Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1877 — MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS.

Failed : John G. Hodge & Co., wholesale stationers, San Francisco, Cal.; the LaSalle County Savings Bank, Ottawa, Ill.; the Simpson Bank, the oldest banking institution in Lawrence, Kan. The Rev. J. J. Bloomer, pastor of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, in Elmira, N. Y., has been committed to jail for contempt of the Recorder’s Court, in refusing to answer a question put by the court in reference to a case of alleged bigamy. Tho pastor stands on the ground of professional confidence, not church discipline. The safe iu the Essex County Treasurer's office, at Windsor, Canada, was robbed of $40,000 recently. The safe was blown open and completely wrecked. The case of alleged improper oale of stamps by the Postmaster at Stockton, Me., which was carried before the United States Court at Portland as a test case, has resulted iu the conviction and sentence of J. F. Frye, Postmaster. The court is reported as holding that under the present Postal laws Postmasters making illegal sales of stamps by discount or exchange for goods can bo punished. Lynching is reported as follows : In Tennessee, of a negro named Alexander Boot for the murder of a white man named Daughty ; in Georgetown, Col., of one Schumma, a notorious outlaw.