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

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