Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1870 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

Thursday, August 18th, 1870.

Mr. Joshua Jones buried a child Tuesday. , Charley Stair is shipping apples to Chicago. The sound of the threshers is abroad in the land. Much of the corn in Jasper county is beginning to ripen. Sickness is still prevalent among the children in this vicinity. » ■■■ - Snipe were metamorphosed into prairio chickens last Monday. It is wonderful what an amount of “agcr” two or three saloons will encourage. „ The physicians, druggists and saloonatics are about all who report business brisk. Farmers are preparing their ground for winter wheat. Some already sown it Norman Warner has received another consignment of those celebrated Lafayette plows. Gen. t'ackard and Dr. Washburn he pleased to see their friends 'turday afternoon. during Sa rrT - ’■’friends will find Gen. Packarrh, Saturliim at the Austin lie. ■ ca y on day. They arc invited . him.

Peaches arc beginning to ripen m this county. They are very small —not much'larger than good gized •crab apples. , Mr. Win. Beck lias , our thanks for the present of some very nice pears and .apples which were grown in his Mr. Ludd Hopkins is preparing to visit Calafornia .this fall, with the intention of making his future home on the Pacific Slope. The “reform” nlovemcnt appears to be progressing among the saloonatics, judging from the amount of seasickness on our streets. The Rensselaer Cornet Band will enliven the meeting next Saturday night with soul-stirring music.— ■Come out and hear Dr. Washburn. The Davail brothers commenced running a daily hack and carrying the mail over the re-established Remington route, day before yesterday. Messrs. L. & N. W. Hopkins are selling oft'their goods and store fixtures, preparatory to dissolving partnership and closing up business in this place. I ~ • Tlios. J. Spitler, Esq., was nominated by the democracy at Wanatah, yesterday, for common pleas prosecutor in the ICth judicial district, but a man, which his name is Horine, will be elected. Oats thresh out a poor average this season. The yield is probably not exceeding 20 bushels to the acre, which at 30 cents —the present price—does not make a very large margin of profit.

Editors of the Uuion: You will please announce through your columns that there will be a Union Sabbath School celebration in the grove near Center School House, Barkley township, Saturday, September 3d. All are cordially invit. ed to attend. W. T. Pritchard. , < At a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Rensselaer graded school, Monday, August 15th, Miss Mattie A. Parkison was selected to teach the Ist intermediate department, at $45 per month; Miss Kate Reeve, the 2d intermediate, at S4O; and Miss Lydia Dwiggins, the primary, at S4O. No selection was made for the principal department. A two days meeting will be held in the Rensselaer Methodist Epis. copal Church, Saturday and Sabbath, August 27th and 28th. — Preaching on Saturday at 3 o’clock p. ni. Conference meeting at 4 o’clock p. m. Services on Sabbath begin at 10:30 a. in. J. C. Faris is expected to assist. All arc cordially invited to attend. AVm. Krapp. A runaway occurred in the upper part o£ town last Thursday, which scattered a load ot household furniture belonging to Mr. George Robinsbn, who was moving, the distance of a squre or more, and damaged it considerably. Master Geo. Catt,’who drove the team, was thrown violently to the ground and sustained severe bruises. A little boy of Mr. M. L. Spitler’s was knocked down by the huj> of one of the wheels, but not seriously hurt.

Quito a delegation of young people of both sexes went from this place to Pilot Grove in Newton county, last Tuesday, to pic nio, shoot chickens, “excurs” and otherwise fatigue and enjoy themselves. Hon. Barker, democratic candidate for representative in the State legislature, was in town Tuesday. He is a gentleman of superior capacity, of its kind, and no doubt would represent those who vote for him as well as anybody else. We understand he promised to be at the “reform” convention on the 27th, probably to see that “them newcomers wait awhile.” Mr. Clinton D. Hopkins is boring $ well on his premises near the mill. In sinking through the rock he finds thick, black, inflamable petroleum in the proportion of about a pint to a bucket of water. It is not EQdd to drink, very few admire the flavor it imparts to cooking and it is not well adapted to laundry purposes, cither. About the only uso we know that can be made of it, is to distill the benzine and ayply it to the “reform” movement.

Mr. I. M. Stackhouse, Secretary of .‘be Fort Wayn|| & Pacific Railroad ftompany, went to Ft. Wayne Monday to meet the corps of engineers and make arrangements for securing the right of way from that city west, across the State. We understand the line has been run through Ohio and tha* the engineers will proceed at onoe to survey the route through Inciaya.— They will run two lines oilt. o* “’e city of Fort Wayrib, and possibly all the way to the Illinois line.

A friend writes us from Remingnder date of the 13th “we ton u. visited by a shower have bee.. ■<> streets being worked of rain and ou. -a 8 q o dam up the in such a mairtici ->f water squids outlets, a fine pond v . * the princiin the middle of one ol to the’ pie streets affording sport -, U gh little urchins who wade thro

it, much to the annoyance o. careful mammas. Work has been temporarily suspended upon the Methodist Church building,\but will be resumed with vigor as sotni as pleasant weather returns. Our young friend Butler, of the Drug store, has received an invoice of furniture, and expects his new wife next week to help arrange it, when he will live at home and board at the same /place. Heavy freight trains, loaded principally with stock and grain, are passing daily. Work on McKim’s new building is progressing slowly. Hathaway brothers are erecting a two-story addition to their store building.— Our friend R. Wilbur has received a carriage costing SSO0 —be is preparing t« uso somebody real good.”