Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1877 — Page 8

LOCAL AND NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS.

A dopen late paper* for ten cent* At Thx Union office. Cattle are doing well on the paatnrea.ol JaapefoouHtj’ thi« reason. The prevalence of horse stealing si reported Utrougboet the northern portion of this state. According to the if*raid of that 4ovely city, Hie leading newspapers of Sudianapoli* "blow up a statement like a bladder.” Last Saturday was examination day but Hie attendance of teachers aras small and only a few made applications for license to teach. Taro shingle nails and a penny was the price paid for two drinks and a cigar in Rensselaer the other day. What a glorious, town to liv« inj The indebtedness of Benton county is nearly 41,000. The tax levy for comity purposes is tliirtyffive cents on (>IOO and fifty cents each pell. " „ Do you want a package of nice calling or visiting cards? If you do,<cali at The Union office and •ee the most beautiful designs ever ‘brought to Rensselaer. Profeaser Cor, state geologist ways that Clay oounty is richer in fossil remains than any other spot <of the same size on the globe, that be has any knowledge of. Another drenching rain came last Monday to dampen the ardor «wf the industrious husbandmen and to lengthen out the faces of *tke discouraged merchants. . Marshall county revels in wealth, 4he total taxable value of which is “#7,7*62,'260. The number of polls within her borders is put down on the returns ot Uie assessors at 5,591. Miss Ella Evans' started, last Monday, on a tour through Northern Indiana, ami during her absence she will visit friends at Warsaw, Plymouth, La Porte and Westville. The MUbnrn wagon shops at Mishawaka, that have been idle for 4.w0 years past, will soon be occupied by a company organized for the purpose of manufacturing wood pulp for paper slock. Some person administered a dose -of strychnia to Mr. Louis Kern's little dog, last Saturday, and while efforts were being made to save bis life he gave up the gh«st—passed in I.U checks—winked out—died. William Brummett of Furnussville {and Furnessville is in Porter -county) is a lucky person this soa--son. In one week he sold 1,000 .(juarls of strawberries and bad a •three legged calf horn to his herd. Mr. M. D. Rhoades, the popular -barlier, is limping around town with a badly used up hand, the result of an ugly gash indicted by a •butcher knife while assisting in •slaugktertpg a pig for the recent Masonic picnic. On the sixth page of this paper will be found full particulars of. the terrible St. John calamity, together with a map showing the burnt district. Rend it and see what devastation was wrought in only a few hours time by that disastrous conflagration.

Attention is calle.l to the new C*rd of the Austin House, on first [•age of this paper. “Aline Ilo6t” Cleveland comes as near pleasing all his guests m meeting their wains as a landlord could, and the verdict of ail who have had the •pleasure of stopping with him' is that he knows how to set a firstrdass table. When yon want a goed square meal or a nice dean hod give him a call. Mrs. Eaket*, teacher of lilue Ors*ss school, district No. 4, reports lor the mouth ending June 22t1, an euruUment of nineteen pupils. Those regular in attendance were Alice Heiiklc, Charles Henkle,Horace Henkle, Kverel* Hals.ead and Jo(niuie Eaker. The following were perfect in deportment; Eflie M. Alma Yeoman, Clias. Yeoman, Alice Paxton, Albert Pastnii, Rosi’da Mariyn, Marian Martyn, WiiU« Halstead, Sanford ffalalead, Everett Halstead, Alice Henkle, Charles llenkle, Horace Henkle, Ida A. Ilosn, Aljriie Baker, >4we»»*'Y Mskeever, Phuehi* M. Wvatt, Charles Wyatt and Johnnie m X*4* i "ti* e*i- *:* • ■ ‘ !

