Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1873 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

Thursday, July 24, 1873.

Sow turnip seed. .Almost a frost Sunday night. A good gaiter for SI.BO at Hopkins’. Huckleberries up to 10 cents a quart and scarce. Workmen are engaged putting up Dr. Moss’ new dwelling. Falley’s calf boots, at Hopkins’, for $6. Thos. J. Spitlcr commenced laying the walls of his new brick office last Monday. Messrs. Braddock <fc Bro., "have sold their harness shop to a Mr. Baker, recently from Texas. All shoes reduced in price at Hopkins’. Charley Platt and Moses Tutcur •have dissolved partnership in the grocery business, the latter retiring. Seespecial-notice else where. *-r <• Uncle George Kanual is having the brick and other material for a ■residence delivered on his premises, and will commcnco building before many days. No better stock of groceries in the ■county than Hopkins keeps. Justice Lewis, <t of Jordan township, will to day try Jared H. Fountain, of Remington, ior unlawfully selling liquor. Change of venue from Remington. 777 Ludd Hopkins has 10 barrels of sugar, to be sold by the dollars' worth or by the barrel. The fashion editor of Spider’s Real Estate Gazette says ladies ■who desire can procure ladders of Marshal. Spangle to complete the toilet of their back hair. Granges will be furnished blank diinits for 10 cents a dozen, on application at this office. M. L. Spitler, l£sq., and Col. Healey started this morning to attend a meeting of those interested in the Indianapolis, Delphi and Chicago railroad, to be held at Monticcllo to-day. Secretaries of Granges can procure blank applications for membership at this office, for 10 cents a dozen. See the card of Mr. Daniel B. Miller in another column. Dau. is a notary public and real estate cagent and his place ot business is With T. J. Spitler at the Court House. Give him a call. No. 1 winter wheat flour, warranted of best quality or money refunded, at the mill for $2.30 per sack. Second quality of flour for $1.50 per sack. Justice Jeffries, of Remington, yesterday taxed Timothy O’Conner $lO to be applied in benefit of the school fund, because said O’Conner “sold liquor to an intoxicated mail. Case appealed to Circuit court. A few pieces of dry goods, hats, xmps, boots, shoes and notions left of the old stock belonging to the late Thomas Hollingsworth, at Emmet Kanual’s drugstore, will be sold at -great bargains in order to close out. Several ladies, we learn, are preparing needlework to exhibit at the Fair this fall, and it is thought this and the culinary department will excel the exhibition of last season. Let everybody strive to prepare a display that shall reflect creditably upon the industries of our county.

Billy Terhune, of Lafayette, is visiting his parents in Rensselaer this week. Billy successfully engineers a fascinating mustache, and looks as though be was well fed. Mrs. Sydney McClure, wife of Allen A.McClure, and niece of Col. Granville Moody, of Cincinnati, died in this place last Sunday, after a lingering illness of nearly seven months. _ The rotund abdomen of Silas Stockton, one of the commissioners of Tippecanoe county, formerly a resident of Jasper, was plainly visible to (he naked eye perambulating the beautiful streets of Rensselaer, this week. •jj t Rev. J. B. DeMotte says if we would cut our religious exchanges more, and use the clippings to fill up The Union with, it might be more valuable and interesting to its readers. But ou,r Reverend friend forgets the empty seats of liis church this hot weather notwithstanding the excellent quotations from religious literature delivered there on Sabbath days. Last Sunday Charles Bruce, aged about ,16, son of Henry C. Bruce, Esq., living three miles south of town, was thrown from a horse and received severe injuries about his head and left shoulder. He lay in a partially eomatoue.state for several hours afterdate! s> and tor a while it was feared a fatal result might follow, but at last account he was thought to be slowly recovering. The Indianapolis Journal calls the “Sand Bur” correspondent of the Laporto Herald, who has beeii writing from this place this summer, a he. Do not know r where or in what, manner, the Journal man ascertained the sex of that individual, but if correct several youngsters in Rensselaer who have been treating to ice cream, carriage rides and other spooney attentions had it played exceedingly fine on them. Mr. W. W. Foster, proprietor of the marble shop at Remington, was in town this week. For beauty, excellence of workmanship, and reasonableness in price, his manufactures are not rivalled by any shop in the State. We are glad he is receiving liberal patronage, because he has proven to be worthy of it, and because it is excellent policy to encourage manufacturing establishments to locate in the county. Some of the finest marble and best finished monuments in Weston cemetery were furnished by Mr. Foster. The Remington Journal did not make its appearance at this office last week, and consequently we have no items from that source. Since the foregoing was in type, but too late for quotations, two copies were received at the Rensselaer post-office, one of which was addressed to the '•'•Tribune" and the other to another man, neither of whom lives in this vicinity. These circumstances give rise to a painful suspicion that some of the Journal/‘boys” have been indulging in a lunch of “old cheese” from somebody’s bottle. Go sin no more. Col. Jared 11. Fountain, of Remington, whose name has been brought into considerable prominence of late, honored Rensselaer with his presence one day this week. The Col. had a dejected appearance and seems to have lost a portion of that cheerfulness, rotuiidity and suavity which enveloped him as with a halo before the evil days of female persecutions fell upon his whiskey saloon. The women and public sentiment are evidently getting the best of the battle, and from appearances he must ultimately succumb to circumstances over which he seems to have but little control. It is merely ft question of time. Tom. Spitler bought a fine Urge now safe this week to put into his office, now in process of construction. The safe is one of the kind with a patent combination lock; and the explanation for opening it was sent m a letter by mail. Four men were employed all day Tuesday to affect an entrance by its front door, but the better they understood how the old thing worked the more securely it seemed to fasten against them. Yesterday, ho w ever, by a judicious applic ati on of coal oil, screw-drivers, monkeywrenches, and sledge-hammcrß, a combination was effected by which a rear entrance was gained, after which there was little difficulty in going through the front door.— Tom feels triumphant now.

