Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1871 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

Thursday, March 30, 1871.

jttirDr. Kelley takes all kinds of farm produce for Photographs. A few “spits” of snow fell Sunday. Ground froze a little Monday night. Week from next Sunday is Easter. ■ i. -e »-■■■ Grass has not grown very much for a week past. Mrs. W m. C. Pierce makes splendid apple butter. Ducks are said to ho unusually plenty this season. The wheat crop is reported to be looking splendidly. . Frank Purcupilo has the best cigars in Rensselaer. Thos. Boroughs, Esq., hasn’t bought the Wiuamac mill. lion. F. W. Palmer, M. C., has thanks for recent congressional reports. Abe Sparling’s dog went through a $2 pane of glass in this otlice last Saturday. We need a little of that wood now, that you promised us on subscription. Judge Vinton is presiding over his first term of court In Jasper eounty, this week. Judge Vinton is very highly spokeii oT"t>y the - members of the bar in this place.

The martins are back again preparing to occupy their old haunts under the eaves. Base hall clubs will find regulation balls of superior quality at Frank Purcupilo’s. Bonio drunken “galoot” broke a $2.25 pane of glass out of Goddard’s grocery front, last night. Robert C. Gregory, of Monticcllo, is among the’attorneys in attendance at the Circuit Court. — Spiritual meetings in the Court Honan Friday night, Saturday night, Sunday an<J Sunday night. James Babcock was found guilty of disturbing a lawful assembly, and fined $5 in the Circuit Court, this week. W. B. Lee, of Lafayette, and Wm. 11. Martin, of lventland, attorneys, are attending court here this week.

J. T. McKim, Ksq., of Hominglon, was admitted to practice in th,e Circuit courts of this district, this week. Hic Tie usurer of Jasper county is selling wood from the Court House pile. This is a great accommodation in muddy times. Sheriff Yeoman found a silver ■quarter breastpin Saturday which the looser can have by calling at this oflice and describing it. The flower buds of Siberian and native crabapple trees, pcartrees, Jilac shrubs and other trees have swelled out nearly to bursting. Amanda Brooks,>of Jordan township, was yesterday granted a divorce from John W. Brooks, because of desertion.- A plain case. There is not a more gentlemanly clerk in town, than Elza Phillips, at Frank Purcupile’s Tobacco store. It is really a pleasure to trade with him. Professor C. W. Pool, Miss Mollie Babcock and Miss Moll Wright each contemplate teaching a term of subscription school in the school house commencing about the middle pf -4pril next. In case of Stato vs T. Warren niul C. Hopkins, the former plead guilty of affray and was lined $1 and costs; the latter plead not guilty, was tried, convicted and mulct *5 and costs. • Robert Brinton, of Lobaittm, Boonp county, was fined *lO and vosts, in the Circuit Court, this week, for having sold liquor to a minor while sojourning in Rensselaer last summer, ■ ? Several drunken parties were howling, reeling and spewing about the streets last night. It ought to be so that the Marshal couhl lock the brutes up in the hog pound until they sobirm} off-

Thomas Thompson, junior member of the law firm of Thompson «fc Bro., was this week admitted to practice in the courts of this district. Wo neglected to thank Thos. J. Spitler, Esq., last week, for an excellent mess of vegetable oysters and carrots, grown in his well-supplied garden. Col. Merritt says thc-construction of the Fort Wayne & Pacific Railroad is now a certainty beyond contingency. If that is so Rensselaer will contain 3,000 inhabitants when the next census is taken.

Lard in quantity brings 10 cents a pound, butter retails at 15 cents, potatoes sell at 15 cents a bushel on the streets, apples about the same, dried beef brings 10J cents a pound, bacon sides 11 cents and hams 12£ in Rensselaer. Judge Vinton, of the Circuit Court, is lying seriously ill at the Dunlap House, lie was taken sick yesterday morning and is not able to leave his room. Symptoms indicate typhoid fever. W. D. Lee, of Lafayette, is presiding on the bench in his stead.

