Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1879 — TO CORRESPONDENTS. [ARTICLE]

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

AH communication* intended for public*iii«i ii Tin Staspap.d should be mailed in Bm«b lo reach this' ofbce Wednesday a in order to insure insertion the same week. Ccinre.‘ponu«nce is solicited from every town-hip in Jasper county, upon all matters of local importance, viz., marriages, births, deaths, accidents, re morals, improvements, cr-'p-n etc., etc. So pains trill be spared to nu*k* this an interesting feature of the paper, and it is the wish of the publisher flint some person in each township will take i. the trouble to write up the news of bis town-hip and send it in for publication, and thus assist in making Tuk Staxdabd the best locjtl newspaper io the county. a Postal ca»d coBKKsPoxDKXcr ooLmx will be opened »o the patrons of this paper and everybody else who will be kind enough lo furnish os with briet items of local news. We' extend ihe invitation to everybody to send in the news of their respective neighborhood written on a postal card for publication in this column. We desire to make this «n interesting feature of the paper and hope out friends will respond cheerfully to this invitation. Who will be first? Comnrcss. at its late session, appropriated K,(KH) towards erecti n g a monument to mark the birthplace of Washington. News is received of a bloody battle fought on the 4th instant, between the British aud the Zulus, which resulted in a decisive victory for the former, and a probable speedy termination of the war. ' During the lirst six months of the j r sent year nearly 1,000 miles of new*, railroad track was laid, and there is a fair prospect that twice that amount will he laid during the next six months. This is only one of the many indications cf“ returning prosperity. The frequent aud heavy rains in both England and Scotland have caused an almost total failure of the wheat crop. This will create an unusual demand for American wheat at a corresponding iu•er ase in price. With the immense crop in store and good prices the average hi finer can throw himself back on his ( dieuity and await the good time coming.

lion, Thomas J. Wood, of Crowu Po:ut, is figuring for the democratic ; nomination for coiigrtss* in this district, i Mr. Wood is a gentlemno, and all that, i ami perhaps well enough qualified for the position, buL, like all other democrats, is ‘-rattled’’ on politics. He would,“however, stuud a butter show of being ejected to congress tbair"Scnaiof Winterbothamwould of being cliftcd'governor. The Landers “boom” which was started by t|ie Indianapolis Sentiud, Joes not meet with much encouragement from the democratic press of the slate. The latter thirtk the Sentinel a little too fast, and cry “bold <>n a little."’ but the Sentinel don t “hold bn"’ worth a cent. It is sot Landers, tooth and toe nail, ami no other need apply. The Sentinel fiddles for the dancer who is willing to pay the most. Bro. Bitters, of the Rochester Union ?py, was egged and horsewhipped, the other day, by au indignant widow lady who claimed that an article had appeared in the Spy reflecting seriously on her character. Tito bad ! too bad ! to have tite freedom of the press'trampled upon in that way. Truly the way of a coun-

try newspaper uiau is hard, especially when he is treated to a diet composed of eggs and horse whip. John Sherman took i he democratic party by the heels, at Portland, Maine, the other day, and shook it fairly out of its boots. He turned its record inside out and exposed its true inwardness. Such speeches will at least open the eyes of the people to the glaring inconsistencies of the policy aud measures adopted by the democrats, if they do nothing more. They cannot but be productive of great good, as will be shown in the elections to be held this fall. The republicans were ucver in better fighting trim than they are to day, and every indication points to a republican victory in the approaching, elections.. Our southern brethren are again afflicted' with that terrible scourge, yellow fever. It made its first appearance in Memphis during the recent heated term, Mid hasr prostrated scores of people, a great many of whom have died. The strictest quarantine regulations were enforced to prevent the spread of the dread disease, and thus far it has been confined

principally to the city mentioned. A nntaberof new eases art reported daily. Thousands of people have fled from the city and numbers are fleeing daily to northern clime to escape the ravages of the terrible i disease. Business of all kinds is at a standstill, uud it is feared, even should the disease abate now, that serious resufts will follow. The business interests of the south are lively to suffer severely from this and other equally as terrible scourges to which that country is annually subject to unless something can be done to remove the producing causes.