Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1877 — Page 1

VOLUME 9.

■OXXCB I. JAMB*. MBBVIN O. CIMBL. HOBACK E. JAMBB A CO., Publisher* and Proprietor* of THE UNION, Rensselaer, Indiana. One eony one year, tt: aix month*. |1; three months, (thirteen week*), SO cent*; alway* in advance. Hingle eopy, S cent*. ,JUd.trartlalzi< Ttot**. One column, one year *BO.OO Half column, « 40.00 Quarter col. “ 80.00 Eighth eol. “ 10.00 Ten (10) percent, added to foregoing price If advertlaement* are set to oecupy more than •ingle column width. Fractional part* of a year, nt equitable rate*. Business cards not exceeding one inch space, 91 a year, *8 for six months, *3 for three month*. Ail legal- notice* and advertisement*, at established statute price. Heading notices, first publication 10 cent* a lino, each publication thereafter S cents a line. Yearly advertisement* are snbject to three change* (one change in three mouths), at the option of the advertiser, free of extra charge. Advertisement* for person* not residents of Jasper county must l>e paid for in advance of first publication, when les* than one-qnarter column in size; and quarterly In advance when larger. Te*b Wstbstlxac—A large assortment of type and other material for poster, pamphlet, circular and kindred work. Prices low.

RENSSELAER BUSINESS CARDS. Dr. g. a. mobs, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office in Spitler’s brick building, opposite Court Houm. « R. J.H. LOUGH RIDGE., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Washington street, below Austin’* hotel. R. MOSES B. ALTER. PHYSICIAN AND'SURGEON. Office in Harding flt Willey's drug ator*. DR. R. Y. MA ” PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office on Washington street, one door above Stone Building. Nr. bowman, • TAILOR. Cutting done to order in latest styles. Charge* reasonable. Shop north side of \\ aslitogton »tr*et. tn' Leopold's Stone Building. J ZIMMEBMAN,~ • FASHIONABLE TAILOR. Garment* made in latest style*. Cutting a •pocUltv, and satisfaction guaranteed. Shop ea Washington street, one door below bunk. l’. HOI'KINS to TnV/ form tlie public. that lie I* now prepared to «to house painting, paper hanging, Catalin in ing, •to, at prices beyond .Competition. Can be found gt his rooms,ug-<dair» iu Liberal Comer building. »-29-ly. .W JAMEs W. PORTER. pie.wly water wiszard who InHurc* living water and backs up hi* itisumnee by work. Mb water no pay. Insure* an ample supply of water in all his well* for ore year. 9-31. i\G'HILCOffET’ . ATTORNEY, AND COUNSELOR AT LAW. Office an Washington street, opposite the Court House square. MMON F. TUOMrSO.X. DAVID J. THOMPSON-, Attorney at Law. Notary Public. Thompson a bho., BENK4ELAER. INDIAN A. Prastfae ia nil.the Courts. We pay nurtkmlur attention to paying taxes, selling and leasing land*. M axion L. RPtkLEH. Collector and Abstracter. a. *. awraoins. SIMBI DWHHUH*. RB. i. z. DWIGGINB, . ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Practice iu all the.courts of Jasper, Newton, Benton and Pulaski cauuties ; also tn the Supreme and Federal courts. Make collections a specialty. J’ pkANB W. BABCOCK, LJ— ATTORNEY AT LAW, otary Public, Heal Estate Broker and Insurause Agent, lten**elaer. Indiana. Land* examined, Abstract* of Title prepared and Taxes paid. Collections a specialty. Office in Spitler’s brisk building, opposite Court House. M-48-ly. McCOY it THOMPSON, • BANKERS. Buy and sell domestic exchange, make collections on nil available points, pay Interest on specified time deposit*, -etc. Office hours from b a. tn. to 4 p. in. SAMP. ERWIN? BLACKSMITH. Now brick shop, Front Kreet, above the old saw mill. Also, tn connection, a ■\I7OOD BHOP V V where all kinds of wood worfc fepairwill bo done to order. Prices belew competition. QHINDLER * ROBERTS? 0 BLACKSMITHS. At Warner'o old stand on Front street. Horseshoeing, machine repairing, carriage Ironing, etc., done neatly eud cheaply. Leslie grant, BLACKSMITH. Shop on Front street, next door above the stage office, at Duvall <Jt Goff's old slaud. Patronage solicited. HOPKINS HOUSE? R.J HOPKINS, PROPRIETOR. Excellent table, convenient location, careful attention to wants of guests, and experienced management are it* roemmeudutious to popular favor. -w. X*. » JK.no: uffi-XK, DENTIST, Bodford 4 Jackson'* building, up-*taire, IHENBSELAER, INDIANA. Dr. Hamer offers hl* professional service* to too people of this vicinity. AH the modern appliances that sre so neceswy to perfect oporations on tba tooth, are used by him. The old SXKw •ttsSswtt da*e style. All tone will bo rwonaMe. r M YOUNG MEN Write to Great Business Collage, Kqpkak, lowa.

