Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1873 — Page 2

THE RENSSELAER UNION. .•>g.v'.-~--=r ■■ ';r ?i Thursday, May 20, 1873.

Eveiy citizen should iccl in duty bound to give his voice, mid known edgeif necessary, to vindicate the law. Remington Journal. Will the Journal man live up to what ho says, and in the future when he secs a person violating the law will he file an affidavit against the party so offending, or will he run around and trj to get sonic other party to assume the responsibility? *• The Modoc war is about ended, the soldiers having succeeded in killing Shack Nasty Frank, Shack Nasty Jake and Snack Nasty Kill, and about half a dozen other Nasties, Shack Nasty Jim and fourteen other Nasties, with their nasty squaws and papoose?, surrendered to Gen. Davis. By tins surrender Jack has only about a dozen fighting Nasties left with him and our cavalry is in close pursuit and expect to capture the balance in a few months. Attorney General Denny has appointed Gen. Laz. Noble to travel over the State and examine into the condition of the school .fund, or that portion of it in the shape of fines, fees, forfeitures, etc., collected by treasurers, gljer'ifls and justices of the peace. It is probable that a little nosing around among the court records and justices dockets of the State will bring to light a large sum that has stuck to the fingers of different officers. The Crown Point Herald shows up the way a dozen of more citizens of Lake county were taken in by dealers in three card Monte and <itlier swindling games. It is all right to tell about it but it will never cheek the crop of greenie? who keep these fellows supplied with imids. In every community there are men who know too much; men who have the innate consiousness that they know more than the mau that runs the game, and they are perfectly willing to risk their money on their knowledge, and they do risk it mid come out fleeced, but it seldom changes their opinion of their knowledge and they are generally anxious to bite at the very next hook that is thrown out to them. To-morrow is decoration day, and in nearly every town and city in Indiana the people w-ill turn out to decorate the graves of those noble men who gave their lives to their country, with flowers, ami orators will tell of the toils and sacrifices of the fallen heroes, and keep alive in the breasts of the living the love of country and self sacrificing devotion to right that led them from their peaceful homes to dare death in the field, on ship board or in the hospital—anywhere that duty called. Hut in Rensselaer the graves of those boys who laid down their.lives on the altar of their country will not be disturbed by having flowers strewn over them, nor will the orator tell of the deeds of valor of those who sleep beneath the sod. Except by the relatives of those soldiers who rest in Weston cemetery their deeds and their graves arc alike forgotten. For several years past Mexicans and Indians have been in the habit of raiding the border counties of Texas, driving cattle, horses and mules, and sometimes killing the citizens. As soon as a sufficient force could be called together to resist them they would cross the Rio Grand, into Mexican territory, and the losers of property could obtain no redress, as the Mexican authorities did not care to interfere. About the middle ol this month a band of about fifty or sixty Mexican Indians crossed the Rio Grand river, divided themselves into small raiding parties and commenced to prey upon the luckless settlers. Having secured a sufficient amount of booty the savages made good their escape into Mexico. Col. McKenzie, commanding at Fort Clark, determined at all risk to follow and break up the nest of savages in Mexico. Heaccordingly collected about five hundred cavalry, crossed over into Mexieo, and after a march, of eighty miles, came npon the camp of the Indians and at once charged them, killing nineteen warriors and wounding about as many more.— A hundred horses and a large amount of Other property stolen by the Indians was recovered. On tho return of the troops to Fort Clark Jbe Mexicans fired on them as they were crossing the Rio Grande, /}.. j

