Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1883 — EATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

EATER NEWS ITEMS.

It was said that Postmaster General Gresham, in his forthcoming report, wi.l strongly advocate the adoption of the postaltelegraph system He will also advocate the establishment of postal savings banka The famous mill in Menard county, HL, erected in 1829 by William G. Greene* who afterward took Abraham Lincoln as a partner in running it, has been destroyed by tire. • Mr. George S. Barnes, known in Dakota and Minnesota as a great wheat farmer, tays of the wheat outlook in the Red River valley that the average yield will be fully eighteen bushels, while the grade will be very good on the whole. Throughout Northern Minnesota he estimates that the yield will average less than eighteen bushels, but will be of very good grade, all things considered. The Kansas corn yield is estimated by the Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture at 206,010,030 bushels, or 50,000,000 bushels more than last year. Samuel J. Randall expresses himself confident of securing the Speakership of the next House. An attempt to hold a Republican Senatorial Convention at Pulaski, N. Y, resulted in a split and the nomination of two candidates. David Dudley Field presided over a “harmony” Democratic gathering in Cooper Union Hall, New York. The transactions at twenty-eight clearing-houses last week, show a decrease of 21X per cent from the same period last year. The general outlook is far from being as favorable as a month ago, and failures are increasing. Justice Field, of the United States Supreme Court, has decided that Chinese born in Hong Kong are excluded from immigration to the United States by the restriction act, as well as laborers from other sections of China. The failure is announced of Seidenbach, Schwab & Co., clothiers of New York, whose liabilities are nearly $400,000. Capt. Brackett, of the New York Custom House, is determined to stop smuggling by dressmakers. Last week he arrested women from Chicago, St Louis and Philadelphia, and sent twenty-seven trunks from the steamship Alaska to the Custom House seizure-room with goods valued at $50,000. The widow ■of the dead informer Carey and other witnesses against O’Donnell arrived at Plymouth, England. A Roman journal publishes the fact that cordial relations now exist between the Vatican and France, the latter Government having restored the stipends to the clergy. The Tonquin question is thus summarized by the London Times: France can only obtain Tonquin through war with China; she may have Annam and make commercial settlements in Tonquin without further trouble. Notwithstanding the proclamation of the Government forbidding the holding of meetings in the Counties Clare and Limerick, Ireland, several thousand persons, headed by a priest, gathered in Milltown, Malbay, County Clare, Sunday, and attempted to hold an Irish National League meeting. A large police force was present and prevented the organization of the meeting. The magistrate read the prohibitory proclamation and the crowd dispersed, uttering groans for the Queen and shouting “God save Ireland.’*

Sad, indeed, is the spectacle of the youth idling away the spring-time of his existence, and, not only “losing the sweet benefit of time,” but wasting, in the formation of evil habits, those. hours in which he might “clothe himself with angel-like perfection. ”—Landon.