Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1882 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The mansion of Albert Bierstadt at Irvington-on-the-Hudson, with its wealth of paintings and relics, was burned, the loss being estimated at $200,000. A fire at Newbern, N. C., destroyed eight buildings, valued at $50,000. The first decided movement to crush out the expanding dressed-beef trade of Chicago has been made at Albany, where Wi.liatar H. Vanderbilt and others have organized with a capital of $1,000,000 to distr bute frozen meats throughout the country at cost. After a heated debate, the corporation of Dublin passed resolutions against presenting Gen. Wolseley -with the freedom of the city. A Dublin newspaper deduces from Gladstone’s speech at the Lord Mayor’s banquet that’he feels the imposition of the Coercion act on Ireland was a constitutional wrong. The French journals attribute the suppression of the French control in Egypt to Dufferin’s influence, and fiercely attack what they term the bad policy and bad faith of Great Britain. Two negro murderers, Sam and Mill Hodge, were hanged in a large open space in the outskirts of Knoxville, Tenn. The gallows was of the primitive sort—a crossbeam supported by two uprights—and the men were hanged from a wagon which was driven from under the gibbet, leaving the condemned to strangle to death. Masked men fired the stable of Mr. Brandenbury, living near Erifi, Ga., and while the proprietor was trying to put out the fire the incendiaries entered the residence, shot at Mrs. Brandenbury and her niece, and carried off a trunk containing $6,000. James G. Blaine informed a personal friend at Boston that he wished no politi al preferment, and would on no account become a candidate for any office. Secretary Folger has issued a call for $15,003,000 in extended bonds bearing 3% per cent, interest, redeemable Feb. 10. Henry George, the land and labor re-

former, called up n Secretary Frelinghuysen and expressed his satisfaction with the apology made by England for his arrest. In a special report to the Secretary of War, Gen. Sherman strikes out boldly for permanent military posts, recommending the expenditure of $1,006,000 per annum lor five years to make good quarters for the army for the next half century. The failures throughout the United States for the past week, ending Nov. 11, numbered 141, and exhibit a greater importance than usual. The Nickel-Plate road is running its trains into the Vanderbilt depot at Buffalo, on a contract for one year, and appears to be fully identified with the Lake Shore. During the absence from home of John Hepler, a farmer near Gratz’.own, Penn., his residence took fire in the n ght. His heroic wife rescued five children from the flames, but on entering the burning house for the fourth time she died with her youngest child in her arms. The Springfield ( 111. ) Reg ister nominates William M. Springer for Speaker of the House. Randall, of Pennsylvania, and Carlisle, of Kentucky, are both prominently spoken of in connection with the Speakership.