Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1883 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

On Tuesday last Sheriff Powell arJames Lamb on the ebarge of being implicated in stealing a number of horses from the Selick farm, in Walker township. In default of S6OO bail the prisoner was committed to jail. On© hundred and seventy new single Excelsior Seats have been ordered for the school building; also six Teacher Tables. They will lie here next week. Misses Hattie Gibson, of Brooklyn, New York, and Emma of Lafayette, visiting their sisters, Mrs Fred Cole and Miss Ida GiOso?, at this place. Uncle John Maseeyer received a severe dig in the ribs from a bevy timber which fell while adjusting a hay derriek. He iaable to be about. Willis J. Imes and George Norris, with their families, took their departure yesterday fox their future home in FiauKlin county, Nebraska. Remington Fair, 29th, 30th and 31st August. Every effort is making by the management to make it a success. Messrs. Ellis and Murray, of Kokomo, will occupy Leopold’s old stand as a action store. Tne School Board have accepted the new School building from the contractor. Mrs. S. A. Hemphill Is visiting friends in the sucker State. ’ Jas. N. Hemphill has returned to El Paso, Texas. Judge S. A. Huff, of Indianapolis, was in Rensselaer e-day. A son at A L. Willis’ Monday last. ' ■ - ® 1' ■■ ■> General Williams Wickham, a member of the “straighteut” Republican State Committee of Virginia, on Saturday accepted the Democrati e nomination to the Senate of Virginia from Hanover and Carolina counties. In his letter of acceptance he says“l regard the ‘Coalition Readjuster party,’ led by men seeking, as I think, only to advance their own personal ends, baleful to the best interests of the State, false in its pretensions, corrupt in its practices, and utterly hostile to every honest principle Government, Holding these oping ions of this party. lam in full accord with the Democratic party in this State.”

A WIDE AWAKE DRUGGIST.

Mr. F. B. Learning is always widawake io his business and spares ne pains to secure the best of every are tide in his line. He has secured tho agency for the celebrated Dr. King’s I\ew Discovery for Consumption.— The only certain cure known for Consumption, Coughs, Co ds. Hoarseness. Asthma, Hay Fever, Bronchitis, or any affection or the Throat and Lungs. Sold on a positive guarantee. Will give you a trial bottle free. Regular size $1 00. 3

THOUSANDS SAY SO.

Mr. T. W. Atkins, Girard, Kansas writes: “I never hesitate to recommend your Electric Bitters to ray eustoiviers, they give entire satisfaction and are rapid sellers.” Ele "trie Bitters are rhe puiest and best medicine known and will positively cure Kidney and Liver complaints. Purify the blood and regulate the bowels.— No family can afford to be without them. They will save hundreds of dollars in doctor’s bills every year.Sold at fifty cents a bottle by F. B. Learning. 3

The Pewter Age in New England.

In the early New England days wooden ware was in far more common use th MB would be supposed, and a handsome set of pewter was an enviable possession. As for china, any amount of that betokened unusual prosperity. There WM very little money in the farming districts of New England for many years ana numerous persons live in vastly more comfortable fashion now on the same land which gave their ancestors a bare living fifty years ago. We can have no idea what a serious thing it was in the last century, or early m this present one, to undertake any new expense ; for instance, sending a boy to college. ‘ To raise an extra two or three hundred a year meant that the men and women both should drudge early and late and deny themselves most cruelly. Any one who looks closely at the signs that ar® left us of the pewter-plate age in Massachusetts will find much that is interesting, and he may discover in the fields the nameless graves of many a hero and heroine, unmarked except by a rough lichened stone gathered from the abundant harvest of the soil. The building Of so many mills and the rapid growth of the manufacturing villages have afforded better markets; and beside the money that the young people have earned and brought home, the income of the farms has been made larger year by year, and and the farm houses and the way of living in them have steadily grown more comfortable. The pewter was not kll melted into bullets wherewith to fight our foes, but it is fast disappearing in other ways; th® great platters wer® one by one gathered to their rest by the tin peddlers when pewter was high in the war-time and the little plates nave been melted on the stoves by QOOMk >ll®, -