Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1875 — Real Estate Transfers. [ARTICLE]

Real Estate Transfers.

The tollowing transfers of real estate were filed with the Recorder of Jasper county during the week ending February 17th. 1875: Thos. J. Spitler to Margaret Stackhouse, ne ne 6, 20, 7—40 acres, S2OO. Quit claim. Thomas McCullough to William S. T. Morton, n } nw 27, 28, 7, north end nw se 18, 28, a —llo acres, SSOO. Quit claim. Enos M. Timmons to Sarah A. Rishling, nw se, n j ue se 23, 28, 7 60 acres, SBOO. John Irvine to G. F. Stiffler, lot 6, block 4, town of Remington, $750. Blake Wilson to Marcus L. Smith, northwest corner of ne 31, 27, 7—3|. acres, SIOO. E. T. Harding to Margaret Stackhouse, nw sw 34, 31, 6,5w5e9,31,5 —80 acres. SSOO. N. W. Runyan to E. G. Allen, s j ne 34, 28, 7—Bo acres, SI,OOO. Joseph Havlicek to Dominick Lucas nw ne, ne nw 18, 29, 7 —Bo acres, $2060. George W. Swett to Anna E. Riegle, west half east 30 feet east side lot 2, block 8, town of Remington, $350. A. Morton Ferris et al to Samuel N. Snoddy et al, n J ne 27, 27, 7—Bo acres. $2,000. S N. Snoddy to William Rice, ne ne 27, 27, 7 —40 acres, sl. Quit claim. Mary A. Stockton et al to Ira W. Yeoman e 4 sw, sw sw 3, 29, 7 —120 acres, $l,lOO. John Humes to Willian Humes, sw ne 25, 30, 7—40 acres, S7OO. John R. Elder, trustee, to James Hayworth w j sw 25, 29, s—Bo5 —80 acres, SSOO. FT. Thomas B. Irvine to John Irvine, se ne 26,’•28, 6—40 acres, $225. Auditor Jasper County to Cinderilla Whittaker, ne nw 34, 30, 5—40 acres, $17.10. Tax title. « Alfred Thompson to Richard P. Irvine, se nw 25, 28, 6—40 acres, S6O. Quit claim. R. S. Dwiggins, trustee, to Abraham Leopold, part e j ne 30, 29, 6 —70.6 acres, $3,800. Felitia J. Ott to Naomi McCoy et al ei nw 27, 30, 6—Bo acres. $225. Quit claim. Robert E. Corning, executor, to John Karstens, w j sw 3, 31. 7 —Bo acres, $560. . . T' -■ Robert E. Corning, executor, to Christian Uhrhammer, w j se 3, 31, 7 —Bo acres, $560. Alfred Thompson toR. 8. Dwiggins, trustee, lot 11, block 21, lot 17, block 31, lot 11, block 26, Weston’s Addition to Rensselaer, $39. Quit claim. Samuel C. Maxwell to Henry H. Walker, lots 1. 2, 3 and 4. Maxwell’s Addition to Remington, $1,500

The temperature this morning -was 21° below zero. . The public schools of Rensselaer close to day for the winter term. | —•-■•mi1,....'- ' ■ . L “One by one the roses fall,” as Mary Ann remarked when she sat ■down to rest beside the town pump. Monday morning last at 7 o’clock the thermometer indicated 24 degrees below zero. It was the coldest “snap” of the winter. Mr. A. Shepard lost an excellent ■mare a few days ago. Another 'horse her, shattering her thigh bone so badly that she had “to be killed. It is reported that quite a number of cattle hate perished from cold (and possibly the lack of water) in the north part of this county, within a week or two past. Two of Mr. M. V. B. Warner’s horses became entangled together in long rope halters with which t hey were tied, night before last and strangled to death. Who in Jasper county carries a larger stock of dry goods, clothing, or boots and shoes than A. Leopold? or who sells such articles cheaper? Where is the merchant who can ianswer these conundrums? Mr. Jesse Goff will open his new Yneat store in a few days. It is reported that for the present he will occupy the room in Liberal Corner block where Mr. Geo. P. Daugherty now has his grocery. There are only four criminal cases docketed for trial at the session of court which commences next Monday, and ont of these is brought from Newton county on change of ’Venue. The civil list numbers forty- ’■ four, m Mr. Andrew J. Reed, of Barkley 'township, has applied for letters patent upon a hay slide. It is an ’invention that he has used for sev•■eral seasons and founla to be so ♦Useful ihat he was induced to pattetet and offer it for sale.

