Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1879 — Local Gleanings. [ARTICLE]

Local Gleanings.

Special correspondence of Tab Utnoif. Sharp is tho lucky fisherman of Rensselaer. Recorder H. W. Wood and family are visiling st Winamac this week. D. J. Thompson went with them. Alfred Thompson is excavnting for the foundation of a nsw residence. It will be among the finest in the county. Dwiggins Bros have put a wire fence around 250 acres of their hind north of tho depot. It will cut short the free pasturage for town cotvs. Too much strong drink is bad for the brain, and sometimes causes otherwise the kindest of husbands to threaten tho lives of thosp wlium—they have sworn to cherish and protect. fchelby Grant lias quite an extensive menagerie on the poor form-: Four young wolves, squirrels, puppies and a young baby. The latter will not vote until women suffrage prevails. L. Tuteur has bought two lots of M. L. Spitler in the cast side of the original plat of Rensselaer aud has built a new fence to enclose them. He has also built an addition to his dwelling. CajHainJChileote’s office started-from its moorings yesterday to be aachored on. the vacant square northeast of the court house. Some of his professional brethern said h* wav-moving to Wiimmnc. ■ John Makeevor has bought Captain Burnham's property north side front of the public square arid A ill baild upon it this summer a two story brick building fortytwo feet front by sixty-six feet deep. An agent for a cyclopedia canvassed Rensselaer this week for Tiis book with but indifferent success. He said it was the best supplied with works of that character of any town he bad visited in the state.

ARTFUL DODGER.