Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1884 — FROM SURREY, [ARTICLE]

FROM SURREY,

Farmers busy preparing to plow for. corn. Mr. G. M. Willcox keeps a full line of groceries and dry goods ’ . People well, except a few who have bad colds, and some fever. Thursday, 17th, being Mrs. J. Smith’s birthday anniversary, was celebrated with a surprise party. Meeting at Sorghum Valley, by Rev. W. Sayler, next Sabbath, at half past ten o'clock a. m. Mr. G. L. Thornton has sold his farm to Mr. s,John Greenfield, and intends moving to Kansas this fall. The L., N. A. &C. Ry. Co., are improving the looks of this place, by putting an addition to the depot platform. We welcome W. L. Fleener hothe again, from Carpenter towhship, where he has been teaching school the past winter and this spring. Jkfr. Sam Yeomah Is assessing the people of Newton, and also doing other good work, such as for Sheriff, and speaking in good cheer for the Republicans. - Mr. Henry Darner, a former resident of Walker township, but intending to enter into the grocery business in Rensselaer, gave G. M. Wilcox a visit the other evening. Mr. S. B. Moffit is superintending an arithmetic school, at the Thornton school house, every Saturday evening. The scholars seem to take a great interest in the work, and it promises to be beneficial.

The tide of immigration setting toward our shores is subject to fluctuations, but there, exists no reason to anticipate that during the life of the present generation it will fail to reach the average height of the past ten years; immigration, therefore, continues to be this country, and"rt■TOvorves apahtet-a-t----problem of the highest importance, that of naturalization. That- our naturalization laws are' defective in. many respects is notorious, an I the demand for their revision will no doubt acquire added force from the publication ot an .article by Justice William Strong upon that subject in the North American Review tor May. In the same number of the. Review, Edwin R. Whipple offers a candid judgement of Matthew Arnold, as a thinker and as a man of letters. Richard A. Proctor, under the title of “A Zone of Worlds,” writes of the vast multitude of the" pigmy kindred of the earth, known as the. asteroids. In “The Railway and the State’\ Gerrit'L. Lansing essays to prde that the multiplication and extension Of railI road lines, and the establishment of low rates of transportation, are hinderi ed rather than helped by governmental i interference. Prof. Henry F. Osborn. ;of Princeton College, has a highly ■ interesting article on , ‘•lllusions ol ! Memory". Helen Kendrick Johnson i coatribates an essay on “The Meaning ■of Song.” Finally, t;.ere is a joint dit- ! mission of “Workingmen’s Grievances’’, by William Godwin, Koody and Prof. . J v , Laurence Laughlin, of Harvard j University,