Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1884 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

In Montgomery county, Pa., Thomas Wicherly and Leonard Hoyle fought with hare flute for over an hour, for 8600, the former being the winner. Buffalo shipped last year by lake 1,497,388 tons of coal, a gain of 50 per cent, on the previous twelves months. The debt of New York city amounts to 892,546,000, a decrease of $3,595,000 during the past year. Dr. Tanner, the faster, accused of practicing Illegally by the physicians of .Lamestown, N. Y., has been vindicated by the courts. The cutting of the great diamond recently found in South Africa has been completed at Boston. The stone now weighs 77 carats. Mike Cleary, of New York, offers to fight any man in America for 81,000, with hard gloves, the fight to be in private, and has put up a forfeit of 8250. The farm-house of Michael Ulrich, near Harrisburg, Pa., proves to be a veritable bonanza, not less than 815,000 in coin and notes having been found secreted in various places within two months. A machine has been invented at Pittsburgh for manufacturing hob-nails, which has a capacity of one ton a day, and is ope* ratogby three men. The use of these much ilfiPs will throw thousands of men out of employment. The fiftieth anniversary of the ordination of Cardinal MeCloskey was celebrated with great pomp 'ln the cathedral at New York. Ten Bishops and 300 priests were In attendance. The Cardinal is feeble In gait, butbis voice is still clear. '1