Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1878 — From the Remington Times. [ARTICLE]

From the Remington Times.

Robert Parker started on a trip to Kansas, yesterday, with his brother North, and one or two other Lafayette gentlemen. There are six or eight horses being trained at the lair grounds, preparatory to making ft three minUtp or less gait at tho coming fair. • ' • F, K. Donnelly «ays the M. T. Bfc on the red ribbon he wears means “musn’t take much.” There are a dozen fellows in and ul,out Remington who would do well to wear one and heed the legend. There are just eleven persoos now living in Remington who were living here seventeen years ago. There were then fifteen families in Remington, eleven of which have found homes elsewhere. A motion for a new trial wag made in Ibo McCully case and argued last Saturday. The judge refused lo grant it, and t’harlio can bo considered a tenant of the northern penitentiary for tho next six years. Occasionally in riding over the prairio a square of yellow meets the eye, that denotes the enterprise of iho proprietor in sowing wheat. There ought to bo a field or this on every farm? Mien there would be n» need of sixty thousand dollars leaving Remington every year for flour alone. Until our farmers take the Yankee tdau (raise some of everything) farming will at times bo up hill business. Tho one crop system will be a failure oftener than i« for ,tfie financial good of those interested. ’’Mr!"J.'O.-Masow met with an accident ou Tuesday morning which, it is a great wonder, did not rosult in any daDgerous injuries. Ills boy was holding the team attached to a corn-plow, when tno horses started. Mr. Mason sprang to their heads, but his strength, united with that of tho boy, fifteen years old, could not check then, and! in the struggle the lines wore broken, Mr. Mason thrown down, tho horses and plow passing over him. Asido from sonio few bruises on legs and arms, and being stirred) up generally, bo escaped any very serious ..wounds. The of temperance has struck our sister town, Rensselaer, in a mauner that means business. Several of tho prominent citizens of that place, who had for years, as thoir only failing, boon in the habit of too freely using tho urdent, here foresworn their cups, and they arc men who have the stamina to hold on in ibo heller course. They brought common sense and reason to work in the matter,and tho result was such ns inevitably follows when these arc altowod froo action. Remington might woll foltow tho example. Although, hore its then-, none of our business men arc gono beyond a capability of tending to business property, vet (hero arc a few who are slowly httt surely dosiroyitigthcmsolyes, body and soul, bv tho pernicious habit of indulging in intoxicating drinks. Tho bistory of the various temperance societies aud alliances hot* not been suoh as to create much ooth»sunm» in tho matier. But if the oominumly wfll come together and treat the sutyect lu a sober, common sense view, w«uh good will arise. In ihese Union of financial depression, drunkenness is one of the luxuries tlist can easily be dispensed with. f * »>» iw ay , The (loodland Register thinks R wist» ’ sensible movement of thn oonventiou of the nationals of this circuit at Q«kmUiilMHK alter day.in eudorsiL