Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1877 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

The Ply tnAothcpimtocrat gi v« Judge Gillett the houtf# W-ng the champion croquet player of Valparaiso. ; ;1 , The public debt of Russ in is estimated' to be in the neighborhood of $1,750,000,000, and still her credit is not exhausted. Turkey has a debt of only’ t9so,ooo,OOphjADgihg over her head and yet she ia iuaable to secure further loagi . . The Chicago Tpiw of Tuesday Las three and one-fourth catanius of criminal news. Sixty-three rrimdnof different aorta. J uly we am in an age of crime.-—PfyiwuM ZAemoerttl. What else could you expect, Mr. Democrat, in *countrywhere the deuadefacy claim 500,000. majority of the popular, vote? m* /, The Chicagjo Inter- Ocean, of last Friday, contained the delinquent tax list of Cook cGnnty, Illinois, for the year 1876, arid. former years, which, together with the tegular edition, made one grand editiep of 204 pages. This eclipses anything we have ever seen in the newspaper fine, and is certainly a “fat take" for .ffire .publishers of the Intcr-Ocean. . . '...J | Oh what' a 'wicked town Plymouth most be! Justjjlsten to one section of ati ordinance the town council of that place found it agpessary to pass,“Sec. 22. Any person or persons couvioted of having on Sunday, within the corporate limits of said city, in the streets, alleys or commons thereof, pitched quoits, Coins, or having played at bandy, cat, or town ball, or any public games.or amusements, shall be haled in any sum qot exceeding, dollars." , v ;/ -J _ ;J—.' L The Russian bear is not gobbing up Turkey quite as eheily as he etpwted. Instead of making him only cue good square'iueal as he thought would be the •arise she is likely to give the bear more his 'fill, 'He has attempted to gulp down a slice of Turkey- several times, bux His ilajesty’s digestive organs’ arid* he has had to throw her up again, dust how long it will take the old fplldw to devour her is not known, but at the present rate it will be some time to come. At any rate the bear is getting a gieat doai more Turkey just now than he I cun manage.