Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1883 — MINOR NOTES. [ARTICLE]

MINOR NOTES.

Gold has been discovered in Alachua county, Fla. Land in Hot Springs, Ark., recently Brought $412 per front foot. Oveb exebcise on roller skates his killed four ambitious Louisville girls. The Chicago base-ball grounds are pronounced the finest in America. Editob Medill, of the Chicago Tribune, has refused $1,000,000, cash in hand, for his newspaper property. The hat for general wear will continue to be a black, blue or brown Derby of medium height, with slightly wider brim and binding. The walls of Paris, which are to come down, cover a strip of ground 160 feet wide and twenty-five miles long, and the city will gain $20,0u0,000 in land by their removal. Thebe is lying in the United States treasury more than $10,000,000 of unclaimed money —interest and principal of public debt, some of which dates back to 18 if. Olive-gbowing is one of the most interesting features of agriculture in Californfa. The State possesses some beautiful groves, and one ranch-owner—Elwood Cooper, of Santa Barbara—is said to have derived a profit of $2,200 an acre from his plantation. Others, however, express doubts as to whether this species of fruit culture can be made generally and permanently profitable. One continual source of apprehension must always be the scale worm, which threatens most of California’s fiuit trees, the olive not exceptei California could easily raise an olive crop as large as tfiat of Italy, which yearly sells for SfiO,COO,COO. If a bill that has unanimously passed the Illinois Senate becomes a law and it is likely to do so, drunken drivers of teams will receive a much-needed discipline. The bill says no person owning any carriage, running or traveling upon any road in Illinois for the conveyance of passengers, shall knowingly employ, or continue in employment, any person to drive such carriage who is addicted to drunkenness or the excessive use of spirituous liquors; and if any such owner shall violate the provisions of this section, he shall forfeit at the rate of $5 per day for all the time he shall keep such driver in his employment. Any person driving his own team, or the team of another, on the public highway, when intoxicated, shall be subject to a fine of not less than $3 nor more than $25 for each offense. The’provisions are intended to secure safety to passengers, and just treatment to teams, and will meat the much tien of good eitisens generally,