Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1870 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

Thursday* Septembef 22, I§7o.

Austin’s Ague Drops, best cure for Ague. Hereafter copies of the Union may be obtained at the post office for five cents apiece. We take Austin’s Ague Drops for Aguo. Coats lias seme very fine Havanna cigars. Call aud try them. Sign of the Big Indian. Austin’s Ague Drops warranted to cure Ague. Pies, cakes, candies, cider, apples, cheese and crackers at tho post office. Call in for a square lunch. For 60 cts. you can cure 3 or 4 cases of Ague. 2-60-WO. Everybody go to the sign of the Big Indian when they want a good cigar to smoke, or nice tobacco to chew. If you desire to havo a real good picture of yourself taken to send to an absent friend, patronize Dr. Kelley. Mr. J. 8. Hopkins is agent for the relebrated Common Sense Sewing Machine, the best cheap Instrument yet offered to the public. Petit is still the popular tonsorlal artist in Rensselaer. When you want a clean shave, or to have your hair dressed is the latest fashion, give him a call. Persons who are indebted to Dr. Jackson for costs while clerk of the Circuit and Common Pleas courts, are requested to call on W. L. M’Connell and settle the same immediately, and save cost of fee bills. 51-^t.

Circuit court convenes next Monday. Wheat is coming up splendidly throughout Jasper county. Mr. and Mrs. Simon Phillips buried an infant daughter yesterday. Corn sold in the streets of Rensselaer last week for 25 cents a bushel. Mr, Thos. J. Spitler will please accept thanks for a basket ot excellent peaches grown in his garden. We understand that a little son of Mr. Paxton, of Newton township, had an arm broken last Saturday, by being thrown from ahorse. A communication from Mr. R. B. James, treating upon the rivers of Kansns, stock-raising in that State, Ac., Ac., will appear in our next issue. _ » ■ ■—. Mr. Willis J. Imcs, who by-the-way is fast becoming one of the most popular groccfs in Rensselaer, has our thanks for a fine large pumpkin. It is hereby announced that Henry I. Adams, of Jordan township, is a candidate lor county treasurer, subject to the decision of the republican convention. Mr. G. B. Conwell, our genial and popular postmaster, will please accept the thanks of all hands connected with this office, for a basket of excellent eating apples. We had the pleasure of a visit from Mr. Connor, of the Montieello Herald , last Saturday. Mr. Connor is ar genial companion and a red hot republican. Wc didn’t have the pleasure oi a visit from brother Keiser, of the Winaniac Republican , although he was in the placo last Saturday.— Hope Jake isn’t getting proud. S. P. Thompson and Sheriff Yeoman are to address the meeting at Braddock’s School House, Barkley township, on Saturday, Septcmbqj:, 24, at 7 o’clock P. M. The democracy are preparing to hold a grand rally in Rensselaer, October 6th. They expect that Hon. T. A. Hendricks and Col. Eddy will address the meeting. , .~S ■ „ Next Saturday a flag will be presented to the school district in this township that bad the largest and best ordered delegation at the grand rally on the 17th. ' Mr. Oran, a brother typo of the Kentland Gazette office, made us a short visit'last Saturday. He says business is good in Kentland aud that that was the reason Connor could not come over to the rally. The chairtpan of the central committee informs us that Hon. T. A. Hendricks and Norman Eddy, democratic candidate for Secretary of State, will speak in Rensselaer on the 6th of October. • Hon. S. I. Anthony, democratic candidate for congress from this ' district, ia to apeak in Jasper county 29th and 30th of September and the Ist of October. A waste of time, money and breath; he will 1 not be elected. t" Our young friend, John Tharp, had his left leg terribly braised last Saturday while riding with Captain Babcock’s company. Daring the performance of an evolution somebody drove against lum full speed with- his knee, striking Johnny’* thigh and raking the full length.— The leg baa swelled up nearly ■ double its natural size, is very painful and confines him to hip bed.

