Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1883 — AMONG THE ANCIENTS. [ARTICLE]

AMONG THE ANCIENTS.

The Cardinal Archbishop of New York is 82. Maine papers announce the death of Mrs. Sallle Griffin, in Raymond, that State, at the age of 104 years. Isaac Martin Is dead in Covington, Ky., aged 86. He was a highly esteemed citizen of that county, where he was born and raised. Mitchell Putnam, 103 years of age, traveled alone from Texas to South Carolina to see his former home. He was a soldier in the War of 1812 and in the Texan struggle. Col. James Blackburn, a farmer of Edgar county, 111., has passed off at the age of 90. Ho was the owner of 2,300 acres of land, and commanded a regiment in the Blackbawk war. William Latham, who died at Bridgewater, Mass., recently, aged 80 years and 2 days, was one of the best informed antiquarians In the State on all topios connected with the early history of New England. San Francisco papers complain that their city is being overrun with Chinese lepers.