Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1883 — Boots and Roorbacks from Rose Lawn. [ARTICLE]

Boots and Roorbacks from Rose Lawn.

That Big Iron Bridge! See Notices to Contractors in this issue. | : i • ""•» 7 ‘ 7 The new comet is to become vis. ible to fee naked eye, this week or next. w." quarr Anna Dickinson acted the part of Hamlet, in Delphi, on Wednesday of last week. Tfyp Tribune man thinks Oxford has the “dead open and shut" on the C. & G. S. car shops. The Weather Bureau “played it low down” .on us, in the matter oi temperature, yesterday morning, giving us only 17 degrees of weather, and cold ones at that. The Lafayette Courier denounces the recent action of the Lafayette city council, in returning to tire tax payers the money collected to secure the L., N. A. & C. shops, as a piece of democratic demagogism, of the dirtiest dye.

The “G. O.R. P.” is in right good shape ayd chuck full of fight. The results of the November elections show that the woods are still full of good, solid republicans who “will vote as they shot’, —as our chivalrous souUiren brethren express it,—and that it is getting too near the presidental election for them to indulge in any more “off- year ’ foolishness, -like scratch - ing and shirking, or monkeying with the prohibition question. The party is-- now thoroughly unitei and harmonious, and is giving the people an absolutely irreproachable administration; while the democrats wili inevitably avail themselves of the opportunity afforded by the coming session of congress, to demonstrate once more their- incurable incapacity and unscrupulous partisanship.

A flock of blackbirds estimated at ft mile in length flew southward ovei Parsons, Kan., one morning last week. -[lnter-Ocean. If we are to understand that it was the flock that was a mile in length, and not the individual birds eomposiug it, then we would rise io remark, that the above statement is a very diminutive he, indeed, to have come from so far west. We have seen flocks of blackbirds, ourselves, at no very great distance ofwoolsV winch extended as far as the eye could reach, in either direction, and which, estimating from the time required to pass a given point, could not have been less than ten miles in length.- And only last week a Rensselaer physician saw a flock of blackbirds, near town, which contained 17 million birds, either by actual count, or close estimation. That number of birds would make a well proportionec flock fifty miles or more in length!

Rose Lawn is on the wrong side of the Jasper county line to evei hope to achieve much distinction in the production of big vegetables, Ac. ; but when it comes to showing up with able-bodied liars we think our Newton county suburb frill take the bun. For instance; a merchant of that town, this week sent us a turnip. It is a good enough sort ofjtnrnip, considering where it comes from, weighing seven pounds and being of a .robust appearance, generally. The letter which accompanied the turnip, states that it was the smallest of a Witgon load, and that the largest, although very cumber- , gome to handle will, be sent aho, as soon as special rates can be obtained on the rail-road.