Charley McWilliams, the preaching horse thief and bigamist, who was-arrested in this plaeo a week or s’o since, has been transferred from the Morgan county jail to the one at Franklin. In another column we publish his phrenological development as delineated by a Franklin Professor. While at Rochester, last week I. M. Stackhouse, Ksq., resigned his Directorship in the New York Western Railroad Company and Mr. Wm. Ashton, of that place, was appointed to the vacancy. Mr. Stackhouse retains his position as Secretary of the Fort Wayup tfc Pacific Company. R. S. Dwiggius, Esq., is the Director in the Now York Western far Jasper county. Quite a large delegation of the leading citizens of Carpenter township were in attendance at the Circuit Court this week interested in the ease of llenry Downing, appealing from the decision of the Board of County ‘Commissioners, who refused to grant him license to sell liquor by the small in the town of Remington.

It is said that the custom of making fools on the Ist day of April originated in the days of Xoali, tho old Patriarch himself being the first one to perpetrate a practical joke which he did by sending the dove out of the Ark~ the first time while yet the waters had not retired from off the face of the earth, and there was not so much dry land as to furnish a footing for the emblem bird of peace. Rensselaer is pretty lively, notwithstanding her staid looks. Wo have had calico parties and now are to have paper cuff parties, and as the light and airy qualities of the clothing is what recommends these parties, we expect that before the summer is over there will he the ragged breeches party, the barefoot party, the barelioad party and if the weather is sufficiently warm the hare-all-over party. Would it not be good policy-for the city fathers to have shade trees planted along the sidewalks of our principle streets? Soft niaplq, ash, elm, black walnut, linn, silver poplar, cotton wood and balm of Gilead trees are all handsome, easy to transplant, of rapid growth and would he highly ornamental to the town, as well as affording delicious protection from the fierce heats of Juno, July and August. These varieties of trees can be easily procured, aro perfectly hardy and would require the outlay of hut small expense to protect until they aro large enough not to need protection.

Wc are informed by Uncle Jesse Wilcox, that in the Circuit of Sail Pierre, which includes a part of Starke county and the north part of Jasper county, presided over by Rev. Mr. Adkins, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 153 persons have joined the Church and that fifty-two have been baptized. Mr. Adkins deservos well of the Church for his labors; lie has had a sparsely settled country to work in, his appointments were far distant from each other, and yet with all these disadvantages it is doubtful it any other Circuit in the State can make as good a showing. Every man, woman and child in need of boots or shoes should see the new stock just i received at Hopkins’ Consul

The attention of our is called to the following “porno” from the Anderson Herald. It after reading this effusion tho Marshal shall ho so hardhearted as to enforce our hog ordinance, wo shall ho forced to boliovo that tho milt of human kindness is entirely dried up in his bosom. O. Marshal, spar that hog, Touch not his lengthy snoot, But kill that ugly (log, And let tho porker root, lie’s only huntin’grubs Thar, under Spooney’s fence, And chomping little tdiruhs That arn’t worth fifteen cents I You say lie’ll “spile that yard Ami pest that little tree,” But then lie’s gainin’ lard— It makes him plump, you see. All of my hogs are fat— And I’ve got thirteen head — Ami some weigh more nor that, But don’t cost mo a red. Fan* I don’t keep a pig Unless he’s oil tho root, Ami willin’ for to dig His livin’ with his snoot. . You say the “walks are sights, And many folks object,” But ain’t a hog got rights That people should respect? I want my slioats to run, And fatten on tho street, So I can make sonic “moil.” By soilin' of their meat. For buyers—there’s a host--And when they want aslico, The folks who fed him most Shall pay the highest price!

Last Saturday we saw some beautiful, healthy, thrifty apple, pear, cherry and Siberian crab trees from Dr. Martin’s nursery, at Dr. Loughridge’s oilice. People can make selections of the best quality of fruit trees, grown in our own county and acclimated, at lower prices and more favorable terms and from responsible men, just as well as to order from irresponsible peddlers who have no kind of interest in the county or its inhabitants other than to get their mtfney. Wo.have dealt witii botli Dr. Marßonsstw laer, and Maxwell & Co., of Remington, and have now growing in our gardens stock from their nurseries. We have found both establishments reliable, so far as the quality of stock is concerned and have every reason to believe that the "fruit produced will bo of the variety represented. Every peartree and grapevine procured from the two establishments last spring grew finely during the past summer amT are alive to-day. Another item —these parties sell their stock from 10 to £0 per cent, cheaper than the same articles are sold by peddlers or travelling agents.