Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1879 — Local Gleanings. [ARTICLE]

Local Gleanings.

Specht! correaponrfawM ft Tib Let as go to the postofilce ahd Seo oar girls. R. Ralph has moved Into Elder Halstead’s property. W. S. Orwin went to Logansport, last Monday, to visit hie parent*. A grandchild of Holdridge Clark's is very sick at hi* residence. Ezra C. Newels has received the lumber for his new house and barn. John L. Makeever is studying law nt home during hi* spare hours. Fishing on Sunday Is pleasant pastime, no doubt, but is it elevating? Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Willis rejoice because unto them is born • daughter. John Lewis is building a frame dwelling near Haste's mill, ii}Bavk- . ey township. Spring, bluebirds, robins, wild geese and ducks. The next will be mosquitoes and fleas. Phos. W. Moore, of Royal Cerf' ter, Cass County, has commenced the stady of medicine with Dr* W ashbarn. Silas Swain proposes to hunt < bonanza In' Colorado, this spring. The girls will miss his fine buggy and fast horses. Horace E. James, Postmaster, Rensselaer, Indiana. That will look well and sound well. Mr. Editor, may you live long and prosper.

It does not sound well for • young man not three months married to call his wife “the old woman.” It is a thoughtless vulgarity that neither old nor young should indulge h»< Dcn’t say nauj£hty things abont young ladies. The new libel law makes malicious libel a crime punishable by fine and imprisonment. Go slow. The state’s attorney will prosecute malicious libel after thia. Said a young lady not long since “If some of the young men do not quit getting drunk at the dance* I’ll not go to them.” She is right, but, then we thought the parent* weal with their children to place* of amusement!! Alfred Hoover has the best kept farm in Jasper county. Every -farmer might buildings, out-houses, fences and fields if he would try. The boys would like home better were the farms made as attractive as the saloons, office* and" stores in the cities and town* ' generally are. The county commissioners employed Shelby Grant to superintend the poor farm. They propose to have all the paupers taken there to be cared for. Mr. Grant had the farm leased theretofore and boarded the paupers. The new arrangement will Certainly be the cheapest method of caring for the wards of the county. A. Dodgkb.