Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1877 — A Very Urge Per Centage of Talent. [ARTICLE]

A Very Urge Per Centage of Talent.

We have a yerr large per cep tags of talent in Ohio, perhaps as much aa 106 pier cent, on the population Cincinnati 35n-! qtiirer. j

Tlie’auJftSr hr state recenfiy*t*simd ‘MU' 1 warrants on tbe state treasurer in favor of, a imwic dealer at ludianapolis—sß43 for an organ and $107.52 for music, for the hospital fur insane. Music, you haw heard, hotel charms (o soothe tuo saVngo breast far more potent Ilian to well tho savage hood with a hickory club. C. C. Starr bus purelitucd the stock of tobaccos and cigars recently owned by U. H. I’urcupila, including the best brands of smoking and chewing tobaccos, genuine '‘Verbena,’’“Old’nmer” and “Boss” cigars, which aro given up by competent, judges to be (ho best nickel cigars it) the market. If you would enjoy a good smoke givo Charley a coll. Tub Rensselaer markets, as quoted in the Sentinel, are ns fluctuating os tho weather. Week before last that paper quoted potatoes at $1.20 cents u bushel, and in its lust issue, during tho brief period of just one week, they dropped to 20 cents. If any of the readers of Tut: Union have potatoes to sell they had better dispose of them before another issue of the Sentinel fur the Lord only knows what Ihe next quotation may be, Hon. J. H. Wintcwbotlmm is trying to make it appear that his luto trouble witlt Mr. Rsgsdulb at Michigan City originated in tn endeavor to blackmail him (lie claims to be worth $1(K),(K)0). Ragsdale's paper lias resolved itself Into nothingness, aud he has gone to Jacksonville, Fla., to teach school and preach. It looks very much ns though tho attempt at blackmailing had been successful, at least measurably so. Winterbotham wants to be nominated by tho Democracy of this district for congress, and is very likely to succeed.