Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1875 — Our School Population. [ARTICLE]

Our School Population.

Go to Kern’s for Monticello flour. New onions and choice green apples at Kern’s. Plenty of water now to run the mill day and night. The Pioneer store is full of new goods at low prices. Corn-planting was commenced in this county last week. Just received, a large stock of teas, at reduced prices, at Kern’s. Friday, May 7th, was the first real mild mannered, spring-like day of 1875. The best fish are to be found at Kern’s. Full weights and lowest prices guaranteed. Gents’ fine shoes and boots and latest styles of fur and wool h ats, at Hopkins’ corner. Have you seen those linen suits at the Pioneer store? They are neat, good, and cheap. Twenty thousand (20,000) pounds of wool wanted by F. J. Sears & Co., at the pioneer store. Horse-breeders may learn something to their advantage by reading card headed “Norman Stallions.” A large stock of jeans, flannels, yarns, etc., to exchange for wool, at F. J. Sears & Go’s Pioneer store. •We have a full line of dress goods and suitings, which will be sold low for cash or produce.—F. J. Seaks & Co. Many kinds of goods too numerous to name (not staple) will be closed out regardless of cost, at Hopkins’ corner.

■Mine host of the popular Austin Hotel is improving the appearance of his hostelry by erecting a veranda along its front. It is thought that the business of the circuit court for this session, will be completed to-day. It has only occupied about three days. Humor and business combines happily in the advertisement with heading “Like a full-blown rose lor fragrance and beauty.” Read it. The first annual meeting of the Jasper County Sunday School Union will be held in the Baptist Church at Rensselaer next Tuesday and Wednesday, May 18 and 19. Most excellent showers fell here Friday, Saturday and Sunday, supplying a long-felt want, and making vegetation shoot forward rapidly. Hurrah tor rain and warm weather. Turkish prunes 12| cents a pound, maple molasses $1.25 a gallon, New Orleans sugar 10 cents a pound, choice Early Rose potatoes $1.60 a bushel, at Kern’s grocery. We are requested to announce that arrangementswill be made by the committee to entertain all who shall attend the Sunday School Convention in Rensselaer next week. Tuesday, May 11th, a marriage license was issued to Henry L. Willet and Melvina Coe, and the ceremony was performed by Justice Jackion at the Austin House.

Henry M., son of the late Josiah Hammond, died at his mother’s residence, four miles south of Rensselaer, May 10th, aged 17 years, 2 months and 18 days. Funeral by 'Rev. S. E. Rogers. Uncle Resin F. Goddard wants license to sell lager beer and ale in Rensselaer in less quantities than a quart at a time. If any person is fit to be intrusted with a license for that purpose it is him. Forty-eight pairs men’s heavy shoes, shipped by mistake from a New York house, will be opened for sale at $1.65; also several old pairs of women’s shoes for very low prices, at Hopkins’ corner store. Read the advertisement of Messrs. Price & Hickman, jewelers. These gentlemen have come to make Rensselaer their home. They are good workmen, industrious and enterprising. Give them your patronage and all proper encouragement. We noticed the venerable Rev. Richard Hargrave, a divine of considerable prominence in the Methodist Episcopal church of Indiana, upon the streets of Rensselaer this week. He looks as healthy and steps as elastic as he did ten years ago. He is visiting a son who resides on a farm in this vicinity. Mr. Marshal P. Warner returned this week from a trip to Omaha, Lincoln, Cheyenne and intermediate points. He reports the flow of travel to California and the Pacific coast as something marvelous, while the Black Hills excitement is at glowingrheaL It ip estimated that not short of 5,000 adventurers are scattered along the froptier towns ready to penetrate the gold regions as soon as the season opens. He thinks that the government troops and Indians combined will be powerless to stop these men,

Three male and one female of school age in Barkley township can neith'er read nor write. That is not such an alarming per centage of ignorance after all, though it is bad enough, and should be corrected at once—it is only four in the whole county where the enumeration is 3,371. Hon. Sylvester Haley, Alder man from the first Ward, is receiving numerous applications from gentlemen in Ireland for clerkships on the streets—another incident illustrating the intrigues of the Roman Catholics to obtain political control of the country, for the Indianapolis Journal and Harpers' Weekly to a note of and howl over. Our friends who have orchards tell us that the indications are that there will be little or no fruit raised in Jasper county this season. The severe winter killed to the ground what few peach trees there were of bearing si?e and badly injured the pear trees, while it is believed that the cJ)ld weather about the 20th of April destroyed apples and cherries. Elder Wm. P. Shockey will visit Rensselaer on or about the 20th instant, to remain two weeks, during which time the ministers of orthodox denominations in this region will occupy prominent seats on the ragged edge of despair, for he usually makes dreadful havoc among those churches wherever he lifts up his voice in disputation. Early wild flowers, cheiry-trees, plum-trees, pear-trees and some apple-trees are in bloom. We hope and are inclined to think that the fears elswhere expressed.in regard to apples and cherries are not well founded; and that there will be a fair crop of these fruits in the county, without some unexpected mishap befalls them hereafter. Mr. S. N. Johnson, a well known citizen of this place, went to Indianapolis last week to undergo a surgical operation for gravel. The operation was successfully performed and a deposit weighing several ounces was removed from his bladder, but he was too much weakened from long standing disease, and died on the second day after the operation —Sunday morning, May 9th. He was about 35 years old, unmarried, and universally esteemed. The corpse was taken to Pittsburg, Ind., for burial-. Our exchanges are publishing that the following entry is made on the docket of a justice of the peace in Rensselaer, to-wit: “This being the day and hour set for “the trial, the plaintiff comes not, but “the defendant comes, and the only “evidence heard is the testimony of “the defendant, who swears that he “don’t owe the debt; but the Court ‘‘judicially knowing the defendant to “be the damndest liar that ever lived “finds the defendant does owe the “plaintiff the sum of forty-one dol“lars. It is, therefore, ordered by the “Court that the plaintiff recover from “the defendant the sum of forty-one “dollars—if he can get it—with all “costs, taxed at dollars.”

The enumeration of children in Jasper county, between the ages of six and twenty-one years, shows as follows: ■ j‘ TOWNSHIP OR TOWS jgs|g E » 5-, = 5- 5- E » <t> ® a a a. J GD i J 75 -i Hanging Grove..l 78! 84 162 Gillam 128 116 244 Walkerl 781 73 151 Barkley| 212. 175 387 I 23.3] 21'1 450 Jordan| 122| 951 317 Newton 136, 98, 234 Keener.................. 37 30 67 Kankakee 44 45 89 Wheatfield 54 48 102 Carpenter 205 172 377 Milroy 53 54 107 Union 84 81 165 Rensselaer town of 131 120 251 Remington town of 130 138 268 Total 1725 1646 3371