Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1874 — MASS CONVENTION. [ARTICLE]

MASS CONVENTION.

• .ThtS independent voters of Newton county are fequested to meet in Mass Convention at Brook, on Saturday, August 8t1«,.1574, For the purpose of nominating candidates for the several county officers to be elected in October, and to select delegates to the Representative, Senatorial and Congressional conventions. By order of Central Committee,

O. W. MCILWANE,

Chairman.

Ripe melons are for sale in Rensselaer. Potatoes arc small, scarce, and one —dollar a hushcl. ... The market price for oats started at thirty cents a bushel this season. Ripe apples and “windfalls” soil for seventy-five cents a bushel in this town. — Only a few blackberries or huckleberries are brought to market this season. Oram, the Dentist, will put in one, two, three, four, or an entire set of teyih for you cheap. J. 11. Wood has just received a choice selection of the celebrated Seth Thomas cloeks ; call and sec them. The Francesviile Banner wants a correspondent at Rensselaer. It is an excellent, ably conducted local paper. The Grangers will have a picnic and grand rally at this place on the B*l t- of September. See programme elsei where. Judge Hammond is holding court ' in White county forjudge Vinton. — This is his third consecutive week over there, Last Saturday John Crawford, son of Mr. David Crawford, six miles east of here, was thrown from a horse and severely bruisgd. One of Mr. Hcfiry Welch’s sons was thrown from a horse a couple of weeks since, ami received a fracture of his collar hone. It is expected that Rev. D. L. Rice, of Hillsdale, Michigan, will preach in the Baptist church next Sabbath, August fid. at 10:30 A. M. ■ *"' ' Mr. Daniel Duvall’s ,accommodation hack and express line on the Remington road, makes quick trips and is deserving of patronage. The corpse of an infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel O. Duvall was sent •up from Momence, Illinois, and buried cengetery at this place last Sunday.

A basket nice,ti'ii;' will be held in the grove near Egypt School House Sunday, Avgust 9th; Services at 11 o-’clock a, lit, and 3 o'clock p. m. Tire public are invited.

Iu noticing a recent visit to Chat place by Mr..L. C. Janes, treasurer of this county, the Medaryville Guard truthfully designates him as “a pleasant and agreeable old gentleman.”

Mrs. H. B. Miller will ale embroidering and line sewing, dam pies of her work done for Mrs. Burnham, .are pronounced very nice by those competent to judge of such things.

A protracted drought is drying up wells, destroying pasturage and threatening serious damage to crops' in a portion of Jasper county in the midst /»f which lr Rensselaer. We have mot yet heard the.calamity attributed •to the Grangers, although some of them suffer from .its effects.

, Rev. J. McClintoek, of Good land," .will lecture in the grove near Alter’s Mill, the 3d Sabbath in August. At 10:30 a. m. his subject will be “The .Different Church Governments.” Tlis afternoon lecture will be “The Dillereuces of Church Governments.” A general invitation is extended to th& public to attend.

We are requested to announce that Hon. J. J. Tolbott, of Xew Albany, will lecture in Rensselaer on the evenings of August Bth and 9th. Hois recommended as Sti\ “eloquent advocate of Tempempce, wh.o lias met with great success In the* southern part of the State,” and in whose lectures “there is nothing to offeud the unprejudiced.”

For relief from achiug molars, call on W. J. Oram, Dentist, at Harding & Cheßnut’s drug store.

A basket meeting will be held near the Howard schobl house In Barkley township, Sunday, August fid. 1874. Kejlglous services morni ilg an d afternoon. Everybody Invited to attend Rev. H. B. Miller.

Several of the Rensselaer lads and lassies attended a country shindig just over the border near the Chicago road in Newton county, last Saturday night. While there some of the hoys drank pretty freely of liquor, became quarrelsome, and raised a bit of a row. Arnica liniment was in demand next day.

Major Calkins, of La port*, a y earner after the loaves and fishes which tall upon the tables of members of Congress, had an emissary named Brown in Rensselaer last weelf stirring up the Republicans to a realizing sense of his special fitness to represent them in the National councils. It is thought Mr. Brown was tolerably successful in setting up the pins, as they speak> for his next friend.

Mr. Harry Smith, of the Cincinnati Enquirer, is in Jasper county, the guest of his father-in-law Win. Baxton, Esq. Although a fine gentleman, readers of The Union must not confound this Mr. Smith witli the red headed Deacon Smith, of the Cincinnati Gazette, whose pre-eminent goodness is famous in song and story wherever the New York Sun sheds its effulgent rays.

Last week the Board, of County Commissioners designated the room on the Boor Farm where insane persons are confined as the county jail. Bat Barton , -of— A ydc lot tc, . Ben toilcounty, is now incarcerated therein until such 'time as he shall pay over to the administrator of John McCarthy’s estate certain moneys ordered by the Jasper circuit court. The room -is but indiJEerentiy ventilated, and during hot weather the temperature therein is almost unendurable.

On Saturday the Bth of August a public sale of live stock, etc., will be made in Rensselaer by Messrs. Leopold £ Fendig. 'They Will offer four fat cows, two milch cows with sucking calves, oiio two year old steer, eight yearling heifers, four head of .horses,,-one colt, one span of three year old mules, eighteen head of Sheep, one new wagon, and tine set of new harness. Six months credit will he given cm notes bearing six per cent, interest with customary security. Ten per cent, discount will be made for cash payments,

The levy of tuxes in Jasper county last year for aggregate local purposes., "was" St .07 ”on Yin- OlOt) ■-valuation, as shown by the notice of Mr. 'Treasurer Janes published last December. The Indianapolis Journal states that on the books of the Auditor of State it is placed iff $1.33; while flic report of the Auditor of-State, published in October or November last, makes it reach Si.4B. Either one of these figures places tlie rate higher than the average throughout the State, and it is still pertinent to enquire why ar»‘ Jasper county taxes so high? What makes the discrepancy between the rate reported, to - the people of Jasper county anil if.-it returned to the Auditor of titan ? And what motive laid Mr. Rabcoek for endeavoring to create an impression that 'taxes were proportionably lower in this than in a majority of the counties of Indiana while tlie evidence shows differently?'