Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1879 — REMINGTON POT-POURRI. [ARTICLE]

REMINGTON POT-POURRI.

[Prom our special correspondent.) A batcher shop, a broom factory and a flour and feed store, are the new business enterprises of this town. Instead of mixtßg blue mass with a “hydraulic” syringe, our physician mixes it with turpentine and capsicum, and applies it with a “hydraulic” syringe, to draw a blister. This week and last were profitable ones for tbs liverymen. Court in Rensselaer was the cause of an unusual amount of travel between the two places'. The roads were in better condition than for several months be* fore. i Oates has been informed in a roundabout way that scarlet fever and scarlet rash are the same. So it was the scarlet fever we had amongst us a few weeks since. The blunder was made in consequence of not having received a medical education. Well ignorance is occasionably excusable —but rarely.

11. W. Snyder, finding himself growing too heavy and corpulent to mount a long flight of stairs, has moved his office to a ground floor. He now spreads himself in the rear room of the Exchange Bank. He and Mclntire have a serious job on hand. One takes the Chicago Tribune and the qtber the Chicago Times. Which one will be converted is uncertain, hut Harper’s head is undoubtedly level, in which case he will be no backslider. , Diphtheria is still holding the schools at a standstill. Several new cases and one death are to be recorded thus far this week. A little son of Mrs. Anna McCully died on Sunday evening, quite suddenly and entirely unexpectedly. One peculiarity of this disease seems to be, that you never can tell when the danger is past. This little boy bad been dismissed by his physician as needing no medical attendance. One case of scarletina in the family of Jasper Guy developed itself on Tuesday. The respectable part of our citizens are very much elated overths failute of Willet to procure a license. Truly it is an up hill business to undertake to override public opinion. It is to be hoped that the next applicant is yet unborn. Whenever a man shows his hand in trying to get into the business of ruining fortunes, cursing families and filling the pauper list, he siraightwaj’ loses the respect of the better portion of this community, no matter how much he may have been esteemed before. What is the country coming to. Good crops, good prices, resumption a fixed fact and New York gone republican. There certainly must be something wrong, for the democrats have stubbornly asserted over and over again that should such th ings occur the heavens would fall, unless.brought about by democratic statesmanship 1 was assured a few days since by an astute democratic politician and wire worker, that the New York republ cans were undoubtedly, by the tens of thousands, going to scratch Cornell. If they did, from present appearances, the democrats beat them at that game. Woe, woe, woe. Is it possible that the Empire State has so far lapsed toward barbarism as to again fall into the hands of Republicans.

Yea verily.

GATES.