Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1872 — A Card. [ARTICLE]

A Card.

Remington,'lnd. "Dec. 2d, 1872. Editors Union: Perhaps you may have been able to decipher something publishing by the editor of the Remington Journal, a month or two ago, about “presenting our little hill iqfiim {in caning me] after which wo were not .troubled any more with his long yarns,” etc. Those who were able to decipher, the article, if they could arrive at any conclusion, would he led to think that it was my private account lie was trying to collect and payment of which' I was attempting to shun. The,good Lord forbid that I should ever employ an individual with neither common sense, education nor‘mechanical skill to -transact -business tlmt requires a little of each of thcse.qualiticntioiis. No! The hill presented by the gentleman ot those “respectfully long ears” was against the Trustees of the town ol Remington, and tiie itents were for trying to publish little notices for the Marshal, whjr^thQiiglit ..Leu editor a kindness by preparing for his paper something worth reading: for botching a card of the Trustees in which they tried to inform the public why they could not issue bonds for the erection of a. line, costly school house—for which lie charged sß.7ff, I think; then 100 blank deeds for cemetery lots, $2. The whole hit! amounting to something over nineteen dollars. That was the little hill! The Board of Trustees saw proper to shave the •‘little hill” a trifle—sl7.oo,l think —and allowed him ? 2 for the blank deeds, and no more. One of the l}«ard voted for the “no more.” Now he it known that I am so unfortunate as to he President of the Board of/Trustees, lienee lie pitches .into me.

Ti is too bad that a community as intelligent as the people in and about Remington should be gulled by a person so destitute of sense, principle and everything- which com the ignorant editor of the Journal at tins place. We wanted a newspaper badly, and the people subscribed liberally to its support, sonic men taking several copies in order' ,to send, out to friends abroad, but when they found tile pi oprietpr could neither spell, write nor print they were ashamed to send them. Late Liberal Candidate for Real Estate Appraiser.