Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1882 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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Cub. Reynolds, of White County* gave us a short call Wednesday. Ho! ye Flax men!—Bares & Havens have just received a load or Flax Seed which they are now ready to loan. —The Chicago and Indianapolis Air Line road, wnen completed, will be ten miles shorter than any road from Indianapolis to Chicago. The ladies of Rensselaer and vicinity are respectfully invited to attend the grand millinary opening of Miss Emma Martin on the sth and 6th of April in the new s f ore room on front s:reot. On next Sunday morning, R. 8. Dwiggins will speak at the Christian church upon the text "the fool hath a; id in bis heart there is no God.” Those persons who think that chris tianity is in danger of being submeged, by the deluge of infidelity, are especially invited to attend. —«•>- The Fowler Era relates the incidents of a woman of that place horsewlipiug a man lately, for an offered insult.

A cow at Vickburg ran her tongue through a lattice work, when an tinneighborly mule made a snap and bit off four inches of it. A Florida alligator that doesn’t get shot at twenty-six times in a winter, by some fellow from the north, thinks life is fearfully monotonous. A Kansas man and woman have been married to each other once a year for four years, a divorce having separated them after every union exs cept the last one. Themes for pblpit meditatios at Presbyterian church next Sabbath will be—Morning: The tive character of Opha and Ruth. Evening: The nature and neceasity of repentence.

Some time ago Mrs. Brown, of Ailen county, Ky., gave birt 1 to twins. Notwithstanding there is but four minutes difference in their ages, yet one was born in 1881 and the other in 1882, one in December and the other in January, one on Sunday and the other on Monday. Rhoad Island elects a governor and legislature on April 5. Oregon elects a governor and part of a legislature June 5 Tennessee elects a governor and legislature August 3, and two days later ‘Alabama does the same and Kentucky chooses a clerk of the court of appeals. W. A. Scott owns a cow that is supposed to be the result of a cross between a cow and deer. The moth er of this half-breed range ! on the ridge between here and Waugh’s ferry, and for years the same ground was the -hunt of a lordly old buck that has been seen and fired at many times. The half breed alluded to is of small stature, with head, nose, legs and feet grealy resembling a doer. She is a famous milker, and Mrs. Scott makes nine pounds of butter per week from the cream taken from her milk.—Shasta Courier.

The spectacle of General Longstreet with the ear of the Admistration in his teeth, is calculated to remind one of a go-as-you-please con test between a bull dog and a mule. Wheeling Register

Perhaps there aro co orsd men in the South who sti.l believe that the Northern Republicans are their political friends. In 1890 there will not be a negro in the country ignorant enough to be misinformed on the subject. We thus give a fact well known at present ten years in which to dis serainale itself among the colored people. —Atlanta Constitution. The Republican township contention Saturday under the dictation of “Wide-Awake was not hamonious, but rather acrimonious. Quite a number declare they will “parade” their “political courage’ to suit themselves—as they please and not with a view to suit the critical eye of “WideAwake.”

A Ward to Mothers.

Mothers should remember it is a tooet important duty at this season to look after the health of their families and cleahse the malaria and impurities from their systems, and that nothing will tone up the stomach and liver, regulate the bowels, and purity the blood so perfectly as Parker’s Ginger Tonic, advertised in our columns.—Post. See other column. Hon. A. H Stephens says that he knew Mr, Webster intimately and well from 1843 until his death, and he does not think that there is the slight est foundation for the 'rumor that Webster prepared or intended at any time to prepare a speech on a d.ffer ent line from that of the 7th of March. “I lived next door to him,” adds Mr. Stephens, “and for several weeks before the 7th of March conferred with Mim repeatedly upon the general principles covered by that speech.”

Two Youiro fellows in Warsaw quarrelled recently and to preserve th«ir “honor” it waa airanged that they should play a set of three games of dominoes, upon the solemn understanding that the loser should swallow a dose of the deadliest poison procurable. Tho compact was carried out. The game was played in a jpafe, in presence of seconds. The younger of the two fellows, a lad of sixteen named Stanilaus Julian, was the loser. He lifted the glass containing the poison to his lips and diank off its contents at a draught. Five minutes later he was a corpse.