Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1879 — REMINGTON POT-POURRI. [ARTICLE]

REMINGTON POT-POURRI.

Tilden’s iocome tax matinee will open Monday. . • Scon tor Thurman will 4i gfve way to a more ahlu or..n" when his present term expires. New York holds her election November 4th. Wc will place the republican majority at 40,000. Now miod. Mrs. -Nellie Grant Sartoria will visit this country shortly, accompanied'by her husband. Now let the fashion reporters get oat their extra pencils and paper. Indianapolis Journal: Now may be heard the voice of Daniel weeping in the Wabash wilderness and refusing to be comforted because the rag baby is not. Hon. W. H. English, of Indianapolis, is spoken of as a suitable candidate for vice president on the democratic ticket in 1880. It makes little difference who they nominate for their standard bearers. Anj of them can be easily beaten. — A republican congress is what we may expect to see after the 4th of March, 1831. Then, and not till then, need we look for the ‘•ranch needed legislation” so often alluded to by democratic newspapers and country school house orators.

The standing armv, according to the latest official report, numbers only 23,663 men, 21?H0 of whom are white, and 1,947 colored. How insignificant when compared with the armies of other nations. Democratic reform reduced it to its present site. The tide of skilled laborers is turned toward America. A special from London announces the departure from Liverpool of a Jarge number of skilled English engineers bound for Harrisburg, Penn., having contracted to large mining operand still there are more to followPorter Connty Vidette: The Rensselaer Sentinel observes that the republicans are in majority at present in but 4 states. If the statement is correct, it is because they favor equal rights and let the people vote against them, which the democrats in some states don’t allow, although they know themselves in minority . Rev. Gilbert De La Matyr is called upon to account fur the sudden and mysterious disappearance of the National Greenback party in Ohio. The Cincinnati Commercial says none of its teachers and prophets In that state are able to answer th? conundrum. Come out from your hiding place, Gilbert, and solve this mystery.

The first number of the Rensselaer Republican, formerly the Union, is before us. Major Bitters «t Son are the publishers. The paper is enlarged to an eight-column folio, and its general appearance materially improved. We predict jor the Republican a long and useful career. Here is our gentlemen, and beat wishes for your future welfare. With two such papers as the Republican and Standard the cause for which they are laboring will not b« allowed to wane in Jasper county. Walt Whitman has been interviewed by a reporter of the St Louis Post Dispatch, and gives the following as his opinion of some of the literati: ‘‘Our greatest man is Emerson. Bryant, I think, has a few pulsations. Whittier is a Puritan poet, without unction—without juice.' I hafdly know what to say about Longfellow. Our living Bancroft and our dead Tickoor I think first-class meu. Bret Harte is smart, facile and witty. But the best promise in America is in certain young- men who are coming on the stage, though yet voiceless. They canoot speak, because the magazines are in the hands of old fogies like Holland or fops like Howells. Yet they will burst forth some day.” Secretary Evarts is putting in his best licks over in New York. He spoke in Coopers Institute, New York City r Tuesday night, to an immense audience, devoting his speech entirely to national issues. Mr. Evarts is a sound reasoner, and his convincing arguments fall like a thunderbolt from- the clear sky upon the democracy whose hearts are already bowed down with grief) at their recent defeat and the prospects for an overwhelming victory for the republicans in 1880. Republicans may look for a good report from New York at the approaching election. The tidal wave that was inaugurated on the western slope is sweeping across the country and is bound to engulf New York. It is a solid North this » time and no mistake. The loyal masses will come out on the Lord’s side every time and declare this a Nation and not a confederacy jof states. We told you so before* Mr. Democrat, but you would not hsteo. You have sinned away yoor day of grace and now must abide by the verdicts of the people. You have been w*»gWd in the balances and found wanting* antktnust now stand aside.

[From oar sptoial correspondent.] Kirk moved hi* barber shop and J. K. Bingman his shoe shop. B. E. Hoover, lately returned from Sanaa*, has bees confined to the house for several weeks with rbsumatia*. Next Monday, should the weather continue favorable, corn husking will commence in earnest. A. few have been busking this weak. , Bowman Bros, moved their blacksmith--Bhap, this week, around to another street. The old site ia to be occupied by L. Riley, with a brick edifioe 40x100. The Reporter office took another move this week and is now located on* door west #f Spencer’s drug store, where it hopes to remain daring th* winter. 8. M. Black returned from Colorado Thursday morning and is very much pleased with that part of Uncle Sam’s domain. He intends to move Chore in the spring. Anyone wanting s ehair that beats a sofa all to splinters for esse and comfort, will do well to call on O'. B. Clark. He is the bom chair builder of the town. It ia nH a thing of beauty, but for comfort it can’t bo beat. It is fn order now to make some remark about the weather, but as nearly all the local sheets will contain the same stereotyped phrase, I will forego the pleasure of informing the readers of Th« Standard that the hot spell is past and winter is certainly coming—some time.

A stranger looking at the home side of the Sentinel of last week, would naturally conclude that it is a neutral sheet. What is the matter with Mac? Does he eschew politics entirely, or is he becoming converted to republicanismT He spoke of the Ohio election as though it was a matter of no interest and entirely forgot to indulge in the usual tirade about the “fraud.” Since C. S. C. died out of the reporter and took a “sojourn” out into the country as “principle” of a school, the.“heriditary’ f failings of O. W. H. and Oates are not so widely ventilated as formerly. The dulcet strains of the “Coronet” band no more float around on the evening air like an “areal”-ship wafting into htheral space, and those who “doned ” the 1 blue ribbon havehave—yes 1 guess not. “ ‘ . The two warehouses of O. W. Church and J. S. Irwin are being fitted up in a manner that will materially increase their facilities for handling grain, the former is putting up cribs for the storage of about 50,000 bushels and the latter, in addition to cribs, is putting up a large engine and shelter. Large cribs are also to be added to the Hathaway elevator. Our grain men look for lively times in about six weeks.

Gates.