Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1879 — Page 1

■OOAOB B. JXMBB. MBBVIN O.OIS<XL * CIIIKt, rBOFBIBTOM or THE BBNBBKLAER UNION, BaMIMLABB, JABFBB Oot-KTT, 188. •mAUMmZm. Bltiale o»1»y. *— u < tw ” “’V' >M,« M»U| more thy a two eeptea,»<*»“ a d TKurrsiira site corner of this page for term* and price of ddrartlalng in thia newspaper. JOB PRIXTIXO—b. large assortment of

W. H. & C. Rhoades OPEN FOR THE SPRING TRADE. greatlreduction IJST HZA-HISrESS. All goods in our line reduced from 20 to •26 per cent./or cash only. A GOOD SEWING MACHING FOR $25. Needles, Machine Extras, etc., always on hand. Also an extensive stock of Saddles, Bridles, Whips, Trunks, Valises, Saddlery Hardware, Leather Findings, Collars, Brushes and Combs. CARRIAGE TRIMMING and leather repairing a specialty. New Shop and Sales Room south side of Washington street, Rensselaer, Indiana. TTEW HARDWARE STORE JUST OPENED! Be it known that Ezra L. Clark has just opened a Hardware Store in Shanghai Building, Rensselaer, Indiana, and will keep constantly in stock a full lino of HARDWARE, TINWARE, WOODENWARE, Carpenters’ Tools, Table and , Pocket Cutlery, Silver ware, Revolvers, Ammunition of all kinds, -W a -p.-ar .AJsTX) <3-ATRCTEir EOKSTOB and everything else usually found in a first-class Hardware Store. All goods sold at LOWEST CASH PRICES. Parties wishing anything in my lino will do well to call, examine gOods and learn prices. 'E. L. CLARK. Just Received A. S. LA RUE Has just received and has now on exhibition at his place of business in Leopold's Corner, opposite A. McCoy and Thompson's bank, a largo 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, Queensware, Canned Fruits, Nuts. Stationery, etc. Give him a call. GEORGE GRAUEL, Maker of agd Dealer in HARNESS, SADDLES, Bridles, Whips, Blankets, Ac. Repairing Done Promptly. Front Street, below Washington. LESLIE C. GRANT, ’BLACKSMITH. Shop at Terhune's old stand on Front street. All work warranted. Call. stovbss< Office, Parlor and Kitchen STOVES, Wood and Coal Burners, KITCHEN RANGES, For Wood or Coal Burning, Kitchen Hardware, TINWARE, &c„ At CHILDERS’S. Tin Work a Specialty. * . -f is Bologna Sansage, lard, Fresh Meat. Bologna Sausage Hi cts per lb. Pork “♦* « “ “ Colce Leaf Lard « “ •• Pork Steak 4to 6 “ “ Best eleef Steak 7 “ ** Fore Quarter “ 6 “ “ Choice Roasts 6 '• “ Bolling Pieces 3, 4 «• w : BEDFORD &. SHARP>B ’ New Neat Store. FITZ W. BEDFORD in ACtIIttLTIIHAL ■ BPittm Threshers, Reapers, Mowers, Rakes. Eagle Cultivators nud Harrows. The celebrated Furst 4 Bradley, Jones and Olllver Chilled Plows. NEWTON WAGONS AND BUGGIES. Riding and Walking Cultivators. Bfawn Corn Planters. All kinds of Field, Garden, Barn and Stable implements. Farm Hardware. VICTOR SOATiTO For Hay, Cattle and Railroad Tracks. Field and Carden Seeds In bulk or by the-amall package. Farm and Garden. Products sold at retail. Ons door above “RhasghaL”

THE RENSSELAER UNION.

