Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1879 — Page 1

HOBACI X. JAMBS. O. CIMBL. JAMES * CIBQEL, rxoraißTOM or THE RENBBELAKR UNION, ItaMimin, Jasvib Coomty, Imo, Oao eopy one year, |I; *lx month*. SO cento; three month*, (thirteen week*), M cento; aZ«e«y« oaok in erfeene*. Single oopy.B cento; two con- >•*, I cento; more than two copies, 1 cento each. ADVERTISING SON •Pl*>: ette comer of Chi* page for term* awl price of gilvortiiing in till* newspaper. JOB PRINTING—K large a**ortment of type and other material for poster, pamphlet, /irsnlar and kindred work. Prices low.

W. H. & C. Rhoades OPEN FOR THE SPRING TRADE. • GREAT REDUCTION IN HJLLRISrESS. All good* in our line reduced from 20 to 25 per cent, for ea»h only. A GOOD SEWING HACKING FOR $25. Needles, Machine Extras, etc., always on hand. Also an extensive stock of Saddles, Bridles, Whips, Trunks, Valises, Saddlery Hardware, Leather Findings, Collaraj Brushes and Combs. CARRIAGE TRIMMING and leather repairing a specialty. New Shop and Sales Room south side of Washington street, Rensselaer, Indiana.

Just Received A. S. LA RUE His just received and has now on exhibition at hi* place of business in Leopold’s Corner, opposite A. McCoy and Thompson’s bank, a large and fresh supply of CHOICE FAMILY GROCERIES, which he proposes to sell as cheap as the cheapest. He also keeps constantly on hand a full line of Cigars, Tobacco, Confectionery, Quecnsware, Canned Fruits, Nuts, Stationery, etc. Give him a cell. T. M. JONES, (i,ate of Kankakee City) HRRCIIANT TAILOR, Opposite the Post-Office. Suits for Men, Youths and ■Children <jut and made. Work warranted. FULL LINE OF PIECE GOODS Kept in stock. The finest, best and cheapest stock ever opened in Rensselaer. Call and see. Orders solicited. _______ s. Office, Parlor and Kitchan STOVSS, Wood and Coal Burners, KITCHEN RANGES, For Wood or Coal Burning, Kitchen Hardware, TINWARE, 4c., At CHILDERS’S.

Tin Work a Specialty. Fl, FENDIG XMT Dry Goods, CLOTHING, HA.TS, O.A-FO. BOOTS, SHOES, &C. IN THE Nowels Build’g ONE DOOR BELOW POST OFFICE. Excellent Stock, Low Prices, Honest Dealing. L ' "■■■■'" l! I'” - A finer, better or cheaper atock of General Merchandise is not found in any house in Jasper county. OVERCOATS For Men and Boya Greatlyßeduced in Prices. DRESS GOODS For Ladies, Misses and Children Latest Patterns Very Cheap. • I . I ' • • Boots and Shoes Fer Meu, Women, Youths, Misses and Children, of the Standard Manufacturers. Everybody Invited ■ TO OAfcXuMSU Inspect Goods and Prices

THE RENSSELAER UNION.

VOLUME 11.

