Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1870 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

‘Thursday, September 15, 1870. ' ■ ■ ; ■_ fag The acorn piast is abundant thia season. Butter fluctuates from fifteen to twenty cents per pound. Mr. Eli Heidlebcrger moved his family from Renssehei* last week. They went to Attica. Somebody left a good umbrella in this office a few davs since for which he has our thanks. The post office has been moved this week into the room recently vacated by Mr. Eli Ileidleberger. Rev. J. M. Montgomery has been appointed to the ministerial charge of the M. E. Church In Rensselaer. A greater breadth of wheat has been sown in Jasper county this fall than in any season during the last ten years. From present indications the rally next Saturday will be the largest gathering ever assembled in Jasper county since its settlement by white men. A splendid variety of cultivated fox grapes—equal in flavor to the Isabella or Concord—sold for $1.50 per bushel or about 4 cents per pound last Saturday. Dr. Lamborn, of Benton county, was in town this week and said that quite a number -of his neighbors were making preparations to attend the grand rally next Saturday. Although good many are having the ague and there are cases of typhoid fever, Jasper county this season is healthier by seventy-five per cent, than surrounding localities. Prairie chickens retail at 20 cents each in Rensselaer and are scarce at that price. Tame_chickens range from 12| up to-20 cents, owing to the size, the purchaser and the seller. It is reported to us that Mr. Conner, of the Monticello Herald, will come over with a large delegation of republicans from White county, to hear the speaking in this place next Saturday. New' corn, perfectly matured, sold on our streets last week for 30 cents per bushel. Corn is all ripe in Jasper county withqpt having been touched by frost and the yield is unusually large. The speaking next Saturday will be in Van Rensselaer grove and will begin' promptly at the appointed hour. Delegations should meet at the place of rendezvous as early as 9 o’clock A. M. In the programme of the Rally published last -„. ec k was left but the 7,'ords “six-horse team, ten,” tinder the rules governing the presentation of the flags. Each additional span of horses counts two. We are told a light horse company is being organized to escort the speakers into town next Saturday. Cavalry is your “best hold” young men and maidens. Equestrianism always shows well in processions. We were the recipients of a scranade by a party of young gentlemen last Thursday evening. The music was creditable to the tastes of the party and its performance highly pleasing to their auditors. Thank you, gentlemen. We have reliable authority for making the statement that a very large delegation from Newton county will attend the republican rally of this senatorial district in Rensselaer on the 17th instant.— Among others will be present Mr. Conner, of the Kentland Gazette. —■ + -w •*-» —. An itinerant auctioneer of inferior sea shells visited the town with his wares the first of this week. — It is wonderful what cheek these travelling humbugs have. How they do gull the unwary. And how happy the unwary seem to be as soon as they have parted w'ith their money. The flags, to be presented nextSaturday are as follow's: No. I.—A beautiful regulation flag, of American bunting Ox!) feet with imbedded stars. It was purchased in Chicago by Mr. S. P. Thompson. The township receiving it may well be proud of its success. Nos. 2 and 3.—Handsome flags of beautiful material 5x7 feet each, artistically and durably made—one by Mrs. M. E. Boroughs, the other by Mrs. S. A. Hemphill. There will be sharp competition for each of these beautiful presents on the 17th nt the Mammoth Republican Rally.

Large delegations front Pulaski, White, Benton and Newton connties are reported to be making preparations to attend the grand political rally in Rensselaer next Saturday. Native grown peaches sold from wagons in this place last week for $1.50-pcr bushel. They are small and inferior. Pears, some fine and perfect fruit-, others wormy and knotty, retailed at the rate of $2 per bushel. Cider from 20 to 30 cents per gallon. Wo understand there will be quite a large delegation from Pulaski county to hear Vicfr'Prcsident Colfax and Lieutenant Governor Cumlback next Saturday! There will be people here from Winamac and among others, Mr. KeiSer, editor of the Republican, has signified his intention to be present. . 4 »' ■■ ■ ■ - • Petit, the barber, is one of the best natared men in town—also one of the champion checkcrists.— He is conceded by all to be the best barber without exception.— Call and see him. Splendid cigars, collars, cuffs, neckties, combs, brushes, toilet soaps, hair oils, hair restoratives, perfumeries, etc., of best quality and warranted, constantly on hand. - ■■ —4 The republicans of Barkley township have nominated township officers as follows: Trustee —W. W. Murray. Assessor—W. M. McGinnis. Justice of the Peace—L. W. Ilenkle. Very worthy men—sound to the core, politically—and we hope to see them all elected by rousing majorities. Let those who wish to have early vegetables next spring, prepare their ground and plant out beds of onions rind lettuce this month and the sooner now the better. When the ground has become frozei/ and winter is expected to set in cover the beds with a couple of inches of straw or leaves, laying over them brush to prevent the wind blowing off the protection.

