Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1877 — Page 8

LOCAL MATTERS.

WiW prairie Mt «elh for 64 per b st Sherman, Minztnla in Bedford’* ball thi. •vvnintt ■' ■ Old paper* at Ths Usioir office 10 cent* a dozen. ▲ fair quality of butter fa worth 15 cents a pound. From fifteen to thirty people feed at the Auetin House daily. The ruling price of eggs in this market is ten cents a dozen. Com is worth 35 cents a bushel in the ear, by the wagon load. A light sifting of snow was on the ground Saturday and Sunday mornings. The board of county commissioners meet in regular session next Monday. One week from Saturday the Baptist church will hold their regular covenant meeting. Elder P. T. Halstead’s postoffice address i«, for the present, Magnolia, Pike county, Mississippi. pllnt Staekhonse is going to introduce the Red Jersey breed of swine to breeders of tI?M region. About the only business in town that may be called lively ’8 the exchange of marbles between schoolboys. A few yrild geese are occasionally sold in town by sportsmen. Ducks and other game are not so abundant Mra. Cleveland has a large room filled with house plants. It is probably the choicest collection in the county. For neat plain job printing, call at Tax Um on office. Prices as cheap as unywbete in the slate, and work just as fine. A Canadian weather prognosticator predicts an early and warm spring to M follew.ed by a wet midsummer. Plant corn eariy. Rev. Mr. Huston says that the average annual increase of memberbership in the Baptist denomination in Indiana is about 3$ per cent. $. T. Hardiy A Son keep for sale the best quality of white win ter wheat flour, manufactured by the Westville (Laporte county) mills. Cases of scarletina—which is simply a mUd form of scarlet fever —are reported in town. 1 Look out for it, good care ,of thfe patieuts. The wife nfDr. Hamer, of Watseka, 111., has been very sick during the past week. The Doctor, his •wife and son have been the guests of Mr. F. J. Sears. A series of meetings be commenced in the Presbyterian church one tveek from Saturday evening. They will be conducted by Rev. Mr. Cain, of Kentland. Stock-breeders will see a fine Poland-China boar on Mr. Berry ft, Paris’ farm, two miles and a half northpast of* town. It is a new importation from Grant county. One dollar a J>ushel was asked fur home grown black nuts on the streets, last week. ITot piany sold at price. Most people feel that money is too scarce to fool away much un luxuries. Will B. Hoover, a gentleman connected with the Journal newspaper establishment at Logansport, was in town last Friday. He sang a stave of the popular song ness is dull, and times are hard.” Mrs. Norman Warner owns one of the largest collections of house plauta in iojrn. Her sitting? room is largely occupied by them, and forms a pjeaeii.g contract to the bleakness of the landscape out Of soora. Settys jbardy vegetables, like re as, lettpee, and onions, should be planted soon as the ground can be worked, if eayljr crops are desired. Onion sets may also be put into the ground ss spon as any •cede may be planted. Reader, pay five on your nfcdiht this office—pay tw'f) doltans 'and cenrs-pay on* dollar— pay 'fy c^nts—giye yoar —call and make ii* a promise, way of a set dement, if it is uotlnu'df than are hard. . 1

STATE NEWS.

Indianapolls firms make contracts for ice two years ahead. They pay 68.25 per ton. The market price for bones at Indianapolis 'ia 635 per thousand pounds, an advance of 65 over last year’s price. , • i Newton county papers mention the marriage ot George McCarthy, a Rensselaer boy now living south of Morocco. About six hundred persons are reported to have been converted at i he religious meetings at Laporte during the winter. Indianapolis brick yards co™e into the market with two and a halt millions of brick on hand. Best quality sell at prices ranging from 65 to 63 per thousand. Sheriff Harmon, of Benton county, recently went down to Texas and was married to Miss May Grant, daughter of Marshall H. Grant, formerly a citizen of Rensselaer.

The local indebtedness of Indiana is estimated at twenty millions of dollars, end the annual interest on the debt .of cities, towns and counties is supposed to amount to nearly two millions. The Junction Hotel and railroad depot at Reynolds were destroyed by fire’early last Monday morning. Loss on hotel, $5,000; insured for ♦2,000. Loss on depot 61,000, with no insurance. The fire is supposed to be the work of an incendiary. The people of Remington are terribly excited over the recent application for license to sell intoxicating liquors in that place, andnightly meetings are held to determine some remedy to ward oft the evil. To secure license in Remington to deal out whiskey is next to impos-sible.T-t-Jfonbre/lo Democrat. No engines w il J stop at Valparait o after the l*t of March, except to let passengers off and on trains or to take woqd and water. All regular freight trains run through from Ft. Wayne to Chicago and return. This arrangement takes several families out of our city, and may nffect business a little. — Valparaiso Vidette. Ned Mason, the bigamist, together with his fresh wife, traveled out of touth Bend late Saturday night of week before last, having bought tickets to Detroit, Michigan. About a dozen South Bend gushers mourn their sudden departure to the extent of various small sums of money. “Prof.” Lott remained to assure the public that he had “shook the duffer” long before. The 9 p’clock expresa train that passes through here going east, on Saturday night, had on board $20,000 in gold coin and $34,000 in gold and silver bullion, destined for the government mint in Philadelphia. The agent informed u* that about every other night they have on boa*d from fifty to two hundred thousand dollars in bullion. The bullion was from Carson City, and the coin from the Carson City mint.— South Bend Register,. Hon. David C. Branbain, state senator from Jefferson county, died at Indianapolis, on Tuesday of last week. He had been elected tQ the senate to fill a vacancy caused by the death ot Dr. Roe. For thirty years he had been prominently connected with political affairs, and was the author of the present treasury system of the state.. At the republican state convention last year he was a prominent candidate for governor.

