Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1871 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

Thursday, Sept. 14th, 1871.

Tho.pricc of butter has gone up to 15 cents a pound. All the way from Baltimore, hut fresh and good are tho bivalvular oysters at €. C. fotarr’s. ; Mrs. Teresa Warden died in Rensselaer <oai Tuesday evening, September-TZlli,aged S 3 y^ars. Wo have in our garden a Concord grapo vin4, that has\a second crop of grapes on it half grown. Farmerc complain that corn is “chaffy” this season. Too much .d*y weather at filling time is the cause of it. New cider of wormy apples is •worth 15 cents a gallon, that from : selected'fruit Alii carefully made, Jbrings 20 cents. ■■■ ■ -■ » IF, W. Bedford, as agent for the *WoT>d Mower, was accorded a premium on his machiue at the Tippecanoe county Fair. M. L. Snyder sends us a copy of Wm. M. Sleeper & Soil’s retail price list of the Oxford, Indiana, Nurseries, for 1871-2.^ Mr. L. W. llenklc, county treasurer has his say in another place, which it would bo well for every taxpayer to read and heed. Master George W. Spauglc was thrown from his horse Tuesday and bruised his right arm so that lie has to carry it in a sling. The pugilistic potato 1 brings thirty Cents per bushel in this market. Not much water, in them or auything else this season. Mr. Michael Eger is fitting up a commodious aud comfortable dwelling, for his family, on corner of Van Rensselaer and—— v . F. W. Bedford intends to attend •the Fvanoesvillc Fair next month, with a complete assortment of farm machinery, together with jjrain, live stock, &e. Business. .Jim. Maloy’s fast stallion Nightshade took first premium at the Tippecanoe county fair last week. iHis Bay-Dick and Nightshade, .each won a purse in the races. Nowtou Brothers’ variety show was quite largely patronized last Tuesday nigint. The show is very gsod for a concern and tho proprietors pay their bills. There are one hundred and twenty-two cases of appeals from the assessments of tho Kankakee Valley Draining Company on tho circuit couyfr docket of Jasper •county. Wc are glad to see Mr. A. Leopold out on the street again.— lie has beeh very sick and looks quite emaciated, btft will be making business lively again in a few days. ; '* i*' ■['' Mr. Stephen Donaldson presented us last Saturday with two red Bermuda sweet potatoes grown on his farm this season Weigluhg' respectively two and oha-hlur and threp and one-half pountjsyeach. They were just as lfinc for the table as

Quiuinc still maintains a prominent place among tho standard condinents in use by tho natives. It js no longer a luxury with us, but a necessary daily diet. Fall and winter styles of Women’s Slippers, Children’s Shoes, and Boots just received*at L. Hopkins.’ „ Mr. Thos. Saylor has our thanks for a poar grown in his father’s garden this season that measured llxl2£ Inchos in circumference. It was perfectly delicious to tho palate. , - Rensselaer is not yet quito given over to tho moles and bats, but a covey of quails were hatched within the town corporation this season that come up into the door yards and 1 feed with the domestic fowls. L. Hopkins is offering “genuine bargains’’ in all kinds of Boots, Shoes aud Slippers, at the old corner. Counterfeit 50 cent fractional currency bills are so plentiful as to warrant the suspicion that some body is engaged iu “shoving the queer” not far away. Be careful and don’t take them; they aiut worth a d—ime. The stock of Boots and Shoes at Hopkins’ Corner, near the-bridge, is full aud complete, aud the prices are always the lowest. Probably the largest woman in the United States —certainly the largest in Indiana—is a resident of Rensselaer. Her weight is 418 pounds. She is the wife of C. C. Thornton, Esq., has good health and is the mothe&of four children, two of wkom are living. J. I. Puicipllc & Col will be glad to see all their ad friends and as many new customer: as wish to examine their new stotk of beautiful Dress Goods, Calicos*, Muslins, Boots, (Shoes, &c. Mr. E. llerroi\ living on the old Ilawey- -Phi! 1 ips farm, one and one-half miles, sjuth of Hanging Grove, makes a ado on Saturday, the 23d instant. He gives twelve months credit and has horses, farm implements and grain for sale.— Simon Phillips auctioneer.

J. I. Purcupile & Co.buy Boots and Shoes direct from the nanufaeturers, thus saving the profits O,' two or three middlemen, and of course can sell cheaperthun those who b\y of jobbers. Wc arc told that M-. Norman Warner* is putting up one of his celebrated farm wagons, for exhibition at the Fair at Fraicesville, ! next month. Warner is not j jshamed of the work made at his shop, but is perfectly willing to have it compared with anything in the State. t

J. I. Purcupilo & Co. lave made extensive and expensive repairs uport their store room, and hate tilled it up with a brand new stoik of goods which will be sold at the very lowest figures. 11. C. Smith, “Uncle Henry,” started outr yesterday with a load of B, F. Biggs’ celebrated Lafayette pumps which he sells for the agent at this place. See advertisement of tins pump in another column. ■* » Mr. John Catt lias repiyncd from a visit in Clark county, lowa, where he has been for two weeks or -more, and reports the season very dry and sickly there. Corn has been badly damaged by the chinch-bug—whole fields are prostrated and the stalks covered with countless numbers of these insects until ithey arc fairly black. Oats were an immense yield, and at Oeeola only ,bring 10 cents a bushel. T On Saturday, September 23d, Mr. John W. Sapp, Jiving on the Charles Parker farm on the Iroquois river, seven miles north of Goodland, will sell at public auction, one span of four year old mules hnd harness, three head of horses, thirty head of hogs,..juowing machine, corn planter, plows, farm implements, cooking stove, house furniture, Ac., Ac. He gives nine months credit without interest. J. W. Suits, auctioneer. The September term of the Jasper county circuit court, commences its session in this place next Monday. The foreign attorneys having business in this session are; Hendricks, Ilord & Hendricks; McDonald, Butler & McDonald; Porter, Harrison A Hines; James Buohanan, Indianapolis ; White A PattersoD, Crawfordsville ; Wm. D. Lee, Lafayette; Jno. N. Pierce, Lebanon ; Osborn A Calkins, Lapovtc; Gurney A Johnson; Anthony A Church; Thos. Merrifield, Valparaiso; Boyles A Cheeney, Knox; Field A Barnard, Crown Point,; Stephen R. Moore, Kankakee City; T/ C.„ Anabal, ] Logansport; E. L. Urmston, I Kcullaud. in^gi —mmSSSi

Mr. L C. Kenton brought into our ofci<o this week some stalks of corn measuring over 13 feot in bight, which is pretty for prairie growth, 110 tells us that ho has an apple troo on his placo that is now in full bloom for the second time this season. Mr. Kcntofa is a nephew of tho celobrated frontiersman, Simon Kenton, of historical fame. He is now in his 72d year, but seems as stout, active and robust as the majority of men twenty years younger. It will be difficult to compete with the low prices at J<*l. Purcupile & Co.’s. The extensive advertising of J. I. Purcupile & Co. is bringing its harvest immediately. One-half of their large trade last Saturday called to sec particular articles that they had noticed were “advertised in the Union.” Probably Harding & Alter have the best run of customers of any druggists ever in the place. The two principle reasons for it are, l6t, They keep only fresh and reliable articles, and 2d, They let people know that fact by advertising it in the Union. Ludd Hopkins makes a specialty of advertising particular articles and he will tell you that he has had customers come from twenty aud twenty-five miles to buy goods that they had seen advertised in the Union.