Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1877 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The Democratic Sentinel. FRIDAY AUGUST 10. 1877.

Butter 12 cents per lb. Eggs 8 cents per dozen. Clear side 124 cents per lb. Bacon and Hams 12} to 15. Shoulders 10 to 12. Potatoes 25c. per bushel, Green apples 50 to 75. Beans $2 to $2 40 per bushel. Flour (winter wheat) $2 00 to $2 60 per quarter bbl. Fred. Hoover is in town to-day. Mine host, Moore, furnished the “hash” for the circus company. Leopold has his store-rooms chuck full of new and handsome goods. The continued dry weather is working serious injury to the growing corn. Th® wife of D. B. Miller returned from her visit to Remington Monday. Charley Roberts, of this place, is entertaining his mother and brother, of Decatur county. The Remingtonians “scooped” the Francesvillains, at base-ball, yesterday, at this place. Church & Hartley, of Remington, are building a brick engine house to their spacious grain elevator. There is talk of organizing a Lodge of the Knights of Pythias at this place. The number of delinquent tax-pay-ers tn Jasper county, fur the year 1876, is 1631. Remington grain dealers are pay 20 cts. per bushel for oats, and $1 per bushel for flax seed. And now ex-Becretary Belknap is an applicant for office—a foreign ap pointment preferred. Cheek ! Mrs. Georgianna, wife of Hon. Anson Wolcott, died at Wolcott, White county, Ind., on the 4th inst. F. J. Sears, Zimri D wiggins, and R. H. Purcupile, with their families, returned from Illinois last Sunday. Leopold sells the genuine and justly celebrated “Walker” Boot, and claims ' to have the credentials giving him that privilege.

200,000 Brick for HALF I Ai ply to F. J. Sears & Co. Rensselaer, Ind. July 27-. 1877. Professor C. P. Hopkins and Sam. Rodgers with their “little toots” assisted the New York Circus band last Tuesday. Capt. Henry Bowman will go to Lincoln, Nebraska, in a short time, and take a position in the office of the State Treasurer, Luther Bensonjlecturedgto an appreciative audience last evening.*— He lectures agaiu to-night, at the M. Church. Admission—lo cents. Mrs. Jno. Purcupile, and her sister, Mrs. Crouch, of Monticello, arrived yesterday at noon, on a visit to friends in Rensselaer. The next annual fair of the Starke County Agricultural Society will be held on the 27th, 28th and 29th September, 1877. So says the Enterprise. Frank Cotton, of Francesville, made a flying-visit to this point, Tuesday. He reports evidences of reviving business. Jake Stairs and “Jug” Pettit, of Monticello, accompanied a “pea-nut and juicenary stand” connected with the circus. The Clerk of the Circuit Court issued letters of administration on the estate of John M. Austin, dec’d., to David J. Thompson, on the 6th inst. Esau Hart, Chas. Jouvenat, Esq.J W. L. Rich, and Dep. Sher.ff Donnelly, of Remington, on last Tuesday made the county seat of Jasper their objective point.

Ed. Maxwell, editor of the Morocco Courier, was in town Tuesday. He reports that no effort is now being made to remove the county-seat from Kentland. H. I. Adams, Esq., is now a resident of Rensselaer, he having moved his family into the old Milroy property. He will assume the duties of Treasurer on next Monday. We understand the bricklayers now employed od the “Starr” block will commence work on Rhoades’ brick so soon as they have finished their present job. Capt. Henry Snyder, of the Monticello Woolen Mills, passed through PnnaanliLHi . He made a “short stop”—about sufficiently long to shake hands with a few friends. At noon, Sunday of last week, in New Albany, this State, Mat. Wolf murdered his father, Martin Wolf, an old, highly esteemed, and industrious citizen. Whisky. To All Whom It May Concent, I will dress machine guards, from 3 t»3| dollars per set: setinew shoes for $1.20; Fit and set 4 old shoes for 60 cents, other work in proportion. Strictly for Cash. Samp Ebwin. “Sec” Seward, of Pilot Grove, was in town Tuesday. He reports the Sentinel as having many friends in that neighborhood, and predicts that so soon as crops are placed in market it will lead, in circulation, at that post-office. So mote It be.

“Scooped out”—paper reduced onehalf in size and price, and employes discharged— all in six months. We emphatically deny that it is our work! Such was not our object in locating here, and those who have been playiD B upon the fears, the jealousy, and the vanity of our up-town neighbor, vausmg him to send representatives —like the “hot-corn” peddlers of other days—through the streets, about public places and around show-grounds crying—“only a quarterl“—“please try it, if only for three months!”— have much to answer for.