Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1878 — Better Times Ahead. [ARTICLE]

Better Times Ahead.

Providence seems to be smiling on thd United Suites. Thu general health of the country, despite the intensp heat, is fairly good, then! being no signs of any epidemic. Tbq wheat crop, already partially harvested, promises to be the largest ever produced, while the corn, hay and frudi cropspromise equally well. The same is true said of the cotton crop, and the year bids fair to be onii of unexampled productiveness. It is tea soon to predict the outcome with absolute’ certainty, but certainly this is the way it looks now. These great crops are to much added to the wealth of the country, and will contribute directly to the restoration of business and the revival of better times 4 Ono more year of such crops, with a Bound and stable currency, plenty of gold, silver and greenbacks, and we shall have an end of communism, trampism, and all the evil outgrowths of hard times.—lndiazuipolis* Journal. y Indionupolis Journal: Hon. Schuyler' Colfax having ..received a format tender of » nomination for congress from the national green backers of tlio tenth district, has written a letter of declination, in which, after stating that he has no desire to roomer notifies, he sayst “1 must add that having Ken a 'greenbacker’ from the outset, and having for long years vindicated greenbacks before the ptopfe, when many win naw claim tW be their special champions were 4erh|iW ihciii and the snored vatos to stottSn'#hfow they wereisstistd. aa well as piedioting their ultimate wonWemmees. I am, very nalur-' ally, an earnest adherent it.il of the republican party which authorised them, ehann pionei thorn, and has, by a maintenance of tho national faith and efrdit, brought thfflil up iu purchasing value to an equivalent wijh tlni.bcri* dollar any naiidn ean oWnt; to Uvo Jw»rn*l< J