Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1871 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

Thursday, June 22d, 1871.

■Cherries are very plentiful this season and only bring five cents a ■quart in Rensselaer.* — Flour lias been quite scarce in town for a week and a good article would readily sell lor $8.50 to $0 per barrel. Some fields of corn ip this county arc waist high to a man of ordinary bight and wifi probably bo tassclcd (put by the 16t.1i of July. Tennyson, tho poet, has written that “Nothing walks with aimless feet” but then he had never seen Pat Barton’s little spotted female l* l S- , • Tho prestidigitation Show of Sig. Montez last Thursday was considered a failure and sell by the majority who attended and didn’t obtain prizes. •‘Dancin’ on tho green’’ is one of tho amusements of the Glorious Fourth to bo enjoyed in tho afternoon by those who trip tho light fantnstio toe. Old mau Tutourbro. has taken down bis cigar factory sign and is now running a drug store with one barrel of whiskey. Look out for rattle snake bites. Prof. C, I’. llopkins, whom Parson Lozier says is a bound volume of sheet music, has gone to toot his little horn for Lockwood, Porter & Co.’s Panorama. Professor C. I'. 110/pkins lias gone on a musical tour to blow dirges for Lockwood, Porter & Co.’s Panorama of scenes in the life of Jesus of Nazareth. Since work commenced on tfi'c railroad and water got so low that tho mill stopped running, blitter can be bought for ten and twelve and ono-balf cents per pound. Many whcatfields in tho county flijo now ready to cut and harvesting commenced this week. The grain-is plump and the crop will average bettor than common. Tho tamo hay crop of Jasper county promises to compare favorably with that of former years.— Tho last two weeks hafo added largely to the growth of grass. Parson Lozier’s leeturo last Friday night was largely attended and gave satisfaction. Tho Chaplain can always secure a good ; audienoo when lie oomes to Rensselaer, A beautiful and refreshing ’■shower ’bf fain fell gently last Saturday morning to the great disgust ■of tho tempei-anco people who had chartered the day for picnio purposes. ——•»«*■ — The sheriff shoyhl liavp tho stiles 1 leading over the Court /louse yard fence repaired. On Monday ft gentleman from Lafayette in attempting \fi pass over those opposite uiis office fell' and barked the blonde cuticle of liis little shin besides soiling bis fashionable doeskin pauts-aw.

“Bud” Jones, notwitL - standing tho fact that tho Common Pleas oourt granted him no alimony last week, was married out Sunday.— Ho has moved into the little red house ou tho oorncr, and is_ liappy. Next. To-day is tho 22(1 of Juno and Mr. Juo. Catt has a field of. corn adjoining tho corporation limits that is as tall as an ordinary mau—nearly or quite six feet. With favorable wcathor it will bo past injury from frost by tho last of August. President Dwiggins, Chief Engineer McWilliams and others conhectcd*witli tho Fort Wayne & Pacific railroad will travel over the route westward to Ivankakco city this week, preparatory to putting a larger force at work constructing the grade. We saw at a public entertainment in this place a short time since 15 boys together, all orphans but one. Poor boys,, wo feel sad when wc think of what a hard time they will have with no kind father or mother to direct their steps and give them proper counsel. “Sans Souci” is freely translated to mean without bacon, which is entirely inapplicable to tlic grocers of .Rensselaer, they having at the present time largpr quantities on hand than they know what- to do with, consequently sides and shoulders bring only ten and eleven cents a pound. t“ = Tho fame of Stowe, tlic carriage painter, has spread abroad into adjoining lands. Wc saw an enterprising, well-to-dp White county faring returning home this week with a \Vagpnbrilliant with gorgeous colors that he had brought fourteen miles to have operated on by the gentlemanly Stowe» Old Tutcur, the cigar man, with laudable enterprise, has concluded to add whiskey and ale to his stock, so that people who ain’t sick and don’t want to be can get something to keep tho “ager” off. No doubt the civilizing influence of this new “hellury” will be felt in niilny families, and Tutcur will make small donations to the school fund- at each term of the courts. Another veteran has gone.— Father William*Mobre, of Barkley township, died last Sunday and was buried Monday. Mr. Moore was,born in November, 17'J2, served in tho war of 1812, carno to Jasper county in 1842. lie was buried beside bis father who bad been a soldier in the war for American Independence and why died at tho advanced ago of upwards of one hundred years. « -9 9 9 »» The Masonic fraternity of this place will celebrate the birth dayi of St. John the Baptist (June 24th), with an icc cream festival, to which all sojourning brethren, theft'wives, and sisters and daughters 10 years of ago and upward, are invited.— The beautiful ceremony of conferring the Eastern Star Degree and an address t>y the (Jraiitl Senior Warden of the Grand Lodge of Indiana, are to bo among the attractions of the occasion. Next Monday The proprietors of this paper will start to Chicago to join the editors and publishers of the tenth and eleventh Congressional districts of Indiana in an excursion to Lincoln, the capitol of Nebraska. - After spending a few days in that young city mid its vicinity wo expect to go into Missouri and Kansas. We. shall probably bo absent two weeks and our visit may be extended to three weeks. Col. E. P. Hammond has kindly agreed to take chargo of the editorial and business departments of the office during our stay. Mr. S, I’. Thompson, Auditor Ira W. Yeoman and H. 11. Moss arc making arrangements to go along with the excursionists. Our enterprising young friend C. P. Wright is agent for -George Baker’s Toledo nurseries. lie will remairi in the vicinity several wey-ks to take orders for fruit trees to bo delivered in October. Next to patronizing home establishments it is better to make your orders through.n local agent who is interested in establishing and maintaining a reputation for fair dealing.— As every farm should have at least an acre set apart for the production of fruit and as our soil is well* adapted to its culturo every farmer should at once procure such trees as lie wants to plant and the sooner tho better. Call on Mr. Wright, j see lids catalogue and ascertain j puces. Besides apples, pears, | cherries aiui plums hi great variety lie is prepared to furnish all kinds Ml' small fruits, ornamental shrubs, dvciUuous-.Uid everrrecu trees