Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1882 — Remington Items [ARTICLE]

Remington Items

Although items of general inter, tat are scarce, we will try and get bp some kind of a letter, we hardly know what it will be. “Perhaps it may turn out a iong. Perhaps turn out a sermon,” bnt what is more likley perhaps it may turn out nothing at all. For the benefit of your Nubbin Bridge critic we hasten to place tlie quotation marks where they belong. •We are having beautiful weather overhead—balmy and mild as May, but to enjoj * it thoroughly, one •hould set indoors and look out of window, as the roads are in such a bad condition, thal it almost gives •ne the “horrors” to look at them. Of course business is at a standstill at the elevators especially —as no grain can be moved over the roads in their present condition. Health over this way is remarkably good. If there serious sickness— your correspondent is not aware of the fact. Schools are moving along splendidly this winter. Teachers—pupils, and parents,all seem satisfied, , and good, thorough werk is being done iu all departments. We understand it is the intention to celebrate Washington’s and Longfellow’s birthdays. Please do not take offence if we state for the benefit of a few of your readers that the birthday of the poet is the twen-ty-seventh of the present month. Our Blue Bibbon club seems to be numbered among the things that were. Asking one day for in formation as to why there had been no meetings for the past three or four weeks, wq were informed that the treasurers of the association had caused the meetings to be postponed. How long a person can live in ignorance in an enlightened country. We never knew until this winter that the supre me power was vested in a subordinate offic§. Quite a number of the members iand friends of the M. E. church •met at the pleasant residence of G. B. Chappell last Thursday evening. Music and conversation caused the evening to pass swiftly and pleasant y. It is the intention to 1 avc these social gatherings every two weeks. The next one will be he'd at the residence of J. Is. Holle>{, to which every one who feels so ininclined is cordiully invited to -come. The Sunday school fever is raging with unabated zeal, that is with a certain class. Good does sometimes seeiQ to come out of -evil, ’‘God makes even the wrath of man to praise Him.” The late little “unpleusantness” has caused a deeper interest in Sunday-school work and many are going who did not attend before. We cannot speak with authority but a rumor has reached our ears that Mr. H. C. Goldsbery h e •bought the property owned and occupied by Mr. S. A. Morgan, and Mr. J. H, Thompson the property <©f Mr. John Schaffer. We believe it.is Mr. Schaffer’s intentiwli to return to his native stute (Penna.) in a short time. Mr. P. B. Lyon expects to leave for his new home in Dakota this week. .Several other families talk of emigrating to the same state this spring. We hope they may be happy and successful but yet \we would like to see them all come iback before very long. * J&EMINGTONiAN.

There ie still am all-pox in Kentland and ita existence here ia owing to the inexcusable conduct of Noah Little, the person who first nursed Clark iH the calaboose. It was the belief and hope that isolated from the public thro’farea as was Clark, that the disease would be confined to the one case. But the community is justly indignant at the conduct of the nurse, which oame to light last Friday. It seems that while nursing Clark, Little left the calaboose at the midnight hour and visited his own home his own family, and carried with him this horrible contagion into his own household as it is indicated by the fact that on Friday and Saturday last, two of hia children were taken down with this terrible malady, and in the s ime honse resides the family of Joseph Jackson, two of whom —the wife and one child —were taken down near the same time. It is hard to believe that any man could be so lost to the feeling of the safety and health of his family and community as to have been so utterly careless and seemingly indifferent. While the community was resting in the*be lief that the disease would confined to Clark, the very man it was paying to nurse him and trusting to his sense of judgment and discretion, was carrying the deadly contagion to other houses in the night time. Not only did this man endanger the lives of his family and that of Jackson’s but the whole community, as on Friday after being Warned by Dr. Hdc i to not permit one of the children to attend school, one was sent while iu fever, we are told, and thus other children were probably exposed, and it is quite likely there will be other cases. The Board of Health acted in this emergency and established a day and night patrol about. the infected house, which is on the south side of town, and will see to it that all persons of both families afflected are kept on their premises. Let no further risk be taken, but rather a close watch and a scrutinizing care of these cases be had.— Kentland Gazette.