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

Local Gleanings.

Special correspondence of The UnioS. Jedulhan D. Hopkins rides in a new buggy. Judge Hammond’s new residence will cost about $3,500. ‘‘Red” Swain has been killing a strange kind of squirrel this spring. Why could not Miss Righler compliment her Monticello audience#? James Maloy limps on aocount of bruises received when his team ran away.' 5* Decause it is the only thing It can do tlie fair ground fence is falling down. Recorder Wnod's new gold watch was bought of Orwin. 01 course it is a fine one. ~ Dr. Link has rented* and occupies the'ffa W. Yeoman property ■pu Front street. All the painters in town arc brushing around livaly. House-cleaning and fence-decorating times Erastus Peacock was the hero of a runaway and buggy smash, one day last w eek. La was Dr. Adler’s buggyW ilse Porter anti*’.he postni*aster are superior samplers of fine perfumery. In their line they , are experts. Uncle Clint Hopkins is treating bis fence to a. coat, of white —patitUr He will build a new house on his farm this year.. James F. Irwin, trustee of Carpenter township, and O. I>. McIntirc, banker, of Remington lml. T were in town Tuesday. A party of Indianapolis sports are reported to have caught tivß I hundred pounds offish in the Kankakee river in northern Jasper, last week. ’■> Sticking horseshoe nails into soft wood targets has superseded marbles, baseball, croquet and mumble-ihe-peg with the stalwarts who yearn for recreation. “Barney” Woodworth and A. Leopold wear stylish new silver-mouiu-ed harness all over their teams, which gleam, glitter and glisten in the sutls,hine like one of Col. Ingersoll’s anti-bible lectures. Physicians are resting from wearisome work. it is a distressingly healthy season. For employment they might imitate their Morocco brethern —start Sunday schools and leave themselves elected officers. Samsou Erwin,, Marsh Rhoades, i Jack Warner and Panp Wright went out to the Kankakee river the first of the week to fish. The “finny” were plentiful, bat the water was high, filling river banks, sloughs and ditche*. They had lots of sport Monday eight, trying to keep dry. Ten tine pik-e rewarded them for their enterprise.

ARTFUL DODGER.