Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1879 — Declined to Admit Them. [ARTICLE]

Declined to Admit Them.

“Simon L<*e” Theatre Saturday night. Mrr. Cole is visltlrg in T.nfnyutt*. Circuit Court convenes next Men* day. If you want n cbtap job onll on Benn. Spring birds have made their ap pearanee. Mrs. 11. E. James is quite sick with lung fever. D. A- Fawcett returned to Dclnhi last Monday. Splendid pike are being taken from the Iroquois Thunder showers are becoming quite common. A little child ot Ruljh Fendig died Tuesday • veiling. Sunday school concert at the M F. church next Sunday night. M. E. social at the residence of Mr. E. L. Clark this (Friday) evening. Rev. W. G. Vessels will preach at the M. E. church next Sunday at 10;30 a. tn. “Port. Dunlap has got the bridge done” and Phillips & Morgan have a new cup case. Do you want a painter? Bean will do your work equal to any in Chicago at fair living prices. Mr. Horace E. James, editor of the Union, was appointed Post Master at Rensselaer on the 6th inst. It whs not St. James who was appointed Post Master at Rensselaer on the 6th inst. It was H. E. James.

Four poems on Spring have been received this week. But they were to rod-hot, hud to burn them them. During this beautiful weather the average young lady’s thoughts centre on “Moonlight, music, love and flowers.” Miss L.Meredith will open a millinery store over [ne’e’ drug store about 21st of Mutch. Your patronage is solicited. What is the use of wearing old clothes when you can buy nil-wool scotch cassitnere suit for sll, at A. Leopold's. Several young ladies have favored this office with culls during the past week. The fail sex are always welcome. Come again. The debris is being removed from the sheet in front of the new hotel. Bv-the-way: Why not have the postofflee in one of those new rooms? Why don't “A. Dodger” in the Union add M. D. to his non de plume, and then we could tell who is writing puffs for the County Physician. G. Set the arches and hunt up those old bails and mallets for (he time of year approaches when young ladies and gentlemen particularly enjoy the out-door sport of croquet. Next Saturday night the thrilling three act drama entitled “Simon Lee” will be presented at Starr’s Ha'l by home talent. This is a highly sensational drama and will draw a big crowd.

’[’here ate seveiitytbrec marriageable widows, and four hundred and forty-nine matriagable young ladies within the corporate limits of our village. Yet some of our young men like Oliver Twist long for more. Rev. Gill err Smuli’ will preach in the Presbyterian church on the fourth Sabbath (23) of March. In the morning, funerai sermon of Mrs. Aseneth Goon, subject, “What is Death?” Evening “What is Mau.” All are invited. There will be two first-class weddings in high life next week. We are creditably informed that one wil| take place in s he Church of God and the other will be strictly private. The particulars in our next. Stand aside!

Rensselaer is one of the natural ■curiosities of the age. It is an incorporate town without a marshal. Indeed we have not had a marshal for about two y?ars, consequently our streets and crossings are almost impassible. Marriage licenses have been issued since last Friday to the following parties: John N. Blown to Anna K. Mauk. W. Scott Brown to Sarah E, Prevo, Frank M. Welsh to Mary H. Bullis, George Daniels to Amanda J. Ott,Franklin R. Clark to Ann E. Cov ington, All Pensioners of the Government (except Jeff Davis) will do well to call on Mordecai F. Cnik-ote, Attor-ney-at-L iw of Rensselaer, Indiana, and ascertain whether it. is SSOO or SI,OOO due them under the provision of the arrears of Pension act approved January 25th, 1879. He can till. Hoi.se to Rent The house of Mrs. Rosannh Mein tosh, recently occupied by Peter Youngberg is now for rent. Any person desiring a■ good dwelling house large enough for a sm til family, ear. procure the same by calling on M°rdceai F. Cldleote, AHoruey-at Law, Renssel ter, Ind. The three funniest songs now published are entitled.- “I’ll tell your mother,”price, 30cenis. “The Housekeeper’s Complaint,” price 30 cents. ''The Wonderful Musician,” price 30 cents. In ord-r to introduce these side-splitting comic songs, we will mail the three to any address for 53 ■cents, in postage stumps. W L Uo., Livupoul,

Quarterly meeting nt the M. E. church Saturday and Bunday, March *22, and 23. First service citi Batui« day at. 2;30 p. m. Quarterly conference nt 3:30 p. tn. Rev. O. 8. Burgnof. of Monticello, will supply the place of Rev. Dr. Godfrey. John Lee, Frd Hoover and Simon Wile, the new directors for the Stats Prison North, met In Michigan City Uel Monday and organised by electing the Hon. John Lee President ot the hoard. James Murdock was afterwahh elected Warden. Mr. M. is a reaidont of Tippecanoe county and served two terms as Sheriff of that County. In Ute’ Citlxeu's Bank stands a clock--not “my Grandfather's clock that stopped short, never to go again" but one of M. Shuler’s clocks, mantifa.’turvd hi Detroit, Mich., with one of his card board fronts, on which a number of the enterprising business an«i professional men of (he city have come to “time” and had their bus! lies# cards printed on its from in tins style.

An emigrant train left Rensselaer on last Monday carrying ns a part of its precious cargo Charles H. Price, Hope B. Millet, Ira W. Yeoman, et al., all of whom were very anxious to form a colony in and become permanent residents of the Prison at Michigan City, but owing to the limber condition of the party on their arrival, the authorities made the great mistake of their lives and rejected them. With bqt one exception they could have been spared. * U. 9 Joseph Antrim, formerly a resident of Barkley township, was burned to death in Rice county, Kansas, on Friday Febr airy 28, 1879, Mr. Antrim was a young man about 22 years old. He moved with his father, John E Antrim, to Kansas about three years sice,and located on a claim. Tne accident occurred by a neighbor putting out fire which caught in the stable belonging to Mr. John E. Antrim. Young Antrim in attempting to save the life of his father’s horses, (one of which he did save) lost his own life by being burned to death.