Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1884 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Mrs. Catharine Mosier, residing near Erie, Pa., was scratched by a cat which she attempted to drive from her house a few days ago, and is now suffering from lockjaw. At Greensbnrg, Pa., a body of men have formed an oath-bound society, pledging themselves not to buy French products, and to boycott persons who sell them, until Franco j elieves the embargo on American pork. Suspended about the neck of Mrs. Louisa Helms, who was killed by a train at Paterson, N. J., were found a quarter-dollar, the wish-bone of a chicken, and a card giving her name and address. The proposed public exhibition of the Keely motor at Philadelphia has been postponed for a timo. Thomas Salmon, a liquor-seller at Woburn, Mass., was last summer sentenced to iail for a violation of the temperance law. While an appeal was being heard he was elected to the Legislature. The Supreme Court has justdocided that he must serve out his term in prison. At Brooklyn, N. Y., Axel Paulsen skated twenty-flve miles in 1 hour 32 minutes and 17 seconds, beating all previous records.