Agricultural Department

Thinning Out Fruit. It is a well-known fact that the inflexible law of supply aiul demand governs the prices of produce of all kinds. This fact being remembered, it is only necessary to bear in mind that the quantity of ordinary or inferior quality of produce is always in the excess, and when a “glut'’ appears in the market the purchasers very naturally gravitate toward the best, which they can buy at fair prices—prices which pay the producer-even though they can get poor or ordinary quality otthe same at their own figures, which is, as a rule, below the cost of production and mar keting, bringing the producer in debt, instead of returning him even merely a lair profit on his produce. There are many ways to increase the size of fruit, such as only planting those varieties best suited to your soil and climate, cultivating thoroughly, and thinning out the fruit at certain stages of the growth. Thinning out apples, especially in a large orchard, to make them grow to a larger size, is but rarely resorted to, on account of the tendency of the apple to come to nearly perfection under the best system of prooning and cultivation, and the consequently small increase in price obtained for slightly larger specimens produced by thinuing the fruit. The case, however, is different with pears; for the amount produced annually is far less than with apples and the price per basket or bushel is considerably higher. To enable pears to grow to a large size and to make size and quality rank ahead of mere quantity (though we believe that nearly the same weight of CD fruit is obtained by judicious thinning out, but in a fewer number of years), the pears should lie thinned out about two or three times a seasonin all to about one-lmlf of the numbers of pears first set on the trees. About two weeks after the blossoms have dropped, go over the trees and sort out a few of the poorest specimens and carefully remove them from the tree, having a care not to disturb those remaining. In from two to four weeks later go over the orchard again, and remove a few more of the inferior ones, in the same careful manner; and again in about the same length of time give the third visit for tile same purpose, which generally constitutes the last thin-ning-out. Some pear growers merely go over the orchard once, during June, and thin out the fruit. —JYew York Independent.

Salt for Cabbage.

A New Jersey gaiijener, in The Fruit Recorder considers stilt necessary to .the development of cabbage, especially in places far from the coast. He finds them note crisp, of better flavor, and to keep better when salt is used t han without. He uses it as follows: A few days aftersettingoutthe plants anil when they hie damp, either after a raid or when the dew is on, I take a small dish of fine salt, and, walking among the rows, sprinkling a pinch of salt on the center of each plant. When the leaves begin to grow I repeat the salting, and when the center of the leaves liegin to form the head I apply salt again, scattering it over the leaves. Alter this I look over them occasionally; and if I find plants that do not head well or appear diseased I sj winkle the salt over freely. This will save all such plants. A quart of salt is sufficient for five hundred plants in a season, although more can be used with safety. .

How to Fatten Chickens.

It is hopeless to attempt to fatten chickens while they are at liberty. ! They must be put in a proper coop; and this, like most other poultry appurtenances, need not be expensive. To fatten twelve fowls, a coop must lie three feet long, eightteen inches high, made entirely of bars. No part of it solid—neither top, side nor bottom. Discretion must be used according to the size of the chickens put in. They do not want room; indeed, the closer they are the better —provided they can all stand up at the same time. Care should be taken to put such as have been accustomed to be together, or they will fight. If one is quarrelsome, it is better to remove it at once; as, like other bad examples, it finds imitators. A diseased chicken should not be put up. The feed should be ground oats, and may be either put in a trough or on a flat board running along the front of the coop. It may be mixed with water and milk; the latter is better. It should be well slaked, forming a pulp as loose as can be, provided it does not fall off the board- Tliey must be well fed three or four times a day—the first time as soon after daybreak as possible or convenient, and then at intervals of four hours. Each meal should be as much and no more than they can eat up clean. When they have done feeding, the board should be wiped, and some gravel may be spread. It causes thenl to feed and thrive. After a fortnight of this treatment, you will have good fat fowls. If, however, there are but four to six to fatten, they must not have so much room as though there were twelve. Nothing is easier than to allot them the proper space; it is only necessary to have two or three pieces of wood to pass between the bars and form a partition This may also serve when fowls are put up at different degrees ot fatness. This requires attention or fowls will not keep fat and healthy. As soon as the fowl is sufficiently fattened it must be killed, otherwise it will still get fat, but it will lose flesh. If fowls are intended for the market, of course they are or may lie all fattened at once; but if for home consumtion, it is better to put them up at intervals as will suit the time when they are required for table. When the time arrives for killing, whether they are meant for market or otherwise, they should be fasted, without food or water. for twelve oi: fifteen hours. This enables them to be kept some time after being killed, even in hot weather. —London Cottaoe Gardener. •»

Watering Plants.

