Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1877 — LOCAL GOSSIP AND BUSINESS. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL GOSSIP AND BUSINESS.

Ml'ns Mattik Wrt'. Y is visiting with oteqnainldncrt in UFayette. Tn* well-known genuine SUr Walker boot for aaje 1 F. J. Sern-A Co.’s. feme* Kaxnai. keeps good cigars. TTe fans rMOBtl; «pened n new invoice. Tut those flvc-centrirars at Harding & lVeeook’s. They can' tbe excelled. Hyorarfitn.-A lazgequantity of No. 1 riwaAy im i Willey & Sigh-r’s. "Hkai> the temperance meeting programme wlhb appears ebmirUerdto Urts paper. * 00. pd#, Tuesday next, jopen I splendid-line of fifnta-Mid muslins pt# im the market, at Harding & Peacock a. A rate 4hle huetcletorries were brought into market Tuesday. They arc about all gene. A Btf)3tt>CX of boots and shoe* at panic {■rifee*, cam be (Seen at F. J. Scar* & Uo.'a ■ *d» 9 " - Cat. Uealkt is in town to-dsv. Ho has about decided to take up his residence in tnvin warapjwop % ■■■' ©ox’t forget that C. C. Starr is selling fhotHnf abort*, he* brand*, for only 40 ceogs a ppujad. I.lT« andlet 4W»t buy good goods, anil well them for fair jwofiU—ia the motto of jvilley A Sigler. Strata Rbxsos left Renssolzcr Saturday morning for Logins port, where he was to lecture that evening. J£j.i)ek HL V. Rxkd of Clreago will bo wmsmit at the Old Settlers' meeting on the Ist day of September. - jguucaiAX crab, trees and snow-ball shrubs an blooming the second time this season, in she gsrfcw about town. AxcKt Woodworth has a brand splinter new-ten-pound boy at bis boost;. Don't tread upon A nee's corns. IKuWt be bulldozed; Willey & Sigler- are i’ e men who can sell good hand-made, warranted boots for the least money. The new boot and thee store is now in fell hfcnst, and from the way the proprietor marts out we judge bo means business. Cll ablet Starr's new brick bnilding when complied will be thn neatest and handsomest business bouse in tho county. Ain. R. H. Pcbcupile has sold bis stock «f tobaccos, cigars and confectionery to fj. C. Starr, and retired from the business. A*.!. persons in want of boots and shoes wrilt find it profitable to examine the stook of F. J. Scars & Co., before buying elsewhere. ~ ±pr.7 i -_r:7: —. -==. ■ , Arcuar 10th a mart iage license was issued do George W, Ottajul Julia C. Payne. They were married last Sunday, by Her. G. D. .Shapley. . - v lisa. Jons L Pcnermn and Mrs. jGrouc-h, of Monticello, were visiting In Ibis place during the week past. They returned home yesterday. jU*. W. D. Majob, and,several other pentlemen, of Remington, were in town Thursday, attracted by tho excitement of yhe diamond field.

Mr. W. R. Joses, Mr. McJimsey, Mr. ■fj. R. Haltingly, and several other gentlemen front Fraucesville, attended tho basejail playing last Thursday. Miss Lizzie WSl.tok’h Sunday school /class, together with a number of young friends, pkniced yesterday by the raging /waters of the Iroquois, just below town. jPao/KBSOa 0, W. Ali.es, superintendent sis the Rensselaer school, arrived front Ohio Tuesday evening, and is non learning his bearings ia this caturcorncred town. Ms. 1. 8. Wad« and family returned to their Lome ia LaFayette Tuesday. They spent several weeks very pleasantly in this place visiting with the family of Mr. Rial Benjamin. Mk. F. J. Sears desires to thank the Rensselaer Cornet Baud sot fine music discoursed by them last Monday night. lie nays, “Eoys, call again.” Thk largest and best stock of tobaccos fn Rensselaer may he found at C. C. Sutrr’s, consisting of both plug and fine cut chewing, and best bran is smoking tobaccos in the market. Give llktn a trial. Willet a SiCLtB keep the best assortment of boots and shoes to be found in Jasper county, which they bought at low prices and will sell !o the advantage of . those who favor them with custom. Covxtey Prodvce wauted by Harding & ia tgchange far .groceries, queeusfrir?4 glassware, t oiiacco““ ci c* ‘ The best prices paid for potato??, onions, apples, butfer, eggs, cheese, etc. fall at the Shanghai. A Letter bearing the address of Lyman Rea, was lost last Sunday, Supposed to have been lost in the neighborhood of Kgvpt fcfijooi |io esc in Jordan township. The ■findqr am please leave it at tho Krusselaer office. Willet a Sigler are experienced, practical merchants, who make the wants of their patrons a study. Their stock is composed of such goods as public demand. Ad goods sold will be just as they are reepmmeuded by them. . A bs£*£l collection of stuffed birds and A»»ld quadrupeds that are to be met in tkia region, has been put on exhibition in one jsf the Show windows of lines’ drug store, ft la tho properly of Mr. Lewis Alter, who /ltd the toaidermie work. V. J. Sears a Co. have just received /heir foil stock of boots and shoes and they (ff&ire everybody to call and examine the quality and prices of these new goods before purchasing elsewhere. Remember next door south of liues' drug