Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1873 — Remington Items. [ARTICLE]

Remington Items.

Compiled from the Journal. Business is getting better. Health in town is improving. Flour (Jells at $4.80 and $5 per "cwlL Prospects are good for a large wheat crop. Grainbuyers are having a rush of business. Prospects are brightening for more building in the spring. The Journal is urging that efforts be made looking to the holding ot an agricultural fair in Remington, next fall. Mr. A. Lansing, State Lecturer of the Patrons of Husbandry, is advertised to deliver a free lecture in the Christian church at that place next Saturday night. The Journal boasts of eight columns of home reading matter, last : week. ? Two columns of this was. devoted to the Rensselaer Union, ' its proprietors, and their business, [ a fair sample of which is to be [ found in another place. .

/ Three, or four, or five hogs are roaming at will about the streets in defiance of law, good morals and the peace and dignity of the town, which will soon be tat enough to be taken up by the Marshal. < . - Frank King moved away between two days this week leaving a number of too confiding people to mourn his untimely departure a few dollars’ worth apiece. We freely forgive the pot hunter what he owed us. —. Half a dozen, or perhaps more, individuals organized themselves each into private draining companies this week, to cut “laterals” over gnd past their several premises, in order to drain off the water which accumulated from the rapidly melting snow and ice. Friend Wijlis lines came near drowning his team Tuesday in taking them to water. Lie attempted to ci-oss the river at the artesian well when they broke through the ice and fell down. As it happened the horses came off second best with a few cuts and bruises. The speaking and picnic grounds in Van Rensselaer Grove are submerged witEwater from the raging Ir »quois. The river at that point is more than a third of a mile wide, extending from Mr. Daniel DWiggins’ garden up to Mr. C. H. Downing’s door yard. A gorge of ice in the river on the rapids ih the bend below the mill, afforded lots of sport to the boys yesterday. It backed up the water so as to stop operations at the mill and threatened to inundate ilrelevelplat on the southwest-side. Tile Iroquois has not been so full for five or six years before. The Remington band did not have a very full house last Monday evening, and about twenty gamins dishonored their parents and disgraced the town by exceeding4iad behavior. We have a good notion to'publish the names of these bad boys should they ever repeat their scandalous behavior. Last week the editor of the Remington Journal got entangled in his ears and received a heavy fall. Of course he will deny it, he denies every thing, but it is so, nevertheless, and as proof we refer to the extracts we this week publish from his valuable and widely circulated paper. At the election Tuesday there were 154 votes polled at the Rensselaer precinct, of which 152 were for - the constitutional amendment prohibiting the resumption by the State of die Wabash & Erie canal obligations and two votes werj against the amendment. Last fall 385 votes were polled here. —— —— Two or three child-like and bland “suckers” of this town are nibbling around lottery baits, and a few of them have invested a trifle each to the sinking fund and had their names enrolled with the large army who hick sound judgment. Young men, wine is a mocker, but the experience of ages demonstrates that all lotteries are swindles! 1 The returns from, the election tn Jasper county last Tuesday, upon the proposed constitutional amendment are all in excfept from one small township. Less than half of the votes were polled, and the showing is as follows: t TOWNSHIP. FOR. AGAINST. Hanging Grove 39 1 Gillam *.■... 95 2 Wa1ker................. 25 ■ Barkley# 78 - Marion 152 2 Jordan 22 - Newton 22 1 Keener 28 Wheatfield 9 1 Kankakee. ... . 2 .... i... ~22 . Cu rpen tef <.,...... 190 .4 Milroy 22 Union Total 704 H

Rev. John B. DeMotte made us a friendly visit within a day or two and talked over the matters which called forth his card last week and our reply thereto. He says that although in the conversation to which we referred he might have dropped a remark that could be construed as we understood it to mean, yet he did notintend to convey the impression that he was thinking of abandoning the pastoral charge over which he has supervision until relieved by the Conference, which assembles in September next. At the meeting of the Central Association of Patrons of Husbandry of Jasper county, to be held in the Court House next Saturday, discussion will come up,-as special business, upon a proposition to remove obstructions, lower the falls of the Iroquois at this point and thoroughly drain the country which it overflows. The cost of this enterprise is variously estimated at from $20,000 to $35,000. The benefits that would result are simply incalculable, as they-would be lasting and accrue for till time to come. Among the immediate benefits which might be mentioned is the draining and putting into condition for cultivation nearly 20,000 acres of land, now absolutely valueless, and greatly detrimental to the health of the people in the vicinity. The tims has gone by when the water privileges of this river are of as much value to the country as the lands these waters overflow.