Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1860 — ATTENTION, RIFLES! [ARTICLE]

ATTENTION, RIFLES!

You are hereby commanded to meet at the Court House in Rensselaer, on Wednesday, the 22d inst., at 12 o’clock M., for drill, and other purposes. A full att-;pdance is requested as there is important business to transact. By order of the commandant. I. N. S. Alter, O. S. There will be a festival in connection with this meeting; but the nature of it has not yet been determined, but we think the Deople of this county will not be disappointed in looking tor something nice on the 22d. Of its nature we shall give notice in due season, _ O. S. CC7“An old man in Mason county, 111., describing “Abe Lyncoln,” says: “I knew bun ns a young man,when he would split rails by day liglr, and then study surveying by candle light.. He was as honest as the sun.” Another says: “He would walk ten miles in the mud to Springfield to borrow a law book, and when studied, would return it to get ano.her, and thus he acquired his profession, and although lie never read law in any office, he is now the most eminent advocate m the State.”