Jns rain, which everybody had been wishing ami praying for, came Mondav JNIJS gladdenedrthe hearts of all. It came a foo, for the corn In many of ihp couuty wag rutf-rin j severely ,lw ''OBiifacd dry weaiher of the few I**®** I ,re rf«J s - .1 «jL J i, FvsqmLs was umpire of tho gapne of baseball between the Clutnsies of Remington apt) tbe yigus’ of Freuevsville |>Vui£d here Last ?hur»d,y. Hen took afl v bis ktomacl) which tnede him sick for *a while, hip. h>’ tpow recovered sufficient to udjudk-ata the game. C. , Jlamuso k J’eacock have found susk a Mjfilgnn’* their cheap gliit*«ir4 (by t*fo »ay at ia the heat in this market) that J.Ucy 5 ave been compelled to erdsr a new invoice, to keep up the assortment. . They sell IkS cheapest glassware and queerfsWare |n Rfnsselaer, and the best. Oult one transfer of real estate has he n filed with tho recorder of Jasper county fur record during the past week. It was its follows; Sttfah Ann Britton to Thomas Walter*, weat part tv »e 33, 30, 5—34 A«f»grlota 1 ».nd ? block l and lota 1 and 2 #/** 2 ip tow;! «f IJnviksitnvHle, f0r#345,-

rjriiMDs in tho connty treasury arc getting »Wy lotr, and tax jpayera who are delinquent are urgently -aad eloquently appealed to to come fbrward and assist In Heating the vessel over the bar by immeJfcUdy liquidating the claims against them. We ore informed that Mr. Calvin U. Hough, a former citizen of Rensselaer but mqre recently a resident of Goodlnnd, and two of his eons have geno to Kansas ktid secured several hundred acres of land, which they intend to make thuir permanent home. - Tho remainder of his fatuily will follow soon. RtccKlfT is acknowledged of and thanks returned for a complimentary ticket to tliQ ’air ol the Tippecanoe County Agricultural Society, which ia to be held at-JLhFayette September 8,4, 6. 0, 7 and 8 inclusive. The ticket itself hi a fine specimen of neat curd printing, done in colors by the Lal’ayeltc Journal Company. Markkts. —The retail produce market in s Rensselaer to-day ia as follows: Potatoes, 40 'cents a bushel, onions 80 cents, cabbage 5 cent* a head, butter 15 cent* a pound, eggs 8j cents a dozen, flour $2 to $2.40 per quar-ter-barrel sack, spring chickens 12} to 15 cents each, fresh beef 6( to 10 cents a pound. Dealers pay something less than these prices for some articles bought in hulk from wagons, but consumers pay them for tho foundation of their hash. At a meeting of tho school board, last Evening, the teachers weic assigned to their res|iective departments as follows: Primary A-, Miss Candace Boroughs; primary 8., bliss Mattie Benjamin; intermediate, Miss Myra Piice; grammar, Mr. T. P. Wright; superintendent, Mr. 0. W. Allen. It was also declared that ull pupils living out of the district who ninvto attend school must report on or before tho 251 h day of the present mouth, in order to bo catalogued. Mb. Woou Schenck, wife and son, after n visit of six or eight weeks with the Misses Smith, started to Dayton, Ohio, Monday morning. Mr. Schenck has been in the Chinese custom liouoc service fifteen years or more. He is stationed at Shanghai, but has leave of absence for two years. He will remain in the baited Slates until .next March, when he will sail again for China. Mr. Schenck made warm friends at Rensselaer during his stay who wish him prosperity and happiness wherever be shall go. Mr. lIjvXBY C. Brcor and family, well knows in Jasper county, arc traveling with tens by easy marches to Lawrence, Kansas. On the 27th ol July he wrote to Rev. D. J. Huston that he had then !>ceu a week in Peoria ami Marshall counties, in Illinois, lie found crops looking well. Land therehe thought very fine quality, but highpriced. He was to resume his journey the Monday following. Tlie family was having good health, and enjoying the trip. Expenses light, people very kind along the route, and tenuis doing well. A prlvato letter dated 7th and written „in ('rawford bounty, Kansas, says: “Early corn is dentciTand the outside huskr are mining yellow—getting ripe. A good shower lust night insures the making of the late corn. Old com is worth 2a cants to 80 cents a bushel al the railroad stations, oats 15 cents to 20 cents, ripe peaches 50 cents to 75 cents, apples 40 c?nts to 00 cents. Hogs, live, sell for $3 1u $3 per cwt., cattle $2 to $2.50. Milch cows are worth from sls to S3O each. Butter retails for 10 cents to 15 cents a pound.’’ The County Treasurer announces that he will be at Messrs, Burger & Parker’s exchange office, in the town of ltominglon, Indiana, Monday and Tuesday the 20lh and 21st days of the present month, for the purpose of collecting delinquent tax. AH persons in the town of Remington anil in the townships of Carpenter and Jordan who know themselves to bo owing delinquent tux, arc notified that they will save cost by calling at tbe before-named place on one of the days mentioned and settling their tax either by payment or giving bond.

