Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1873 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

Thursday, June 20, 1673.

So many of our patrons who have heretofore had their copies of This Union delivered at the post Office in Rensselaer having intimated a desire to receive them at this "office hereafter, we are led to think it is nearly a universal wish, and that most all who have not mentioned it to us, either forgot to do so or had not opportunity. Therefore after this issue we shall retain in our office all copies for local patrons not 'expressly ordered to be delivered in the post office. Those who take The Union through the post office after this week will bo required to pay postage thereon at the rate of twenty cents per annum, or five bent a quarter, in advance. Our office will be open daily, except Sundays, from 7 o’clock a. m. to 12 o’clock M., and from 1 o’clock r. si. Io 6 o’clock p. m. Sprint; shawls at Purcupile & Co.’s. The thermometer - (Farcnheit’s) indicated 98° in the shade, Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Alfred McCoy’s dwelling j came near b'ftrnirig down one day laat week. There was barely time to save it from destruction. A large accumulation of old newspapers, uncut, and suitable for bustles and things, for sale at this office for ten cents a dozen. Latest styles of percales at Purcupile & Co.’s. "Messrs. Abbett Bros, this week invoiced their stock of hardware to Mr. John 11. Wood»lwho is now proprietor of the establishment and appurtenances belonging thereto. On Saturday and Sunday, July sth and 6th, a basket meeting will be held in the grove near Alter’s anill, seven miles north of Rensselaer. Everybody is invited to attend. 300 pounds of Clarence carpet warp just received at Purcupile & Co.’s. Quarterly meeting will bo held in the Methodist Episcopal church Saturday and Sabbath, June 28th and 29th, instants. Rev. J. W. T. McMullin, Presiding Elder, will he present. ' Ed. Tharp and Oilier Hough generously donated $5 each to the fund for educational purposes, last Thursday evening, llough provoked, Tharp-assaulted, Justice Hard-, ing fined. - ..... Save your potatoes by getting some of Kaonal’s “Potato Bug Exterminator.” Frst clip of huckleberries for the season of 1873, were brought to this market last Saturday. With a copious rain soon it is thought there would be a large quantity ot this fruit. Thanks to Miss Fannie Walton and Miss- Weathers for bouquets of roses, dianthus, and other fragrant flowers; they are charming ornaments for office , parlor or sick room. Miss Louie Hammond also is thanked for delicious strawberries. — „ J.l- I .* »»' ! i Why do Purcupile & Co. sell so much jeans? Because they buy cheap and sell for small profits. Dr. Moses B. Alter has repurchased the interest in Harding’s drug store, sold by him several months since. The new firm does business under the old namo of Jlarding & Alter, which was so favorably known through the county. Retail liquor sellers of Jasper county may save SSOQ fine and much annoyance by posting up #spicuous place, as the law directs. 'These ornaments bring no more .disgrace to a house than the traffic -they license. 'The nicest assortment of children’s . shoes and slippers, ever in this market, .at Purcupile & Co.’s. At a regular meeting of Iroquois 'Lodge No. 143, I. O. O. F., held Jast Tuesday evening, the following officers were elected for the ..ensuing six months: -C. C. Starr, Noble Grand. ‘ Abraham Leopold, Vice Grands* T. J. Spltler, Recording and Permanent Secretary. G. \V. Terhune, Treasurer. Rev. J. B, DeMotte attended the exercises of Indiana Asbury University at Green•castle, last week, and presents us a copy of its triennial catalogue for 1872 and 1873 j for \yhich thanks arc given. His son, John B. T)eMottc, Jr., is a member . of the Junior class and also a tutor in mathematics and English,

