Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1880 — “Good Old Times.” [ARTICLE]

“Good Old Times.”

Almost everybody thus expresses himself; bat the Denver RepubKcan records oar sentiments when it says: “We don’t believe in them. The happiest time is now.’ The best times are thoee we live in. The poor man haamqre of the comforts of life and more of its enjoyment tlian the rich man had fifty years ago. When a man grumbles about the present affaire, and talks about the good old times when men were happy and prosperous, w 6 wish he could turn back the pages of life’s book and read the history es those old timee. Recently, we were reading the Uie of Salmon P. Chase His nncle was an Episcopalian bishop of the diocese of Ohio, and in 1825 youm Chase visited him to finish his education Wheat, that year brought 25 cento a bosh el, and cents to pay the' postage on a Tetter, if carried’over 160 miles. The income of Bishop Chaser as a bisbopvdid not quite pay hia official postage. That gives w>e an idea of what good old timee were in Ohio among the beet class of people 50 years ago. How many of our would like to go bade to them 7” ■ ’ ■ >*: ■