Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1882 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Large amounts of mutilated silver have been sent to the Treasurer of the United States for redemption. Instead of being able to do this, he is compelled to send all consignments to the mint, to be purchased as bullion. Nothing less than SIOO will hereafter be received at the mint, and the Treasurer cannot accept any packages. In the jail-yard at St. Louis, Thaddeus Baber and William Ward suffered execution on Friday, the 13th inst. A French Canadian, named Antoine Moreau, was hanged at Rimouski, Ont. At Wentworth, N. C., a crowd of 5,000 persons witnessed the execution of Eldridge Scales, Matilda Carter and Joe Hay, all colored. The new move of Bismarck in the direction of Holland is creating excitement to Europe. The movement is new, but the purpose is old. It has long been an open secret that Germany has desired to incorporate Holland in order that she may have readier access to the sea, and has been waiting for a pretext for action. That pretext appears to have come in the rejection of, or rather the failure to consider, Bismarck’s demands respecting the navigation' of the Rhine and the protection of German fishing interests. That there is something more than ordinary coolness between the two countries is evident by Bismarck’s order to the German representative at The Hague to demand his credentials and come home, and his dispatch of another representative having more ability and determination in presenting his demands. Out of this apparently slight pretext there may grow a radical movement that will distur b Europe. The South Carolina State Legislature have been apprised that within the past six weeks an exodus of 5,000 negroes occurred from one county. A serious conflagration occurred in the business portion of Galveston, Texas, resulting in a loss estimated at $1,600,000. A suhiCommittee has been appointed by Congress to consider and report on a system of postal telegraph in this country to be operated by the Government The Methodist University of Boston has come into possession of $2,000,000 bequeathed it by Isaac Rich, the fish merchant, ten years ago. A vein of petroleum has been discovered at Pomeroy, a few miles north of Leavenworth, Kan