Mr. Circuit Prosecutor S. P. | Thompson started to Wi scon sprit last Monday, to Collect evidence in the McCullongh-Morgan murder case, which conics up for trial before Judge Hammond at the September term of the Benton County Circuit court.

Norman Warner’s hardware store is kept well supplied with the best quality of goods. His stock is not the largest in the world, but it is about the best of the kind to be found in America. One great secret of his selling so many goods while others are growling about hard times is, lie sells cheap; and another reason is he advertises judiciously.

Readers of The Union will not oterlcfok the advertisement of P. T. Baruum’s great show, Which will be on exhibition at Indianapolis July 28th and 29th, Lafayette, July 30th, Danville, 111., July 31st, Terre Haute, August Ist,, and Mattoon, 111., August 2d. This is the grandest show of the nineteenth century and one of the most stupendous enterprises ever undertaken by a private individual. There are more than 100,000 curiosities on exhibition, the collection of which cost more than one and a half millions of dollars.. As Lafayette is the nearest point to us it will visit this year, quite a number will go down from Rensselaer, starting next Tuesday morning.

Miss Mary M. Nichols, teacher of school number 1, Hanging Grove township, reports for the term ending June 27th, 1873, as follows: Number of pupils enrolled, 18; average attendance, 16 l-10tli. Ella Parkison, Josie Parkison, Jaley Parkison and Charles Itishlirig perfect in attendance. This is the last report that will be published without teachers complying with the following regulations, to-wit: 1. Give number of pupils enrolled. 2. Avefage attendance. 3. Names of pupils for publication must be only those who have been perfect in punctuality, attendance, deportment and study. „ 7 i A failure in either of the particulars enumerated in the third requirement will cause an omission of the names reported; and a failure to conform to requirements 1 and 2 will cause the whole report to go into the waste basket.

Messrs. Thompson & Bro. were recipients this week of the cal and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion,” two large volumes, presented by Senator D. D. Pratt to the Iroquois Library Association for public reference.— Senator Pratt writes “I had but twelve copies originally for distribiUion over the State at large.. As. the work is a very costly and rare one, and not accessible for money or love to the members of the profession at large, I have thought I but reflected my duty in the matter by placing such copies as were alotted to me in public libraries at convenient points and making it a condition of the deposit, no matter what the character of the library, whether college, township, or stock company, that for purposes of reference it should be accessible to ftll physicians and surgeons wherever they may live, notice of the fact of a deposit should be published for the Information of such. Now in sendliig you this, nearly the last copy I have, I desire to impose on the deposit the same condition. I dbn’t ivant it locked up in a physician’s library or that; it is put there for the common benefit.” Wo know every person in this vicinity will thank Senator Pratt for bis gift when they learn its value. The work is one of vast importance to tiie science of surgery, being a careful collection of cases that came under the observation of army surgeons during the war of the rebellion and were by them reported at Washington. It has taken many years’ labor to ar-

! range these reports, tables, etc., for ! publication, and their gratuitous distribution by the government fop the use of all physicians, sut-geons and others interested, is an act which reflects credit upon those who manage public affairs. The science of surgery has never had a more valuable accession to its literature.