Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1880 — DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. [ARTICLE]

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.

East. Boston's celebration of its 250th anniversary, which occurred Sept, 17, was creditable in every respect. The city was full of sightseers, and the programme was carried out ty the satis faction as all. An explosion in one of the buildings of the Union Metallic Cartridge Company at Bridgeport, Ct„ demolished the structure and killed live persons. Moore, Jenkins & Co., wholesale grocers, of New York, have failed, with liabilities that are supposed to reach *250,000. The city of New York is enjoying an unprecedented business boom. A recent dispatch from that oily says: “ The sales for tho West are enormous, some houses reporting them 100 per cent, greater than last year, while, the advance in Southern trade is said to be simply amazing. Inquiry at some of the largest up-town dry-goods houses shows in every caso that the Southern trade has doubled since last year, lleavily-laden trucks may now be seen at all hours of thonightaHwe.il as day on their way to discharge their loads for tbe West and South. Some of the houses hero use electric lights and do a heavy business long after the usual hour.” Hon. Lafayette H. Foster, of Connecticut, is dead. He was a United States Senator from 1855 to 1807, and was 74 years old at the time of his death. West. A largo block of buildings on North Fourth street, bet ween Washington and Christie avenues, St. Louis, has been destroyed by tire. The loss is about $200,000.

Hon. Henry Waldron, of Hillsdale, Mich., for several years a member of Congress, is dead. He was one of tho pioneers of Michigan. The greater part of the town of Waitesburg, in Washington Territory, lias been destroyed by lire. Loss estimated at about *175,000. The business part of tho town of Seymour, Wis., has been destroyed by tiro. Maud S. trotted a mile in 2:114 at Chicago, thus lowering her record a quarter of a second. George Mitchell (colored) was executed at Troy, Ohio, on the 17th inst., for the murder of bis wife. The population of Chicago, as officially footed up by the Census Bureau at Washington, is 503,053. A telegram from Virginia City, Nev., says that an accident at the Consolidated Imperial mine resulted in the death of nine men, one being dangerously hurt. The 3 o’clock shift were coming off, and tho cage, with ten men upon it, had started for the surface when n cable broke, precipitating them down the shaft some 300 feet. Fourteen hundred feet of rope was pulled upon them. The bodies of the unfortunate men were terribly mangled. The trotting record has again been lowered by.the matchless little mare Maud S. In a contest against timo at Chicago, she covered a mile in the extraordinary short time of 2:108.(. The first quarter was done in 34 seconds, tho half mile in 1:04)4', and the three quarters in 1:36. Maud S. belongs to William H. Vanderbilt, but is under tho management of Capt. George N. Stone, of Cincinnati, her former owner. She is a KentucUv-bred mare, and was purchased by Capt. Stone when a colt for *l5O.

Chicago packers have slaughtered, wince March 1, 2,400,000 hogs, an increase of 845,000 head over the corresponding time last year. In the District Court at Leavenworth. .Kan., Thomas C. Thurston pleaded guilty to shooting at D. It. Anthony, and seriously wounding Lucion Baker and John P. Douglas, and has been sentenced to eighteen years’ hard labor in the Kansas State Penitentiary. A body of striking miners of Coming, Ohio, were fired on by the militia and nine of them wounded, several painfully. Half the business part of Las Vigas, New Mexico, has been destroyed by fire. A man named Michler went to the house of his divorced wife, in Milwaukee, shot her through the neck and then killed himself. The woman will probably get well. Dr. Talcott, editor of a Greenback paper at Maryville, Mo., and member of the Missouri Legislature, was shot and killed by some unknown person. He was seated near a window reading, when the assassin fired at his shadow on the curtain. Rice’s Surprise Party are playing this week ftt Ilavcrly’s Chicago Theater, “ Revels ” being the attraction. The company this season is headed by Topsy Venn and John Gourlav instead of by Alice Atherton and Willie Edouin, as last year. Marion Elmore, Marion ginger, liina Merville, and most of the other ladies of last season remain, as do Harry Dixey, George Howard, and several of the gentlemen. South. • Dejamette, the Danville (Va.) young man who killed his sister some time ago, has been sentenced to be hanged on the 29th of October. J. T. Lamb, C. L. Denwiddie, Georg lid wards, Col. Young, Press Chandler and Mr.

Wright quarreled about a pig at Buffalo Springs, Tex., and from words passed to guns. The score was as follows : Lamb, twelve buckshots in various parts of his anatomy ; Edwards, four shot in* the leg and a pistol ball in the shoulder ; Young, four buckshot in the knee ; Chandler, a ball in the right hand. Every business house iu Columbia, Brazoria county, Texas, lias been destroyed by fire. Loss, $150,000. *