Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1875 — Gov. Osborn’s Acknowledgment. [ARTICLE]

Gov. Osborn’s Acknowledgment.

Five 2-year old steers and one yearling have strayed from Mr. David Nowels. They are branded on right hip with a letter “D.” Satisfactory payment will be given for information leading to their recovery. 15-3 Mr. J. M., Hopkins -.has someiof the handsomest Cochin China fowls we ever saw. Mr. N.. W. Reeve ceased to be Deputy Auditor of Jasper county December 31st. Tuesday was very cold, the mercury marking a temperature of ten degrees below zero. Charley-Johnson is now publishing the'weekiy Delinquent List. It is a thin affair this season. Mr. Rijnje Honsserzije (may his shadow expand) had a deed recorded in Jasper county yesterday. Mr. R. F. Goddard is this week engaged in the isothermal business of harvesting ice. He will crib eighty or ninety tons this season. Rev. S. E. Rogers, pastor of the Free Will Baptist Church, drives one of the fastest and most stylish teams in the county. Stacey English knows how much a rough-shod horse weighs; one of his own trod on his foot the other night and corked him from the instep to his toes. The orthodox Protestant churches—Baptist, Free Will Baptist, Methodist and Presbyterian—in this place are observing the Week of Prayer by holding daily union meetings morning and evening. Mr. E. F. Maxwell, teacher of school number 3, Newton township, makes the following report for the month ending December 11th,1874 : Enrollment, 33 ; average daily attendance, 26. Dr. Harry 11. Moss came down from bis lair in Northern lowa a few days since, and is now in town. He is as fat asa hear, nurses a lame ancle, and complains that the weather is sultry. Rev. R. L. Adams, of Remington, on the 24th ult. pronounced Jasper Guy and Emma V. Hartman man and wife; also on the 31 st performed th<e marriage ceremony for John R. Wilson and Ella .Smith. Mr. C. C. Starr is filling his ice house with a crop that is gathered on the Iroquois about two and onehalf miles below town. The ice is clean, clear and about seven inches thick. It requires about 100 tons to fill his house. _ Prof. Emery did not have a large attendance at bis lecture last Saturday night, but those who were present say that some of his ideas were novel and interesting. His religion is orthodox and almost superstitious. Z Father James Yonng, of Newton -county, for many years a citizen of .Jasper, and a most excellent man, died yesterday morning. He will be buried to-day with Masonic ’honors. His age was about seventyseven years. During the post-office at Rensselaer issjied 1,217 money orders receiving therefor $15,176 and paid out $11,471.81 on 2,565 orders; 102 registered letters were sent and 922 received; paid over to postal Department, §681.15. Mr. John E. Alter, teacher of Rose Bud school, No. 5, Union township, reports as follows for the month ending December 18th, 1874: Number enrolled, 32. Perfect in attendance, Jennie Humes, Isaac Alter, Alice Greenfield, Amber Greenfield, John Chamberlain and Mollie Chamberlain. The name of Master Leslie Clark was inadvertantly omitted from the published list of pupils in the primary department of the Rensselaer school (Miss Wilkinson’s) who were perfect in punctuality, deportment and study for the month ending December 18th, 1874. Leslie’s teacher says ha is a little gentleman. The Jasper Cofinty Ditching Association have rented,, the front room up stairs in Mrs. Hemphill’s new brick store, and are occupied in making out maps and other re. quisite work preliminary to petitions ing the proper authority for the appointment of a board of apprais-; ers to estimate benefits and damage-1 to lauds effected by their proposed work.

