Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1879 — New Gold Mincs Near Eliziaethtown. [ARTICLE]

New Gold Mincs Near Eliziaethtown.

Kd Tharp returned from CMcngo «i "irv *"*? Rev. Ik F. Ferguron of FranccsvUle In town Mmi-day. t Tame hay hi n fair average crop in Jwtper county thte yttar. Black bncdil»bcrrh’}i are totalled out to onnaumcrs forlmta a quartSchool teacher* and pupils will find goo«l stationery at the jHJslofllee., AVtnek of useful blanks for legal processes la kept at the pncrtuffice. Mrs Mary Colo is«-thanked for kiml remembrance friau the kllclicn garden. Miss Emma Wijjwore returned fhtm a three weeks Visit at Mantled lo Hal unlay. "Jack” Hart of the Narrow Gauge Clothing House Is visiting at Canton,■ 111., this week. Farmers are commencing to harvest flax, ltproniiscs u good yield- —H in htglon Rcjmlcr. John Crooks has quit McConnell to drug-slore and is going to lie mnrricd. —MonticeUo Ifcra <l. C. C- Thornton is iii feeble health confined to his lied Has not Wen up town for several mouths. Cjl- S N- Yeimin and wife, of Delphi, were the guests of Mr. mid Mrs. A. McCoy Inst Sabbath. Rev. T. E. Webb, of Remington, neoiipled (he pulpit of the Methodist Episcopal church Sunday evening. Remington people donated $100.50 Imsides the proceeds of a big festival to the cause of tenpcrunco last week. Johnny Shields, ofUnlon township, fu wrestling with Charley Florence one day last week had his right arm dislocated. . Mr. I. R. Robbins. Keener township, lias of 2i<o cattle, among which are high grade Durhams, Hereford* and Alderney*. H. R. W. Smith, of the Cincinnati Fnrndier stall, and wife are making their annual summer visit to relatives In Jasper county. Farmers are in the midst of oals harvesting this week. The crop is supposed to lie under au average this year; it is called light. 1). A. Fawcett lias retired from the Bmokston Reporter, lie is the most retiring editor in Northern Indiana of his age and option unities. l T p to Tuesday of last week 084 persons at Remington had signed (lie temperance pledge. And Joe Wiltets wants license to retail liquor in that town! The Reporter says that Remington must have a comet.band I t’s al ways thus. They have Ju'i-t scooped out the liquor traffic and this is to be the penalty. M. Ij. Spiller, wife, and family except Charlie, are spending their summer vacation with relatives in Newton county and over the Illinois stale line. Mrs. Michael Fehneider qf Cleveland, Ohio, is visiting her father John JJisloskey. £sq.,in Newton township. Mr. Schneider will visit Rensselaer in tiie fall. The Delphi Time* notices that a firm in that city recently shipped !T> barrels of dour over the Indianapolis, Delphi & Chicago road at a material saving of freight. Evening Star Chapter of "the Eastern Star Degree festival at the court house Friday evening was of course a pleasant affair. The gross receipts' amounted to S3B-50. No money in the Treasury that can l>e lawfully used to pay marshals of the United Stales! Such is the hrilliaqtachievements of (iie extra session of Congress.—A'. Y. Independent. Rev. E. Aj Russell, Sunday scho< 1 missionary of the American Baptist Publication society, will he in Rensselaer and hold services in the Baptist church, to-iuorrow night. Hu! ye toothless! Why gum it any more whoa l)r. llannii'.will make and waTranta set of feeili for $8? Office two doors above the Austin House. Refers to liis many patrons. -iJ-l The. Delphi Timex thinks it will bb six weeks before ’Hie .harrow gunge railroad bridge over the Wabash will l>e completed. Of couise !rains can not run into Delphi before the bridgeis finished. * All kinds ofjpb priming will le dope at 'J iik Union office on a new .» schedule of prices which is below comJielition. No house in. the stale will do better work, nohoust! will work for less money.

Ten inch tile are being laid four feet. | bMow the surface in tiie gutter south side of Wa.sbivKtnn street, from the j race to Division sired. It is an e.\peri ineiit to ascertain if the system ! will serve tiie purjxise of sewer*. ! Joe Price, of Barkley township, was I i'D'iiglit l<> town' Monday, a raving i niaidue. The <-anse is traced to rciigions exeiU'iiiciit: r iVoor three others | ;« Die same iii’iglihoi lmisl have tnaui j similarly ellecled within a year or two. i Tiie catalogues for (lie Remington : lair are printed and beinf distributed. ’ Tlic fair will wnumence August 2dtli, and continue fill the 23th. Good premiums are otjered and everything ; is being done to make the fair a sue- j eess.- Remington Reporter. ..E- O, Stunner paid into (lie county ! treasury, last Week, $1,*99.20, in full j of treasurer’s assessments and arrear-*] agrji of lax<x) due fn,in iiim since 1572, I on oeeouiit of skOrtage insisting |ir<q»erly. Tliia is an end to a vexatious p ml much litigated question.— Fowler Democrat. ■ ■.