HARPER W. SNYDER, Attorney at Law, REMINGTON, Jasper County,’lndianaDr. G. JL MOSS, Physician and Surgeon, In Spitler’s Brick Building, Opposite Court House, Rensselaer. ■ 1 r ■ Dr. J. H. LOVOHKIDOE, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Below Austin Hotel. Ten per cent, interest will be added to all accounts running unsettled longer than 3 months. Dr. MOSES B. ALTER, AND BUBGBON, At W. J. Imea’s Drug Store. MORDECAI F. CHILCOTE, Attorney at Law, Rensselaer, Indiana, Attends to al! Business of the Profession with promptness and despatch. Office on Washington Street, opposite the Court House. Simon P. Thompson, DavidJJ. Thompson, Attorney at Jaw. Notary Public. THOMPSON & BRO., Attorneys at Law, Rensselaer, Indiana, Practice in all the Courts. We pay particular attention to puying taxes, selling mid leasing lands. MAKXON L. EFITLEH. Collector and Abstracter. R. 8. DWIGGINS. ZIMRI DWIGGINS. R. S. & Z. DWIGGINS, Attorneys at Law AND LOAN BROKERS. One Hundred Thousand Dollars to Loan on first mortgage, on five years time, at nine per cent. intereat, in sums of S3OO or over. FRANK W. BABCOCK, Attorney at Law And Real Estate Broker. Practices in all Courts of Jasper, Newtonand Benton counties. Laudsexainined. Abstracts of Title prepared. Taxes paid. Collections a specialty. Daniel B. Miller. James W. Douthi t MILLER & DODTHIT, ATTORNEYS AT UAW, Notaries Public and Colleotora. Ditch and road petitionsand reports carefully |> if pared, titles examined, abstracts made, collections promptly attended to. Office in Starr’s Building, up-stairs r third door. IRA Wr ATTORNEY AT LAW Notary Public, Real Estate. Collection & Ins. Agent. All legal instruments carefully written. Office over Narrow Gauge Store. ELZA I. PHILLIPS, Attorney at Law AND NOTARY PUBLIC, Office in Court House with Sheriff. A. MoCOY & THOMPSON, BANKERS AND CATTLE BROKERS, Buy and sal! domestic exchange, make collections on all available poiuts, pay interest on Specified time deposits, etc. Hours from 9 o’clock a. m. to 4 o’clock p. m. GEORGE GRAUEL, Maker of and Dealer in UARNUSS, SADDLES, Bridles, Whips, Blankets, Ac. Repairing Done Promptly. Front Street, below Washington. GROCERIES, Cigars, Tobacco, CONFECTIONERY, &£.. FIKBFDOOR ABOVE AUSTIN’S HGIZL. ■ Xi. TUTEUR. r , ' ' '< ' ■ l, l' y ■ LESLIE C. GRANT, BLACKSMITH. Shop at Terhune j* old stand on Front Street. All work warranted. Call.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, MARCH 6th, 1879.-

Bologna Sausage, LARD,' Fresh Meat. Bologna Sausage Si cts per lb. Fork “ e ‘‘ •* Colce Leaf Card « “ “ Pork Steak 4 to 6 “ “ Best .Beef Steak 7 “ “ Fore Quarter “ 6 “ “ Choi e Roasts « “ “ Boll! g Pieces 3, 4 “ •» BEDFORD & SHARP’S New Meat Store. MEAT Resumption Prices. Best Beef Steak 7 cts per lb. Fore Quarter Steak 6 de Choice Beef Roasts 6 do Boiling Pieces 3to 4 do Pork Steak 4 to 5 cts per lb. Pork Sausage only 6 do Choice Leaf Lard at 7 do Bologna Sausage 10 cts per lb. j —.— AT THE LIBERAL OLD Reliable Meat Store JACOB EIGLESBACH. FITZ W. BEDFORD x33QjK.x*z]st. xw AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. Threshers. Reapers, Mowers, Rakes. Eagle Cultivators and Harrows. The celebrated Furst & Bradley, Jones and Olliver Chilled Plow*. NEWTON WAGONS AND BUGGIES. Riding and Walking Cultivators. Brown Corn Planters. All kinds of Field, Gardeij, Barn and Stable Implements. Farm Hardware. VICTOR BCA-IjEB For Hay, Cattle and Railroad Tracks. < Also, Building Paper, Lime, Plastering Hair, Cement, Putnps, Ac. Field and Carden Seeds In bulk or by the small package. Farm and Garden Products sold at retail. Ons door above “Shanghai.”

