Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1883 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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The schedules in the assignment of F. Mayer & Co., wholesale clothiers, New York, show liabilities of 82,760,992, and actual assets of only 81,769,374. The Christian convention at Philadelphia to forpi an anti-secret society league denounced Masonry particularly, and resolved that the G. A. R. was “an insidious, dangerous and useless form of secret organization..” Unusual dullness prevails in manufacturing business in Connecticut. Capt. Gordon, who abducted a child from Astoria, Long island, has been fined 81,000 and sentenced to five years’ hard labor. The of Capt. Nutt, killed by Dukes at Uniontown, Pa., has been com. pelled to bring suit to recover insurance of 85,000,