Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1877 — ALL SORTS. [ARTICLE]

ALL SORTS.

Barnum’s great show will visit Lafayette August 21st. Job printing cheaply and neatly done at The Union office. The city ol Lawrenceburg has a debt of $74,000, and is happy. Four brass bands prevent the over-population of Valparaiso. Nice confectionery at Henry Purcupile’s—corner room opposite the bank. The police of New Albany are harvesting a very large crop of dogs. George Whitman, treasurer of Pike county, has failed for $25,000. New cabbage is licked up with remarkable greediness by Rensselaer people. Beware of counterfeit quarters and half dollars. They are becoming quite numerous. Late newspapers at The Union office —only ten cents a dozen —half a dozen for a nickle. • It is estimated that one-half of all the cleared land in Decatur county is planted In corn this season. • Mr. Letynd Payne, of. Franklin, has a cow which gives on an average eight gallous of milk per day. The National Camp Meeting is to bo held this season at Urbana, Ohio, commencing about the Bth of August. Porter county Videtle: Porter county horses took first money at both races at Crown Point on the 4th of July.

Don’t forget tooall at R. H. Purcupile’s and get one of those Verbena cigars and some Old Congress chewing tobacco. The actual number of voters in Porter oouuty as per latest enumeration, says the Vidette, is 4,021, including 10 colored. Kentland Gazette: Eighteen carloads of Mormons from Europe and bound tor Utah passed through here on Monday night. Michael Farrell, ot Madison, aged 57, died suddenly Tuesday evening of last week, from drinking too much ice water. The Plymouth Democrat says that I. M. Mattingly has connected himself with the Bourbon Mirror in the capacity of local editor. Harry Thompson, a shoemaker of Lafayette, induced his sweetheart to loan hint SSOO, and then fled. She refused to prosecute the man she loved. Tne Walkerton Visitor says a feather bed belonging to one V. S, Bulla was found twelve miles from where his house was destroyed by the recent cyclone.

A man named Charles Cummings is wanted in Lafayette on a charge of bigamy. He is a cripple and was in the business of peddling lead pencils in Lafayette. The Monticello Herald says that 15. D. Pettit, of West Point township, White county, lost a fine steer, weighing 1,500 pounds, by lightning recently. A Chicago girl who claims to have proved it by experiment, says that by patting a lover in the light of a blue-glass window he can be made to propose at one sitting. ~ A Plymouth miscreant amuses himself nights by shooting promiscuously into the windows of certain residences in that city. Two dr three persons havo narrowly escaped losing thiir lives. A little girl in Clinton, 111., was teaching her little brother the Lord’s Prayer the other night, and, when she had said, “Give us this day our daily bread,” he suddenly called out:' “Pray for syrup, too, sister; pray for syrup, too!” A well-known merchant of Terre Haute, namedSohaublin,committed suicide on the 7th instant by shooting himself through the head. Business, or rather the want of it, is supposed to have been the trouble.

Dr. M. G. Trangh, of Remington, was in town Monday. A mild type of scarlet fever made its appearance in Rensselaer last week. There is a splendid prospect for an abundant yield of blackberries this season. A gentle shower last Monday cooled the atmosphere and laid the dust in this vicinity. The old settlers of Carroll and adjoining counties will picnic in Lenon’s Grove, near Delphi, on Saturday, August 11th. AtR. H. Purcupile’s is the place to get the best andchoapesttobacoo and cigars. Remember thqp'.ace is in the corner room opposite the bank. The Warsaw Republican is one of the best papers received at this office. Bro. Hossler knows how to get up a good, readable local paper. Mrs. Mary Rooney, of Lafayette beoame so frightened by the hail storm the other day that she lost her mind and is now a raving maniac.—Fowler Democrat. Benton County has eighteen lawyers. Just think of the rows, bad blood, rascality, and general enssedness that mast ensue to support so many legal lights. —Fowler Democrat. “That’s rather a bad fit yon have there,” said a man to s friend with a new coat. “Yes,” he replied, “but I had a worse one yesterday.” “Impossible!” “Not at all; it was epilepsy.” There is a family in this place that has living representatives of five generations—the great-great-grandmother and the great-great-grand-danghter being the extremes. —Fowler Herald.

On Thursday, as some of tho employes of Rider & Hyatt’s stave factory at Crothersville were moving a ‘couple of flat cars, George Rawlings, aged sixteen, fell under the wheels an d was killed. Little Susie, looking at some pictures of winged angels, exclaimed, “Mamma, I don’t want to be an angel.” “Why, not,dear?” “Humph! Leave off all my pretty clothes, and wear feathers like a hen.!” A. R. Bell, a well knowu newspaper man of Logansport, has accepted the position ot editor of the Delphi Times. Mr. Bell is an excellent writer and a journalist of more than average indepjndence, discernment, industry and discre-’ tion. According to the new game law now in force it is unlawful to shoot duck* before thefirslof September; prairie chickens before the first of October and quails and pheasants before the first of November, Let the Niinrods bear this in mind.

The finest war map received at this office since the present “unpleasantness” across the water began is the one sent by the publishing house of Rand, McNally & Co., Chicago. It is in two sections, the first of which shows at a glance the whole of Turkey and a large portion of Russia, together with th?ir relative positions to other European powers. The second section bliows more particularly that portion of Turkey which lies in Europe. The map is well executed, clear and comprehensive, and contains brief historical sketches and statistics showing tbe area and population of Russia and Turkey, the two powers now at war with each other, their forms of government, condition of the two arniies, finances, railroads, religion, etc. It is iudeed the only map of genuine worth and merit that ha* yet been offered to the people, ami it should be hanging upou the wills of every household in the laud. The very low ptice at which it is offered places it within the reach of all. By sending 25 eenla to the publishers with your name and address the map will be mailed to you, postage prepaid. Address Rand, MuNally & Co.,Chicago, IIU