Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1877 — REMINGTON LETTER. Luther Benson, Amisements, Easiness, Eta [ARTICLE]

REMINGTON LETTER. Luther Benson, Amisements, Easiness, Eta

.1 Aouvst 0, 1877.—Business is improving, and met- luuits wear an uic of cheerfulness that linn been nbr,cnt from them a long while. Wo uro soon to have a newspaper • office here, but not, however, before tho i need of one is felt. The croquet fever is ! raging with r-doutilerj fuiy, horse-shoe pitching having becomu a thing of the past Mr. D. B. Miller und wife spent Salibuth here visiting friends. Farmers liegiti to cry . fur ruin ; and from general indications today they will get plenty of it. Lulhw r Benson lectured here hist Frbluy mid Saturday nights, on tho subject of intemperance. The house wns well-tilled both evenings, nnt n ne that attended could help feeling that he was well paid for the time nnd troui bln of going. From the pleasant and mote 1 anturai nppenriince of itiUividuals since then, I think tliut same goo-1 wis ftcconti plished, for at least n short time. It is past i my comprehension how uiiy one can con- ; timid in the downward course to ruin after 1 having the sin and misery of intemperance I pic ured to them so vividly ns it \vis by this sad experience-taught kian. However there j are some who only a few weeks ago signed ■ theplvdge and donned the blue ribhoit that ’ nre falling back into habits which, if not ! abandoned, will lercl them through all the i misery of a drunkard's life and finally lay

them in a drunkard’s grnvn.

B. J.