Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1875 — Remington Gossip. [ARTICLE]

Remington Gossip.

* Oid papers for sale at this office 35E 1U cents a dozen. *'* Mr. Elaa Phillips is now Deputy Auditor of Jasper county. The Methodist Episcopal congregation have purchased a line organ for their church. The family of Thomas Thompson Esq., buried their only child Sunday. It was a son three weeks old, and died last Thursday. ■ ■ Father W. E. Rogers, fatiier of Rev. S. E. Rogers, pastor of the Free Will Baptist church at this place, died Monday morning, aged about seventyseven years. Brother Okariey Johnson loans us the use of his Delinquent List form tins week, for which courtesy our thanks are tendered until opportunity shall present to more fully repay. One <of the Benton county beasts recently captured proved to be a very large gray wolf. It is probable that t.here.le etill another animal of a different species infesting that county. A corresjwndent of the IvenfTand Oazctfr says that Mr. Ed. Tharp, formerly a resident of Rensselaer, is now clerking in a store at Morocco, ami teaching a elass in penmanship. ~_i_ Onaccountof the death of the father of Rev. S. E. Rogers, and the removal of hlsrfvmains to Palo, 111., for interment, the regular religious services of the Free Will Baptist church will he omitted next Subhatli. It is probable that last Saturday may be marked down as the coldest day of this winter. Before sunrise the mercury stood 21 degrees below zero, and did not rise during the day to a point 9 degrees below. It may ' he safely concluded that trees are all killed in this locality. ■ A man was seen to pick upahufTalo robe in a field north of town, week before last, and carry it away. That rol>e belonged to J. W. Duvall, and W’as left in said field by a drunken man. If the person who got it Will return or send it to the owner no unpleasant exposures will be made. Hoii.Gcorge.il, Brown, Representative in the General Assembly o f Indiana for White and Jasper counties, writes that lie is ready to Introduce any bill before the Lower House that his constituents may desire, and iOvites correspondence i-onf-emins legislation in which they may be interested. • In order to conform to a long established precedent, we this week publish the Delinquent Tax List fur the benefit and information of the! readers rtf this paper. But this is the ! only issue of The Union in which it will appear this season, and those who.are interested will he careful to preserve the paper for reference, should they need it. Alias Meiie Moore, teacher of school Eo. 7, Barkley township,„ reports fur Ihe mouth ending January sth, Is To. nn enrollment of IP pupils, and an average daily attendance of 17?, Those perfect iu attendance, punctuality and deportment were EftieShepard. Annie ; Shepard, Eugene Shepard. Jennie Barkley, Harry Barkley, Anna Bark- j ley and Lewis Bull, R. J. Yeoman, teacher of school; ~ifurL, 7 Newton township, reports for , the month endimr December 31st, 1874, { an enrollment of pupils, and anaverage daily attendance of 35 j. j Those perfect in attendance, tleport•Pient and study were Ulysses Grant. Thomas Grant. Lucy Grant, Winnie Stephen Boyce. Reason Dunn, Arthur Saylor, Della Boyce, Dorotha Goetz and'John A. Grant. j General Sheridan says that the .comipittee .appointed by Congress, consisting of two Republicans and one Democrat, to “investigato” the troubles in Louisiana, did more harm than good, because they omitted to find the anti-Republicaus of Siiat State an organized banditti. The .General evidently thinks that, like a court-martial, that eoinmitue v,... appointed to convict. On Saturday of this week an election will be held In Jasper county to determine whether a county tax of $30,000 shall be assessed to aid in the construction of the Indianapolis, Delphi & Chicago division of ihjeChicago afe South Atlantic railroad : and at the same time the voters of Marion and Newton townships will vote upon a proposition to assess township taxes for the same purpose, in the former to the amount of SIO,OOO, in the latter SI,OOO. Miss Caddy Benjamin, teacher of Blue Grass school, Newton township, reports for the month ending j January Bth,. 1875, an enrollment of 48 pupils, and an averagedailyattendance of 44J. Those perfect in attend- j ance, punctuality and conduct were ' Effie Yeoman, Callie Rosa, Ada Rosa. Mary Rogers, Lucinda Patee, George Patee, Orpheus Halstead, David Halstead, Edwin Halstead, Willie Halstead, Sanford Halstead. John Mauck. Lee Mauck, Eddie Mauck, David Cockeril, Elmer Elder, Willie Pdxton jiud David Makesyer. *

Five 2-year old steers and one yearhave strayed from Mr. David Nowels. Tiiey are branded on right hip with a letter “l). 1 ’ Satisfactory payment will be given for inforinalion leading to their recovery. : ' 134 Everybody is invited to attend the festival to l»e given by the ladies of the Methodist Episcopal congregation, at the church next Tuesday evening. Proceeds of festival to be applied in repaving the church building. - * It is not such all-fired sultry weather when, as this —morning; the iiiercury waltzes way down ton tlegrbes below zero. That early him- bird has not y£t made liis apiiearance, and wo ! do not hear that the neighbors linvq commenced making gardens though not a few are trying to force cold frames and delight in hot beds. Never lias severer criticism been passed upon the policy of the Republican party in Louisiana and the South, than is continued in General Sheridan’s late report. Ho says that more than three* thousand murders, owing their provocation to political discusj skins, have been perpetrated in Louisiana alonesince the warelosed; a in! that iu no Instance has the murderer been brought to punishment! During this whole period the Republican party has had control of the State. Its legislature, its judiciary and its exe. cutivo officers have been Republican ; and all their schemes, plans, laws and measures have been approved l»y the | Federal authorities, and, whenever j necessary, enforced by the army and navy of the United States. If, then, in spite of all tlfeir advantages, the governors, judges, sheriffs and police, backed as they claim by a large* majority of the voting population, arc ! powerless to bring to justice those i who commit bloody crimes, convict ami punish them according to their ! deserts, is it not time thafstieh itnbeI cile and incompetent officers were : removed ?

Water is scarce. Many children are suffering from lung diseases. Remington ice houses ivere filled last week with a crop six indies thickAt an entertainment held . week -before last sl7 was raised for relief of tlie destitute in Kansas. 11, H. Olinger, is. the name of Remington’s poet laureate. He favors tli-> Glided with his jiroduefions. The (j'ttttrd man is sorry lje skipped an issue of his valuable paper week before last*, and promises to be punctual in future. At Remington last week corn was worth si! cents a bushel, oats 48 cents, potatoes sl, beans $3, wheat S)S cents, to sl.lO, Hour $3 to $4 per ewt.. dressed hogss7 per ewt,. butler 20 cents a pound, lard 1> cetus, eggs 20 cents a dozen, wood $4 to $5 per cord. Thirty shares of stock were- paid into the Union Agricultural Association January 2d. amounting to $320. The 1? -urd thinks there is no doubt that a Pair will he held at Remington next fall which will he a credit to Jasper county. At that meeting O. \\ . Church was elected president of the Association, ,T. K. Shaw,secretary, William Ifiu).shack, treasurer, Dr. Patton, Jonathan Rank, David Hart',’ Josepli Crowdeu tind John J. Porter, committee to - procure ground.