Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1878 — the Other Side of the River.—Our Sitter Towe, Rensselaer. [ARTICLE]

the Other Side of the River.—Our Sitter Towe, Rensselaer.

Jutt returned from en extended trip into the wilds of Jasper county and being more than well pleased with nty discoveries, will ntention some items. Crossed the river at Eaton'* bridge, eleven miles east of Hebron, it a spot wildly beautiful and romantic. Bost houses and tents of camping parties of hunters scattered along the tanks, and the deep flowing river winding away in the distance among the thick foicsts of autumnal foliage, presented a flue scene. South of the bridge for twenty-five miles the road winds over marshre and sand ridges and scattering strips of limiter- with but very few signs of civilization or iuhabitante. ttcctudcmal apparently deserted log cabins at intervals us a half dozen miles apart, and the rest au unbrvken solitude. Scattering trees, bottomless morasses si retching away te the distant horizon, miles upon miles, sad yon ean but faintly, if without scetag, form an idea of the border" lands and south of the river, the really beautiful Kankakee which will very soon be navigable (or steamers and dotted with life and commerce. Ten miles more of beautiful

forming-country-and J arrived at RessseIncr, county reftt of Jasper, containing gx>d brick buildings, churches, and tanks, and a population of a thousand; and the present terminus of the narrow gauge railroad that interests us all so much. And well it may, f.vt its cars do look nice, and its busineas is promising, and in a few ■souths it will pass through thia county, .-it her at Crown Point o* Lowell, or both, and t hus connect us with a fine and prnoytiiWkeuwi different obfettruf attraction in the-place. Their cemetery is » fine natural location, and an artesian well, 900 feet deep, constantly throws up its crystal stream of white ealphnr water, slid through the town also wind, th* beautiful lr<’quota river; «teer Its bed of rock that in places very dearly iadr ates the ice ►lide es the glaewib period.’ Here 4 -found Mr. M. Ml Xangfdd, formerly of Lowell in »prosperous vocation au-1 Rev, Mr. and Mis. Vessels, .formerly of Crown Point, Incased with their location and si Mrs. ■4, to say to their humer--ienda that they are peryond this place in an th, are Remington, Oxbersburgli. Beelfvilte and be connected with ns by welds so sfrongty com■nd all <>f them pointe of rvfh. Fortunate wilt beke county that succeed manections through the Z If JM f . »»» «*ouhr