Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1877 — Page 5

LOCAL MATTERS.

Frasfe ‘ oy*t*ra otaljr SO e*nu a om,Ate. C.Bt«ncV OwwroosU for sat* for l**a than irat coat, at Leopold’*. < That &6 .cent tea at Starr’* Milk Hko hot cake*. Try it - A dancing aobool is talked of among thf jrooog people. George W. Hawaii ot Remington, was ftf. town Tweaday evening. The commercial vain* of rabbits dor shipping is fonr cents apiece. The steady cold weather it making e gded ran on coal end wood.

Beet brenda of pleg end fine oat tobacco* kspt constantly on bond et C. C. Starr’*.', . Another coating of snow fell yesterday morning, making good. •leigtjTng again. NO. dear, made at the Wesfttlhrmiil*, atß. -TV Harding A tefvPet* of fnrs left at£*owill be sold at SO per cent ss£ thin T*^olarprices. : Mr. Danisl B. Miller returned from a.tjro weeks’ visit at Rochester, bts-Mld boms, last Saturday. I. Puroupile and fa ha 11 y, of M&fittee'.lo, are Vlaitipg with their many friends in Rensselaer. Th®“jQld Dependable/’ “<3o!den CrowhjS’J. Colossus,” and other choicCJbrande of cigars, at E. T. Harditfgf A Son’s. McCoy A Thompson’s bank is now oioAdf at 4 o’clock p. m. and no bnaioetji will h* transacted at a later hoiif of tk«,day. Leopold’s entire stock of goods will be oiossd oat a* rapidly as possible, regardless .of cost. Call, examine .end. be satisfied. Try some of that maple molasses, and self-riaing buckwheat dour at Charley Starr'a. They almost make a person’s rho’uth water. * 1 ’l. * hr? Circuit cotirt business at Keptland, occupies- the attention of Judge llainmond, Hon. It S. Dwiggins and S. P. Thompson, Esq. Bitty Moss staiged, oi) Tuesday morning,' for Ladoga, to ■ attend Normal School. If ay anooees attend him ia hi* pursuit of knowledge!

Pro! Ci»B..Buw«rd will open » danclagAskiwilin Bedlbjrifa Hall, on the rflgjrttifthe lith instant The BfeftMehier Quadrille Band will farflt^inuslo. Mr. Kitt, of the Remington Rte crd wu in town on Friday. He reports buainear improving. Corn ia being brought to market in considerable quantity. On hand at Leopold's is a One asaortmeaC of oasaimeren, doe skin a, beavers, ohmehillaa and Freneh and Bnglish worsteds. All are offered it coat to close out Tha holiday nab now being over, C. C. Starr will be to aee his regular customers, and will be pieaifcd to wait upon all who may oaH at hi« establiahment. Groceriea, of alt kinds, cheaper then ever, it Charley Starr's. Hs carries the largest stock, cell* most goods, end trseps (he best assortment of any house in the oounty. Read the rule adopted by the commissioners at their session last month, for the governing of certain which is put>UsKed under the heeding of legal advertiaemente.

The second quarterly meeting of the M. E. Chttrch for tlie present conference jeer will be held in Rensselaer' on Saturday and San* day, January 18th and 14th, 1877. Presiding Elder Smith wtHftfflelite. The 6*d birth day anniversary of Mrs. Mary Tharp on Monday was made the occasion of a neat and complete surprise party, planned by her chlldVeft and a few of her frienda in honor of the event, b was a nice affair. Acknowledgement iemade of the reeeipt, in prune condition, on New Year’s day*, of a bait of peraimsnona, from way upwn at DaralHa BlufffJkrksßaas. It waa Mr. lease Y. Alur who "remembered the .editor” this time. Thanks. Jim Abbott apd,6?f+sw%}p delivered Mow TWs calla and cards oaith .their autographs i» carmins dak.- The old fellows are desperate and will knnt in ooatjrios eatll ftp. 1

Dr. G. A. Moss end Frank WBabooek, Ksq, have removed their offee into the brick boil ding opposite the court hones wbioh was aatil recently oocopicd by Messrs: Miller A Boroughs. They extend invitation* to friends and patrons to visit them in their new and convenient quarters. Mr. John E. Alter, teacher of Roee Bud school, district No. 5, Union township, reports for the month which ended December 29th, 1879, an enrollment of 88 pupils, with so average deity attendance of 24.65,. The following were perfect in attendance: Jennie Humes, Isaac Alter, Mary Abbett and Orra W arne.

None*.—-All persons indebted to ms, either by note or on book acoount, must settle with me during the present month of January. Iu February settlements will be made -with. Thompson A Bro. Owing to 1 a change in my business which will occur March Ist, 1877, I am compelled to adppt this course. A. Lxopold. Mias NftUie Phegley, teacher of school Np. 5, Keener township, reports for the month ending December 22d, 1876, an enrollment of 28 with an average attendance of 17.7. Those perfect in attendance were Etta Woods, Anna Thompson, Hattie Thompson, Me lists Shivley, Martha Shiviey, Mary Brock way i Janie Brock way and James Shivley.

Real Estste Transfers.