Spme of the fine-haired, goodblooded, well-raised young gentlemen of Remington are very much the course of the Union and Journal in publishing the criminal proceedings of the circuit and justices courts, in those cases where the the State of Indiana is plaintiff, and say we arc running a‘ police gazette. That settles it, and j makes the editors of the county papers blackguards and tho convicted criminal in dock a gentleman. While at Reynolds on Friday last we met our old-time friend, William Kent, formerly of l'ulaski county.— William greeted us with a “keed nielc faltey”.— Brookston Reporter, One hundred and seventy-five dollars keed mede faltey brought into our school fund the last term of the circuit court. Yes, we know just what it is. Judge Hammond asked several fellows last week where they got theirs, and some judicial individual will propound the same question to Bro. Ingrim some of these days, if lie meets Hill Kent very often at Reynolds. ■ ■ ■ -- ■■s■■■The scandalous attacks upon the private character of the editor of the Bourbon Mirror that have recently been made in the Northern Jndianian an opportunity to state our rule in reference to correspondence. We never permit any one to emhroii us in neighborhood quarrels, and carefully’ eliminate all malicious thrusts before Kitting communications in type.— encc we are able to avow personal responsibility for every word and line that appears in the Spy, and hold other editors to the same rule: We are in a position to know that the charges brought against the editor of the Mirror are false in every particular, and, by right of our relationship to the injured party, demand the amplest retraction from the editors of the Indianian. We make no threats, but having once declined to settle n similar difficulty on terms generally recognized among gentlemen, that they must be aware of the consequences that await their failure to do justice in this instance,—Rochester Union Spy. Our No. 10 shotgun is at your service, Bill, if you are under the necessity of making a ghost of Reuben. Of course we would much sooner that you would settle it without bloodshed, but then if you can’t do that and must light, just call on us for that gun and we will not only back you against Reub.jbul they may throw in Hosier, Sawyotirnoseoff, l*ope Riffs and all the rest of their force. The Cincinnati Enquirer, after giving some of the-spccimen tests of a Dr. Wolf, of Cincinnati, who has been holding spiritual seances in that city, attacks the religion of the spiritualists in the following extract: A little religion is a dangerous things" If we may be permitted to say so, Spiritualism Is a very little religion, A son of a carpenter in Judea preached for three years a new doctrine. He was despised and rejected of men, and at the end of his brief ministry he was crucified. He was the plainest and obscurest of men, but he changed the story of the world. History dates to his birtli or ‘from it. His name is the pivot of history,— Every almanac is a perennial witness to tlie omnipresence of the doctrine declared by the plain man from Nazareth. He changed the literature and the art of the world. His doctrine has entered the lives of millions of men, uprooted deep-seated passions, dethroned vices, made men hate the tilings which they had loved, and love the things which they had hated. The lowly man from a despised country has dotted Continents with churches, spread Christian civilization over many Nations, made millions of men purer and better. Spiritualism has been at work, in one shape or another, for a century, and is just able to thread needles in ’the dark, and write on a slate “Page 20. Branches taught.” It has not lifted the life of a single individual. It lias not added to human wisdom, or to the common stock of virtue or truth or beautx\

Corn is selling at Kentlaiul for 30 cents a bushel. The editor oT tlieTlocHesfer Spy killed a blue racer snake five feet long, last week. Over 3,000 head of cattle are. being herded within the limits of Round Grove township, White county. The Ministerial Association of the Battle Ground district will meet at Brookston on Tuesday, June 3d, 1873. Last Thursday night the barn of Mr. Charles Uhl, of Logansport, was struck by lightning, fired and burned to the ground. Two agents of rival shows at South Bend, had a knock down last week, o-ne of them paid a fine of $5 for assault and battery. „UJiTL—. Three saloon keepers in qne ward in Laporte have secured a majority of the voters in favor of license and a fourth one is circulating a petition.

At the show at Valparaiso last week one of the trapeze performers lost his grip and fell, striking a man named Wendell and severely injuring him. The showman was not hurt. Wendell will hereafter take a a back seat when the trapeze performer delights the crowd with his antics, . "f; /. ■

Maj. Johiv-D.Kvaiis, late auditor of State, died at Noblesiille oil Thursday last. The Major was an efficient public officer and a very popular map..