VOLUME IL

SILVER WANTED. EMMET KANNAL, DRUGGIST & PHARMACEUTIST, RENSSELAER, INDIANA. ’ S ure Drag ß ! Medicine* Oils Paints, Varnishes* Brushes Jumps’ Lamp Chimney* Car bon Oil Guaranteed 150 Fire Test. Blank Books. Stationery. Albums, Fancy and Toilet Articles, Perfhmeries, Soaps, Ac PINE CONFECTIONERY. Strictly Pure IVines and Liquorfc FOR MEDICINAL/PURPOSES- ■ • CHOICE CIGARS. SMOKIMG AND CHEWING TOBACCOS. Fully prepared to furnish the public with everything usually found in hie line, at prices as low as any house in Jasper county. Thanking patrons for their favors he would still ask a share of patronage, feeling of bis ability te give satisfaction in all cases. Physicians' Praaoriptioni and family Recipes Carefully Compounded. W. J. I M RS, DEALER IN School Books, Blank Books, Stationery, Drugs, MEDICINES, Paints, Oils, "Varnishes, CHEMICALS, TOILET ARTICLES, PERFUMERY, PATENT MEDIIJINRS, RKADt'-MIXRD Pllffl, ; . . ■' ■ r ■; - ; - Brushes, Lamps, Wall Paper, Window Shades, FINE WINES AND PURE LIQUORS, Strictly for Medical Purposes, CONFECTIONERY, <ScC. This stock of goods in all departmenbi. ls fresh. pure and first-class. Thu* .. Is none better in the market. In addition to the above enumeration, a fui upply is kept of Slates, Pencils, Crayoua. Pens, Ink, Fine Writing Paper, Envelopes, Lead Pencils, Eraaeis for pencil and ink. and all articles pertainIng to the-fitationery Line, STOP YOUR CRYING! ' I -• • ■ —-I . . THE NARROW GAUGE - CLOTHING HOUSE Is again open for business with a splendid stock of CLOTHING AND GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS on nand and more coniing. We want it understood that we propose to take the lead with our goods and prices. We are the only ; EXCLUSIVE CLOTHING HOUSE in Jasper county, and expect to sell stylish and well made Clothing at a Saving of 15 to 20 per cent. Having had an experience of nearly 18 years in the business and not handling any other line of goods, we are enabled to .buy direct ftom the manufacturers at less prices man those who carry a little of everything. C ALL .IN AND SEE VS, And remember, we are ready to show goods and prices that will induce you to buy. HONEST AND GENTLEMANLY DEALING Is the Motto ot S TEE IEI lIE Mi ®l, Hsmphill Building,

RENSSELAER, JASPER 00TOTT, INDIANA, APRIL 24,1879.

tn gu*u, mai.b. , n-soy HARPER W. SNYDER, Attorney at Law, REMINGTON, Jasper County, Indiana. Dr. G. A MOSS, Physician and Surgeon, a In Spitler’s Brick Building, Opposite Court House, Rensselaer. Dr. J. H, LOUGHRIDGE, 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, PHYSICIAN and rvbgson, At W. J. Imei'i Drug Store. DR. 0. 0. LINK, HOMEOPATHIST. office In Austin's Hotel, Rensselaer, Ind. MORDECAI F. CHILCOTE, Attorney .at Law, Rensselaer, Indiana, Attends to ail Business of the Profession with promptness and despatch. Office on W ashington Street, opposite the Court HouseSimon P. Thompson, David;!. Thompson A ttomay at Lav. .Votary Publie. THOMPSON 4 BRO., Attorneys at Law, Rensselaer, Indiana, Practice in all the Courts. We pay particularattention to paying taxes, selling and leasing lands. . BKABIOX X,. SPITLER. Collector and Abstracter. R. S. DWIGGINS. XIMRI DWIGGINS. R. 8. fc Z. DWIGGINS, Attorneys at Law AND LOAN BROKERS. One Hundred Thousand Dollars to Loan on first mortgage, on five years time, nt nine per cent, interest, in sums of S3OO or over. FRANK W. BABCOCK, Attorney at Law And Real Estate Broker. Practices in all Courts of Jasper, Newton and Benton counties. Laiidsexatnined. Abstracts of Title prepared. Taxes paid. Collections a specialty. Daniel B. Miller. Jsmes W. Douthit MILLER & DOUTHIT, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Notaries Public and Collectors. Ditch and road petitions and reports carefully prepared, titles examined, abstracts made, collections cWHnptly attended to. Office in Starr’s Building, up-stairs, third door. IRA W. YEOMAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW Notary Public, Beal Estate, Collection & Ins. Agent. All legal instruments carefully written. Office over Narrow Gauge Store. >_, • A. McCOY ft THOMPSON, BANKERS AND CATTLE BROKERS, Buy and sell domestic exchange, mase collections on all available points, pay Interest on specified time deposits, etc. Hours from 9 o’clock a. m. to 4 o’clock p. m. R. A Dwiggiaa, Zlmri Dwiggini, Praa’t. Cathitr. Citizens’ Baiik, RrXSStLAXR, IXDIAXA. Doe* » general banking business gives-special attention to collections; remittances nisdc <>u da, of payment at current rate of exchange; intsreat paid rm balances; certificates bearing in tores t issued; exchange Itought and wild. This bank own» the burglar safe, which took the premium st the Chicago Exposition in IS7B. This safe Is protected by one of Sergent’s time locks. The bank vault used la as good as can be built. It will be seen from the foregoing that thia bank furnishes as good security to depositors as can bo furnished.' 4, GROCERIES, Cigars, Tobacco, tWiroiWT, M. ran DOOR ABOVI ACTTIM’D HOTKL. J X..

