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

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS.

Col. Wagner writes to the Commissioner ofjnternal Revenue from Greenville, S. C., that the breech-loading rifles sent by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue for use by officers of the revenue in their raids on the illicit whisky distillers have been of great assistance. In a recent raid made by the officers under the Collector, in which they captured an eighty-gallon still and arrested the owners,' they were assailed by nine moonshiners with shotguns and rifles. They responded with their breech-loaders, and charged up a hill upon their assailants, driving them back, chasing them until they were dispersed. The “ Colorado stone man,” as was suspected, turns out to be a second Cardiff-giant fraud. According to the statement of a citizen of Elkland, Tioga county, Pa., the so-called “ stone giant ” was manufactured there by one George Hull, who made the Cardiff giant. Hull molded and baked his giant, expending, it is thought, SIO,OOO or $12,000 on it, which exhausted his means. Then he visited Barnum, and shortly afterward the object was shipped to Colorado Springs, where it was “planted.” The following business failures are announced; J. M. Brainard, notion dealer, Cleveland, Ohio; Rhodes & Server, produce merchants, New York, liabilities $100,000; Dovale & Co., the oldest shipping house on South street, New York, liabilities $150,000; J. J. Wightman & Co., wholesale liquors, Cleveland, Ohio; Wood & Co., brass founders, Philadelphia, liabilities $70,000. The Pennsylvania Editorial Association, in session at Harrisburg, last week, passed a resolution protesting against the bills before Congress providing for a new classification of mail matter, and regulating the postage thereon. It has been decided by the Treasury Department that bank drafts cannot be received as legal tender for subscriptions to the 4 per cent, loan. The sale of bonds is a strictly cash business. and deposits of cash will have to be made at the sub-treasuries by persons who want to buy, or by some person for them. The committee of Western merchants and shippers appointed by the convention held at St. Paul, in October last, for the purp»se of urging upon Congress the imperative necessity of permanently improving the channel of the Mississippi, have presented a petition to the House of Representatives for the appointment of a standing committee of the House, to be called the Committee on Permanent Improvement of the Channel of the Mississippi River and its Tributaries.