Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1882 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The Tariff Commission opened business in Detroit Sept. 1. Richard Hawley appeared before it to represent that a depreciation of 30 per cent, in real estate and in business in certain portions of the city had arisen from the termination of the reciprocity treaty. Giles B. Stevens argued that the charcoal furnaces of Michigan would close if there were any reduction of the duty on pig-iron. Eight steamships sailed from Baltimore for European ports in one day, carrying out 813,100 bushels of wheat among their cargoes. The business failures in the United States the past week numbered 110, a decrease of twenty-two from the preceding week, but six more than in the corresponding week of 1881. At the request of the Secretary of the Interior, Secretary Lincoln directed that Payne and his companions of Oklahoma notoriety, who have been in prison at Fort Reno, be turned over to the civil authorities at Fort Smith, Ark. The British ship Arbanbahm, of Porto Rico, with three cases of yellow fever on board, is at quarantine in Boston harbor. The products of Texas for the year ending with August have been carefully computed by a Galveston journal at $97,380,458. Within the same period 1,461 miles of railroad were built, at an estimated cost of $45,520,000. Edward Schwerzman, a native of Switzerland, residing near Paris, Ark., took his three young children from the suppertable, threw them into a well sixteen feet deep, and then made the fatal leap himself. His wife lay ill in bed, but followed in time to see the third child thrown in. Two hundred and thirty-four policemen were dismissed in Dublin last week, and there was great excitement in that city. Some of the men tore off their badges in the streets and declared that they would do no duty until their colleagues were reinstated. A proclamation was issued calling for the services of special constables. Daring the night the city was paraded by large bodies of infantry and cavairy. Ephrussi & Co., a, heavy Jewish bank-ing-house at Odessa, have ceased business, on account of the persecution of their countrymen. The Rev. Sylvanus Hayward, who preaches in Globe, Mass., declares bluntly that the increase in divorces in that State if. not due to greater laxity in the laws, but to an enormous increase of wickedness among the people, and he i holds that the remedy must be found in I an improvement in their morals,