Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1883 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The Greenlaw opera-house and several adjacent stores were consumed by Ore, causing a loss of about $150,000. Eight residences at the corner of Second and Carondetet streets, New Orleans, were burned. The Houston and Texas Central railway has informed the Governor of that State that as soon as possible separate coaches will be provided for colored people. The President has returned to Washington, and settled down for the winter. Gen. Dent, who has been forty years in the United States army, has asked to be retired at the fend of November. Gen. Sherman, after traveling 10,678 miles, inspecting the military posts in the far West, has resumed his duties at Washington. One hundred tons of rock from the mines near Ishpeming, Mich., yielded $1,004 In gold and siver bullion. The Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company will Issue $50,000,000 in bonds, to be secured by a general mortgage to run thirty years at 5 per cent. ■ Silas Bullard is the assignee of the chair company at Menasha, Wis., which owes nearly SBO,OOO. The assets are said to be SIOO,OOO. Warwick & Florer, proprietors of the Bee Hive dry-goods store, the oldest established in Eafayette, Ind., have made an assignment. The firms liabilities foot up between $28,000 and $30,000. Their assets are estimated at $45,000 to $50,000. Eleven thousand dollars was stolen from the Paymaster of the Mexican National railway, in the station at the City of Mexico, by the Paymaster’s servant. The clearing-house exchanges last week —51,054,622,249 —when compared with the previous week, show an increase of $40,103,887; while a comparison with the corresponding period of 1882 gives a decrease of 20.1 per cent. Ex-Senator Blaine has nearly completed his history of “From Lincoln to Garfield.” He will then begin upon a history of the War of 1812. No satisfactory history confined to this period has ever been written. Blaine proposes to fill up this gap, and has already gathered a mass of material for it. William H. Jenkins & Son, doormakers, New York, have made an assignment. Loren B. Sessions has been placed on trial at Albany for an attempt to bribe Assemblyman Bradley during the Conkling and Platt Senatorial contest. The Boston bank Presidents have adopted a resolution calling for the passage by Congress of an equitable bankrupt law. Simon Mack & Co., wholesale clothing dealers at No. 487 Broadway, New York, have made an assignment, giving preferences to creditors of $302,030. The corpse of a bottle-nosed whale, nineteen feet and four inches in length, was washed ashore at Barnegat, N. J. A plaster cast of the rare specimen has been taken, and the bones will be taken to the Smithsonian institution. Germany has prohibited tbe importatation of hogs from Russia. Switzerland will soon protest that France is building fortifications in Savoy, in conflict with existing treaty engagements. Stanley writes to a friend that he has been elected Father and Mother of the Congo country. This outdoes George Wash, ington. United States Consul Seymour was not assasinated at Canton, China. The canard was started in an obscure town in the North of England. The British Postmaster General, in making new contracts next year for carrying the mails across the Atlantic tri-weekly, will select the fastest steamships.