Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1875 — Real Estate Transfers. [ARTICLE]

Real Estate Transfers.

The Jaaper circuit court, February term of 1875, convenes Monday week. B&Stykfd Taylor, the celebrated traveler, will deliver one lecture in Rensselaer for $125 cash down, W<«uld you like to bear him? Present appearances indicate that ‘the wheatfields of -this county are badly winter-killed, and that in consequence the crop will be light next harvest. The public will -take notice that aule 0 of the Jasper Circuit Court provides that smoking will not be permitted in the court room, while court is in session. —.. —_ A prolonged snow-storm from the south and south-east prevailed throughout yesterday. The storm was so severe that the Remington unail was not brought over. Mr. Norman Warner has gone East again to purchase another stock of cabinetware—ohairs, bedsteads, tables, bureaus, stands, lounges, etc. Call and see his goods when he returns. Last Sunday was the seventieth birth-day of Jeduthan D. Hopkins, Ei*q., familiarly called by his many friends “Uncle Dewt.” It was made the occasion of presenting him with a neat, silver-headed, ebony cane. A dancing club has been organ ized during the week past with A. W. Cleveland,president, C. C. Stai r, treasurer, and N. W. Reeve, secretary. Agentleman from Cleveland, ■Ohio, has been engaged to furnish music for the meetings, which will foe held Wednesday nights of each week, and were commenced last evening in Spitler’s hall. Mr. Ralph Fendig is in Chicago this week selecting a large new stock ot general merchandise with which to refill his store. All who have ever done business with Mr. Feiidig bear testimony of his uni-:-form courtesy, and the reasonable prices of his goads. Let all who ihave to make purchases of dry • goods, clothing, groceries, etc., -call and select from his new, fresh stock. *'•***' 'taOta 'Miss Melle Moore, teacher of Barkley township school No. 7, reports tor the month ending February sth, 1875, an enrollment of 19 scholars, with an average daily attendance of 17.4. Those perfect in attendance, punctuality and conduct were: Jennie Barkley, John Barkley, Robert Barkley, Tilly Bull, Lewis Bull, William lliff, Fredericklliff and AlliedLowman. On the 20th instant Mr. E. L. Bowers will make a public sale ot personal property at bis residence one mile north of Salem school bouse, Newton county. He will •offer for sale three work horses, a span of mules, one yearling and two suckling colts, seven cows, a Durham bull, a two-horse wagon, two sets of harness, a Clipper combined reaper and mower that has been run only one seasou, three good stirring plows, one Gorman riding plow, one Fnrst & Bradley walking cultivator, other farming imple\ments, hay, household and kitchen furniture. Ten mouths credit will .be given on sums over five dollars. A new harness shop will he •opened next week on Front street,! east side, first door below Washington, in the room formerly occupied by 'Mr. N. Warner for a hardware store. Mr. William Phillips will be proprietor of the new establishment, and is now East selecting material with whioh to stock it There is probably not a better workman anywhere than MrPhillips, and we believe it would be right, proper and altogether advisable for our farmer friends and -others to give him the encouragement of at least a share of their patronage in order to establish a healthy competition in thi* branch of business in Rensselaer. Hurrah for Phillips; let all who desire good work in the harness line at fair prices, give him a call before concluding bargains elsewhere.

Miss Caddie Benjamin, teacher of Blue Grass school, Newton township, reporta for the month ending February sth, 1875, an enrollment of 46 pupils, with au average daily attendance of Calla Rosa, Maggie Smith, Nathan Baker, David Coqjterill, Orpheus Halstead, David Halstead, Willey Halstead, Sanford Halstead, John Mauck, Eddie Mauck, George Pattee and David Makeever, were perfect in attendance, punctuality and conduct. ■ A Lafayette paper publishes the following obituary notice, which may be of interest to readers of The Uniox : Zephaniah Brown, residing six miles west of LaFayette, in Shelby Township, this county, died on last Saturday night, after a lingering illness, of old age, and was buried yesterday in the llebron Graveyard, in Wabash Township. Mr. Brown was one among the oldest citizens of our county, he having moved here in 1827, and was eighty-seven years old on the 25th day of last February. He was born in the State of New Jersey and came from there to this county when there were but three log cabins where now stands the city of LaFayette. He leaves a large family behind, one son, George H. Brown, who is now a Representative in the Legislature, from Jasper County. He had accumulated a handsome sum, and at his death was the owner of about six hundred acres of land. He was a devoted Christain until death, and a member of the Methodist Churcli for more than seventy years. His funeral sermon was preached in the Baptist Church, near the graveyard, by the Rev. Mr. Chamberlain, of the Montmorency Circuit.

The following transfers of real estate were filed with the Recorder of Jasper county during the week ending February 10th, 1875: Ann Eliza Hinds to James O. B. McDougle, n 2 lot 5, block 16, tpwu of Remington. $74. „ Matthew F. Con nett to James O. B. McDougle, ne 1 block 4, Chambers & Morgan’s Addition to Remington, S3OO. James S. Irwin to James 0. B. McDougle, lot 7, block 1, Seawriglit’s Addition to Remington, $l5O. Alfred Thompson to Jesse Jones, ne ne, nw svv 13, 30, 6—Bo acres, SBO. Quit claim. Jesse Jones, administrator of R. L. Walpole’s estate, to Ezra L. Clark & Lemuel C. Janfes, n ne, u J uw 2, 30, 7, se sw 26, 31, 7 —242.37 acres, $485. Alfred Thompson to E. T. Harding, sw se 9, 31, 5 —50 acres, S2OO. R. L. 8 trow bridge to Henry St. Peter, e -J ne 10, 27, 7, w £ nw 11, 27, 7 —l6O acres, $4,000. John Edgar Webb to Thomas Eldridge, 30, 29, s—4o, acresSamuel Shong to Albert iF-rank Krassuey, nw sw 6, 29, 7—40 acres, S4OO. E. L. Clark et al to John H. Shields, ne ne 2, 30, 7 —50.79 acres, $250. Okar Lundberg to Annette Lundberg, n J sw 4, 31, s—Bo acres, $1,200. Horace W. Jenks et al to Patrick Malouey et al, ne 25, 32, 5 —160 acres, SBOO James W. Smith to Jacob Dye, nw 19, 28, 5, se ne 24, 28, 6—177.55 acres, $3,800. John C. Hanoverto John K.Graves, sw 10, 30, 5—160 acres, sl. Quit-claim. Michael Moriarty to Joseph G. L. Gailey, s\ se 21, 28, 7 —SO acres, S2OOO. Michael Moriarty to Joseph G, L. Gailey et al, n i nw ne 20, 28, 6 —20 acres, SIOO.