Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1880 — Fire. [ARTICLE]

Fire.

Soon after daylight Suuday morn ing, an alarm of fire was yelled from the north east part of town. It proved to be the b?;ick building known as the Mead property, and has been occupied ouly a short time by Rev. Coffman. Mr. Coffman had started his morning fire, when he soon discovered the house to be on fire. The near neighbors were soon at the place, but all attempts to save its burning proved fruitless, and imme diately the work of carrying out the household effects was resorted to. thing except their safe and dishes were saved, but with the usual ouffs and scars to be expected on such an occasion. To the family it was a svere shook that oan only be attributed to the effects of a bad flue. Mr. Meads loss, we learn, will principally be met by insuranoe. About four o’olock in the afternoon, while the tne ruins of the former building were yet smoking, the Kirk property, at tne corner of Ohio and North Sts., was discovered to be on fire. Water was freely administered and the building saved. It originated from an ash barrel in an adjoining out building. Just at sunrise Tuesday morning last, the alarm of fire again aroused the people to the sense of their duty, End lo! it was the beautiful residence of Mr. Adam Coover wrapped in flames. The morning fires had been built and in some few moments the fire was discovered between the ceiling and roof. Men came rushing from all directions, but by the scare ity of water and want of ladders, everything proved of no avail in resisting the fiend; saving the building was at once abandoned and all bands at onoe begun carrying out she goods and with the exception of one bed and some clothing, in one of the rooms np stairs, everything was safely removed. It was a large two story house, well built and worth at least two thousand dollars, and was oovered by thirteen hundred and fifty dollars insuranoe. Indeed it must come to the aged

Mr. & Mrs. Coover a severe shock, for many years they have made it tin ir home’ were well fixed and it is hen: t rending to see the fruits of their many years of hard labor in a momen’ t irnsd into ashes. —Remington Reporter. Go to Mrs. llealey’s for the cheapest and best millinery goods in town Wirt, the Dentist, extracts teeth without pain, by the use of Nitrous Oxyde.

Gray hairs are honorable, but few like them. Clothe them with the hies of youth by using Ayer’s Hair Vigor, A Philadelphia quack informs the public that he is not at all exclusive. “Is a patient wants it gentle and mild, I’in a liomiEopath, and when anybody wants thunder and lightning, I’m an allopath.” te** General W. Harney, of the United Stales army, tlie old Indian fighter, is temporarily stopping in New York. Re is 82 years old, six feet three inches iu height, aud stands straight as an arrow. It is so in politics, business, aud every where else in life. The man whom you boost up the tree not only forgets to toss you down some of the fruit, but. i.-, as likely as not to pelt you with tho drawings. Rev. Joseph Nesbit, of Lock Haven, announced as his te-xt on a recent Sunday, “Hold fast the form of sound words.” He then repeated from memory the entire shorter catechism, and closed the servioe with prayer without a word of comment.

A Hungarian exhibited in a phrenoiogi al nruseu u two skulls of dis ferent proportions. “Whose is the large skull?” asked a spectator. “It, belongs to the celebrated Attilla, King of the Huns.” “And the small one?” ‘‘Also to Attilla, but when he was a child.” So great is the faith reposed in Ayer’s Pills by those who have given them atrial, that the consumption of them almost passes belief, far exceeding any precedent. They cleanse the blood, improve the appetite, promote digestion, restore healthy action, and regulate every function. They are pleasaut tb take, gentle in their operation, yet thorough, searching, and powerful in subdueing disease. A pedagogue endeavored to instil prudence into the minds es his pupils by making them count a hundred slowly before speaking, or in a matter of importance, five hundred. Finishing a lecture upon the subject, he took his stand by tho stove, and after some minutes observed that the lips of all his scholars were moving slowly and noislessly. Presently and simultaneously they all broke out: "Four hundred and ninety nine! Five hundred!. Master. your coat-tails are all on fire!”

The conversion of a certain Demcratic newspaper rominds us of a certain Beaver family, in Pennsylvania, who refused all the kind overtures of a good old Methodist minister until one of the sons got bit wtih a snake. The minister was summoned, and in his prayer said: “We thank Thee, oh. Lord, for rattlesnakes; send one to bite Sam and one to bite Bill, and an awful big one to bite the old man, for nothing but rattlesnakes will convert the Beavei family.—Chicago Inter-Ocean.