Uncle R. F. Goddard, of the City Bakery, will please accept tlio thanks of this office for his New Year’s present —several cans of excellent oysters. They were, without exception, the finest bivalves we have seen in this market during the season. Goddard keeps them to sell by the can or single dish. A “tumestun” firm who don’t see what use there is in advertising, has posted the following pencil-written announcement in one of the hotels of this place: — Marble Dealers is know Prepared too furnish Anny thing in there line of Buysness. Schots or gray grannet Marble also Itailine & Amercin Marble & All kind of galvinize Semetry fencing, come & See & hear our Prices Befor bying Elsewher, -s That grand wolf hunt in the north part of Jasper county last Thursday, resulted in a magnificent failure. Twenty-five or thirty wolves and half a dozen or so deer were surrounded, but every one succeeded in breaking through the circle and escaped. It is reported that about five hundred persons participated in the hunt. Miss Celia Wilkinson, of the Rensselaer schools, attended the session of the State Teachers’ Association at Indianapolis last week, and came back with high resolves to perform her share of the noble work which is to place the profession in Jasper county upon the most altitudinous plane of efficiency attainable. tfimmy McColly, of Union township, became displeased with his school teacher the otlr-ejr day, and attempted to correct her with a brick bat or club. He succeeded in fracturing one of her wrists, and inflicting an ugly gash in her scalp. Mrs. Emeline Switzer was the teacher, and she has been confined to her room several days from the injuries sustained. Report says that a sharp and modest Kentland youth came tip to Rensselaer last week to have a quiet holiday spree. Procuring sufficient fluid for temporary relief, he went into acornfield north of town and rested his head upon the lap of earth New Year’s night and until about four o’clock p. m. next day, when awakeiiing from his slumber, he arose .and returned to the bosom of l<.s friends, u cooler, if not a wiser child. Much curiosity has been excited among people who read in The Uniox the other day’ about the establishment of new post routes in Jasper county, to know where Fruitland postoffice will be located; in order to satisfy this laudable state that it will be in Esquire Holdridge Clark’s n.eighborhood, in Barkley township. The name was probably suggested by the circumstance that large quantities ot huckleberries grow in that region. Some men can only see things retrospectively. Instead of 1 ooking forward to what they might do they only look back to what they might have done. They learn from experience, after it has become a little late in the day. Such men are the non-advertisers. “Book-farmers” were once despised by the self-called farmers, but when the latter saw the former’s crops, they changed their minds.— Am. Newspaper Reporter. Within five weeks Mr. M. L. Spitler has sold upwards of 3,000 acres of land in Jasper county, which belonged to the Indiana & Illinois Central Railroad Company. It was all unimproved, and brought an average price ot nearly $6 per acre, some tracts selling, as high as $9.65. The company still owns between 6,Q00 and 7,000 acres in this county, much of it even better in quality than that sold, which Mr. Spitler will dispose ot on easy terffis. Old cocks and hens are worth 15 to 20 cents apiece in this market, live turkeys 0 cents a pound, fresh fish 10 cents, fresh pork and beef 10 cents, butter 20 cents, eggs 20 cents a dozen, flour $1.60 a quarter barrel sack, buckwheat flour $4 per cwt, potatoes SU2O a bushel and scarce, green apples not for sale by i the quantity, wood $3 to $3.50 per cord, and the Rensselaer Union [ only $2 a year, postage paid by the publishers. Why shouldn’t virtuous people-bb happy?

Tuesday morning Mrs. Thomas E. Willey tied lier year old baby in a high chair and sat it near .the fire; its little three year old sister untied the cord which held it in the chair and let it pitch forward against the hot stove, severely burning its hands and the upper left side of its face At first it was reported that the child could not survive its injuries, but the physicians now entertain hopes that it will recover. Its left eye and cheek is likely to be horribly scarred. A Lafayette paper says that tracks were recently seen in Jasper county which measured six feet in length by two feet in breadth, and that a company has been organized in that city to buy one of them and ship it down there for a race course. Those tracks were not seen here until a Lafayette belle came up to spend the holidays with a friend. Lafayette is entitled to her own wherever she finds it, without money and without price. Jasper county has no use for such caverns. Last Thursday evening the following named gentlemen were duly installed officers of Prairie Lodge No. T 25 F. & A. M. for the ensuing Masonic year: M. F. Chilcote, Worshipful Master; A. K. Yeoman, Junior Warden; H. W. Wood, Treasurer; S. P. Howard, Scribe; Ira C. Kelley, Senior . Deacon; David J. Thompson and Marshall P. Warner, Stewards, The Senior Warden, S. N. Johnson and Junior Deacon, Jesse Goff, were absent but will be installed into their respective stations upon their return. The installation ceremonies were public, and at their conclusion the members of the Craft, together with their families, sat down to well furnished tables, and enjoyed a sumptuous feast.

Miss Wilkinson has received the following letter from Gov, Osborn, of Kansas, in acknowledgment of a recent donation by the pupils and teachers of the Rensselaer schools tor destitute people in that State: State of Kansas, Executive Department, Topeka, Jan'y 2nd, 1875. Miss Celia E. Wilkinson, Rensselaer, Indiana, Dear Madam : Your favor of the 27 th utt. enclosing a Fostoffice money order for $10.31 as a contribution to the destitute of this State is received, and has been delivered to Hon. G. W. Giles, Treasurer of the ' State Relief Committee, to be applied in accordance with the wishes of the donors (the pupils and teachers of the Rensselaer schools) as expressed in your letter. Accept my thanks in behalf of the sufferers of this State, who have been suddenly rendered destitute by an unlooked for calamity, for your contribution. Very respectfully Your ob’t serv’t

THOMAS A. OSBORN.