CURE BY iBSORPTIDH THE BETTER WAT. THE Hplman Liver Pad w and its auxiliaries. The Medicinal BOOT 4 FOGT FUSTFBS, ~ ~ AND Absorption Medicated Foot Bath They cure by absorption ratbar than drugging the syatcm. They nave proven beyond peradventure the cheapest the moat pleasant, convenient, surest and most satisfactory curative, also permanent and thorough system-regulator in the world, and are applicable td the infant, youth and adult of both sexes. Experience has led to an houest belief that there is no disease that can ba kept in subjection, or that can he modified, by the use of medicine, but that ian be acted upon in a tar more satisfactory manner by the HOLMAN REMEDIES (the Pad, Plasters and Medicated Foot Baths, known as absorption salt). It is also believed that there is NO disease that medicine can cure but that can ba cured more promptly and effectually by thia treatment. Certain It is that ilmes without number, discuss universally actnowledgad beyond the reach of medicine have melted away under the action ALONE of these remedies. And the work was done so quickly, with so little inconvenience to the patient, that in many casea the pain was gone before ho or she was aware. More than a million witnesses bear testimony to these statements. These are no Idle words or misrepresentations, but are susceptible of proof. In the name of hlumanty try them. The following are some of the many diseases the LIVER PAD CO. remedies will cure I Fever and Ague, Kidney Trebles, Billions Disorder, « Irregular AeUon ot tba Uvor Complaint, Heart, Intermittent Fever, Rheumatism, _ Periodical Headaches. AH' kinds ot Female Dyspepsia, Weaknesses, - Ague Cake, Wek Headache, CStB Fever, . ... Lumbago, Sciatica, —— Dumb Ague, PaininSlae,Back,BtomBillions and every kind of aeh, Shoulders and Fever. Muscles. J Karrhoea, Catarrh, Lassitude, sundlco, Neuralgia, Blllious Colic. Ail these have their Origin, directly «r Indirectly, In the Stomach and Liver. If you doubt It tend tor Dr. Falrchifd’s Lectures. Price, It. Special Pad, S 3. The Holman Pluters, Soot, by the pair, to cents; Body, to cents each. lodinated Foot Baths, IS esnts a package: els packages, 31.t0. It your druggist does not keep them, send price, either the money, postal order or registered letter, and all will be sent you by mall, tree of charge, except the salt, which is sent by express at the expense ot thepurchaaer. The following communications explain them*elves; CuasuDoa, lu. Meson. Batea * Hanley: • I have been wearing eno of the Holman Pads. It bu relieved me from complaints ot long standing, Improved my health wonderfully, and I feel like a new woman. I would nke to act as your agent In this city, and by so doing 1 believe I would carry happiness to nuodrods ot families. \ Tours truly, * . , - Mas. C. W. Cabtvb. Anoaa, lix.. May let, 1178. Gentlemen: .1 have been a crest sufferer with neuralgia in ttfe stomach, and also with dumb ague. Having spent thousands of dollars to get cured, but all to no purpose, until about the let ot March last 1 was induced to try one ot Holmans rads, which baa entirely cured me, and I am now engaged in selling these Peds, and doing all 1 csss to spread the glad nows ot this cure and induce others to try It, O- . Puom, HL. June, L Messrs. Betos * Hanley: 1 purchased one ot your Holman Pads for both my wi fe and mother, who were suffering with Biliousness, Constipation and Dyspepsia. Tbs Pad has completely cured them. Yours, J. Wunsn-an. . v— Piosrs, (1u..,) JVeaacrtpL Address either of the following oSoafs IS4 Madisoß St., Chle**o, 111. Mechanics Bloch, Detroit, Mich. Hall Block, Toledo, Ohio. -- Wlu.wuoktt St.; MiHtottikee, WIT. Beat’a Block, Minneapolis, Minn. HATJM A BANLXT; Apcssts for

Local Gleanings.

Special correspondence of Til* U«I»N. Wile Duvall '‘is daily expected back from Kansas. Fred. Switzer proposes to start a butcher shop soon. W. J. Imes will move into the house opposite the mill. It is not unpleasant to flirt with a flirt at a ball. Is it sin? Park. Wright and Frank Myers talk of studying medicine. R. Ralph has moved his shoe shop in with Justice Harding. Simon Phillips, Mrs. Crockett and Lizzie Comer are on the aick list. The new business rooms are not filling up with new stocks ot goods very rapidly. Isaac Lowman and his one price clothing store have gone to Peoria. May he succeed. Prof. Allen thinks some of commencing the study of law after the public school closes. The sheet and pillow case ball was a success. “They say” it was better than the masque ball.

