Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1876 — Local Gossip. [ARTICLE]

Local Gossip.

See conference appointments elswhere in this paper. Apples are plenty and offered on the streets for 20 to 25 cents a bushel. . i Mr. John Yan’t Woud, of Keener township, recently lost a good farm horse from the bite of an adder. Potatoes have beep scarce for a few days past. At the stores they are retailed out at the rate of fifty cents a bushel. The annual institute of the Jas per county teachers is in session ip the school house this week. There is a good attendance of teachers. Extensive preparations are being made by therepublicansforagrand political rally to greet Gen. Harrison, candidate for governor, when he speaks at Rensselaer, cn the 27th instant.

A meeting will be held at the court house next Saturday at 1 o’clock, p. m. to organize a mounted Hayes and Wheeler company to participate in the rally on the 27th. It is desired to have a full attendance. There are three hundred and sixtyfive, more or less, candidates for assessor of Marion township. When the duties are well performed the labor requires from thirty to forty days, for which about $l5O is paid. Its a rich thing when dad’s ont o’ meat. Mr. James Bnrris, on the Moss Farm three miles north of town, is another victim of the Arkansas fever. He will make a public sale on next Tuesday (19th instant) atj which he will offer, on twelve months time without interest, four headof horses, one cow, a lot of* fine Berkshire brood sows and pigs, fifty acres of corn, forty acres fall pasture, apples in the orchard, a combined reaping and mowing machine, corn dropper, walking cultivator, stirring plows, together with other farm tools, house furniture, and other articles.