Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1882 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

In a letter t? Col. Bliss in regard to the star-route suits, Attorney General Brewster expresses the sentiment that the uttermost penny lawlessly taken from the public treasury must be recovere 1. Secretary Kirkwood has rendered a decision refusing to reopen the Valentine scrip case. The decision is satisfactory to Chicago* as a matter' of course. A rumor is current in Washington, that eleven of the jurors in the Guiteau caae are satisfied of the guilt and legal responsibility of the prisoner, while the twelfth juror maintains that Guiteau is as “ mad as a March hare.” Thirty leading Republicans of Texas held a secret conference at Dallas and outlined an independent movement, selecting G. Washing on Jones for Governor and Joseph Brinckley for Lieutenant Governor. Mr. Lynch, the colored contestant for the Congressional seat from the Shoestring district of Mississippi, now held by Gen. Chalmers, has suffered the loss of depositions filed with the Clerk of the House, covering the labors of several months. The Irish police haVe discovered a quantity of rifles and ammunition in the basement of a Protestant Church in the County Clare, Since the anti-Socialist law Waft promulgated in Germany in 1878, 225 Socialist societies have been dissolved and 758 Socialist publications have been suppressed-. Mrs. CrUz, of Florence, Cal-., gave birth to six perfectly-formed female children-. A Chicago physician, who has made A specialty of cancer, has discovered what he claims to be a positive ettre. He will lay the details before the profession shortly. A fraud Of considerable proportions has just been Unearthed in Southern Dakota. A gang of scoundrels in Douglas county issued $200,000 worth of alleged county school bonds, though the county itself has never been organized into school-districts, and though the whole taxable property of the county does hot exceed $15,000 or $20,000, and contains only some forty voters. The depositors in the Massachusetts savings banks number 738,951, and the amount of money deposited by them amounts to $230,444,479. In a cushion-carom billiard game at New York, for $5,000 and gate money, William Sexton defeated Jacob Schaefer by a score of 600 to 576. In seizing the property of the Pullman Car Company the Canadian customs officials own they have “found a mare’s neSt.’’ The prosecution has been abandoned-. P. T. Babnum announces that he will employ all curious specimens of the human race, including giants, dwarfs, fat people and freaks of nature, for his great show. Parties interested should write, inclosing photo’s, to Barnum, Bailey & Hutchinson, 40 Bond st., N. Y.