Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1877 — LOCAL AND NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL AND NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS.

Huckleberries are retailing at from 7 to 8 cents. Art. Cole Is again sticking type in the Sentiwel office. Go to F. J. Sears & Co. for bargains in goods for cash. Job printing neatly and cheaply done at Thu Uniox office. Buy old papers at The Uniox office, six for only a nickle. A fresh lot of clear side bacon just received at C. C. Starr’s. , New potatoes retail from the groceries at 80 cents a bushel. The merchants doing the beet business are the ones who advertise. The mercury in the thermometers reached up into the nineties to•duy. A few morillocherries are brought to town and disposed ot for Sj cents a qu:i r t. A full stock of queensware and crockery ware may be found at C: <3. Starr’s. F. J. Sears & Co. will sell goods for the next 30 days very cheap for cash in hand. There is most too much rain for the corn fields, but tliscorn is growing very rapidly. F. J. Sears & Co. arc the only firm that pay cash tor wool on delivery in Rensselaer, The Valparaiso Messenger has changed its publication day from Tuesday to Wednesday, J)on’t fail to try that 50-cent tea at»C. C. Starr’s. It is pronounced excellent by competent judges. Mr. David J. Thompson returned, last Tuesday, from his visit to the Buckeye state. lie reports a splendid time. » Over seven hundred of the inhabitants ot I’ierceton have joined the .Murphy movement since it was ina iiguruted. Ice cream, lemonade,soda water, candy, peanuts, bologna sausage and chewing gum suffered terribly yesterday. Miss Hattie Coen returned home a week or so ago from Valparaiso, where she has been attending normal school. Jerre Ilaley took tile §2 from - the top of the greased pole yesterday —and then half a dozen oilier lads could climb it. A gentleman who had b?«n taking a “wee dhrop ot the chratlair” recently displayed a 420,000 bond i i Crown Point. No city of the size of Warsaw can compare with it for the size and excellence of church edifices and school buildings. Charley Starr still has a few glass fruit jars and jelly c'ttps left. Call and purchase a supply before they are all gone. Cash customers should take a look at the stock of goods now on hand at the old reliable house of F. J. Sears & Co.’s. Notice. —All persons having unsettled accounts witli F. J. Sears <fc Co. will please put in their appearance and greatly oblige. Frank S. LaUne, once a Uensselaer lad, was married on the 26. h day. of lest month, at Kansas, to Miss Eva Hoover. A party qf Remington singers came over to Rensselaer on the 4th, and treated the people to a very beautiful and appropriate song. At Charley Starr’s maybe found a good supply of . corn meal. You that are hungry and not able to buy flour, get some of this meal. There were three young gentlemen who competed for the prize itr the sack race on the 4th. “Prof.” Zea, of this place, ragged off the money. Monroe Cair’s masqueraders were a unique part of the display yesterday. Everybody that could laugh did laugh at their extravagant antics. Warsaw boasts of having the best equipped fire. department in the United States, taking iuto consideration the population and revenue from taxation. F. J. Sears Js Co. did just as they agreed to by closing their place of business during the exercises on the 4tb, and hope it did not discommode any of their numerous cus.Joiners.

