Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1874 — LOCAL GOSSIP [ARTICLE]

LOCAL GOSSIP

lhtotolHi|nii umplahsof b Karcity tfMtatkbMikil Oaljr feOT week* mor* of aebool to wony B—laer arehin*. ▲a anti-ewearin* elab ha* been aagaalaed by the bm of this town age. WIM geese have not commenced flying northward, and blnebirda have ■** bee® area yet this year. Thebojre have commenced watching for pickerel to ran up the Iroquois mpida, bat to yet only email ones have been seen* A ptattof ttd ninetorm closed up with a light flurry of snow yesterday morning, Moat w the enow this win* ter i* Belted before it tolls. Charley Baherts at Deval! * Goff’s to one of the best blacksmiths in the town. We believe be would make a good husband ibr a good wife. Gofer him, girls' Our thanks are hereby returned to all the gentlemen who lent us a helping habd while moving last week, and also to these who stood by and grunted, we will try and do as much for them some time. A palatal report comes to us that a young lady at Remington, the daughter of William Railsback, Esq., has become insane from religious excitement, and she has been conveyed to a private asylum for treatment. We learn that protracted meetings of great interest are in progress at Remington, conducted by the Christian and Methodist Churches. Nightly aerviee* have been held for some time and many converts have made professions of religion. The Remington Journal says that on Wednesday ~r last week two freight trains collided about one mile west of that place, causing the utter demolishment of one engine. ‘‘The trains were both going the same direction and the coupling on the train that was ahead broke loose and some of the care began running in the opposite direction, when the engine behind run into the train, the fog being so dense that the engineer could not see the danger ahead. No one seriously iqjtfred.' Just notice how much better are the plank sidewalks in front of the post office, W. J. lines’ grocery’ and Austin’s hotel than the so called gravel walks elsewhere about the town.— Gravel walks area failure,being dusty in dry weather, and muddy when the weather to wet. Would it not be a good idea for the town trustees to require plank walks to be laid this spring on both sides of Washington street between Van Rensselaer and Front streets, and on both sides of Front street from Washington street to the school bouse? Mrs. Caroline Crockett and her son Charles will make a public sale of personal property, at their farm six miles southeast of Rensselaer, Thursday, February 26th, 1874. Included with other articles to be offered are a lot of calves, yearlings, two yearolds, three year-olds, four milch cows, twenty head of hogs, two hundred bushels of corn, ten tons of tame hay, a farm wagon, draft harness, buggy, light harness, saddle, bridle, stubble plow, two sod plows, four shovel plows, harrow, pair of bob sleds, cutting box, double barrel shot gun, etc. Twelve months credit, without intereat, will be given ou sums over five dollars.