Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1879 — REMINGTON POT-POURRI. [ARTICLE]

REMINGTON POT-POURRI.

[From our special correspondent. J One or two of the bine ribboners have fallen by the way, but by far the greater majority hold out manfhlly. There was a small sized fight in town Saturday, between John OttaedFVank Hoover. Nobody seriously damaged and-no*contribu-tion to the school fend. John Rhea wm suddenly seized,a few days since, with an uncontrollable desire to travel. He went, and his creditors are anxious to know how many cento on a dollar their claims wttl pan out. 0. F. Underhill was the recipient last Saturday, of a part of a charge of shot, from the gun of a chicken hunter. No serious results are likely to follow, but the wounds are aggravating, neverthelam. An Editor who accuses others of borrowing as did he of the Reporter, in the case of G. W. H., should hesitate just a little before publishing articles from the pen of another over his own signature. See Reporter of Aug. 16, 1879. Saturday afternoon the fairground was the center of attraction. A horse race between a couple of Goodland horses, in which one of them got beaten, and a festival given by the Remington Agricultural Association were drawing causes. Neither one panned out very successfully financially. The festival was adjourned to Exchange Hall in town after dark and there continued profitably and pleasantly. Another tempest in a teapat. “Cox” .of the Reporter goes off again half cocked, lobes the bung out of his whiskey barrel and writes np tie history of Gates and ”GF. WH. In all that truthful narrative he has made one serious mistake. He says “He dotes greatly upon our spelling.” Good Lord deliver me. I Ahver “doled oti” his spelling not anything about him. I don’t believl even his mother doted upon him,, but tolerated him as & nuisance, not to be got rid of.

The Directors of the Remington Agricul lural Association have left no stone unturn-. ed in their efforts and determination to hold a Fair this year which' shall surpass all previous ones. Their exertions are even now bringing forth much fruit, in the number of entries already made ams the disposition manifested by all to attend Bountiful crops have cheered the farmers and they feel and say that a little relaxation from heavy labor is necessary and they know of no more profitable place to spend a little money and a few days time than at our Fair. From present appearances the live stock, poultry, horticultural and - florid departmen ts will be filled to overflowing. A new and commodious dining hall harbeen erected in the pleasantest part of the grounds, and a gentlemanly and effiolent corps of superintendents employed to take charge of the departments. On the 27th and 29th there will be a ballooh ascension for which there will be no tddßion-’’ al charge. Without doubt this will be more’ generally attended than any Fair yet held here. What is the difference between the Reporter poet And a healthy, common sited respectable go-et ? r The difference is plain, for the goat is sensible and frisky, While the poet is neither unless filled with whiskey. But, honestly, doesn’t that bit of literature lay Longfellow in the shade and knack Saxe end Whittier all out of Hike 7 I allude to “Memorabilia” in last weA T s Reporter. The fames of gin and whiskey are so strong in it that even running through the press failed to eradicate them. How beautifully and pathetically he closes! V *T write a whole week if spaee would permit, But sines I have filled it I’m compelled* no# to qtait,” Well, really, it was high time, I should think, For after such laborious effort he needed , v another drink. And it is a; fact beyond cavil or doubt, That when whiskey hin wit is eut. .. BeavKß Citr, INd;, Aug. 15.—The Old Settlnr*’annual meeting for Jasp«ir and Newton counties, will Be held, as usual, on the first Saturday in September. 1879, at Jared Benjamin’s grove, in Jasper county, /t cordial invitatibn is extended to ail. Jared Benjamin, j T. B. Barker, J. McCarthy, ' Committee at Arrangements.