Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1878 — PEOPLE AND THINGS. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE AND THINGS.

There is a man in the woods of West Virginia who has been a fugitive there ever since he was drafted, in 1863. He cannot believe the war is over. At a single meal three or four Afghans find no difficulty in eating the tail of a duamba sheep, a mass of pure fat weighing from six to eighteen pounds. At present the new electric light appears to be too expensive for common use. But, if this proves to be the chief objection tg it, American ingenuity will doubtless remove it in due time. The Co-operative Associations of Germany number 3,300, with more than 1,000,000 members. Their capital in stock, buildings, and other property, including cash, is estimated at about $40,000,000. William J. Davis, of Plymouth, Mass., graduate of Harvard, leading member of the old First Church, and influential politician, is in troubh through taking the money of the bank of which he is President. A young man named Hunt, an assistant master at a school near Bath, in England, while playing football, the other day, was suddenly seized with a fainting fit and died in a few minute i. His last words were, “Go into it, boys; I can’t help you any longer.” The Princess of Wales is a fond mother. She is about to send her sailor son on a voyage round the world, and has packed with her own fair hands each one of his trunks, besides selecting his library, which [contains, for perusal at sea, Shakspeare, Sir Walter Scott and Irving’s “Sketch Book.” Estbada eloped with Glenn’s wife, in Los Angeles, Cal. The two men met a few days afterward. Both were on horseback. They drew pistols and seized each other, without dismounting. Several shots were fired, at such close range that every wound was blackened with powder. They were both killed. Jackson Clark, one of the Directors and shareholders in the Liberian Exodus Association, writes back to his white friends in North Carolina that, if they will send him and his family money to bring them back to this country, they will never cease to pray and work for them. He says the emigrants are dying off rapidly, and starvation stares the living in the face. The manufacture of fireworks on one’s own hearthstone is attended with some degree of risk. At Cranleigh, in Surrey, England, a laborer named Sherlock was engaged in making fireworks in his cottage at an early hour in the morning when a spark ignited the gunpowder. The cottage was blown to pieces, the wife and aged father of Sherlock were killed, and Iris own recovery is considered hopeless.