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

TOWN AND COUNTY

ba* employa»*ut i» Starr’. groce*. Hoo. W. 8. Raymond will pi*aooept thanks for poblic documents. Lightning rod men has. Umi “doing” Jasper county the past Judge Hammond is at home this week, court duties giving him a short respite from labor. Judge Casey, Hot Springe, Ark., is sincerely thanked for late files of southwestern newspapers. An exchange says that “a horse chestnut carried in the lelt pocket, with faith, knocks warts." “Kannal’s Favorite" is the name of a number ono five-cent cigar at Emmet KannaPa drug store. Mrs. Harry R. W. Smith, of Cincinnati, 0., is visiting her parents aud relatives in this county. • Johnnie Wamhaugh has succeeded Mr. Baylor at clerk at Charley Starr's popular grocery store. Try • plug ot "Jackson’s Best” tobacco, at Harding A Peacock’s. \oh will never use any other. There have been several cases of diphtheria in town the past week. None ol them serious however. Geo. W. Swett is keeping the Bsbb hotel at Remington. Competitors will sweat when they set a belter table. The IricmToTJacob Eigtei>bach*fr meat shop has received a new coat of paint, which adds greatly to its appearance. James Spencei's drug store at Remington was burgled of about twenty-five dollars* worth of goods several nights ago. / Mr G. B. Chappell, of Remington, paid Taa Union office a brief call last Thursday. He reported times doll at bis town.

Will Decoration Day be observed this year by Rensselaer people? If it is to be h is time to begin to arrange the preliminaries. Father S. F. Healey is thanked tor Sait Francisco, Gal., papers. He writes that his health is excellent but that that of his wife is poor. ■4 It is understood that a picnic is to be indulged in by the teachers and pupils of the Rensselaer school at the close of the present term. More of that beautiful snow fell last Sonday and Monday to cheer the sad souls of those industrious husbandmen who have planted corn. Jimmy Meehan’s bakery is now in operating condition. It was completed just in season to take advantage of the rise in breadstuff*. E»au Hart proprietor of Hart’s hotel at Remington, a favorite stopping place for the traveling public, was seen in Rem-selaer last week. Uncle Baumgardener’s new dwelling house in the eastern part of town is rapidly approaching completion, and will soou be ready for occupancy. Those “Belle of Venice” cigars at Harding &, Peacock’s are pronounced by all who try them to be as good five-ceu t cigars as can be found anywhere. A correspondent writes to the /li-ter-Ocean from Rensselaer that the prospect is encouraging for a good yield of wheat and fruit iu Jasper county this year.

Work is progressing on the foundation of Starr’s new brick building south side of Washington Street, which will be an extension of the Bedford & Jackson block. Those young ladies who discoursed beautiful strains of music under our bed-room window, last Thursday night, have our hearty thanks and are kindly invited to do so some more. D. JJ. Milter, Esq., lias returned from bis bridal tour and willdevote all needful attention to the interests of the great state ot Indiana M, all those who mar the peace and insult her dignity by wanton infraction of wholesome laws. Mr, Willie Harding has several' very interesting and exciting novels the regular retail price of whjeh is tIJSO each, that he will grant you the privilege of reading fpr a small consideration. You will he required to take good care of the books and return them in as good condition as you found them. * You wiUM htm at Harding ft Peaaook'u» in Shanghai building.

The profuse blooming ol the peach trees In Jasper county is c matter of .considerable surprise to many peoole. It was thought by them that ths winter was ssrere enough to duettoy all prospout in this direction. Cases of ocarlet fever, some of them fatal, are reported to have appeared again among the children in Gillam township. The malady mide its appearance among the pupils that were attending one of the district schools. The town election will occur next Monday. All the gentleman spoken of as candidates for the offices that are to be filled are good men and would no doubt discharge their official duties with credit to ihemselves and the town. Dr. Kelley, dentist and photographer, has built a new stable on his premises and drives out in s fine new buggy (from N. Warner’s factory) to which is hitched a new horse clothed with new harness. Interesting news, isn’t it? Dr. Harding has had a wonderful run on his celebrated horse powders during the past month. They have proved to be very efficacious in the prevention and cure of certain diseases known to be prevalent among horses at this season of the year. So far they have worked like a charm.

Lt. B. K. Paris, Gillam township, Iri«liid'tS“hs‘ j 8 “eft«4i4at«4or4hs office of county superintendent. Mr. Snoddv, the present incumbent, is thought to be willing to serve for a third term. Other names are also spoken of in this connection. The appointment will be made in June by. the township trustees. The "Swamp Angel" has been lying in the harbor for a few days past awaiting the action of the wind and the waves. The terrible gales of the past week made a rough sea and the loud waves lashed the shore tn snch a frantic manner as to make it exceedingly perilous to attempt a voyage. As soon as there is a lull the crew will run up her mast and rigging and set sail again. The April meeting of the Jasper County Temperance Union was held at the Presbyterian church last Monday evening. As usual the attendance was large and the exercises fully up to the highest standard of excellence. The best of order prevailed throughout the meeting, aud the friends of temperance are greatly encouraged at the growing interest in this all important movement. The members of Prof. J. T. Abbott’s orchestra are rapidly winning for themselves an enviable reputation as musicians. We frequently hear them spoken of in highest terms of praise for the able manner in which they execute the most difficult pieces of music. In our opinion this band will soon rank with the best orchestra bands in Northern Indiana, and, indeed, it is able to eope with most of them now.

