Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1880 — MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS.

Hanlon, the Canadian champion with (he oars, has sailed for England to row Trick(tt, the Australian oarsman. W. H. Greenwood, a celebrated Amercan railroad engineer, has been murdered by unknown persons, pear the City of Mexico. A forest fire near Upton, Canada, has caused a terrible catastrophe. A fertirt and attractive region, soveral miles in extent has been converted into a desolate waste, tour or five persons burned to death, ard over fifteen bundled people rendered homeless. The flames spread with such rapidity that the fanners and then- families escaped with nothing but the clothes they wore. More than 120 farms were swept over. The victims are represented as in a pitiable condition, and will be dependent largely upon charity during tho coming winter. Joe Emmet, the well-known character actor, has become a hopeless drunkard. The British steamer Anglia, when four days out from Boston, came in collision with the bark Iron Gate and went to the bottom. Fortunately no lives were lost. The vessel and cargo were valued at $1,000,000. “Dr.” Bubhanan, the notorious peddler of sham medical diplomas, has been arrested and taken back to Philadelphia. It appears he found life in Canada so insufferably dull that he ventured to cross to the American side in a skiff, when he -was promptly nabbed. It is said that nothing so dangerous and difficult of detection as the current SIOO counterfeit note has ever been known in America. The plate is so arranged that it can be adjusted to suit tho issue of almost any nation, al bank. This makes discovery of the fraud almost impossible, except at the treasury, and there, strange to say, the cheat can only be pi oven by the superiority o e the workmanship expended upon it.