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

LOCAL AND NEIGHBORHOOD GOSSIP.

A-broom peddler was in town last Friday. \pt a ■*’> j a The Logansport Prcabytery is "it - eleoiion is not yet msde up. Ginger bread socials are the latest novelty at Indianapolis. , Sunday school oonoert at the M. E. church next Sunday evening. The Kentland poet-office waa burglarised one evening laet week. The Irst linen coat of the eeaaon made ita appearance on our streets last Friday. The Woman’s State Foreign Missionary Sooiety oonvenes at Indianapolis to-day. Eggs are more plentiful and the market prioe has dropped down to 10 cent* a doxeu. Tha ladies’ sewing circle meets at the residence of Mr. F. J. Sears next Saturday at 2 o’clock p. m. The oity of Fort Wayne and the country adjoiuing suffered immense loa*es by the reoent high waters. Several of our enterprising yonng men have found clerkships in the country —clerking behind breaking pi owe. TJnelo Eli Yeoman is contemplating a trip throffgh the southern ctates for the benefit of Me health.

There ere more pretty girl* and fewer gallant yonng men in Renseelaer than in any town of like eize in the elate. So warm and epringlike was the weather laet Friday that people were oomfortable with doore and windows open. Tippeeanoe county paid 13,500 this year for the publication of the delinquent tax list The Lafayette Courier took it and never grumbled nor made a wry face. ~ Two weeks from next Saturday nod Sunday the third quarterly meeting of the M. E, ohurch for the pVeeent conference year will be held «at the church in this place. Presiding Elder Smith will officiate. Benton county ia also afflicted with tall relief bill*. The Fowler Democrat of recent date says: The allowances made for the benefit of panpers at the recent sitting ot the commissioners makes a bad lookout for this eeunty. The boys and girle are sprncing ' up now that the new law passed by the lest legislature permits them to merry without consent of parents or guardian, after arriving at • certain age, the.male to be eighteen end the female sixteen vears oM.

Hsnry Fulton, a oarpenter in the employ of the Pittsburg, Fort W syne sad Chicago railroad, was instantly killed on the morning of the 4th instant, at Clark's Station, while repairing s water tank, by heavy timber felling upon him. He resided ii Valparaiso and leaves a wife and tvo tittle ones In needy oirenrastanoes. Elder D. T. Halstead has thanks for a copy of the McComb City (Miss.) Intelligencer, of March 31st, from which we quote the following: “An invitation has been extended to the Rev.D. T. Halstead, of Magnolia, to preach in this oity at an early date, taad he will probably oeeiapy the pulpit of the Pres by teriaaohnroh to-morrow week—April Sth.” Mr. C- P- Hopkins, of school No. h Marios township, makes the following report for the term ending March 80th, 1817: Number of pupils enrolled, 19; average daily attendance, Is|. Bell Phegley, Emiua Hammond, Rosa Hammond, James Pierce, David Phegley, Eddie Phegley, Joseph Hammond, Charlie Hammond, Harley Hoover and CHafiie Phegley were perfect the entire term. The nsw gams law prohibits the tilling of deer between January Ist if ad October Jet, tlie trapping of quails at any time, or the killing qf quails and pheasants between January Ist and November Ist; and the killing of prairie ohickens between February Ist and October l«t. It m anlawfnl for railroad comJfkniee to furnish transportation fur game killed ont of season. The! MV* sma ll birdMAprohibited ' - 'vih'ti. ——- <—■ y.-. . • ‘

Hon John Csven has been renominated by the republicans for Mayor of Indianapolis. It is thought th at ex*mtky<> r James Mitohell will be nominated by the democracy. The greenback independents bald a caucus to nominate a oity ticket several days ago which was remarkable only for the withdrawal in high dudgeon of Judge B. W. Harrington, late candidate for governor, who angrily denounoed the Buchanan brothers and their ooterie as a selfish and corrupt ring of ad--1 venturers. The pregramrae of exercises for the teinperanoemeeting, to be held at the Presbyterian ohurch two weeks from next Monday evening, will be as follows: Music, Abbott’s orchestra; reading scriptures, Mr. M. O. Ousel; prayer, Rev. Thos. Vansooy; music, Mi»s Mell Wright; biography, Mr. William B. Auetin; declamation, Master Freddie Phillips; music, Abbott’s orchestra; declamation, Miss Flo. Thompson; select reading, Capt. C. A. Edmunds; declamation, Miss Ella Everson; recess; music Abbott’s orchestra; declamation, J. F. Boroughs; essay, M* BB M*H Wright; music, Miss Julia McArthur, declamation, Master Daniel Willey; essay, Miss Maggie Hemphill; song, Master Willie lines. The public cordially invited.

A LaFayette gentleman and a dentist of Kentland met with quite n serious accident, one day not long since, between the latter place and Breok, wbioh resulted in the drownit g of two horses and the narrow escape from the same fate of the men. They had been over to Brook and were returning to Kentland. On the road was a ravine they were compelled to cross. The river was so high it backed the water up and entirely covered the bridge over the ravine, and as they attempted to cross, there being no railing to the bridge, one of the horses fell off pulling the other horse and buggy with him. The buggy fell on one side, and the horses on the other side of a fence which prevented their swimming and were both drowned, as was before stated. The men merely saved themselves by jumping from the boggy and swimming to shore.