Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1875 — The Old Original North Carolinians. [ARTICLE]

The Old Original North Carolinians.

Quite a number of Remington people are in town thia week at* tending court. A number of Rensselaer people are attending the Fair at Francesville this week. To-day is the Jewish New Year’s day, and the holiday is being observed by our Hebrew friends in Rensselaer. More improvements are being made in Jasper cbunty this fall, than have been made in any year since the war. Our hotels are crowded this week with persons having business in the September term of the Jasper circuit court. Gen. R. H. Milroy has been appointed by the government to the charge of several tribes of Indians in Washington territory. Don’t forget the Old Settlers’ meeting to be held at Indian Village, on Saturday, Oct. 9th. It will be the crowning event of the season. Considerable billiousness is reported among the inhabitants of this region, and pills and qninine, strange as it may seem, have a downward tendency.

Mr. Frank Laßue, Burlington, Kansas, has thanks for a recent copy of the Patriot. Messrs. W. J. Laßue & Bro. are dealing in boots, shoes, bats and caps in that city. A small brown, yearling filly followed a mule team to the Fair, week before last and has strayed away. Information concerning it may be left at this office for the owner. Just received at Kern’s grocery, a large stock of the best grades, which will be sold on a close margin. Please call and examine the complete variety and quality of this stock. The citizens of Monticello are considerably' agitated over questionof removing the county seat of. White county to Reynolds. A movement.js ndw on foot to bring about the above result. Mr. J. H.Willey’s youngest son, a lad of six or eight years of age, was thrown from a carriage yesterday and run'’over, receiving a scalp wound two or three inches long, and having his face and head shockingly bruised. Since last issue of this paper marriage licenses have been issued by the clerk of Jasper county to Rial B. Harris and Elizabeth Brown, Samuel Bowman and Frances E. Blood, Andrew K. Saylor and Emma M. Fulton. Rumor says there is a strong prospect of work being resumed on the Chicago & South Atlantic railroad this fall. It is reported the managers of the enterprise talk confidently of being able to lay the iron before January 1876. Married, Sunday, September 26, 1875, at the residence of Hon. Geo. H. Brown, the bride’s father, by Elder D. T. Halstead, Mr. Rial Benjamin Harris to Miss Elizabeth Brown. The printers acknowledge the courtesy of the fair bride and generous groom and wish them a long and happy life. Porter and Jasper counties have just completed a new iron bridge across the Kankakee river at Baton’s ferry, that cost upwards of $1,400. Jasper county’s proportion of the expense is a little rising of 8600, but it will be necessary for her to construct a grade to it another year at a probable expense of SI,OOO more. Great preparations are being made by the people of Jasper county to attend the Old Settlers’ meeting on the 9th instant Rev. J. C. Faris, of Medaryville, Pulaski county, formerly a resident of Jasper county, honored us with a short visit last week, and said be should certainly attend if bis health was good and the weather permitted. Numbers of others have expressed themselves in the same manner. Indeed the propsi. tipn is favorably spoken of by everybody, and from present indications it will be altogether most an enjoyable affair.

A’Tiew journeyman blacksmith from Wabash city does fine carriage work at Samp. Erwin’s shop; and the “old man” devotes his chief attention to general custom work and repairing. No shop in the county gives better satisfaction in the horse shoeing department. Call at the brick blacksmith shop, if you desire prompt attention.. Work on Bedford & Jackson’s new brick block is being pushed with vigor. The bricklayers have progressed as far as the second story with the walls, and if the weather continues favorable will have them towering above the buildings adjoining by the close of anotherweek. This building when completed will be one of the best in Northern Indiana, and one that will be a credit to the town. We wish there were more Bedfords and Jacksons in Rensselaer. Those who are interested will see elsewhere in this paper that the President and Secretary of the Jasper County Central Association of Patrons of Husbandry have appointed the 16th day of October, at 1 o’clock, p. m., for a meeting of the Masters, Past Masters, and their wives, of Subordinate Granges in this jurisdiction for the purpose of selecting delegates to the State Grange. This meeting should have been- called for the 9th of October, but as that would havs interfered with the Old Settlers’ meeting it was thought best to defer it to the time above mentioned.

