Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1883 — SMALL TALK. [ARTICLE]

SMALL TALK.

The Atlanta Gwttfu/ion is building itself a new office out of Georgia granite. A Bridgeport (Ct.» gentleman will publish all the rejected poems he can end. The name of the only negro member of the House of Representatives is O’Hara, Potatoes in Southern Illinois are 25 < cents a bushel, and dealers do not want them | at that. Detroit can show cedar-block pavement* laid eight years ago which are yet in good condition. Allan Pinkerton sue* Philadelphia tot 52.000 for catching Major Phipps, the almaaouso thief. Frank 8. Thomas, a gambler in poor I health, killed himself in Galveston, leaving a note saying: “1 take this means of getting well. A plain box is all 1 want-’’ A man with a wooden teg may bo said to bo Mumping the town. < .

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