Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1870 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

Thursday, August 25th, 1870.

Potatoes arc scarce at 60 cents per bushel. Bee the advertisement of political meetings. A lot of new oats sold in town today for 27 cents per bushel. Farmers arc busy sowing fall grain and making wild hay. Weather is favorable for hay-making and the corn orop. Lieut. Gov. Will dumbnek, one of the most popular republican orators of Indiana, will speak in Rensselaer on Buturduy, September 17th. Mr. C. W. Pool was selected bv the board of trustees, last Monday, to teacli the principal department in the Rensselaer graded school, at S6O per month. • ■■■■•» There are a few first quality lots yet Unsold in Weston Cemetery, which may bo bought cheap and on easy terms of payment, if application is made soon to the trustees. At the meeting of the republican central committee last Saturday, mnongst other business transacted Mr. J. M. Hopkins, of Rensselaer, was nominated for county surveyor. Have received from our young friend, Noble J. York, of Evans, Colorado Territory, a copy of the Denver Tribune for which ha will please accept our thanks. Petit, the barber, lias moved again. This time back into the building recently occupied by M. C. Mead as a jewelry store. Everything is neat in Petit’s room. He keeps good cigars. Publio attention is once more directed to the fast that the Common Sense sewing machine sold by Mr, ,T. S. Hopkins is all that is claimed for it— a first-class cheap machine. a, Mr. M. C. Mead, the jeweler, lias removed from Rensselaer and gone to Remington. Mr. Mead is a pleasant gentleman to deal with, and we bespeak for him the patronage and good will of his new neighbors. Our thanks are returned to Mr. Alfred Irwin, formerly of this place, now proprietor of the Concrete House at Waco, Texas, for a copy of th 6 Waco Examiner. Such kind remembrances are pleasant episodes in the life of an editor. Dr. Kelley’s establishment is the favorite resort of those who admire beautiful pictures—chromos, photographs, ambrotypes and the like.— Picture frames, glasses, cording, etc., constantly on hand. Photographing, in its several departments, made a specialty-.by experienced artists. Last Monday a petition was filed in the office of the clerk of the Jasper Common Picas court to have a guardian appointed for lJenajah linker, alleged to be of unsound mind. It will not be safe hereafter to trade or make contracts with Mr. Baker. The finest mnskmclon wo have seen this season was brought into town last Saturday by Mr. Jesse Wilcox, of Walker township. It was large, ripe, and well flavored, as wo know from personal experiment. **Unclc Jesse,” as he is familiarly called, takes great interest in the politics of the county and is doing good work in his “tramping ground v for the republican cause. Long may lie have good health. Col. Nelson Trusler, republican candidate for Attorney General, will apeak in Rensselaer on Tuesday, September 6th, at two o'clock, P. M. Col. Trusler bears the reputation of being one of the most, eloquent political orators in the State, lie is familiar with the questions brought into discussion by thu campaign and should have a large audience to hoar him.— He will speak in Remington Thursday evening, September Btli, at 7j o’clock P. M. The Brass Band is making rapid proficiency this season, and lias become an indispensibic adjunct to political meetings. AVe hope it will he liberally patronized by both parties during the political campaign, as the members are all good Fellows who have been at a good deal of expense for music, instruments and teachers, have spent much time and labor practicing, and their charges are exceedingly reasonable. The republicans of Jasper county opened the campaign at the Court House, last Saturday night. The meeting was well attended by our eitizens who listened attentively to speeches from Dr. Washburn, candidate for representative in the State legislature, and Gen. Jasper Packard,'candidate for representative in the United States House of Representatives. Dr. Washburn gave a plain, straightforward account of the democratic management of State,finances by which a debt of $10,000,000 was fastened upon the people, and compared it with the economical and superior management of the republican administrations, which in less than ten years, have succeeded in paying It off. Gen. Packard’s Rpeecli was a hasty review of what had been accomplished by the republican party for the nation since it came into Sower with tho election of Presient Lincoln. Tho addresses of both gentleman woro appropriate and well received. The Brass Band enlivened tho meeting with music well performed. The meeting was a success and the impression created was favorable to the canse advocated by the speaker^.