Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1877 — EXCHANGE CLIPPINGS. [ARTICLE]

EXCHANGE CLIPPINGS.

The exquisite South Bend bridesmaid of the period oats her too nails bits, hut her cords march in esohelon all over her feet —South Bend Register. The Indianapolis Herald: Eb. Henderson says that whenever bo wants a blood and thunder article to appear in the Sentinel, he goes around and gets a few beefsteaks and throws them in at the window, and the fresher the meat the more vicious the article. O. P. Davis, of Opedee, was offered fif.y cents a bushel for his oorn a few weeks since,but thonght it wonld go a little higher. Last week he sold at forty-five cents, losing just $1,500 on the lot of 30,000 bushels by bolding off for better prices. —Newport Hootier State. Terre Haute Express : Mr. Dick Tiernan, now a resident of this city, has in his possession a silver wa'ch weighing twelve ounces, which was on the person of Slade, the Rocky Mountain desperado and stage agent, when he was hnng. All who have read Mark Twain’s “Roughing It” will remember Slade. The watch is no doubt the heaviest in the state. Ben. Waldrof, recently a clerk }u the Boston Store and for a long time a salesman for Mr. Brownfield, left on Monday for Rensselaer, this state, to engage in the grocery trade, in connection with his fath-er-in-law, Mr. Ludd Hopkins, an old-time resident of South Bend. Beil, is a good fellow, has many friends here, and we hope to hear of his success. —South Bend Register.