Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1877 — MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS.

A steamship disaster in the Pacific Ocean is reported. The Atalama, having on board fifty passengers, and a crew of forty—ninety persons in all—is the unfortunate vessel. Seventy of those on hoard perished. Advices from the Texas border report tha Col. Young had crossed the Rio Grande in pursuit of depredators, and encountered a body of Mexican Indians. In the fight that ensued two of the latter were killed and three wounded. Col. Young burned the camp and property of the Indians. Twenty-four car-loads of silkH and teas have just arrived in New York from San Francisco by rail. The cargo, which was valued at 15,000,000, is believed to be the largest continental shipment ever made.