Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1871 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

Thursday, January .19, 1871.

Frost all put of the ground Sunday morning last. •' The river is free from ice and full of water. , We acknowledge the receipt of the Public Ledger Almanac for 1871. The storm of last week filled the streams and wells so there is no further complaint of scarcity for .Wtock and culinary uses. •* -• ♦ »■ Hon. I. B. Washburn,Representative in the General Assembly, wilt please accept thanks forinultiplied favors during, the past week. Died, in Rensselaer, Monday, January 16th, 1871, Harley Lee, only child of Abraham L. and Rose Sparling, aged eighteen months and nine days. Died, 'Saturday, 1871, at the residence of Thomas Warrtn, in Marion township, Miss Frances E. James, of yVheeler, Porter county, Indiana. Mr. Charles Platt, county treasurer, is confined to his room by sickness. He Ims no deputy appointed and no business has been transacted at his oflice since last Wednesday. The mill has again commenced grinding and there is notv plenty of water in the race, facts which will afford much accommodation to farmers in the vicinity and bring joy to the hearts of the great Hopkins family. The Jroquois Library acknowledges the receipt of seven volumes of the Congressional Globe by the hands of Hon. D. D. Pratt for which he has the thanks of the members. S. P. Thompson, Librarian. It is with profound grief that we record the death of one of the prominent business men of Rensselaer. John W. Coats, died Friday, January 13th, 1871, in the twentyseventh year of his age. Honorable in business, courteous in his intercourse with all, always social and sympathetic, many hearts were attracted to him and bound in the strongest ties of ■ friendship. Public spirited, liberal and enterprising, his death is a loss to tne community, and the vacancy it has occcasjoned will not soon be filled.

John Schofield notifies the public by ’posters that he will sell at public auction Saturday Jan. "Ist, the household and kitchen furniture with which the “Eagle House’’ was furnished. The property - consists of cooking storey refrigerated; beds and bedbug, carpeting, dining tables, bar-room and parlor chairs, stands, tabic furniture, etc. Six months credit will be given oif nil sums of five dollars and upwards. The sale will be made at the Dunlap House. At a meeting of the tax-payers <of Carpenter township, called to •ee what steps should be taken ’to resist the payment of the jtqix in aid of the Fort Wayne & Pacific railroad, W. H. Shaw was elected president and C. 11. Price was elected secretary. The meeting passed A resolution resolving not to pay the tax and appointed G. B. Chappell, N. *», Bates, W. 11. Shaw, J. T. McKim and E. Timmons to report to the next meeting the proper /course to pursue.. The meeting then adjourned to meet next Saturday at one o’clock P. M. We have received of Messrs. Phelps & Reynolds, Rochester, N. Y. their beautifully Illustrated “Floral Guide and Gardener’s Manual for 1871,” containing full page cute of Aquilegia, Canary Flower, Pansy, Stock, Gladiolus and Tritoma, besides beautiful cuts of Asters, Balsam, Cobea, Gourds, Hollyhock, Double Rose Portulaca, JSinnia, Cabbages,Mellons, Squash, »fcc., giving directions for the aulture bf more than 1,000 varieties of Flowers and Vegetables. Sent post paid iu paper cover 5 ctsf. Full bound, with your name in gilt, 60 cts. Address, Phelps & Reynolds, Rochester N. Y.'