It was not much of a game of base ball that was played here lasi Thursday by tlie Uluuisies of Remington and Vigus of Franccsville. The former won just as easy ! The score was as follows: ~1 |2 | B|4|s|6 J7|B |r| T 1 CluniVey 0 ( 1 |''lo ( 6 | 1 j Fj 8 | 2 | 6~j SO lj 3 | 2{ 2 | 2 |2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 18 K. H. I‘urcupitc, umpire, W. D. Major, scorer. The Ciumsii-s were: Bullis, Burns, Major, Cherry, Bullis, Morgan, Ralph, l’rice and Dexter. The Yiguses: Nagle, l’ylc, lleil, Edgbort, Smith, Hathaway, Bullis, Edgbert and Johnson. Cheese. —“ All the bread and cheese he got lie put upon a shelf.” So runs the nursery rhyme But it is very evident the hero of the rhyiue did not get such cheese w that made by Mr. Charles Boroughs, otherwtao U wftuld have been eaten, aud very littlo of it left for the mis aud mice to nibble. These reflections are provoked by n generous chunk left at The Union office by Mr. iforoughs in person. The"quality wa* most excellent. Rich, mellow, smooth, melting, delicious; and proves conclusively “ llitiVihii v. ivitestti". e. 'KKi. tf.uvgrass pastures of Jasper county and tho climate are as well adapted to cheesetnaking as the best in tbe Uqued States. Res rat eh. —After a respite of a few months, Mr. Leopold ag«ia occupies the Columns of this paper with an advertisement of liberal dimensions. He is bound" to let the people know where merchandise of good quality is kept in largo stock, and sold ( heap. Having done this, it wilt not be iiis fault if people neglect to buy where they con get the best Birgnins—the full value of their money. It ccrtaiuly cannot harm any one to call at the stone store, look at the goods therein, and learn the prices asked for them.*- If nothing is bought it will cost nothing, and nobody will be offended ; though of course it will please the proprietor of tho store and the salesman, as well as being to your own interest, if jou trade a little. Call and see what kind of goods is offered In the Walker boot whatever else you may conclude to do. ' MR. Lewrk Benson lectured in Rensselaer two nights, lost week. Tbe audiences that wont to hear him ware not large either night. The impression left on society here was neither so profound nor so wide-spread ns he is reported to make in other places. His language is florid enough and his imagination lurid enough to be attractive to the clase of people he desires to help; but Rensselaer ha* had her paroxysm of the temperance excitement, .a# children have the chicken-pox, and ihe wild fevjrr fa** bjeeu succeeded by the better, healthier, Cou litien of calmness' end -reason. Since, the devils were cast out, she is clothed and in' her right mind,. not now. nor has there been for several \e irs, ft lieet-Ml saloon in the codnfy: puMie temperance meetings are kept up regularly, which are largely attended; pubfic sehDihehTli strong against t4e , liquor traffic, an 1 the use of liquors as a beverage; it is unpopular to tipple in Reassaiaety and unprofitable to deal in SflcifiioUe drii.k*; dpjep or constant drinking^is indulged Ifj ; ntst to ■eSfCe'eA one per cent, of the population; and an intoxicated person U rarely mat in.public. 'jßlilt Ur ; Jenson’s efforts wer* not without g««ol mult*, hnviog eauaed same who bod been inclining towards a conservative view of the evils of rids awful vice of intempemnee to took ,it them under a more vivid light.