Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1874 — LOCAL GOSSIP. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL GOSSIP.

A case of scarlet fever is reported In town. Potatoes retail for 35 cents a peck, out here. The first order for railroad tax refunded was issued Monday to Mr. Kingan of Keener township. Eggs are quite abundant for the season of year, and we heard them offered for 15 cents a dozen, day before yesterday. Competition between rival dealers lias decreased the price of good Pittsburg coal at Remington to $7 and S“i per ton. Mr. Thos. Boroughs is in the northern part of Jasper this week, organizing a company of resident land-owners to drain that region of country. * Mr. J. H. Wood has discontinued the use of coal oil as a fire persuader aitice he dismantled bis coal stove the other day, and came near firing $5,000 worth of property. Terms of insurance ought to be More favorable now.

That little building which was recently’ wheeled up into Hue -below Wood's hard ware store, and now undergoing repairs, will be occupied by R. 8. Dwlggins & Co. for a law office. Dr. R. Y. Martin has moved into the office one door above the stone store occupied by It. 8. Dwlggins <fe Co.), where he may be consulted upon professional subjects. Up to date no ice has been harvested tills season, and the prospect at present iudicates a thin crop. Last uight the crop sprouted two or three Inches, but it don’t look as if it would grow much. Down at Hannas Eger’s it is announced that pigs’ feet and oysters are sold by the can or dish. Take a can of pig’s feet home with you, and let wife and babes have a square meal occasionally. ' „ It doesn’t loiik as though the fire ordinance was being faithfully observed, when 9tove pipes are seen to protrude from a lower story window.-, of a house in the business part of town. Somebody will suffer from such carelessness one Of these cold evenings, possibly. An interesting revival of religion is reported in progress at, the Crawford school house in Hanging (trove township, about eight miles east of this place. Nightly meetings are held by the Disciple or Carupbellite denomination, and several converts have been immersed. The office of this paper will shorjtly be removed from its present quarters to a room lieitig prepared for it over Mr. Wood's hardware store. We shall probably move on the 23d or 24th inst. Patrons who receive their*paper at the office of publication will please bear this notice in mind. Just as soon now as possible commence grafting fruit trees. If grape vlr.es were not pruned and iaid down last fail, have them pruned during January or February, before the sap starts to flow. As soon as frost is out of tlie ground—at the first thaw—stick down currant and tiooseherry cuttiugs, first cutting away the buds from the parts that are put below ground. Do all this kind of work as soon now as possible, and have it out of the wav of tater spring duties. After paying your taxes, doctor bills, store accounts, hired help, and subscribing for a city paper because it is cheap and gives a 10-eent chrorno premium, if v«u have any money over out of your refunding order that you cannot loan at 15 per cent, interest or do not wish to invest in stock, recollect to apply it upon your unsettled account at this office. Remember how patient and lenient we have been with you, remeinlrer how long we have waited—and be just. Old and infirm persons need some mild tonic or gentle stimulant, especially in warm weather. Tlie wine made in New Jersey by a Mr. Speer, called Speer’s I’ort Grape Wine, is used in tlie Atlantic States, as the best tonic wine known, and is regarded as pure.—Advertisement. It is well known by many that there has been some number one marble work erected in tlie cemetery at Rensselaer, which came from Mr. Foster’s shoo at Remington. Messrs. Riley & Shepherd, (tlie men who were employed by Mr. Foster to do that work), have now.started ashopin Remington for themselves. Mr. Riley and Mr. Shepherd both are practical marble cutters, and dotheirown work, which enables them to furnish tlie same style of work much cheaper than those who have to hire their work done. Riley & Shepherd respectfully invite all to call at their shop (one door west of D. V. Garrison’s harness shop), and learn their prices, before purchasing of those who kuow nothing about tlie business. Riley & Shepherd Of the great painter, Sir Edwin Landseer, the'lmperial Biography of Art savs: "No English painter has been more popular, and none—except Sir Thomas Lawrence—has received such immense sums for his works.— For the copyright of some of his pictures lie obtained £3,000 ($15,000), in addition to tlie original price of tlie j picture. It was a master strokewhen the publishers of The Christian at Work presented the triple combination of a magnificent ehromo (about two by two and a half feet in size) of Landseer’s great painting of dogs and sheep—‘The Twins’—with Talmage as editor of their paper, and Spurgeon as special contributor. They deserve success, and will get it. Write to them at 102 Chambers street. N. Y., for sample copies and terms. Agents wanted. See their advertisement.