Crowds of roughs collect oil the street corners at Kenlland on Sunday evenings, talk nonsense, hollow, scuffle, and insult pcOplo as they go to church. Mr. Johh l’sacock and family, accompanied by Mr. Oscar Phelps, of Kenlland, started for England last week. They Pxpcct to make an extended European tour before they return. The marshal of Michigan Citylias issued orders to the barbers not to shave any more on Sunday, and now- those w ho fail to come to time on Saturday go about on tlie Sabbath w ith rough faces. Week before last aman living in the south part of Lake county married a woman over in Illinois, took her to the big show at Crown Point the following Monday, where she left him and lit out with an entire stranger. The old saw null on the point at the junction of Eel and Wabash rivers at Logansport, was burned down last week. Tim mill was" built in 1845, and will be remembered by many of the old citizens in this part of the Stated

Rochester greenics only invested §135 in J. M. Puttee’s big lottery at Omaha, Nebraska, and now they have found out that the whole thing w as a huge swindle, and tbit letters recently sent to Puttee ure sent to the deud letter office. So far all attempts to obtain license to sell intoxicating beverages under the new temperance law have failed in Fulton county, and if the law- is sustained by the courts January Ist, 1874, will find that county w ithout a saloon. The South Bend Tribune company are soon going to issue a daily.— The paper is to lie small at the ! start —twenty columns of 1G inches in length—but they expect 10 grow j up with the country and increase as the interests of the town demand. Laporte is having a temperance revival, and a pledge to enforce the temperance law- was circulated one day and 294'persons signed it and now stand pledged to sustain all fair and just, means that may be used by any and all persons whose [ duty it may be to enforce said law. The contested election case for sheriff of Laporte county came off this week, commencing Monday and occupying four days. Some two hundred witnesses were summoned—ls 6of them from this place. Under the ruling of Judge Stanfield (that voting on naturalization papers before they are of record in Court is illegal) Dan Brown comes off' victorious. The ballots of two townships—Pleasant and Union, if we are rightly informed—were re-counted by the Judge and resulted in a gain for Brown of 9 votes in one township and 10 in another, giving him a majority over McCollum. It is said that the evidence establishes the tact that the last October election was the most corrupt one that was ever .held in Laporte county. May there neverJbe another such.— Michigun City Enterprise. 1 ♦ *

The Farmers and their Enemies.

The recent and absorbing contest between the owners and the tillers ol the soil, the feeders of tlie country and the town, on the one hand, and the .monopolists,'» chiefly the railroad monopolists, on she other, is not an insignificant one. It is a battle between two tremendous forces, the two greatest, perhaps, that could be called into peaceable activity between the Lakes and the Gulf. The power of the monopolists has had nearly half a century of organized growth in the land.—•. That power neither Courts nor Congress bave been able to withstand. It has swayed the people as the wind the reed. It has owned legal advocates and editorial advocates, and has silenced the voice of the pulpit; for what parson in the land would preach from the sanctified platform of his church against the manufacturer or the man who pays him half his salary? In the great manufacturing towns the mill owns the pulpit and the press; and in the great railroad centers the owners of those vast and valuable lines of traffic own almost everything else. It was charming candor—and it wa? a representative illustration of the tendency of the time, which can not be kept too much before the public eye—in that legislator who arose in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and said: “If Mr. Sfcott has nothing more for this Legislature to do, I move we adjourn. - —t— Against the power and oppressions of the great corporations there have been, within a few years, not a few protests on the part of the people. But they have, until very recently, taken the shape of “stHkes,” which lead to idlenessHMiit lobs, and of the various organizations on the part of labor-

