Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1871 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

Thursday, March 9, 1871.

‘‘Lalock” buds aro bursting. Commissioners court is in seßßiqn. ' t I , u„ Marbles is the fashionable sport with the Rensselaer gamin. “Ingun” sots aro the popular commercial commodity of the season. Billy Rhoades has tho best singer in town. It’s a foino bur-’r-d. Seo advertisement I A valuable ostray shepherd dog fimy be found by its owner at Dr. Wm. 11. Martin’s residence. • ■ —4* v Abe Sparling says that ho has found by actual experiment that the best time to graft cherry trees is after the leaves are well started. Mr. George Nagle, on tho TwoMilo Prairie, is a scion-tifio gent, and knows exactly when and how to graft and prune fruit trees. Jack Yeoman is having his old style billiard tables cut down, over■haalied and newly cushioned and wovered. Lud Ilopkins has ordered a new table of tho latest pattern. Early peas, lettuce and onion sets should now be planted, also turnip greens. Tomatos and early cabbages may be started in boxes in the- house. Uot-bcds ought to have been made and planted two weeks ago, but if they were not, go to work on them at once, if an early garden is desired. Graft cherry trees at once, the sootter the better. Norm. Warner still bores and chisels a living by machinery. He is always kept “constantly on hand,’’ like a sore finger, cither at is shops or Stackhouse’s hardware store.— He is the Champion salesman of thecounty and wears the belly-band. He sings sometimes, but never eats oysters unless they are pared, quartered and cored, and fricasseed in sorghum molasses with onion dumplings. Cleveland, Onio, March sth, 1871. Bro. I. M. Stackhouse: —You may put me down for Friday night, Saturday night, and Sunday, March :)lst, and April Ist and 2d, Yours Truly, E. V. Wilson. Mr. Wilson Is a good lecturer and one of the best test mediums in the United States. Tests will be given at each lecture. I. M.. Stackhouse. On Monday next, March 13th Dr. W. J. Laßue will sell at public auction at his residence in Rensselaer, one horse, four stoves, three tables, four stands, two dos. chairs, looking glasses, bedsteads, kitchen and cupboard ware, etc. Eight months credit will be given on sums over three dollars, purchaser giving note with 6 per cent, interest waiving valuation and appraisement laws, with approved security. Sums of three dollars or less, cash.

Benjamin Morris gives notice by posterns that on Thursday, March 10th, at his residence six miles north of .Rensselaer and one and a half miles south of Alters’ Mills, he will sell at public auction, the following personal (property: Twenty-eight head of cattle, one horse, one mowing machine, one steel-toothed rake, plows, wagon, household and kitchenfurniture. On all sums of five dollars and ' up-ward-nine months credit will be given, the purchaser to execute bankable note, bearing 10 per cent, interest after maturity, with approved security and waiving valua--.tidn and appraisement laws. Sums under five dollars, cash.

Since S. P. Thompson, Esq., Attorney at Law, Ileal Estate Broker, Deputy Prosecuting Attorney in We Cicuit and Common Pleas courts of Jasper county, Hon. Chairman of the Jasper county Republican Central Committee. J librarian of , Iroquois Library Association, Assistant Sabbath School Superintendent, Agent for the Atlantic Monthly and Our Youny Folks, etc., etc., etc., \vas appointed on the board to ox* amine tho candidates- for West Point honors, ho has been breveted Colonel by the Democratic papers of the district. Our friend is on tho sunny side of fifty and unmarried. Office over bank. Business communications promptly answered —if inclosing stamp for postage.— women’s suffrage, but don’t part his hair in the middle ndr wear it long in tho neck, and don’t keep, a photograph gallery. Is fond of young children, buckwheat cakes and ’lasses. jgp-Dr. Kelley fakes all kinds of farm produce for Photograph*.

Yesterday the Honorable Board of county Commissioners entered nn order requiring the treasurer to receive money from parties who offer to pay all of their tuxes except that levied for railroad purposes, and to give a receipt in full for the taxes so paid, specifying on tho receipt that the railroad tax is excepted; that ho may, when requested by tho parties, change tho receipts that have been given to those who have paid a sum equal to tho amount of their taxes except that levied for railroad purposes, so as to make them receipts in full foi* tho taxes paid, and excepting tho railroad tax; th at no legal measures bo taken to collect this tax until’ further orders from the Board; that at tho next distribution of taxes no distribution bo made of tho railroad tax, but that when it is collected it •hall bo reported and reserved by the treasurer in a separate fund for distribution as the Board may hereafter direct; that nothing in this order is intended or designed to release any tax-payer from the payment of said railroad tax, or to release him from any penalty or interest that may accrue on account of delinquency.

It is everywhere conceded, even by competitors, that when all the main points of excellence that enter into and form a good mowing and reaping machine—ease of draft, w’idth of cutter stroke, lightness, strength, durability, motion, simplicity of construction—are considered collectively, the Champion combines all to such an extent that it has few equals and no superiors. Repeated trials, under every concievable combination of circumstances, haVe demonstrated beyond successful contradiction that it is a first class machine. Messrs. Stackhouse & Warner are the sole agents for the sale of the Champion in Jasper and Newton counties. They are also agents for the Moline, Lafayette, Garden City, and Cast Cast-Steel Plows; Lafayette and Moline walking Cultivators, Sulky Rakes, Corn-Planters; manufacture wagons, harrows, etc.; deal in all kinds of farm and garden hardware. All kinds of wood-work and blacksmith repairing done at Warner’s shops. Machine extras, oil, etc., always on hand or promptly ordered.