Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1877 — LOCAL GOSSIP. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL GOSSIP.

OraagtMKod fanoa* at Starr’*. Rice, hominy and beans at StsfPn. Choice Minneaota floor at Charley Platt Mias Lillifi Boroughi has returned from school at Ladoga. Dress goods <»f latest and most fashiotiabla stylos at Leopold's. Fino hats at Leopold's. New prices new styles. Cheap for eash. Fine white shirts, latest styles, cheaper than ever. Call on Leopold. Starr has a good article of fine cut chewing tobacco for 60 cents a pound. Those who buy hardware of David James are content with their bargains. Fine country cmed bacon and sugar cured hams and shoulders on sale at Starr'S. February 28th a marriaae license was issued to Newton Gordon and EHaG. Aldrich. Good solid healthy meal* fare Supplied to guests of the Hart House at Remington. Twenty thousand gallons of stoneware at Starr's will be sold at bottom prices for cash. That 60 cent tea at Starr’s is very popular. He has a small quantity remaining but it will soon be gone. Uncle Gus Bingham begins to ■talk of taking a trip to southern Illinois as soon as spring fairly opens. - —+ Blue grass plats begin to show signs ot the pleasant influence of the warm weather, and freshen up a little. Willey & Sigler keep constantly on hand the best stock of boots and shoes to be fbiind in the mafket. A hew stock of flower pots and ihtthifcing baskets, in plain and ornamental designs, received at Starr's ith is west. iPrmc the apple orchards while trails weather permits Working out •floor*. The - sooner such work is ■done now the better. - A consolidation of several dorinapt grange*, with headquarters at Rensselaer, is being talked about by members of the order. AU persons having open accounts with the «»ld film of F. J. Sears & Co. will please call and settle by cash payment or otherwise. Mrs. Jackson has a nice collection of bouse plants which make a pretty, cheerful showing in her winddwsi overlooking this office. Mrs. R. H. Purcupile has retired from the firm of F. J. Sears & Co. Read dissolution ot partnership notice under heading of legal Advertisements. A marriage license was issued to 'Thomas B. Williams and Henrietta M. Dexter, February 22d, and on the 27th of February one to Elias *Tripp and Mary Birch. Plowing has been commenced this week in several parts of the .county. A remarkable and very lunusual occurrence at tlris time of rof year in this latitude. Mrs. Samuel Lockridge of Miltroy township received information <of the serious illness of relatives tin Michigan one day this week, . and starts to visit them. Two and a half dollars per ton is what Remington shippers are paying for wild hay this week. They press and bale it for the Pittsburg market, which at present is dull. jAny person desiring to rent a good stable, with buggy shed convenient, will learn something of advantage by applying to R. H. Purcup'le, at F. J. Sears <fc Co.'s. Mr., A. D. Swain has returned 'home from a winter’s sojourn among relatives in Massachusetts and New Mampsbire. He looks muoh healthier than whan he went away last fall. Herbst A Hartberg's “Crystal Pa]tee” saloon has been dismantled and the hulk moved out on the corner ot Van Rensselaer and —- atreeta where it will be repaired Jor> dwelling house. Abe Clark, Will Coover and G. Washington Hasoall talk of inaugurating* new paper al Remington. Mr. Clark says he will negotiate the purchase of press and material next WWIt, Success to eiHesprise, '

Reia Tmmsl -Tkmrr’lfW w Vertisement in another <tqlumn, and when in need of anything in his line of business It Will be to.your interest to call and learn his prices before making purcbaaes. At Remington yesterday corn in ear was worth 32@840 per bnahel. Potatoes were sold at the stores at retail for $1 per bushel. Butter was 15, 17 and 220 a pound, according to quality and strength. Why have Willey & Sigler such an immense trade m the boot and shoe department? Because they buy 1 the best goods in the latest style, and their goods are always as represented to their customers. Several dwelling houses will be built here this season besides some fine business rooms. Trade is somewhat flat at present but the town will present e cheerful appearance of healthy activity all summer. Remington people are preparing to enter a vigorous protest in the commissioners' court next week against granting license to retail intoxicating liqu.ws in that town, and will be over in force to watch the proceedings. Eggs are retailed to consumers for 10 cents dozen, butler 15 cents a pound, potatoes 30 cents a peck, green apples 40 and 50 cents a bushel, flour $2 to 82 25 per quarter barrel sack. frefli beef 6fo)10c per pound, fresh pork 12|o. It is said.(and about this time of year it is common to hear the report) that fruit buds have suffered from unfavorable weathey*’during the past winter. There is ground, however, for doubts regarding the truth fulness of the report. . If you are not able to take both county papers, take one. If The Union does not suit, take the Democratic Sentinel. For three months or six months the price is the same; for a year the latter is a little the cheapest,-because the smallest. S. P. Thompson’s fine bay team broke away from their driver Monday afternonu over on the south side of the river, and pranced around until they found themselves pne on each side of a shade tree. Atynage was done to the horses Justice Spencer of Remington is smitten with a longing desire to move to East Tennessee, and would like to sell his drug store and other interests in Jasper county. He is doing it good business and a paying one, but the evil spirit of unrest has marked him for his own. County Clerk Price says that the civil docket of the March term of the Jasper circuit court will be much larger thru any previous one since his advent into office. The printing of the dockets for this term will be done by the Sentinel office per arrangement of the county clerk. A House.—l am prepared to offer a great bargain in a dwelling property in Rensselaer. Good commodious house, two well-improved lots, convenient to business and every way desirable. Very lov) for cash or part cash; balance on good time. Frank W. Babcock. 3 24 ts. Repair garden fences, go around the fields and lay np rails that have fallen down during the winter, cut, tplit and pile up stove wood, haul manure out on the fields, and gel albthese chorea out of the way of heavier work. Get the tools and harness mended. Be ready for the plowing season when it comes. Morris Smith Was arrested near Lafayette for the murder of Jimmy Colton, bad a preliminary examination before Justice Jeffries nt Remington last week and wa« discharged, no evidence being elicited sufficient to warrant his commitment for trial* in the circuit court. He is probably innooeht of the erime. The regular monthly meeting of the Jasper County Temperance Union was held in the court house Monday, evening. After the programme of exercises was completed the organization proceeded to the election of officers for the ensuing quarter, which resulted in the choice of Mr. Joseph H, Willey for president, Mr*. E. L- Clark, vice president, Mias Mell Wright, treasurer, apd Ms. F, Boroughs, secretary, .

