Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1879 — An Album Quilt. [ARTICLE]

An Album Quilt.

My lady friends are piecing me an album quilt The pattern is a hexagon composed of seven email hexagons and six small diamonds. One solid white hexagon forms the center, which is surrounded by six others of the same size, but of two different colors; the whole surrounded and completed by six small diamonds. Now, some one tell me how to have it put together—whether with solid hexagons, same size as pattern, or with solid diamonds, and what color. Wish I had the names of the “Home ” ladies on some of my pieces. You who love flowers should see Texas in the spring when she has on her floral robe. I do not think I exaggerate when 1 say a hundred varieties may be seen at one glance of the eye. There are numerous varieties of Cactus, some of which are very pretty and curious. Bachelor. CLEBUBKE, Tex. The widow Ashlock, aged 48, lived on her own extensive farm at Elizabethtown, Ky., and one of her employes was William Lewis, aged 18. She fell in love with him, and he doubtless fell in love with her money. The relatives

opposed a marriage, and drove William away from the place with guns, but the determined widow joined him in Indianapolis, bought him a new suit of clothes, married him, and took him home.