Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1882 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Mrs. Garfield acknowledges the receipt of a letter from Mrs. Scoville, and nnthorizes the statement that she cherishes no malice toward Guiteau, and feels profound pity for his sister and other members of his family, but asks to be left alone with her sorrow. Ella Shores, aged 14, and Howard E. White, aged 16, were married the other day at Westover, Ind. A singular feat,ure of the affair is the fact that the childbride was the divorced wife of her stepfather to whom she was married at the age of 12 years. •An expedition organized by the Gov prnorof Virginia against the oyster-thieves on the Rappahannock sailed.from Norfolk on the

18th inst it comprised the Norfolk light artilery, wiili three-inch guns, and the Norfolk fight infantry, seventy men. Two Mexican rival editors at Guadalajara fonght a dnel with pistols, and both fell dead at the first fire. Congress is received a large number of petitions citing that the railways are public highways, built for the benefit of the public, and that the people are entitled to receive them on equal terms, and praying for legislation to regulate inter-State commerce and prevent extortion. Dr. J. Emilio Howard, whose imprisonment in Cuba some years ago created much feeling between the United States and Spain, died at Philadelphia. V. W. MacFarlane & Co., of New York, lard refiners, have suspended. Liabili* ties about $200,000. Another sea serpent has appeared at Long Branch, N. J. It was a fish-like monster, forty feet long and had horns on its head. Seventeen railroads in Pennsylvania have incurred a penalty of $5,000 each because of failure to make their annual reports, and the Attorney General will bring them to judgment. By an explosion in a colliery at Trimdon Grange, Durham, England, 120 miners were intombed. It is believed that the loss of life will exceed seventy.