ingtuea whose dailjTifeds romidedby the number of cents which that daily life represents. Most of these movements have been illconsidered and unphilosophicai, and, of course, ineffective for the most part. These protests have all been grounded in a claim for higher wages in a land where wages are already high, a heated demand on the part of men who work for hire for a larger share ol the profits of their employers, in a country where that share is qlready large. The claim has been doubtless built upon a wrong, but it was wrongly built. It lias been made, too, by men dependent, and not by those on whom all other interests depended. The protest now made against the tyranny of monopolies, beginning with the railroads, comes from the emperors of the land. It comes from the only source whence it can effectually be made. Politicians arc weak because they ape dependent. The laboring man is weak because he is still more dependent. The farmer is strong because, more nearly than any other man, he is independent, lie lived on this continent when factories were not, and railroads were not, and cities were not; and cities and railroads and factories are grounded on the agricultural interest. We are a nation of farmers, and the farmer is or may be the only dictator in the land. But the farmer's power has been _only latent because he has chosen, like the true pliilospher, to be rich, by making his wants few. He has been quiet and contented. Only when the extortion of the railroad corporations began to make it impossible for him to make the accounts of January and December show a balance not against him did he complain. Corning from such a source, and, grounded in the earnestness of necessity as it is, the movement promises to be the commanding force of the future in American affairs. It is not difficult to file a bill of particulars in the case of farmers vs. tho monopolists. There are fmmerous illustrations of the extortions practiced by the men who own railroads. The corn which is worth seventy-three cents in Boston is worth only twenty-three cents in Illinois. .Between New York and the State of Indiana freight are twenty-five cents per hundred pounds, and between Rochester and New York, a distance less by four hundred miles, they are one dollar and twenty-five cents, which indicates a profit of four hundred per cent., where there is no competition. The rate on grain from Ottumwa to Boston is seventy-three cents per hundred pounds, while from Somonauk, two hundred miles nearer, it is eighty-three cents, the Company charging ten cents per hundred for not carrying freights two hundred miles. Shipments have been made from Chicago to Boston, eleven hundred miles, cheaper than from Chicago to Earlville, seventy-five miles.— When lake navigation closes, rates of transportation increase from fifty to a hundred per cent. Corn may be carried in May from Chicago to New York for cents per bushel, but it costs 36.4 cents to transport it the same distance in January, while the railroads will carry it all the way from Chicago to New York in August for 25 cents per bushel. And the lion. W. C. Flagg, President of the Illinois Farmers’ Association, says that corn might be carried from Chicago to New York for 10 cents per bushel. The lumberman can ship his jiroducts from Chicago to Fulton, a distance of one hundred and thirty-six miles, for three dollars and seventy-five cents per thousand feet, and must pay four dollars from Chicago to Dixon, ninety-eight miles. The manufacturers of Dixon fetch iron and steel from Pittsburg, four hundred and sixty-yight miles, at eighteen cents per hundred pounds, but from Chicago to Dixon, one-fifth the distance, the rate is thirty cents. It costs one dollar to bring one hundred pounds of cotton bolls from New York to Chicago, and one dollar and fourteen cents to carry the same goods from Chicago to Sterling, one hundred and ten miles. It often costs the producer three pecks of corn to send one peck to market, and sometimes costs all the corn! Tho Illinois farmer not unfrequently sees the products raised hundreds of miles west of him whirling eastward to market by his door, while he warms himself by his own burning grain, or sees it rotting on the ground; the farmer in lowa happening to live at a point of railroad competition, and the farmer in Illinois happening to be within reach of but one railroad. And yet the farmers in many cases have helped to build the railroads that rob them, and these robberies are committed by men that have received grants of 207,460,032 acres of land, an area as large as that of France, Belgium and Holland combined.— One of the roads so benefited, the Illinois Central, earned last year $2,145,847.74 above its expenses.

illustrations of the extortions of these railway corporations might be multiplied indefinitely. The magnitude of such robberies can not easily be appreciated. The Northwest is the granary of the nations. The seven States of Illinois, Indiana, lowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota* and Wisconsin, comprising 485,000 square miles of territory, and supporting 10,000,000 of people, with a product of 577,000,000 bushels Of corn, 126,000,000 bushels of wheat, 05,000,000 bushels'of oats, and with a farm valuation three years ago of $3,227,01K),000, and a total product in