A. W. Cleveland vacated Austin’s hotel last Monday and Rafe Hopkins at once took possession. We ought to elect a town board in the spring that would favor repairing the sidewalks and putting down n.ew ones where needed. Several physicians have thought the county medical work worth looking after and have filed propositions with the board for the work. The Sentiners “School Girl” missed the mark as to who is A. Dodger. Davy Crockett said he could always “tell when lie hit a b’ar by the way it »cratched.” The commissioners compliment Dr. Washburn very highly for the efficient manner in which he has performed the duties of county physician during the past year. No word of complaint has been uttered against him.

Pleasant Ridge.

Spacial correspondence of Tax Uniox. Pleasant Ridge, March 4. The fourth month of the Pleasant Ridge school closes thia week and teacher and pupils will enjoy a short vacation. Registered business is attended to promtly and a supply of stamped envelopes, postage stamps and postal cards are kept at the Pleasant Ridge post-office. A good many passengers get on and off the trains at this station and the railroad officials should notice that the depot is in a sad plight, needing repairing very badly. There should be a new foundation, new sides, new floor, new roof, new windows, new doors and several other new fixtures to make it comfortable and pleasant for the

traveling public.

A Good School Teacher.

For Tut Uniox. • Newton Township.—Mr. Paris, teacher es school No. 3, this town■f ship, is doing valuable work for the young minds of our district and neighborhood. He is not working for applause, but fur the good of his pupils and through them to benefit society. He is not like a young tree that is bent and twisted about by light puff's of wind, but has a mind of his own in regard to the duties of a true and faithful teacher which frivolous objections do not swerve. The end to be attained by the pupil is not only how to do a thing but to learn why it ought to be done and the benefits th at are to flow from it. When they see and understand for themsevles the general principles of a subject that knowledge is theirs and will ever remain theirs. It is not the teaeher that takes bis pupil over a great amount ofground that accomplishes most, but he that takes them thoroughly - and understandingly. The object is not to crowd young painds with the thoughts of others and meaningless words or names, but’it i« to teach them to think for themselves, and to present to them simple and practical examples to illustrate the. different facts, the words in the books not being sufficient far a clear and practical explanation to the child, By questioning his pupils ou the work passed over, their answers ebow whether they UTrdentwil'd ivoT »iw stiH-teft

in ignorance.

From Prof. Tioo’* National WoalAor Almanac. In th* tornado that cut an avenue through Canton, China, April 11th, 1878, by which over 9.000 houses were destroyed, and fully 10,000 inhabitanta ware killed, boats wert taken out of the Viver and carried far inland, one boat wa» let down upon the top of a boose, in tho tenth ward, outside of the storm’* track. In the Navnssoo tornado, September 11, 1875, a boat waa lifted out of the water and carried across the inland, which rises to a height in the centre of 80 feet above the lea; and a large rock, weighing at least twenty-five ton*, was lifted and is supposed to have been car ried into the sea, as it ha* not been seen or heard of since. In the Mount Carmel, tornado, Mr. Lewi* dolt’s new, unpainted frame house was seen to plunge into the clouds, and no fragment of it or its contents was ever found. In ths Cottonwood, tornado, of April 13 th, 1878, three houses at different point* in the track, were lifted over tho paling fences not torn down, by which they were surrounded, and sot down uninjured. In the great lowa tornado, a house standiug in a grove was lifted over the trees, The Richmond tornado furnishes a similar fact. Dr. Jacobs’s house was lifted over an ashleaved maple planted last spring, and about fifteen feet high, and over the standing posts of hi* fence, the palings being wrenched off. It tovgp carried southeast about sixty yard* and torn into fragments almost in the face of the storm which was moving north Person* who saw Dr. Jacobs’* house go, say that it leaped at least torty feet perpendicularly. Mr. Theodore Main, who from a distance saw Mr. R. E. Rrown’s dwelling leap into the cloud, say* it went up perpendicularly in an instant, and so high that a space of from forty to fifty feet below it and between it and the ridge of the Presbyterian church was visible for an instant, until the latter building vanished like a dream. In the Barrington, Ills., tornado, of May 23d, 1878, Mr. Henry Minnecke’g granary, in which were stored over 200 bushels of grain, was lifted over cherry trees without touching them, carried fully one hundred feet, anil dropped uninjured almost against his dwelling, which escaped with no other damage than the loss of a few shingles. The wings of Mrs. Riley’s house, in the Sioux City tornado, were jerked off, and her son in th* wing was hurled over the main building and over some trees beyond and let down unhurt. William Hollen, trying to drive liis cattle from the barn, was, with barn and cattle, snatched up in the air, and neither he nor his cattl* cr barn were ever heard of afterward. A boy in the same neighborhood, driving home cattle, wat caught up by the tornado and was never found.

