Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1884 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The steamship Yaquina reached Yaquma, Ore., and with a full cargo had no difficulty in reaching the wharf. The event has caused re’oicing throughout Central and Eastern Oregon. Yellow fever has broken out at Guaymas, Mexico. Because of the revenue-stamp tax five Mexican States have proclaimed war against President Gonzales. The Washington Post, a Democratic organ, announces that Samuel J. Tilden is not an aspirant for Presidential honors at the hands of the Democracy, and that he will not accept the nomination under any circumstances. The Directors of the Beading Boad, after numerous meetings, announced that the coupons on the consolidated bonds will be cashed at par. They then applied to the Circuit Court fora set of receivers, and H. CKelsey, Stephen N. Caldwell, Edwin M. Lewis and George De B. Keim were appointed In bonds of $500,000 each. Moody, the evangelist, announced at his revlva’ services in London, that the health of his colleague, Mr. Sankey, had again collapsed and that he would sail for the United States shortly. The Mark Lane Express, in its weekly review of the British grade trade, says the outlook for the wneat crop is more than usually promising. The sales of English wheat last week amounted to 50,351 quarters at 37s 7d, against 58,893 quarters at 43s 5d for the corresponding week last year. , Mr. Biddle, who was President of the wrecked Penn Bank, of Pittsburgh, is in a critical condition of health. He states that the directors were interested in the oil pool which caused the collapse of the bank; that the fictitious accounts wore opened two years ago; and that the directors have recently appropriated $400,000 in stock and deposits which he left for depositors. In the Senate, on the 2d inst., with Messrs. Edmunds, Sherman, Logan, Hawley, and Allison in their seats, the greatest day’s work of the session was performed. Among the forty bills passed were those to bridge the Wisconsin, Chippewa, and St. Croix Rivers; making the cities of Tacoma and Seattle ports of delivery; for the relief of the Protestant Orphan Asylum at Nachez, and to enlarge to four ounces the newspaper limit of weight for penny postage to the general public. The House passed the legislative appropriation b.ll, with an amendment giving certain exemptions to distilleries. A bill was introduced to api ropriate $25,030 in aid of the Southern Exposition at Louisville and to admit exhibits free of duty. A resolution was presented calling for the names of persons with whom contracts have been made for supplies for the army or the Indians. Mr. Stewart, of Texas, introduced a bill authorizing the President to issue a proclamation carrying into effect the Mexican reciprocity treaty whenever he is satisfied that the President of Mexico has issued a similar proclamation. The legislative bill was debated and amendments reducing the number of internal-revenue districts to forty-three and the number of customs districts to sixty-nine were adopted by large majorities. An amendment abolishing Storekeepers at small distilleries was adopted by a vote of 118 to 74. Mr. Hlscock moved to suspend the rules on a motion favoring the abolition of the internal revenue tax on tobacco, on alcohol used for artistic purposes, and on fruit brandies. Pending a vote on the motion, the House adjourned. How often do men build better than they know. In Philadelphia a wrathful citizen hurled an iron bootjack from a fourth-story window, at a maddening organ-grinder, and knocked a Street Commissioner into the gutter. Thus, oftentimes, a noble aim will round out the humblest actions of our lives into a fullness of glory and merit that places us on easy and familiar footing with the angles. —Burlington Hawkeye. The Union Springs Advertiser tells of a widower of a few weeks only, who proposed to an old maid acquaintance with all the gush and fervor of his condition, setting forth the inducement of a fine house as the leading feature of his suit. But the o. m. had her opinion of the suitor, and replied: “And what on earth is the use of marrying a hog for the sake of his pen?”— Ex.