Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1859 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

OC?"To nil of our readers, each an every one, W 2 wish a Happy New Year. fcirL et those who are feasting themselves these holiday times, remember the poor about the-in.'" oyster supper last Saturday night, given by the officers of the Rensselaer Rifles to the company, passed off very pleasantly to all. man was put in jail on yesterday afternoon, chaTged with bastardy, from Wheatfielt} township. Wc did not learn his name. (CjyAt last, through the politeness of Turner A. Knox,, we have, procured a copy of the Legislative Swamp Land Report, which we will publish in full next week. members of the Calliopean Literary Club, with their wives and sweethearts, partook ulf an oyster supper and other good “fixings,” at Alfred Thompson’s last night. They had a good time. (£ylt is said that a large number of mail contractors are suffering greatly for want of pay due them from government. Many of them haye informed the department that unless appropriations are made early in Januarv, they will throw up their contracts.