E. S. Rand, Jr., in his “Window Gardening,” says of watering plants: Watering is one of the most difficult subjects to prescribe by rule, yet there are some rules of general application. Let it always be done with a watering-pot with afiine rose, such as may be procured at any tinman’s. The advantage of this is, it allows the water to fall drop by drop over the whole surface of the soil, whereas, if a pitcher is used, the plants are deluged, or holes are made pi the earth by the stream of water, and the loots not unfrequently disturbed. Let it be done regularly; the morning is the best time, and once ft day. The surface of the soil should never Ih± allowed to become perfectly dry, nor should it be sodden with moisture. Tlie temperature of the water used is of vital importance. It should lie neither cold or warm, but just the temperature of the

room. Thus no check, or chill, or undue excitement is given to the roots, both r6ots and branches being equally warm. A good plan is, to set over night a pan of water among the flowers, then you will be sure of a sufficiency of water of the proper temperature for the morning watering. If this is too much trouble, remember in watering, it is better to have the water too warm than too cold; that is, of a higher rather than a lower temperature than the roots and branches. Now as to the quantity of the water. No rule of universal application can be prescribed. What is life to one class of plants is death to another. The amount of water necessary to make a calla lily thrive would kill a cactus or a heath, and yet the drouth necessary for a cactus would be death to the heath. A good rule, however, is never to allow the sod to become dusty or muddy, and with drainage iu potting, the latter is easily prevented; by regularly watering, the former. •Never allow water to stand in the saucers of thepots, unless the plants are semi-aquatic.

Grass for Fowls.

Novices, in poultry keeping, desires to see their yards green with growing grass, ns hen pastures, not taking into account the inevetable effects of constant tramping, and the deposit of very strong excremental matter, on the finest and fonderest grasses. It is the nature of the fowl to keep a constant search and with this intent they travel over the ground so much that the grass is soon destroyed except that which is coarse and valueless. A flock of twenty-five fowls will entirely eradicate the fine grasses from a yard containing one eighth of an acre. Fowls should have fresh vegetable food, and as it it useless to attempt the production of tender, nutritious grass in theireuclosures, another plan must be adopted to seeuie our object. The best way is to have a grassplant, and mow the tender shoots in the morning when the dew is on, enough to last through the day. 'I his feed, kept in the shade, will remain fresh. The frequent cutting will insure a thick growth, and, only a small quantity being required each day, only a small plat will be needed, the ground being cropped mauy times in one season. Fowls prefer young grass, and the land devoted to this purpose should be rich, that there may be beaquick growth. The lawn mower is a valuable adjunct of the poultry yard.— Povltnj World.

Seal Estate and Eelleetioa Over 2,000,000 acres of land in Missouri and Arkansas, on the line of llie St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Kail way ottered on ten years time at. 6 p-r out. interest. Also, 100,000 acres of prairie and liiuher lands in the counties, of Louoke, Prairie and Arkansas, in the state of Arkansas—very fine quality ami cheap. Hound-trip railroad tickets from Lafayette to L'ttle Rock, via St. Louis, good for 00 days, for $32.80, on sale ut this office. T3XAS IiAND SCRIPT For sale at the lowest market price. This is a rare chance for persons with a few hundred dollars to get large tracts of line laud that will be a fortune in a few years. 246 Lots in Leopold’s Addition to the Town of Rensselaer, for sale very cheap. These lots are very desirable property. both as an investment or for occupation. Will be sold cn liberal terms. Have 320 acres of splendid land in Kansas to exchange for a good farm in Jasper or Benton county, Indiana, and will give 1 some boot. Improved farms and excellent wildlands in this county, for sale cheap and on easy terms. ■Will TPsL-y Taaces, Furnish Abstracts of Title to Land, and make Collections. „ ■ MOIsTET TO laO-A-aST on five years' time at nine per cent, interest, in sums of SI,OOO to $25,000, secured by mortgage cn real estate or city property. Money furnished promptly, The usual fees and com mission charged. Office ia f"Ont No. 3, second floor Bedford & brick block, Rensselaer, Ind THOMAS BOROUGHS.