ISJ-.0. of a thousand millions oldollars, can spread plenty over two continents and offer feasts to all the peoples of the earth. Granting that railroad freights on the three principal grains are equal to ;the January freights on corn, as named above, and that the product we have mentioned should be exported, and that Mr. Flagg’s estiI mate of the cost ol transportation is correct —not all of which conditions, of course, are fulfilled—and the railroads take out of the pockets of the farmers, over and above a fair profit; $208,000,000 fri one year. The difference between August rates and January rates would amount in the transportation of these three grains to about $87,780,000 in a twelve-month. An Indiana farmer says that had his land been in com at seventy-five bushels to the acre his crop would have been 105,000 bushels, and the difference between the rates last July and the present rates would take from him $25,000; and this change would make a difference in the value of the real estate of Ohio, Illinois and Indiana of over $3,000,000,000. It is not strange that hundreds of thousands of farmers are looking about for a remedy for these wrongs. There are several causes of these extravagant freight rates. The tariff is one cause. On steel rails that cost eleven cents per pound in England the duty is $78.40 per ton in gold. The cost of everything that goes into the conduction of locomotives, and machinery, etc., is already affected by the tariff, The stock of the railroad companies has been so watered that in some cases an investment of S4OO represents $20,000 in stock which must pay dividends. The consolidation of roads is rapidly putting down competition, and where there is competition there is usually an “understanding” between the railroad managers to hold farmers at their mercy, having no mercy. There is, too, an undoubted lack of railroad lines.— These are some of the obstacles to cheap transportation. But agitation, which can accomplish any thing iu the affairs of men on the line of justice, is likely to right the wrongs of the most powerful class of men in the country. The great cry of the Northwest will be heard.— Cut cJnnati Enquirer.

Circular or the State Board or Education to Township Trustees.

Gentlemen: The thirty-third section of the amended school law provides as follows: “The township trustees of the several townships shall meet at the office of the county Auditor of their respective counties on the first Monday in June, 1873, and biennially thereafter, and appoint a County Superintendent who shall be a citizen of such county, whose official term shall expire,” etc. The legislature has conferred upon you, in view of your official relations to the public free schools, the power to make the appointment referred to in this section of the school law. This power shouldbe exercised with great care and deliberation; for upon the qualifications and efficiencvof the County Huperinteudent more than of any other school officer, depends the success of the schools and of the administration of tlie school system in your respective counties; and for this reason we take the liberty of offering the followingsuggestions touching the qualifications that persons seeking the appointment should possess: 1. As he is made the only legal judge of the educational qualifications of Uie .teachers of your schools, it is of the first importance that he a thorough and critical knowledge of all the branches required by law to be taught in our public schools; otherwise, grossly Incompetent teachers will occupy our school houses and .a precious revenue will be wasted. 2. Since the organization, management and general superintendence of the schools of each county are intrusted to this officer, he should be selected, as far as practicable, from the most experienced teachers of the county, aud especially from those teachers who have kept abreast with the progress of our schools. 3. In as much as the law; constitutes him the judge of the moral character of all teachers, he himself should possess that character in a pre-eminent degree. The appointment, therefore, should not be conferred upon any person addicted to' intemperance, profanity or other vices. 4. Under the present law it is made the duty of the County Superintendent to visit all the schools of his county, to hold a township institute in each township in the county once each year and conduct the same, to labor in every practicable way to elevate the standard of teaching and to improve the condition of the schools of nis county, to supervise the collection and application of the school funds and revenues, and to discharge all the duties heretofore discharged by the County Examiner, together with much other labor that must necessarily present itself in the prosecution of the work. You should, therefore, select him strictly with reference to his energy, industry, honesty and business qualifications. 5. Since his decisions upon all local questions arising under the school law are final, and his opinions upon all controversies of a general nature must be first obtained before an appeal can be taken to the State Superintendent, reference should be had in the selection to the practical judgment and strong common sense or the candidate. We cannot, in too strong terms, urge upon you the necessity of ignoring all political and personal preferences, in making this appointment, aud of acting with sole reference to the qualifications of the candidate and the best interests of the schools.