"'MfCWlft'OlWit wWiflMau sue up I thanks foe many special courtesies. Th are are gentlemen in the county belter read in ancient hhto. ty, shcred or especially ths former, than friend Clark. W. A. Railsback, the genteel i druggist and patent medicine dealer I at Remington, resembles the dove which Noah let out of the ark—he finds no rest for his feet from morning till night; yet he is gay and happy because it is a pleasure for him to accommodate customers. Mr. I). T. II ilstead has left all his business at Rensselaer in iny hands. Persons owing him on account will' please call and settle without delay. Parties indebted to hitn by note may also find their paper with me. Frank W. Babcock. Feb’y 24, 1877. Frank L. Cotton, the lumber derler, moved to Francesville on Tuesday morning where his headquarters will be for the summer. On Saturdays he will be in Rensselaer. During the week Messrs. Bedford & Clark will receive ori d< rs and transact all business connected with his lumber yard at Rensselaer. John Shanklin, a former citizen of Rensselaer, but for twelve years employed in the government printing office, died suddenly, of heart disease, at Washington City, on last Thursday. His funeral was held in Crawfordsville, Ind., the home of his mother, on last Tuesday. He was a nephew of J. M. Austin, Esq , and about 40 years old. The past week has wrought several changes in the whereabouts of some of our citizens. Mr. George Daugh-rty has again become a horny fisted son of toil, having moved to the country. Mr. Fred. Cole now occupies the house vacated by Mr. Daugherty, and Mr. R 11. Purcupile has moved into the property recently occupied by Mr. J. H. Wood. Johnson it Johnson ngqin hav# possession of the stock of groceries—or a part of it—that they recently sold to a Reynolds man. The latter failed in some particulars to perform his part of the confact and they relieved his hands from further responsibility in the establishment. A law suit is threatened which may prove Interesting to court loafers. Mr. George 11. Brown, of Barkley township, started to California this week, taking with him a daughter who has been suffering from asthma tor several yearsj whom he will leave in the hope that a change of climate may prove beneficial to her health, Mr. Brown’s objective point is Red Bluff, where he has two brothers living, but he will also visit San Francisco and other points in the state. He expects to be absent about four weeks. This afternoon a meeting was held in the court house at which preliminary steps were taken towards the purchase of a draft stallion. A proposition to buy an imported horse of the Norman breed, now owned by parties at or near Chicago and for which $2,000 is asked, was discussed and made the basis of action. It was decided to organize a company of twelve persons, each of whom shall own one equal share in the horse. Five shares were subscribed on the spot and a committee was appointed to solicit subscriptions to the other seven, where noon the meeting adjourned to be called together when the shared are all taken and complete the&rgaiuzation of a company. Miss Mattie Benjamin, teacher of the second intermediate department of the Rensselaer school, makes her report for the month that ended February 16th, 1877, as follows: N umber of pupils enrolled, 58; average daily attendance, 55.42. Charley Morris, Leslie Clark, Addie Daugherty, Henry Daugherty, Grant Hopkins, Louisa Platt, Bennie Fendig, Rachel Leopold, Dentin Boroughs, Myrtie Henkle, Maggie Healy, Nora Hopkins, Tillie Fendig, Minnie Norris, E'ta Imes, Bertie Morris, Jennie Miller, Alfred Thompson, Hattie Hopkins, Lucy Healy, Iney Hutson, Frank Keptier, Caroline Kepnet, Mary Beck, Fannie Wood, Sarah Tuteur and| Lemuel Janes were perfect in at-' .tendance, punctuality, deportmenti |.and study.. '"]