Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1874 — Remington Items. [ARTICLE]

Remington Items.

GLEANED FROM THE RECORD. Remington has three glee clubs; not a very good place for glee clubs, either. The editors of the Record say they feel enopuraged, one editor having secured a wife in that place. * | *4 Mr. Thos. Donnelly, formerly a citizen of Remington, is now aHrateliflgpagent for an agricultural house, at Canton, 111. - 0 The Record give* the fear quotations of Remington as Com §0 oente per bushel, oats 47, apples sl, potatoes 90, butter 28 cents per pound, lard 18, and eggs 15 cents per dozen. ' The Record says tlforiiWe two or three persons in Remington who read the newspapers at some other man’s expense. A man at Remington became intoxicated a few days ago by smelling a Logansport mn n’s handkerchief. One of the Record men stuck fast in the mud on Ohio street a few days since and came near unjointing his neck in extricating himself. He complains of tbe walks not being wide enough. Come, now, Mr. Record, hadn’t you been taking a little tanglefoot? Y-7 . Says the Record: “Deacon, the youth of sidewalk notoriety, slipped off the blacksmith shop during the fire Wednesday morning. He says he wasn’t hurt much, but t hat it had a telling effect on his trowsers.” During the fire last week Dr. Traugh removed a part of his dental office into the street, but was under the painful necessity of returning it to place afterwards.— John ttthl Opportunity of performing gymnastic /eats on the roof in his stocking feet.

Mr. B. R. Moffiit has been canvassing in the south west port of Jasper and a part of Benton and Newton counties, selling bibles and other books. He makes the following report: Sold 25 bibles for $25 7. Miscellaneous books for $217.15. Making a total of $474.15 received for books inside of thirty days.