Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1870 — Remington Letter. [ARTICLE]

Remington Letter.

Remington, March 22d, 1870. Eoftoeh Union, Dear Sire:— Our people are again surprised by being called upon to vote for another railroad appropriation. It is amusing to see our people reading the posters. One is taeked up where I have a good opportunity of noticing the effect. They read it all and some of them quietly spit on their hands, 'roll up their sleeves and all seem anxious to begin-the fi K hl * r . We have but little business doing now, but we have plenty of mud.— Now that the religious excitement has somewhat subsided there is nothing to do but listen to the prattle of our Widow Bedotls and Aunt Maguires, (of whom we have several), who are particularly busy just now. Our town-dads are making arrangements to have shade trees set along our streets, and to have side walk &_mad e this summer. Both are says Velocipede. »- - ■■ « The commissioners of Pulaski county refused to order an election upon a petition of their citizens asking county aid for the bort Wayne & Pacific railroad. The convention to nominate the circuit judge and prosecutor for this (the 12tb) judicial circuit will be held at Kentland on the 7th of next June. The Kentland t?<izr7r«Ts opposed to Hon. Charles W. Cathcart for Congress because he is a Spiritualist. Spiritualism and the Kankakee Vplky Draining company arc subjects upon which the Gazette is bigoted. The Evansville Journal complains of the ingratitude of Fred Douglass, in not mentioning in a recent lecture, in that city, the cordial invitation to come which he had received from a prominent democrat. The ingratitude of the blamed nigger is astonishing. They manipulate butter, after it is bought, in Evansville, and get out half a pint of butter-milk to the pound. In a pound of some of the butter we have seen in this market if manipulated the same way and the salt extracted, there wouldn’t be apiece of butter left large enough to bait a mouse trap. ‘‘Mud quarter-less-twaffi,” at Kentland. Cattle and sheep in the lower part of Pulaski county are dying in large numbers, from a mysterious disease. Warren county has five 15th. amendinendments, a supposed republican gain of five since the last election. Should you ask me any evening, Wiw+e to yet a diah of oysters, With the odors of the sea-aide, , With the dew and damp of oceau, , With the condiment of apices, With the piquant sauce and fixing*,' Willi the eateup of tomato, And the crackers rich and lender, Risk with butter of the bovine? I should answer, I should tell you, “Down the street, In Lib'ral Corner In the building of the meat-shops, Iu the building of the. grocer, In the building of the barber, •* . In the baaemeut of the dance-hall. fhera ia kept the luscious bivalves, There la kept the dainty moluska. There the people go for oysters, M uek-qhe-ga- *a, Mg fat Oysters, 1 ■— At John Coata-ee, at Joha Cotte-ae.”