A Faib -Abo-dt the middle nr latter part of neat September the breeders of good horses, improved cattle, fine hogs, thoroughbred sheep, big chickens, large turkeys, the growers of enormous corn, splendid apples, grapes, pens',' of large onions, of nice potatoes, of the thousand good and fine articles that farms and gardens and orchards produce—we say that about the middle of September the people who own such things as these in Jasper county will want a fair where they can exhibit thinn and receive premiums. But Just about that time, unless they take a little more interest now in preparing for an exhibition, they will discover that there is no fair. Farmers, and farmers more than any other class in cornmu" nity, are directly interested in fostering agricultural societies. Tbe Jasptr County Agricultural & Mechanical Association will never hold another fair unless some prompt measures are decided upon to relieve the society of Its embarrassment. It is hopelessly in debt, and its creditors are clamorous for their pay. a—,,. , , Decoration.—Tbe Old Thirteen will meet at Judge Hammond’s residence nekt Tuesday evening to make arrangements for tl>e disposition of the unexpended balance of funds in their treasury for the purpose ofassistdng in the decoration of soldiers’ graves in Weston cemetery. By the way, this announcement recalls the circular of Quartermaster General Meigs coucermng headstones to be furnished by the government to mark the graves of patriots of the war of the rebellion. Somebody ought to report all the facts to tlie Quartermaster General, as it cost nothing except perhaps a little time and three or six cents postageinsignificant indeed compared with the great sacrifice of those whose remains are unmarked in the midst of the people whose country they yielded up their lives to preserve. Tit eyh reconiTiTg.Fat h erAb raha tn, three hundred thousand more- The colored man and brother is coming up out of the wilderness of oppression in the south, and the next presidential election will show a solid north for the republican party. That’s ail. gentlemen democrats; and it is the natural inevitable result of your persistent perversity and narrow, illiberal, shortsighted policy. The Laporte Argus, one of the best couutry journals that reaches this office, celebrated its tenth anniversary last week.

A “Tidal Wavs” of Popular Favor

Seems to have struck Scribner’s Monthly. The increase in during the past six months has been nearly twenty thousand copies, and the edition in England has doubled. Thu May issue (95,000) contains thirty-three articles and departments, nhibhg tlreffl an account of “The New Museum in Rome,’’ Wilhelmj and Remenyi, A Day on the New York Docks, the first part of Adeline Trafion’s story, a capita 1 ! installment of “Haworth’s,” &c., &0.. with the first of “The Brazil Papers,” which have been so long in preparation. In order to give new subscribers the opening chapters of Mrs. Burnett’s great novel, “Haworth’s,” the publishers offer, or any dealer will supply, the bound Volume XVII in the new and elegant olive-green embossed covers (instead of the unbound numbers) for the past six mouths, without charge; that is, for $4.00 will be sent Volume XVII bound, and a six months’ subscription (May ’79 to October ’79 inclusive), with four frontispiece portraits of Longfellow, Emerson, Holmes and Whittier. Scriunxr & Co., 743 Broadway, N. Y.

