Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1873 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

Thursday, July 31, 1873.

A HAVING OF 25 PER CENT. IN A PORTION OF THE NECESSARY EXPENSES OF E VER Y PA TRON OF THE RENSSSELAER UNION GUARANTEED TO ALL ‘THAT ACT ON THE SUGGESTIONS WHICH WILL POSITIVELY, AND WITHOUT FAIL, APPEAR IN THIS SPACE NEXT WEEK. LOOK HERE EVERYBODY, AUGUST Ith, 1878.

Grasshoppers are reported unusually numerous in fneadtfws this season. A good gaiter for SI.BO at Hopkins*/ The different orthodox denominations of this vicinity hold a union meeting in the Baptist church in Rensselaer, next Sabbath, at which a largo attendance is expected. AH shoes reduced in price at Hopkins’. New ripe apples of small size sold out of farmers’ wagons in this place for $1 a bushel. Grocers retail them to consumers for 30 cents a peck. No better stock of groceries in the county than Hopkins keeps. . Among the improvements in process of building at Remington are a calaboose and a public pound; the former in-which- to-shut up unruly men and the latter to keep cattle that violato law. Ludd Hopkins has 10 barrels of sugar, to be sold by the dollars’ worth or by the barrel. An interesting letter from a gentleman of Rensselaer, who is now traveling in Illinois, lowa and Wis-consin;-has to be laid over until next issue on account of the crowd of other matter. Changes will be furnished blank diaalte for 10 cents a dozen, on appli--cation at this office. Dr. S. C. Maxwell has between eight hundred and a thousand grape vines in bearing condition in his fine garden at Remington. They ought to yield him SSOO worth of fruit this their first season of bearing. ”• 1 ■ ■ ■ Secretaries of Granges can procure blank applications for membership at /this office, for 10 cents a dozen. A basket meeting will lie held in the grove near Burns’ school house in Barkley township, Sunday, August 10th, 1813. Presiding Elder J. Cowgill will be present. Everybody invited to attend. No. 1 winter wheat flour, warranted of best quality or money refunded, at the mill for $3.30 per sack. Second quality of flour for $1.50 per sack. About SOO. worth of people went from this vicinity to soe Barnum at Lafayette. Barnum advertised $lO worth in this paper, and cleared SSO by the operation. Moral: when you have a good thing, advertise it in This Union. A few pieces of dry goods, hats, caps, boots, shoes 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. Rev. C. G. Brown, of the Methodist Episcopal denomination, who in former years preached in Gillam township and through the eastern .borders of Jasper county, recently died very suddenly of heart disease vwhilo traveling in Minnesota.

The old Indian doctor is in town, with his little tomahawk brandished aloft and his scalping knife shotted for business. 110 has sung •his death-song, and his war-whoop “your money and your life,” gleams •from his eaglo eye. lie is thought Ko !>e a wandering chief of the Digger tribe, as lie is partially 'clothed in the skin of a wild animal, is dirty, and digs roots. Ho seems to have found, a good place to dig at Tutenr’s, on the race.— His patients who leave orders at this office for funeral notices, (which we are prepared to print with neatness), will havo their obituaries Ipublished gratis.

steam saw mill is in successful operation seven miles north of Rensselaer. Falley’e calf boots, at Hopkins’, for $6. Mprrill Mead, whilom a resident of Rensselaer, has at Remington the largest stock of jewelry, watches, table silver wear and musical instruments this side of Lafayette. Merrill seems to be doing a good business and we are glad of it.

Charley P. Hopkins, formerly a resident of this place and teacher of the defunct (but not lamented) brass band, is now devoting his attention to the polite arts of painting, glazing, paper hanging and amateur telegraphy, in the neighboring village of Prancesville.

Next week we expect to publish the revised premium list of the Jasper county Fair, together with the awarding committees. Everybody should .make calculations to attend the Fair, and encourage the efforts being made tt> develop our agricultural and mefchanical interests.

It is reported that Judgo Reed, of Monticello, has been retained by the temperance people of Remington as counsel in their litigations with the liquor men. They have a season contract with him and pay $5 a day and board. He collects his board like a country school ma’am, by visiting around with his clients.-

Mr. W. W. Foster’s marble shop at Remington has a splendid run of custom and the workmen aro kept as busy as bees to fill the orders they receive. Excellent work is done there and all hands connected with the establishment are gentlemen in their intercourse with strangers. _

Four fire and burglar proof safes have been received this week in Rensselaer by Dr. J. 11. Loughridge; Harding & Alter, druggists; Willey, Sigler & Halstead, merchants; and A. McCoy bankers. Six or eight weeks from now will be about the right time for enterprising burglars to tost the merits of these articles of ofiice furniture.

Father 11. M. Babb still has the run of custom at his well kept hotel in Remington. The venerable looking old gentleman is as lively as a cricket and as happy as a lark, being proprietor not only of 6ne of tho best supplied tables in Indiana and clean beds but also of a clear conscience voitl of offense towards God and man. Call at the Babb House when you stop in Remington. Butter is up a trifle in price this week, and sella for \2\ cents a pound. Spring chickens arc not plenty in market, and range in price from 10 cents to 16J cents each.— Plenty of new potatoes for 25 cents a peck. Best flour sells at $lO a barrel, or $2.30 a sack of 49 pounds. Fresh white fish ana trout, from Lake Michigan, sell out of ice-boxes for cents a ponnd. Fresh beef is worth 8 to 10 centp a pound.—■ Wheat bushel.