Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1873 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

Thursday, February 27th, 1873.

Uoramisyoners’ court meets in session next Mnnrlfiy, TC Eggs 15 cents a dozen this week, and becoming more plentiful as the price diminishes. The Common Pleas Court only granted one divorce at its session this week. That of David S. Cliftort from Sarah C. Clifton. A few pieces of new style prints at Xudd Hopkins’. ~ Marion Grange, Pat rou sos IIU sbandry, will meet at the Court House next Wednesday evening, March sth, 18/3; a full attendance is desired. , Wall paper 25 per cent, below old prices, to close out stock, at Kanhal’s drug store. Judge Fnrrand and Major Calkins, of Laporle, DeWitt C. Justice, of" Logan sport, and Mr. Ward and .Mr. W. 11. Martin, of Kentland, were attending the Common Pleas Court this week. We print sale bills, and all manner .of plain work, cheap. _ The actions of the Siate of Indiana vs Wiley II Pierce, for assault and battery, and the State vs James Brodie, for trespass, in the Jasper Common Pleas Court were nol prosed. Gents’ drawers for 60 cents a pair at Ludd Hopkins'. The facts are that Frank King, mentioned in our last issue, did not move away “between two days,”, but moved away in broad daylight, as his father informs 11s, and left property in his father’s hands to satisfy the claims against him. Ladies’ tine under jackets at Ludd Hopkins’ for SI each. Those who'dcsireflower seeds and flowering bulbs. this spying, should make early opjiKeanoTi to' Air. Jt>hn Coen, (w hose-nursery ad verlisemeut appears in another column.) lie is .prepared to furnish these articles of good quality cheaper than they eah' be procured from Eastern dealers. - "-*• »• Sheepskin gloves at Ludd Hopkins’ for 50 cents and (50 Cents a pair. Five or six cases ol appeals from assessments of Kankakee VTalley I) raining company, on. the docket of tlye,,/ Jasper Common Pleas court, wert# this week dismissed and costs entered against the company. Boys’ hoots at cost juices at Ludd Hopkins’. ( Mr. John M. Austin has "traded" for the Katinal property on Washington street between Loughridge & Martin’s oflice and Rhoads’ harness shop, and will, during the •coming summer move the presentbuilding around with the east gable end to _the .Btrett and build a large two story frame in addition thereto for hotel' 7. '*■ * Particular attention is given to the grocery department, and low prices for cash prevail, at Ludd Hopkins’. N. F. Jenkins, teacher of school No. 4 , in Ne\yton township, sends the foilwing report: Number of,days in school term, CO; number of pupils enrolled, 50; average daily attendance, 30-8. The putiilsstriclly punctual were Boyd Cole, Albert Cole, «Ir;,lions Halstead, DsyiJ Halstead and Edwin Halstead. -pupils dial lost but one day eaclv, George •Cole, Curtis Mover, Philip Moyer, Lydia Moyri, WillieJHalstead and Francis Mauck. School closed February 20, 1873. Save a doctor’s bill by going to IfopIklns’ and, buying tv jmir of boots that will keep your feet dry, for 50 emits •off from regular prices. At the public examination of applicants for license to teach school; held Saturday, February 22nd, the' following persons were successful: Names Grade Months AilgelTiie Campbell 85 percent, 18 Ella Sparling 78 „ 12 Selemina Gray 76 12 Martha Coppess 72 „ 6 ' There were seven applicants. Three failed to answer the required ratio of questions. {3. P. Thompson, School Examiner.

A fine large lot of groceries, fresh 'and good, at Eiiimet Kannal’a drug store, to be reduced as rapidly as possible. As good and as cheap as any in the n^arket. t* Qit £>atmday the 15th day of March, proximo, Messrs, A. R. & A. J. Yeoman will make a publio sale of live stock on the farm of Mr. Eli Yeoman, one mile west of town on the Chicago" road. Six months credit will be given on all purchases. The stock consists of thirty-eight head of cows and two j year old heifers—(most all will come ! in early)—a fine native bull, fifty- i five head of sheep, a lot of stock hogs, a span of work horses, and a 1 Hre-herse wagon.

Friend Nathan C. Weathers started this week for Winfield, Cowley county Kansas, and elsewhere about the tar and vast illimitable West as his inclinations may direct. Sorry to have'Tuch eit : izens leave the county because there are not enough people here to develop its resources, blit if iuterest demands we wish to all a full fiuition of their brightest anticipations. A Hew stock of merchant tailor’s goods, consisting of cloths, cassimeres and trimmings of the latest styles, just received and for sale at the Stone Store. NjXt Thursday,- March 6th, T 873, Mr. James F. Buyer, living in Newton county, Indiana, four miles northwest of Goodland, and three miles southeast of Brook, will offer for sale, at public auction, six head of work horses, two colts, five head of milch cows, farming utensils, household and kitchen furniture, etc. He gives tune months credit without interest. See posters for further particulars. Letter, heads, envelopes, circulars, blanks, posters, and all plain printing done at low prices, at this office. Call on, or send orders to, James & Healey, Rensselaer, Indiana. We. see by the Local Topic that Mr. Charles Pvllopkius, a former resident of this place, who has been teaching the principal department in the Francesville school this winter, has secured the house for a select school to commence in tire spring, fin-had three contestants for the prize, but obtained a majority of the legal voters on his petition. This speaks for his popularity very unmistakably. All kinds of plain printing done at this oflice us cheaply and in as good manner as it can he done in the West. Do not send orders anti money away from home, hut call and see James Healey, Rensselaer, Indiana. It is reported that Mr. Rial Ben jatitin has tendered his resignation as postmaster at this place, ami • recommended .Mr, George Sigler, of the firm of Willey, Sigler 35 Halsta.il, as his successor. Mr. Benjamin, we understand, will move out upon his farm as soon its relieved. Mr. Sigh r is a good selection and t!\e Department will do well to confirm bis appointment —and there will be 110 mure comfortable place to loaf and smoke while waiting for the mails than Messrs. Willey, Sigler & Halstead’s store, should the new Nasby conclude to take the office thither. A few pieces of dry goods, bats, caps, boots, shoes and notions left of the old stock belonging to the late Thomas Hollingsworth, at Emmet Kan mil’s drug store, will bo sold at great bargains-in order to close out. Another polar wave enveloped this devoted locality with its icy breath since Thursday last. TMercury was away down below zero, afid all the pretty''little blue birds ceased to warble for several days. Bottles of ink, a lew toes, noses and fingers were frosted, and all the rigors of a northern winter were experienced. But a change has come over nature again; the sun shines brilliantly, the wind stirs only in gentle zephyrs, flocks of wild fowls are flying northward and the indications are that gentle spring is slowly approaching.— Yesterday, however, another polar wave swept down from tlio southeast with rain and snow and sleet, veering around to the north and northwest, which scattered all these line expectations and brought back again the dreariness of an Arctic season.

