Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1882 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

At the annual meeting of the National Bar Association, at Saratoga, Alexander R. Lawton, of Georgia, was elected President, and the following resolutions were adopted : Resolved, That in view of the frequent occurrence of cases of irregular and fraudulent practices in the conduct of suits for divorce, involving the abnse of a process of the courts, breach of professional obligation, and connivance at actual crime, -the local councils of the association and the several State and local bar associations be respectfully requested to so far as possible expose such irregularities and frauds, and secure the punishment of all parties concerned in them. Resolved, That, in view of the growing evil of hasty and ill-considered legislation, and of defective phraseology in statute law, the association recommends the adoption by the several States of a permanent system by which the important duty of revising and maturing acts introduced into Legislatures shall be intrusted to competent officers, either by - tbe creation of special commissions or committees of revision, or by devolving the duty upon the Attorney General of the State. A caboose attached to an engine on the Minneapolis and St. Louis railroad, a short distance from Waseca, Minn., with fifty-seven laborers on board, left the track and rolled down an embankment, injuring thirty-five of the occupants, many of whom Trill die of their wounds. Fire at Spokane Falls, Washington Territory, destroyed property to the amonnt of over $400,000; partially insured. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing is busily engaged in getting ready for issue the new gold certificates, and it is expected that they will be distributed the latter part of next month. The Canadian Pacific railroad is being pushed forward at the rate of three miles a day. Four men were drowned at Flesherton, Ontario, by the capsizing of a boat. The Toronto Globe publishes reports showing that recent heavy rains have reduced the grain crops in Canada from 25 to 80 per cent in the aggregate. Two thousand Indian warriors are in the Mazatlan mountains, near Urea, and are burning the crops and murdering the inhabitants. In twelve days forty-five persons have been killed within a radius of twenty-five miles of Ures. Mexican officials are among the number. Chess Thomas was hanged at Palestine, Tex., for the murder of Houston MoMeans, March 6, 1881. The official census of France, just completed, total population of 37,672.048. There were 321 families, representing

1,619 persons, evicted in Ireland during the month of July. The number of outrages for the same period was 231. The Czar of Russia has so far recovered from his fear of the Nihilists as to venture out of his palace unattended by a guard or escort Stephen J. Meany, the Irish agitator, who had just returned from America to his native town, Ennis, was arrested there as a political offender. A Vienna journal publishes a telegram statiog Gen. Ignatieff had been arrested at Kamenetz, and haul been sent to St. Petersburg, guarded by an escort The tide of Dutch emigration has turned from the United States and is setting in for South Africa. A hue of steamers will be established between Amsterdam and the port nearest the TransvaaL Prof. Esmarch, the eminent German surgeon, has published a lecture, in which he asserts that President Garfield would be alive if he had received proper medical treatment.