Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1875 — Remington Items. [ARTICLE]

Remington Items.

Business continues lively... .Nursery men are reaping a rich harvest ~.. Aioulding has commenced at the brick yard Messrs. Mclntire & Shaw have decided to lit up a hall for public purposes over their two new business rooms, which is to be 40x60 feet in size.... A farmer near Remington has a brood sow that recently increased the census of his live stock with twenty-three little pigs. . .An experienced teacher. is selling lessons on the violin, guitar, flute and piano to the musical talent resident at Remington ....Rev. Mr. Hendryx has moved into his new dwelling house. When preparing to move he found that the ladies of his congregation had preceded him and left there many useful presents, as tokens of their esteem and appreciation of his pastoral labors... .Dan. B. Miller, J. S. Ccmwell, Tom Ralph and Ainzi Laliue yearn for the excitement of stage life, and visited Fowler last Friday night to show the natives what they know about Ten Nights in a Bar-room, for the'ridiculously small sum of twenty cents a native —the press and ministers of the gospel free....A passing freight train amputated a cow’s bind leg* one day last week, and she is not entitled to damages or sick-benefits therefor, because she was roaming at large—enjoying the freedom of I the city—in violation of an ordinance made and provide to keep cattle out of mischief and danger ... .A new livery stable has recently expanded in Remington... .It was announced that another alteration would be made in the railroad time table, 1o commence operation last Sunday... .Dr. Traugh is a handsome, honest, upright, justiceloving gentleman, who returns borrowed umbrellas, copper-toes teeth, and repairs the damaged reputations of dilapidated mouths.... William Love, fifteen years old, was recently driving a nail into a board when the nail broke and a piece of it was driven into one of liis eyes so as to destroy the sight... .Blind man’s buff and a tea party, recently given by the ladies ot the Alethodisf Episcopal church for the benefit of the Woman’s Foreign Alissionary cause, netted $25.95 ... .Under the efficient management of Mr. Superintendent Chappell the M. E. Sunday school is in a flourishing condition, and growing in interest and numbers.... Col. J. F. Hoy is announced to lecture on the subject of temperance, next Sunday.... Thoma*s B. Irvine wants license to sell beverages which degrade mankind below the level of the brute, in a building corner of Railroad and Kentucky streets... .Everyday letters are received from Rochester fly persons here who formerly resided in that town, asking them to secure “us employment.” It is a curious fact that a town the size of Rochester, boasting a population of 2,000, cannot find employment for a few men, especially at the busiest season of the year. * * There is plenty of work in Remington, and a demand for laborers, Out they must be here to work. Good citizens and good workmen are welcome to our lively city, and none such have ever been turned from it for lack of employment. Carpenters are demand. Plasterers and blacksmiths have more than they can do, and another blacksmith shop is being built which will give work to three or four men. Each of the two harness shops employ four or site hands, been so pushed with work that they have not been able to keep up with their orders. Business of all kinds is lively, and wages are good.— Compiled from Remington Record.

Miss C. M. . Bishop writes that she will be in Rensselaer to deliver a lecture upon somo educational topic, probably astronomy, to-mor row evening (April 80th). Hand bill containing particulars will be distributed to-morrow. She is well recommended as a , lady of talent and education, who handles her subjects m a masterly manner.