Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1879 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Circuit Court is still in session. There will be no Temperance meeting on Friday evening, Nov. 7, giving all a chance to hear Susan B- Anthony. Remember!-The Howe Sewing Machines at Fendig’s, Should those selling tickets to the lecture course, happen to not speak to you on the subject, just rush to the post-office, or Starr’s, or Imes’, or Kannal’s and get one yourself. See card of R. S. & Z. Dwiggin.% Money to loan at 7 per cent interest. The I. L. A. course is excellent, and deserves your liberal patronage. Do your duty as a Christian, and law abiding citizen, and purchase a season ticket. Mra. “Ben” Smoot left on Tuesday last to visit friends in lowa. The Willett application for license case, appealed from the Commissioners’ to the Circuit Court, came up this week and license refused. “Bob” Gregory, Esq., of Monticello, made an able and earnest argument in favor of the applicant, but ii availed nothing. Mrs. Alice Vehrs, it seems, previous to her marriage had been employed by her father, Lewis Mosier, to perform general farm work at the stipu lated sum of two dollars and fifty cents per week. At the present term of the Circuit Court she brought action for amount due, and judgment was rendered in her favor. The Nowels House, Kirtley & Son proprietors, is now open to the public. It is a large and well arranged establishment, newly furnished, the table supplied with the b< st in the market, and the management will exert every effort to accommodate guests in a manner that will be appreciated.— Terms reasonable. Give ttie Nowels House a trial. Prime fresh Oysters at Spencer & Legg’s. They dish them up in any style desired, or will sell them by the can. Parties supplied on short notice and at reasonable rates. Give them a call.

As Mrs. George C. Smith, of Portland, Oregon, was passing along the street, some fellow indulging in wild pistol practice shot off one of her ear rings. It was a close and most unpleasant call for the lady.

It is only the female sex who can rip, darn and tear without being profane. Professor—Can you tell of what parents the great Napoleon was born? Student—Of Cors i-caa.-Yale Record. “This shows the power of mind over matter,” said the editor as he condensed a 10 verse poem to a couplet. Tipsy Chandler has promised that at the next Republican meeting iif! will sing “The Song of the Shirt”—the bloody one. A number of Swiss colonists have just purchased 75,000 acres in Nebraska. General Tom Thumb is 54 years old, weighs 75 pounds, and says he has retired from the show business. The New York usury Inw makes it a State’s prison offense, after Janunry 1, to lend money at more than 6 per cent. The most novel joint stock company yet formed is at Chester, Pa., where where 15 stockholders own an animal said to be the best coon dog in the country. In a deed to a large tract of land now on record at Santa Rosa, Cal., a mistake in ths number of the town ship locates the land 12 miles out in the ocean. It is believed that there is documentaryevidence going to show that not less than 500,000 acres of land in Texas are clouded by fraudulent titles, mostly gotten up since 1872.