Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1882 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Advance sheets of Poor’s Railway Manual show that in 1881 there were built in the United States 9,358 miles of railroad, the greatest in any one year, making a total of 104,813 miles. The gross earnings were $725,825,119, against $615,401,931 in 1880. Dividends in 1881 were $93,344,200, against $77,115,411 in 1880. The editor says: “It is certain that for a long time to come a much greater extent of mileage will be constructed annually than was constructed in the past or than will be constructed in the present year. The area of the United States (excluding Alaska) equals 8,000,000 square miles. The whole of this area presents an attractive field for the construction of railroads. In almost every portion of it these works are rapidly progressing. The railroad mileage of the United States rose from 62,914 miles in 1870 to 104,813 miles in 1881. At a similar rate the mileage in 1890 will exceed 200,000. The Chicago Time* presents reports

of the crops in the chief grain States. Popular expectation in regard to wheat proves to have been almost a prophecy, as the yield is large and the area extended. Com will not be an average crop in any State, and not more than a half yield seems to be generally expected. Bye, oats, potatoes and hay are in exceptionally good condition. The.number of “ suspects” still languishing in Irish jails is 172. Twenty thousand pounds is now offered by the British Government for the discovery of the murderers of Cavendish and Burke. In the House of Commons, Mr. Gladstone said the Government had taken measures against the secret societies in Ireland unknown to Parliament Skobeleff, the famous Russian General, died in Moscow, of heart disease, in his 40th year. A Government amendment to the Repression bill in the Honse of Commons, that the right of search be limited to the daytime, except in cases of secret societies, was defeated, notwithstanding that Gladstone declared he “ would have to consider his personal position.” The bill passed the Commons and was read for the first time in the House of Lords. The Comptroller of the Currency has called for a report showing the condition of the national banks at the close of business on Saturday, July 1. The Crow Indians in Northern Wyoming are killing cattle and destroying the wheat fields. Fears of another Indian war are expressed by the settlers. Advices to the National Board of Health from New Orleans state that no case of yellow fever and no doubtful or suspicious case has occurred since the one reported case of June 26. A Pittsburgh dispatch says “itis now certain that the total loss of life by the Ohioriver disaster will exceed 109. It becomes clearer and more conclusive every day that whisky was at the bottom of the collision, some of the officers of the Scioto and many of the passengers being almost helpless from intoxication at the time. There is a rumor to the effect that a party of girls were in the pilothouse of the Scioto, and one of them answered the signal of the Lomas and did it wrongly.”