The County Superintendent begins a new, and it is to be hoped, a better era in the administration of our school system. If your appointments are judicious, a fresh impetus will be given to the free schools of your counties; ii injudicious, little or nothing will be gained. Upon your action on the first Monday of June next, depends, in a great measure, the character of the common schools of the State for the next two years.

M. B. HOPINS,

President of the Board. A. C. Shortridge, Secretary. Indianapolis, May 5, 1873, .

BUSINESS CARDS. Examination of Teachers. Public examination of applicant* for licenie to teach ia the public school* of Jasper cosnty, Indians, will be held as the Bchool House in Rensselaer, on the last Saturday in each month, commencing at 9 o’clock, a. m. JAMBS A. BURNHAM, Examiner. «. A. .MOWN, Physician and Surgeon, RENSSELAER, INDIANA. Office in Shanghai Building, Front Room, Over W. J. lines’ Grocery Stors. HI OSES B. ALTER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, llenaaelaer, Indiana. Office in Harding A Reeve’a Drug Store. J. a. LOUODRIDOK. H. Y. MARTIN. LOUGHRIDGE Sc MARTIN, PHYSICIANS AND SV&QEONB Rensselaer, Indiana. REINSTATEMENT OF—DESTROYED RECORDS. Meetings of the Commiis oner to restore and reinstate Lest or Dettroycdr Records are held at the Court House in Rensselaer, Ind., the third Saturdays in February, April, June, August, October and December. JAMES A. BURNHAM, Commissioner. M. F. CHILCOTE, Attorney and Counselor at Law. Office opposite Court house Square, on Washington Street, Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana. 5-25-ly THOS. J. SPITLER, ATTORNIY AT LAW OFFICE IN COURT HOUSE. Especial attention given to Real Estate and Fire Insurance business. SIMON P. THOMPSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Proa. Atty. soth circuit. Will nraotloe ia the Court! of Pulaski. Jasper. Newton and Benton counties. THOMPSON A BRO.’S LAW-AND BEAL ESTATE OFFCE, Rensselaer. Indiana. TEETH TEETH TEETH inserted—from handsomely fll- examined free one to an led with oi charge. •n t ire set gold or silver. C. C. CHENEY, DENTIST, ICenssclncr, Indiana. OFFICE OVER FO6TOFFICX. work warranted for five years. 6-34 ALFURR M’COY. AI.FKKI) THOMPSON A. McCOY Sc THOMPSON, BANKERS. REN3SELAER, INDIANA. Buy and sell Coin and Domestic Kxcbang make Collections on all available points, pay Interest on specified time depositca,and transact ail business in their line with dispatch. Uj’Office hours, from 9 a. m.tot p. m no 51 ly. I mivxLLia BLACKSMITH SHOP QmeaogßAgs Is in operation one door above Express Office, KK.NKSKLAKR All kindsof blacksmithing donetoorder inrhi _» m ’** ’** J. WKI«HT, vftsss* THK OLD UNDERTAKER, Has Coffins of ail sixes on hand and is prepared to fill all orders for any style. Plain or Fancy, at reduced prices 1-17-ts DAILY HACK LINE LIVERY STABLE. Hacks run daily (Sundays excepted) between itensaelaerand Bradford,on the G& L R R. Horses ami Carriages to let at reasonable rates. ■ J W.Duvall. HANDY MAN. The undersigned will do all kinds of odd jobs, such as digging, wailing and cleaning wells, cisterns and cellars makng gardens nailing lath and shingles, making fences, Ac 6-4-ly JAMES W. PORTER. New Blacksmith Shop. The public Is notified that I have bough l the Blacksmith Shop southwest side of Front street, near the old saw mill, and repaired it to receive customers. WOOD SHOP In connection where wagon making and repairing will be done by skillful mechanics. Patrons or Husbandry and other cash customers will find it to their advantage to give me their patronage. SAMSON ERWIN. AUSTIN HOUSE, JOHN M. AUSTIN, PROPRIETOR S. E. cor. Washington and Front sts., RENSSELAER, - - - INDIANA. Special attention to the accomodation of travellers. Good stables attached. 4-21 GET THE BEST. 4 The most Simple, .Durable aud .Reliable Sewiag Machine for Family Uae Iv the HOME sMTTTTXiM Stitch alike on both aidoa.>Thl* Machine has been thoroughly te»t*d iu hundreds of families and in no case has it failed to give entire satisfaction. Its cheapness, simplicity of construction, and strength, make it s favorite with sli who have tried it. gee tM agent and gut oae. J. S. HOPKINS, Ail • f Agent, Rensselaer, ifcd.

