Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1878 — DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. [ARTICLE]

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.

East. It is reported from New York that a fire on tho steamship Hermann, during the trip from Bremen, damaged tho cargo $5,000. The crew wore working many hours before the fire was extinguished, the passengers in the meantime being greatly alarmed. It is reported from New York that “Downer A St. John, drag brokers at No. 20 Cedar street, have failed, and made an assignment to G. W. Alcott. Liabilities estimated at $200,000. The house is well known, and has done an extensive business. The failure w r as precipitated by the recent suspension of E. J. Dunning, Jr., note broker, who held a considerable amount of the firm’s paper. Alcott says Dunning now owes tho fiina 006,000.” A Hartford (Ct.) dispatch, of Jan. 15, reports a serious railroad accident on the Connecticut Wostcm railroad just boyond Tariffville, about ten miles from Hartford, at 10 o’clock that evening. An excursion train returning from the Moody and Sa>-.key meeting at Hartford fell through a trestle bridge into the Farmington river. Two engines, one baggage and threo passenger oars went down. The bodies of two men and three women had been recovered, and others were supposed to be in the wreck. Gen. ’George B. McClellan was inaugurated Governor of New Jersey, Jan. 15, at Trenton. About 15,000 persons assisted, the procession being quite imposing. When Gen. McClellan had taken tho oath of office of Governor, and delivered his inaugural, which was frequently applauded, he returned to the Executive Chamber, when the Veteran Association of Philadelphia presented an address, signed by 2,036 members. Tho same party also presented him with a silver medal, made from a half-dollar picked up on the field of Antietam. Samuel Bowles, editor of the Springfield Republican, died Jan. 16, after & lingering illness, during which hopes of his recovery were at times entertained, but which latterly left no encouragement for the anticipation of a favorable result. His age was 52 years. Seven freight cars and one passenger car wero thrown from tho trestle of the Ggdensburg and Portland railroad at Fisher’s crossing recently and wrecked. Several passengers wero injured. An order has been issued by the Now York Supreme Court postponiug for sixty days the sale of the Erie railway. Simultaueously, another suit has been commenced by a number of stockholders, who wish to oust Mr. Jewett, tho receiver, upon allegations of improvidence and mismanagement. A grand banquet was given to Secretary Bristow at Boston, last week. In Boston, last week, an immenso mass meeting, attended by 8,000 workingmen, was hold upon the historic Common, and resoliftions were passed demanding the opening up of public works, iu order that immediate employment might be given to the needy, the extension of out-door relief to all who could not thus bo assisted, the repeal of the law disfranchising those who receive relief from the city within twelve months preceding an election, the prohibition of prison labor from en tering into competition with honest labor, and tho presentation of a petition from the City Government to Congress asking an appropriation to pay for the transportation of workingmen to the Eldorado of the West. West. The National Convention of the Bricklayers’ Union assembled at Quincy, 111., on the 14th inst., Charles Eihl, of Indiana, presiding. Tho banking house of Chesnut & Dubois, at Carlinvillc, 111., has suspended. A lire in the stock sheds of Holman A Fairbanks, at Terre Haute, Ind., burned 237 head of cattle, and badly injured 175 more. The loss is abont $25,000, fully covered by insurance in fifteen companies. A Salt Lake dispatch says : “In November a man named Rhoden was killed by the Bannock Indians at Ross Fork, Idaho. The Indians have been threatening trouble since. Tho murderer was captured, Jan. 9, by Capt. Bainbridge, commanding Fort Hail, since wmen tho Indians were more hostile than before. Col. John E. Smith, of the Fourteenth Infantry, was sent to Fort Hall some time ago to induce the surrender of the murderer, but was unsuccessful. Maj. Hart, with three companies of tho Fifth Cavalry, arrived at Ross Fork, and, together with three companies of the Fourteenth Infantry, surrounded the encampment of the Bannocks on Snake river, and demanded their surrender, which they acceeded to quietly. Fitfcv-five bucks, some arms, and 250 horses were taken. Ex-Gov. Washburn, of Wisconsin, has just made a tender to the State of his beautiful residence property at Edgewood, two miles from Madison, and valued at SIOO,OOO, as the site for an industrial school for girls. A decision has been rendered by the Illinois Supreme Court, in the long-litigated matter involving the title to Christ Episcopal Church, Chicago, of which Rev. Dr. Cheney (now a Reformed Episcopal Bishop) was rector, and which was claimed by Bishop Whitehouse, on account of Mr. Cheney’s heresy. The decision fully sustains Mr. Cheney. A Pueblo (Col.) dispatch says: “One of the richest of discoveries was made on the 12th inst. at the Routa mines, a short distance west of this city. Mr. Munn, an old prospector, struck a lode, the ore from which assays the enormous Bum of $12,600 in gold and $l,lOO in silver per ton. There is great excitement in the camp, and everybody is rushing to the scene of the new discovery.” Mark M. Parmer’s private banking house at Yankton, D. T., has closed its doors. Liabilities $60,000, which Mr. Parmer claims can be fully met by the assets. A Virginia City (Nev.) dispatch says the threatened hostilities ht Atlanta and Justice mines were stopped by the Miners’ Union, which visited both mines in a body and ordered the miners to quit work on the disputed ground, and disarmed and removed the hired fighters!

Assignee Brown, of the Bunn estate, at Springfield, 111., has filed in the County Court a statement in detail of the assets and liabilitieaof Jacob Bnnn’s bank, etc. The liabilities are $912,000. Assets: Real estate, $430,000 ; bills receivable, personal property, stocks, etc., $416,000 ; cash on hand, $42,000; total, $838,000. Estimating these last items at $325,000, and deducting SIOO,OOO from the real-estate valuation, there will still be enough, the assignee states, to pay the creditors 75 cents on the dollar. South. Trouble has again broken out in Kentucky between “ moonshiners” and United States officers—this time of a more serious nature than ever before. The resistance they have offered hitherto has been only when several officers were trying to arrest them. In Wayne county an armed force of thirty officers and assistants was compelled to flee by illicit distillers. The Government posse caught six offenders and lodged them safely in jail at Monticello, Ky.; but, on seeking for more, was driven off as described—the leader, Storekeeper Logan, being wounded and several horses shot from (under riders. The Marshal’s posse consisted of thirty men. The number of the moonshiners was unknown. The death is reported of Hon. Wilson Primm, of St. Louis, Mo. He was for thirteen years Judge of the St. Louis Criminal Court, and had attained the age of 68 years. The persons on the Louisana Returning Board were arraigned Jan. 18, in the Superior Criminal Court. The indictment was on the charge of forgery and altering the returns of Yernon parish. Counsel made a motion to quash tfie indictment on the grounds that the proceedings were irregular. It was overuled without argument. The members of the board then pleaded not guilty, and’were admitted to bail on the old bond. The day of the trial was not fixed.