Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1874 — Remington Journal Jottings. [ARTICLE]

Remington Journal Jottings.

Fresh fish retail at 12| cents a pound in Remington. Dr. M? W. Rrigle has commenced practicing medicine at Renin-g----ton. Industrious .men spend the fleeting hpurs pitching horse-shoes, and bitterly complain of hard times. Jasper Grey proposes to teach a twelve weeks term of school in Remington, to be commenced on Monday of this week, and his tuition fee is $4 per pupil. The Sheriff of Jasper county advertises that on the 30th day of May, 1874, he will offer for sale at public auction, at the door of the Court House in Rensselaer, a tract of land described as follows; Commencing at a point 34| rods . west of a point on the range line dividing ranges 6 and 7, 20 rods south of the north-east corner of section 25, township 27, north of range 7 west, running thence west 64 rods, thence south 20 rods, thence east 64 rods, thence north 20 rods to the place of begining, contaitrsng 8 acres amt being a part of the northeast quarter of said Section 25, etc.

The destruction committed by the waters of the Mississippi in Louisiaiiß is so vast and complete that the mind can hardly realize it. Not only have the means of present subsistence been swept away with the property of hundreds of small and large planters, but in addition to immediate destitution the prospect of suffering and want in the future is superadded. The stock, which is capital, is destroyed; the crops, on which security is given for current expenses, are gone, and the land, while yet remaining, is rendered unproductive and useless for the time. Well may the magnitude of such a calamity arouse tlue whole country to deeds of sympathetic charity. As the full details of the situation arrive, the necessity for prompt and most liberal relief becomes more evident to every feeling heart. — We trust, therefore, that the collections in behalf of our unfortunate Southern brethren will continue.—lnter Ocean. A little child two and a half years old in Princeton township, White county, attempted to follow its father out into the fields where he was at work; a week or two “sirtire and got lost. Not until its father came at night without it did the mother feel any uneasiness about its absence, but then search was made, which continued until nine o’clock next day, when the child was found three-quarters of a mile from home, lying on its face with its hands under its head, in a stupor, wet, cold and its limbs , much swollen. It was resuscitated and is now as lively as a cricket.

A boy and girl were married in Hebron about 15 years ago, who lived together a short time, got sick of their bargain and parted and were divorced. After living single for a year or two, they concluded it would be a nice thing to get married again. They were mairied again and lived together for a year or two and parted again, have been parted eight or nine years, and now it is reported they are going to try marriage again-. The third time is the charm. The Inter Ocean says of the new town of Sheffield, situated in the northwest corner of Indiana, “Parties interested in this new suburb [of Chicago] are working quietly towards the proposed sale in June. Tfieir outlay proposed this season is only moderate, as becomes the financial situation, comprising such streets and grading as is indispensable for the first opening of the property. The hotel is nearly half fiifished, and the depot will be ready this week.” Notwithstanding the outcry raised throughout the country about the departments at Washington, the clerks are still to enjoy’ the immunity from seven hours’ labor a day. Poor fellows! It is veryhard that they have to work at all. We shall move, next session, to have their hours restricted to three, in order to allow them time to read the morning papers'!— lnter Ocean. An eastern paper says that a side window in a stable makes a horse’s eye weak on that side; a window in front hurts his eyes by the glare ; a wimfdw behind' him makes him squint-eyed ; a window on a diagonal line makes him shy when be travelsy a stable without a window makes him blind. Possibly a mule might be lcsa difficult to keep. ,