Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1879 — Posffice Bulletin. [ARTICLE]

Posffice Bulletin.

UatK mart* arc clownl #1 M:4S o'clock ». in. Mat}* tot Flo* turnt Grove nn<t Saltillo arc rWHt IoVWk i>. ui. Tuesday k, TlUirwUya ami Saturday*. Moncv order* arc W*ao»l am) paid between the hour, of J o'clock a. m. anil SoVluck p. in. c*rh ilny. except Sunday. So uiancy order iiii'inexa tinn wii-tvd on Sunday, nor after S o'clock p. w. tliowmonile applies to tvpislor bitflnes*. Sunday Hom from H o’docM nr. to I o'clock ji. in. No money order or register busim*. trnuiwctodoa "nnday. ADrSXTISED LETTERS* r ' letters addressed to the following nameit ferrous remain unctatnnM tn the nosuiffloe at Kens seiner, fnrtlnav Hay Mtth, l«i: - ltotoo, WW- I hit tin W. Goman. Chariot W. oMera. Hr. Mnnistt Flan. Harry ('. Richard, Am.vsf.i Obrtirhaltt. Mr*. Elizabeth After four Meeks from the date above, all the letter* of this list not taken twin the ,H>stoffloo wilt lie fortvarilrd to tlio l>c,vf letter office, Washington. U. C. reraons railing for any at three letter* trill please say •'Advertised.” UoH ace K. J AMES, Postmaster.

R*n». —A much needed mitt visited this locality Sunday night. Thanks to Burton Hutson for a generous mess of fine lettuce. CincciT Court convenes next Mondav with a light docket tube disposed of. M. L. Spitlek is agent of the Phenix Insurance Company of Brooklyn, x. y. Seriously lll.—Mrs. Burton Hutsen* and Miss CaddiQ Benjamin are seriously ill. Fracture. —Mrs. Jennie Laßue foil down stairs, one day last week, and fractured her right arm. Mr. John I. Purcupile, one of MoitticeliaVmost enterprising businessmens was in Rensselaer last week. MTts. Maotte Griswold, ncc Duvall, and infant daughter are visiting her father and numerous friends in Rensselaer. Mies “Frank” Foust, a beautiful Jewish maiden of LsFayette, is visit* iug. Miss Rachel Bass, Miss Bertha Tuteurand other friends in Rensselaer. The festival at the Presbyterian church Thursday night of last week was a success in every particular, and netted the managers something over twenty-eight dollars. Absent.— Harvey \V. Wood, Master of Prairie Lodge No. 1”5 F. & A. M., and M. F. Chiicotc are attending tlie Grand Lodge of Indiana Masons which is now in session at Indiauapolis. Fire. —The Watson school house, three or four miles southeast of town, caught fire one .day last week, but wa9 extinguished by Mrs. Pillars, and Tier scholars, with slight damage to the roof. Opening. —The ice cream parlor of Messrs. R. E. Spencer & Co. was formally opened on Monday night last. The room has been up in a neat aqd eomfortahle manner, the. service is excellent and the supplies first quality. Laws. —Justices of the peace, township trustees, and others who are entitled to them, are notified that copies of the Acts of the Indiana legislatureat tlie regular and special sessions of 1879, together with the senate and house journals, have been received- by the clerk of Jasper county anJ are ready for distribution. Bible Teaching.— ln a late case the supreme court of Indiana held that the Bible teaches that the drinking of an occasional glass of beer or whiskey does not make the drinker immoral. Next Sundnj', June Ist, at 4 the Christian .church,. Hon.' It. S. Dwiggius wilJ show that uo such doctrine »taught in the Bible. POeKETBOOK.—Lute Ponsler lost a pocketbook last Friday. Thinks he left it on the desk in tlie postoffice. It contained five pr six dollars in .money, a gold pen, and a red cahl hearieg the Murphy, temperance pledge to which was signed his name. If the finder will return it to the owner he will be suitably rewarded for his trouble. *I • A Taue Lhhtxisg.— A barn belonged to D. & Makeever in Newton township, four miles northwest of town, was struck, by lightning in the storm of Sunday sight. Nearly the entire sheeting of oncg tble was ript ofl> a sheep or two was killed, and some of tlie horses stunned so that they limped around for a day or two, hotnoaerious damage was tjone. , 45ick.—Rev. W. G. Vessels was too ill -to fill his appointments last Sunday. Over working a constitution none toe robust will, soon or late, compel the gentleman to rest, and he may as well do so now when lie may recuperate as to postpone the day until it shall be "found low in the ground.” Ambition, not the Master, Requires such vicarious sacrifices in this portion of the vineyard. Michael. Maloy. brother of our worthy fellow-citizen James Maloy, Issq-, who moved from Rensselaer five yeaht ago, Ims returned again. He wan at Galveston, Texas, lastßurr.mer fever and wag one f)f its subject*. Although a year has passed he still feels the effects of the disease in his system but tlie ten days of hls'saojourn ill tills northern lulftudp has made Win fegj much-improved. 1

Nellie Kaiusnkr was this morning adjudged dangerously insane. An excursion to Chicago June 3d, Round-trip ticket from Rensselaer, $4.10; from Bradford*, $3. . I,UCKV. —Conductor Jones of the 1.. D. & C. road, vrasthe lucky person at the festival "Thursday lilght. His ticket drew the prize basket valued at $lO. k> Samuel Rorchardt, nephew of llalph*Fendig, Esq., has returned to 'llls, father’s house in Brunswick* Georgia, after a sojourn of two and a half years in Rensselaer. Mr. Borciiardt is a young gentleman of intelligence, stability Ami agreeable manners. He made numerous friends during his residence here who wish him well wherever he may live and wlm would gladly welcome him as a {•criuimeot citizen of the town. Remarkable Discoveries.—To ill, lust rate lu r lecture upon love, courtship and marriage, last Tuesday night, Miss Righter called twenty to twenty-five* young men and women upon the rostrum; mey WMfl VOlUlJteers out of an audience of two hundred, who responded to her invitation, without the appearance of collusion or having been previously selected. In delineating their temperaments, she announced the wonderful discovery that, with possibly three or four exceptions, tlie mental largely predominated in each. Of course such discoveries please tlie subjects, their sisters and their cousins and their aunts and those who possess tlie happy faculty for making'then* never—tliat is to say, hardly ever—lack admirers to Bing their praises in public. Science and philosophy are great ;■ but profound are they who can adjust the immutable laws of nature to meet the desires of the multitude.