Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1876 — Page 4

THE RENSSELAER UNION.

Thursday. January 27*. 1876.

An Indiana man haM 17,000 cat skins for sale.— 'Chicago Tinges. Did he not publish the Indiana* polia Sentinel at one time, and skin black cats to the tail? Should the kind of weather now prevailing prove to be a lair specimen of what Professor Tice means when he predicts “cold to very cold,” let all our winters be cold to very cold hereafter. Florida people are iK>w reveling amid strawberries and cream, new potatoes and lisards, green peas and aligators, young beets and rattle snakes,spring chickensand fleas, beautiful roses and countless million's of musketoes. Nice winter resort for wealthy invalids. Suppose Senator Morton should die before the 14th day of June, next—;we sincerely hope he will live for many years yet, because he is a powerful man, a wise man, the right man in a good place—but in case he should, who then would the Indianapolis Journal favor for President?,

To his credit let it be told and remembered that Hon. William IS. Hammond, the Congressional representative from Ibis district, voted with the republicans every time on the amnesty measure, recently discussed in the House. He also voted aye on the Holman proposition to repeal the specie-resumption act of last Congress. Mr. Nlsely, sheriff of Tippecanoe county, has written to the sheriff and auditor of Jasper county, that, positively, he will never receive into his jail and custody another prisoner from Jasper county—so he wont. The reason he arches his, spinal column so nicely is presumed to be because the board ot commissioners of Jasper county refused to allow- one of his bills for keeping a prisoner, which bill was not supported by proper affidavit. It was returned in order that he might supply the omission, and when it came back amended it was too late for action that session. It is too bad, entirely too bad, that Mr. Nisely should feel so hurt over this matter, wherein his own negligence is alone to-blame; but it might be still worse for him, perhaps, if he should carry his threat into operation and refuse to obey the orders of court.

CENTENNIAL HISTORY.

Appended hereto is a circular recently issued bv the State Centennial agent to the newspaper publishers of Indiana. Earnest, careful attention of the business population of Jasper county is called thereto. If it is desired by them to have the natural resources, artificial advantages and business of Jasper county represented in the great historical collection of facts proposed, they ought to be wide awake and promptly make arrangements to secure that result. It would not speak very well for the enterprise or public spirit of the merchants, mechanics and professional men living here to have the business of their county and towns unrepresented in this grand volume. Feeling a sense of local pride in the spot he has made his home, Relieving the county where he resides possessing natural advantages superior to many others in the state, which need only to be properly in order to call people thither who will develop them, the publisher of The Union, after deliberation, has decided to collect the necessary data in accordance the outline set forth in the circular below, and at an early day publish the result of that labor. As it is desirable to have this sketch as comprehensive' and faultless as possible be has issued a circular which will be sent to those persons whom it is thought will take an interest in the subject, with the earnest request of their co-operation in the t colleetion of important facts. The expense attending the collection of these facts is something, the time and labor expended on their compilation will be considerable, and the cost of publishing an extra large edition is rather more than one per-

don ought tb pay for the‘'benefit of all. In order to have every business firm iti Jasper county properly Represented in this oentpnnial number, and at the same time apportion the cost of it ns nearly equal as possible among those who will be directly benefited thereby, we hive decided to invite each firm, whether inerchantile, mechanical or professional, to prepare such an advertisement as shall properly represent their several departments of business for publication; for the publication of these cards a charge of one dollar per inch wjll be made. These advertisements will be set in uniform style and may occupy as much space as desired, the parties ordering them paying in advance at the rate of one dollar an inch for the space occupied; but no card to be inserted for loss than one dollar. It will be seen from the circular below that something like three hundred newspapers of Indiana will undertake this work for their respective localities. One hundred copies of these papers will be furnished from each office gratis, ex pressage prepaid, to the State Centennial committee, who will have them bound together in sets. These sets are to be distributed in this manner: Some of them sent to the Philadelphia Exposition for public exhibition, some placed in the educational archives and State library, and the remainder distributed among the colleges and public libraries of Indiana and the principal libraries of the United States. To Editors of the Indiana Press:

