Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1885 — REMINGTON ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

REMINGTON ITEMS.

Hon. Fred Hoover left for Washington City, this week, expecting tol be Absent about ten days. Our young friend, Thomas Babb, left on Monday for Burlington, I&., where he has secured a good position in the baggage department of the C. B. & Q. Ry- Tom’s many friends hope that in the course of a few years he may become President, or Gen. S’dpt. * | Mr. B. W. Hawn, an esteemed citizen of this place, died on Thursday morn Ing last, of pneumonia, aged about fortythree years. The remains were taken to Milford Center, Q., for interment. The Solomon Brothers are starting a new store at Watseka, 111., with Mr, J. - T. Ford at its head.] Easter (Sunday was beautifully and appropriately observed by all the .churches and Sunday Schools in this place. The Presbyterians had an “egg breaking” which resulted in an Easter offering to the church, of more than nineteen dollars. The Union Sunday school (gave an entertainment at Exchange Hali, that was highly enjoyed by all present; and the M. E. Sunday school had some good music, and some little exercises that did what they were meant to do: pleased the little ones. We are more than ever convinced that the jury system is not entirely without .objections, since the trial of Stitz, for arson. If the man was guilty of the crime, one year was a very inadequate punishment; if he was not guilty, why punish him atjjtU? It is just such verdicts as this, that give rise to moblaw, with all its attendant horrors. It seems strange, passing strange, that men of about the same degree of intelligence, whose moral sensibilities are about the same, should listen patiently to the same testimony, and then be so widely divided in. their opinions as to the guilt or innocence of the prisoner. We give it up. We cannot understand st. Remingtonian.