THE RENSSELAER UNION.

. REMINGTON BUSINESS CARDS. --,4..,.—A5 ...... JAMEB SPENCER, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, Makes prompt collection* at reasonable rate*. Office in Spencer's drug store, north side of Railroad street. AUCTIONEER. A 8. B. HAVER, Remington, Indiana, will cry sales and perforin an other duties in the auctioneering fine. Fee* moderate. Call on him. 8-20 SPENCER’S DRUG STORE. REMINGTON, INDIANA. North side Railroad street. Janie* Spencer, proprietor. Fresh drugs, pure medicines, elegant toilet articles, choice cigars and tobaccos, fine stationery, etc. Physicians’ prescription* carefully compounded. ' 8-20 W.A. RAILSBACK? Druggist and Apothecary, aSMXNGTON, XWDIANA. 'Dealer in Paints, Oils, Window Glass, Toilet and Fancy Articles, and, in fad, everything usually hept in a first-class Drug Store. CELLULOID TRUSSES a specially. Will convince my customers that I sell AS CHEAP AS THE CHEAPEST. Have recently secured the service of an experienced Prescription Cleric. • A T>TAQ „ Latest and nobbiest style* V'XTIJLvUO, of Cards, printed on new tvpe* of the most recent and popular design*. A dozen tint* and a si-ore of style* of cants. Fifty design* ami size* of type.' Address, businees, and calling cards. Work neat, stock best quality. Price* lielow competition. Satisfaction guaranteed. HORACE E. JAMES A CO., Rensselaer, Indiana. EMMET KANNAL Druggist and Pharmaceutist, DKAVKR IN DRUGS, PATENT MEDICINES, PAINTS, OILS, AND FINK BRANDS OF CXG-JkSCS -A-3STD Washington Street, Reusseluer, Indiana. GWWmm A good farm of 1(15 acres, four miles from Rensselaer on Remington road. Terms easy. Address JEJ. O. ZXIESXaXamrSr, Lock-Box 1.362. Richmond, Ind. s . Muy 10th. 1877. SI-4 INKY TO LOAN AT NINE PER CENT. INTEREST, IN SUMS OF SI,OOO TO SIO,OOO, ON FARMS ANO CITYifROPEATY, FOR FIVE YEARS’ TIM E (EFThi* is the cheapest mom y ever offered the public we*t es the Alleghany mountain*. Call ou, or uddre**, R. S & Z. DWIGGINS, Attorney*and Loan Agent*, Rensselaer, Ind.

TO HORSEMEN. Tlie Celebrated Thoroughbred Stallion NIGHTSHADE will be found at tny stable In Rensselaer, Indiana, during tlie BXB.auSO IST OX* 1877. Insurance. sls; season service, |lO. Should service prove unproductive in any case this year, the use of the liorsc for those mares during the season of 1878, if lie lives, will be free of charge. 80-13 » JAMES MALOY. How to Save Money. TO THE OWNERS~OF LANDS IN JASPER COUNTY. We new have a complete ABSTRACT OF TITI*E to all lands in the county, carefully prepared from the records by experienced men. in compiling thia work we have discovered the fact that there are MANY ©STBOTXVD TITZ.SS which should be adjusted without deluy, while parties interested are still living. The expense will be light if attended to soon, and may save costly litigation at some future time These de.ective Titles are occasioned by a variety of causes—deeds not recorded, errors in making and recording, etc. All person* owning land in the county should call on, or write to, us at once and have the title to their land examined. R. 8. A Z. DWIGGINiS, 8-40. Reukselaer* Ind.

Rensselaer Nursery Tho undersigned now tins on hand and for sale at living rates, several thousand - APPLE TREES, PEAR TREES both dwarf and standard, Cherry Trees, Siberian Crabs, XTXXWJES, two and three year* old, Asa, Maple, Ncgnndo, Iließeaatiiil Catalpa and other popular varieties of Oxaa.ajao.e3a.tai Slxa&e Trees. STRAWBERRY PLANTS of several popular varieties, by tlie hundred or thousand. Having purchased Mr. George Nagle’s stock of EVERGREENS AND SHRUBBERY I can cupplv customer* anything they de«tre In thi* lino; *6 therp will be'no need of sodding or going abroad for stock of this description and receiving nothing but dead brush for your money. My Stock of trees, shrub*, vines, etc., is rnoffand healthy, giving universal satisfaction. Thanking the public for past favor*, they are respectfully invited tocontinuethelrpatronage. Term* cash, or good note* bearing Interest. JOBS COEff, tots JPSBCy»I3E?TCSa.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, JUNE 28, 1877.

