Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1871 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

Thursday, June Ist, 1671.

The prospect for all kinds of fruit except peaches is' good. The hay crop will not be so good as last year owing to the drouth in ,«?nrly spring. Wheat and oats arc looking well 1n this county and promise more than an average yield. The mercury readies 93° Faliroinlicit in the shade this morning. •Weather quite warm. The champion ball batter of Jasper county is Sheriff Yeoman he bats with his snoot. About two hundred pounds of potato bug poison has been administered with salutary effects iu this vicinity, this season. G. C. Ballard and G. W. Stilwcll, of Indianapolis, were in tho place this week, gobbling up ail the Congressional lands in Jasper county. The Red Jackets, minus the jackets, have reorganized since the defeat last Friday. The boys propose to get their jackctsback again, •or bust, you know.

“The goldfish rove" without “the purple fnullct” in the show window of Emmet Kannal’s drug store, which establishment, by-the-way, is kept as neat as a new pin. Rev. 11. A. Maylicw, of Austin, Minnesota, iorincrly past&r of the l’resbytcrian church at this place, will occupy that pulpit next Sabbath at 10:30 A. M. and 7:30 P. M. Messrs. Henderson & Fleming, seed merchants and growers, (17 Nassau street New York, liavo our thanks for a package of flower seeds roceived tho past week. Johnny Tharp is nursing a horned toad received by mail from tho breezy plains of Kansas. It is a beautiful flower having a fine exotic expression of countenance.

Isaac M. Stackhouse, Esq., Worshipful Master of Prairie Lodge No. 125, of Rensselaer, was clcctc4 M. W. Grand Senior Warden of the Grand Lodge of Indiana, at the session of that body last week. Ilot, suUryy muggy weather, wiUi alternating showers and sunsjtfne was the order the latter part of last week and the first ol the present ono. It made corn grow fast, but some wero fearful lest wheat would be rusted. ( In another column may be found the advertisement of M. O. Cissel, who has been appointed the agent for Goodspeed & Co., in the sale of their publications in this place. Mr, CUsol intends to canvass tho town thoroughly with a book ot'tho highest literary merit and great historical interest. The book ■should be in every library and will ultimately become a standard work. during tho hot month of May, 1871, only tlirqe marriage licenses \yere issued by the sglcrk of Jasper county. They were to the following intrepid parties: Henry Travis and Josie Halstead. Ilarvoy W. Wood and Mary C. Crockett. John N. Pierce and Margaret V. Seymour. duly $2 Is charged for Plow Shoes at J, I. Purcuplle’tt.

It should bo generally known that Emmet Kftnnnl keeps a largo stock of Wall Paper, of superior quality at reasonable rates. Mr. Dwight Ilopkins, the Red Jacket catcher, don’t swim well now. Ho had the web between tho second and third fingers of his left hand split down in attempting to catch “a foul" during tho game last Friday. A team attached to a carriage in which were Messrs. John Miller and M. F. Chilcote, ran away last Sunday morping, overturning and demolishing the carriage. Both gentlemen were bruised to some extent hut not seriously hurt. This was the same team that ran away with Mr. S. N. Johnson at the Basket Meeting near Alters’ Mills. The gamo of base ball between the Red Jackets, of Rensselaer and tho Rough-and-Ready’s (conntry club), played last Friday, resulted in the defeat of tho former. The score was 20 to 54. At the conclusion of the game tho Red Jackets divested themselves of thoir uniform and presented it to the victors, who wore it triumphantly away.