Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1881 — Jordan Township Items. [ARTICLE]

Jordan Township Items.

.• One week ago the condition of the President seemed to be absolutely desperate. The dame of life seemed to have flickered so low thatevenan effort to revive it would have been fatal. His physicians were powerless, and without hope. Members of his cabinet were in despair, and his loving family mourned him as one lost to them •on earth forever. But from that hour, when the long heroic struggle seemed at last to have ended in defeat, there was a change for the better, and since then there has been a slow, and, perhaps, uncertain, but still constant improvement. The danger, indeed, is still great, and a fatal relapse is at any time possible. But this much at least- is sure: the President still lives and the people still hope.

Jordan township will produce two-thirds more corn this year than last. Wheat a fail are. Flax unusually good. Oat crop about onehalf the usual yield. Late potatoes none. The A. McCoy farm has nearly 400 acres of corn which will yield about 10,000 bushels. . Jordan can boast of a common field hand who claims to have $30,000 cash in bank. His name is Dock. The farmers are happy. Good corn crops, with prospective high prices. Grecnbackers scarce and looking badly-. No wonder. This is a hard yearonthem. Diagnosis: Impaired digestion; assimilation poor; their diet‘is of a meager character, and not sufficient to maintain life long; .a few copies of the Chicago Express dishing up. tho same old hash — money scarce, coin a relic of barbarism, with anti-monopoly as a dessert. Poor fctlowsF It is pleasing to see with what avidity they glosc their long bony fingers upon the bright shining dollars' of the daddies and half eagles, and, as usual, insii.-t that they will elect the •next president. But, to use the expressive language of our S. W. IL, wc can’t see how the devil they will do it. _ J.