Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1871 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

February 23, 1871. Willey <fc Sigler sell good lard at 10 cents a pound. The voice of the wild gooso is beard in the land of Jasper. For a dish of oysters fried in water go to Frank Purcpilk’s. Charley C. Starr retails potatoes for 30 cents a peek at his model grocery on the corner. says they stuff their feather beds with goose quills and Lazel brush where ha sleeps. Willis J. Inies, one of the best hearted men in town, sells cured ’pork (sides) at 10 cents a pound. There is still plenty of water in the Iroquois, and the grist mill in this place is running night and day. At no time for four years past have the public schools in Rensselaer given better satisfaction than those being taught this winter. The Laporte Herald job office •does splendid work, as is fully proven by a beautiful card received at this office last week. If you want to sec a handsome colored poster of the Champion Reaper and Mower, call at I. M. Stackhouse’s hardware store. Bill Warren, the Constable, ped■illes out billiards at 15 .cents a 100. Prof. Bill Abbett has gone to dunning accounts run up while he kept the “shebang. 1 ? ■ Mr. F. W. Bedford, the energetic agent for the Clipper Mower and Reaper has placed a fine lithograph of this first class machine in our office. It is quite ornamental. . Hay worth s>7 per ton; corn 30 cents per bushel; butter 15 cents a pound; eggs 15 cents per dozen; fresh pork 6 cents per pound; fresh beef 121 cents per pound. Is a man himself when ho feels like another man? And when be feels like another man is it evidence that he has been born again or .awakened to newness of life?

Lndd' Hopkins, who beats all competitors in the grocery trade, has just received some of the largest and best flavored dried peaches ever brought to the place. Also, ginger snaps. Messrs. Leopold & Fendig have engaged the services of Mr. Mit Williams, said to be a first class workman, and started a new boot and shoo shop oyer the Stone store. ■Call and examine the work. We have not yet. heaixTof a Jasper county boy who desires to loose ids liberty and become a Government pauper at West Point. Don’t believe any of them will attend the -examination at Plymouth. In another column may be found a half-column advertisement of Mr. Frank Purcupile, who has succeeded the late John W. Coats in the tobacco store, sign of the big Indian. Frank has a good stock on hand, including some excellent .cheap cigars. Give him a call. “Week” Robinson “bust” Bill •Gray’s “snoot” with the but of a whipstock, last Thursday, because Bill crowed over him like a cock.— Bill sat down in the mud, but his nose run splendidly. Week sawed wood for him a day or two and it is nil made up. Bill will not crow any more.

Rev. L. D. Wells, who for a year past has ministered to the spiritual wants of the Presbyterians in this place, has accepted a call from the congregations at Francisville and West Bedford. The church at this place is now without a Minister, Leopold & Fendig are remodeling and refitting their store room corner of Washington and Van Rensselaer streets. They have taken off the old plastering and torn out the front, preparatory to putting in new material. We understand it is their intention to fill it in the spring, with a stock of boots and shoes. MrJfF. W. Bedford has sold his blacksmith shop on Front street, pppositc Duvall's express office, to Mr. George Mettee, who has recently moved here from Indianapolis. Mr. Mettee lived here ten or twelve years ago, when a little.,fallow. We understand that Mr. J. P. Warner is to conduct a wagon ehop in connection with the establishment. Success to them both, ,

A young gentleman by the name of Badger, from Ohio, was in town Monday, last to sec about establish a grave stone establishment here. We hope he was successful for there are numbers of people in the county who will all die sometime and want their virtues written on tablets of stone and erected at their heads. “If Mr. bill becomes a law, and timber-stealing is made a felony, what would I think if on returning homo I should find iny old father bung?” was the mournful query of a young man of this place who was leaving town the other morning. We felt like sympathizing with the filial youth, but could not suggest any fitting consolation. . ■ ■■ - - The “special correspondent” of the Indianapolis Journal at this place is not so well informed on census statistics as he should be—perhaps has not had the experience in these matters usually enjoyed by men who have lived a third of a century. He says, “The town of Rensselaer is growing Jess in population. Vacant houses go tenantless.” This will certainly be news to people paying from six to ten dollars a month for three or four rooms and a truekpatch 50x00 feet square, as well as to physicians and families whose clothes lines are covered twice a week with diminutive quadrangular clothing. This s. c. must write a very poor hand, bye-thc’bye, judging from this paragraph: “Trenton thieves are coming to grief.” He probably intended to write “timber thieves,” &c.

He says this about the little girls of Rensselaer, whom everybody knows are as sweet as flowers and smart as pepper: “The lads and misses of from ten to fifteen years x»f age have a very lively debating club in Rensselaer. The girls speak upon easy practical questions with as much ease and fluency as their brothers. This new era in lyceum culture is having a decided success,” What dur friend calls a “new era” dates back to the days of Xttntippe and Jezebel—s. c. is either ignorant of history or is of paleozoic birth. We incline to the latter theory. The following valuable real estate is offered for sale on low terms and long time, to-wit:—The northeast quarter of section 23, the northwest quarter and northwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section 24, township 2!), range 6, containing 300 acres; and the east half of northeast quarter, southwest quarter of northeast quarter section 19, township 30, range.s, containing 120 acres. Call on, or address, Tiros. J. Spitler, 3-23-3 Rensselaer, Ind. Houses, lots and a farm for sale or rent cheap and on good terms of payment. Call an once on , Thompson & Bro., Bank Building, up Stairs. January 30tli, 1671. Large variety of lamps, lamp chim neys and burners at U. U. Starr’s JtsS“Dr. Kelley takes all kinds of farm produce lor Photographs. The Wm. S. Burton property, on Front-street, for sale by Thompson Table and pocket cutlery and spoons at C. C. Starr’s.