Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1874 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

HARDING & CHESNUT. f DRUGGISTS,! Rensselaer, Indiana, Would announce to the public that they, are still carrying on the DRUG BUSINESS AT THE CLD STAND where they keep constantly on hand a large, lull and fresh stock of : ■ '. ■ . \ ■ DRUGS, MEDICINES, PAINTS, OILS, i DYE SL# EPS, Also, an assortment of such School Rooks as are used inall the schoolsof Jasper county, STATIONERY, Toilet Articles Patent Medicines, Anything and everything from a bottle of Hall’s Balsam to a bottle of Vinegar Bitters, or a box of cathartic pills. PHYSICIA NS' PR ES CR 11 TIONS CAREFULLY COMPOUNDED And we arc always ready to wait on customers at sny hour of the day or night. HARDING & CHESN-UT. SEASONABLE HINTS TO FARMERS. My Friends: —l dtsire to call your attention to mv stock and manufactures for 1874. This season I shall sell the celebrated Ottawa Clipper Plows, wood and iron beams,manufactured at Ottawi, 111., by Maierhofer & Dent; the Indiana Cultivator, made at Dublin, Wayne county, lud.; Long & Allstetter’s Hamilton fay Rake; the Union Corn Planter; Single and Double" Shovel Plows, manufactured iu my own shop and under my personal supervision. These plows are made of (he best materials, by good workmen, and are perfectly adapted to work well in the soil of Jasper county. They cannot be excelled by any that are offered in the market. The Celebrated Champion Self-Raking P.eaper and Dropper, and the Champion Light Mower. The latter machine lias been called “The Pride of the Mfiulovv ami very appropriately* too,-as Its great strength and durability combined with its simplicity of construct ion »ud lightness make it fur superior to any other machine yet invented. Dp not buy a Reaper or Mower until you have seen the Champion. Wagons, Buggies and Carriages. Asia past seasons, 1 shall keep on hand and .make to order all kinds of vehkles for road and form purposes. For the quality of ntaTertatstita.diTrttrcirTrc 1 nstiuetiun, for elegance of design, for superiority of workmanship, beauty o! finish, strength, durability and adaptation to endure the strain of the imperfect roads and rough fields of our prairie country, rny carriages and wagons have won a reputation which places (hem iu the rank of tho very best. All kinds of wood work and wood repairing done at my shop with dispa'ch and neatness, by experienced mechanics. ’ AVe make'Wheelbarrows, Harrows, Plow Stacks. &.C., &.c. HOUSE, KITCHEN AND FARM HARDWARE I shall keep a good stock of Cook Stoves with furniture complete, both wood and coal burning Heating Stoves for offices and sitting looms, Axes, Hatchets, Hammers, Augurs, Saws, Gimlets, Files, Shovels, Spades, Hay Forks, Manure Forks, Spading Forks, Hoes, Rakes, Mattocks, Trace Chains, Halter Chains, Soap Kettier, Smoothing Irons, Garden Trowel*, Grass Hooks, Bolts, Screws, Wrought and Cut Nails, Carpet Tacks, Hinges, Pad Locks, Door Locks, the celebrated “Diamond” Table Cutlery, Pocket Cutlery, &c. Also, an assortment ot Tinware, Spade and Fork Handles, Augur Hauiiles, &c. BLAGKSMITHING In its several departments of Herse Shoeing, Wagon and Curriage Ironing. Plow Making and Sharpening, and General Repairing, done to order neatly and substantially. Thanking the public for past liberal favors it will he my endeavor to merit a continuation of patronage, by Trading Low for Cash, strict attention to business, and courteous treatment to all. NORMAN WARNER. G-2G. Front Street, Rensselaer. Indiana.

REPORT OF RAILROAD TAX REFUNDED. Slate of Indiana, Jasper county, ss: Commissioners’Court,-June term, 1874. Tqthk Honorable, the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana : The undersigned herewith submits to your Board tho books and papers showing the plan adopted by him to execute the order of your Board, made at the last December term in relation to refunding the lax levied and collected to aid in tho construction of the Fort Wayne and Pacific Railroad ; and, also, the following statement of Iho condition of the fund thus held in trust by the county: At the time your order to refund was made, there had been collected and paid into the treasury from the assessment, (only the.-iiet amount of collections on duplicate of 1870 can be given,) $47,519 18 Interest collected and paid in by L. W. Hcnkle 192 64 Total.,. ;•••"; •••• * 47 ’ 711 3* There had been paid out at the same time as follows: On account of election services $ 36 13 Making railroad duplicate oi 1871, ar.d interest on warrants therefor 257 95 Treasurer’s fees for collections, except tho fees for collections on duplicate of 1870, which 1 am not able to ascertain from tho records of my 0ffice...........................1............... 363-56 Refunded by order of the Board 17 91 Erroneous taxes refunded on warrants of the Auditor 7 51 $ 682 06 Leaving net amount in th’e treasury at the time we begin to refund $17,029 76 Up to and including this date 2,526 refunding warrants have been drawn on tffe treasury,amounting to $44,011 94 Of this amount there was refunded for money erroneously drawn on affidavit of claimant - 10 09 Net amount of disbursements to Ibis date $44,001 85 Leaving amount in treasury iu excess of warrants drawn....... $ 3,027 91 The Board will notice that the amount remaining in tiie treasury Is divided into small claims, many of them less than one dollar and few reaching to tea dpllars, At these several' amounts belong mostly to nonresidents a' considerable portion of it, no donbt, will be forfeited to the county fuud under tbs two years clause of the law authouziug tlio refunding ; so thatthere U now no probable loss to accrue to the people of tho county on account of this money passing .through their treasury. _ , Thus far no valid claim has been presented for money that has not reached the treasury. In cases where there have been claims for greater amounts than was charged upon the duplicate, of which class there have been several, the ruling of this office has been uniformly to refund only the ainonr.t charged upon the record, even when the claim was based upon the treasurer's receipt- The grounds for suob ruling will be readily understood by persons acquainted with the principles of law governing such payments. . Respectfully submitted, > Bonsselier, Indiana. June stb, 1874. ■ ; County. Examined and approved in open coqrt this-Sth day of Jons. published. - \ ■ jared BENJAMIN, Samuel McCullough, Board of Commissioners of Jasper County. . - * . . ' - ' ' . ' 7* >. , a ; ~y . ‘, \ ..