CENTRAL HOTEL, Cor. Vanßensselaer and Washington Sts., KENNBELAEH, INDIANA. This House has been thoroughly renovated' and furnished throughout with new furnitnre. Commodious stables attached. THOS. BOROtfOBS.FnoriHEToH. Downing & Little, HOUSE,SION & ORNAMENTAL AND PAPER HANGERS? IMITATE WOOD OR MARBLEorders promptly attended to. UKOROK KOBINSON. OLIVEH P. ROBINSON. * ROBINSON BROTHERS. Joiners »V Builders Rensselaer, Indiana, Are ready to make contracts for building, altering, or repairing Houses, Barns, Stables, Ac., and will do all kinds of work pertaining to the Joiner’s trade. We have bought the Old Saw Mill property with its water privilege, planing mill and circular saw. Call and see us. Estimates furnished when desired. 5-27-3 mo JOHN P. WARNER, HOUSE AND SXGrKT fMKtmc Is now prepared to do all kinds of work pertaining to his trade promptly and neitly.— .Special attention given to GRAINING AND OltN A HIENTAI, PAINTING. Shop in rear of Norntnn Warner’s Wagon and Blacksmith Shops, Frcnt street, Rensselaer, Indiana, where lie will be pleased to receive orders for work . 5-22-3 mo JOHN I\WARNER. REMINGTON MARBLE WORKS. Permanently Established. : . .1 am now prepared to furnish all kinds of work in Marble, such an MONUMENTS, TABLETS, TOMBS, TABLE-TOPS, MANTEL. PIECES, Ac., on abort notice and at reasonable prices. By straight forwaid dealing, I hope tu receive a fair share of patronage from citizens of Benton, Jasper anil Newton counties, and invite them to call on me and learn my prices before sending orders elsewhere. Encourage Home Tndimry. My facilities for procuring good Marble arn equal to the best, and as for the style in finish lam afraid of no competition. All orders filled promptly, and in urgent cases can fill orders on from 15 to 20 day’s notice. I* will be my earnest endeavor to please all. Orders by mail will receive prompt attention. W. W. FOSTER. 32-6* licniington, Indians, FROM THIS DAY I WILL SELL Wines nnd Liquors 25 per cent, less, and CIGARS AND TOBACCO Of all kinds, at 15 per cent. Lower than any Other House in Town. Green and Dry Hides, And FBI.TB of all Description BOUGHT FOB CASH. Patronage solicitod. Call aud examine on tuck and learn our prices- ______ 5-25 timo LEOPOLD TUTEUR JHRTARKERGUN. . PARKER BRtfsi JKEST MERIDEN,CL* GMI^ISFaEIIS AND EVERYBODY ELSE Are hereby informed that a new Grocery has been opened in Rensselaer by the firm oli DAUGHERTY & JACKS, Who have an entirely new stock which they bought'entirely for cash and will sell or tradeat low rates. Their stock consists of FLOVRi COFFEE , ..-A- Liz: SUGAR , TEA , CJWDr; NU'l%, LAMPS, 1 C&AE (32L, £amp CHIMNEYS, QUKENSWARE, dtc. ■ :•• " . \ • •rAll kinds of PRODUCE WANTED iu exchange for goods' -< Store on Washington, .afreet, opposite the Bank in room formally occupied by Mr. Chsa Platt. Pleaae call and see what we have to sell and learnourprices. 6-17. DAUGHERTY A JACKS