Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1874 — Remington Journal Jottings. [ARTICLE]

Remington Journal Jottings.

For nearly a week past corn has been brought into m'arket pretty lively. A debating club was organized at Carpenter Center school house, Thursday night, January 29th. Mr. Cross has bored down ninetyfive feet, seventy-five of which is through slate, and has found neither coal nor artesian water. The business aspect town is livening up considerably. Some of the merchants are receiving new goods almost every day. The protracted meeting still continues at the Christian church.— Upwards of fifty additions have been received during the revival. The protracted meeting at the Methodist church closed last Thursday evening, after a duration of nearly six weeks, in- which time about fifty persons united with the church. —— Rev. J. W. Foxworthy, of Kentland, delivered a telling sermon in the Remington Methodist Episcopal church, on Tuesday evening of last week. Mr. J. B. Connoiyof the Kentland Gazette, was present. Tuesday morning of last week another wreck was made of a freight train on the Pan Handle Route, about a mile and a half west of Remington. Seven cars were ditched and a bridge broken, but nobody seriously hurt. The accident was caused by a broken rail.