We notice that Mr. William Phillips has received part of the stock and fixtures for his new harness shop, and is busy arranging to open out in Warner’s old hardware room on Front street. Billy is “businessencourage him and all others of like enterprising spirit. Everybody should recollect—because it is for their interest to do so —that the groceries at Charley ■Starr’s establishment are always fresh and good. His stock is kept full, and his prices are as reasonable as the state of the market will permit. Go to Starr’s for groceries. Everybody as remarking about the steady cold weather of this winter. For several weeks past <he days that the mercury did not .contract to a point below zero were exceptions to the rule, while not infrequently it did not rise above ten degrees above zero for three or four days at a time. Youngman it will be just the easiest thing in the world to get Betsey Jane to consent to make your daily mush for life, if when you come to town with her next week you lead her over to N. Warner’s establishment, and inquire business-like the prices of kitchen furniture and cabinetware.

Yesterday morning about three o’clock, while the wind was blowing at a fearful rate and the mercury about twenty degrees below zero, Mr. Michael Brusnehan’s house six miles north of here caught fire in the roof and burnt down. The family were awakened by the noise of the flames, and had barely time to run out doors before the roof fell in. They did not have time to dress, even, but rushed out barefoot into twelve inches of snow with only the clothing on in which they retired to bed. Their js probably about 1800.

Dr. Hedge will start on a professional tour into Illinois,' and will for a trifling sum of money reveal to the afflicted the formula of his vegetable blood purifier, which is without doubt one of the best rem 4 edies yet discovered for all diseases whose origin is traced to impurities of the blood, that it can reach. Success to the doctor 1 ; may be create hard times among tombstone sculptors. U If that railroad is built during the approaching summer lively times may be anticipated in Rensselaer. Let the railroad company commence work in the spring and pursue it with the vigor which they now promise, and before harvest of corn six or eightnewbrickbusiness houses will be erected here, one or two grain elevators and ware-hous-es, a hay press, and many new dwellings. When called upon, every person interested in the prosperity of the town and county should put his shoulder to the work and help it along as rapidly as possible. Mr. A. Leopold, shrewd, and with an eye to the glorious future promised Rensselaer by the building of the Chicago & South Atlantic railroad, has concluded the pur. chase of 70 acres of land adjoining the corporation limits on the east, which belonged to Mr. Henry Weston, of New York city, paying therefor at the rate of $55 an acre. It is probable that Mr. Leopold will, at the proper time, plat this tract as an addition to the town; and offer it for sale for residences. It is a beautiful and valuable piece of property.

We are not a bit stuck up if we are defandants in a SIO,OOO libel i suit brought bv a member of Coni . • gress. As before, The Union—4B [columns in size, (as large as the Indianapolis Journal or Bonner’s New York Ledger) and independent of all political parties, rings, or cliques, local oi national—will be sent to any address in the United States, postage free, at the following rates, viz:—One yearUs2; six months, $1; three months, 50 cents. P. 8. No distinction made on account of race, color, politics, or position—whether in Congress or ■ thepenitentiary. Attention is* directed to tile new advertisement of Mr. Ralph Fendig, which appears elsewhere in these columns. This enterprising gentleman visited Chicago last week and selected a large stock of goods for this market. He was able to secure extra good bargains, on account of the great decline in prices which has taken place during the last few weeks and also because it is late in the season and jobbers are anxious to sell down preparatory to the trade in spring goods. People who (k<al with Mr. Fendig now, will make excellent bargains. Call and see his new consignments pf dry good®, clothing, £c,, &p.

Last week the tender-hearted Clerk of Jasper county was compelled to refuse to issue a marriage license to a losing couple wfio find the excessive cold weather of this winter too prolonged and too severe to be endured separately and alone during the silent watches of dyeary night, without inore bed covering than is the customary share of individuals in this locality. The reason Mr. Spitler refused to grant to these parties an instrument which the laws of Indiana insist is necessessary to the appointment of all well-regulated families within her jurisdiction was, that the wil-ling-to-be bride was not of lawful age to marry, being only a little more than twelve years old. Her parents were willing, dnxious even, for her to enter upon the matrimonial estate; but the statute is bald, positive and inexorable; female children under fourteen years of age are considered “ower young to marry” in Hoosierdom. “Pap” said it would not take her long to become the citizen of,a State where the laws which do hedge about the heavenly institution of matrimony are less exacting on the subject of qualifications, and it is presumed that.the yqjithful, pair have hied away to that happy spotwherethey may have liberty to curtail their individual fret dom. The lad was nineteen years old, according to the family bible.

