Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1871 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

Thursday, July 87th, 1671.

The “street Arabs” indulged in only three fights last Tuesday. Whooping cough still whoopin’ up tho youngsters around town. Hathaway Brothers are ..putting up a grain elevator, in Remington. J. T. MoKim, of Remington has taken out a patent on an egg preserver. ■the yield of wheat in this county is larger find better than it has ibcen for several years before. 'Croquet still fiery jytd untamed rageth like a pestilence on tho public square from early morn til dewy .evo. Lots in Carpenter Grove Cemctctry will be offered for sale at public auction, next Saturday, July 29th, at 2 o’clock r. m. Mr. Uriah Black was buried at Remington last Saturday; and Mrs. James A. Henry was buried Tuesday.

r For sale cheap—one complimentary ticket to Prof. Fuller’s Great Panoramic Lecture. Enquire at the Auditor’s office. I . i i i. . » Cows are beginning to bo discouraged at the rediculously low price of 10 cents a pound for butter, and some have struck for 12£ cents. , The voice of the threshing machine begins to sound in Jasper and the proud shanghai bows his lofty head in grief, and calls in vain lor his first-boni. Baoon 10 cents, pickled mess ■pork 9 cents, and lard 10 cents a pound, and lots of “snipe” are being fried and eaten by people of delicate stomachs. Since lion. G. A. Nether ton was hero and started plans for the organisation of a branch of the Temperance Alliance in this plac'e, cider apples have gone up to 15 cents a peck. Two belligerent individuals, sailing tinder tho names of Graham and Mott, indulged their animal propensities in a littlo mill at Remington last Saturday. Because of this public indiscretion they were arrested and tried before a ’Squire,’ but owing to some informality in the process did not donate to tho educational fund.

Notwithstanding that there is to *bo & meeting of tlie officers and •others interested in tlie New York Western railroad in New York •City on the 10th of August to de"cideupon a policy of operations and whether or not they will build the •section of road between Rensselaer and Kankakee City, heps are quite discouraged at the prospect for immediately better prices and plenty; of eggs can be bought for 10 cents a dozen. Mr. John 11. Keller has our thanks for a mess of his favorite • early Cherry Blow potatoes. They aro really good potatoes and wo must confess that our Early Mows are only a little the best—being perhaps fifteen and a half or fifteen -and three-quarters days earlier in coming to maturity, and having from a bucket and a half to two buckets loss water to the bushel when cooked.

A Laporto showman sporting a barrel of moat and tho big-sound-ing title of “Professor was in Rensselaer on Tuesday, engaged tho Court House, passod aroufid Bouh/doad-head tickets, and—then a chango came over the spirit ms his dreams in tho shape of Marshal Spangle, who demanded the established corporation license tax. Professor Fuller protested that if that was a specimen of tho treatment ho was to bo greeted with in this place, he should get out of it as fast as hia chariot and steeds coqld take him. Spangle allowed that was his beat course; and with sorrow and indignation struggling for enthronement on Us massive brow tho impetuous elucidator of Biblical Xan4s gathered up hia conipliunentary tickets again, loosed hia ifiery orowfee(\ from the hitching .post, harnessed them to his buggy, ehook the dust from off Ahis feet, mounted to his up tho driving ropes and departed in search of a railroad town wliero there aro no prowling marshals to molest and no corporatidh licenses to make him afraid. And- so the good people did not see that religious and scientific show, yet they arc happy for his loss is their gain.

There will bo a basket meeting held in Yan Rensselaer’s Grove, near Rensselaer, on tho 20th day of August, commending at 10: 30 oclockA.ii. Services by Rev. fD. G. Holmes, of Chicago. Mr. Holmes will also preach in tho Presbyterian Church, on tho Saturday evening proviouß, at early candle-lighting. If the wfcathor should bo unfit tJj occupy tho grove, the meetings will be held in the Presbyterian Church. Ministers of the different denominations and citizens of tho vicinity aro invited to attend. By order of tho committcp, K.JF. Higgins, Th’m. At tho Temperance meeting last Saturday evening, a Branch of the State Temperance Alliance wa6 partially organized., A committee consisting of Rev. Ji M. 'Montgomery, Rev. W. 11. Goodisson, Daniel Dwiggins, S. P. Thompson, RjC I. C. Kelley, Rev. K. F. Higgins and G. W. Terhune were appointed to perfect the organization. Joshua Healey was appointed President, and S. P. Thompson was appointed Secretary of tho organization for tho ensuing year. Tho meeting then adjourned to meet at tho Court House, Saturday cveuing, July 29th at which time the object of the Alliance will be more fully stated and the organization perfected. Let thero bo a full turn-out of all who will aid in advancing the cause of temperance. The railroad tax to aid tho Fort Waynej& Pacific R. R. was defeated in Salem township, Pulaski county, by a majority of five.