Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1873 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

Thursday, April 10, 1873.'

it Bnowed again yesterday morning- ~, Vory few farmers have sowed oats in Jasper county. Our job press is now repaired and in fine working condition. Do not forget to plant out a few 'shade trees this spring. Choice honey is on sale at the groceries for 20 cents a pound. Next Sunday is Easter, and eggs only 10 cents a dozen 1 Hoopla 1 ■ Gents’ hats and caps at Leopold’s new store, opposite the bank. Plover and snipe are coming in quite plenty on the prairies of Jasper county. j Mud deeper than has been known for three years, and roads in many 'places impassible. Last Saturday tho thermometer indicated 82° in the shade. How i* that for a tropic wave? Secretaries of Granges can procure blahk applications for membership at this office, for 10 cents a dozen. The Iroquois river is higher than it has keen known for eight years, without it was gorged with ice. Rov. Abe Oppy Was arrested for ibrgery at Logansport last week. Abo formerly lived in this county. Judging from the number of perbods who have a wholesale stock of measles there will be enough to go around.; Closing out lot of plug and fine cut tobacco, also a choice line of smoking tobacco at cost for cash, at Kannal’s. Best Peach Blow potatoes are bought by the wagon load'for 40 -cents a bushel, and retailed for 50 Ajenta by the grocer*. —— The school trustees will want to ’employ three teach ers for the spring it or in of the Rensselaer school. — l’ay $2.25 and $3 per diem. At their regular meeting last Monday evening, the town of Rensselaer appointed John Coen, Alfred Thompson and Horace E. James school trustees. Young men, buy your fine hoots at tho Boston boot and shoe store, corner Washington and Van lienssclaer ntreeta. Mr. George Nagel, of Two-Mile Prairie nurseries, has some ninety varieties of monthly roses, llis prices arc cheaper than those published by foreign dealers. Mr. John P. Dunlap is Chief Engineer of the Indianapolis, Delphi «& Chicago railroad company. He is now engaged in surveying tho line from Indianapolis southward. Mart. Warner, the butcher, was onco struck* with lightning and pretty badly nsccl up,“but the lightning evidently got: the worst of it us it has never tackled him since. The new Boston boot and shoo store, opposite the bank, at Rensselaer, Indiana, has every flesityiblo kind of foot wear manufactured. »«*. The new postmaster lias been having a lot of new boxes made'for his office. They are better than the old ones, being deep enough to coinfqrtably receive any ordinary amount of mail. The alarm of fire last Saturday night was caused by the overturning or explosion of a kerosine lamp In Sheriff Daugherty’s house.— Prompt action on the part of those first on the ground prevented much damage being done. Real Estate Appraiser Johnson sand hiß deputies are kindly inquiring, into the property value of the ireftidentß of Jasper county. They ■'.will find an unsuspected amount of* poverty prevalent, and tho poorest lot of farms, stock, etc., ever heard ($■ The largest, best and cheapest stock boots and shoes in every variety of .leather, patent leather, cloth,’ carpet. ,and rubber stock, at the Boston . boot ‘ and shoe store. A poor, unfortunate, crazy Irishjnan was permitted to wander through this place and away, last Sunday. It was nobody’s duty to .care or provide for him, and all .Good Samaritans were at church. Ho may have perished in the chilly .storms that since prevailed; but who cares? he was only a lunatic! Let us draw nearer our comfortable fires and thank God for health, reason, a comfortable shelter, and that our county has not been made to incur any expense for recent charities to wandering outcasts. ~~ ■■' T =f ~ * ’ ' ' ' • •' ’ V