Evidence is rapidly accumulating that the request to publish a special historical nuinber qf all papers in the State for the purpose of exhibiting the journalism ot Indiana, and also of presenting a complete statement of the advantages and resources, and a record of its progress, will be universally complied with. For the nurpose of securing uniformity iu the class of matter presented, aud the most complete results possible, and at the same time to answer such questions as have been frequently asked, I oiler the following suggestions: Give the history of your paper and incidentally’ of such other papers as have from time to time been published in the county, in the order of their establishment. In giving city and county history, trace particularly the influences, general and special, which have contributed to or retarded the growth in population and the development of the various industries. Mention should be made iu this connection of those citizens whose personal influence has had to do with this development. The school and church history should be as complete as possible, having reference, especially as regards the school system, to the various stages of progress as evidenced in the erection of new buildings and the introduction -of the improved systems in teaching. The present condition of the schools should be carefully noted.

Be certain that the business and professional men of the cities and towns shall understand the importance of the record which it is desired to make in such manner as themselves shall decide or their enterprise-may suggest, by their advertising cards. Thik record becomes permanent as to the conditions existing in the State at the close of the first century, and will grow’ iu value, if only for matter”of reference in the courts, each succeeding year, and each one should be made to clearly comprehend this fact. A full set of these papers, about three hundred in number, will contain the most complete history of the State that it is possible to present. It will, therefore, be almost invaluable for future reference to lawy’ers, real estate dealers, manufacturers, wholesale merchants and editors, and will be of great interest to all who are collecting The priceset on them, ($25.00) twenty-five dollars, is barely sufficient to pay foiSthe papers, binding and indexing; and NONE WILL BE BOUND EXCEPT SUCH AS MAY BE ORDERED BEFORE FEBRUARY IST, allowing only time to notify publishers of the number of papers required. Should any profit be realized, it will acerue to the General Centennial Fund.of the State. Respectfully,

C HAS. W. GREENE,

State Centennial Agent.

Remington Matters.

From the Record of 21st:- Corn, 31 cents per bushel, shelled 33; oats 25 cents; potatoes 40 cents; eggs 15 cents per dozen; batter 20 cents a pound; lard 15 cents. Public .balls are past events. One Myers recently jumped the town owing §7OO. Last Thursday one firm bought 57 loads of grain. Messrs. Charles Jouvenat and Wiley H. Pierce have formed a law and collection agency partnership. “The whole amount of corn delivered at the two elevators in three days, reached the enormous numbers of 1,000 wagon loads, or 333 wagon loads per day.” At a recent public meeting it was decided that “a second-hand fire engine, now at Richmond, should be purchased for the protection of property in place.”

The Excursionists--—What They Saw.

