Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1871 — POETRY. [ARTICLE]

POETRY.

While in Rensselaer I stay I will have no clerk to pay, And what is more, I am bent Never to pay store-room rent; Thus I can save a large per cent, And be able to sell goods as cheap as anybody else either here or at Kent. Which tho same may be learned at llorKtxs’ Corner. Table and pocket cutlery and spoons at . (J. C. Starr’s. Indiana contains about 1,700.000 inhabitants. She has about 020,00c "bildrdn between (5 and 21 years of a»e, an d nearly 0,000 schoolhouses, in ,Thick ate at work about 10,700 teacheivThe Schools cb this State arc rapidly advancing 1J 1 interest and efficiency. All the larger towns have a wclbcona acted system of graded schools, sustained at public expertso. The teachers in these schools rank well with tho'so of any other State in professional ability, and in’tWfe completeness of their school work. The superiority of these sohools is shown by the fact that it is almost impossible for private schools conducted by the best of teachers to survive in com* netitiou with them. * The sC! 100 ! fund °f Indiana in active service Is u'dCnt eight and a third millions. It will ultimately reach nearly $10,000,000. This State has one w of the best normal school buildings in the world,,and although in tho first year of its existence it has proved the wisdom of Us 'founders, and has already given a new- impulse to the educational interests of tho State.—A. y. Educational Reporter.

Hdgr*A complete stock of Groceries kept at Hopkins’ •Corner, of the very beat quality and the lowest prices. Look at a sample of the prices: €bal Oil 40 cents Choice Coffee. . 25 cents Best Teas... .$1.25 to $1.50 Tobacco, best 20-cent plugs, 3 for 50 cents Best Monitor Navy 35 cents Best Chew’g Shorts 40 cents Shot 12 i cuts Powder •. 40 cents Brittauia and silver plated castors at . . C. C. Starr’s. Largo variety of lamps, lamp chimneys and burners at V. C. Starr’s. Splendid sugar, sngar sand and fine enudies for cake making at C. C. Starr’s.