Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1878 — Items From Remington Times. [ARTICLE]

Items From Remington Times.

J. O. B. McDougle has cut down his clerking force to one clerk, retaining J. V. W. Kirk. Messrs. J. 11. Tribby and Mahlon Johnson are going intobusinesson their own hook, with W. W. Fostor as a third partner. These gentlemen contemplate going into the wholesale and retail notion business in Remington, nnd will occupy a room not far from the postoffice. M. O. Cissel, of the Union, passed through Remington last Monday, on his way to investigate matters in Mexico. His mission is to MCapture as important a personage as he can, he being thegsole judge’foii that point, which person will be held as hostage. If this plan can be carried out,?and he*jthinks pt] can, it will prove an easy solution of the Mexican question, and will put a stop to back and forth, which is so annoying and expensive. The Rochester Independent, KltVs new paper, goes for Jasper county greenbackers generally and for those of Remington in particularly, in its last issue; from which one would infer that if friend Kitt is anything, he is now a hard money nian. Old Father Time brings about a good many strange and wonderful changes sometimes, but this is not one of them. Converting friend Kitt from the greenest of greenbackers to a rainpant “whal-you-efiir-em,” is one of those harmless little.pranks the old gentleman loves to play off on weak mortals. Mr. George MajorJ’hat sold his farms in this township, comprising 552 acres of excellent land, all improved and close to Remington, to Mr. Fred Tloover, of Good land. Mr. Major contemplates moving to Texas. He paid that state a visit last spring and came back higlvly pleased. We run no risk of contradiction in saying that bis departure from our midst with ;nis estimable family, will be more regretted than that of any other citizen of this township, and we are’still in hopes something may happen to make him change his

There is yet a plentiful lack of civilization in and around Remington, judging from the manner in which some people celebrate the holidays. We take it that when a man has no higher conception of enjoyment and patriotism, and knows of no other way of celebrating Christmas or New Years day than by getting ao beastly drunk that he can’t find the door to the billiard hall, then he is not far removed from the level of the untutored Hog, and needs civilizing. Spectacles of this kind have often occurred in and about the stairways and hall leading to this place of amusement, and are not calculated to enhance one’s opinion of Jasper county civilization, generally. Yesterday an attachment suit was commenced by Mahon Bros., of Ohio, against J. P. Reynolds for goods sold him while in business here, in the Granger store. Frank Chilcote, who happened to be in town, wa«, with the resident attorneys, retained in the case, and Esquire Jeffries had to stand an amount of bulldosing that would have made Eliza Pinkston’s persecutors green with envy. The last scene witnessed, displayed Frank’s towering form standing before his honor, wildly gesticulating and -thundering forth the pent up legal lore, accumulated by years of practice at the bar, while his honor sat meekly before him with a far-away look of hopeless despair and perplexity. in his eyes which was heartrending. Gathering items by moonlight while returning from an eight hours’ conversation with your sweetheart, is an experiment no localist need wish for as he will witness objects in a worse condition than a crosseyed person or one who has just taken his first lesson in the “art” of sinok ing.—Mon ticello Democrat. How about that Logansport girl, Hoover*? Go slow now or there will be an item about the pencil pushers. The Remington Times arid Goodland Register are two of the spiciest exchanges that reach this office.