Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1884 — SPLINTERS. [ARTICLE]

SPLINTERS.

Tub sum of fi-Iti.OOO has been given to Yale College for a dormitory by Mrs. Lawrence, of Chicago. The reoent floods destroyed fifty-five bridges in the Ohio Valley, which will cost $210,000 to replace.. Mrs. Hannah Piwon, of Newark, N. J., recently celebrated her 89th birthday by waltzing for ten minutes. The laborers on the Cape Cod Ship Canal ■truck because of dissatisfaction with the food furni hod by the contractor. The Chief of Engineers at Washington reports the total expenditure by tho Government on Chicago harbor at $1,339,304, and on the Calumet hi. er at $377,00p. On the Mississippi proper there has been laid out $19,636,695. James Caret, the Informer, who was slain by O’Donnell, sought before his “taking oft” to cheat his creditors by a transfer of bis property In tbe city of Dublin to his brother. 'The Irish Ban' ruptcy Court bas Just annulled the decree of transfer. —— '■ ■ - .«» ■!!,.. I B Ei.ro rd, of Colorado, receives more mail matter than anv other member of Congress.