Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1879 — JUDGE HAMMOND is at Keniand. [ARTICLE]

JUDGE HAMMOND is at Keniand.

Decoration Day will be duly observed in Rensselaer. Ice Cream and strawberries at the Presbyterian church to-night. The weather of the past few days has been such as 10 make farmers laugh. William Hoover will receive about SSOO from the retrospective pension act. • Pure KuiT Cochin eggs 50 cents per Bitting. For sale by Dr. Washburn, Rensselaer. Tiros Miser, (lie liveryman, move;] his household goods back to Valparaiso, Tuesday. Unsuccessful-—The street sprinkler was a failure and lias been laid up fiir remodeling. TilK ladies say that Wat Kirk at F. J. Bears-& Go’s, s’tore is the most fascinating salesman in the town. Moss Kellie Spitler fell down stairs at her fatiier’s house, Monday morning, and sustained slight bruises. Insane. —John B. Hurley was incarcerated in the cage at tile poor farm last Thursday, being dangerously insane. Emmet Kaxnal. is home again from a business trip to Chicago. He says business is rushing like a cataract up there. Free.—Even-body in vited to attend the opening of R. E. Spencer & Co.’s ice cream parlor Monday evening May 26th. Free to all.

Mangled. —George Moss. 7 or S yeats old, sou of Dr. G. A. had one of bis hands ba lly mangled in a feed-cutler, last Friday. Dearth.— There lias not been a marriage license issued in Jasper county since the 19th day of Aprilmore than a calendar month. Preaching.— Rev. W. G. Vessels will pteach in the M. E. church next Sabbath at 10:30 a. m.. and 8 p. m., and in the Watson school house at 3. p. tu. Lucille, the Jasper county correspondent of the Lowell Enterprise, is an intelligent and beautiful young lady of Rensselaer, if The Union is uot cals—(alien. Theatre.—Dean’s troupe will give a theatrical exhibition in Starr’s Hall, Saturday night. May 31,1879. Haven’t space fora more extended notice; but of course it will be good. Lavixg Iron.—Supt. Milliken, of the Indianapolis, Delphi & Chicago railroad, says: “We shall commence laying iron between Monticello and Delphi, on next Monday.” Town Marshal Reeve scatters water with a two-horse sprinkler on Washington street, between the race bridge «nd Cullen street. The beginning of this proceeding was on yesterday. Isaac M. Stackhouse, an old time resident of Rensselaer, and late a justice of the peace of Marion county, Was admitted to practice in the Marion county’ circuit court, last Saturday. Oh, no, Mary, Artful Dodger is not connected with The Union office in any way except and solely as a, correspmident; but he or she has a way of dodging around and hearing news that is truly artful. Delayed.—Mr. W. S. Beery desires to suy to his subscribers that on account of having been called to LaFayette upon urgent business, and there detalued, he cannot deliver the books until about fifteen days after the specified time.

Rensselaer will decorate. She is loyal and loving to the memory of those whose lives were sacrificed to preserve the unity of the republic from destruction by the tame democrats who now have a controlling voice in its legislation. Agricultural.—President Parkison, of the Jasper County Agricultural Society, publishes a meeting to be held at the court house Saturday,' May 31st, at 10 o’clock a. m.. for the* purpose of delivering shares of stock to thg subscribers thereto, to receive the eßeets of the Jasper Couuty Agricultural & Mechanical Association, and to transact any other appropriate business. A general attendance of tb® public, and especially of the subm*rrbers"to the e(<iek the new organization as well as the officers and SOijrJ of direttora, ij mpitvte*’. \

StuaWIIKUIUEII and nice cream at the Presbyterian church to-night. Eastkhtn Star Lor ok— A movement is on foot among the Masonic frtiternity of Rensselaer t j establish an Eastern B]ar Degree Lodge, and an invitation lias been scut out to Master Masons, their wives, and daughters of suitable age, to be present atan informal meeting; to lie held in their tinli next Monday night, to decide upon the pin iter. ' "X « Lecture.*— Miss M. H. Lighter, of .(•roenviibfi Hi., will lecture in Btnrr’s Hail on Monday and Tuesday nights, May 2Glh and 27ili. Miss Lighter is highly’endorsed by’t lie press as a lady of culture, w ilii ek><|Uen t uttd {Heating address, fine appearance, an elocutionist of more than ordinary rank; and her lectures arc characterised us amusing, fascinating, instructive. '1 he.title of her first lecture is “The Miud’s Mirror;” that of her second,, “Love and Marriage.” Jf any confidence at ail may be placed in ‘lie criticism*.'of Ihq press, those who shall attend this - laity*?. dioustTnext week will certainly partake of an Intellectual treat. « Dues.—Gentle readpr did you ever think what a numerous assortment of bugs there are in thifglrtrious land of ours? Did you ever seriously cogitate upon the extent and variety of the forms and colors of tlit? entomological entities (Hat are vulgarly classified as bugs? Did Von ever think that a very brief scientific description of tlie’ii- llieir lorms, habits. peculiarities, etc., —would make a large Patent Office Report. But of all the number perhaps llie most dcslmotive and obnoxious to tlie farmer of this region is the potutoe hugftjiilorado beetle, or Doryphora dect'nilincata of scientists. However, Emmet Katina), druggist, Rensselaer, prepares a powder that renders-them practically- harmless, if it is used promptly two or three times d u ring, .llie summer, a ml, -.besides, Is of positive benefit to the potijtoe crop. Call at the drug store ami buy a

package. Draining.— Private parties have employed Mr. Garris, civil engineer, of-the Indianapolis, Delphi & Chicago rariroad company, to survey a line from the mouth of the Big Slough, three miles souLhwest otioU’H, in an easterly direction, to a point.at or near where the railroad crosses thu marsh which has Hie local appellation of Wakarusa Lake, and to make esti mates of the dimensions and cost of a ditch suflieient to drain that basin. The length of tire ditch would he- between eight and ten miles; estimating from its debouchure into tlie Iroquois ta its head; the width would probably be fifteen feet ut least, and tlie average depth three or four feet. Such a channel would probably prove sufficiently large for flit- main artery to drain three or fodr thousand acres of wet lands and render -.them susceptible of cultivation for corn, oats, and tlie tame grasses.