Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1882 — Remington Items. [ARTICLE]

Remington Items.

Although “winter still lingers in the lap of spring* ’ farmers are very busy getti g their ground in order for tho coming •eed-timo. May the harvest be abundant. Remington is making her usual annual "fibrt at tree planting, and we presume the windering bovines will tiaake their usual *niiuai effort at tree uprooting. One thing is sure the cows always come out ahead. Still some of the shade tree# live and become things of l>e„niy. If he is* ‘ benefactor who makes “two bl«des of gras* grow, where only one grew before" hew much more so is he who makes a tree grow in a land where trees are aourco. * The slaughter of the canines has begun. Constable Lally sent several poor curs to i he herealter lor doge during the latter part of lost week. Judging from the appear, mce of some of the dogs that are roeming Uou the town, some brute has been torturing his brother bribes, by throwing acme substnnoe on them which eate its WHy through Hie hair, draws up the sinews and '•rip,deg the dog. And yet we send tais--ionaries to China boyd King bury brings etartling nowa 1 1 from M.miiotio this (Monday) evening, fe reports smuil-p.,* as having broken out among the employees of the paper mill w that place, the disease having been in-fft-od by handling infected rugs. One •v "mm died and five or six others wera Try an k. ‘Westward the star of empire" is still •dong us way. \y. H . Henkle left with . it" t imily for Kansas this morning. Ira Kingsbury and family, .\Jrs. Lyon and ei hii'S Others will soon start for Dakota, e wish them all abundant success and hevo thev will h ive it but they will winder far before they will find another village w piveHiii as n.e one they are leaving, roui a poruiil of Tiik Übfublioan ive ou.d i .ier the Dakota fevor has bro en ai. Rnss-Uor. Glowing accounts of ie territory reach us from these who omgruted s >mc weeks ago. So further news-of general interest being ■ 'town to us we will close,

REMINGTONIAN.