Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1876 — Persenal Montion. [ARTICLE]

Persenal Montion.

Billy Austin is home from school. Mias "Tootie” is also home Mr. A. W. Bingham was attacked by a paralytic stroke on Friday last, but without fatal results. George Newels threshed a Newton county lad in front of Duvall's stage office, on last Saturday evening, and was fined the customary foe for the luxury. The trouble arose at a horserace, and the whipped youngster is said to have been the aggressor. It was the first fius of the kind that has occurred in'Rensselaer'for two years.

E , Amesti Brevities. OH knee for aowp are raid for 90 cento I per checker. For grooeriee sad provisions go to OharUyO. Starr. Wkaftieterriea only ty oento a quart oa last Saturday. Cornmeal at the mill is retailed for 60 sad 76 coats a bushel. Tee mash rain for corn, and the prospect is Im for a slim crop. Om of the Hurley fitmifies, in Berkley township, lost an infant last Sunday. Fanners hereabouts are paying $lB to S2O per month for hands until after harvest is over. Morillo cherries are ripening nicely end will soon be in market. There is a fair crop of them. Geo. Patton, of Remington, "denigeo of” being about to plant 160 acres of cherry trees next year. ’Tie pity. Freeh beef steak, buyer's ehoioe of cuts, sold last week in Rensselaer for 8) cento a pound, and other cuts at proportionate prices. A swarm ofboee assembled in convention on a limb of one of the trees in the court/ bouse square, last Friday. They werk taken hr out of the wet, like the greenbackers at St. Loots.

Mr. Andrew J. Reed has contracted with Mr. G. W. Terhtrae to manufacture his pattent hay-slide. Ho setts fisna righto very ehestp. It to * valdnHe Invention and takes Wherever tito fnfrwlwud. A bone race cease qff rt the fldr ground last Saturdaywhich attracted qdtee crowd and created considerable excitement among the lookers oA. Horseracesand dogfights never fail to 1 draw a crowd in this vicinity. Mr. J. W. Duvall on Saturday last entered upon hit four years’ contract of easy rying the mails daily, except Sundays, between Rensselaer and Remington. The contract over the Francesville route was let to a Lafayette gentleman who sublet it to Mr, Duvall. Secession —Secede from every name and kind of saleratus except D. B. DeLand. & Co.’s But Chemical Soler at us. ; This kind to use on every oooariow,. for,it to; always uniform and perfect and always holds Ort weight. Manufactured by ft. A. DeLand & Co. Mr. Johnathan Frazee brought into this offioe tort Saturday * small branch of A goose, berry bush, upon which wsra 118 perfectly formed and welt developed gooseberries, for which we return thanks. The seriwnis very propitious for this kind of . fruit and’ all the bushes we have seen are loaded. There to likely to be plenty of fruit in' Jasper county this season for the home demand. Currants, gooseberries, raspberries, blackberries and all small fruits have borne abundantly, apples promis4 to make a fitfr crop, cherries are average in qmmtity, and there will be Ataste of peaches, pears and plums. v Mr. Daniel B. Miller declines to be a candidate for election to the office of county surveyor. He was appointed over a year ago to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. C. P. Mayhew, and has been on industrious and efficient officer. It to ropotod that Mr. Geo.'M. Johnson and Bev. W Mt Ulllar Mp*— to bo elected to that Srttelte* wort October,' -V Dr. Kelley has rested the front room, up stairs, in Mrs. Hemphill's now brick building, and has fitted up a parlor for the reception of his customers and visitors. He now has onsof the neatest and bort arranged photograph galleries in Northern Indiana, and does bettor work than many artists in larger towns and cities. The Doctor to one of Rensselaer’s solid business men, and, having been in business here several years, needs no recommendation. If you doubt our word, you have only to call and examine some of his work to be convinced of the truth of our statements. He has recently addedastoek of new material and one or two perfecting machines to his gallery. Give him a call when you want anything in his line. Messrs. John Coon, Ellis Walton and M. B. Alter, appdiffisd to view and report upon the location of a public highway within the incorporate limits of the town of Rensselaer, on the wesTtide, along tbelinedividing ranges 6 and 7. to bo 80 feet wide, and which will offset the lands of the Moanett sisters and Mrs. Fanny O. Rhoades, have, we are told, reported favorably, recommandiagthopaynmit of nominal damages for the removal of foncse, Zhsse viewers were appointed by the board of town true-. tees. Another board of viewers were, appointed by the county commissioners to locate a road 80 feet wide on the wort side of the range line parallel with the one reported above. It affects the lands of Jonathan Peacock and Mrs. Frances J. A. James. If favorably reported upon a highway will be estabtohed 60 feet wide, and be in condition far grading up and permanent repair. This to one of the most important roads in the county, being the mail rorte from Remington. There is ao question of its public necessity, and the only matter of wonder about it ia that it was not permanently located years ago.