Mr. I. V. Alter, tho miller, has our thanks for some very nice new corn meal. 11T * Mr. A. S. Tharp has presented ua with two luscious nectarines, measuring nearly eight inches in circumference. Hon. A. W. Reynolds, the declining candidade for State senator, who beat I. M. Stackhouse for thodemocratic nomination, will speak in Jasper county on the 29th and 30th ot September and October Ist. He must have plenty of money and time, to squander them so recklessly. A mass convention of the republicans of Marion township is to be held at tho Court House on Saturday to canvass the propriety of nominating candidates for township officers and if thought advisable to make such nominations. There should be a fall attendance, as this is an important matter. Judge Yinton, of Lafayette, called on us this morning. He has recently been severely afflicted by sickness in his family and the death of his wife. He still claims to be the regular nominee of tho republicans of this district for Circuit Judge, and is laboring for his election. The death of Mr. Lamborn has occasioned a vacancy in the republican county ticket. Mr. Thompson, chairman of the central committee, has issued a circular to the delegates appoirited on the 28th of last May notifying them to meet in Rensselaer next Saturday to nominate a candidate to fill this vacancy. » ■ o The fifth annual session of the Jasper county Teachers’ Institute will be held in the Rensselaer School House, commencing at 10 o’clock A. M., Monday, October 3d, and will continue five days, closing with an examination of all who desire to teach in the public schools in this county during the coming winter. A reunion will be held in the Court House, Friday night, October 7th, at 7 o’clock P. M. Mr. T. J. Spitler has our thanks for late files of Southern papers.— Mr. Spitler has been on a recent tour of the Southern States and represents them in a flourishing condition and says that even in the Shanandoah valley of Virginia, which was so completely laid waste by the marching, countermarching and foraging of hostile armies, the scars of battle are so nearly healed over as to be scarcely perceivable. It is our painful duty to record the death of Mr. Thomas Lamborn, of Carpenter township, which occurred Monday, September 19th, 1870. Mr. Lamborn had been a Citizen of Jasper county for upwards of twenty years, was widely known and universally respected. At the time of his death he was the trustee of Carpenter township, a position he had held for ten or twelve years. He was also the republican candidate for county treasurer. Union township received the second prize at* the grand rally last Saturday. We are told that every family in the township was represented in her procession. The prize was a beautiful flag 5x7 feet in size, made of heavy woolen fabric, and regulation pattern. The reception speech was made by Mr. B. W. Harrington and w r as fvery way meritorious—full of patriotism, devotion to principle and as eloquent as the addresses of either Mr. Colfax or Mr. Cumback. Gillam township secured the first, prize I«st Saturday for having the largest and best ordered delegation at tho grand rally. Tho prize was an Amerioan bunting flag 7x9 feet regulation pattern. The presentation speech was made by Mr. S. P. Thompson and it was received by Mr. W. N. Jones, Marshal of the successful delegation, who pledged himself and comrades ever to preserve it from indignity and dishonor. Gillam township was loyal during the war and of course is now thoroughly republican in polities. Mr. Cooley, patentee of Cooley’s patent, anti-freezing force pump, for which Mr. E. E. Lockwood is the agent for Jasper county, was in town last week and informed us that these pumps had been in use in Chicago for the last six years, without repair, and work as w£ll now as on the day they were put into the wells. One can be seen in operation in the rear of Mr. Haley's shoe ehop. All information desired will be promptly and eheerfully given by Mr. Lookwood, whose post-6ffice address it Kejoington,

„CoL Hammond, Capt. Burnham," C. P. Wright, W. H. Gwinn and M. L. Spitler attended the second annual reunion of tho 87th IndVols. at Rochester on the 10th and 20th insts. They report a large attendance and good tima generally. Mr. I. Y. Alter, proprietor of the Alter Mills, seven miles north ot Rensselaer, will please accept our thanks for a sack of the finest flour it has been our fortune to obtain this soason. The bread from it is light, white and sweet. Mr. Alter has recently attached steam machinery to his mills and is now prepared to grind at all seasons of the year. His rate of toll for wheat is one-sixth. The Alter Mills flour is kept for sale at Harding and Alter’s drug store, in Rensselaer, where also may be found shorts, bran and other mill feed. Messrs. Purcupilo and Coats are doing good work in front of their property on Washington street by constructing a crossing and filling around the hitching posts with six or seven inches of broken rock.— Messrs. Imes, Willey A Sigler and Hollingsworth have also been making like improvements. THbvjrork looks rather rough now, but when wet weather setß in, it will be found very convenient- Messrs. Leopold & Fendig have had the sidewalk in front of their store filled up this week. I Mr. John J. Greenhalgli, connected with the Patriot and Commonwealth, two of the leading republican papers of Kansas, has been stopping with his family with his brother-in-law, Mr. C. C. Thornton. Mr. G. has done us the courtesy to call upon us and we find him to be a thorough-going republican, well informed upon the topics of the day, enthusiastic as respects Kansas, and have no doubt he writes an interesting letter. We learn that it is his intention to return home Monday or Tuesday next. We hope him a safe journey. A sad and fatal casualty occurred in the family of Mr. O. K. Ritchey last Thursday by which they are made to mourn the accidental death of a little babe. The child, which was only nine months old, had been having the chills for a few days and was being doctored with sweet quinine. On the morning in question Mrs. Ritchey thought the medicine was not having the desired effect and consulted her husband upon the propriety of giving bitter quinine. Mr. Ritchey gave his consent and went away upon business. The mother went to the place where the medicines were kept and took out what she supposed to be the quinine bottle, giving her infant what she thought was a proper dose. Shortly afterwards, becoming alarmed at the symptoms of the child, she went to the medicine shelf and found that she had given morphine instead of quinine. She at once ran some forty rods to Dr. Samuel Ritchey’s house and told her father-in-law, who is a physician, of her mistake, lie at once went over and administered the usual antidotes, but could not get them to operate. The little one lingered along some eight hours and finally died without having rallied from the fatal Btupor.