In the Spring.

In the Spring the female fancy Lightly turns io thoughts of bonnet, With a maxe of gimp and ribbons And a bunch of feathers on it. —Fatherless. And they rush, a stream of beauty, Maidens gay and stately matrons, Round the corners ceaseless flowing— Witching tide of mill’ners’ patrons! ’ f: » On it flows to Mrs. Price's, On to Lulu’s over tmeses, On to Boroughs’, on to Rothrock’s! — Spending nickles, scat'ring ditnea-es! Dimes loom up to many dollars, And those ladies never chalk it!— Gimp and ribbons, lace and feathers, Sap the purse and drain the pocket! Then, kind husbands, fathers, brothers, Brace ye up—'tis gallant duty— Pay the bills without a murmur— Rightful tribute unto beauty.

American Medical Assoeiation.-Excursion Rates to Atlanta, Ga.

Tbe A tri tsriean Medical Association will meet in Atlanta, Oa., on May 6tb, 1879. Members of the medical profession desiring to attend oan procure excursion tickets via the “Pan-Handle Route,” good going any time from May Ist tu 6th, and to return until May 20th, 1879. Sleeping oars rj)O through to Louisville via Pan-Handle Route without change. All express trains fer the South, with through sleeping care attached, arrive at •nd depart from tbe depot of the PauHandle Route at Cincinnati.. .■..■Dxdeni„for..ft>.9ur»tob tickets will be furnished upon application to W. L. ’OknYttyr, ■ General Passenger Agent, No. 219 North High street, Columbus, 0. ' \

NUMBER 33.

Close of School-Programme of Exercised.

Friday afternoon, April 26th.— Class drill*, declamations, paper*, speeebes, detain and singing. All departments of the 'School will oontributo. Friday night, April 26th.—Pupil* of the Grammar school, and Junior class High school, selected to represnnt their respective clnrses, will give on entertainment consisting of declamations, debates, essay* and speeches. satvbday xfouT. 1. Now We Are as Good as Any, Mu* Ol’Je Alter. Music. 2. American Literature, Miss Madge Hemphill. 3. The Atmosphere— Experiments, Victor Loughridge. Music. 4. PositiOM for the Worthy. Miss Lola Mods. 5. Puritans—The Noblest Aneestry, JAIm Hattie Coan. 6. What Makes a State! Miss Ella Osborne, r • Music.. ~ ; <<•. .•u.ca! 7. What America has Dons for the World, Miss Belle Alter. 8. The Habeas Corpus Act, William E. Moss. Music, 9. Caleimining, Miss Mattie McCoy. ~ID. Progress of U. 8-. in Practical Science, Delos Thompson. Music. 11. The Women of America,’* Mbs Letta Hopkin*. 12. The North and the South, Louis HoßingsWortb. 13. Scholarship and Country, Miss Or* Thompson. Music.

The I. D. & C. R. R—Its Improved Prospects.