Is it not almost time that the premium list of the Jasper County Agricultural and Mechanical Association's fair for 1877 was published and distributed? By the terms of the contract made with the publisher the pamphlAs were to be ready for circulation on the first day of June, it is now nearly the lust day of the month and they are not issued. If the officers of the society sincarely desire to make a success of their exposition this season they will find that untiring energy on their part and liberal advertising will prove quite important adjuncts to further this result. It Is no secret that the financial condition of the society is anything but satisfactory, and unless ail who are interested in its prosperity work with the proper spirit—with harmony, determination and enthusiasm—disaster will follow as inevitably as effect is produced by cause. 'There can be no question but that the fairs held by this society have been productive of a vast deal of good to the county. They have stimulated people To make praiseworthy efforts to improve their breeds of horses, cittle, hogs, and other domestic animals, to cultivate lheir fields better, and to give more attention to their orchards and the various details of agriculture and mechanics. A failure now would be incalculably discouraging, and should be diligently guarded against. That the board of officers may be liable to make mistakes is probable, that through an honest desire to be economical they may fall into the grave error of parsimony is possible; but should these contingencies occur- there will be the greater necessity for vigorous activity among the stockholders who do hot occupy official positions to counteract the evils that might otherw se follow.

The Union uannoi. liwlp thinking that its Indiana contemporaries are most 100 severe iu their strictures / upon Mrs. Emma Maloy’s temperance work in Vermont. This lady is reported to have spoken very plainly about what she observed ot intemperance among church members and religious magnates ot high standing. While ot course we cannot say whether she exaggerated, that is to Fay intensified, the scenes she has witnessed and that have been related to her, it is nevertheless true that there is entirtly too much laxity of discipline in the so-called upper walks oi life. Fashionable and wealthy people imbibe a great deal of wine and other spirituous drink?, and not unfrequently lapse into a condition which’ would be called, drunk if the victims were found in common drinking saloons or perambulating the streets instead of in private parlors or riding in close carriages. Our personal acquaintance with Mrs. Maloy is far from intimate, but it has been the writer’s pleasure to meet her And listen to her private conversation and public lectures, and the impression she made was quite favorable. The Union regards her as a lady of unusual mbutal strength, of intense convictions, of firmness, and perfect veracity. She may possibly be the victim of misplaced confidence, but she certainly would never wilfully misrepresent any body, and we are persuaded that the incidents from life With which she illustrates her lectures are more trulhlul than imaginary. And at any rate the warning she utters should be heeded, for the danger is great.

A disHhtroue conflagration at St. John, New Brunswick, on the 20th instant, destroyed about three* fourths, of the oity, including all the public buildings, forty blocks of magnificent business houses and palatial residences, and rendered thousands ot people homeless. The loss to both life and properly was very great, some fifteen or twenty persons perishing in tie

flames and about $20,000,000 worth of property being consumed. Aid for the sufferers is now pouring in from all parts of the country, and the promptness with which the people of khe United States are responding is very commendable and truly becoming to a great and generous hearted nation like our own. Mr. John Lee president of the Indianapolis, Delphi and Chicago railroad company,writes, under date of June 16lh to gentlemen at Delphi, that he has been over the whole line of the proposed road and found the outlook better than he had been led to expect. Since his return he had met Col. Prescott, of Cincinnati, and they think there is no doubt of success—that the project will soon be established on solid and sure ground. He had fine meetings at every uoint visited and found the friends everywhere in earnest and doing effective work. Hendricks and Hampton, as the democratic candidates lor president and vice president in 1880, would make a winning ticket.— SeiUiru’.l. A typograpical mistake, merely; call it a whining ticket, and we'll second the motion.

STATE NEWS.

