Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1877 — DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. [ARTICLE]

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.

Plant. The New York and New Haven steamer, C. H. Northam, was burned at the former city last woek.' Three colored men perished in the flames. Tho vessel was valued at $175,000. The failuro of Evans, Dalzoll & Co., iron manufacturers, Pittsburgh, is announced. Their liabilities are estimated at $700,000. David Stillman and wife, aged invalids, were found in their dwelling, murdered, at Bridge port, Ct. A colored man is held on suspicion. Went. A number of the contractors and employes on the new Custom House at St. Louis have been indicted by tho Grand Jury of tho United States District Court. It has been developed that this cosily structure, upon which Uncle Sam has already spe: t between $1,000,000 and $2,000,000, does not rest upon solid stone, as specified in tho contract, but that 100 of tho foundation piers, at least, are composed of unsubstantial concrete ; but these are not half the developments now made, nor a tithe of those yet o come. Information comes from the West that,while moving tho Sioux from the Rid Cloud Agency to the Missouri river, 1,7000 f them broke away, and are row on the war-path. Gen. Terry lias ordered the cavalry to prepare for a winter campaign. Those who thus deserted are operating in the Deadwood country, and have already attacked trains and caused general consternation. The desperadj Frank Itande was conveyed from St. Louis to Galesburg, 11., on the 28th ult., and lodged in the Knox county jail. The Second National Buik of Lafayette, Ind., has been compelled to suspend business in oonscqucnce of the heavy defalcation of the cashier, Charlos T. Mayo. His stealings amount to about $60,000. A farmer near Champaign, 111., has lost by cholera, within a few days, ninety-five hogs. Tho disease is spreading in that section. Tho real name of the desperado Frank Rande is Charles Arthur Van Zandt. He served five years in the Northern ludiana State prison, and was one of the most unruly convicts that ever stepped inride of a penitentiary. L. P. Hilliard, A. W. Edwards, John Reid and Martin Ryan; officers of the collapsed Protection Life Insurance Company, of Chicago, have been indicted for perjury in swearing to false statements of the financial cpnditiou of the concern. George W. Stanford, Henry Greonebnum and E. F. Runyan, late members of tho West Chicago Park Board, have also been indicted for conspiracy to defraud the city. ( harles McGill, of Cleveland, Ohio., became incensed at his wife because she persisted in leaving him, and murdered her by shooting nine pistol bullets iulo her body. A young man named Henry Blackman, living near Birmingham, Mich., quarreled with his mother and sister, in Ihe absence of his father, and wound up by shooting and killing them both, and setting fire to tho house and barn. Sou* h. A Columbia (S. C.) dispatch says Congressman Srualls, who was recently convicted of bribery, has been sentenced to a term of three years in the State prison. Bishop Marvin of the M. E. Church South, died last week at hi) home in St. Louis, aged 51 years. J. J. Wright (colored). Associate Justice of the South Carolina Supremo Court, has resigned. Gov. Wade Hampton, of Sou'll Carolina, in his message to the Legislature strongly, deprecates the repudiation of tho State’s oblige tions, and argues that the settlement of the public-debt question should be made on a basis which shall not impair the credit of the State. He urges the fostering of the public-school system, to give education to all classes. Two sensational tragedies, with love and jealousy as the inciting causes, are reported from the South. At Montgomery, Ala., Antonio Nicrosi shot and killed his flame, Miss Aurelia Sharp, and then blew his own brains out. At Norfolk, Va., a boy of 19, named Godfrey, killed Miss Winiugder, aged 17, and then shot himself. Four of the directors of the Union Banking Company, of Baltimore, have been indicted on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the creditors of the bank.