Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1883 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Cincinnati dispatches of Feb. 17 report a comforting condition of affairs consequent upon the marked subsidence of the waters. New Albany was in sore distress, and a special committee had appealed for relief. Along the Ohio southward many small towns were partly submerged The sudden thaw raised the rivers generally in the Northwest, and gorges caused the wrecking of bridges, two being destroyed at Joliet, and sections of the town inundated Similar accidents occurred at other Illinois towns, and railroad tracks washed out. The testimony of Rerdell, one of the indicted star-route conspirators, who pleaded guilty and threw himself on the mercy of the court, was of a most important nature. He told how he had lived under the same roof with the Dorseys, and how, after aiding them in filling out bids, he had been sent out West to establish “paper” stations and prepare the way for the “expediting service” that followed, and by which the conspirators were enabled to rob the Government of hundreds of thousands of dollars. On the second day of his appearance in the witness, box, he was engaged during the entire session of the court in identifying handwritings and documents Under ex-Senator Dorsey’s direction he manufactured the paper applications upon which the postal routes were extended, forged the names of fictitious persons, and Stored genuine implications. Ip the cash-I

book w i r t-J- goxdell i ton. An express train on the Columbus road was ditched nearGalion, by which Rev. D. I Fonts and two others were killed and three men were injured. Four residents at Massillon, Ohio, have brought suite against that city for damages sustained by the floods, alleging that the culverts were permitted to fill up with rubbish. The Arkansas Legislature passed an act prohibiting for two years the sale of intoxicants within three miles of a church or school, according to the wishes of the adult majority of both sexes. A train on the Pittsburgh and Western road was derailed at Etna station, mortally injuring Engineer J. C. Cooper And Fireman Edward Brady. The Japanese Indemnity hill which had previously passed the House, was taken up and passed by toe Senate on Feb. 16, after which toe Senators tackled the Tariff bill, but did little work. The House laid aside toe Tariff bill and took up and passed the Legislative Appropriation bill. The working hours of the Government clerks were fixed at seven and one-half in winter, and eight in summer. The clerks fought vainly fora softer job.” The whisky men made an effort to secure the consideration of the “Bonded ■'Period” bill, bat were promptly defeated. Bills were introduced to appropriate (100,000 and (500,000 for the relief of toe sufferers by toe flood along the Ohio and Mississippi. .‘a