Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1874 — Remington Journal Jottings. [ARTICLE]

Remington Journal Jottings.

The ixotracteil meetings are still in progress, and doing a glorious “Collossus” publicly thanks a young lady for a recipe to coax his whiskers to sprout. Mr. 11. C. Lipprant will make a public sale of personal property on the 21st day of this month. The town council meets on the first Friday evenings in each month. How unlucky;—to tax-payers! Catherine A. Railsback died at her father’s residence near Remington on the 27th day of January, aged nearly 38 years. It is reported that a druggist’s clerk in Remington is taking arsenic to purify his blood. If taken in proper doses, his blood will not trouble him long. A new millinery store was recently opened in town, which is the fourth establishment ot that sort vainly struggling to keep Remington husband’s -noses to poverty’s grindstone. The well being sunk for coal or artesian water has pierced a depth of sixty feet. The first twenty-five feet was through clay, then thirtyfive feet ot slate, and last Thursday evening they penetrated soapstone. United States Marshal Spopner publishes that a warrant in bankruptcy has been issued against the estate of N. W. Rawlings, upon the petition of his creditors,.and that a meeting of said creditors will be held at Indianapolis on the 24th day of Hie present month, to prove their debts and choose one or more assignees of his estate.

Messrs. Rial and R. P. Benjamin have formed a partnership for the sale of pianos, organs and melodlons in .Rensselaer. The name of their firm is Rial Benjamin & Son. — Call on or send to. them for price list and terms.