Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1883 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Inquiries from many persons as to whether they could be compelled to pay for newspapers sent to their address without authority have received the following ruling from the Postoffice Department: ‘Theliability of a party to pay for a newspaper must be determined by the rules to other contracts. When a publisher without request from a party, either express or implied, sends a paper, the mere fact that the party addressed takes the paper from’the postoffice does not of itself create a liability to pay for it It takes two to make a contract, and one party without the consent of the other cannot make him a debtor. ” It is telegraphed from Washington that since November last the redemption of B-per-cent bonds has caused a contraction of the currency to the amount of SIO,CO.\00:), and that the banks are trying to devise some means of relief. At the city election in Boston the Democratic ticket was chosen, except City Clerk, one Councilman, and one Assessor. The Democrats have one majority in the City Government The complexion of the School Board is Democratic. Trains on the newly-opened West Shore road collided at full speed on a curve near Fort Plain. N. Y. Engineer Gyon and a passenger were killed, and five persons were seriously injured. Passenger tickets from Omaha or Kansas City to San Francisco have been reduced to $95. Bates from St Paul to San Francisco by the Northern Pacific will be the same as to Portland. The District Court at Cincinnati decided that the churches held by Archbishop Purcell could not be subjected to the payment of his debts; likewise the Orphan Asylum at Cumminsville and St Mary's Cemetery. The cathedral and its school, having been built bv the Archbishop directly from funds placed in his hands, the amount advanced should be paid to Assignee Mannix for the benefit of creditors. In a political quarrel at Liberty, Miss, Eugene McElwee stabbed and killed Sheriff A J. Whittington, and McElwee was shot by one of a crowd who surrounded him after the murder, and died in ten minutes Mr. Partridge, of the New York Produce Exchange, appeared before the Blair Committee and advocated the enactment of a law making it a penal offense to corner the necessaries of life. Colman Brothers, clothiers, New York and San Francisco, have made an assignment The liabilities are placed at SoOJ,OOO, but the assets are unknown. Passenger fares on the Iron Mountain road in three States have been made uniform at 3 cents per mile by recent reductions A conference concerning contagious diseases among domestic animals has been called by Commissioner Loring, of the Department of Agriculture, to be held in Chicago, Nov. 15 and 1(1 Spanish ire.has been greatly aroused by the treatment King Alfonso received in the French capital It is stated that Alfonso did not know he was to be made Colonel of the Uhlan regiment until his appointment and uniform arrived simultaneously, which was intended as a surprise by the German Emperor. Fifteen thousand steel and iron workers of Glamorganshire, England, have struck against a reduction in wages. *O, it was the horriblest thing you ever seed,” said a lady in velvet and diamonds to her companion, “I watched her going down the street, and she fell down, and I thought it was very queer, but when I seen her falling three times I knew something was the matter.” So did the individual overhearing these remarks, and walked on feeling dizzy.— Carl Pretzel's Weekly.