Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1875 — Remington Items. [ARTICLE]

Remington Items.

tFrom Record of'29th instant.) There are only four crack violinists in this place. Burger <t Butler have moved into their new quarters. They have a cosy otli.ee. We are anxiously looking -forward to the loth of November. Then cattle will be taken from the streets, and there won’t be so much stepping around to be done on the sidewalks by pedestrians. A polite (?) young man with burnside whiskers, and a pencil behind his ear, smoked a cigar at the show last Tuesday evening, regardless of the many ladies in the room to whom tobacco was both sickening and offensive. One young chap purchased a ticket for the theatre, Tuesday evening, and sat in the hall until 9 o'clock, .waiting for jtlie show to commence, when he was informed that there wasn’t audience enough to pay the fiddler. He reluctantly took his leave, feeling as he expressed it, “l ather bored.” A young fellow in the east part of town, went out to feed his hog last evening, with a pairl of store shoes in one hand and two ears of corn in the other. He deliberately pitched the shoes in the pen, and noticed his mistake just in time to save the strings. If you see a barefooted youth wandering over town, you can guess where his shoes are.

There has been a growing practice for years to permit too much that is gambling to be carried on, under cover licehse, at our agricultural fairs. At first, these fairs were purely in the interest of the farmer, horticulturist, mechanic, and manufacturer. They were an institution gotten up and fostered by the industrial'classes. They were not always a success in a pecuniary point of view, conducted on this principle, and, in order to make' them pay, one illegitimate practice after another was allowed and permitted, until they have degenerated into nothing better than annual horse races, with all of the usual accompaniments of those races, even down totherules of regularracing. The show of stock and agricultural implements at our fair last week was larger than usual; but who paid any attention to these departments? The whole attention of the large majority present was absorbed in. these immoral exhibitions. None were exempt from it. We saw prominent church members engaged in practices that can not be named without calling it gambling. This course merely makes these fairs more of a success in a pecuniary point of view, but, from a standpoint of morality, they are a great failure. It will take months to efface from the minds of the children and youth, especially, the influence for' evil, “that these fairs produce. It would be better to disband our societies, sell our grounds and discontinue these fairs entirely, than to have connected with them site!' object,ionable and pernicious practices.— Abrf/iern Titdianian.