On the 3d of July, 1873, a farmer at Avon, I I*., who fled for safety to a barn, to escape tornado, was bewildered and astonished to find that the barn had vanished and that the tornado had disappeared with it. On the 27th of April, 1877, at Lake City, Indiana, a farmer fleeing to his bouse to warn his family of an approaching tornado, finding it upon his heels when he got there, seized his child l standing in the door, ran to a tree in front of the house, threw his arm around it, but caught nothing, for the tree, torn up by the roots, and the tornado had both vanished, leaving him. standing in a calm atmosphere with hi* child in his arms. The tree was seen iu great aerial circles sweeping around th* cloud-spout. In Cook county, Ills., about ten years ago, a tornado sweeping -over the prairie, scooped out a trench in the soil, from a foot to eighteen inches in depth, and tore up a boulder, fully ten inches under th* soil, weighing about 250 pounds, and carried it 100 yards. In the Mt. Carmel tornado, •the upper and under blocks of th* northwest corner of Mr. Stein's stable were shot' out. Each was a foot in diameter and fourteen inches long. The top of the upper was even with the soil, the lower end of the under wa» therefore twenty-eight inches below the soil. The upper was not carried exeee ling thirty feet;, the under one never was found. The extraordinary lifting force of tornado** is a fact as old as history, as old as tradition even, as the following instances showfl) The lifting of * gun—a 12 pounder —and carrying it a distance of 140 yards, by tho terrible cyclone that occurred in Barbados* on the tenth of October, 1780, by which 4,320 personslost their lives', and in which fifteen men-of-war belonging to th* British navy, carrying 472 guns, w*r* wrecked and destroyed. (2) Theliftingof apiece Of lead, Weighing 4,000 lbs., and carrying it 1,800 feet, by the great cyclone of Augnst 10, 1881, in Barbadoes. by which over 2,500 perrons were killed and three times,|batnuni-> ber were wounded. ' 1 ' (3) The lifting of a solid piece of iron, weighing over 800 lbs , and carrying it from the center of Fort Jefferson, Tortugas, 200 yards over the parapet, by the cyelon* of October 5, 1873, vouched for by Col. Langdon, the commander of the post. (4) The lifting out of the ground of a reck, estimated to weigh over 18,000 lbs., exposed to the wind from, five to seven inches on one side only,, ahd carrying it some distance, which was done by the great tornado of Georgia and South Carolina of March 20, 1871. (5) Theliftingof a locomotive, weighting thirty tons, carrying it seventy feet and setting it down right side up in a pond near by, which occurred at the terminus of Toledo, Wabash and Western railway, at East St. Louis. March Bth, 1871. (6) The instant arrestation of a passenger train—moving at the tate of twenty - five miles an hour—and everything ini it, so as neither to throw passenger* or anything forward; —lifting it from the rail and letting it down on emb*nkment,"cau*ing it to turn over on it* side, wbieh happened on the 6th of Muy, 1876, in a tornado on the Illinois Central railway, between Mattoon aud M eoga. The same feat was repeated with the express train on the Cincinnati, Lafayette a “d Chicago railway, near Kankakee, Illinois, on June 26th, 1877. ' The train had ten care filled with passengers. The lifting phenomena of tornadoes must have been a fact well known to the ancient*; at least this is an inference from what Aristotle say* of aerolites. He account* for them “a* being stone* taken up by whirlwinds and carried a great distance.’’ The wind theory of tornadoes hence is perceived to be an old dogma. If it did not originate with Aristotle, it waa at least held by him, Though our scholastic* can give ao valid reason “for the faith that ia in them,’’ they have the highest scientific authority of anfiquity for bolding it. We'may accuse them of being wilfully deaf and blind to th* teaching* of nature; l>utdneihing wecannot do: we cannot call into question their orthodoxy; because, we seq tuat for X&'X) they have, kept the faith in ito purity a* delivered tt> them by the great Stagarite. ""

ARTFUL DODGER.

