Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1876 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

Buy your New Year presents at C. C. Starr’s. Toy books in abundance at E. T. Harding <fc Son’s. Call at C. C. Starr’s for your New Year goods. Go to Willis J. Imes’ drug store for New Year goods. See advertisement of “farm for sale,’’ in another place. At F. J. Sears & Co.’s trimmings and braids in great variety. A full line of casimeres for gents’ wear, at F. J. Sears & Co.’s. Eggs are scarce in this market, and command 25 cents a dozen. Water-proofs at reduced prices, a full line at F. J. Sears & Co.’s. Call and see the Fascinator, at F. J. Sears &> Co.’s. Something new. French Picardo, for skating suits, latest style, at F. J. Sears & Co.’s. A splendid line of perfumeries, for New Year, at E. T. Harding & Son’s. Charley Starr has a large supply of choice goods for the New Year trade. F. J. Sears & Co. have Canton flannel in a variety of quality and prices. Charley Starr still has candy enough left to supply your New Year wants.

A choice selection of candies, for the New Year trade, at E. T. Harding & Son’s. Latest styles of ladies’ neck ties, in all colors and great variety, at F. J. Sears & Co.’s. If you enjoy a good smoke, call at E. T. Harding <fc Son’s. They keep a tip top nickel cigar.’ A splendid line of ladies’ neckties, for New Year presents, can be found at F. J. Sears & Co’s. Handsomely bound books, standard works, at E. T. Harding & Son’s, suitable for New Year presents. E. T. Harding & Son has a splendid assortment of New Year goods. Examine their stock before making purchases.

Dr. Ensminger and wife, of Crawfordsville, spent Christmas with her father, John M. Austin, Esq., and other relatives. There are still several pieces of beautiful china ware at Charley Starr’s. Go and make your selections before they are all gone. Special Notice.—All persons indebted to the firm of F. J. Sears & Co. will please'call and settle before January Ist, 1877, and oblige. At Willis J. Irnes’ drug store will be found a large and complete supply of perfumeries for the New Year trade. Go and make your selections. Quite nice fish are being caught in the rivdr, by cutting holes in the ice and pulling them out with a grab hook when they come up to glance the beautiful landscape o’er.

A fine cotillion party was given at Bedford’s Hall, evening before last, by certain of the ladies of Rensselaer, in honor of the visit of Mrs. J. P. Dunlap and Mrs. Ensminger. To Housekeepers.—You will find D. B. DeLand & Co.’s Best Chemical Saleratiisis full weight, and absolutely pure. Try all things and hold last to that which is best and true on weight and quality both. Manufactured and warranted in every respect by H. A. DeLand & Co., Fairport, N. Y. Holloway’s Pills or Ointment. —Scrofula or morbid deposits in the lungs, joints and tissues. These medicines have rendered this disease a less formidable scourge than formerly. It has been inconteslibiy proved that in Scrofulous affections they have affected thousands of cures. Sold everywhere, 25 cent* per box or po t.

On the 18th instant Ed. Erwin and John Myers were homing deer in Wheatfield township, when one was started up between the two men, they being hidden from each other by intervening brush. Erwin fired at the deer and his shot hit Myers on the outside corner of his left eye passing beyond and lodging in his nose. Tin wounded man is doing well, though the attendant surgeon thinks that the sight of his eye is destroyed. A. M. Munden, teacher Brushwood school, Union township, reports for the month ending December Ist, 1876, as follows: Nhmber enrolled 23; average daily attendance 19. Pupils above 95 in general average, Maf.ie Battreall, Clara Battreall, Charles McColly, Minnie Martin, Frank Martin, Emetine Braskett, Eveline Braskett and Eddie McColly. The average is made upon attendance, punctuality, study and general deportment. The court house was crammed jam full of people Monday night to witness the Christmas tree ceremonies, which consisted of singing and distribution of presents. There were two trees, both of which was handsomely trimmed with evergreen and tastefully decorated with beautiful beads, and which fairly groaned beneath -their loads of presents. Indeed, so numerous were the presents that the trees did not hold near all of them. They consisted of almost every conceivable article, from a common tin whistle to the most costly silk dress pattern. Taking altogether* it was one of the pleasantest Christmas tree parties ever held ■in Rensselaer, and everybody felt that it was good to be there. The poor were kindly remembered and will ever feel grateful for the presents bestowed upon them by their generous neighbors.

Persons desiring to go to Arkansas will find it to their interest to see me before starting. I have the agency for the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Company’s lands, over 2,000,000 acres, offered on ten years time, at 6 per cent, interest. Also, 100,000 acres of prairie and timber land in the counties of Lonoke, Prairie and Arkansas; very fine quality and cheap. VVill sell round-trip railroad tickets from Lafayette to Little Rock, via St. Louis, for $32.80; good for 60 days. For farther information call at the little brick office, opposite the court-house, Rensselaer, Indiana. I have 320 acres of fine land in Kansas to exchange for a good farm in Jasper or Benton county, Indiana, and will give some boot. Also improved farms and excellent wild lands in this county and for sale cheap, and on easy terms.

THOMAS BOROUGHS.

From Mr. Frank Reynolds, on whose place the thjee Polish children were burned to death in their home, on Wednesday, we learn the particulars of the horrible affair as far as it is possible to ascertain them. The oldest of the three children was but three and a half years old, and the youngest six mqpths. The shanty in which they were burned was about 10x12 feet in size, with no windows and no place of egress but the door which opened outward, and is thought was fastened by the parent* when they went to the woods in the morning, leaving the three children iu bed to remain until their return sometime before noon. This family had a stove, and it was from the pipe which protruded from the board roof that the tire is supposed to have originated. What efforts the fated children may have made to escape from the horrible death threatened them by the flames will never be known, for at about half part ten, when the mother went home to get dinner the roof had fallen in and her liuje ones were dead. Her seres ml brought Mr. Reynolds to the scene, but nothing could be done; home, children, all w«re burned, lost. There waa nothing left of the children but about a pailful of boned — Bend Register,