Old man Wormet, who was shut in the abdomen with a load of buck-shot several weeks ago, has nearly recovered from the effects of that murderous assault. . Ho was in town Monday, having ridden upwards ot twenty miles in a farm and went home the same evening. His two boys, also shot at the same time, are getting along finely. 3,000 yards of brown muslin, from 12i to 16]} cents a yard, just received at Purcupile & Co.’s. Parties wishing to celebrate our Nation’s natal day after the manner of their fathers will do well to lay in a supply oicorn juice for that purpose, before 9 a’elock p. at. of July 3d. The new temperance law prohibits the sale ofliquor on public holidays, and between the hours of 9 o’clock p. m. and 6 o’clock a. m, of any day. Granges will be furnished blank dimits for 10 cents a dozen, on application at this office. The Board of Commissioners of Jasper cotfnty in their annual report to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for the year ending May 31st, 1873, show the totaLamount of’ Congressional township school fund held in trust by them at the above date was $43,684.34. The number of acres of unsold Congressional township school land in the county is 2,750, the estimated value of which is $4,100# Amount of common school fund on hand, $10,202.30. Purcupile & Co. have the best buckle plow shoes to be found in the market; also laced plow shoes. Mr. John M. Austin sustained slight cuticular abrasions on Tuesday while clerking for the chimney builder in his new hotel building. He had just brought m a hat full of brick, and stepped up on an empty nail keg to pass them aloft, when the treacherous craft gave a lurch to leeward and Commodore Austin fell with hts back across some loose timbers, and while in that situation caught a falling brick with Bis nether lip. He immediately employed a substitute to fill his place, and viewed subsequent progress from a safe position on a covered porch on the opposite side of the street. Every one that wants a good pair of boots or slioes should not fail to call on Purcupile & Co. Mr. Auditor Bibcock's report to the Superintendent of Public Instruction June 17th, 1873, showed the enumeration of school children And the apportionment of tuition revenue in Jasper county, to be as follows: TOWNSHIP. CH’d’N. REV. Hanging Grove 175 $ 623.21 Gillam 243 631.24 Walker * 134 440.50 Barkley 363 1,349.53 Rensselaer (town of) 245 630.45 Marten 400 1,039.09 Jordan 174 583.15 Newton 171 462.83 Keener 44 316.01 Kankakee 85 397.57 Wheattield 62 374.40 Carpenter 310 1,318.91 Remington (town of) 186 703.59 Milroy 91 324.70 ■Union 109 484.61 Totals 2,792 $9,695.79 Secretaries of Granges can procure blank applications for membership at this office, for 10 cents a dozen, 72 pairs of men’s plow packs just received at Purcupile & Co.’s, and will be sold as low as they can be afforded in this market. • * A few cents worth of Kannal’s. potato bug poison will kill more bugs in one day than you can kill with your hands in a week. A few pieces of dry goods, hats, caps, boots, slioes and notions left of the old stock belonging to the late Thomas Hollingsworth, at Emmet Kannal’s drug store, will be sold at great bargains in order to close out. 10 lbs. dried peaches, extra, for $ 1,00 9‘ “ choice N. O. Sugar, “ 1.00 10 “ brown “ “ “ 1.00 7i “ “A” white “ “ 1.00 4 “ choice coffee, for 1.00 Natural leaf tea, per lb, 75 Prunes, per lb, 15 Extra yard wide muslin, per yd, 12j A few pieces fine cassimere, new styles calico and choice selection of percales, at Ludd Hopkins’. Owing to the present prospect of the Continenal we have laid in our spring stock of dry goods, consisting of staple and fancy dress goods, sjlks of different styles," Japanese stripes, white goods, hair cloth, plaid ginghams, black alpaca, calico in great quantity, lawns, etc. 3,000 yards of brown muslin. I t 1,600 yards of bleached muslin. 2,500 yards of jeans for from 25 cents to To cents per yard. , Carpet warp. Spring shawls in latest styles. Bed spreads. ' Laces, ribbons and notions of all kinds. We have seperated our boot and shoe department from our other goods and moved it into another room, and now show the nioest and most extensive assortment of men’s, women’s and children’s wear ever brought to this market. Our stock of Philadelphia shoes is complete. We will be pleased to have our old customers, and all others who will do so, come in and examine out goods. .. . • J. I. Purcupile & Co.

Three brevet widowers are now enjoying the horrors of single blessedness in this delightful town, and being treated to a foretaste of that Utopian era when the doctrines of Mesdames Stanton* Anthony & Co., (blast them), shall be popular.The better fractions of these three wretched males are away visiting their mammas, add perhaps flirting with old beaus—playmates at school may be. Do not know how the other two make it, but we are rapidly becoming discouraged, as the novelty of the situation gives place to monotony. Spider ■webs, dust, bits of straw, feathers, grease spots appear mysteriously and in frightful profusion about our quarters, notwithstanding the fact that neatness and order are among our most carefully cultivated virtues.— In some unaccountable way the chairs get into the middle of the room and become occupied by various articles of personal apparel. Only the other morning one of our boots was found on the table and the other one under the stove, while our hat was keeping cool in a bucket of water. Several strange cats, with glaring eyes, have lately been seen to scoot through the house after dark; they impudently inspect our larder when the hot water is used up and the boot-jack is away out of reach under the bed. Occasionally these feline brutes amuse themselves about two o’clock iu the morning with a diabolical attempt lo sing a stave or two of “Home, sweet home.” At such tinl?s one cau’t enjoy religion with any degrec*of satisfaction, and feels as though he would like to croquet those cats with a stave from a cooper shon, or a piece of Handel, Wish cats were cut off in the budding of youth. Our bed has a wilted, dejected appei'ance, and the pillows look crushed and broken-hearted. They seem as though brooding over some deep, hidden, undermining sorrow that is silently wearing away their naturally robust proportions, leaving but hard, lank skeletons where once was founded German type of beautyT For some cause our appetite is becoming dilapidated, and victuals don’t relish well. It is not from surfeit, because we are very frugal tii our diet. The experiences of two weeks have convinced us that it is not a good plan to poach eggs in water that has been used to boil potatoes with their skins on; something might be urged in favor of the plan on the score of economy, but eggs cooked in this manner lose their delicate flavor and their pearly and golden tints become discolored. Coffee made in the same utensil that pork steak has been fried in is rich with essential oil, but sadly deficient in delightful aroma. Pound cake put into a hot oven at breakfast time, in a stove filled to the lids with oak wood and left until noon these warm summer days, is apt to have a thick, glossy, black frosting; it will also be bitter in flavor like lager beer, and too short and crisp lor pleasant mastication. Nobody looking at such a cake would call it light any more than they would thing of saying a Guinea negro’s complexion is light, yet it will float on water as buoyantly as a piece of cork. For several hours after ..baking is done according to the foregoing recipe a peculiar odor may bo detected in and about the premises; but that need cause no alarm, as it don’t smell worse than disinfectants kept in drug stores. There is a somewhat queer taste about cherries stewed in fresh lard and sweetened with sorghum molasses, which some people may like; but a small dish served up in this style has proved an economical luxury. Do not remember when anything nice has ever appeared on the table while Julia Ann was at home that lasted near as long. It must be she is a ravenous gourmand; that matter will need investigating when she comes back. Perhaps it is a good plan to mix dough for crullers and light bread, and set if out doors on the south side of the house to rise; we say “perhaps” because we are not really satisfied on that pojut; a flock of our neighbor’s hens assisted by a stub-tailed yellow dog and three runtling pigs, interposed obstacles preventing satisfactory experiment in that direction. We now buy crackers and bread Irom tho bakery.