Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1885 — The Donavin’s Coming. [ARTICLE]

The Donavin’s Coming.

Donavin s Original Tennesseeans j are all of extraordinary voice, bro’t ; h} Lie best culture and years of 1 constant practice to a liigh state of cultivation. T lio*y are no humbug no burnt cork artists, but genuine, fiist class* singers. No lover of song, the best of all music, should fail to hear them. They appear at the Opera House, Rensselaer, Saturday, October 24th. w* ,

What the Ter.nessefans "laim. That theyffiave the best shouting tenor living. That they have the purest and sweetest colored soprano travelling. That they have the- very best basso with any company. That they have the best colored tenor travelling in America. That the present is the best chosen and most novel program of any colored company. That as a chorus they are unapproachable. Ehat as a company they are the best. Makbied— At the residence of the I ride’s parents, near Rensselaer, October 13th, 1885, by Rev. Peter Hinds, Mr. James W. Pierce and Miss Ida C. Coons, all of Jasper county. If good wishes amount to anything, ‘Jim’ and Ida will have fair sailing in the voyage of life. At the residence of M. E. Chilcote, Esq., Rensselaer, Ind., by Rev. Gilbert Small, October 13, 1885, Mr. Amanzo Thomas, of Witoka, Minnesota, and Miss May Miller, of Rensselaer. A large party was present to witness the marriage nuptials and congratulate t- e wedded couple. The bride will carry with her to her new home in the great northwest the best wishas of a host of loving friends.

James Plummer, an orphan boy who resided with a Mr. Jonathan Vanhorn in the southwestern part of Benton county, accidentally shot himself with a Henry rifle, Thursday, on the farm of Mr. Shipman, in Newton township, this cfiunty. He was with a party on their *ay to Beaver Lake and the Kankakee river on a hunting expedition. The hoy died in two or three minutes after receiving the wound. Coronor B He, with Dr. Hartsell, as physician, and James W. Douthit as clerk, held an inquest.

Mrs. Sarah Cooper who recently died in Barkley township, was tie mother of eight children, viz: William, Harrison, Jane P att, John W., George M., Sarah A. McClearv, Emily Guss, aud* Abigail Call, and also had charge of two orphan grandchildren and a child of John Davisson. With her husband she resided in J asper county 45 years. John R. Gray has resigned the Trusteeship of Wheatfield township, and Mr. Shir r has been appointed to the vacancy by Auditor Robinson.