Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1881 — Landmarks. [ARTICLE]

Landmarks.

Eastern fields were not divided by hedge, or wall, or ditch, so there was much danger of confusing the separate properties of individuals. Farms in Europe are carefully marked off into fields, and the removal of hedges and fences cannot be effected without the knowledge of the parties concerned. The boundaries of parishes, however, often become uncertain through the rearrangement of roads and the multiplication of buildings; so 'in many districts a yearly custom is retained of “beating the bounds.” In the east, in the open ground, the di-vision-lines of separate properties were only marked by a deeper furrow, or large stones almost buried in the soil. The injunction not to remove a neighbor’s landmarks was therefore of the utmost importance.— English Paper.

Governor Long, in his inaugural, announces the fact that insurance companies doing business in Massachusetts wrote during the year 1680 more than $8,000,000,000 in risks on property and lives, of which oneeighth was written by companies belonging In the state. Insurance was considered a species of chance among the Inhabitants of the old bay state in olden time, and therefore forbidden. In California they make alcohol out of beets. I n Chicago they make beats out of alcohol. It Is very rare that the Republican consents to editorially forward the Interests of advertisers of what are known as patent medicines, as it does not frequently fall out that we can have positive knowledge of their merits. However, we take pleasure in saying of St. Jacobs Oil from individual experiment, that It is a most excellent remedial agent, and as such we can heartily recommend It.— St. Louis Republican, The miners strike, at Balton and Farnworth, England, is ended.