Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1879 — State Items. [ARTICLE]

State Items.

New maple syrup brings 80 cents a gullon at Bloomington. Seven inches of snow reported at Madi•on, Ind., on the 17th. X Jefferson rounty fruit-grower predicts n good poach crop this year. Tice'a almanacs 20 cents each at this office. Mailed to any address <<n reoeipt of price. Julius Blum the Austrian Jew whom the Egyptian Khedive has raised to the rank of Pasha and made Assistant Secretary of State, is said in be the first Israelite who has held so high a position in Kgypt since Joseph's time.