Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1875 — Remington Items. [ARTICLE]

Remington Items.

Martin Van Buren Warner has moved into his new sausage factory. More rain and more rest is what farmer lads were glad of yeoterday. Mr. Ancel Woodworth talks of building a dwelling house on River street this summer. Gents’ fine shoes and boots and latest styles of fur and wool hats, at Hopkins’ corner. Col. Hoy did not lecture in Rensselaer Monday evening upon the subject of temperance, as was announced. Mr. and Mrs* Calhoon, of the Kansas City Hotel, buried an infant last Saturday. It was about four •yveeksold. In accordance with a time-hon-ored custom Dr. Loughridge has been planting more shade trees this spring. Many kinds of goods too numerous to name (not staple) will be closed out regardless ot cost, at Hopkins’ corner. Eleven criminal and thirty-eight civil causes are docketed lor the May term of the Jasper circuit court. Business is reviving. One inch of snow on the ground May 2d, made spring look back ward to people who had planted potatoes and have cattle to feed. Miss C. M. Bishop delivered a well received lecture upon temperance at the Presbyterian Church Sunday night. It was highly praised by those who attended.

Forty-eight pairs men’s heavy shoes, shipped by mistake from a New York house, will be opened for sale jit $1 65; also several old pairs of women’s shoes for very low prices, at Hopkins’ corner store. Thirty dollars’ worth of marriage licenses were issued in this county I last month. Publication has been •made in formernumbersof all except Uhelast two, which were to Bazle M. Donnelley and EllieHailsbuok on the 28th, and to Isaac L. Herron sand the 30th. Mr. Tuteur will apply at the June term of the commissioners’ court of Jasper county for permission t o pay SIOO to the county and SIOO to the town for a license to retail measle antidote and cholera morbus pacificator in quantities than a quart at a time, in.the town of Rensselaer. Trustees of townships and those who have charge of public libraries in Jasper county are notified that <Col. Healey has received from the Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture bound volumes of the Indiana Agricultural Report for 1874, for distribution to the public libraries of this county, which may be obtained by calling at The Union office. There were jqo issues except as to men before the people at the corporation election iu Rensselaer last Monday. Not much interest was taken, everything was quiet, and only 107 votes were polled. For trustees Sylvester Haley, Dr. J. H. laoughridge, Ira W. Yeoman, Wm. S. Norris and Jeduthan D. Hopkins received a majority of the votes, Ludd Hopkins was elected town treasurer, and Nathaniel W. Reeye clerk and assessor. Reports reach us from different parts of the county that farmers are plowing up much of their'tame meadow land this spring, for corn and other crops. List summer and fall the drought and grub worms destroyed a great deal of the timothy grass, and the clover winter-killed badly. In addition to these unfavorable conditions the cold, dry, backward spring is not favorable to the growth of vegetation of any kind and the prospect for a good crop of tame hay this season is far from flattering. Neither does the wild hay crop promise much better. Nearly all the lands owned by nonresidents and speculators that are of any value for grass have been leased this season, and large herds of cattle are to be brought in and herded on them duriug the summer. This will materially circumscribe the area of “mowing grounds,” and make hay * scarcer and higher priced than is usual m the locality.-

See the card of Mr. Grant’s blacksmith shop, and share your patronage with him. - At the corporation election held in Remington Monday 131 votes were polled. For trustees they elected J. K. Shaw. J. B, Shaffer, S. A. Morgan, Charles Hartley and A. L. Norris —the same board that served last year with the exception of Mr. Shaw in place of Mr. Walker Sage. Wm. 11. Shaw was elected clerk and assessor, B. B. Jeffries, treasurer, and George Shaul, marshal. Upon the question of taxation to build a school house'92 votes were cast, 52 for and 40 against the proposition. Nowadays the rawest kind of material can master the art of portrait painting in half a dqzen easy lessons, if handbills thrown around town last week are to be believed. Raphael, and Mike Angelo, and Rubens, and'Van Dyke, and Reynolds; and about all of those old galoots whose works are valued at the price of principalities spent a lifetime learning the mysteries of this simple art, which any ten years old American school boy may acquire in one week. Such is the wonderful progress made in this rapid age. Be a painter young man, be a painter.

Next Tuesday the case of Jasper Packard vs. Horace E. James and Joshua Healey will he called for trial in the Jasper circuit court. This is an fiction wherein the plaintiff brings suit for libel, estimating damages at §10,006. It is probable that Mr. Packard will file an affidavit setting forth that the defendants have such an influence with the people of Jasper county he cannot obtain a just and impartial hearing therein, wherefore he prays for a change of venue, And iris likely this will be about all (lie action reached at present. The attorneys are Messrs. Osborn & Calkins, ot LaPorte, for plaintiff, It. S. Dwiggins, Rensselaer, ami Win. JI. Martin, of Kentlai.nl; for defendants. On the 29th day of April past a meeting was held at Rose Bud school house in Union township, by those who had subscribed to the articles of association of the Jasper County Ditching Association, for the purpose of electing a hoard of five directors, which resulted in the choice,of David Nosvels, Brunson Herrington, David 11. Yeoman, Malaehi P. Comer and Thomas Boroughs. The board ot directors elected David Nowels president, David H. Yeoman treasurer, and Thomas Boroughs clerk. Mr. John Miller was designated engineer of the Association, and instructed to “make a careful survey of the lines “of the proposed work, and an estimate of the probable cost of the “proposed work, and a map and “profile of the same, and that he “proceed immediately to carry out “this order, and report at the next “meeting of the board,” which will be held in their office in Rensselaer. Saturday, May Bth, 1875, (day after to-morrow) at 1 o’clock p. m.

Dr. Reigle is completing a nice dwelling house on Ohio ... A poor Remington drayman claims to own property worth $40,000, save when the assessor is about.... It is reported that a workman found $365 in greenbacks, while recently digging on the ground where the Nevada House foimerly 5t00d.... A plucky Remiggtonian was whipped in three several engagements, one day recently... .Many farmers are plowing under their fall wheat ....Dr. Patton informs us that an Irish lad living in the north end of j town ran a splinter in his thigh, one day, last week, and in consequence of erysipelas having set in is threatened with a serious time .... Gangrene having supervened, a boy in Remington who recently chopped off one of his finders with a hatchet, is likely to lose his hand ....Mr. Clark P. M. is laying the foundation for an addition to his store-r00m... .Jared H. Fountain givjps notice that at the June term of the Commissioners’ iconit of Jasper connty he will apply for license to retail intoxicating liquors in the town ot Remington. Three persons have given notice of a like intention..; —Compiled from {he Record.