Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1872 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

Thursday, Oct. 17th s 1&78.

The fall wheat In tide county hue taost a (splendid appearance. The public schools of Rensselaer will open a five months session next Monday *week. The Common Pleas court this week divorced Nancy Wardle from Isaac Wardle. Mr. Benajah Baker, an old citizen of Marion township, was buried last Friday. All persons indebted to F. W. Bedford are urgently requested to call immediately and settle the accounts. The October term of the Jasper Common Pleas court t’oV 1872 is in session thrs~week. -A son of Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Warren, died Friday, October 11 th, 1872. It-was buried on Sunday. Seasoned wood is still a scarce commodity and sells at the rate of $4.50 per cord. Oh, th a t ter ri 1>l« mill!

Mr. William Wilmore left two excellent sweet pumpkins at this office last week for which he has our thanks. Winter apples of excellent quality are very plenty and sell for 35 to 40 cents a bushel from wagons on our streets. The first snow of the fall of 1872 was seen last Sunday, October 13th. There were only a few scattering flakes. L Mr. John Makeever left us a basket of the Northern Spy variety of apples last week which are very nice indeed. Thanks. Quite a number of our people are preparing to attend Barnum’s great show both at Lafayette and Logansport this week. Quarterly meeting will be held at the M. E. Church m Rensselaer, October 261 h and 27th. Services at 2 o'clock P. M., Saturday. Winds have been blowing quite yale-ly all the week past, and the streets being dry everything is gritty and covered with dust. Parties awarded premiums at the Jasper county fair can receive the same by calling on 11. ST Travis at the law office of Dwiggins it Co. At the request of a number of the patrons, the schools in Rensselaer will-not be commenced until the 28th instant—week from next Monday. The sorghum crop has been good •this season and molasses is at least equal in quality to that of previous years, even if it is not better, generally speaking.

Mr. *Alvenuce Shepard wants thirty men and teams and ten men ■ without teams to work on the railroad. -Good wages will be paid.— Apply immediately. The list of premiums awarded by 'the Jasper county Agricultural As- ! JBociation was not handed'to us by ■ the Secretary in time for publication this week. Those two <eharming little gept; (tiemen, <Fnod -Cole and “IJ annas” j Eger, have movetJ their goods into . ithe former .office of Dr. Alter, north .of Washington street. We are indebted to Mr. John? M. Helmic, of Wheatfield township, tfor a peck of fine pota'.besa)f-fH»ew-"variety.They are a large late potato and are said to be-good yielders, ' —— * -• • *<»•'.< ■'■■■.: —-— Mrs. Amy Stephens was this week divorced by the Common Pleas court from Marion L. Stephens; She was given six hundred dollars alimony and custody of the three youngest children. A brilliant aurora illuminated the heavens last Monday evening with a deep blood crimson light, fading to bright dark rose, which was succeeded late at ntght by the usual silver and lemon colored Hashes. ; . I want ten or fiteen teams and teamsters to haul brick, stone, lime and -lumber Immediately and will pay good wages in cash every Saturday night. Twos. J. Spitler. 100.000 brick for sale for $lO per M at the kiln, call on John Kohler, or Thus. J. Spitler. We have been unable to obtain the exact amount' of receipts for entry and admission fees at the Fpir last WCek, but they were in 'the neighborhood of $1,400. Want that pretty good for the first time in the back woods? Hon. John Collett, State Senator from Vermillion county, and Assistant State Geologist, is in Jas per cpjanty making a geological reconnoisance. lie visits tlie extensive iron deposits in the northern -part of rhe county to-day.

The engineers of the Indianapoli s,-Delphi & —C hie ago - -raikoud, • passed through this place to-day-maki(ng a preliminary the | 'Jihe.‘ They strike the grade; of the Continental road one-half mile east oY.towm ~ ‘ ■; ’Potatoes have been brought into this town quite, largely during thy past week. Generally they are <j>f good quality, and there appears to be plenty of them. Prices are low and many hesitate to sell. We believe some have sold by the wagon load tor 30 cents a bushel. A turnip may be seen in this office of the red top, strap-leaved, or flat field variety, grown by Mr. Clark McColly, of Union township, which measures 37£ inches in circmnfereiice., is 9 inches thick and weighs 16 pounds. Me. exhibits it as a specimen of what can be done on “Nubbin Ridge.”

I' Mr. Henry I Adams, of Jordan townsltip, will make public sale of personal property at his residence six miles n'oft'lUofTfemingtpn, on Saturday, October 26th, 1872, as follows: 10 young cows, 6 calves, 1 good bull, 2 five year old h’orses, 2 spring colts, farming implements and probably hay in the stack. — Twelvemonths credit will be given. We were in error last week concerning the number of veterans of the War of 1812 still living in this county. They are, Thomas Quor--1 ry, Gillam township, John Phillips, Hanging Grove township, Cornelius Hutton, Jordan township, Phineas Thornton, .Marion town-hip, and William Wvatt and ■ M,artin, Newton township. All but Mr Martin vote the Republican ticket. The Clerk of the Board of Canvassers made a number of errors in his footings of the vote received by the several candidates in this county, which were copied into our tabular report last week. The majority for Browne, for Governor, was 431 instead of 433; Sexton, for Lt. Governor, 436 instead of 43a; Win. Williams, for Congressman at Large, 435 instead of 434; Wildman, for Auditor of State, 436 instead of 435; Janes, for County Treasurer, 142 instead of 157.

I Mrs. C. D.sSkaekhouse wiliplease 1 - ■■ , *>. .• . accept thanks for a couple of jars • of"splendid-sorghum molasses - [Clint, favored us .with half a bushel of Breese’s Peerless amt White Peach Blow potatoes which are two of as line vjirieties as we i have ever seen. The Peerless is a mammoth potato and tolerable I good yielder. , One potato planted • by ns last spring produced nearly half ti bushel of marketable tubers : ami the only cultivation they received was one hoeing. ■ » .too- - The recent vote in Jasper county iuduiates an increase s’mee the fail •of 1-870—. only two years—of over •IjliOOpopulation, or about 25 per We anticipate that the p.resAmt population of the county will 'be doubled within the next four years, and shall be very much disappoiir.e.i it. our hopes are not realized. We have within our county borders as flue a body of land as can be found m the Great Mississippi Valley; those lands are adap? lited to the grow th of stock or proI duction of grain as t:isl<»f, ina y p re . ter; markets are easily accessible; splendid Inducements are offered settlers; prices of hmd* are -cheap and terms favorable to poor men; -and crowning all, 111 e improvements -in—process -of- completi on arc o f such a nature and magnitude that they cannot tail to attract immigration. .

Dr. John M. Knox died of infla-, mation of the, Tuesday, 15th instant, aged aborf’t 60 years, lie was gentlemanly in his deportment towards his fellow beings and won the esteem of all who became acquainted with him. Possessing an ’active -and inquiring mind he was fond of debate ami investigation; Naturally a me-. ehauic, -he-invented eevecal model's of machinery, mostly Jor .Tarnier's use, the chief of which is a riding cultivator fie had j list perfected and applied for a patent upon. It is •'aid to be really a meritorious ine plenient' destined to supercede those now ip use. With a warm and sympathetic heart aiid a keen sense of justice he was liberal in his views, bo h re igious and political, leaping to Universalism in the one and being an ardent Hep iblican in the other. The Doctor was a member of the Masonic fraternity and was buried this morning with the imposing ceremonies of the Craft, assisted by the Sons of Temperance, to Which order he also belonged Mrs. Eli Veoman and Mrs. Janies Hemphill are sisters of the deceased. His wife and family reside in Ohio.