Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1884 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Thomas Kinsella, editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, died last week at his home in Brooklyn, after a long and painful illness. He was Postmaster under President Johnson, a member of Congress, and a delegate to three national Democratic conventions. He leaves a large fortune to a wife and Ave daughters. Other deaths report" ed during the week were as follows: Hans Larsen Martensen, famous Danish i preacher and theologian; Charles Leslie, a pioneer of Davenport, Iowa; Jacob Seasongood, a prominent Cincinnati banker; Mrs. Catherine Pattison, mother of the Governor of Pennsylvania; John Bali, a pioneer of the Grand River Valley, Michigan; Mrs. Dix, widow of the late Gen. John A. Dix; Rev. Dr. Thomas R. Austin, of Vincennes, Ind., a Mason of high degree; Gen. Biron, a distinguished French diplomat: Prof. Guyot, who had been connected with Princeton College for thirty • years; Stephen B. Ives, a prominent lawyer : of Salem, Mass.; Rev. Simeon North, of i Utica, N. Y., President of Hamilton College; Mrs. Mary Lynch, of Brewer County, lowa, ■ aged 105 years; Gen. J. L. Gilbert, a prominent citizen of Bloomington, Ill.; Rev. John 8. Inskip, of Ocean Grove, N. J.; Moses Williams, an esteemed citizen of Terre Haute, Ind.; George Lane, a veteran hotelkeeper of Oshkosh, Wig.; Thomas Cheney for the past seven years editor of the London Times. Crop reports: Springfield, Ill.: ‘‘Wheat prospect in Central Illinois is very flattering. The acreage is not as large as in formek years. Farmers express' themselves as being well satisfied with the outlook.” Junction City; Kan.; “The acreage of winter wheat in Central Kansas is 10 per cent, greater than last year. The crop is now in splendid condition and covered with two inches of snpw. The prospects are excellent,” Hastings, Neb.; “Very little winter wheat has been sown. What there is lookswell.” Bradlaugh was escorted by two members to the table of the British House of Commons where he administered the oath to .himself. The Speaker ordered him to withdraw, and he sat under the peers’ gallery. A motion by Northcote that Bradlaugh be not permitted to take the oath was carried by 280 to 167. It was then voted, by 228 to 120, that he be excluded from the precincts of the House. When Bradlaugh left the House he was received with hisses and cheers by the crowd. The law officers of. the Government have been instructed- to, prosecute Bradlaugh immedi. ately for .voting three times in the House. Meanwhile he will not resign his seat. Vague reports have reached London Of a frightful butchery of Christians in Tonquin. It is stated that from 250 to 300 Catechists have been massacred and the mission-; house destroyed. The credentials of Henry B. Payne as Senator elect from Ohio were presented in the Senate on the 11th inst. by Mr. Pendleton. A petition was presented for the removal of the discrimination against volunteer officers as to pensions in-contrast with the pay’of regular officers on the retired list. Mr. Dolph handed in a petition from the Board of Trade of Portland, Oregon, for a strengthening of the navy. Bills were reported to fix the salaries of Judges of district courts, and to authorize the purchase of additional grounds for the Postoffice at Springfield, 111. Bills were introduced to authorize a foot and carriage bridge aero-fl the Mlssisissippi at St. Paul, and for the officers and crew of the monitor which destroyed the Merrimac. Resolutions were passed ordering a report on the condition of the Government tea farm in South Carolina, and whether the Baltimore and Ohio telegraph within the past year received or made proposals tor consolidation with the Wes-t-1 ern Union. The Senate receded from its amendi ment to the Greely relief bill, and passed the joint resolution appropriating $300,000 for the relief of the flood-sufferers. The House of Representatives, by a vote of 233 to 12, passed a joint resolution appropriating $300,000 for the relief of the sufferers by the overflow of the Ohio river and its tributaries. Bills were introduced—to limit the number of cadets in the Naval Academy, to restore to the pension-rolls names dropped on account of disloyalty, to encourage Indian education In Dakota, for the erection of a public building at Detroit costing $1,500,000, to provide additional life-saving stations, to authorize the payment of postal notes to the bearer, and to compel voters . in Utah and Idaho to take an oath that they do i not belong to the Church of Latter-Day Saints.