Indianapolis had been designated as the rendezvous from whence were to depart the representatives of the new-spaper press of Indiana, upon an excursion that would vi?it New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Baltimore and intermediate cities, towns, stations and places of interest connected in line of travel by.the great Pennsylvania Central railroad route. Hotel Bates, the toneyest caravansary in all Indiana, w-as the rallying point of those Bohemians who had volunteered or been drafted to make this mid-win-ter pilgrimage to the first capital, the chief commercial metropolis, and the present seatj of government of our glorious, century-old Vepublic. Friday, 14th instant, was the appointed day for this hegira of intellect, beauty and innocence upon their journey of sight-seeing. At five o’clock in the evening a company of two hundred and sixtyfive persons, of w-bom sixty-four were wives and daughters of gentlemen connected with the press, boarded a special train, which moved majestically, out of Union Depot, and was soon hurrying full speed through the darkness of night. Nothing was seen of the eastern portion of Indiana nor of Ohio as we sped along. Soon the coaches that had resounded with joyous laughter, and buzzed with the undertone of conversation, were hushed to the sound of human voices, and naught was heard in those dimly-lighted save the clatter of revolving wheels, and occasionally the protesting snore of an uncomfortable sleeper. As dawn began to break over the eastern mountain-tops, and stars were drowning in the flowing tide of morning light, our train crossed the Alleghany river, and crept along the hillside into the city of Pittsbugh. Peering out of the car window upon the thousands of coke ovens through whose orifices blueish flames of smouldering fire constantly broke and quivered in the semi-darkness of the valleys below, while a sulphur tainted air was being breathed, it required no vivid imagination to suggest that we were winding along the verge of a Miltonic hell. Stretching over the city from moun-tain-side to hill-top, rested a funereal panoply of coal-smoke; and a fine, black, impalpable dust was settling over everything, as it were an exceedingly light fall of ebon snow. All along the river banks as far as can be seen are cabled huge, grim barges of coal. Train after tram of stoutly constructed cars, loaded with black diamonds, are constantly passing over the railroads. Hundreds of furnaces, foundries, shops and factories are in constant operation, day and night, reducing iron ore, and manufacturing the metal into every conceivable article for which it is used. The sound of hammers and clangor of anvils never ceases, and fiercely-burning fires never expire in this busy, dirty, dismal city. After breakfast, the train moved onward with its begrimed freight, up the narrow little valley into the highlands beyond and out of the smoke. From* Pittsburg to Harrisburg, the scenery is of ever varying, constantly changing grandeur. To one accustomed all his life to the monotonous land-, scapes of northwestern Indfapa, the mountain passes, narrow defiles, steep hillsides, rugged rocks, beetling crags, awful precipices, swift-ly-running streams and romantic valleys ot middle Pennsylvania are a source of constant astonishment and pleasure. The eye never wearies of looking at, nor the mind of contemplating, scenery where nature has lavished those objects and iningle/1 those combinations which make the picturesque, magnificent, grand, stupendous and sublime. The Triumvirate.

The Clinton, lowa, Herald tells the bad luck of a Rensselaer boy as follows: Willie Sears, son of F. J. Sears, recently of this city but now residing in Rensselaer, Ind., has been in Clinton spending the holidays among old friends. The other morning he started to go home. While waiting for the train bound east he had his valise stolen from the waiting room of the Northwestern depot. YoungSearshad left his valise only for a moment, but in that brief interval it vanished, and his subsequent thorough search, as well as that of the officers, failed to reveal

its whereabouts. Im4he valise was all his clothing, a\s2s cornet, and other things to the value of s6s—quite a loss, and one that seriously annoys

_____ BISINESS CARDS. DR. G. A. MOSS, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office between McCoy & Thompson’* bank and Kannal’s drug store. UR. J. H. LOUGHRIDGE. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Washington street, below Austin’s hotel. DR. MOSES ALTER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office in Harding & Willey’s drug store. Dr. r. y. martin, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office opposite the postoffice, above the stone store. MF. CHILCOTE, * ATTORNEY, < AND COUNSELOR AT LAW. Office on Washington street, opposite the Court House square. Simon P. Thompson, David J. Thompson, Attorney at Law. Notary Public. LAW AND REAL ESTATE OFFICE. THOMPSON & BRO. Our Simon P. Thompson attends All courts of the 30th Circuit. —t , Martin & healey, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Wm. H. Martin, Kenfiaud, Joshua Healey, Rensselaer. Will practice in the courts of Jasper and adjoining counties. Office Washington street above Front, Rensselaer, Ind.