We are told that that widely circulated, high toned, and very interesting literary compendium, yclept the Remington Journal, was i?sue<l last week in half sheet form, all printed at home; and that a large portion of its valuable space was devoted to advertising orir humble selves. And this is right; our simple, infantile minded neighbor could pot select a worthier subject or one more interesting to his vast host of readers. In view of ail these circumstances we can account for our failure to receive a copy on no other hypothesis than that those extensive ears which form the charmingly picturesque background to Rro. DeForgst’s landscape, and which have made their appendage a continent wide fame, slipped over hh* eyes just as he came to the Rensselaer package, (to his arduous duties as editor our Iriend adds the exausting labors of mailing clerk,) and after he had used a bucket of ; paste to fasten them back and stood Iby the tire an hour or so to dry | them, upon returning to Ins mail- ' ing desk he forgot where he had I left off when interrupted. We don’t 1 tell this for a fact, mind, but simply as our theory. Of course we may mistaken, but it took* plausible.

The seastm for jvaintM-ig-is rapidly drawing neur and people who intend to renovate and improve the apjiearance of jiroperty should get the best materials. Emmet KannaT TseepS"tlie celebrated Avcrill Chemical Paint in all colors, tints and shades; also white lead and oil in large sujiply.

Indiana distributed nearly $2,000,000 of school money m 1872, Laporte county voted 1,872 votes for the constitutional amendment and none against. Two horse thieves were arrested at last week, Monday, and their booty recovered. St. Joseph county polled 1,451 votes for the constitutional amendment and uone against It. Lake county voted 086 for to 5 against the constitutional amendment, last Tuesday week.' Many farmers in Newton county have much of their corn crop yet to gather from the field. Five logs, cut from 0116 tree, now in a mill yard near Plymouth, scale 6,760 feet of lumber. During the year 1872 there was shipped from Crown Point to Chicago 20,184 gallons of milk. Hon. John Rosser has retired from the well known 'printing firm ot Rosser, Spring & Co., at Lafayette. The Lake Shore road intends to build a new and commodious passenger house at South Beud the coming summer. George Gurnsey lives at Mishawaka. His dear, iroad uncle, died the other day and left him $9,000 with which to assuage Ins grief. The Journal reports that there are only two cases of small pox and two of varioloid 111 and that the board of health think there is 110 danger of the diseaso spreading.The South Bend Union says that one of the city bakers recently cut a finger severely; and adds, “It will not interfere with bis supplying his customers as usual, as lie always mixes dough with his feet.’’ OIIC petition to the Legislature pray Ing for th e-pas sage of the temperance law, published in this issue of the Union, was 700 feet long, and containd 37.000 names. We have not learned whetlicr-the names were read or not. A burglar captured I t boxes of cigars, 2 pairs of pants, 3 hats, 1 cap, 6 stiver Spoons, 5 mink, 3 skunk and 92 rat skins, 4 billiard balls and $7,65 in cash at Mishwaka last week in one night’s operations. . ...- Professor Von Weller has recently been awarded a judgment of S2OO against the city of Laporte, on ac r count of injuries- received from driving into a trench that was dug for the reception of a water pipe, and carelessly left open. A bill passed The State Senate last Friday which abolishes the Common Pleas courts, creating a Serroj+ate in each county in lieu thereof, and divides the S'ate into thirty-eight Circuit court districts. Benton, Jasper, Newton and Pulaski counties form the 30th circuit under the proposed bill. A correspondent of the Warsaw Indianian says that “close examinations of the peach buds have been made, which force the conclusion that not only are the buds destroyed, but that the trees are. badly injured” in the vicinity of Liberty Mills. lie also says that the severe weather has destroy ed many swarms, of bees. Jacob Welches do’at work any more in the Mussel brewery at South Bend. He attempted to put a belt on the wheel that furnishes power to the wood sawing machine, was cAught in the wheel someway and had his brains dashed out against the ground. Every bone in his body appeared to be broken when lie was found.'*-'. •>■. - ; - Crowq Point shipped during the year 1872, 363 cars of grain, 204 of hay, 26 of seed, 57 of cattle, 59 of live hogs, 4of potatoes, 4 Of new barrels and 5 of drossod hogs—--722 car loads in aft- The imports were 261 car loads of lumber, 18 of coal, 14 of salt, 10 of machinery—--303 loads. The number of pounds of freight shipped was 15,787,150, and the amount imported was 18,875,090 pounds. _i. _7