For tha weak ending Januaiyy 8, 1877, the following, transfers of real estate were recorded in Jasper county: George E. Hoamar to Niels Semson, nw nw 24. 29, 5, se ne 28, 20, s—Bo acres, $1,500. Joseph Janketo Andrew Belatski, se se 16, 86, 6—40 acres,. S4OO. Thomas Craven to Joseph Hyatt, nw, n) •w, nj ne, iw 1)*, sw se, 27, 81, 6—40 j acres, 1,000. Quit claim. James H. Turpie to Martin Witz, all (except aw awl of 4. 82, 6—600 acres, SB,OOO. Quitclaim. • Mary F. Greenfield to WillUm Greenfield j part eLV* lliUtm Draper to Lewis H. und Jotmihnllfan R. Ttdcoflf's end sSr 6, 27,’ 7—40 acres, SI ,000. George W. Rom to Helen M. Rose, nj ne, te hyt. 13, 80, 7—llo acre*, SI,OOO. Wtliiam K.. Parkieou to A,ddLo>t Parkison, undivided cue-halt 14, 29, 6, nhdividml oue-hulf e| *«. undivided oue-lutlf so ne 15, 2’J, 6—24 u acres, $5,700. Addison'Tarkison «> William K. Parkison, undivided oue half sw se 15, <9, 6, fisr, »w 23,59, 6—260 acres, $5,800. A.-m. TrpJijjb to Oliver B. Molutire, part (if hw.iKt, 27, 6—ooo. . Burger Ji.Butler to Mrs. Harriet ShejH herd, tract Of land, in Remington, SI,OOO. Arthur B> Cliju/ou to Henry p. Jonas. •1 lie 20, 28, 7—Bb acres, SSOO. Henry P. Jwee to William Washburn, same tract, $2,01)0. Lemuel A, Osborn to Trues tee* Huglag Grove idwusliip, part nw ne 35, 29, 5 —si. Thomas Cady )oTrustees Hanging Grove Township,

STATE NEWS.

The '*tatO convenes today. Lebanon hila only nine agloona row. ,Ooe froze oat. Indianapolis is now enjoying the sensation of two first clans scandals. Tha Northern Jndianian is now old enough to rote, being twentyone year* of ageu Mr*. Hinds, mother of J. W. Hinds, coal merchant of Madison, fell down stair* Sunday night and was killed; Governor Hendricks has appbinted Jacob B. Julian judge of the circuit court in Manon county, vice L. Howland, resigned. Rev. D. D. Gitchett, a pioneer ot Methodism in the St. Joseph valley, died at Mishawaka, last Wednesday, aged 7$ year*. H* was a .minister over forty years.

A member of New Albany Lodge No. 10, I. O. O. F. ha* been *iok twenty-four years, during which period the society ha* paid him over $6,000. He is still a charge upon them. The pofltoffice at Kendallvill* was entered by burglar*, Wednesday night of lest week, and the safe blown open and robbed of 8200. The sam* safe was blown open and robbed last August. Niek Stanb, a young farmer living near Fvarttville, went' celling with e crowd ot boys New Year’* morning. At the house of e men named Weishaimer, another man named Chi Ist Wiggera accidentally discharged a shot gun* The load went through St sab’s head, kitting him instantly. The coroner returned a. verdict of cocidctwt shutting.

Joaph T. Tedrcwe, five feet four inches in bight, weight lOb pounds, jand Zoe Lindley, four fret nine laeße* In bight, weight 84 pounds, were married at Indianapolis, on Christmas day. They are said to be the smallest married ooupie in that city. Albert Atkins, a brakeman on tbs Madison braoeh of the J., M. and I. railroad, was killed Tuesday ,afternoon, at Ssipio, a lew miles 'below Columbus, by falling bw tween tbs ears while ia motion. One pair of trneks passed over bis body, killing him instantly. t Conrad Arnnan, employed in the car shop* of the P. F. and C. R. R. at Fort Wayne was injured last Thursday by a plank be was sawing being thrown violently by the saw and striking him m the abdomen, causing internal injuries which it is feared will prove fatal. Frank Minton, a lad fifteen years old, living in Hardinsborg, Washington eounty, recently stole 8600 from a man named Andy Mack, of that place. He was arrested and 8380 of the money recovered, bat the incorrigible youth escaped from jail a day or two since, and has not yet been captured.

The proprietor of the Potter house at Dayton, Tippeoanoe county, is a model democrat Since the election whenever ike news has been favorable to Mr. Tilden’s trlf nmpb he has demonstrated his satisfaction by displaying the flag ot the late Confederate government from a staff erected for that purpose on the top of the hotel. George Kramer, a well-to-do saddler of Terre Haute, committed suicide, last Friday night, by cutting his throat with a razor. Two years ago he was sun struck and since then has been subject to mental aberration, and while in this state took his life. He died almost immediately. He was forty-six years of age and leaves a wife Snd five children, the joungest two, and the oldest twelve years of age. He. had lived in Terre Haute about fifteen years, and bad amassed considerable property. Professor Kirkwood, of Bloomington, says of the recent celestial phenomenon: The mateOric group passed vertically over the northwestern part of Indiana, at an elevation of forty-fiv* to forty-eight miles. To an. observer in the vi oinity of Plymouth, Marshall county, the length of its visible track was probably not. less than 800 miles. The least distance of the group from Bloomington was kbout 185 miles. Its length was 20 degrees, its breadth 8; the true length of the oiuster was therefore 42 miles, and its diameter 8 miles.

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