It is with feelings of pain that we announce the severe sickness of Mr. Thomas Larnborn, of Carpenter township, republican candidate for county treasurer. We are told that his recovery is doubtful, however he has naturally a strong con--stitution and we sincerely hope he wiil rally. His disease is typhoid fever. , •. Since the foregoing was in type we learn that his symptoms arc better and with good nursing he will recover. The September, 1870, form of the Jasper Cii.Guit court convenes in Rensselaer next Monday week.— The grand jurors are Win. E. Moori, A. C. Provo, G. W. Nichols, 11. T. Thornton H John W. Abbott, Alex. Rowen, Joseph Garris, G. W. Cantwell, Thos. Deselins, George Major, John Clark and B. W. Harrington. The petit jurors are Marion Stephens, Alfred Glazebrook, D. C. Viers, D. 11. Turner, Win. V- Powell, John Goetz, Win. Irwin, Stephan Curran, David Nowles, L. L. Daugherty, Wnu-JL. Jones and John Hiel.

When “reformers” or other democrats tell you that the politics of county or township officers make no difference in the administration of county or township affairs and argue that you should therefore vote lor democratic candidates for commissioners, trustees’ and the like, ask them how it happens, then, that local taxes average forty per cent, higher throughout the State in democratic counties than they do in republican counties? and why it is that the average tax for township purposes in the six townships of Jasper county that have democratic trustees is twelve and onehalf cents on the SIOO, while in the seven that have republican trustees the average is only nine and twosevenths cents on the $100?

The prospect is favorable for cheap pork in Jasper county this fall. While there are no large herds of hogs collected together by speculators, yet nearly every fanner has more than he will want for his own meat. There is plenty of corn and it has fully matured and matured 1 early. The demand for corn abroad is not likely to be great, consequently the price offered by buyers will not bo sufficient to induce producers to sell short.— Farmers will keep enough to feed their hogs and fatten them well a This will fill the county with plenty of pork of good quality—an art icle that has been scarc&drcre for four or five years—and unless there is an extraordinary foreign demand, it can and will be sold at $5 and $6 per hundred.

For the iairt ten days the editor has been “under the weather” —not sick in bed nor “down with the ager,” but feverish, with a few cholera morbus, and the grub didn’t taste good, and there was a strong feeling of repugnance to physical and mental exertion, and a sort .of desire to hover over a fire and then get up and go away, or sit out doors awhile by the sunny side of a building, and gape and stretch and didn’t want to smoko any more and bye-and-bye go into the house and scat the cat and kick the dog and lay down on the floor and after a littlc jjo where there want any noise, and then have a terrible headache—in fact has felt badly generally and collectively, but he is happy to say ho is getting bettor and don’t feel like such a “po’ mis’r’ble cuss” as he did and now desires to return thanks to the doctors who with solemn faces and hollow voices cheered him with the prospect that his advent to the tomb was “but a question of time” —the grave diggers who volunteered their services “at any time” —the undertaker who “hoped he would be remembered”—the lawyer who would “be most happy to administer upon his estate” (it consists of two old pens and a broken ink bottle) —the friends who shook hands andremarked thathe “looked bad” (his normal appearance)—the ladies who sent him chicken broth, and pickles, and peach pie, and pumpkin pie, and grape jelly, and hot biscuit, and plum butter, and light bread, and fried chicken, and ginger snaps, anti water melons, and recommended boneset tea, and told him Low they had been afflicted the same way—the saloon keepers who winted him to beer because it was- a tonic, or whiskey because it was a preventive, or gin because it was good, or brandy because it wouldn’t hurt him, or wine for the “stomach’s sake”—the patent medicine men for their circulars with sickly looking invalids and healthy looking doctors and long 1 i sts of oertificates, worded: differently but with the same import, and signed by all the ‘Joneses and Smiths and Browns and Thompsons in the country —the tombstone man who hoped he would favor him with his custom —the editor wishes to thank them all and severally for their kindness, and, in the language of the city justice of the peace after he had pronounced thnmarriage ceremony which “united two hearts that beat as one,” we “wish you many returns of the happy occasion.” But not for us, “oh no, not for Joe.”

“In life W 0 are in the midst of death.” Death, that unanalyzed, mysterious condition, is the common lot of all, high and low, rich and poor, male and female. Sooner or later every person who reads these words, together with the author and all our friends and acquaintances, each for himself, without chart or compass or guide to direct, will.set ont to explore the dark valley and shadow. The wise man prepares for the final act in the drama of life during his hours of health and ’mental strength, places his household in order, prepares a shelter for bis tender loved ones from the cruel blasts of adversity and the rude storms of life, buys a beautiful spot of earth in which his mortal remains may have a final resting place, wraps his mantle around him and .dies respectably and decently. Tfio foolish person eats, drinks and giveth his heart up to mirth during the summer of life, drags feebly along in discomfort and squalor down the northern slope, cares for nobody but himself, suffers his family, young and tender,“to meet the chilling Breath of a selfish world with nothing to protect them and finally ends his miserable existence like the unthinking beasts of ths field, and is buried by charity in any corner where his decaying carcass may not pollute the air. Lot every inhabitant of Rensselaer and vicinity act the part of wisdom and Uuy for himself and family a beautiful lot in Weston Cemetery and thus secure a decent burial and a respectable grave. ,