Say, gentle reader, don’t you want to be a candidate for jtowui trustee, marshal, clerk, treasurer* assessor, or “nutbin’?” Election will be held on the sth day of May. Blank applications for membership in Patrons of Husbandry may bo procured at this office for 10 cents a dozen. It is reported that Prfessor J. 11. Snoddy, editor of tho Remington Journal , will be a candidate before tfee board of township trustees of Jasper county, next June, fof' the office of School Superintendent. President R. S. Dwiggins, of the Indiana division of the Continental railroad, has not yet returned from New York, and we have not learned anything about what the company intends doing the coming summer. Ladies’ hats and bonnets for spring and summer, ready, trimmed, at Leopold’s new store, opposite the bank. Many farmers in Jasper will plow up their wheat fields this spring and plant them with other crops. It is thought there will not be more than one-fourth of a crop of this grain raised in the county this season. ■ ‘off— — -- The county assessor receives $4 per day and his deputies $3 pCr day, each; and now if you favor retencliment just have your list of property all made out when called on, and send the assessor on his way with as little delay as possible. Try Kannal’s cigars for quality and price. Ho keeps the best cigars in town for the price and is always ready to wait on customers. _ Subsoil hogs are not so numerous about front yard gates and sidewalks as they were a week ago. So many of them got into the hab.it of -loafing about the public pound that their owners have lost all iuterest in letting ifiem fun at large. Deputy C. W. Clifton is one ol‘ the most active organizers among the Pattons of Husbandry in Indiana. Next Saturday ho Teeturcs in the Oxford, Benton county, Court House, “oil the all-important subject ~0l organization '“among fanners ”

John Kohler recently collared six piairie wolf pups in a pasture four or five miles southwest of town Although they aggregate many feet theif capture was not much of a feat for they were blind and unsophisticated in the ways oFnnui, Hail a night watch been out on duty last Monday evening about eight o’clock, an anxious individual might hayc been seen hastening Vo to the bosom of his - family loaded down with splendid dogfish, which j he fondly imagined were pike lie says the' Iroqupis pike are not; so good as Pcmisjivania brook trout. . Persons owing F. W.'Bedford are hereby 'notified to call on him immediately and pay their notes or renew them. IMitsir have a settlement* ■—-—.—- The cellar wail of Tutcur’s saloon, facing the race, was undermined and caved in Saturday night. Ilad the builder dug down a foot or sixteen inches the wall would have been founded on solid rock, but lie preferred to build qii the quicksand and now the work lias to, be done over. It was awful jolly to see tlic youngsters that were locked up in the court room last Sunday, shinning out of an upper window into a shade tree and thence to the ground. It took three quarts of Rhoades’ salve to plaster over their scratches and bruises, and about a peck of buttons were picked up under that tree next day.

Last Sunday night while Mr. Isaac Barkley,.of Barkley township, was driving homo from church in a wagon occupied by his family, Taie son-in-law and son-in-law’s family, the team was struck by lightning and instantly killed. Every person in the wagon felt the electric shock more or less* but, fortunately, none of them were seriously hurt. Miss Lydia Dwiggins, teaoher of the prijfiary (department of the Rensselaer school, reports the following pupils perfect in attendance, punctuality and deportment for the month ending March 31st, 1873: Carrie Eger, Arthur Hopkins. Ettie lines and Henry Smith. The number enrolled was 4S, number attending 38, average daily attendance 28 and one fifth. Average attendance for entire term, 32. V - Pupils perfect for entire term were Carrie Eger, Artllui Hopkins and Henry’Smith.

