Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1884 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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George Lathrop, recently from Chicago, and John Frazer, a Liverpool lumber merchant, were found frozen to death at New York. A movement is on foot among the Pennsylvania coke men for the purpose of obtaining increased and uniform prices. A bill for giving decent burial to the remains of impoverished, honorably discharged soldiers passed the New Jersey House. Four physicians declared James Nntt sane at Pittsburgh, and Judge Stowe immediately discharged him from custody. In Maj. Brown’s office, where his mother, sister, and friends were awaiting him, there were touching scenes. The family Immediately left for Uniontown, and upon arriving there were given an ovation. Two Provincetown (Mass.) fishing schooners are supposed to have foundered in the recent gale. Selah Sprague, a farmer, was assaulted and left for dead by a mulatto at East Meadow, L. I. The mulatto then entered the house, struck Mrs. Sprague, and de. manded money, after receiving which he left. Mr. Sprague cannot recover. The safe in the jewelry store of E. B. Hayden, in Fulton street, Brooklyn, was blown open, and robbed of $5,000 worth of goods.