Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1882 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

A granite monument, in three sections, to be placed by the Government on the held in Montana where Gen. Gibbon fought the Nez Perces in 1877, was shipped from St. Paul. A misplaced switch near Muscogee, Ind'an Territory, sent a freight train into a ditch. Engineer Spiar was crushed to a jelly and Fireman Walker had both legs severed from his body. An Atlanta dispatch says that Stephens’ majority in Georgia will reach. (50,000. Gartrell will contest the election, claiming fraud and intimidatronr y Various sections of the Liberal party in Germany connt with somir coniidence on gaining seventy seats from the Conservatives in the forthcoming elections. The bodies of sixteen victims of the steamer Lee horror have been recovered. All save two were buried at Yucatan land, ing. The greatest portion of' the business section of Warrington, Escambia county, Fla., was destroyed by an incendiary lire. The net revenue of the money-order division of the Postofllce Department for the past fiscal year will exceed $300,000. The funded debt of the city of New York is $97,381,011; adecreaseof over $50,000 having been made in September. A five-story building on Broadway, near Canal street, New York, occupied by several dry-goods firms, wiped out $150,000 in burning. Gold diggings yielding $lO per day have been discovered in the Cariboo district of British Columbia. Chili refuses to abate any of her demands upon Peru for territorial and pecuniary indemnification, and, as Peru declines to yield to these demands, the peace negotiations are broken off. Considerable excitement was caused among the members of the Land League and Irishmen generally in New York by the publication in the Irish World of a letter signed by Patrick Ford, the editor, announcing the close of the Land League fund. This action, Mr. Ford says, is prompted by the fact that “there is no longer a Land League in existence. What was the Land League is a thing of the past, and in its stead appears that beggarly nondescript—with its crouch and whine—the Mansion House Belief Committee. ” When Aurelien Scholl and “Baron” Harden-Hickey arrived at the Dutch frontier, with a view of dueling, the customs inspector glanced at their baggage, and remarked: “All, swords! Swords are dutiable, sir. Seven franc 3 each, if you please. Step this avay.” And he politely ushered the duelists into the office, where they paid the duty. Then he wished them good day politely, and they stepped out, and into the arms of a gendarme, who confiscated the weapons.