Plenty of blackberries in Parke county this season. Hog cholera prevails to an alarming degree in Knox county. „ In Michigan Uity strawberries bring*only four cents a quart. (Knox county expects her wheat prop to amount to $600,00U this year. The late John S. McDonald, of New Albany, carried $30,000 insurance on his life. Some well borers in Cass county report having struck a vein of lead and siver ten inches thick. Thieves are infesting Henry county. Seven houses were entered at New Castle, last week. Samuel Powers, of Booneville, was recently buried in a coffin made by himself, and used fur years as a receptacle for beans. Charley Shanett, of Lafayette, while boating in Wild Cat creek a few days ago, became entangled in a drift and drowned. Mr. D. C. Voorhees, of South Bend, lost a horse valued at $2,500 at the East Saginaw races. He dropped dead on the track. Wabash College during the past year has received the largest do nations and bequests of any institution in the United States. The present large emigration to Rushville is due to the report that a young lady there has offered $25,000 to anybody who will marry hei. Mrs. Sarah Mosley, of Jefferson county, is 106 years old, and her health, eyesight and other faculties are still good. She is now cutting a new set of teeth. Jim Barties, a young man about 19 years old living near Huron, Lawrence county, was shot while on a drunk at Mitchell, and is in a precarious condition. A little son ot Jerry Sullivan, of Logansport, was gored by a mad cow, one evening last week. His injuries are very severe but are not considered dangerous. Another unsuccessful attempt was made Tuesday night, of last week, to burn the town of Vernon. This is the third attempt of the kind within a few days.

A fish weighing 22 pounds was caught in the lake at Warsaw recently with a hook and line. Only one largerffivas ever caught in that vicinity, and ilweighed 27| pounds. William Singer, ahigly respected citizen of Star City, Pulaski county, died very suddenly while attending services in the Christian church in that village, on Suuuay, of last week. Hardin Edwards, aii old resident of Beech creek township, Greene county, was instantly killed last Friday by a runaway le:im. He was thrown from a wagon breaking his neck. • A man named Tellis was placed in charge of a grocery in Muncie, by Mrs. T. L. Bayless, of Ft. Wayne and the oilier day he turned up missing, a defaulter to the amount of aiiQUt $2,000. f

Temporary embarrassment and a receiver have recently heen addedto the other attractions o-f thaGrand Hotel at Indianapolis. Four thousand of the inhabitauta of moral Richmond have- subscribed to the Murphy temperance pledge, and ignited brand* are being constantly plucked’from the burning. The Presbyterian Church of Charlestown contemplate building a new edifice, the cost of which will be $6,000. Steps have been taken for putting the building under contract immediately. A colored man named Moore was arrested at Princeton, one day last week, for the robbery of the Evansville and Terre Haute depot at Patoka. He confessed hie crime and returned forty tickets and 82, the amount stolen.

Mr. William Boon, who lives in Rich Valley, Wabash county, recently attempted to swallow his false teeth, which the same stuck in. his throqt and made him trouble. A Wabash M. D. jerked them with a pair of forceps. M. Brazell, section foreman on the B. and O. with his men, killed twenty-five snukes of various spc-. cies and sizes, from two to nine feet in length, on Saturday, the 9th inst., at black ash swamp, five miles west of Avilla, Noble county. J. C. Cushmatt, of Fort Wayne, bought the Plymouth, Kankakee and Pacific railroad, at the Momence sale, for $4,000. It is to be reorganized tinder the name of the Kankakee and Illinois River Railroad company, with a capital of $ i,b00,000. A .laughter of Alev., Martin, living near Franklin, by way of experiment recently set a turkey gobbler on seventeen hen’s eggs. The old felloyv went to work, tended to business, and hatched out sixteen living chickens, all of which are doing well., ‘ James Thompson, a section hand on the O. M., was found last Saturday morning lying near the track a sets miles west of Vincennes, with his head’ cut off by the cars. He was intoxicated wliich to his. death? A bottle of whisky was found on his person. John Chandler of Howardcoiinty reports that he fouiiii on hi? prem ises after a recent shower “at least “a thousand fish from six to ten •‘inches in length, together with “myriads of taopoles” in a state of offensive putrefaction, and thinks they were deposited by the shower. TWo belligerent belles of North Liberty in St Josephcounly,Misses Ennna Campbell and O. Styles, stirred to desperation by a jealous rivalry, met on the s’reets of tint place a few days ago and indulged in a rough and tumble fight, during which both rolled into the gutter, ending the melee. Brother Hardesty of the Terre Haute Courier no longer gushes about his lines having been cast in pleasant places. He was recently .-issaulted without provocation, knocked down, ami made the un grateful recipient of “two effective licks behind our left ear,” thereby compelling the temporary use of other appendages for locomotion. Kendallville Standard". One Rev. Hovey Created quite a sensation in this county a few days ago by marrying a widow on sight, Saturday the *2d inst., preaching in the Prouty church on the following day, and at Avilla in the evening, gettinu drunk, and skipping for Fort Wayne, where he had been employed selling tombstones. He is evidently a brick.

