Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1871 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

Thursday, February 2, 1871.

Poultry $2 a dozen. Eggs 20 cents a dozen. Batter 20 cents a pound. Potatoes retail slowly in Rensselaer at $1 per bushel. Died, January 28th, Dora Loretta, daughter of J. W. and Catherine Laßue, aged nearly five years. The sale of lands delinquent idr taxes, will take place in the Court House next Monday. Weather delightful for the time of year, and in consequence streets and winter grain having a hard time» » - Jr - The Masonic fraternity have the hall over Mr. Ludd Hopkins’s store /or & of five years and fitted it up for » Lod g e room ' We understand that the series of Union religious meetings that .have been in progress in this place since January Ist will close this evening. Elder D. T. Halstead married Mr. William H. Sebring to Miss Mary E. Marion, in the county Clerk’s office, at 10:30 o’clock this morning, (Thursday, February 2d, 1871). No cards. There is a young gentleman at Remington who swears he will marry before spring or [else enlist in the Regular army, for he is just bound to serve his “feller-crit-ters” in some capacity. The match game of billiards played last Saturday night, between Air. Henry Bowman and Mr. Ludd jHopkins, resulted in favor of the former by 325’poinls in a game of 1,000. Mr. and Mrs. S. F. Healey will please accept our thanks, the former for a lot of splendid peach blow potatoes, the latter for sonic excellent apples. Such articles are very acceptable luxuries to an editor’s family, when they retail at a dollar a bushel. Only two .marriage licenses were issued in Jasper county during the coldpnonlh of January, 1871. They were to ~ Joseph B. Fairchild and Mary A. Hawkins. Joseph Asthley and Sarah M. Knapp. John W. Laßuc gives notice, by posters, that he will sell at public sale February 11th, his personal property. Eight months credit will be given on sums over three dollars. Mr. Laßue goes to Fairbury, 111., where he will open a boot and shoe store. For the benefit of those who took offense because we designated Louis Jones’s saloon in our last isshe, we rise to explain that we did not intend to intimate that he kept a disorderly house, but that it was a cobbling establishment where bad spirits were re-tailed. And it is certainly proper for those to go there who need reinforcements in that line.

Mr. Thomas Monnett wants U8«to •ay to our readers that the item in The Union last week, quoted from the Germantown Telegraph, concerning the cause of rust on wheat, is false. Instead of young timothy grass being the cause of rust, as advanced in the quotation referred ■to, the effect is directly opposite, it protects the wheat and prevents xust, as he has learned from personal experiment. The new Methodist Episcopal Church at Remington is to be dedicated for religious worship next Sabbath, sth lust. Dedication sermon at 10:30 A. M. by Rev. Thomas Bowman, D. D., President Indiana Asbury University. Rev. J. JL Hull, Dr. Holmes, Rev. C. W. Tarr, and other ministers will be present and participate in the exercises. Preaching at 6:30 P. M. by Rev. J. C. Reed, D. D. Public ■cordially invited. , We are told that our bibulous Hiid erratic friend Louis Jones—%attie pne who gave 25 cents to a ♦temperance organization in order to establish a reputation for char•ncter sufficient for liquor selling purposes—took a notion the other night to make a/elo de st of himself, but after listening to the advice of friends and calm deliberation concluded the punishment inadequate to offset his many shortcomings and decided to move over to Stark county ana read the Knox Ledger. It is said our friend's remorse arises from regret at not adding another bucket of water to the last bar* a d of whiskey sold at his hellery,

Hon. R. S. Dwiggins, our State senator, rctnmed home last Saturday and remained over Sabbath.— He looked much improved in health and appeared as though his conscience rested lightly. Six large, gaunt, ferocious cows attacked one small load of hay that a farmer brought into town one day last. week. The owner barely escaped being devoured by running for bis life. The horses and wagon were abandoned to their fate ?nd no traces of them have since been found. It is reported the owner has petitioned Governor Baker for a section of iron-clad, steel-pointed horse marines, afmed with a fleet of brass rifled 64-pound-er dress parade sabers, to bo sCUt here toprotect innocent property and people from the ravages of these terrific beasts, the canons of the town trustees having proved ineffectual.

One of those itinerant “greatest geniuses of the age” who make a «ueciality of fifty or sixty of the most coropuvfrted ills human flesh is heir to, and whom representative Washburn’s bill now pending in the legislature is calculated to regulate, is now in the place developing people’s brains, credulity and financial resources with considerable dexterity. The fellow travels in style, speaks broken English, wears big watch-seals, is elaborately upholstered, and sports a male traveling companion who acts in the multifold capacity of bill-stick-er, chambermaid and factotum. — Sic transit pecuuia! Empirice stulla vincit! or words to that effect.

Wm. C. Boyles, Esq., of Stark county, one of the directors of the Plymouth, Kankakee & Pacific Railroad, was in Rensselaer last week soliciting stock subscriptions in aid of that enterprise. Wo are informed that he met with tolerable success. This road when completed will traverse Jasper county in an east and west direction, passing through the three townships of Kankakee, Wheatfield and Keener, along the Kankakee river, through the midst of the large iron deposit that underlies 150 square miles of country. We are assured by those who claim to know, that the prospect is now favorable for track laying to commence upon the Illinois division early next spring. About seventy miles of the heaviest grading is nearly'finished, and nearly all the stock necessary for the completion of the work has bqen secured. We are told that it is the intention of the company to establish two stations at least within the county. This will at once develop and settle up some of the most valuable lands of the county, that have hitherto been passed by and avoided because of their inconvenient distance from market. The Wm. S. Burton property, on Front-street, for sale by

THOMPSON & BRO.

Houses, lots and a farm for sale or rent cheap and on good terms of payment.£Call an once on Thompson & Bno., Bank Building, up Stairs. January 39th, 1871.