Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1871 — Remington Items. [ARTICLE]

Remington Items.

January 23d, 1871. Eds. Union: —There is but little of importance to note this week.— People arc going quietly -along about their private business, if we except an occasional argument on the matter of sidewalks, street evossings and the o<ie-sid£d argument concerning the railroad tax—-one-sided, because no one can be found here who favors it. Once in awhile we here some one say that we should build a school house, bay a graveyard and secure a gristmill, but no steps have yet been taken incither of these matters. Our sidewalks and street crossings are being pushed ahead now and iu a short time we expect to be »V.e to get about on some of them with a degree of comfort.

The Methodist people expect to have preaching in their new church next Sunday. They have received a fine bell to be hung in the church belfry, and the music of its ehimes they uo doubt will listen to with mingled delight and cort grata lation, as they ring out invitation for the children of men to come and worship the great Creator of the universe. But what if some ot us are called to pay the final debt of nature, what shall be done with our bodies * Will this community open their bibles and read “let the dead bury their dead, bnt come thou aud follow me,” or will they determinethat now, as we are well provided With houses of worship, we will have a place in which to deposit the remains of our friends and kindred in a respectable and Christian manner? Hoping that tho friends of humanity will come out boldly in this matter and the matter ot building a decehtly adequate school house, I remain yours to command. L.