Pittslarfli, uiDcmfl & St. Louis R’y. “FAIT-KAlTriT..'i: EOVTS." Condensed Time Card—Columbus and State Line Division'. Kay 1873. (KMSU HAST. No. 1. No. 5. I.vc. State Une 1.40 p. in. + 3.30 a. in. Arr. la gatiaport . 5.25 44 9.16 “ Lve. 44 •12.55 a. in. + 9.25 “ Arr. Mirlon. 2.33 44 11417 44 44 Hartford 5.17 “ 11.20 “ 44 Kidgeville 4.10 “ 12.40p.m. 44 Union City. 6.05 44 1.10 44 44 Bradford Junction O.ou 44 2.00 44 44 Piuna 9.26 44 S.il 44 44 Urban*. 10.33 “ 4.02 44 44 Columbus 12.25 p. ill. 0,10 44 OOINO WKST. No. 0. No. S. Lvc. Columbus 0.30 a. m.f 6.40 p. in. An-. Urbuua. 8.04 “ 7.40 44 “ Pliiua. 9.02 “ U. 02 “ 44 Bradford Junction * 9.25 44 +9.30 44 44 Union City 10.25 44 10.43 44 44 KUI Seville 10.58 44 11.20 44 44 11 all ford 11.50 44 12.35 a. in. 44 Marion 12.40 p. in. 1.20 44 44 Logauaport 2.30 44 8.00 44 - 44 State Line 10.40 44 9.00 44 Richmond and Chicago Division. OOINO NORTH. No. 2. No. 10. J-ve. Cincinnati. f 7.38 u. m 44 Kirhinoud -j-10.60 “ Arr. Hagerstown 11.33 44 44 Newcastle. 12.U5p.in 44 Anderson.,.' 1.20 44 . 44 Kokomo 3.00 44 * 2.15 a. in. 44 Isigausport. 4.00 4 * 3.05 “ 44 Chicago. $.30 44 7.50 44 fiOINU SOOTH. No. 1. No. 7. Lve. Chicago * 8.20 p. in. + 9.00 a. in. Arr. Logansport. 12.45a.m. 1.40 p.m. 44 Kokomo. .... v 1.50 44 8.00 44 44 Anderson 4.37 44 44 New Castle 5.35 “ 44 Hagerstown 8.05 44 44 Iticlinmnd 0.55 44 44 Cincinnati. 9.60 44 ♦Daily. -;-I)aily except Sunday. Trains d<» not stop where tfmo is omitted. W. 1.. O’BKIKN, tieu’l Pass. A Ticket Agent. Colum bus, Ohio

New Harness Shop. N. WARNER, Proprietor. ~ T ft The above having opened a harness shop in Rensselaer, respectfully invites all his old friends and customer* lo !e;tve their orders with him for in this line and they will receive prompt attention. He employs none but first-class workmen, and warrants all. work turned ont at his shop, i Keeps on hand a large stock of saddles, bridles, lnuters, curry conibs, brushes, and everything else usually found in a first-class harness shop. Give him a call. Shop on Front street, Rensselaer, Indiana.

SSoe! See! * * * 3Nr3E3X7W GROCERY! Having moved into the new brick building of Messrs. Bedford &. Jackson and added largely lo his superb stuck G. G. STARR invites evervbodv to enll and examine his Canned Fruits, Dried Fruits. Hums, Bacon Shoulders, Lard, Molasses, Vinegar, Cheese , Rice, Honiony, Beans, Soap, Starch, Ili'Rgo Baking Powders', Soda, Cream Tartar, Salt Sugars, [in, Teas, Spices, Salt Fish, Cigars, Tobaccos, Meal, Nutmegs, Flavoring Extracts, Pocket aud Table Cutlery, Queensware, Glassware. FLOUR, and many ariicles we have not the space to enumerate, kept in stock at all times. Goods exchanged sot marketable produce. Remember the place—he has moved recently, and is rmw in Bedford & Jackson's New Block, right hand . door. The largest, best, and cheapest assortment in Jasper county," with out exception. Come* aud see for yourselves 21-:Jiii C.C. STARR