Public SALE.-rrNolice is hereby given that I will offer at public sale at my place, three and one-half miles west of Rensselaer, on Satuarday, March 3d, 1377, the following described personal property, to-wit: One team of work horsps, one two-year-old colt, three good milch cows, one yearling heifer, one yearling steer, one new wagon, harness, hay in stack, farming implements, household and kitchen furniture, etc., etc. Ten months credit, pithoat interest, will be given on al| P’uns of five dollars and over, pqrcbasurexecuting usual bankable note. under five dollars, cash in haq’d. 22-31. ‘ Stwax.

Recommended by the Faculty.

Allsk’s Strengthening Cordial and L’ver Pills. Tney have cured tl/oiA Suds of hopeless Wises where ap o; lifer known retn«div* have .faiuiq: 1 this, t<k>. without any of the qbrnjrs . Unit surgery, or the herok! rnodieal utaitmeht. They are woiip a whole array <>f doctoft*. Try them and be cod£picetL Fvi’ sale by ail • dxuggista. -

1877. SPRING. 1877. Read Wholesome Truths DRY GOODS AND CLOTHING. FINE JEWELRY, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, CAPS. STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, FLOUR, &C. CHEAPER THAN EVER. GOOD NEWS. Again would I announce to the public of Jasper and neighboring counties that the Brown Stone Store at Rensselaer is a sure place to get bargains in the line of Dress Goods, Clothing, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps and miscellaneous articles of Dry Goods. I have just completed the purchase of the best-selected and Z r, STOCIZ qv&t displayed in the town. Besides the articles enumerated above, special attention is called to my Furnishing Goods for Ladies and Gentlemen, Groceries, Flour and other Provisions, all of which were carefully and judiciously selected with particular reference to the wants of my customers. They were bought with cash and large discounts obtained, the advantages of which I shall, as has been my custom heretofore, divide with my patrons. Thankful for great favors I have hitherto been the recipient of from the trading public, and anticipating a continuation of a liberal share of their patronage, it will be my study to merit this confidence by square dealing and low prices. Only Strictly G-cqcLs ZZZept and prices will always be found at a point below any successful competition. Gall and examine my goods and compare my prices before concluding purchases elsewhere. No extra charge is ever made for showing goods. . /

Calicoes, fcfc ani his. A complete assortment always on hand of the very Lest articles to be found in the market, which will be marked down to the very lowest figures consistent with a fair and reasonable profit on the money that is actually invested. LADIES 7 LINEN SUITS. ——— Ladies’Dress Goods. A stock unexcelled in quality of fabrics by any in ,the state, and unequalled in quantity, variety, or cheapness, by any in the county, consisting of Silks, Alpacas, Xiusttes, Cashmeres, Delains, Heps, Poplins, Lawns, Linens and many other fabrics of latest designs and most beautiful patterns. They cannot fail to please young or old. — LADIES’ANDCIIILDREN'S HATS. FINE JEWELRY. For ladies and gentlemen, Ladies’ sets in Ear rings, Breast-' pins, Cuff Buttons and Finger-rings, solid and plated, all good and warranted as represented. Gents’ fine Breastpins, bliawlpins, Shirt Studs, Collar Buttons, Sleeve Buttons, Watch Chains and Charms, Watches, and a general assortment of that class of goods. The latest styles of Ties, Collars, Scarfs, <&e, for ladies and gentlemen, very nice and very cheap. R STI AYT.LS TxNrARIETY.. .

“tlx® ’ S“toxxe -B’VUilCi.iaa.g' Is the place, and the only place, where you receive one hundred cents in A No. X Goods for your dollar in money. - _£k. LEOPOLD, Proprietor. -* : '.A*'’ •' ' V " i - •

SHOES OT ENDLESS VARIETY. Including Gaiters, Balmorals, Sloth, Beaver, Enameled* Goat, Kid, Pebble Grain, Oil Pebble, Button and Side-lace, fine Sewed Calf, all s its and styles for children, and many new patterns for ladies and misses. ' , - !-JJ-- h t-_JL,-?...?!-4-r-i'LL-. , •■•■ J-. - 1 ..— -JJt SILK AND LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS FOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. Roots. The Champion Stock. I keep as a specialty the unriva’led Penitentiaiy Boot The best article of the class manufactured Jn the United States. The most popular and best selling boots wherever introduced. Boots of every size, quality and price, for men youths and children. Fine Calf and Morocco Boots* both Sewed and Pegged. Call and examine my stock, and I guarantee satisfaction both in quality and prices. »i ■ n.iii ii. 11 i ina. . i .hr—bis’ asi lits Fwsistoj bis Consisting of White agd Fancy Shirts in every style, Drawers, Hose, Collars, Neckties, <&o., cheaper than offered by any other house in the town or county. BEST COBSETS T3ET HATS AND An immense stock of fine and commoq grades of Hats and Caps for men and boys. All ot the latest fashionable patterns, Call and get one and look well. >■ .■ . GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS. A select stock of Staple and Fancy yroceries, Canned and Shelf Goods, &c. Best brapjj* of Flour always on band ; also Salt by the barrel CHARLES PLATT, SilflßfllL