Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1878 — The Chicago and South Atlantic Railroad. [ARTICLE]

The Chicago and South Atlantic Railroad.

The stockholders of the Chicago sod Routh Atlantic railroad met io-Chicogo, tart Thursday, and elected the following board of directors: Samuel T. Atwater, A. B. Kile, John Dubrillo, 8. N. Yeoman, ttobert Rae, Alfred Thompson and Edward Walker. The now board meets’ to-day, at »—, for the election of officers.,. Flour and sugar Moopa at Starr’s. Baskets and washboards at Starr's. Buck Duvall drives a milk wagon. A sprinkle of rain Ml this morning. Will Harding supplies Chicago morningpapers. , Edimrt Kanrial' sells tbe best's cent iflgar in Rensselaer. Whitewash, paint and toilet brushes at lints' ditag'store. Rubber paint and all kinds of oils are' kept by Imes, the druggist.

A new lot of kalsomine tints opeaJN at Juies’ drug store this wetfc. A 76-cent whitewash brush for sale for 45’ cents, at Kannal’s drug store. Axle grease; eurry combs and’ horse brushes til & C. Starr’s grocery. A large stock of men’s and boys'tale style' hats and caps at Willey & Sigler's. f Croquet sets—eight lialls and mallets— ’ or'sl.6O, st-C. C. Starr’s grocery; Boys’ good hats for 50 cents, at the 7 NarrbW Gauge One Price Clothing Store. Ih time of peace prepare for war—- ' Bdy roll)ng-pins and brooms of C. Q. Starr.’ Smoked hallibut, Holland herring, and- , pickled whitefish in kits at Starr’s grocery. Hertry Znll will build the first cottage in Leopolds'additions—the handsomest part of town. Five tott Strictly pirie 1W at JhPbal’s drug store—Tor ladies’ and gentleman’s paints. A new stock of eleghrit plow shoes and* boots at Fendig’s. Sold' way down cheap’ for cash.

California dried peaches/ canned fruit, sugar, tea, coffee, soap and st Arch at Starr’s grocery. Daily papers, illustrated weeklies, sheet" music, etc., may always be found »t Will* Harding’s. You can buy. jnore goods for one dollar cash at the New York Store than at any other house in the country, R. Fendig sells clothing at prices that beat the Jews. They can Y t compote with* him with all their blowing, Circassian hair restorative is good for* baldness, and Kannal’s blood and liver pills are warranted to cure ague. A suit of spring clothing may be bought for cash at R. Fendig’s cheaper than at any store in Chicago or LaFayette. At the Narrow Gauge One Price Clothing Store everything is marked in plain figure*, and there is but one price for all. Blue India soap, Brown’s worm comfits, blackberry balsam and Brandretb’s pills for sale at Emmet Kannal’s drug store. Have you seen those elegant new stylehats and bonnets -Miss Lillie Boroughs has on exhibition at Willey & Sigler's stored A shoe brush, box -of blacking, hair brush, tooth brush and fine tooth comb all for 75 cents, at Emmet Kannal’s drug store. A fresh arrival of ready mixed lead and oil paint—every gallon warranted as represented—at Emmet Kannal’s drug store.

Dr. Washburn went over to Logansport this morning to look after a security debt which a Jasper county independent greenback financier saddled upon bim. Hon. John P. Carr, representative id the General Assembly for the 45th district, and one of the solid men of White county,was at the Austin House part of two days of last week. The branch office of the American Erpress company, which was established in this town only eight or ten weeks since, reports a growing business that already amounts to S3OO a month. Justice D. I. Jackson and wife returned last Thursday from a trip of observation in Arkansas. The ’Squire has symptoms of migratory fever pretty strongly marked.Think he'll not endure till winter. Mr. John Milliken, Assistant Superitendent of the Indianapolis, Delphi & Chicago railroad, started last Thursday to his homo at Washington, Ohio, and will not retari? to Rensselaer until sometime in the first part of May. George W. Burk and Riley Nowels have ,a fine Poland-China boar for sale. He is two years old, pure bred stock, weighs &sO* to 400 pounds in fair average service condition. Enquire at ths farm of either gentleman, four miles north of town.—29-8 I. D. Dunn, Esq., owner of one of the best farms in Indiana, tl.e same bordering on the Kankakee river, in Kankakee township, Jasper county, was in town Monday and Tuesday Mr. Dunn has neariy one hundred acres planted in oats and other spring grains already. He reports his spring wheat three inches high, and an urw usually tine prospect for fruit, Mr. Thomas Cody of Hanging Grove township and Mr. William Antrim of Barkley were in Thb Union office thia week to look upon the fiend whom the Sentinel tries to frighten nervous democrats with. Mr. Cody concluded to try the flayer of Tun Union a while longer, and "Unde Billy”' procured a few exchange newspapers from which to gather information about the region of country which Heth beyond the great river Mississippi and which is called the State of Kansas, a country that he is now making preparations to visit next M. And this mention of that vast and beautiful land beyond the majestic flood calls to remembrance a circumstance which had strayed from memory. A couple of weeks or more ago Mr. James P. Overton of Hanging Grove township, then but just returned from a trip to the Arkansas Vai. ley region, dropped in among us and delivered a paper sent by Mr. Nathan Weathers, formerly a eitisen* of Jasper county, who lives at or near Winfield, Cow* ley county, Kansas; both of which gentle* men are thanked for I hoi;- friendly courtesy.