TRA W. YEOMAN. -L ATTORNEY AT LAW, Notary Public, aud Real Estate and Collection Agent. Office in the Court House. A McCOY & THOMPSON, • BANKERS. Buy and sell domestic exchange, make collections on all available points, pay interest on specified time deposits, etc. Office hours from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. JW. NORRIS’ ’ * • r HARNESS SHOP. Harness and saddles kept in stock and made to order. Washington street.« All work warranted. 7;24 SAMP. ERWIN, BLACKSMITH. New brick shop, Front street, above the old saw mill, Also, in connection, a WOOD SHOP v ” where all kinds of wood work repairing will be done to order. Prices below competition. SHINDLER & ROBERTS. BLACKSMITHS. At Warner’s old stand on Front street. Horseshoeing, machine reptyring, carriage ironing, etc., done neatly and cheaply. Grant a downing, BLACKSMITHS. Shop on Front street, next door above the stage office, at Duvall & Goff’s old stand. Patronage solicited. GW. TERHUNE’S . BLACKSMITH & WAGON SHOPS Front street, above Washington. All kinds of blacksmithing and wood working done to order at reasonable prices, by the best me. chanics. Particular attention to shoeing horses, ironing and repairing wagons, &c.

AUSTIN’S HOTEL. J. AUSTIN, PROPRIETOR. This house is centrally located in the business part of town. New house, new furniture, good tables, experienced landlord Is recommended to the traveling public. Hopkins house. R.J HOPKINS, PROPRIETOR. Excellent table, convenient location, careful attention to wants of guests, and experienced management are its reemmendations to popular favor. Restaurant. S. HEMPHILL Keeps a choice assortment of Sugar, Coffee, Tea, Crackers, Nuts, Confectionery, Fruit. Oyster;, &c. Best brands of Tobacco and Cigars in the market. Warm meals served at all hours. Washington street, north side, between Fendig’s store and Platt’s grocery. INSURANCE* —If you are aware of'the importance of Fire Insurance, you will insure your property in the Hartford, the oldest fire insurance company in America , organized in 1810. Jasper county represented by Ira W. Yeoman, Agent, Rensselaer. a__ Livery stable _ AND HACK LINE. J. W. Duvall, Livery Keeper, Front street, above Washington, is prepared to furnish horses, carriages and teams for any part of the country, either witli or without drivers. Daily mail hack conveys passengers and express goods to and from Francesville. Freight wagons on the road daily.

$500,000 at 9 per cent, interest, on real estate security, for long time, and in amounts to suit applicants. No insurance required. Apply to, or address by mail, giving location, value, and full description, R. S. Dwiggins& Co.. Attorneys and Loan Agents, Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana. John Miller, Thos. Boroughs, Surveyor. Notary Public. Miller & boroughs, DEALERS IN REAL ESTATE, Make collections, pay taxes, rent farms, buy and sell real estate, furnish abstracts of title. Have a large and select lot of land on hand for sale at low prices and easy terms. Office on Washington street, in Spitler’s brick building, opposite the Court House. VICK’S Flower and Vegetable Seeds are the best the world produces. They are planted by a million people in America, and the result is, beautiful Flowers' and splendid Vegetables. A Priced Catalogue sent free to ail who enclose the postage—a 2 cent stam p. VICK’S •etFlower and Vegetable Garden is ttie most beautiful work of the kind in the world. It contains nearly 150 pages, hundreds of fine illustrations, and four Chromo Plates of Flowers, beautifully drawn and colored from nature. Price 35 its. in paper covers; 65 cents bonnd in elegant cloth. . Vick’s Floral Guide. This is a beautiful Quarterly Journal, finely illustrated, and containing an elegant colored Frontispiece with the first number. Price only 25 cts. for tbe year. The first No. for 1876 just issued. Address JAMES VICK, Kocnestcr, N. Y.

OUR Winter Stock ♦'. • ■ Dry Goods, Clothing, Boots, Shoes, ♦ Hats, Caps, Furs, Gloves, j n • Shawls, &c. Js not excelled in quality or cheapness by any in the market. Among the dry goods are Prints in great variety and of the latest patterns, all wool dress goods, Alpacas, Reps, Plaids. Flannels, Water Proofs, Silks, Ar.c. Foi men and boys we have some of the best piece goods in market Casimeres, Trecos, Broadcloths, Jeans, Beavers, Doeskins Shawls, Furs, Dress Trimmings, Underwear for ladies and gentlemen. We sell the very best quality of boots and shoes, and standard rubber goods. Gloves, mittens, comforts, scarfs, &c. FAMILY GROCBHIBS. Sugay, tea, coffee, soap, spices, Saleratus and all standard articles in this line kept for the accommodation of such customers as prefer to buy all of their supplies at one place. Good artie'es of chewing and smoking tobacco also kept in store. Do not forget the place, but call at Mrs. Hemphill’s new brick building, north side of Washington street. R. FENDIG.

