Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1891 — OTHER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

OTHER NEWS ITEMS.

Onyx has been discovered in Missouri. "$• Minnesota trains have been delayed by caterpillars on the track. The health of the Prince of Wales causes grave anxiety to his friends. A mob of young farmers strung up a six-teen-year-old boy, near Winterset, la., to ,make r him confess to cutting a saddle. Ho was almost choked to death. A conflict between British and Portugese colonists, in which seven Portugese were killed, took place in South Africa. The British loss is unknown. For some time the farmers of Bartholomew county have been considering a change of crops, having in view the object of a better income from their farms. This subject was thoroughly discussed at the farmers’ institutes held in that county this year, and greater diversity of crops will be the result of it. Two farmers near Jonesville have each planted twenty acres of potatoes, while several others have turned a part of their attention to the raising of broomcorn. Several others are trying a few acres of navy beans, while another will try to reap some profitfrom a small field of* the castor bean. In the western part of the county there will be several who will embark in the tobaccoraising business. In the years of 1865 and ISGG tobacco was successfully raised in Brown county In large quantities, and Sue pf two men who yet reside and do bttsini - in Columbus made several thousand dollars on tobacco raised in Brown county l alone. Since that time the culture of t;iaccS in Brown county died out and the stave business took its place, but of la: ■ - business has, on accountof the -* yof timber, become unprofitable. US ■ re many farmers who have grown tisv.l I raising wheat am* corn, and will likely ~* benefited by tin hange, and bCsidx • w ill save a great amount of labor.