THE TT!KrSTTr AULEP * . • , .4 ... No Thresher made Ims attained to the position now held by the ECLIPSE in so short a time. Its career has been, in fact, a succession of triumphs. It has never known failure. From ihe very outset till the present its superiority was and is acknowledged as one of the leading Threshing Machines of the day. The Eci.ipkk is a grain saving machine, runs easy of draft, threshes fast and clean, is a durable machine, vyill thresh wet and dry grain, and cannot be beaten in flax and timothy. NO CLOGGING! NO WASTE! NO SWEARING! SPLENDID LIST OF HORSE-POWERS ! Mounted Pitts C, 8, 10, 32 horse Dawn Pitts,. (5, 8, 10, 12 horse 4-Wheel Woodbury 8, 10, 12 ** Dawn Climax 2,4, 0, 8 “ i-Wheel Woodbury 8, 10, “ Tread Power 1,2, “ The 4-Wheel Woodbury has five patents,pxc'usively ours, and not found on any other power. Wo make our own engines 8, 10 and 15 horse-power, and warrant them to combine safety, economy, power, strength, fia’sh. These engines will make more steam with less fuel than any other in use. For terms* prices and particulars, call On G. B. STEWARD, Agent, RENSSELAER, INDIANA. sent FREE WHEN ASKED FOR. J. W. DUVAIaIa'S LIVERY STABLE AND DAILY HACK LINE. United States mail hacks ran daily, except Sundays, between Rensselaer and Frances villa, making connections nt tlm latter place with trains on the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railroad, and conveying passeugors, expressage, and freight each way. Goods or money shipped by Express to auy part of ths United States. Livery has, with Drivers, or Without, fnrniihnd upon application. Stock boarded l)V thd’day or reel. Office nud Sale Stable at) Eron* street, above Washington Rensselaer, Indiana,

HARDING & PEACOCK, PJCAItU IN GROCERIES, NOTIONS, CANDIES. NEWSPAPERS, FXSSXO3SXCAX.S, WErBK PAPER, EimOPB, PENS, INK, AC. We have opened a select stock of fresh Family Groceries which we invite the public to inspect, and promise our patrons as true weights, full measures, good quality, and reasonable prices as anybody gives, Chicago Daily Newspapers, The Tribune, Time s and Inter-Ocean, supplied on the evening of the day of their publication. Wc make a specialty of the News and Periodical trade, and can furnish all the popular Wriikly Papers and Monthly Magazines at publishers' prices. IVe also keep an assortment of excellent. ToTjacco and Clgr&rs which, we think, are a little superior to any other brands in the market ottered at the sums price. Our place of business, which nil ,re inviti'd to visit, is in The Shangtni Building. Renssetae;, lnd. Call and see us, anyhow, whether you trade or not. 9 1k N. WARNER, DEALER IN HARDWARE, Of All Kinds, RENSSELAER, IND. Keeps constantly on hand n large stock; of Stoves, Tinware, Fnites, etc, etc. Would respectfully invite the ehizens oF Jasper and adjoining counties, when in. need of anything in his line, In give him ■» call before purchasing elsewhere. .4 careful inspection of his stock is all that is? necessary to convince anyone that lie keep* none hut first-class goods, and twits Iheim cheaper rhan they can be sold by any other dewier in the conn ivy. He defies competition. .Remember the phi*e, XaUoexa.l Comer, 9-5-ts- Rjnfselaer, lnd. A I REED’S m®sim may suns. One of the Greatest Labor-Saving Invented fsr Aw-kby-f i/eiAS Cheap. Practical. I)arable, Fftteienfc Two men aniLowc span of horns can hut* and stack more liwy with the Hoosier Huy Slide i‘i »nt; dmy, Shull five men and twoMpuiai of horses caw on the wwne time with any other applmiww. Easy to load, and unl*nd* Itself. Price, 14-foot Slide. $7 ; 10-foot, $lO, A. I- REED, Pleasant Grove, Jasper Canaty, lmi'. Manuinetured by t,!. A. Nelson & Co., Fiantosville, lnd,, and G. W. Tcrhune, Rensselaer, lnd. A«knt:—F. W. Bedford, Renssriaer, FiwL. AGENTS W ANTED.—Terrllory cheap and on leasonable terms. Patented late—* April ti, 1875. 44tf.