Save Foi the uext sixty days. In order to close out stock,The WEED g. g. Sewing Machine will be sold at a discount of neariv thirty per cent, for cash; or bankable notes six months time twenty per cent., twelve months time, fifteen percent. To parties in or near town, on $5 monthly payments. No machine in the county dares compete with the WEED for durability, timplicity or light runnvng. Old machines taken as part pay Good secondhand machines to trade for corn, woo:,stock or greenbacks. Prices from ssto $25 ; warranted. Needles, all kinds, 50 cents a dozen. Attachments thirty-three per cent, off from Chicago prices. Office first door west of school house, south side of South street. 8-13 0. W. CLIFTON.

E. PRICE DEALXR IS GMCO, WATOTO, Jewelry, Spectacles, Notions, &c. Repairing done to order, and promptly. All work warranted. Store north side of Washington street, second door below Van Rensselaer, Rensselaer, Ind. 7-34, LET THE LOUD-MOUTHED CANNON ROAR! DEACON TUBBS \ Founder of the Old Line Drug Store And all his men have been heard from They have crossed Washington street, fortyfive degrees sontheasl of their old stand,and taken up quarters in THE NEW BRICK BUILDING At the point of the bayonet, after six month of heavy bombardment, and now have peat ■ able possesion of the position where the calculate to remain and do business, unlet dislodged by the enemy, which event, fror the best information we can obtain, is n< likelv to transpire very soon. They have very largs, assortment ofj DRUGS, MEDICINES, STATIONERY BRUSHES, GROCERIES, &C. All of which will be sold low for cash. Yo will find Deacon Tubbs end the two imp Frank and Will as busy as bees in clove fields compounding and putting np medicines while the handsomer and more proficient MAJOR MUCKLESWORT’’ Is standing guard on the other sice of th house, handing out Books, Pens and Papei and wrapping up Soothing Syrup, Wallace’ Bitters, Indian Cholagogue, Climax Salve HOSS POWDERS, Stove Polish, Roback’s Pills, Vinegar Bitters Itch Ointment, Anderson’s Dermador, Unch Ben Joe’s. Bell Tongue Syrup, Hair Oils Pepper s&Bs. &.C., &.C. Come all and see ns in our New Bricl Store—we will sell Drugs, Medicines, Paints Oils, Varnishes. Dyestuffs/ and Grocerie' cheaper for cash than bought in another house in town. HARDIffC A, WILLEY

