Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1873 — Remington Stems. [ARTICLE]

Remington Stems.

Compiled from the Journal. Mud enough to considerably extend the delta of the Mississippi, and a wagon stuck in front of the Journal office. A new boot and shoe shop has recently been established. 'DeForest climates that he cleared SI,OOO in the newspaperbusiness at Remington in little more than six months. The population of Remington is rapidly increasing, likewise its wealth, its intelligence, its culture, iu fact every element of its society calculated to make it a good location for homes, labor and capital.— Conductor Kinney kicked Nat. Williams out of the cars at that place Saturday week and for so doing was mulcted $8.15 by Justice James Spencer. The young mon are informed there is much better society at the Mite sociables than at the billiard hall and drinking saloons. About a thousand men and women in that neighborhood have strayed “from the fold of God,.” Uto Jeffries and Dan Coalman quarreled over a game of billiards last Tuesday week; “passed tho lie and other unmentionable epithets,” which so enraged Jeffries that he drew his little revolver aud wanted retraction 'OT blood. Coalman having more of the former commodity to spare than of the latter, declared dividends much lo the gratification of principals and by-standers. In a column and a half allegory aboht “A Land of Crabs” the Journal man attempts to find an apology for nnI’.Ucai thieves oy blaming farmers, tradesmen and people in private life for the peccadilloes of individuals. We could not help thinking while reading that Crab '7‘, c!o what an unfortunate list of acquaintances that Journal man had associated with, ‘ ' ■ ■