Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1884 — At It Again. [ARTICLE]

At It Again.

The Delphi Times agaih draws on its immagination at the expense of our neighbor, to the following effect: “The personal appearance of Bro. McEwen, of the Rensselaer Democratic Sentinel, has undergone a remarkable change since the election of Cleveland and Hendricks, and the most intimate acquaintances of the veteran editor, or “Old Antiquity,” as his brethern of the press family call him, can scarcely recognize him. the long waves of silver hair have disappeared and in their place is a familiarly Le Pompadour cut that any metropolitan dude might envy. The handsome coon-skin cap that Gen Jackson presented to Col. McEwen just after the battle of New Orleans has been discarded and the Col., appears in a very stiff cady so fresh in design that he carries a band-box along to place it in while engaged in office duties. .■ .The rejuvenescence that characterizes Mr. McEwen’s personal appearance is also visible in his newspaper and for the first time in twenty-four years a. rollicking, boisterous rooster crows al] over the first page. There are other evidences that a new and enduring streak of energy has struck our venerable contemporary for on Thursday mprning of last week he circulated a petition for the appointment of postmaster so energetically and' industriously that he secured eighty-seven signatures in one hour.”