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

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- *:* • ■ ‘ !