Waynetown was the scene of a murder on last Friday night. The murdered man's name is Lee Bellis, and his home is at Jacksonville, Fountain county. Hank McLean and David - Pearson, who live at Jacksonville, are charged with the crime. They were out on a drunken frolic, and the trouble between them arose Irnin the. Alamo outrage committed the Saturday night before. One of the most horrible out-', rages ever committed in Montgomery county was perpetrated, near Alamo, last Saturday night a week, whereby a girl named Phillips, ot questionable character, will probably lose her lift. Twelve or fifteen young men,.one alter each other; appeased their passion on her person until she was almost lifeless. They then took her by the heel* '’and head and pitched her over into a field wl ere she was found next day in an uimonscionu stale. S»he was brought to Crawfordsville anil taken to the county asylum, where *he still lingers, the pvipetrntors o! the outrage are still al large.

THE DIADEM.

Form of foiry, graceful as a fawn at play; Brow aa lovely a* zunlit cloud* nt even; Mouth, a row half-blown, and inoial with pearly spray. Where humming-birds and bees nr* went to visit And sip the neotar there in rich profusion. A voice like linnet’*—sweet as strains firoea heaven, — And oft, ’ti* told, the mueie eo exquisite Hath made the holy angel ohoir eonfnaion, And they, mayhap, weep envious scalding tear* That mortal throat doth them rivalry ia *ong. Eyes. *oft turquoise orbs afloat in opal seas. Languid yet luminous; or, when clouding fear* Overhang their soulful depths, eo darkly and They make hearts ache sympathetic all day long; Ofttimee, like lakelets kissed by summer breeze, They sparkle gaily—then heart of man ia glad;— But when illumined by the electric flash Of passion, the splendor of their gleam Is grand, ’ . As lightning on the mountains when thunder crash Is at midnight beard! or as the glowing strand Where break the mad waves of storm-vex’d tropic sea*! But she hath a charm more potent far than those:— Than sylphen form or sunlit brow more I glorious, 'jbovelier than her rosy mouth or voice so • rare, Grander than her soulful eyes victorious,— The noble, cultivated mind of Kila fair.

EXCHANGE CLIPPINGS.

Newport Hoosier * State: Mrs. Sarah Wlae, residing two miles and a half aouth of Newport, ia the owner of a calf that can get away with forty or fifty chickens in a very short space of time. It will turn over 'coop# and swallow little chickens as fast aa it can rake them into jts month with its John Chahdler, of this city, visited his farm in the east end of the county on last Friday, and while looking over the place discovered a large flock of buzzards congregating in a pasture field. On walking to the field his astonished eyes beheld a remarkable sight. There lay, in a state of offensive putrefaction, at least one thousand fish from six to ten inches in length, together with myriads of tadpoles. The size of the fish and the immense numbers of tadpoles lead to the belief that they had by some meaiw, most probably a water apout, been carried from some pond, marsh or bayou. Such phenomena are not at all rare in physical history, but we have never known of such a one in this county before.— Kokomo Diepatch. At a recent wedding down on the beautiful Terre Coupee prairie, where are to be found more handsome girls and more bashful lovers than on any other spot iu the northern half of the state, the husband of one of the lady's guest■ to the wedding, took out by mistake, the diapers the good wife had brought along for the use of the baby, instead of the package containing the present intended for the bride and groom and placed it on the piano with the rest of the packages. When the young man and young lady, who were officiating ns assistant* for the evening, took off the wrapper, you may imagine, if you can, the kind of time that followed, crowded as the house wa-, with a gay, happy feeling crowd.— South Send Regieter. A young man and lady, whoso name and whereabouts we could not learn, came .to town on Tuesday about dinner time, for the ostensible purpose of selling a pair ot young squirrels. After some exertion a sale was effected, and the twain immediately proceeded tn a saloon and quenched the “undying worm” with a quart ot cool beer. Quaffing this pleasant purgative, tlie inner craving called for “autbin* hot,” and, in pursuance, each of tho bibulous rustics guzzled a square horn of whiskey. Leaving the saloon, they proceeded to another establishment of the »ame character, and while there pulled up a couple of rounds. By this time the admixture of beer and whiskey had put them in a smiling condition, and the two last ifforts at conviviality did the work After staggering around the streets for some time, they managed, by the aid of some kind-heai led men, to gel iulu their buggy. As they left for the smiling fields of nature, they were greeted with the compliments of large crowds that had gathered on the various corners to witness the fun. The officers, owing to the verdancy of the couple, made no arrests.’ It may well be remarked that the scene was decidedly the mostilisgi'rtvehtl ever seen upon the streets ul this ciU’:--iJso<tyQrt Dujuwut.

NUMBER 41.

H. E. J.