Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1876 — Local Matters. [ARTICLE]

Local Matters.

Good cheese at Burr’s grocery. Best cigars for the mossy at Starr’s. Ripe apples begin to appear is Buy tea, coffee and sugar es Charity O. Starr. Sidewalk pitching Is among the repairs now being made. An excellent quality of honey was sold hero last week for 20 oenta a pound. Saturday last was the dullest for businoss that has been experienced ibis year. Flour, fl*b, bacon, etc., at cheap as the cheapest and good ts the best, at Starr’s. Tobacco, in Its various forms of chewing and smoking, kept in large supply by Cbsrlcy Starr. The lisssnic fraternity talk of moving into their new hell is Bedford 5c Jackson's building about the let of August Mr. Alfred McCoy has bcgqn the work of demolishing his dwelling house, preparatory to building a brick one on its site. Thursday, Friday and Saturday were excessively warm days, the thermometer indicating e tomperaturo in the nineties. Mr. N. Conover, editor of the Michigan City J Xews, was in town a few hours last week and honored this office v*ith a friendty visit. The season for canning and preserving fruits is now here. Thrifty housewives should go to Charley Starr for sugar, and glass jars. Unto*.—Units your good flour with D. B. DeLaud A Co.’s Best Chemical SaUratut if you want extra bread, biscuit and pastry of all kinds. United they. rise, divided they All.

A little itinerant harpor amused some es the sightseers in Rensselaer on the Fourth, snd pteased thtir ears with the tintinnabulation of his music. Ho wss the first Of the genus to visit ths town that ws have any knowledge of. A few showerless days have greatly encouragod farmers and they are busy in corn and hay fields. Corn needs working badly, and hny harvest is on hand. There is not much time to waste in idleness, and people pay little attention to political matters. Baseball fever is prevailing to an alarming extent iu this place. There are three organized clubs here at present writing, two of which havo procured uniforms and are practicing almost daily, notwithstanding the scorching hot weather. Mr. Robert Hamilton, of Franklin, Indiana, pronounoes the lands at the head waters of the Iroquois river among the best in the worid, and considers them equal if not better in quality to the famous Wabash bottoms. He thinks all they need is thorough draining to render them tbo most productive lands in Jasper county, or for that matter, in Hre-Stat*. Extra copies of tho Union of last wenk containing an account of the observation of the Centennial Fourth, and a sketch of the history of Jasper county revised and corrected, on sale at this office tor five cents oach. ThoeC who deeiro to preserve oopies for reference, or send them to friends abroad, will please nail before this edition is exhausted. 1 The Rensselaer Cornets are winning for themselves a golden reputation wherever they have occasion to play, and are rapidly taking rank among the beat bands of the State. The boys are entitled to a great deal of praise for tho manner in which they acquitted themselves as musicians on the 4th. Tkh Rensselaer Cornet Band is an institution of which our citizens justly feel proud,.and without which public days in this place would be very dull indeed. While ibe fantastics were passing down Washington street on the 4ih, a young man standing'on tho sidewalk in front of thepwst office became excited and attempted to jump over the ditch that runs along side of the walk. He fit ob the opposite side of the ditch but lost his equilibrium, aad very much against his will, was compelled to take a seat in the mud and water. He got up a wiser if not a better man, and when last seen was standing with his back towards the sun, pondering upon the fr&ilti# of man, and the uncertainties of life. The beard of town trustees have caused to be posted written notices of ah ordinance ordering the removal of ail boxes, lumber ami other obstructions from tho sidewalks and streets, a»d prohibiting any more being placed thereon. Also ordering the destruction of noxious weeds and removal of decaying and offensive debris from lots aad premises In town. A general cleaning up would be productive of the beat, results to comfort and health. It is to bo hoped that this ordar will bo rigidly enforced, especially daring the spring, summer and fall asontha. -’' • . « The coolest trick we havo seen this seasea was ffoywdhy Mr. Wm. McConnell, of the postoAoe store, last Saturday. He brought into on* sanctum a large honk of ice and into a bucket of water, saying, as be did so, "keep cool.” Well, of course, we took his advice, sad all hands unite in returning thanks. Me. is a number one good fellow and knows how to keep the printers in a good humor. We would say to the ladies that, notwithstanding this was a very cool and daring triek, it doss not indicate that he is cold-hearted, by any means, but on the contrary, wo beliovs he would lean up to his girl in church just as does, and hang on the gMe after he bad taken her home Just as long, as that young fellow who brought his gal to town on the Fourth to celebrate and treated her to "a cent’*, worth of chawin’ gum aad two cents 1 wor’h of blcwny