Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1881 — Union Township Items. [ARTICLE]

Union Township Items.

Raining to-day. Wheat and rye look well. Work progressing on the school houaa at blip-Up. The Norm?' opens on the 3d at Brushwood. M. M. Tyler, of Keener, will attend the Normal at Brushwood - Willis McColly starts to-morrow for Delaware county, Indiana, the place of his birth. Union will lose a good citizen, and Delaware gain one. A literary and debating society will be organized at Pleasant Valley, Friday evening. Rev. Abram Miller will preach at the Gant school house next Sunday at 3:30 p. m. Rev. L. Shortridge will lecture at Pleasant Valley next Saturday evening. Subject—Education, ancient and modern, compared and contrast ed. Will Miss Dell G. please call for that lost letter. Walter says its nice to have a young man come to see his sister, so Scott can ride the gray horse after the cows. The Mr. Hon. D. B. Swacklehammer, Esq., thinks we are slightly mistaken about the location of Nubin Ridge, and refers to new maps for 1881. If he has one representing Alter’s mill the back-bone, he is the manufacturer thereof, and it is not therefore correct.

Will Reader plerse define the word dimn?'isernmaqiver for the benefit of those who don’t know its meaning. George Casey has sold twenty tons of hay, to be delivered at Rensselaer, for the handsome sum of $l2O 00. We all enjoyed a good soaking while going home from the Sunday School Reunion kst Sunday evening. Wm Templeton moved his cattle to pasture nearer Rensselaer yesterday. Ad. Parkison removeu his 3-year old cattle to his farms in Barkley last Friday. Jacob M. Troxell has been herding them for a couple of months past. Thanks, Mr. Republican, for stating that we are “a man of power and ability to write” and of “such uncredited renown.” Again comes a dismal howl from the great political ichneumon of Keener (who signs himself Republi can) in an attack upon the “Grape Island man” because we belong to the great party ot Jefferson and Jackson—the party which his ass-tute mind conjures up as ihe “tail end of nothingness ;” the party that elected a President in 1876, and casta majority of the popular vote in 1880. Such a party his imagination conceives to be the “tail-end of nothingness.” In his items to the Republican of Aug. 20th, he says that the “good rain which bespattered the Democrats of Union was just a little shower,” and in the Republican of Sept. 29th, he says “there was no imagination about the good rain which bespattered the Democrats of Union.” Note the contradiction, We shall accept the last statement, knowing it to be correct. „ v GRAPE ISLAND. Cctober 2,1881.