Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1879 — REMINGTON POT-POURRI. [ARTICLE]

REMINGTON POT-POURRI.

[From our special correspondent.] The popular boom in this region just now is corn. Two huge cribs capable of holding many thousand bushels, are being erected at the Hathaway elevator. Riley has posponed the building of his brick block until spring. From the pile of rocks for foundation, I should judge be will be all ready for a start when winter breaks. Guy’s business being too large for the building he occupied, he has moved his drugs, etc., to MeDougle’s room in Exchange block. All owing to the fact that he runs a newspaper in Remington. Bill Babb’s broom factory is in full blast, turning out brooms at the rate of a dozen per week, or more. A little manufacturing enterprise invariably tells upon the pros* perity of a town like Remington. Alex Stebbins and his wife, last week, 6*me to the conclusion that they bad better dissolve partnership, so thev went to work in a>business like manner, made an equal division of property and separated. The New fork Times, radical, concedes that New fork is a democratic state, by at least 25,000 dollars majority.—[Sentinel of last issue. Wbat in the name of creation does Mac mean by that? Are we to understand that $25,000 more democratic than republican money was used -to buy votes with? 8. J. T. should have tapped another barrel. . , Diptheria seems to be abating to the great joy of our citizens, though they hardly dare to exult over it as yet. There is a deep seated dread pervading the community that it is only a temporary lull lu the disease, liable to break out again at any time, with renewed vigor. The schools are jtill held off for fear that it is not safe as yet. to bring so many Kttle ones together, dozens of whom have been exposed to the disease. Much enthusiasm was evinced last Thursday the 13ih lost., over the prospect of a free show of unwonted splendor, gotton up in the heavens under the superintendence of Prof. Tice. But alas! The Professor failed to connect and it was hardly safe to askamaa on the street, next morning, with red flannel around bis throat and Toice scarce above a whisper, if he saw the stars shoot. The mildest reply was, “You go to h—l.” The editor of the Sentinel seems to be worried over the receptions accorded to General Grant and remarks that the Father jof his country was never known to have been the recipient of bouses, lands, monies, Ac , Ac., clear on down to bull-pups, etc. Well, supposing he wasn’t. G. W. never thrashed so many rebels as Ulysses did. Neither did he smash the solid South all to splinters and save the country from a more deplorable state than the success of King George’s hirelings* would have been. 1 have noticed for several years that any honors paid to a Republican ex-army oDce, make the average democratic editor sick at the stomach, jnst in proportion to said officer’s instrumentality in subduing tho

rebellion.

GATES.