Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1873 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

Thursday, September 25, 1873.

There are any quantity of ducks about the river now to furnish sport and good diet for hunters. * . - • 1 T Teachers’ Institute commences to hold its annual session for 1873, nett Monday. Come down and attend it. J. Horn, lock and gunsmith, at Healy & Meyers’s shoe shop, will repair sewing machines. 6-l-4t. ■ I » ♦ »' ■ New soft corn is quoted at 25 cents a bushel, good new corn at 35 centg old corn at 40 cents in Rensselaer. it is reported that Gen. Irwin, of the Wabash & ■ Lake Michigan railroad project, is not Io be heard of. Vlall At J. I, Purcupile & bo.’s for Boots, snbes, dry woods, hats, caps, clothing. &c., for fall and winter wear. ’ The public is informed there is “Korn Mele fur Sail Ilea?’ a sign which ornaments a coiPer grocery at Remington. —; « ► — Judge Chase sentenced the boy Stowers charged with stealing money from Mr. McCurtain, of Barkley township, to thirty days in jail. — Fall dry goods, clothing, boots, shoes, hats, &c., &c., at J. I. Purcupile & Co.’s. Call and examine the new stock. Father Babb has a good square meal and clean bed at reasonable prices for the weary traveler who has occasion to visit Remington. — Call and see him.

I. Shortridge has been perambulating about the northern part of Jasper county, and says there is an immense amount of the finest hay iii g,hat section for stock.— Lowell Star. A fresh arrival of boots and shoes, consisting of calf and custom made “kip at bottom prices, at Hopkins’. So far as we have heard, Judge Chase has created a favorable impression upon those who have business to transact in the Circuit court this week. Wm. Dalson, formerly near Hebron, is trying to prove the propriety of raising peanuts upon some of the sand ridges-o-f Jasper county, with rather promising success so far. — Lowell Star. Jeans, fiame’s, waterproofs and yarn 20 per cent, cheaper than hist year at Hopkins’. A portion of the north abutment of the iron bridge across the Iroquois, hear Mr. Joseph Robinson’s , place, a mile east of town, has been partially undermined and is falling ..down. All who subscribe Tiow Tbr“Tb.cF Rensselaer Union for 1874, will' receive it during the months of October, November andDeceniber, 1873, free. Come in and subscribe before jou go home from court. 29 head of good two years old ■steers and IO head of good threeyears old steers lor sale cheap. Call at the hardware store, Rensselaer, Ind. J. H. Wood. The teachers of Jasper county will hold their annual Institute in Rensselaer next week. Have not heard of much preparation being shade, but presume those interested 'will endeavor to improve on previ--o u s sees ions. ’. - ■ ■ Samuel Daugherty, the livery •stable man, leaped from a runaway team on Saturday and’ sustained a shock that rendered him unconscious for several hours, but next imoruing was attending to’business as usual.

Wo will send The Rensselaer (Union free for ithe balance of tliife jy«aT,:to all who renew their subscriptions, or who subscribe for 1874, and paiy $2 in advance. James & Healey. . Judge Chase feeds ■ at Mr. R. J. Hopkins’s table this week, which fact accounts in a great measure for that pleased, satisfied expression that overspreads his intellect" ual countenance. There are few better cooks on thi s mtind anc sphere than Mrs. Hopkins and her table is always loaded with the best in market. We can confidently recommend Speer’s Port Grape as a superior article of Wipe for the sick and debilitated, and, al I'those who re* quire yinous stimulation and invigoration. We trust it will take the place ot the nbxious imitations so much in use. Physicians continue to employ the Port Grape Wine in y their practice in all cases where a pure article of wine is culled for. and do all in theirpower to foster and entWDrxte its production. *

The jury in the case of Al. Sny» der, implicated in the Wormet outrage, after meditating in the jury room fifteen hours or more, returned a verdict of guilty of assault and battery with intent to kill and sentenced the prisoner to two years in the penitentiary. - Secretaries of Granges can procure blank applications for membership at this office; for 10 cents a dozen. The jury before whom John Newcome was tried Tuesday, brought in a verdict of guilty of an assault and battery with intent to kill the Wormet family. In consideration that Newcome is but sixteen years of age the penalty inflicted was merciful and he was sentenced to pay a fine of SIOO and to .be imprisoned in the county jail for six months. Do not forget the advantage there is in selecting boots and shoes from a large; new stock of goods in which there are no culls or refuse articles.— J. I. Purcupile & Go. have several thousand dollars’ worth of boots and shoes, just received, for the fall and winter trade.

Uncle Felix R. Donnelly returned t<s his home in Remington last Thursday; after spending a couple of mouths of so in Texas. He likes Texas—?ays it is a fine country, with fine climate fi ne P ros " peets—but business is duii, times hard, and the manners and customs of the people are not altogether agreeable to a Northern man. He. thinks he would like to go with a colony and settle in that State, but to go alone or with only—two or three families —oh, no sir, no I Please excuse Phelix R. I still have a few pairs of Lafayette boots which I will sell at the prices started out with—s4.so cash down.— Also as good boot as heretofore offered at $4.50, for $4. Bear in mind that I do not ’’wait ’till tomorrow” at these prices. LuddHOPKins. The Grange Store lias just received a large and well-selected stock of quecnsware, which will be sold very low for cash or country produce. Wehave also a good stock of glassware, that will be sold as cheap as the market will permit. Call and examine our stock before purchasing any where else. Daugherty A Jacks, Rensselaer, Indiana. In view of the hard times sure to follow the great financial crash which has overtaken capitalists during the past week, it behooves all people to lessen their expenditures and live as economically as possible. And one . way to begin is to buy your store goods where the best articles can be | had for the least money. For dry goods, boots, shoes, clothing, etc., try J. I. Purcupile & Co.

To those who got work done at their blacksmith shop and promised to pay “after harvest,” “in three or four weeks,” or in “a day or two,” Messrs. Duvall & GofT would suggest that harvest is now over, three or four weeks have past, a day or two have gone by and time is up. Now come up to time and pay like gentlemen.— It takes money to run .a blacksmith shop and those who owe us are urgently requested to pay immediately aS we need money, Mid money must come—peaceably if possible, forcibly if must.