I Some ladies of this place headed by Mrs. Thos. Boroughs are collect' ! ing a box of clothing to send to ' Mrs. Parker., of Greenwood county, Kansas, for distribution among her destitute neighbors. Mrs. Parker will be remembered by people who lived here six or eight years ago as the Widow Wilson. We were shown Mrs. Parker’s letter the other day. It w r as a plain and evidently unexaggerated statement of the condition of hundreds of families in the stricken districts. She asked nothing for herself; her family was well provided for and had enough to carry them through the season; but it was the destitution of her neighbors that prompted her to write for donations from her former acquaintances and friends. She had given from her own store until a prudent care for the necessities of her family warned her to stop, but the suffering around her still existed and her woman’s sympathetic heart would not permit her to rest without further efforts to relieve the distressed. The greatest want in that locality, Mrs. Parker wrote, was insufficiency of clothing. Under her own observation were instances of women without shoes or any kind of feet covering, others without a change of underclothing; an infant born three or four months ago, had a single calico wrapper or slip and no other clothing. She asked not for money nor for new garments, but for half-worn or cast-aside clothing of whatever material, or tor either sex. Anything would be acceptible and gratefully -received that would keep the human frame warm and protect it from the rigors of winter.

Rensselaer is represented in the Valparaiso Normal school by half a dozen or so pupils. It is a great pity that people should feel compelled to send their children away from home in order that they may obtain an education. It only requires a few years following such a policy as this to spend money enough to cs t ablish a g00d... school in our midst, which would not only educate the youth, but would also reflect credit to the town, attract immigration thither, and add materially to the business. .A good school might be established at Rensselaer, as well as anywhere else, if people would unite for this purpose,’and display a little more enterprise and determination. Of course we do not say this for the purpose of harming the Valparaiso school, it has a good reputation, and we are glad, lor the more of such institutions there are in the State the better will be society; but while we entertain the best of feeling for all connected with that school, and wish it the greatest possible amount of success, we can nos help thinking that it would be better policy for people here to build up institutions of that kind ip thejr midst rather than send money out of the county and their children away from home influence. For twenty years or more people have been sending their children abroad to obtain a very little better education than ought to be afforded by our common schools, if properly conducted. It is a very lame policy to do so. - '

Two or three weeks ago there strayed from a happy home in Bensselaer a young and guileless being, altogether unacquainted with the ways of dissolute man or the wicked wiles of a sinful world. Not many times had the sun—majestic monarch of a mighty universe —driven his fiery chariot thro’ the gates of the morning and traced his diurnal course to the gardens of Hesperus since that young creature came to cheer human hearts with winsome ways and joyous frolic. Alas! how ephemeral are worldly pleasures! How insubstantial and fleeting are hopes of manj Environed by dangers, victims of countless disappointments, how oft do we feel while traveling through this vale of tears like quoting the language of the poet who complained Oh! ever thus from childhooc’s I’ve seen my.fondest hopes decay, I never loved a tree or flower, But *twas the first to fade away. I nerer ■oursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soli black eye, But when it came to know me well, ■ And love me, it was sure to die. i But why continue this sad theme?

Why keep the gentle reader on the j ragged fcdge of Btispense? Speaking of that deaf gazelle with wft black eye, recalls ns to a lense of oar duty as journalists and that wc must chronicle ©Very important ! event that transpires though fond hearts should swell With grief at I its public recital. We have none ; other than kindest feelings lor all I parties connected with this sad affair, and trust the hour is not distant when fond arms may embrace the misguided wanderer who returns to roam no more. Curious reader, that youthful creature, that wanderer straying from the caresses of friends and the joys of home is a liver-and-white speckled pointer dog, about one year old, and with his tail docked one or two inches. Mr. Zimri Dwiggins will pay 85 for his return. Old newspapers lor sale at this office, for ten cents a dozen.