P. M.

F. S. T.

The Power of Tornadoes.

More and Better Work in Jasper.

• Editor UnionJ—Weuld it not bethought • hard government that would tax its poopis one-tenth part of their time io be employed tn its service? But idleness taxes many of du much more, and sloth, by bringing on disense, shortens life. “Sloth, like ru»t,’ r says the proverb, “consumes faster than labor' Wears, while the used key is always bright.’’ .And again the proverb asks, “dost thon love life, than do not squander time, sos tlrat is the thing that life is made of?’ HoW rifffcft tn ore time than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that tbe sleepy fox catches no geese or ducks, and there will be sleeping enough when our work is done, ts time of all things be the most precious, waiting time must be, as is said, the greatest prodigality, since, as we are again told, lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough always proves little enough. Let us be up and doing, and be doihgtothepurpdse.BbbydutgfellCF shall we do more with less complaining. Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry makes everything easy. It is an old saying thut "he that riseth late must ran all day and shall scaree overtake bis bust' nets at night,” and again that ’’laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.” Drive thy business; let not thy business drive thee. What is the use of wishing and hoping for better times? We may make the times better if we more ana better work. As it has been said, the industrious man will not stand and wish, and he that lives upon hope alone will always be fasting. There are no gains without some pain. Then let the poor man say, ‘‘help, hands and feet, for 1 have no lands.” Let me say to him that “he that hath a trade hath an estate, and he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor.” But then the trade must bo worked at and the calling well followed or neither the estate or the office will keep us from want. If we are industrious we shall never starve. The promise is “the willing and obedient shall eat of the good of the land,” It has been well said that at the workman's house hunger looks in but dares not enter, for industry pays debts while idleness increases them. Though you have found nd treasure, and no rich relative has left you a legacy, is not industry the mother of luck? God adds to those who are iuduslrious. Then “plow deep while sluggards sleep and you will h ive corn to sell and some to keep.” ■ Work while it is called day, for you know not how much you may be hindered to-mor-row. “Why stand ye here all the day idle?” S» handle tour tools without mittens. Remember that a cat in gloves catches no mice. True there is much to be done and perphaps no one to help. We need courage. UNinth Brethren.

Ronsselaer Public Schools.

The report of the Rensselaer public schools for the month ending February 29th, 1879, shows the enrollment of 227 pupils. Average attendance 200. Per cent, of attendance 88, of punctuality 99, of conduct 91, of study 99. Number of pupils strictly punctual 140; number observing good conduct 155; number observing rules for study 211. Number of cases of absence excused by superintendent 6! number of cases excused by teachers 154; total 160. The pupils whose record is 3 are as follow?: Pkimaby A. —Cora Catt, Gertie Clark, Rebecca Fendig, Grant Warner, Nellie Hopkins, Albert Hutaon, Allie Watt Hopkins, Jennie Murray—9.Pbimaby B.—Arnzie Beck, Lee Catt, Birdie Hammond, Lucy Healy, Eva Harding, Inez Hutson, Crilly Hutson, John Halloran, Nelly Kelly, Simon Leopold, George Moss, George Miuikus, Charley Platt, Charlie Rhoads, Mary Spitler, Birdie Spitler, Dallas fi>rren, Walter Willey, Bion Zimmerman, Harry Zimmmerman, Gracie Reeve, Roily Grant—22. Intekmkihatk.—Leslie Clark, Gaylord Chilcote, Carrie Eger, Mary Beck, Callie Beck, Minnie Norris—6. Grammar School.—Louisa Platt, Tillie Fendig, Mary Healy. May Washburn, Melvin Larue, Elden Hopkins, Valentine Seib, Fred. Chilcote, Lewis Champena, J elm Berk—lo. High School.—Arilla Cotton, Anna Lamson, Lola Moss, Ella Osborne, Alice Rhoads, Clara Reeve, Ora Thompson, Elmer Dwiggins, Louis Holliagsworth. Lilli* Alter, Lulu Hammond, Minnie Phillips, Nellie Spiller, Emma Wigmore, Homer Hopkins, James Erwin—l 6, The names oC'Neilie and Charles Spitler were omitted, through mistake, from the list of pupils who were perfect last menth.