From the Delphi Tim". The Time* has heretofore given a brief resume of the relation* existing between the narrow gauge railroad and the taxpayers of Deer Creek township. It ia well known that a subsidy of 5*21,000 was years ago voted by the people of this township to secure the construction of a railroad from ludianapolis to Chicago. A large portion of this tax has been paid, and is now .in the treasury, Owing to the peculiar construction of the law, this moneycwMnotb* made available until the road w** finished through the township. The contractors desired that it should be paid when the rond was completed to Delphi. In this desire they were seconded by a large proportion of the taxpayers of the township, who intelligently reasoned that the three or four miles south from here to an adjoining township line, which under a strict construction of the law would have to be laid, before the money could be pail, would be entirely useless—of no possible benefit to the people of Deer Creek township. As a result, petitions praying the county commissioners co direct the payment of this tax as soon as the read was completed to Delphi were put into circulation and received the signatures of nine-tonths of the taxpayers. These were presented to the commissioners at their March term, but owing to the absence of one of the board no action was taken. Last week, at a special session, the matter was again considered. Messrs. Hoss, of Logansport, Pollard and Yeoman argued tbe question for the people, and after an extended consideration of a day and a half, tbe commissioners directed, by a unanimous vote, that the money should be paid to the builders of tbe road when the car* were run into the city of Delphi. It would be useless to attempt a description of the joy fell by our citiseninger thjs decision. For twelve long, the people of Delphi have prayed and worked, hoped and prayed for this road, and this order places the line within our grasp. We have the assurance of Colonel Veoman that track layiug this side of Monticello will begin just as soon as some minor details are arranged. He reiterated tbe assertion before made that within fifteen days from the time the first spike is drivon this side of the Tippecanoe river the cars wi'l be running into Pittsburg. The bridge will be finished about the Ist of June, and by tbe 15th of the same month the car* will be running into Delphi. The eitixens of Delphi can make their arrangements for the jubilee with their eyes upon that date. We will all rejoice, and sing with unction of genuine fervor and thankfulness: "Tills is the way we long have sought. And mourned because we found it not.”

Pictorial History of the World.

The school law by making the history of the United States one of the common school branches, promotes this study, which is of the greatest importance considering the character of oar political institutions. The law does this because such knowledge is deemed necessary to the proper exercise of citizenship in a free country. This is Well, but comparison is of the greatest importance in historical studies. The value of our'knowledge of American history is greatly increased by its possessors being able to compare our struggle for freedom with the struggles of other nations and peoples; by being able to compare the wisdom of our country’s founders with that of the founders of the nations which have grown and decayed in the past; by being able to compare our political institutions With those of other civilized nations; by being able to compare the disinterested devotion of our patriots with that of other heroes of the past and present; by being able to compare the plans presented by our statesmen for the perfection and perpetuity of our freedom with the plans proposed sin other periods and countries. A certain amount" Of such knowledge is almost indispensable to the American citizens, but time will not allow the study of whole libraries. It can only be obtained in practical form in some standard outline of general history. Nor ban 1 well see how the teacher can properly elucidate the brief statements of our local history without some knowledge of general history and the possession of wine standard outline as a book of reference. After a perusal of the prospectus of ‘•The Pictorial History of the World,’’ for which Mr. W. 8. Beery is agent for Jasper county, I can frankly commend it to teachers, advanced pupih and citizens generally as a work well fitted to supply the much needed knowledge of other times and peoples of the world. J. 11. Snopdy. A LaPorle man recently took a cargo of 1,000 live hogs to Europe. An eel two feet eight inches long, weighing three pouuds, was caught in the Tippecanoe river at Monticello, one day last week. Judge Adams of the Indianapolis circuit court, it is announced, on Friday last rendered a decision in favorof Murdock in the matter of tlio contest for the office of warden of-tho Michigan An appeal was immediately taken by Mr. Mayne.

Headln* notice*, fiiwt MMfaatlo* • MMH option of thiadveilGcr, free of ertra Synge. Jaspertf^n'art vena* w OrM puhltestloa. When We* NMa j»«****rtW column In st**-, aMoartorly la advamawbMt

