Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1881 — Union Items. [ARTICLE]

Union Items.

Wild hay making still continues. The hum of the sickle is heard in every marsh. , Horse flies swarm over the horses like bees. The dry weather increases the number of flies but dimishes the mosquito crop. The oorn has “gone by the board” on the sandridges., Jasper Kenton has been digging wells along the Iroqudis for stock water, with but little success. Willis McColly’s youngest child is not expected to live. John Hill’s babe died last Monday evening. * Mrs. Jerry Troyer died in a sinking chill last Wednesday evening and was buried in the Yeoman graveyard the following day. George Haskell’s child died last Thursday. Other cases of sickness are reported.

The turf on a twenty-acre marsh belonging to George Anderson caught fire over a week ago and is siiH burning. Not a grass root is left, and the turf has burned to the depth of five or six inches. Alter Bros, intend moving their saw mill to the Moody farm, in southern Barkley, next month. A miniature simoon swept over the county last Friday, Utterly scorching vegetation as it went. The new comet (Europe) is becoming rather conspicuous in the northwestern sky. Visible in the evening. A petition will be presented to the Bpard of Commissioners ai their next sitting, from this township; asking that our hogs may graze upon the commons. We hope they will give this their earnest attention, ever keeping an eye single to our welfare, recollecting that we have plenty of acorns and hazel nuts that would otherwise go to waste, and that there will be an abundance of range between farms until the township is more densely

populated.

BILL BAT.