Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1870 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

Thw»a«»i July 7th, 1870,

Now potatoes are worth 75 oeots a bushel, here,^ Many fields of corn in this county are tasseling out. Hon. Godlove S. Orth will please aooept thanks for congressional documents sent us.

Hon. Schuyler Colfax has favored us with recent copies of the Congrtuional Glob* , for which we return thanks. Unless the managers quit running aham races over the Rensselaer course people will ceaso to come out at their call. The Remington mail route was discontinued last Thursday, June 30th. Postal matter now comes by way of Bradford. See C. C. Starr’s new advertisement He is in his now room, and has a good stock, which he oilers at reasonable prices. The trustees of Weston cemetery disposed of ten lots at their publio sale last Saturday. The first lot sold brought $lO, the others sls each. ' ■+ -•••-♦- We not long since heard a gentlemen remark thathe had sold 75 Common Sense Sewing Machines during the fall and winter of 1808-9, and that he had yet to hear the first complaint. Mr. J. S. Hopkins is the agent for these machines in Jasper county.

Hon. R. S. Dwiggins, President of the Fort Wayne & Pacific Railroad Company, started for Fort Wayne yesterday on business connected with that road. There is to be a mass meeting of the frinds cf the enterprise in the city on the 18th inst., at which will be determined the time and place of commencing the work of track-laying. The 4th of July was comparatively a quiet day in this place.— No arrangements had been made for a systematic celebration and the weather being favorable many farmers remained at home to work in their corn and harvest fields.— Ijn the evening the people had the choice of a church festival, a slight-of-hand show, and a ball, with which to amuse themselves. Again we call attention to the auction sale of lands that will take place in our towii on the 21st day ol this month. These lands, as heretofore stated, lie in the north part of the county aud can hardly fail to become valuable in course of a few years. They will be offered in parens to suit purchasers and the opportunity ot making so profitable investments is np r t likely again to occur. We doubt not that the hundreds laid out in these lands will {Boon grow to thousands, aud that the day is not far distant when real estate, anywhere in our county, will command a corresponding increase in value. As a matter of speculation, certainly, money can not bo invested more profitably, and to occupy as homes, a more desirable chanco could hardly bo conceived of.

Captain A. W. Thomas, whose thrilling exploits while serving the government as a scout and spy during the rebell ion-were published a few years ago in Harper’s and Frank Leslie’s papers, gave three exhibitions of his wonderful feats of legerdemain and ventriloqutal and elocutionary accomplishments, in the Court House, last Saturday evening and Monday afternoon and evening, to crowded houses. We do not remember to have seen slight-of-hand tricks more neatly performed by any professor; many of them were new to us, and we believe, are original with him.— The illusion was perfect and indicates not only skill that is attained by laborious application, but decided talent in their conception. His ventriloquism is sharp and clear.— The mimicry of the cries of animals and the brogue of foreigners, is perfect and without a flaw., Ilis elocutionary displays are not excelled by anything we ever saw, eveu Forrest, the great tragedian, is pot more successful in the celebrated “Richelieu.” Captain Thomas’ exhibitions are first class and fully worth the admission fee. We understand he will give another performance in this place Thursday evening, July 21st, at which he will make bona fide explanations of the manner his best tricks of magic are performed.

A second-hand cooking stove with eight or ten joints of pipe, but without furniture, for sale cheap. Enquire of F Chilcote. v A nearly new Massilon Threshing Machine with straw stacker, all in complete running order, also two new farm wagons for sale or would trade for stock, land or good notes. Enquire 01 E. E. Lockwoodi Reiqipgtou, Ind.