This is splendid weather for all kinds of fall farm work. Corn ripens and dries rapidly, fodder cures well in the shock, many are still putting up hay, and those who manufacture sorghum molasses are specially pleased. Instead of these being melancholy days and the saddest of the year, they aie days of rejoicing and happiness. They are the fairest, the richest, the ripest, the most perfect, the best. Spring verdure may be tenderer and fresher, but autumn colors are gorgeous and varied. Spring zephyrs maybe soft and balmy, but autumn days are fragrant with ripeness while the breaih of the mornings is almost intoxicating. A grand musical convention is announced to be held at Francesville, Ind., commencing Monday evening, October II th, and to continue five days, with three sessions of two hours each per day; concluding with a concert Saturday evening, October 16th. The convention will be under the direction of Prof. J. A. Smith, of Portland, Ind., assisted by Miss Ella Rex, of Rochester, Ind., organist. It is announced that the object of the convention is to awaken deeper interest in the science of music, and to give all the benefit of general chorus and anthem drill. Strict attention ’ ill be given to the rendering of both church and secular music. Kindred subjects will also receive close attention. Prof. Ferguson, corresponding secretary, Francesville, Ind., will furnish further particulars upon application. i Living in sight of town are two genteel elderly unmarried ladies named Smith, who are respected and beloved by the whole community for their intelligence, culture, kindness and charities. Early last spring Miss Julia received a fall, from the effects of which she has not yet recovered fully, and is confined to the- house much of the time. Her sister, Miss Elizabeth, desiring to attend the Fair one day week before last, the curtains were letdown ovei the windows, the doors closed, and Miss Julia was left alone within. Presently, looking out into the door-yard she saw a man prowling about, who soon came into the kitchen and began rummaging among the articles there. Meantime Miss Smith had fastened the door communicating between the room she was in and the kitchen, and done it so quietly that the fellow did not hear her. Directly he came and after several efforts succeeded ip forcing this door open, walked mto the room, and found himself standing before Miss Julio, wiro very coolly asked, “Now sir, what do you want?” The man looked amazed, flushed up, bade “good afternoon,” and quietly retired from the premises.

We find the following in the Lafayette Courier of the 28th instant: Married. —Vanscoy—Thomas—At Battle Ground, Indiana, September 22, 1875, by Rev. W. Beckner, Rev. Thomas vanscoy, of Rensselaer, to Miss Jennie E. Thomas, of Battle Ground. Mr. Vanscoy was sent to this place by the Northwestern Indiana Conference to fill the vacancy made by Mr. Lambert, who was given a work at Hobart, in Lake county. We welcome Mt. Vanscoy and lady to a home with the good people of Rensselaer and vicinity, and may their stay among us be pleasant to them as well as beneficial to to the church of which he is pastor. Mr. Gutches, as the agent of the Chicago & South Atlantic Railroad Company, visited Rensselaer yesterday, and last evening met a number of the wealthier citizens of Rensselaer in Messrs. R. S. & Z. Dwiggins’ * office. The company proposes to issue 800 first mortgage bonds of the denomination of SSOO each which they offer to the citizens of Lake, Jasper, White and Carroll counties at fifty cents on the dollar, for the purpose of raising money to buy iron, build depots and equip with rolling stock the road from Chicago to Delphi and put it in running operation. The said bonds are to be payable in 30 years, and to bear interest at the rate of 7 per cent, payable in gold semi-annually at New York and London. Subscriptions to said bonds not to be paid until all are sold. The money to be placed in the hands of a treasurer to be elected by rhe holders of the bonds, and to be paid out only on the order of an auditor also to be selected by them—the bondholders# This proposition was favorably received and about $35,000 was subscribed this morning before Mr. Gutches left, Messrs. McCoy &, Thompson heading the JiAt with $20,000. Much enthusiasm is manifested by leading business men here, who are confident that SIOO,000 worth will be taken in Jasper countv.

An unexpected treat turns up in the appearance of this celebrated company of old plantation singers —composed of genuine black people from the South. They are not a band of straggling, burnt cork minstrels, but a regularly organized troupe of first-class actors and singers, winning the highest encomiums of both press and pul pit throughout the land. Wetrust our citizens will not allow this opportunity to pass unnoticed. The company is engaged by the Ladies’ Pastor’s Aid Society. Turn out, everybody.