School Work for the Fais.

Superintendent Snoddy has called upon the teachers and pupils of the Jasper coilnty school* to contribute material for an educational display at the fairs of this and other fairs this year. The work is so classified and graded that every pupil, no matter of what age or advancement, can readily make contributions. Tho work already received guarantees the success of the enterprise. The tmiform work embrace* map* of school-room*, county and stat*, in geography; language lessons in primary grades; letter-writing and sentential analysis in advanced grades; in arithmetic, solution* and proposition* in all grades; and in miscellaneous work, drawing designs, original essays, and any material which the taste of teachers and pupil* may enable them to contribute. Jasper 'county was the first county in the state to begin the work of grading her district schools; wat the'first to establish an uniform daily programme; arid is the first to attempt a uniform educational display of this character, and it is thought this display will prove that systematic gradation and teaehing in her schools is not inferior to those of any county in the suite, w oven in tho union.

The Plymouth, Kankakee, & Pacific Railroad.

From the Plymouth DemocratIt is rumored that negotiations are pending looking te the purchase of the Ply* mouth, Kankakee & Pacific railroad by the Pittsburgh, Ft. Wayne & Chicago railroad company. The P., K. & P. road was in eourso of construction In 1878, When the panic struck the country, paralysing the country, and coming, when it did, before the iron had been laid ddwn, work was suspended on the road, after it had been graded almost the entire line and many of the bridges built. The organisation has been maintained, but no effort has been made to complete the road since the panic. This io an. important Hue, being about one hundred miles in lengOb, and {fanning through a country sadly in need of a railroad, the local trade of which would doubtless make it a paying road from the Mart; besides it would shtn-ten the distance to the east for Illinoia shippore very Bgateriallv, Should the negotiators be successful, the will, be. completedlffiUßSdlatelyami operated by the Pittsburgh, Ff, wsynes Chicago road. . . 1

NUMBER 25.

Thiatrical.—The theatrical entertain-' ment given by .the Rensselaer Dramatic Club, Saturday night last, was creditable' to the actors and to the manager—to aV who were connected with it. The several* parts evidently had been studied with care; and each did his beet to succeed. They did succeed, too, in giving an entertain--ment quite worthy of themselves and pleasing to their fair sined house. Wsatheb.—This latitude has been visited with an assortment of weather during the past ten days, out of whieh every per--son ought to be able to select something' agreeable to himself. To-day is Just splendid. His a magnificent spring day, cloudless, warm, a deep purple blush pet--vading the air which is-resonant with thesongs and twitter of sparrows, blue birds’ and robins. It is happiness to live and* move amid such conditions.

The republ’can state central committeemet in Indianapolis on the 4th. All thee members were present creep* Mr. William Armstrong, of the second district. Bon. John O. New was electe d a member of the committee to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge S<>l. Blair, chairmen of the committee, and member for the seventh district. Mr. New was afterward elected chairman of the committee. Messrs Bay low, Dwdlejt and Gray were.appointed a committee «o draft reeolulions in* memory of Judge Blair. There was no* further business of » public nature befi re i the tweeting, Some discussion of tl • ‘ political - TrfricMlow fbltowetf the tion, awd* the committee adjourued,fr „ ' 9 ** . ,w<S , ' '.I;

ADvnruue ms nam SKM? » BI Fracttennl parts of wyenr, MapmiMlMtM Business rarfla no* oaee*ltag SSMnMßS**** |*a rear, I; for six Months, * tor three AH total notices and advMlesMMlb, nt *o* tSMfshed statute price. Reading notlrwe, fleet publication donate • line, each publication thereafter loedts al*** read/ advcrMflMUflnie are subjejl to JKM cMfngeS/one change la three «wnWf,if B< Jtnfftr cAuntv Mflst be paid rot Ifi sdvaaoo eg flfjfi publication. When less than oao-qaarte* ooltifcn le else; a*4R«art<*>y madeaaaeVrlMß larglt.

