Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1874 — Remington Letter. [ARTICLE]

Remington Letter.

A new barber shop has been opened in the Kansas City hotel this week, Success to the enterprise. Sewing machine needles, of all kinds, for sale by Mr. Clifton, agent for the unequalled Weed (F. F.) sewing machine. Mr. Ludd Hopkins has bought a Novelty job press and a cabinet of types, ami is regularly entered an amateur printer in the first degree. For manufacturing buckwheat flour there is not a better mill in Indiana than Mr. Isaac V. Alter’s, seven miles north of Rensselaer. Buckwheat was a good crop *in Jasper county this season. ....'. Rev. Father B, Kroeger tells us that he thinks of leaving his parish here and going* to Logansport. He has given satisfaction and made warm personal friends outsideof liiseliurch, and it is to be hoped that he will decide not to move from his present charge. Everybody rejoiced over a copiOTS shower of rain which fell here night before last. Weather is as pleasant as in May—so warm in fact that corn huskers complain of it. That was the kind of weather up to last night, but to-day cold west winds prevail and the aspect is winterish. Mrs. Rishlingand Miss Lizzy Priest have opened a stock of fall and winter millinery goods in the parlor of the Farmer’s Hotel, at Francesville. Their goods are all new and fresh, and their well-known taste assures customers neat and becoming articles every time. Call and see them. School commenced Monday, with an attendance of 53 pupils in the primary department, 46 in second intermediate, 38 in first intermediate, and 47 in tbe-principah—Let-all-whese-privilege it is to attend resolve to devote their time and energies industriously to study this term, and get the worth of the money expended for their bcuefit. A light mi steer, a year old last spring, branded on the right hip with the Greek letter Upsilon, somewhat resembling an anchor, and with a scar on his back where a horse bit liim, has strayed from the premises of Rev. H. B. Miller, adjoining Rensselaer on the east. Mr. Miller will pay a suitable reward for tl.e return Of the steer or information where he is to be found. Mr. David Noweis has been appointed administrator ot the estate of John Clark, tylin was recently found dead in bed. Clark lias no relatives in this part of the country, and it is not certainly known that lie has any in the United States. The administrator will oiler the personal effects of ihe estate at public sale on the 14th day of November. See advertisement elsewhere. While splitting wood the other day a lad at the Kansas City hotel entangled his ax on an overhanging clothes line, which diverted its aim so as to bring the bit down on his forehead, and cut a crescent over liis right eye. The lad requires no advice about wedding an ax beneath useful clothes lines or limbs of trees. He learnt his lesson in aji,experimental school. There was just as good an eclipse of the moon visible in Jasper county, last Saturday night, as anywhere else In North America. It served as one of the attractions of a trip from Francesville, on a load of lumber, enjoyed by your humble servant and a friend. The exhibition was perfect; the moon was completely veiled by the earth’s shadow, and reflected no more light than a six-inch disk of wet sole leather. No. 1, vol. 1 of the Remington Record, has been received at this office. It is a neat, 7-column folio, published at Remington, Indiana, by Messrs. Al. J. Kitt and Clark.— It is printed from new types,on a new press, is neutral in politics, will be issued every Friday, and the subscription price is $2 a year, in advance.— The Union extends the hand of good fellowship to the Record, Welcomes it cordially to the fraternal circle, and sincerely wishes it permanent, increasing, prosperity. Shake |Qjr! Bro. Johnson, of the Republican office, equipped himself with a ninety cent woodsaw and a fifty cent sawbuck, yesterday morning, and is now armed for the winter campaign. He proposes to be independent of delinquent suberibers hereafter, and will remain in Rensselaer as long as people give him employment. Unless he makes a corner in the business, it is possible that the fee for sawing four foot wood twice in two will be as low as twenty-five cents a cord before spring. Patronize him liberal^*.

Remington has a trick mule. There was considerable “drunk and disorderly” conduct on the streets, last Saturday. An e*< ni'ioi) i uin passed here Sunday, touveyiug people to wiine * the ceremony of laying the corner stone of a,Lutherian house of worsii 'p at Goodiandj Mr. John A. "Winegardeu, late publisher of the Pulaski Guard, pitched his tent here last week, with a view, it is told,, of commencing the publication of another newspaper at this place "Whilst riding south of “town Monday, the team was frightened, ran away, and threw Mrs. Henry Downing, Jr., from her carriage; she fell upon her face and head, bruising them terribly, fracturing her skull, and it is feared that her injuries will prove fatal.

REMINGTON.