Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1875 — JORDAN TOWNSHIP ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

JORDAN TOWNSHIP ITEMS.

It is proposed to hold a centennial celebration at Putnam’s famous ride down the stepping stoues at Greenwich, Conn. 'There seems to be a general belief all over the country that a revival in business affairs will soon occur. Senator Shermon predicted it, and the transactions at the Treasury Department, as regards the establishment of new banks and the general management of the currency, indicate it. The sooner it comes the better. The 17th of the present month, the hundredth anniversary of the battle of Bunker’s Hill, is quite sure to receive due recognition, but two days earlier an anniversary will occur which deserves more attention than has yet been bestowed upon it. On the 15th of June, 1775, the Continental Congress, in session at Philadelphia elected George Washington “Commander-in-Chief of all the forces raised, or to be raised, for the defense of the colonies.” A little before this it had voted to raise a Continental army of 20,000 men, into which the militia and minute men of New England were made the nucleus. It will thus be seen that, on that June day, movements, which had been local, reeived national indorsement. Before this one province was not responsible for what another province had done; henceforth, all were prepared to do what was expressed in the Declaration of independence a year later.

BY EGYPTIAN.

Abe Wahl says he is not lazy but was born tired. Ster Iliff has got tho best three-year-old horse in the county, if not in the State. Chris. Biddle has become tired of single blessedness, and has taken unto himself a wife in the person of Miss Lena Putts. Long may they live; and may little Biddles strew flowers in their pathway. I heartily approve of the movement of the citizens of Walker and Union townships in regard to non-residents leasing uninclosed lands for herding purposes. It is a move in the right direction. Jasper county is becoming too thickly settled to bo used for that purpose. There is no more range than citizens want, and they have the best right to it. I say let them have it.