Gtf to fihvtoirt sfofa {of fever aflrf Agoe Care, wafmMaA The Uttfa Opera cigaf still tat* A* feed, sos sfil* only M ItaMtift store. Jon Fa inti Jia 1 neatly, cheaply afl4 promptly dona trf James & Cisee), pot* prietors of Ths Umw» office. Tbs World's Coan, the gf*t fisffiotff and sore effre for rheumatism, for sal* only at Etnfnef Kannal’s drug store. Snow.—Quite twelve inches of eno w felt fit the storm last Sunday. It has sine* ttielted and the road* have fllo&iiolly consistency. Try Kannal’s Worm Lozenges— ifcdjf never fail, are pleasafit and agreeable take—children cry for them. Only 20* cents a box. Binding.—Persons having magazines of books to bind, will pleaeeonll at Kannal’s drug store. All work done in l gobd st/S* and loir rates. Jfafpft. boot ntWf flbodflwMfcef? has moved into the' office of Justice K. T - .- Hording, one door below A. SfcCoy AThompson's bank. Obwix, the jeweler, will sell a goo<# stem-winder watch for SIS’. It is a fin* movement, good timer, warranted in ever/ respect to be just as represented. Leo Broken. —Michael Shultz, of Unioff township, bad a leg fractured in two places yesterday, by the falling of a rail upon him. The surgeon reporta it a bad dttifr Want a Change.—A petition fs b*ing circulated for signatures asking the removal of George Sigler and the appointment of W. S. Orwin, as postmaster at Bensaelaer? Ball Invitations.—Jam* & CMbef, proprietors of Thk Union and job printers, have a new invoice of ball invitation paper. The latest and neatest thing out in tbir line. A Partnership.—Mervia 0. Cissel bad been admitted to an equal partnership in the business of Tux Union newspaper and jotr printing office, to date from the third da/ of March, 1879. Arrears or Pensions.—Persons entitled

to arrears of pensions under the late act of Cvngress, can seenre early action upon their’ claims by making application through Frank W. Babcock, Skunk Oil, the most valuable remedy now in use for the speedy cure of whoop-' ing cough, sore tbroal and lung trouble—* pure article of this valuable aft fat Ml* at Kannal’s drug stofif. Ir you would see something that will do' your eyes good, call at Leopold’s and lookthrough his stock of calicos and dree* goods. Yoh will surely find something t<r suit in quality and price. A. Leopold is not wiped out yet, but at the contrary has just received a new supply qfelothing, dry goods, boots and shoe* which he will sell cheaper for cask than any other house that pretends to sell cheap’ ever sold such goods. Commissioners are in session. But Sow' ever wise and prudent they - will find it im-' possible to please everybody. Neither Al* mighty God nor his amiable Son have done* this, though the source of wisdom and 1 clothed with omnipotence. If there is to be found a larger, better of cheaper slock of hats for men, boys Of children than at Leopold’s, we would liter to be informed where the place is. Leopold's goods are cheaper than we ever saw articles similar in quality sold. I have a fine lot of boots and sJtofls’. just bought, which I will sell for less 1 prices than any other house, for the simple-' reason that they were bought for cash an* must be sold for cash. An examination' will convince unprejudiced people of the’ truth of this statement. Call and > rate money. A. Leopold. Men’s nice business suits for |5 to |7/ boys* suits $3 to $5; men’s all wool suits $lO to sls, and all other goods in proportion. Come with your cash and save ftoi* 20 to 25 per cent. All goods warranted U represented. Call and examine and convince yourselves. A. Leopold, at thebrown stone front. ** ‘

Meeting of the State Cential Committee.