Horace E. James & Co. never did and will not enter into combination with other houses or firms to keep up the rates of job printing to monopoly pric ib. They have the best appointed job-printing office in Jasper county aud among the best in this part of the stats. A comparison of the work done by them and the charges made with that of competitors is respectfully solicited. Give your orders to the house that gives best terms—that does the best work for the least money. Blue-glass lamp chimneys at Harding A Peacock’s, in Shanghai building. You ought, by all means, to get one of these chimneys, take it home and make your wife a present of it. You don't know what a wonderful effect the blue-glasa will have upon her. It will fill her heart with love and gladness; it will cause her conntenanoe to beam with bright smiles; it will put new words on her lips and new songs in her mouth; it will fill her soul with delight and she will ever bless the d*y that made yon and her one; in fast so great a change will be produced that we cannot dot down og paper the many good results that are sure to follow the introd notion of the blue-gW lamp chimney into your hou.6ehold. Get one before they are nil gone, /< .

Last Saturday and Sunday the third quarterly meeting of the M. E. church, for the preaent oonlererence year, was held in this place. Presiding Elder Smith, of Lafayette, wa§ present and delivered two very able discourses. Elder Stevenson, of Benton county, preached to an appreciative audience Sunday evening. Messrs. Frank W. Babcock and Cyrus J. Brown will make a joint public sale on next Monday, at the farm ot the former named gentleman, three miles southeast ofßensselaer, at which the (oliowing per* sonal property will be offered: Twenty-five milch oows, a lot of yearling and two-year old heifers, the thoroughbred bull, "Duke of Huntington,” work horses and mares, thorughbred Berkshire hogs, brood sows, stock hogs, etc., etc. Eight months credit will he given on sums over $5, purohsser executing suitable note. Sums of $5 and under, cash in hand. Miss Mollie Ilobb, teaaher, makes report as follows of Independence school, Barkley township, (district number 9), tor the month ending April 27th, 1877: Number of pupils between the ages of 6 and 21 years enrolled, 29; general average of attendance, 26. Those who were perfect in attendance, punctuality and deportment were, Ernest Pattee, Eliza Adair, Warren Galbreth, Nelly Galbreth, Louisa Adair, Ida Corry Daniels, Sarah Wilson, Mabej Wilson, Albert Stevenson and Alvie Stevenson. Cordial invitation is extended to every one to visit the school and see the deep interest taken by all.

Buy papers at Tue Union office, and keep posted on the stirring events now transpiring in Europe and Western Asia—events which stHrtle the world and threaten to involve in war one-third of the inhabitants of the globe. No dispute that has agitated Christendom for three hundred years was half so important in its results as the war now in progress between Russia and Turkey promises to be. Old papers, consisting of New York, Indianapolis, Chicago and St. Louis dailies whose accouuts and dispatches are as fresh as any that can be obtained iu this locality, aid weekly local papers issued in neighboring towns, for sale in packages of half a dozen for five cents. An unusually sad affliction befell the family of Jos6ph and Sarah Boyce near this town last week. Their two bright little boys, John aged four years and William aged eight years, were attacked by diphtheria Friday of the week before. On Monday Johnny died, and next day William died. They were buried in the same grave Wednesday, Rev. F. W. Mauck of the Baptist church conducting the religious service. Words and tears sympathetic are inadequate to assuage the grief of stricken parents, but the hearts of those who have passed under the rod will impulsively yearn to offer the poor but only consolation iii their power. May God give them strength to endure their bitter sorrow. The attitude which the Sentinel persists in aßsaming towards the editor of The Union is certainly an anomalous one. It publishes frequent thanks for favors it has received from him and his, and in succeeding paragraphs denounces him as selfish and devoid of principle; in one edition it declares its readiness to endorse him for an important public trust, and next week abuses him with foul obscenity because it is rumored that he may be an applicant for the position. The Union in the most sincere and kindly manner compliments the Sentinel upon the enterprise, Industry aud ability displayed throughout its columns editorial, and it replies with most ungracious inuuendoes against the author of them. We are unspeakably sad over these things, for in all our journalistic experience nothing has caused so ihuch chagrin. It is awful tough —terribly straining upon the nerves of a sensitive and delicately organized person—to have his praises saluted with “you’re a scoundrel'’ from the object of them. But w.e are not disposed to quarrel over the matter, for it is possible that each of us may be mistaken in his estimate of tiro otber»;fe 4 * '•*' ‘ i