Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1872 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

Thursday, Dec. sth. 1672.

Butter 15 cents a pound. Potatoes 50 cents a bitejtiel. Eggs not very plenty at 20 cents ti dozen. ,t. ' j ••• . Buffalo lined boots at Purcupile & Co.’s. Commissioner’s court in session this week. Green apples retail for 20 cents a peck at the groceries. Dan. Miller, so happy, gay arid modest, is now deputy postmaster. Sbeep.~l have a flock of 24 good Bheep, which I desire to sell reasonably for cash. James G. Weathers. State Senator Dwiggins was at home-front Thanksgiving day until Monday. He looked quite healthy. Stow, the jeweler, has moved out from the liius tfc Yeoman rooms across the street, one door above Harding & Reeve’s drug store. -----: • *-•»- *■ —: Good quality of tea for 85 cents at Pureupne & Co.’s. Mrs. Mary Tharp returns thanks 'to friends for their kindnesses to herself and family during the recent illness of her husband. It snowed nearly all day Sunday and from seven to nine o’clock Monday morning, covering the ground to a depth of eight inches or so.

Rev. J. B. Crowe will preach in the Presbyterian church on Saturday at 2 o’ciock p. in., and Sabbath at 10.30 a. m., December 14th and 15th, 1872. llatsandeapsto.be closed out at Hopkins’ with the intention of abandoning that department of trade. Zadoc Sexton, formerly of Barkley township, Jasper county, now Tesiding at Fredonia, Wilson counfy, Kansas, was. elected a member of the Kansas Legislature this fall.' Call aud examine misses’ and children’s all calf slioes at a reduction of 25 cents the pair at Purcupile. & Co.’s. * —_ • The horse epidemic still prevails though we have not yet heard of any fatal cases hi the neighborhood. A merchant informed us yesterday that it had caused a decrease of not less than 50 per cent, in business. Who sells tobacco, tea, sugar, coffee, •coal oil or anything else in the grocery! Ine cheaper than iuuhl Hopkins? We are told that several of the horses in this neighborhood tlwt were attacked with epizootic ea-i tarrh, and whose owners com- ! raenoed using them too soon after- ! ward, are showing - unfavorable j symptoms, threatening a fatal term j ination.

1,000 pounds of coffee in the grades, j just received und to be sold til penny profits, ut Ludti Hopkins’. r Died, of consumption, Monday, December 2d, 18.72, Sirs. Sarah Gibson, aged about forty, years. Also, about one. hour afterwards, of lung fever, Mr. Amariah S. Tharp, father of the above, aged <39 years, 1 month and 19 days. Mr. Tharp had been a resident ot Jasper county for twenty five years and leaves a lar<*e circle of relatives to remember iiis many virtues. "vrft? 2 One price, and that one the lowest possible, tor flannels, shawls, jeans, _ satinetts, delaines, calico, under anti over shirts, boots and shoes, and, in fact, anything you need, at Hopkins’. The marriage licenses issued by the clerk of Jasper county, during the month ot September, 1872, were six in number, as follows: James A. Robinson and Rosa Robinsou. James Frasier and Margaret Donnelly. William C. Perkins and Martha J. Clark. Crawford Cheek and Alice Deitz. Francis M. Goff and Nancy J. Hums. William Harrison and Mary J. Spreclier.

The law and real estate firm of Thompson & Bro., lias recently been remodeled. Sir. Thomas Thompson has retired and is succeeded oy his brothelr, Mx. David J. Thompson. The new member is a wideawake, business like, sociable gentleman, whom, we are happy to understand, lias taken up his permanent residence in tins place. Mr. Thomas Thompson is emi loyed in the bank ot A. McCoy & Thomp son* having, for the present, (succeeded Mr. Ocorgo Kannal.

We have been furnished a list Qt} pupils of the Sqcoijd Departinent of the Rensselaer school who have been perfect in some particulars during the month of school that Jiaa recently closed. If - teachers of Jasper county will furnish us with complete monthly reports of the condition of their several schools, under the followin&jiLi&sik fioations, we think, perhaps, they will be read with interest, that they may serve to excite a laudable emulation among pupils, and we shall be pleased to publish them. Wc would like to have information classified as follows: No. of pupils enrolled. No. of pupils in attendance. Average attendance. . Names of pupils perfect in attendance, punctuality, deportmeut and study. Under the last classification we want the names of those only who are absolutely perfect in all respects there enumerated. Owing to the alarming prevalence of the “Epizooty” and tilings, the undersigned desires that all persons indebted to him should call at his shop and settle their accounts. Norman Warner.

A shocking arid fatal accident happened last Friday in the-family of Mr. Christian Wertliner, a worthy German living on the edge of the Two-mile Prairie, three or four miles west of Rensselaer. Mr. Werthner w6nl to mill with a neighbor, leaving his wife to attend the out-door chores. They have two little children—one a babe, the other a little girl between two and three years old'. Mrs. Werthner left the two children in the house and was out twenty or thirty minutes taking care of the stock. On coining to the house the room in whicjLher, children were left., was filled with siuoke and the little girl was rolling about the floor with her clothes in flames. Her mother extinguished the fire as soon as possible, hut the little child was so severely burnt about the abdomen and stomach that inflamation supervened and caused her death last Sunday night. The infant, which \ was lying in a cradle, was burnt j somewhat about the face, but not | set iottsly; it is supposed the little : girl fell over kin her endeavor to j escape from the flames that were | destroying her. It is thought the child was playing about Rhe stove and that she pulled out coals which set fire to her clothing.

At the public examination held in the school house last Saturday i there were twenty-one applicants for license to teach school, fourteen of whom passed a successful examination, as follows: Nimrod Jenkins, SO per cent grade; for 12 months; teaches Nrn4, Newton township, t W. 11. Churchill, 83 per cent, grade; for 1-2 months; teaches No. 1, Marion township., Geo. O. Hoover, 79 per cent, grade; for 12 months; teaches No. 0, Marion township. Preston F. Roberts, 78 per cent, grade; for 12 months; teaches No. 3, Newton township. Ma«jg»e liogan, 77 per cent, grade; | for 12 months. Elbert Bruce 76 per cent, grade; for 12 months; teaches No. 4, Jlarion township." Jane Gates, 75 per cent, grade; ; for 6 months; teaches No—2 r AVdmat—

field township. John K. Gray, 74 percent, grade; lor 6 months; teaelfbs No. 3, Hanging Grove thwnship. Sarah J. Finney, 73 per cent, grade; lor 6 months; teaches No. 4, Wheiitfield township. John C. Chilcote, 73 per cent, grade; for six months; teaches No. 1, Barkley township. Leroy Florence, 71 per cent, grade; for six months; teaches No. 2, Hanging Grove township. Samantha Gwin, 71 per cent.' grade; for C months. Charles E. Thumb, 70 per cent, grade; for 6 months; teaches No. ( 7, Carpenter township. ; James T. Boone, 70 per cent, grade; for 6 months; teaches No. J 5, Hanging Grove township. The class was exemplary in conduct and there were but few cases of tardiness. t, ' A special publio examination will be held on Saturday, December 7tli. Applicants will come, promptly by 9 o’clock a. m. Next regular examination on Saturday, December 2.Bth. S. P. Thompson, Scbbol.Examiner Jasper Go. Thereby give notice that I have fn charge the book*and accounts belonging to Tims. Hoi lings went li, deceased. All persona indebted to said estate Will call at toy Drug Btore and settle, and save host. EMMET KAN NAG.