Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1882 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The death is announced of Rear Admiral John Rodgers, at the age of 70. The King of Greece has turned the first sod of the proposed Corinth canal. At Greenville, Miss., Dr. Preston E. Buckner was mistaken for a burglar by W. J. Wentworth, and shot dead. Chicago has lost by death two of her old and honored citizens—Col. Vs. B. Snowhook and Hon. R. P. Derickson. There have been 218 entries for tho July .trotting meeting at the Chicago Driving Park, for which purses of $57,000 have been hung up. There is supposed to be in existence $200,000 in surveyors' scrip, falsely represented to have been issued at Santa Fe by an Assistant Treasurer of the United States. John D. Cameron, of Sioux Falls, Dakota, has been arrested for connection with the fraud and token to Yankton. The President has pardoned FitzJohn Porter. This is all he could do, under the decision of Attorney General Brewster, to relieve him of the disabilities imposed by the court-martial’s act The President’s action, of course, does not restore Fitz-John Porter to the army, nor is it a step in that direction, unless Congress shall pass a special act for the benefit of Porter authorizing the President to appoint him. AU that the pardon can effect is to relieve Porter from the disqualification of holding civil office. It is known to "be Porter’s intention to endeavor to secure the passage of a bill which will authorize the President to restore him to his former rank. As Gov. Plaisted refuses to call the Legislature in special session to redistrict the State of Maine, four Congressional candidates of each party will be voted for on a general ticket A petition is in cironlation asking James G. Blaine to make the contest for a seat in the House. The Senate of Massachusetts passed a bill to double-track the Hoosac tunnel and improve the Troy and Greenfield railroad. A staging on the new railroad bridge at Greenfield, Mass., feU forty-six feet to the ground. Of eight men at work one was fatally and two others badly hart. The Commissioner of the General

Land Office finds that speculators are engaged in purchasing soldiers' declaratory papers for the location of public lands, and efforts will be made to pnt a stop to such irregular transactions. The fact has developed that thirty dives were lost on the steamer Rodgers, which was wrecked while searching for the Bnrvivorß of the Jeannette in the Arctic regions. From Engineer Melville, of the Jeannette, comes the melancholy news, dated at Lena Delta, March 24, that the dead bodies of Lient. Be Long aiid his party have been f ound, and with them all their papers and books. The information will excite no surprise, as all hope of tho survival of the party had long since fled, but it will none the less be received with a feeling of pity for tho awful sufferings and mournful fate of the brave explorers.