Lady Gallant

Special Cjmupswrtiais, tg-VawnMiM.. Tret out your tickets'Arr the lowa eta** lion, Sheriff BoHnsmi «i»*» z witt*trtd chain, 1 Granville Moody and his into ohiUtrt are itch, T. M. Jones has moved into Jfatn. Wood’s brick house, In all probability th* new hotel *lll b* fitted up Coot,, The boy isl Jofdflfl township who Wsf stabbed has recovered. DoWt say anything about fnHitrg in tho fiver to Jones, the tailor. fiwitxer, th* butcher, baa oloeed Ms usSat store because it did not pay. Too* M*Coy ha* a new puny, ft looks like port mole and port kansnroo. * Mrs.*fffamfflofld has added a eotndt and violin to her musical Instruments. Mrs. Cody, of Hanging Grove township, is dangerously ill of heart drseaMb Bedford & Sharp have a new refrigerator in thsir meat shop. It cost about *2o*. The Odd Fellows have been Invited ter celebrate at Bradford on the 26th instant. The violinist* are now trying to execute '• Drunken Bill's” waltt. They succeed admirably. The masons are talking up an excursion to Monticello and Delphi, St, John’s Day, or June 24th. Mrs, Cavin and Mrs. Cooter, of tfnforf township, have both been vary sick for several weeks. Tom Moore says every other young fsP law aTotind Rensselaer is a fiddler and Jte Abbett is the boss. Riley Warren, of New toss township, has sold bis farm to M, Halstend and. Will ntotrto Kansas totm. ’ _ Thomas Manttelt did a good act when he drained the mud holes in the rond between his residence and town. > Judging from the fiuufbcr of gold Watches Orwin has sold recently, times are getting better with some people. When you meet a fellow pfowCfMdlifg with another fellow’s girl dotft call hifH “Ed.’’ He won’t like it. The young bloods who went to Frances' ville last Sunday looked a little discouraged when they arrived in town Monday morwing at 7 o’clock. Misses Ella and Lillie Burk are teaching the Union and Bell Center, end Miss Allie Johnson the Bowling Green school*, In Farion toytubip.Ahu spring. Captain Chilcote, County Clerk Fries, Frank Myer and Charley Dean went to Kentland last Monday. The first throe to take the Chapter degrees in masonry. Wile Duvall has returned from Kansas. He likes the country, excepting there Is no work, no markets for produce, and the wind blow* loohsnifor feather weights. If you love a girl, say so. If you don’t love her, say so. If you love her sad don't like to say so, tall her little brother and he will find some way to iuform her of

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Railroad Mutterings.

The narrow gauge men aay they will have the track laid to Delphi by the 20th of May.— Monticello Herald. Rochester and Henry townships, Fulton county, have voted $44,000 aid to the Chicago and Atlantic railway oonepamy. narrow gauge, and track laying has eommoflcod at Huntington.— Logansport Journal. We are authorized to say that business on the narrow gauge will commence forthwith. It is expected to have the track down and trains running to Mount Pisgah by 'May sth and to this city by June Ist. Delphi Journal. Colonel Yeoman will move his family Io this city next week, and will be followed at once by the principal offices of the com; pany. This is not temporary, but a final move, as Delphi will be permanently ostein' lished as the headquarters of the Indianapolis, Delphi & Chicago railroad.— Delphi Times. Colonel Yeoman is engaged in perfecting arrangements for locating the principal shops of the narrow gauge in thia eUy. A donation of thirteen acres, beyond ths slough, and west of the trestle-work has been proffered, and so soqn as other matters of more imminent importance can be arranged, the transfer will bo made.—Delphi Times. ■

Jordan Townahip Matters.

Some of the epiing wheat and oats, sewed five or six weeks ago, have come up and look well. Not much sickness now. Mrs. Wahl is slowly recovering from her illness and is able to sit up part of the time, Frank Timmons and Reuben Dickenson with their young brides have gone io keeping Mouse. Charley Harris has buflt a neat little cottage on his form by the' roadside near the Nererfail school house. Joshua Eller has sold his interest in the farm to his brother Charier and gone to Benton oouuty to herd ealfte. Teachers hnro been selected for the spring sOhoote; M. tt. Lewis will preside al Egypt. Jonoas. Our old and valued friend 8. P. Thompson is now a happy benedict, nod waa in LaPorto yesterday morning as ami ling and pleasant as a candidate for congress, OU* companied by his -feoompUshed Wlfo. Simon como again and May A good while longer.— LaPorte Herald, , ’ ; ——T '■ —'• Mnntioello rgjoioee in a boaded dobt es $40,000. ' : a

A. DODGER.