Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1877 — TOWN AND COUNTY. [ARTICLE]

TOWN AND COUNTY.

Oranges and lemons at Starr's. A display of the aurora borealis waa visible last night. •Call and aee F. J. Sears A Co.’s stock of dress goods. Besthrands of smoking and chewing tobaccos at Starr's. Ne * stock of cassimeres, just opened at Willey A Sigler’s. Potatoes are not plenty —and retuil at the rate 0f51.25 a bushel. An. invoice of ladies’ linen suits just received at F. J. Sears A Co.’s. Maple-syrup is offered for R 5 cents per half gallon tin can and SI.OO for gallons. For Hamburg embroidery, summer silks and silk grenadines go to F. J. Scars Co.'s. Beuutiful light colored prints—late spring and summer styles —at Leopold’s, very cheap, Willey A Sigler have the nicest stock of ladies’ slippers ever offered for sale in this market, Dried apples, California peaches and Turkish prunes, fresti lot just received at Charley Starr’s. If you want good goods at what they are actually worth you can find them at F. J. Sears A Co.’s. Whitefish amt trout on ide, direct from the lakes north, are sold at retail on the street at Leu cents a pound. Just received at F. J. Sears A Co.’s, a fresh lot of Turkish prunes, as nice as was ever opened in the market. Those Fnlloy plow shoes at Willey <& Sigler’s are the best thing for the money a man ban buy these hard times. An itinerant hat repairer manipulates old plugs at the Austin House and makes them look as -well as hew. Cashmere cloaks—moat elegant designs —and handsome spring shawls in great variety at Leopold’s. Also parasols. Elder D. T. Halstead started last Thursday ou his return trip to Magnolia, Mississippi, where he expects to remain an indefinite time. At the botcher’s shop splemftfl fresh beef, veal or mutton is sold for 7@lo cents a pound; fresh pork is worth ten cents all around. Host excellent work is being done by Marshal Smoot in cleaning tip the streets. Rensselaer never )>ad a more industrious or efficient street worker. . V F. J. 9fears A Co. have just received 100 lacks of Rio coffee, which will ,be rold at 25 cents a pound. It was bought before any advance in the market price. Straw and other anmmer hats for men, jouths, boys and infants, A large, well-chosen stock, to be sold for cash at the lowest possible figures, at Leopold’s store. - «it if *'<? '■ - “fP« ft. ■ - *i- ~ , Fi J. Sears A Go. are sole agents for the celebrated Hartford shoe jfor It is the finest'siud beet show ever brought to Rensselaer. Call and examine and you will be convinced. ; n -’” ' Ladies will find a superior lot of linen jind percale suits, embroidered at Leopold’s. This is probably the largest stoblf of this kind ofgoods in thie market. Softs wHI be told vsty obeop indeed for oash. H altersu*e old, stable on Van Rensselaer street, attached to the City-Hotel premises, is being dis-mantled,-remodeled, repaired Mid eurirlfbUoCthe use 6'f whw talks of starting a tweatykwstr power li <my estahlishmein. .ws.-i H'nKmsii i -*e‘

Fine flavoring extracts at Starr’s. Ladies, at F. J. Sears A Co.’s you can get a good linen snit for $4. It yon want a nice plush floor rug call and examine those beautiful patterna at Willey & Sigler’s. Don’t forget that Charley Starr’s grocery is headquarters tor fishing tackle, largest variety in town. Flour, common family grade, is still offered for $2.60 per quarter barrel sack. Corn meal is sold at the mill at $1 to $1.25 per hundred weight. Those Elgin watches, sold by Willey A Sigler, are always ble. Persons wishing to buy a good time keeper will -do well to call and see their stock. Ladies’ white dress goods, Swiss mulls, Marsailles, piques, tarletans, | Turkish terrys, silk and Irish poplins, and a variety of lasty goods in large quantity, at Leopold’s. - Messrs. C. B. Steward and I. D. Snyler are doing excellent work l with tlieir new horsepower woodI saw. Those who have large q uan--1 titles of wood to saw will find them faithful, and willing to work for reasonable wages. Leopold’s stock of spring and summer clothing tor men, youths and boys is the largest, finest and cheapest ever brought to this market. lie has a splendid lot of eassimeres in piece for tailors. Call and look at these goods. Maple sugar, or something called by that name is offered in bricks of three to four pounds weight for 16f cents per pound. People arc advised not to make syrup of it but use it in its crude condition. It will give the best satisfaction this way. Oar young friend Daniel B Miller secured his outfit of qneensware and groceries at the popular store ofC. C. Starr. In fact aboutallof those who have put on the matrimonial noose in this neekof woods for years past have purchased outfits with which to begin life of Charley.

Esquire Jackson tells us that Mr. James W. Grant formerly of this plaoq jied in Texas about the 20th of April;' His brother Marshall H. died in the same place some time last winter. Their mother who moved, f outh, with them, will come north again and make with a daughter in lowa. Ms. R. Dunlap, who may be addressed by letter at Koutts, Indiana, wants to employ fifty men with wheelbarrows to work on a bridge grade at the Kankakee river in the northern part of Jasper county. The WOrk is four miles south of Koutts on the P., C. <fc St. L. R. R. He Will let station Work if it is desired. ■' C ~' H . ~ Jimmy Meehan proclaims that he will be prepared to supply a hungry public with bread fresh from his new oven on and after to-mor-roW. Jimmy fs an accomplished artist m flour—a rising gentleman ~^-ah r d as'pOlite as any other ohlld born under the shadow of the wonderfhl Blarney Stone. Lunoh room connected with his bakery, next dpor ; Rhoades’ harness store. What is the use of going hungry when fok hiin gethams apd shoulders,’ sountry eared sides, whitejfish, piqfernri., trout and in fact »ny T thing in the eatable line yon want at C. C. Btarr>, at prices as low as thwlowest? There is no use making poor mouths and find anything in Rensselaer fit Vo eat,, when, tt you will call at Starr** grocery, you can find everything in the prevision lfne. m*■ ■v.-o,