Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1877 — LOCAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL MATTERS.

Rensselaer is chuck full of musteisns. Fine pereitle shirts, only |l, at A. Leopold's. Gsrden seeds in endless variety at Starr'a. A fine line ot embroideries, at A. Leopold’s. Judge Hammond isholding court at Pern this week. Saturday was another busy day arith the merchants. A stock of spring shawls, just Opened, at A. Leopold'!. Butter ia in good demand and firm at 20 aenla a pound. Fish are besoming scarce in the Iroqaois river at this place. Moving, house elenning, painting, ete., i« the order nowadays. Potatoes are retailed from the groceries at t 1.20 per bushel. Just opened, at Starr’s, five barrel! of beet kilin dried hominy. The beat aaeortment of boots and iheea in town iaat A. Leopold’s. This ia the last week in whioh to pay taxea without the addition of penalty. Ludd Hopkins la in Chioago making spring purchases of sio/t merchandise. At Harding A Peacock’s you will find the nioest sugar cured hams in the market. One ease of latest style spring dalicos, just received, at F. J. Bears A Co.’a.

What few pate hen of wheat there are in Jasper county appear in exoelleul condition. Horse-breeder* will look over the advertising columns of this paper tor items of interest to them. And now the earth is doning its usual coat of green, under the Wild influence of an April suu. Elder J. M. Stephenson, of Chicago will preach in the Church of God, next Sunday—April 15th. If you want good goods at what they are actually worth you can And them at F. J. Sears A Co.'s. Fsthsr H. M. Babb was in town yesterday. lie moves to his Mississippi home the last of this mouth. Have you paid the first installnaont of your taxes? Prempt attention to this matter will Save you money. Fishing tackle, consisting of hooks, hues, reels, Mississippi cane and bamboo poles, etc., just received, at Btarr*s. Largest variety ever brought to thin market. l Bugar cured hams retail at 14 OSuts and oountry cured at 12£ oeuta per ponnd in this market. Baeon, sides 12$ cents; shoulders, huger eured 11 eents, oouutry cured to eents a pound. The tow* council have purchased twenty feet off the west side of the land owned by Mr. William 11. Rhoades on the south side of the river, to be appropriated to the dse of the publio as a highway, at an expepep 9f fIW. „1..' Vzd

Csssiuieres for spring weir, at A. Leopold's. j Case* of chills ana lever are oeeanionally found this spring in thie locality. A fresh supply of white fish and raaokerel, just received, at Harding «fc Peacock's. The M. K Mite society meets at Mr. Patton's (the Bedford place) next Tuesday evening. Have you seen those lovely smn* mer silks at F. J. Sears A Co.’s. It will do you good to look at ?hem. Haver Cherry, of Remington, starts to Nebraska to-day where he expects to make his permanent home. A. Leopold is again on hand with a fine selection of spring goods. Ladies, call and see his fine assortment of calicos, dress goods, etc. 100 packages fish-mackerel, white fish, piekerel, treut,skinned cat fish, etc., eto., in kits, quarter, half barrel and barrel, just received, at Starr’s. The clerk of Jasper county issued marriage licenses to the following parties since last report: Octave Minor and Lilian Kate Weather*; Francis McMannis and Jane Gray. A new stock of Japan, imperial and gunpowder teas, at Starr’s. Also a fresh snpply ot that 50-cenl tea just opened. This is given up to. be the best tea in town lor the prioe. The enumeration of school children between the sges of six and twenty-one years within the corporate limits of Rensselaer, tor 1877, Is 341, an increase of 5 7 over last year. Miss Mary E. Maun would like to see all the old customers of the late firm of Mr. and Mrs. D. T. Halstead, at the postottice store, where she will,sell them hats and bonnets at prices sy low as the lowest.

It was Miss Lilian Kate Weathers that “Tobe” Minor married, instead of Miss Florence Weathers, ss was erronsouly published in Inst week’s Union. We acknowledge it is our mistake and Tobe’s treat. Willey & Sigler are now receiving a choice selection of spring and summer goods, among which may be found all the latest novelties in the way of ladies’ ties, neok-hnnd-kerchietf, collars, cuffs, trimmings, etc., elo. Call and examine before purchasing. Should this paragraph meet the eye of any person who desires cheap rending let him call at the Union office and buy a nickel’s worth ot old papers. They, are just as fresh as they would be bought dimet from a news stand, and only cost one-fitth tho money. At Willey & Sjjgler's new millinery store, in the postoffice building, is the place to buy a nice line lint, made of the best material, trimmed in the latest style, and at a lower prico than can be found at any other establishment in the county. Ladies, bear this in mind. If you want shoddy goods we don’t keep them at any price; neither do we buy trash because it is eheap. You can alwaysiind the latest styles in dress goods at our store. Cash customers will do well to look around before making their purchases. F. J. Sears &C> . Miss Mary E. Mann, proprietress of the new millinery department of Willey A Sigler’s store, in the postoffioe building, is now ready to accommodate the many ladies who may want new hats, bonnets, flowers for trimming, or anything pertaining to her department, and would, he glad to have them oall and look at her stock of goods.

Should the Day of Judgment come during a Reunion of the Jasper circuit court it would be necessary for Gabriel to blow an unusually loud blast upon las trumpet in order to awake trow his peaceful slumbers one of the gray-haired members of the legal profession, familiarly known as “Uncle Billy,” who, Upon hearing the loud refrain, will roll his eyes about their sockets in imitation of a dying calf ami immediately institute proceedings with his penknife upon a piece ot pine or anything that comes handy, with as much deliberation as if he wfere diseussing the merits of a range line road, or gdfesiug on the weight of a spotted steer.

Best brand of flour kept in this town is undoubtedly at Harding A Peacock’s. It gives th# best satisfaction. The tidal wave that tallow sweeping over the country is the new Red Ribbon Reform temperance movement. It has not yet struck Rensselaer, but when it does, the demand for red ribbon will probably exceed the supply. Let blue glass take a back sent. Sale bills, stock bills, all kinds of blank and poster work, either plain or iu colors, may be procured at the Union office, cheaper than anywhere else in the stale of Indiana. Call and see Horace E. James A Co. They guarantee first class work, low prices and perfect satisfaction. The enterprising* firm of Messrs. Willey A Sigler have just received a splendid assortment of spring and summer goods, embracing all the staples generally kept by firstclass merchants, as well as an endless variety of novelties, which, notwithstanding the hard times they will sell at low prices.

Mr. Madison Makeever has received a letter from Mr. S. F. Healey, San Francisco, Cal., from which we are permitted to publish extracts as follows: I have just read in the Chronicle of this morning of the death by drowning of that poor unfortunate Jesse Goff and have cut the slip from the paper and send you for the information of Ills friends: San Diego, March 25th.—A blacksmith named Jesse Golf, while intoxicated, this morning, fell from die wharf at the loot of Fifth street and was drowned. He hailed from Boston, and lmd been working here for some time, but was to -have left lor his former home to-day. having only yesterday cashed a draft received from hie mother for that purpose. Some few days since I got a letter from him stating that he was about starling for his home and wished to see me on his arrival in San Francisco. I answered the letter, giving directions, etc., und this is the end. It will be a severe blow to his poor mother, and doubly so in the way of it.