A great many farmers celebrated j the Fourth in their oornfielda. Mrs. T. J. Sayler is visiting her ! old home in Iroquois county, 111., this week. Sheriff Robinson and W. W. ! , I Crockett started to Indianapolis this morning. A goodly number of the patriotic citizens of Remington came to Rensselaer to celebrate. Mr. E. B. Thornton, of Bedford, Ind., school superintendent of Lawrence county, is only twenty-one years of age. Mr. Isaac M. Stackhouse, for many years a resident of Rensselaer, was, last week, appointed a justice of the peace at Southport, Marion county, Indiana. Crown Point Cosmos: A child, whose name we could not learn, was drowned in a wash tub near Mr. Stallbauin’sjin North township, on last Saturday. Ten thousand postal cards were sold by the Lafayette postoffice last month. An aggregate of twentyfive thousand three cent stamps were also disposed of in like manner. Mr. Israel Pierce, aged 35 years, a resident of Jefferson township, Kosciusko county, was struck by lightning during the storm on Monday, of last week, and instantly killed. During the past week the clerk of Jasper county issued marriage licenses to the following parties: George W. Warren and Mary C. Gilmore; John Earl and Mary E. Dowell. What is the use of suffering with the heat this hot weather when you can secure a chunk of ice at Charley Starr’s large enough to'keip a bucket of water cool all day for only a nickic. A Lake county lien -weighing nine and one-half pounds, recently accomplished the wonderful feat of laying an egg about as large as a hickory nut. So says the Crown Point Cosmos. Johnny Boroughs, it is conceded by everybody, excelled in oratorical delivery yesterday. His voice is magnificent, and a little careful training will givfe him complete mastery over it. A postal card from Mr.. C. A. Edmonds announces that himself and family will return in a week or two from their visit in Michigan and probably make Rensselaer their permanent home. The Fowler /Jerald says: “The Murphy movement was successfully inaugurated in Fowler , last Wednesday evening. Seventy-nine persons signed .the pledge, and donned the blue ribbon badge.” People who have been praying for hot weather for their corn ought to be satisfied with the sample furnished yesterday and to-day. If corn don’t grow the fault is in something other than the temperature.' The Monticelio Democrat tells of the termination of a lawsuit began fourteen years ago, to recover 47.50 for .use of water 'privilege*, in which the costs amounted to 42,000. The decision-in-favor of thedafeud» ant. At one or two o’clock this afternoon the mercury indicated a temperature of ninety to ninetytwo degrees, but since then a severe rainstorm with high winds has prevailed, and she mercury has fallen thirty degrees or more. Charley Starr wishes to announce to his many customers . living in town that his delivery wagon will distribute goods every morning until 9 o’clock,-(Sundays excepted) and all ordering goods delivered will please goveru themselves, accordingly. A fatal poisoning accident brought distress to Mh and Mrs. L. K. Ycorn an, of Barkley township, Tuesday. Their only child, an infant not quite a year old, got hold of a bottle containing strychnine, and swallowed enough of the contents to produce death within an hour. After a suspension since the 30lh of May, on account of the sickness of tlie editor and his family, with malignant scarlet fever, the Valparaiso Messenger appeared again as beautiful as ever on the 3d instant. Hope liio, Zimmerman will not .be afflicted again.

Warren county farmers are paying per day and board fur harvest hands. Thanks are hereby given Mr. C. C. Thornton for a mess of string beaus, and to Mr. Peter Rhoades for beets. Four members of a family named Barney were killed by the storm of Monday night, and four others fatally injured. They were, living near Beatty’s Corner, in LaPorte county. George Scott, while intoxicated, was run over and killed at Columbia City, on Monday evening, by a passenger train on the I\, Ft. W. ami C. railroad. The total value of lands and improvements in Benton county is 44,869,660; average value of lands and improvements 418.96; value of personal pr0perty,41,241,985; total value ot the taxable property, |G,617,629. Mr. R. L. Mattingly ot Frances* ville, desires to announce to the farmers of Jasper county that lie will undersell any other dealer in flour and salt hi Jasper or Pulaski county. He defies competition. Give him a dill before purchasing elsewhere. 42 4t. Dr. 11. Brandom, of the Twin Brothers’ Indianapolis Eye Infirmary, will be in Rensselaer on the 17Ui instant to remain a week or 'two. The Doctor is a brother-in-law of C. C. Starr, and is highly indorsed by peveral patients in Jasper county whom lie has successfully treated. - A smart calf at Orleans became a capitalist by rifling its owner’s pockets of a roll of greenbacks to the amount of 427.25, and swallowing the money .iii a bunch; but the owner of the calf, objected to Such a contraction of his currency, killed the calf and recovered his capital but little damaged. 1-, Michigan City Journal* About ten weeks ago a son of Mr. Robert Richards swallowed a long glass bead. Of course fie suffered great pain, and everything that the parents could tlin HT 6 f“w aa" done for the suffering child, even taking it to Dr. Gump, of Chicago, hut all to no avail until last Tuesday, when it coughed up the offending bead.

