Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1875 — Remington Gossip. [ARTICLE]

Remington Gossip.

Go to Kern's for Monticello flour. The Pioneer store is full of new goods at low prices. • Choice green apples and fresh Bermuda onions at Kern’s. A large stock of teas, at reduced prices, just received at Kern’s. Town Marshal Reeve is doing good work on the streets this week. Gents’ fine shoes and boots and latest styles of fur and wool hats, at Hopkins’ corner. Have you seen those linen suits at the Pioneer store? They are heat, good, and cheap. The best fish are to be found at Kern’s grocery. Fall weights and lowest prices guaranteed. Twenty thousand (20,000) pounds of wool wanted by F. J. Sears Sc 00., at the pioneer store. Messrs. F. J. Sears & Co. have now the handsomest business sign and store awning in this cotfnty. A large stock of jeans, flannels, yarns, etc., to exchange for wool, at F. J. Sears & Co’s Pioneer store. We have a full line ofHJress goods and suitings, which will be sold low for cash or produce.—F. J. Seabs & Co. Many kinds of goods too numerous to name (not staple') will be closed out regardless of cost, at Hopkins* comer. Mr. T. P. Wright is building a new dwelling house on Cullen street, southwest of the Methodist Episcopal Church. A few imported apples and onions are on sale at the groceries for gilt edged prices. The former bring $2 a bushel, and the latter $2.75. A heavy stock of jeans, flannels, and blankets at R. Fendig’s Stone Store, which will be sold at very low prices, either for cash or in exchange for wool. It is reported that Mr. Alfred Thompson vetoes the retail of malt liquors in his “Liberal Corner” building, and therefore Mr. Goddard will not apply for license ®s be has advertised to do. 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. Dr. M. B. Alter went to Indianapolis Tuesday as a delegate from Iroquois Lodge No. 143 to the State Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, which held its semi-annual session Tuesday and Wednesday of this week.

Last week The Union job office printed 20,0frt) 'blanks for Messrs. R. S. & Z. Dwlggins, to be used in connection with their Abstract of Titles to Real Estate in .Tasner County. This was tbe largest job of printing ever done in the county. About one-half of the corn planting in Jasper county will be done this week, and if the weather continnes favorable it will be pretty much completed next week. A few planted last week, and some report corn coming through the ground. Miss Lydia Paris, teacher oi School No. 6 of Marion township, reports that Belle Phegley, Eddie Phegley, Rosa Hammond, Charley Hammond, Demon ford Pritchard and Amsie Williams attended punctually during the month whieh ended May 14th. . The advocates of temperance in this county are preparing to remonstrate against the granting of license to retail intoxicating beverages at Rensselaer and Remington, and lively times may be anticipated on this account at the June term of the commissioners’ court. Mrs. N. W. Hopkins will make a public sale in Rensselaer, on Saturday, June sth, at which she will offer at public auction forty-two (42) head of twd and three years old steers; also, a rake and a mowingmachine. A credit tff one year will be given; notes with'approved securityrand to bear ten per cent, interest from date* Peaches are not all dead in Jasper county this season. We saw half a dozen flowers recently on a tree in a garden in this place. Cherry trees are blooming profusely but there is scarcely one in fifty of the flowers that encloses live fruit. Apple trees will bloom quite sparingly this season, and not more than one-fourth of a crop is now anticipated. Rt. Rev. J. Dwengeiy D. D., Bishop of the Roman Catholic diocease of Ft. Wayne, was in Rensselaer this week looking after tbe affairs of St. Joseph Orphan Asylum and the church property in this county. Quite a number of changes in the church relations in Jasper, are contemplated by the Bishop, as soon as they can, be effected. The orphan asylum will be removed to LaFayette; several hundred acres of land in this county belonging to the church will be sold; and a convent and schqol is to be established at Renssela€it, j

Wool Wasted.—Mr. R. Fendig, at the Stone Store, wants to buy all the wool for sale in this county, for which he will pay the highest pr ices either in cash or merchandise. About 20,000 acres of uncultivated and unenclosed wild lands in Jasper county, belonging to speculators and nonresidents, have been leased.this season for pasturing and mowing. The rental ranges from two cents to forty cents an acre—about enough to pay the taxes on them. Three-fourths of the aggregate of these leases have been effected through the land agency of Messrs. S. P. Thompson & Bro. of Rensselaer. A kind of temperance caucus was held in the Baptist Church last evening which was in a manner supplemental to the regular proceedings of the Sunday School Convention. Elder D. T. Halstead made the principal address, and was fob lowed by othersin shorter extempore remarks. Appropriate resolutions in opposition to the retail traffic of spirituous liquors, were adopted, and ah e althy moral tone of community was clearly developed. Miss Fannie F. Miller is teaching school in district number 9 of Marion township, (at the James school house.) She reports for the mopth which ended on the 14th instant, an enrollment of 15 pupils, and an average daily attendance of 14 and a fraction. Frankie Adams \Vas perfect in attendance, punctuality, deportment and study. Miss Milier’r report for publication in these columns is a model which the editor commends to other teachers who desire space for announcement of similar character.

An attorney at Parsons, Kas., has written to officers here that Henry Clay Babcock, who recently left Jasper county after night to elude service of a warrant requiring his arrest for committing abortion upon a young woman wh om he had seduced, was arrested in that city and held to trial to answer the charge of burglary. , Clay iwas a dissipated fellow, and lecherous perhaps, but nobody here where he had been brought up would suspect him guilty of a crime of that nature. The Sabbath School Convention held here yesterday and the day before, was not as well attended as the friends of the Sabbath School cause had anticipated it would be. The season is so backward this year that the time of holding the Convention fell in the midst of corn-planting time, when farmers could not leave their fields without great sacrifice of their private interests; there was a respectable local attendance however, and quite a number of people came over from Remington. The organization of the Sunday School interests ub the county under a central association is not yet complete, owing to imperfect understanding of the object, and details of operation, and shortness of time to perfect operations; but the work is progressing finely, and its results arc already affording great encouragement to its friends.

Work is progressing on the new Fair grounds... .Dan. B. Miller is pro tempore editor of the Record. ... There is more freight shipped to Remington than any other town on that railroad between Watseka, 111., and Logansport, 1nd.... The croquet mallet awakes the drowsy echoes in every cranny of Remington, from six o’clock until it is too dark to see... .The baseball ground has been policed for the summer campaign, and surgeons have whet up their scalpels and procured a new supply of lint and bandages ....A new gymnasium has been erected near the post office, and all the surgeon’s wives in. town are wearing new hats, business being lively with their husbands.... A “bull-headed judge” and several “officials who collect handsome mileage” summoned the Record editor to Rochester this week to interview him about a murder, or some other violation of law, about which lie professes to know very little... .A little red-headed Jasperite, called Scott, beats the three hundred male students in the Valparaiso high school, on the run and jump... .Remingtou has two first-class country hotels. J. A. Stanley and Mary Miller, of Remington, were recently licensed to marry, by the clerk of Laporte county.... The Good Templars have refurnished their hall, this spring, have a little money in their treasury, and are prospering generally ... .Mrs. D. F. Kaufman, a former resident of Remington, died at Kokomo, recently, very suddenly,' in a congestive chill. —Compiled from the Record. 8