Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1884 — In Editor’s Impressions of Rensselaer. [ARTICLE]

In Editor’s Impressions of Rensselaer.

Lowell Local News. On Monday last the editor of this paper visited the thriving little town of Rensselaer,.and was "well paid for his visit. The first place we made for after leaving the depot was the store of our former townsman, Henri Levino, and found him in good spirits and having a good trade in the candy line. We next visited the printing offices of the Rspub, ■ llcan ai d Sentinel. Mr. Marshall, of the Republican. treated us very courteously, and we think him a perfect gentleman in every sense of the word. While Mr. McEwen, of the' Sentinel, is an old time dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, he is also a perfect gentleman, and treated us with the hospitality that makes a stranger feel goo I when away from ■ home. In goingxmr rounds We dropped in on Elder R. S. Dwiggins, and were glad to see him looking so well after bis recent illness. He informs us that he has many good friends in Lowell, and in a short time will be here and preach to them. He is surely welcome, and may the time soon come when we may have the pleasure of listening to one of his sermon. At 5:28 oar train come bounding from the south, and we came home feeling good over spending the day in Rensselaer.

A Tunny Happening, J. M. D. Iv-llv. ( iprk, and .Tim Hewitt, Sheriff, of Carr'ill County, went to Atlanta and determined to call on Governor Stephens. Before doing so they took a shave, liad thdir hair trimmed and decked up in new suits. The hall door of the mansion was open, and the visitors, noticing two men at the other end of the hall, walked in. As they passed the threshold they bowed ana touched their hats gracefully. The men at the lower end. Of the hall did the same. ■ “They motioned us to go m this parlor,” said Kelly, turning to the right and walking in. After sitting there awhile Hewitt said: “Are you sure that fellow told us to come in here?” “Yes,” said Kelly, “but I’ll go ask him again.” As Kelly walked out of the parlpr .door lie, saw’ a, man vvalki out of a door on the same side, at the other end of the hjli. “Did you say go in there?” Kelly asked, beckoning back into the parlor. Instantly the man at the other end beckoned baek to the parlor and Kelly' reentered it. “He says right in here, Jim. I saw him again.” ~ T * ' T T - T Another long wait. At last both visitors gdt uneasy and determined to try it again. A? they w alked out into the hall two men enteredit again from the same Aide, lower down. Hewitt,and Kelly again motioned toward the parlor. They started back, when Kelly stopped suddenly, gftzed intently' at the tw o men and" then shook his head. The baldheaded man down the hall did the same thing. He then lifted his leg. and the bala-headed man below did the same “Look here, Jim,” said he,‘Til be swamped if we ain’t been talking to ourselves all the time. That end of the house is a looking-glass.” '.'uC. And that’s just what it w'as.