Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1877 — PERSONS AND THINGS. [ARTICLE]

PERSONS AND THINGS.

Orange wine is made in Florida. London boasts of 81,000 paupers. England refuses to abolish capital punishment. Canada is now sending beef and beer to England. A Catholic priest is building a church in Deadwood. Large linen cuffs are fastened with a gold pin instead of sleeve buttons. Newsboys began in America in 1848, with a speech of Daniel Webster’s. The area under wheat in Groat Britain was 22 per cent, less in 1876 than in 1860. A Maine man, while fishing recently, raised a bag of old silver coin out of the river. Two women have been appointed plionographers to the Supreme Court of Maine. It is estimated that 2,000,000 of buffalo hides are awaiting shipment from the trading points west of Dallas, Tex. The Mayor of New London, Conn., ordered the police to kill all unmuzzled dogs. His own pet was the first one brought. The State of Kentucky pays a dollar for a fox’s scalp, and this year nearly all the taxes in Adair county have been paid with scalps. The Count of Abrial, whose father was a peer of France under Charles X., and whose grandfather was Senator under Napoleon, is head waiter at a Paris case. His daughter is cashier. Statistics show 2,019 manufacturing establishments in Rhode Island, with .$50,000,000 aggregate capital, and employing 56,450 hands, who receive annual wages of $23,707,513. Emperor William of Germany has ordered a life-size portrait of himself for presentation to Minister Wasliburne, in recognition of his services in behalf of Germans iu Paris during the FrancoGerman war. Col. Sellers, otherwise -T. T. Raymond, passed the Treasury Department iu Washington, the other day, and said mildly: “There’s millions iki it!”—and immediately added, reflectively, “ there’s millions after it.” Ruof. Robertson of the Scotch Free Church, was suspended because ho wrote that certain passages in the Pentateuch were not written by Moses—i. e., that Moses did not write the account of his own death‘%nd burial. Ait Jaw, a Chinaman in San Francisco, was held by one of his countrymen while another cut off liis arm with a heavy cleaver. This was in retaliation for a refusal to pay a debt. Ah Jaw received prompt surgical attention, and will recover. The Marquis Mantegazza, condemned to imprisonment for having forged the signature of Victor Emanuel, is now undergoing liis sentence at the prison of San Giorgio, near Lucca, He asked not to have his head shaved, but the favor could not be granted. Benaiah Gibbs, the fashionable tailor of Montreal, lately died mid loi'l an immense fortune, his picture-gallery alone being valued at $150,090. Eighty of his best pictures, a building ami a lot of laud, and SB,OOO have been (bequeathed by him to found a public art gallery. The price of a Chinaman’s head Inis been fixed in San Francisco by the Mongolians themselves. One was arrested recently for carrying concealed weapons, and pleaded in court that, as he knew secret enemies had offered SSOO for his head, he felt justified in preserving it. Mr. Monroe, Green, who is employed by the State at the Hudson river fish hatching-places, Juts so far this season secured more-than' 3,000,000 shad eggs, and has turned ],030,000 young shad into tlic Hudson river, 90 per - cent, of which he thinks will reach maturity. It is said that the late General-Ad-miral Ward of China, wl to was a native of Salem, Mass., bequeathed his fortune of $10,000,000 to his Salem relations ; but, as he was a Chinese subject, the money went back to the source from whence it came, although liis father spent eleven years iu China in a vain effort to bring the officials to terms.

Mr. Thomas Biiassey, eldest son of the great railway contractor who left each of Lis three children upward of $10,000,000, contrived to get leave of absence from his Parliamentary duties, and make a tour in his steam -yacht around the world in forty-six weeks. Mr. Brassey passed the examination for a certificate of seamanship some time ago. By connecting the New Mexico and Arizona telegraph systems near Santa Fe, New Mexico, recently, the only continuous southern line across the continent was formed. The next step proposed is to connect the military line of Texas with that of Arizona and New Mexico by running 250 miles of wire down the Bio Grande from Messilla to Fort Stockton. One of Sherman’s soldiers cut a painting from its frame in one of the Itliett family mansions in South Carolina, and sold it in Philadelphia for ten dollars. Neither he nor the purchaser knew that it was more than two centuries old, and was valued high among the thousands. It has just been discovered in Cincinnati, aud probably the rightful owner will get it back. A TRIFLE. They loved and laughed, they kissed and chaffed, They threw the, happy hours away ; That’s the way the world goes round— That’s the story of Yesterday. They talk of late, and calculate, Aud keep accounts, and measure, and weigh; That’s the way the world goes round— That’s the story of To-day. They’ll see on high in yonder sky The Hod whose power destroyeth sorrow ; That ’s the way the world goes round— That’s the, story of To-morrow. — Belgravia. The violent hatred of Chinamen on the Pacific coast, expressed in numerous murders, nearly put a stop to their coming; but of late they are arriving by the shipload. Four thousand landed iu Ban Francisco in three weeks. Most of these were Tartars, of which class of the' Mongolian race only a few hundred had previously come to this country. They are darker than Chinamen proper, and are said to be more vicious. At Monaco recently an Englishman named Walker lost $15,000 —the last of his money—by gambling, and the next day lie thing himself headlong from a steep rock and was almost instantly killed. His wife and only child were staying at the time with friends in Munich. Walker’s total losses amounted to $75,000. Ho had amassed a considerable fortune iu the cutlery trade at Sheffield. Eugland, and squandered it all at gaming tables in various parts of the Continent. Before the drought of 1864 Los Angeles county, Cal., was renowned for the number of her cattle. They literally covered a thousand lulls, and it was sometimes dangerous for anybody but a vaquero to go out of town any considerable distance. During 1864 hundreds of thousands of hides of horned cattle were sent out of the county. These pelts were stripped from cattle that had died of starvation, and they were called murrain hides. The disappearance of these cattle inaugurated the era of farming in Los Angeles. It was a blessing in disguise, and most of the thousand productive faims of which the county now boasts owe their existence f.o that drought,