Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1883 — Brief News. [ARTICLE]

Brief News.

The indications are favorable for one of the most abdndant crops of fruit this season that has ever been gathered in the Atlantic States. Some of the ocean steamships continue to give experiences of terrific hurricanes. One vessel had to steer forty miles south to find an opening in an ice field. Moses Piatt, a sold er who served with the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo, and was one of the guard sent to St Helena, died in Bath township, Ohio, aged 95 years. Ex-Mayob Oaeey Haul announces editorially in the oolumns of Truth that he pas assumed editorial control of that paper, and wfil conduct it in the Interest of the working classes. It is reported that, in consequence of the refusal of the manufacturers to grant an advance of $1 per thousand to cigarmakers, workers in this industry all over the country, to the number of 75,000 quit