- j ■i p ....... Oh! do clear away the filth from your back yards, hoe out the gutters,, take incumbrances from the sidewalks, and prepare to look neat and tidy as beautiful spring clothes the earth with her new garments. On The third flay of May next Mrs. Martha A. Timmons will make a public sale of personal property of the late John N. Timmons, of Jordan township. There will be a large amount of valuable itock offered. For particulars consult anvertisement in this issue of the Union, or see sale posters. Old papers at this office at ten cents a dozen. We have quite a large accumulation on hand at present. -- ------ —.... ■— Those who have invested in the Omaha lottery are doomed to suffer like Tantallus. The drawing lias been again postponed—this time until May 20th. Boys, better hereafter invest your five dollars in some other enterprise—say, for instance, a pair of boots or a hat. Brother Ed. Maxwell, senior proprietor of the Remington Journal, has been wearing his little Scotch cap with a button on top and smoking his cob pipe in Rensselaer since last Friday. Don’t know where Ed. roosts when he is over here, but he didn’t get up soon enough to connect with the hack yesterday, which started out at ton o’clock a. ill. All kinds of Grange blanks printed at the Rensselaer Union job office as cheap as anywhere in the United States. Call and see us. Constable Duvall went to Fairview lunatic asylum, near Cincinnati, last week and brought back Levi Smith, an insane person of Rensselaer, whom the authorities of that institution had advised the Commissioners of Jasper county they could no longer provide for.— Smith was taken there eight or ton yertrs ago, having been adjudgeth dangerously insane—the result of epilepsy. 110 is now considered harmless, but his mind is almost wholly destroyed. S. 13. Haver and C. M. Haver, late of Remington, have removed their livery to-Oxibrd, lnd.,_ where they are prepared to accommodate their old customers and friends at their usual liberal rates. o-20-12t. A quorum of the directors and stockholders of the Jasper County Agricultural and Mechanical Association met in the Court House fast Saturday and elected a new board ot directors, for .1873, as follows: W. K. Park iso n . Milton Makeover. Thomas Robinson. David Yeoman. F. \V. Bedford. 11. O. Brttoe. Wilburn i>ay. -4!lorry Paris. Jared Benjamin* > The Directors elected the.followv*vr* j A President—\V. K. Parkison. Secretary -Dav.id Yeoman. Treasurer- Jared Benjamin. The meeting refused to encourage the proposed horse fair in June and: that . [■•■eject will likely fall through. A few pieces of dry goods, hats, caps, boots, shoes and notions left of tlii: old :!• ’.< belonging" to the late ti'limnas J'.olliitgsworth, at Emmet Kan mil's drug store; will be sold at great bargains in order‘.to close out. The Board of Directi rs of tire Jasper county Agricultural and •Mechanical Association met at the Court House Saturday afternoon April sth, 1873, at 1 o’clock. Present, Berry -Paris, Ik e..-blent, F. W Bedford, Secretary, Charles Boroilgas, Wdborn Day, Jared Benjainiipand 11. C. Bnfce. On motion the following hills were allowed: « —H. S. Ti4-v-i:-,- - Ha . Aa- . sistant Secrela.y - - - $5.00 \Y. K. Parkison, money loaned to the Society - - -h - 2.50 Jared Benjamin,, poles for balloon ascension - - - > - 4.00 G. W. Terhuiie, axe helve .35 Jared Benjamin, Treasurer, made the following exhibit of finances: Money received, $2,404.26; paid out $2,302.41; balance on hand, $101.85. Report approved and placed on file. Receipt of $5 for one sharo of stock from Chas. Boroughs. On motion the order made at previous meeting for a horse fair in June was rccinded. Board adjourned for the election officers. v Berry Paris, F. W. Bedford, President. . ... Secretary. After the election was held the following resolutions were adopted: That members who have not paid their subscription shall be dropped from the list. That all the Directors solicit subscriptions to the stock of the Society. Tnit all stockholders become liable for the debts of the Association. That the Secretary obtain a deed for the Fair Ground as s6on as possible. That the Board of Directors meet on the 19th day of,April, inst., to transact such business as may come before them'find for the distribution of stock. That the proceedings be. published in the Rensselaer Union and Remington Journal. v -

W. K. PARKISON,

D. H. Yeoman, President. Secretary.

The season for painting is rapidly drawing near and people who intend to renovate and improve the appearance of property should get the best materials. Emmet Kaniml keeps the celebrated Averill Chemical Paint in all colors, tints and shades; also wliito lead and oil in large supply. Having boyght the interest of J. M. Abbott in the Hardware'business and standing very much in need of money at present we request all that are indebted to tho firm of Abbett Bros. & Co. to call and settle accounts at once, it being necessary to square up the old books without delay. Those having accounts against J. M. -Abbctt will present them. To our old customers and to all wo would announce that we still keep a good assortment of everything in our line! which will be sold low down for cash. , Abbett & Co. 5-29. Economy Is one of the keys to wealth and now is as good a time as any other to turn a new leaf and begin to economize whenever we can.— If money is close and times are hard it is encouraging that there arc places where money can bo expended to .great advantage. In the lino of groceries at Emmet Katinal's popular establishment is best Rio eoffee 24 to 26 cents; best Imperial tea $1 25; good Japan tea 80 cents; sugar, all grades, from 12 to 15 cents; baking powders 15 and 25 edits a box. .These prices are for cash only.