Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1873 — Remington Items. [ARTICLE]

Remington Items.

Coni|>ilt)(i from* tlio Journal. Messrs. Church & Hartley have bought tho stock of groceries and dry goods rcceutly owned by £l. W. Rawlings. Frank Cotton and George Griffin •enjoyed a harmless little fight last week over the settlement of a business transaction. Cotton fined; Griffin excused. Tho business done at Remington annually is estimated by the Journal to roach the sum ol SIBI,OOO. — Population of'the estimated at between 000 and 700. Tho ladies of Remington are to give a literary entertainment in one of their churches on the 22d inst., for the purpose of raising money to prosecute temperance matters. == The real estate firm of Morgan & Maxwell.lias lately been changed, Mr. O. B. Mcintiro taking the place of S. A. Morgan. The new firm will soou issue the first number of a new advertising paper, devoted to the real estate business, which will be called The Itcmimjton Homestead. In the storm of the 4th, these was quite a destruction of property, but fortunately no lives lost. The course of the main current was from the northwest to the southeast. Houses and other buildings were blown from their foundations and some of them were blown entirely down; fences and growing grain were flattened; teams were allowed to run away in tho fields; parties wero compelled to save themselves by lying down in ditches and resorting to cellars. The great wonder is that there was no destruction of human limb or life.