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

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The New England Agricultural Society will not permit the sale of intoxicants at any of its fairs in the future. Josh Hart, in his suit at New York against George Alfred Townsend for $20,000 for libel, secured a verdict for $55. The notorious Billy McGlory, of New York, has been sentenced to six months* in the penitentiary for violating the excise law. The funeral of Wendell Phillips in Boston attracted a vast concourse of people, including delegations from ail the reform movements. A plaster cast of the face of the deceased was taken at the request of the family. The remains were placed in the Phillips tomb at the Granary ground, bu will be taken to Milton. Henry 8. Church, Chamberlain of the city of Troy, N. Y., ran away last week, and his accounts are short about $75,000. A dentist in Scranton, Pa., named W. H. Heist, gaves Mr. ’ James Stevenson three doses of chloroform and extracted fifteen teeth; On completing his task he found bis patient a corpse. By the collapse of a burning building at Allentown, Pa., five firemen were killed and eight injured. Eleven hundred saloon-keepers in New York have been notified that their licenses have been annulled, because of conviction in court for violation of the excise law.