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

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.