Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1883 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

The Blue laws of Connecticut were invoked for the purpose of suppressing a band of “jubilee singers,” who were charged under an eighteenth century statute with violating the Sabbath by singing. At Jersey City, a fire which started in L. Seabrinski’s millinery establishment consumed several other stores, and caused a loss of #128,000. A loss of. $260,000 was incurred by the burning of the Burdette building, and the adjacent store of Fuller, Warren & Co., stove founders, at Troy, N. Y. A bridge over Ischua creek, in Pennsylvania, on the Buffalo, New York and Pennsylvania road, having been undermined by the 'flood, gave way while a train was crossing it Engineer Hall and Fireman Briggs were drowned, and Conductor Love, four passengers and the baggageman are said to have lost their lives. Two slight shocks of earthquake were experienced the other day at Wolfboro, N. H. Walcott, the New York quail-eater, finished his sixty birds in thirty days and maintains that he can eat three each day for sixty days The act of the Legislature of New York taxing steamship companies #1 for every alien passenger landed has been decided invalid by the United States Supreme Court Two men, one woman and a child were burned to death in- an oil conflagration at Titusville, Pa Thirty thousand barrels of the oleaginous flood were consumed. Charles B. Sedgwick, Congressman from 1858 to 1862, died at Syracuse, N. Y., aged 68. £ Ex-Senator Conkling, Wm. H. Vanderbilt, Gen. Grant, Jay Gould and Ex-May-ors Hall, Ely, Grace, Oooper and Wickham were summoned as a Coroner’s jury ift New York. Two companies desire charters to cut a ship canal across Cape Cod, and are ready to deposit large guarantees.