Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1876 — From Remington Record Seprember 29th 1876 [ARTICLE]

From Remington Record Seprember 29th 187 6

Mr Doud’s child was buried last week.... The Remington schools will open next Monday with Mr. Phelps principal, and Miao M. P. Bolles, Agnes Nelson and Mary Blood assistants.... A couple who wanted Justice Jeffries to marry them, last Tuesday night, have thought better and concluded to trot along single awhile longer.... About a dozen saffron-colored chaps from Goodland paraded the streets Wednesday morning previous to starting for Rensselaer to hear the republican's aristocratic candidate for governor orate.... Enoch Pettit has started a harness shop..,.A gentleman lefthis horse standing at John W. Nutt's fence, one day last week, while he went for a doctor; when he returned his 'saddle was gone.

A frightful calamity occurred on the farm of William Johnson, in Green township, Marshall county, four miles west of Argos, on Saturday last, caused by the bursting of the bojler of a grain separator, whereby three persons lost their lives and some eight or nine others were injured, more or less seriously. The accident is attributed to carelessness and too much steam. The burial of the three who died occurred Sunday afternoon, the fnneral services of two ot the bodies being held at the same *ime and place, and the occasion was one of great solemnity. At the republican grand rally at Franklin, last Saturday, one noticeable feature in the procession was a dilapidated, broken down railroad locomotive, which was intended to represent the wrecker of railroads, Samuel J. Tilden, who is now the democratic candidate for president. The illustration had a good effect and elicited round after round of cheers from the delighted throngs of bystanders as the pro cession passed through the principal streets of the town.

Charles Bowen writes from El Paso, Kansas, under date of September 10th, as followsi When we left Jasper connty, Indiana, on the 2d day of last May, we went to St. Louis, Mo., thence by way of Lebanon to Cherokee county, Kansa's, then traveled through Crawford, Montgomery, Howard, Cowley and Sumner counties to this place, which is in Sedgwick connty. I think the advantages here are superior to anything seen on the route traveled. We haye good lane, good water,timber, and good health. Indeed it is hard Io heat. Hog raising is a paying business with us. Fat hogs never sell for less than >6 per hundred weight, while plenty of sound corn may be bought tor fifteen cents a bushel. There are forty bushels of wheat raised here to one of oats. Those who talk of fourteen bushels per acre being a large yield ought to see what we raise; they ought' to visit here in the fall and see f«>r themselves. Those little fiftypound sacks of flour are unknown to our farmers. They generS'ly take a load of twenty-five or thirty bushelaof wheat to mill at one time and get their flour for six months or a year- There are as good schools here as further east, and as good society.