A telegram from Crawfordsville Saturday evening summoned William 13. Austin and Mrs. Ludd Hopkins to the bedside of their father, John M. Austin, Esq., who has been an invalid for more than a ye ir, and who had gone with his wile to visit a daughter and other relatives in that city. It is feared that his condition may be serious. Some firm in Louisville has had agents out through Clark county selling Paisley shawls, cloths, dress and other goods, giving such apparent bargains that several of the country farmers’ families have been taken in badly. The fellows sell from $75 to §IOO worth at each house, taking three months notes for the amounts, which are discounted in bank. The following is a report of Independence school, Barkley township, lor the month ending June 22d, 1877: Those perfect in attendanoe, punctuality, tfoportment and study wer * Earnest Pattee, Louisa Adair, Warren Galbreth, Nellie Galbreth, Flora Daniels, Cora Daniels, Mollie Daniels, Ida Clark, Jessie Clark, Ula Switzer, and Johnny Galbreth. Those perfect tor the term were Earnest "Pattee, Louisa Adair, Nellie Galbreth,Flora Daniels, Cora Daniels and Ida Clark. General average for the month, 21; for the term, 24. .. The 101st anniversary of the independence of the United States of America was duly celebrated in Rensselaer nfter the form advised by President Adams. There was tiring of cannon, ringing of bells, orations, music, singing, games and happiness. The day was pleasant; that is, not stormy, though very Warm. A fair attendance was present from the neighboring country, and all was harmony, kindness and enjoyment. Those who performed the parts assigned to them in the programme all did well; there was an evident effort to please which was met on the part of the assembly with a willingness to be pleased. It was remarked by all that a pleasanter celebration was never held jp flip county.

Frank Pritchett, an Evansville back driver, cut the eye out of a man named Fred. Stoke, Tuesday evening. The totai number ot white male inhabitants in Allen county over 21 years of age is 12,687; colored males 32; total 12,719. The New Albany National Bank declared a dividend of five per cent. Monday. Two per cent of their earning* was set apart as a sinking fund. Rush county has a citizen who has attained some prominence politically, who lately buried a son, a young man, and with him a good silver watch, running, a gold chain and 4100 in money. Col. Martin, secretary ot the Masonic Mutual Benefit Society, cominited suicide at Indianapolis, last Wednesday, by stabbing himself with a pen knife. Insanity is ascribed as the cause. Bad boys have they down in Sullivan county. Four lads aged nine, ten, eleven and twelve years were recently arrested for piling across the railroad track rocks, lumber and tics, to throw the train off. A resident of Terre Haute states positively that during one of the reCent storms, a certain narrow creek in Vermillion county lying between hills, rose seven feet inside of twenty minutes, ami then after the rain, tell almost as quickly. The first issue of the Hendricks County Citizen was given to the public last Saturday from its new borne in Danville. It announces that its political creed will be maintained uncompromisingly republican, and promises to do what it can to convert sin-cursed democrats. A man named Frederick Meyers was lound hanging in an outhouse on .his premises at Bloomingdale, on Saturday afternoon. lie whr mending the root, and it is supponed his suspenders caught on a rafter and around his neck, choking him to death before aid reached him. Gen. Tom J. Brady, second assistant postmaster general, has purchased his old paper, the Mancie Times, from Mellette & l’ersh ing, uml has installed Ins brother, Ed. Brady, recently ot Texas, as editor. Pershing, it is rumored, talks of buying the Fort Wayne Gazette. A special election for mayor was held in Terre Haute Wednesday which resulted in the triumph ot the republican candidate by eight majority over the democratic and greenback competitors. One year ago the democrats elected their candidate by tvo hundred majorjty. At a negro ball in Jeffersonville. Saturday night, Frank Chapman, a notoriously bad negro character, was severely cut in several places in the side and abdomen. Chapman claims that he was cut by two brothers named Hobbs. Chapman attempted to break the ball up, and in putting him out of the house he received the wounds above stated.