Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1878 — DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. [ARTICLE]

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.

Dell'Noblitt, a prominent citizen of Wilmington, died in this city, the other day, aged 100 years. The failure at Philadelphia of three houses in the morocco and goat-akin trade, and of the manufacturing Ann at Wilmington, Del., caused excitement in the former city. The total liabilities are said to exceed $500,000. Assets unknown. It is rumored that two houses in the same line at Newark, N. J., are also in trouble. A Philadelphia dispatch announces the failure of Dr. J. H. Schenck A. Son, manufacturers f patent medicines. K. K. Collins, founder of one of the first of the American steamship lines to Europe, died in his home in New York last week. The extensive thresher manufactory of Stevens <fc Co., at Geneva, N. Y., has been destroyed by fire. Loss, $200,000. It is said that several prominent Now York bankers are ready to place their business on the basis of specie payments, gold and greenbacks being accepted as interconvertible. These parties are members of the Clearing House, and only await the general concurrence of that body to put their plan into effect. The long strike of the New York cigar- . makers has been brought to an end, the strikers returning to work at the best rates they can obtain. Five more of the Reading (Pa.) railroad rioters of last July have been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment each. The Connecticut House of Representatives has passed resolutions opposing the Bland Silver bill and favoring the resumption of specie payments. West. Attorney General after consultation with Secretary Sherman, has addressed a communication to Judge Bangs, District Attorney at Chicago, instructing him to proceed vigor ously with the prosecution of the cases in that city, and obtain judgment. Advices from Fort Buford report Indian rumors numerous and general of a congregation Of hostiles north of Milk river. As many as nine camps are reported on either side of the line. Gen. Miles thinks there is trouble ahead. Advices from the West report that Sitting Bull is now camped on Frenchman’s creek, with over 1,000 lodges, including the escaped Nez Perces and the recent deserters from the agencies. A most wanton murder was recently perpetrated on a passenger train of the Columbus and Toledo railread, near Upper Sandusky, Ohio. A notorious confidence man and three card monte gambler named Lou Hank together with some of his “pals,” entered the car and roped in a traveling man from Toledo, named Sohman. The latter charged them with swindling, whereupon Hank drew a revolver and deliberately shot Boh “an through the neck, inflicting a wound from the effects of which he died next day. The gang then jumped the train and escaped. Hank is well known on nearly every roa in the West, and is a most desperate character. One of his aliases is “Canada Bill No. 2,” mu A new and dangerous counterfeit $5 note on the Farmers’ National Bank of Virginia, Hl. is in c rculation. Th. Western iron maixufatcurers, held a meetnj,' in Pittsburgh the other day, adopted

a resolution to immediately restrict the manufacture of iron. The workingmen of California, in State Convention at San Francisco, last week, adopted a platform calling for restrictions and abolition of Chinese cheap labor, and demanding that land donated by the Government in furtherance of the schemes of individuals and corporations should revert to its lawful possessor to be held for actual settlement. Dr. Reynolds, the rod-ribbon apostle, is waging a vigorous crusade against the cohorts of alcohol in Chicago. Hundreds are joining his standard at every meeting. A daring attempt to rob a train on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad was made and frustrated at Kinsley, Kan., last week. Five armed and masked men entered tion and captured A. Kincard, the night telegraph operator, who was ordered to open the safe. He refused to do so, although his life was threatened. The west-bound express train arrived by this time, and the operator, by a desperate effort, broke loose ’and ran to a hotel near by, arousing the inmates. A volley of pistol shots was fired into it, and, as the train stopped, Conductor J. W. Mallory was met by two of the robbers, who presented pistols to his head and ordered him into the baggage car. He stepped in and closed the door, instantly starting the train by pulling the bellcord. Mallory and the baggage master then armed themselves with carbines carried in the car, and then stopped the train, after running about a mile from the station. They went into the back coaches with arms, but found the robbers not on the train, and that the passengers had not been disturbed. trioutil. The Supreme Court of South Carolina has decided that Circuit Judges must be elected by ballot instead of viva voce. This decision ousts all the Circuit Judges elected prior to 1877 by the Republican Legislature, and retains Kershaw and Wallace, elected last year by the Democrats. It was a constitutional question involving the construction of the word “ballot.” Judge Whittaker, of the Superior Criminal Court of Now Orleans, has overruled the motion for the transfer of the case of the members of the Louisiana Returning Board to the United States Circuit Court. The application and arguments of counsel were based chiefly upon the fact that there was undue prejudice against the accused, and that they could not obtain justice in a State court, the fact that in the composition of the jury negroes had been studiously excluded being strongly dwelt upon in support of this claim. This season’s cotton crop is estimated by good authorities at 4,750,000 bales. A scheme is before Congress looking to increased fast-mail facilities for the South and the establishment of direct communication between Chicago and the seaboard at Charleston, 8. C., via the projected Blue Ridge route. The members of the late Louisiana Returning Board have been stirring up some excitement in New Orleans. They tookrefuge in the United States Custom House in order to escape arrest, United States Marshal Wurzbnrger and Deputy Collector Tomlinson assuming the responsibility protecting them, a detachment of marines being summoned from a revenue •utter for this purpose. Sheriff Houston went to the Custom House and attempted to arrest them, and was himself arrested by the United States officers. Ho was taken before Judge Billings, sitting in the United States Circuit Court, but the latter decided that he had nothing to do with the matter. District Attorney Ogden telegraphed the facts to Washington, and instructions were sent to the United States officials at New Orleans not to interfere with the execution of the writs of the State courts. The Returning Board men then quietly surrendered, and were held to bail in the sum of $5,000 each.