THE WEEKLY SUN. 1776. NEW YORK. 1876. Eighteen hundred and seventy-six is the Centennial year. It is also the year iu which an Opposition House of Representatives. the first since the war, will be iu power at Washington: and ths year of the twenty-third election of a President of the United States. All of these events an sure to be of great interest and importance, especially the two latter; and all of them and everything connected with them will be fully and freshlv reported and expounded in The Sun. / j The Opposition House of Representatives, taking up the line of inquiry opened years ago by The Sun, will sternly and diligently investigate the corruptions and misdeeds of Grant’s administration; and will, it is to be hoped, lay the foundation for a new and better period iu our national history. Of ail this The Sun will contain complete and accurate accounts, furnishing its readers with early and trustworthy iuformatiqA- upon these absorbing topics. The twenty-third Presidential election, with the preparations for it, will be memorable as deciding upon Grant’s aspirations fora third term of power and plunder, and still ipore as deciding who shall be the candidate of the party of Reform, and as electing that candidate. Concerning all these subjects, those who read The Sun will have the constant means of being thoroughly well Informed. The Weekly Sun, which has attained a circulation of over eighty thousand copies, already has its readers in every State and Territory, and we trust that the year 1876 will see their numbers doubled. It will continue to be a thorough newspaper. All the general news of the day will be found in it, condensed when unimportant, at full length when of moment; and always, we trust, treated in a dear, interesting andinstructive manner. , It is our aim to make tlfe Weeily Sun the best family newspaper in the world, and we shall continue to give in its colunnsa large amount of miscellaneous read inf, such as stories, tales, poems, scientific utelligentre and agricultural information, for which we are not able to make room in our daily edition. The agricultural departmeit especially is one of its prominent features. The fashions are also regularly reported in its columns; and so are the markets of (very kind. The Weekly Sun. eight pageswith fiftysix broad columns is only $l2O a year, postage prepaid. As this price btrely repays the cost of the paper, no discotut can be made from this rate to clubs, agmts, Postmasters, or anyone. The Daily Sun, a large four pge newspaper of twenty-eight columns, gives all the news for two cents a copy, Suiscriptlon , postage prepaid, 55c. a month <r $6.50 a year. Sunday edition extra, s!.!(;per year. We have no traveling agents. Address, THE SUN, New fork City.

Most Extraordinary. The attention of readers is caled to the extraordinary inducements offered to all persons who will subscribe for th< Weekly Indiana State Journal with the Rnssrlakr Union. Both paperswill be furniaed at the very low price of $3.50 per yea—postage paid—and each subscriber will eceive an entirely new township and section! map of the State of Indiana, 35x48 inchs iu size, eiigraved and printed especially foithe Indlnapolis Journal. The map. aloni retails at $2.50. No apch desirable offer was ever before made to thepeopleof this Sate. The Journal has been greatly improve since the recent change of management, aid is now one of the best newspapers publised iu the West. A specimen copy of the mp may be seen at this office. Agents and lanvassers wanted in every township iu this ud adjoining counties. to 23

STOVES. Parlor, cook, and office stoves so wood O coal both hard and soft, of tbolnt'-st improved arid most popular pattern, together with furniture complete, kept iu lage assortment at N. Warner's famous LIBERAL CORKER HARDWARE SW All kinds of tinware kept in lock and made to order. Special attentiongiven to tiie repairing of, tin ware. A fine isortment of table and pocket cutlery; the lagest stock of building, fencing, and wrough nails in the county. Jlolts, screws, hiqes, door fastenings, gate hasps, carpentr’s tools, farm hardware, axes, revolvers, col oil, shot guns, powder, shot, caps, clothes wringers, washing machines, etc. CABINET EURNITIRE. Chairs, sofas, bedsteads, bureau, stands, chamber sets, parlor sets, cupbotris, safes, kitchen tables, extension tables, bok cases, &c., &.C., of different styles, grade of quality aud prices. The Celebrated COQUILLARD FARM VAGONS These wagons, manufacture at South Bend, Ind., have a world-wide reputation. They are absolutely unrivalled. For finish, quality of material, durabilitylightness of running and price they have n<competitors in the United States. Buggiesnd carriages made to order, and carriage training done in the finest style. Also, a thousand things not ere enumerated, may be found at the beral Corner Hardware and Furniture Stor< 8-11 J WARNER.

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<Jhea.p> I* radical Xirable, sufficient. Two men and oue |n of horses can haul and stack more hay th the Hoosier Hay Slide in one day, thanve men and two span of horsesban in thfatne time with any other appliance. Easy to load, and loads itself. Price, 14-foot Sliis7 ; l'6-.foot, SB. A. J. REED, Pleasant Gre, Jasper County, Ind. Agents:—F. W.idford, Rensselaer, Ind.. Hubbard & McFaild, Francesville, Ind 44 AGENTS WAfED.—Territory cheap and on Patented late— April «„ MJ7S.

A. J. REED’S HOOSIER HAY SLIDE Invented iJr a nes y®t