attend a festival at the Presbyterian church on the Fourth of July. Ice cream, cake, Ac., will be liberally supplied Doors open at 7 o’clock P. M» Men, women and children attend the scrub races over the Rensselaer course. Some of them attend church at times. All largely patronise public lectures—when they are free. From present prospects there will be an unusual crop of apples, peaches, currants and plums, iu Jasper county, this year. There are also large quantities of wild fruits such as huckleberries, blackberries, wild plums and grapes. Tho young people of Remington have a school exhibition in the Presbyterian church of that place Friday evening, Jnly Ist. They •hav'e published an extensive programme and no doubt will give an anteresting entertainment. Sheriff A. J. Yeoman says: “We have used one of tho Comtnou Sense Sewing Machines, sold by Sir. J. S. Hopkins, and found it a good machine. It does good work and is a first class low-priced machine.”

If any of our readers wish to avail themselves of the opportunity of purchasing real estate on better terms than, perhaps, will ever be offered again, in this county, they will not fail to attend the great auction sale in this place on the 21st of next mouth. The lands to be 6old are, in many respects, very desirable, and are likely to sell for less than half their worth. Sec Commissioner Ltvengood’s advertisement elsewhere in our paper. Mr. Thos. Randall, of Barkley .township, called on us one day last week. He is dne of the pioneer isettlers of the county and has 'Jived on bis present farm thirtyfive years. Besides relating a number of interesting reminiscences concerning the early history «f the county, bo remarked that the crop prospects are better this season than he ever knew them to t)e*at this time of the year since he has lived in the county. The Monlioello Jltrald is •'informed that the man acquitted of murder in Cass county, at tho last term of court, was found a lew' days since with six bullet holes through his head/*

Ibi* with deep aocro w that v, c jtmiouueo the death of odo of our prominent oitironf—Mr. Cyrus W. Honkle—which occurred Monday evening, June 27th, 1870. Mr. Hunkle was born in Springfield, Ohio, January Bth, 1824. He came to Jasper county from Illinois about twenty year* ago. His urbane manners and mental ability made for him hosts of warm fHends who manifested their esteem in 1856 by electing him to the office of county recorder and ro-electcd him in 1800 with an increased majority. At the time of his death ho was trustee of this (Marion) township, which position he had fillip for five or six years past Tho funeral was conducted by the Masonic and Odd Follows''Lodgcs, of which he had been an honored and useful member, and was attended by a large concourse of sorrowing friends. Two thousand ten dollnr U. S. treasury notes, from No. 113,236,000*, to No. H5,532,000*, both inclusive have been stolen from the treasury. No $lO notes of a number higher than 113,236,000* havo been issued. A liberal reward will be paid the person through whose instrumentality the thief may be detected. The Supreme court oi Indiana has decided that keeping billiard tables comes within the meaning of the statute against gambling.