Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1877 — LOCAL GOSSIP. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL GOSSIP.

Applet* are quoted at 60c a bushel. Willey & Sigler will Fay to their numerous customers that cash is what they are now in need of. Times are hard; but each can pay something on their accounts and every little will help us. “Do as you would be done by.” Fifteen-dollar lanterns are somewhat expensive pieces of furniture to pay for three drinks of Conlon’s soothing syrup, but when a toney Lafayette buck is dry he don’t care for expenses. - Beside there is no fun like making the yahoos stare at the display of high-toned city manners gone to seed. On Tuesday evening Elder D. T. Helstead united in nrarriage Robert Bruce Porter and Eveline J. J.daughler of Joseph V. Parkison, Esq. Two more agreeable young people are not among the circle of our acquaintances. Congratulations are heartily extended. May they live a long and happy life. Every young couple contemplating matrimony and every married couple contemplating divorcement should read David James’ advertisement before taking rash steps. ’J’fae former to prevent, unhappiness ip the family, the latter to discover hoy to restore peace to the household. Read and you will know. Strpyed, fi'oio my plxce, in Barkley township, on or about February Ist, 1877, eleven pmall shoats, of Poland and Berkshire varieties, all black, with the exception of a few scattering white spots. A reasonable reward will be paid for. their return or information leading to their recovery. D. L. Pritchard.

Holloway’s Pills and Ointment. —For scurvy, 'eprosy, and cutane ons diseases they are unrivalled. In places where these maladies are prt-yalent, the cures are marvellous. For the expulsion of pimples, blotches, itc., they are unparalleled, and as a cosmetic the ointment 't stands uneqpalled. Sold everywhere. 25 centp per box or pot. On next Monday, at the court house, will be commenced the sale of lands in Jasper county advertised for delinquent taxes. As several errors occurred in the official publication of the deliiqucnt list, persons who contemplate making investments will do wisely to carefully examine the conditions. of tracts erroneously described will be illegal aud ndL W. A. Kelley, teacher of Barjkley township school No. 2, reports for the month ending February 5, 1877, a total enrollment of 19 pupils,, find an average daily attendance of ).1 f Ida Parkison, Laura Parkison, Stella Parkison, Belle Brown, Lettie Raudie, Eddie Randle, Ralph Eddie White, Willie Moore, WiUb Jiiniuitt and Amis Barkley were not below 95 per cent, in attendance ami. pu»e< tin’ iI y. Si tidy anddeportmectof tbe whole school ' » >»• ' iKttrj good. - --.-vx-T— j

Eha Phillipa has joined the insumerable throng of insurance ajfents, having recently been called to serve the Hartford company of Hartford, Connecticut Thus one by one the brightest and beat youths of our land yield to the persuasive syren that lures them from the paths of repectability, or are driven from the wavs of rectitude by an inexorable destiny. Oh Lucifer, proud son of the morning, fateful was thy fall! Readers of The Union no doubt recollect the circumstances of a series of burglaries that were committed in the town about a year ago when the stores of Ralph Fendig, J. H. Wood, and others were broken into and robbed. They will remember that the burglars were pursued down the Iroquois river in a boat by Sheriff Robinson and William Powers; that one of the miscreants attempted to swim the river to escape from his pursuers and was drowned, and the other was captured, tried before Judge Hammond and sentenced to the penitentiary at Michigan City where he is now reiving out his term. It was currently reported at that time that Mr. Fendig and Mr. Wood contracted with Mr. Robinson to make the pursuit, for which service, if successful in the capture of the thieves, each were to pay him SSO. Mr. Fendig paid his portion of the reward long since; but Mr. Wood refused to pay the full amount it was claimed he had promised on the ground that the goods carried away from bis store were not all recovered. One day last week Robinson brought suit against Wood for the SSO. The case was tried in Justice Harding’s court before a jury, the prosecut : on and defense being substantially t h at detailed above. Verdict for plaintiff".