Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1874 — Remington Letter. [ARTICLE]

Remington Letter.

School attendance is reported to be good. 'Mr. J. E. Lock’s youngest child died last Thursday. It was 14 months old. The Good Templars are making preparations for an entertainment at this place a week or two hence. Mr, S. M. Black is putting up an office on Ohio street, which will be one story high, and 16x24 feet in sixe. Quite a brisk business in real estate has been reported for several weeks past. The market is very lively at present. ' Mr. J. K. Shaw is building a neat two story frame dwelling house on Ohio street, south of Mr. Robert Parker’s residence. A.letter from Mr. Al. J. Kitt, of Rochester, announces that he will be here this week to commence the publication of a new paper.— We hail its coming with delight. William Railsback, Jr., died at his father’s residence in this place Saturday, October 10th, of typhoid fever, aged 26 years. This is the fourth death in this family inside of 14 months. Remington.

A five pound bass rewarded an expert angler in the White river at Anderson. Ducks and snipe are reported plentiful, but hard' to get at, on the Kankakee marshes. Mr. Fowler, near Lafayette, sold a herd of Texas cattle, a few weeks since, for $50,000 that cost him last fall $20,000. The 14,000 pound bell was hung in its )>ermanentq>lace in the tower of the new church at Notre Dame, a few days since. The Lafayette Courier says that apple picking has commenced and the supply will fall considerably short of the demand in that locality. New Albany has an odd genius. his third wife, all of whom were divorced women. He asserts that if he was to marry a dozen times he would wed no other. The stand-pipe for the South Bend Water-works was formally accepted by the City Council last Thursday. The stand pipe was constructed by the National Boiler Works, of Chicago, and vVas raised by Alex. Staples, of South Bend. The length of the tube is 200 feet, diameter 4 feet, weight 43,332 pounds, and capacity 29,500 gallons. It is made of 108 plates of iron, fastened by 9,857 rivets, and has 1,300 feet of caulked seams. The weight of the base casting is 10,920 pounds. In the construction of the shaft about 495,000 bricks, 15 cords of stone, and nearly 400 barrels of lime were used. This is exclusive of the foundation, which was built by the city. The members of the Church of God, and the friends of the church in this vicinity, have for some time been’ desirous of completing arrangements for regular church service; but not being possessed of a sufficient amount of this world’s goods to erect a suitable church edifice in which to meet, they have been unable until the present timeto make sucharrangements as they desired. They now have the offer of a two years’ lease of the Chappel school building, on Center street, which, when properly se a ted, p ain ted, papered and w hitewashed, will make a very comfortable place for worship. They can also obtain the ministerial services of 11. V. Reed,, of Chicago, who has been preaching to them very acceptably once a month during the past summer. The expense of repairing the building and maintaining a minister will be considerable, and the church will be very thankful for any aid that the public may feel willing to extend. All who desire to see new sources of truth opened up to the people, and the religious and moral sentiment of the community sustained and encouraged by additional help, will find in this proposition of the church an opportunity to do good according to their ability and desires. It is the intention to begin the work of repairing the church immediately.— Plymouth Democrat.