Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1880 — Pilot Grove Facts and Fancies. [ARTICLE]

Pilot Grove Facts and Fancies.

Exhibition No. 1 gave entire satisfaction. Our mail failed to make connection last Friday. Old father Stoner, the oldest martin Newton county, died very suddenly, on the 22d. Most all the schools in Jackson township are closed for the holidays. Jim Low, mail carrier, won’t have his drive of D. B.’s to the grave yard until warm weather.

Win. Hufty has been home for the past week, spending holidays. Will Will return next Monday to fc>t, Mary's as operator iu one of the offices on the C. L. & C. Ad. Seward is not in the rabbit business this winter. Ben. Miller hits purchased a very line stallion, English draft—“ Bay John.” “Windy Dick” and “ Bimlet” will put up ice this winter, no preventing Providence. A BRICK. The sunflower is put to extraordinary account in Lithuania. The seeds yield at fiist pressure excellent salad oil, and the residue forms an excellent oil cake tor cattle, who also relish the leaves and stalks chopped up. The flowers a little short of full bloom are, when cooked, nearly as good as artichokes, and are iu 'be garden very attractive to bees. The leaf well dried is used as tobacco. Toe seed receptacles are made into blotting paper, a .d the inner parts of the stalk is manipulated into a line writing paper.— 'l'he more woo iy portions of the plant which attains great size, is used for fuel. I he best se ■ 1 is obtained in the Crimea. As an anti-malaiia agent the suu-liower is most valuable. The Crawford County Democrat says: “The buck negroes of the South are led to believe they caD marry white wom'-n iu Indiana, tor the Indianapolis Journal lias told them as an inducement to come, that “nobody’s daughter’s demand white husbands or none except the daughters of Democrats.” This is a plain invitation for negroes to come. Was this an inudverlauce itt the Journal, or was it a duly considered inducement ottered to the darkies to come to this State? The ceremony of baptism by immersion was celebrated in Texas the other day, and when the fourteen candidates walked down to the water, fifteen revolvers were deposited on the, bank of the stream, that of the preacher making the fifteenth.

The estate'of a gentleman who died in Boston ah at a year ago was thought to be insolvent- The recent advauce in prices will make the estate solvent with naif a million for the heirs. A Boston woman cut her dress from a pal tern in a magazine dated 1873, before she discovered it wasn’t 1879, and it took three doc'ors to tide her oyer that long, louelyjnight. “Yes, I want my daughter to study rhetoric.” said die mother, “for she can fry pancakes now without smoking the house all up.” The “Dry Goods Palace” of Messrs. Speer & Ramey, Delphi, In*!., is all that its n. me indicates—vast piles of attractive and desirable goods neatly and trsteiuliy arranged in handsome and commodious rooms. Gentlemanly proprietors and polite and attentive clerks, low prices complete the makeup of the establishment. Advertisement next week. On last Saturday evening Culp Grange No. 102 elected die following o&cers. VV. M. —John G. Culp. O. —George W. Houser. Treasurer..—John Tillett. Secretary.—J. M. Tillett. Installation of officers Saturday evening, January 3d, 1880. Owing.to- the slippery condition of the sidewalks last Friday evening, one •of the heavenly bodies, weight about 145 lbs., came down in the neighborhood of the school house. Will B. Austin is spending vacation with friends Ln lieusselasr.j

Jasper Circuit Court convenes next Monday. Try the Tub Oyster, at * R-E.5,.& Oq. H. C- Craft, of Delphi, was in Rensselaer, Tuesday. Mioce meat, 12$ c. per lb., at RE. 8. & Co. Cloyd, infant son ot Newt. Imes, died at this place, Tuesday last. R E. Spencer & Co. have the best Sweet Cider m town. Dr. F. P. Bitters has arrived, and will associate with Dr. Washburn in tlze practice ot medicine. Dates. Figs, &c., for holidays, at R E. S. & Co. The wife and daughter of Mr. Bitters are vi»itin6 friends in Rochester, Peru, ana at other points. Col. Healey died at Goodland, today, His remains will be brought to this place to-morrow noon for interment. Uncle John Kenton, an old and highly esteemed citizen of Jasper county, died at his residence, 4$ miles north of Rensselaer, Sunday morning last, aged about 8q years.