Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1879 — REMINGTON POT-FOVRRI. [ARTICLE]

REMINGTON POT-FOVRRI.

Gates did not take a “sojourn” through the country last week, but ho was undoubtedly on one of hie periodical benders aa^. therefore failed to conned witk bis oosuaraicatkw. Alas for the Bonington Reporter! Its brains, wit and educational column as embodied in C. 8. Cox, shook the ddst of the sanctum from the said human form and retired to private life as a “country school teacher.” “What a fall was there my countrymen.’’ Will the Reporter survive?

Business is looming up and the unemployed can now find something to do. • Mechanics are all busy and none who are able to w ork need be idle now. There is quite a demand for farm hands. Remington is awakening from the three or tbur years sleep in which she has been indulging. If any one doubts the beneficial efftet of agricultural fairs let him lake a “sojourn” through the country and contrast the stock and agricultural productions now sesn, with those of ten or even five years ago and he will be fully answered. Blooded stock, er at least half breeds, are seen on every farm, and the manner of farming has been greatly improved. Even the gardens and flower beds have changed greatly for the better. I little expected to live to see the day in which our old and respected townsman, F. R. Donnelly would be taken to the penitentiary to Berve out ( a term of yeaep. Yet such is the case. He was sent there last Wednesday for a term of years, depending upon bis good behavior during' that time. Crime committed, voting the democratic ticket straight and receiving an appointment of guard over the convicts therefor. Poultry breeders have their trials and tribulations, as well as the rest of mankind. Cholera and roup are going for the feathered bipeds in a way that is extremely unprofitable for the raisers of chiekcns. Thirty years ago when the long-tailed barn-yard fowls were the only chickens raised, nothing ever ailed them but weasels, skunks and hawks. But the more valuable a thing becomes, the more liable it is to disease. Ducks seem to be the only kind of poultry that is exempt from the prevailing disease. Quacks are seldom sick, anyhow.

GATES.