Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1880 — MISOELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. [ARTICLE]

MISOELLANEOUS GLEANINGS.

Thveinuyfece jpt.s <ff tpfeidian the fiscal few tfiTO i ’Bo were* *53tt,408,585j arid on; oil J V tu\j»Mrei-i! jiffiy--161.718v. Tho.deJKik.fß I j National fHlpla.ljt’if, Just ’ how that immigrants arrived ip The United States during the year ending June 30, being 2.500 less tilall (topic in 1873 (he of our greatest inaqjgrntiony .In July, year, Europe addeq 49,922 xo our (xqimHuorti.' Germany taking the lead by a large majority. Brig. Gen. Albert J. Signal Officer of thd United States Army, dud at Buffalo a few days- ago, of Bright’s disease. It was Gen. Myer wlio organized aftd perfected (he signal-service system, add ho was known the world over under (he cognomclQ of “Old Probabilities.’’ A report has reacliejl Galveston, that instead of wjiqipiijg Victoria’s ArißAes, as reported, Col. Grit-radii’s cqmm;ind|\tas delCftt-' ed by the savages.. * s'b'§ SjspWT The Notfonjil Coflve RGntktiyOfl Of the State GrandsOJfewfs ot the Masotifc Orderhas just been held 1 at Detroit. Twenty-ono States were represented. It was resolved to organize I (General Grand Coimedi ; and a constitution was adopted for fitibnnssinrf to the’Rtate Grand Councils. Upon ratification by nine of these bodies, the General Grand Council will bo fully organized. The Grand Chapter Royal .Arch Masons, recently in session in Detroit, elected the following officers : G. G. H. I’., Robert F. Bower, Keokuk, lowa., ; D. G. G. H. P., Selfred 11. Chapman, Boston; G. G. K., Noble D. Lamer, Washington ; G. G. 8., Henry Host wick, Covington, Ky. ; G. G. Treasurer, Reuben C. Lemmon, Toledo, Ohio ; G. G. Secretary, Christopher G. Fox, Buffalo. N. Y\; O. G. C. H., P. F. Pay, Buffalo, N. Y. ; G. P. S., Joseph r. Homer, New Orleans. In the afternoon the Chapter took an excursion (o Lake St. Clair and down the river, and in (ho evening they had a grand banquet, The Knights of Pythias, to*the number of several thousand, from alhpai’Mlf (he eonti-. Kent, assembled in St. Louis last week, and indulged in a grand parade and , bad a good time generally. The Supreme Lodge elected the following officers for (he ensuing brm of tliiee years.: Supreme Chancellor, Judge G. W. y, Maryland; Supremo Vice Chancellor, John P. Lkiton, Pennsylvania; Yjuptejno Prelate, tho Rev. M. Bryce Thompson, of Tennessee ; Supreme Master <>f % c John P. Sfcumpf, of Indiana ; Supremo Keeper of Ihe Reroqia and Seal, Joseph DWMjplB, of Ohio ■ Supreme Master-at-ApdS, Stfiifii, of West Virginia ; G. B: Shaw* bf Guard, John W. Thompson, of the District of c °i"H * | \ 1 g The Influx gi hnmigifmqp con tin ws at an unprecoclented* rate. The statistics for the year, it is lielieved, will show the largest arrivals of on record. - * a» f'tl’ It i« befu'vetl that victoria affirm? murderous jbanf )ot |ljayi| through the failure of the Mexican tioops to dp 'tiicir|iarb £TIJ ; iIOXJ t’VOU. Nearly all American railroads are adding 1 1 ff ir* n!offvY - f)?^??^Fffr , )SSPl ing Locomotive, car, and iran-hridge builders at the East report all tho wory on hand that they cftn.*ttea| to- 4 A Burned : The tol < $40,000; a flouring mill at Mt. Morris, N. Y., 10-is $50,000. Dr. Clijftrlt'H T. Jackson, an eminent Boston scientist and physician, and Paul O. Hebert, ex-Governor of Louisiana, and an exConfederaie General, aro dead.