One of C. I). Btackhnuso & Son’s Ucd MWine worth fcJj, and $5 gold wills will be given lo llie fiersnn I lie largest fihniber o.ver fifty new yen riy subscribers'to Thh Kknskei.akr Union atsl pcranuum. Ten cents each for those secured by Tgetifs who fail low in tlie premiums above offered. Me:* in to solicit for eubseribers now. Only $1 a year. Slow progress Is being made with the survey of the Delphi A Indisiiatwiis railroad line sou(lHs:jslof Delphi. iiol. Ve4tin.-ui says that this liiw* runs almost oil the anexof Hie iTTvidu between lift# VV bile and Wabash rivers, good cultivation, and highly .prAtpotive. He thinks many advantages Will be gained hy the change of loca lion fin,in tuts mute originally w»M' teinitlalcd. •

Mart E. Raylor, the popular salei-i man at I,oopoid’a. la thanked tor a p.npy of fha ('tmnrnn, N. -M.. A', rt>Kf Prim, fanin wbiuli the arLh-le retoting to the mining operation*of l>r. Kelley and the Murphy* of this county is taken. Dr Kolley la id so doing a little business in tiie dental line in an Incidental way. ' The Mouticcßo newspajiera, the TTeridd and tiie Ihmocrat, have, probably tuude greater improvements in alt that goon to make no Journalism, witiiin a twelvemonth, tiiHn any other uewa|ia|ierain Northwestern Indiana. Enterprise U plainly atam|ved ujhiii them They arc cmlUa not alone to Uietr managers and the town whole issued, but tq the profusion of eouiiIry jounmllsm as well. Two bushels of the famous Clawson wheat which yields 85 to 40 Bushels I>er acre, and $2.50 gold coin will l>c given the muu or woman, ta<y or girl, that secures the largest number- of new yearly sutwcrlbers to Thk Henshki.akk Union l>y the Ist day of .September, 1879. Ten cents for each subscriber procured hy those who fail to win the above prize. The price of The Union is only $1 a year. Rev. R. F. Fergmon qt F raneesville, lias deindeiFto move to JlensseIner and establish a lumber yard. He was in town Monday, selected a location, and will ship over his stock as rapidly as possible, commencing (lie last of this or llie flrjst of next week. Mr. Ferguson is not a green man in the business, but brings the necessary experience to build up a paying trade. Welcome, and the best wishes. Wheat Is even belter than farmers anticipated while it was growing. The yield per-acre is from 19 to 35 bushels, machine measure, which weighs from o2 totifi pounds. In the neighborhood of 3,000 acres was harvested in Jasper county this year. We estimate the crop to be not less thanos.ooo bushels, saved in splendid condition. Tiie crop last year, as repdrteJ to the assessors for statistical purposes, was 30,000 bushels.

From dteGimnion, K. M. Xru* null Prcm. We bad the opportunity of interviewing Dr. Kelley, one of the lucky prospectors of tiie Rio Colorado, tout week, ami the course of conversation we gleaned from him the following facts: iieutid his partners, Messrs. Murphy and son and Mr. Atkins, left. Jasper county, Ind.,-in March last and proceeded directly for the placer fields they are'now located on. They had received a description of the country ’ from a friend’, and being old Californians they dreiC a favorable inference from this description, and started in to \vork with a confidence of ultimate success which still possesses them. At first they prospected (lie lulls and gulches for lodes ami found several, both of silver bearing galena and gold quartz. Near u two foot erevico of decomposed quartz carrying gold, they prospected the gravel and fouud in one pan eighteen “colors.” This was pretty good and they immediately set aLout prospecting a bar containing a few acres, which lies between the gold ledge mentioned and lHe river. From IndianaGuk-li, on which they have their claim, they made a ditch across the liar and ran a ground sluiee in several parts of the bar, and it has prospected well throughout. They have worked a ground sluice up Indiana gulch some (7) feet ami fouud good pay there. On a hill on llieother side of the gulch they have also found a good prospect- 'flic precious deposit is found in coarse gold and small nuggets. Being desirous of first ascertaining the extent of paying ground, .they have devoted tin-if attention thus far to prospecting, but now they aie satisfied—more than satisfied that they have rich ground—so work in earnest will now progress. They arc very sanguine in regard to quartz lodes, but with a small capital they do not see their way to develop them, while they cun successfully work their placer ground at once. Of course Hie amount of prospecting they have done compared with tiie scope of country is trilling. These mines are about nine mile;? distant from Elizabethtown,' and whatever mineral wealth is found thereabouts, and business transacted there, it will all lie tributary to the nearest substantial town in Colfax county. The discoveries made by Messrs. Kolley Co.dio'd ouHi fair promise for further prdsfiecii.ug m l bin country.