Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1884 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

A panic has seized the city of Toulon, which stands next in importance to Marseilles among the Mediterranean seaports of France. Fifty deaths from cholera have taken place and the frightful disease is spreading rapidly. The filthiness of the older portion of the town, owing to its defective drainage and the habits of the lower orders of Toulonaise, are the prime cause of the epidemic. Eight thousand people have fied the city. The cracking of a gallery in a Methodist Church at Anglesea, England, caused a stampede in which many persons were trampled upon and severely injured. Patrick Joyce, an iron-worker of Bellaire, Ohio, was sent to Europe by his fel-low-laborers in quest of health. He was arrested at Queenstown for being a dynamiter, but was discharged when it was learned that he carried only a tube of oil. A gas-well has been struck at Steubenville, Ohio, whose roar can be heard for a {quarter of a mile, and which is expected to save the Jefferson Iron Company an expendture of $3,000 per month for coal.

John Wallae, a contractor on railroad work near Elkton, Md., absconded with $1,500 given him to pay his Italian laborers. The victims took Wallace’s son from his house and were in the act of lynching him when the boss of the workingmen stopped the proceedings. A dispatch received at Boston by the American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions, dated Hong Kong, announces the total loss of the missionary brig Morning Star at Kusail. The crew and passengers were saved. All the coal mines in the Hocking Valley and Shawnee district are idle, the 5,000 employes having struck against the 10 cents per ton reduction. No trouble is reported. Clearing exchanges the past week—s76s,9s2,ooo—are $46,962,423 in excess of the returns for the proceeding week, but when compared with the figures for the corresponding week in 1883, show a reduction of 22.8 per cent.

The Canadian Government will soon make public the details of a reciprocity treaty arranged with the United States, admitting natural products and some articles of crude manufacture. Seventeen thousand acres of the Brazos County (Tex.) school lands were sold to the Witchita Land Company at $1 an acre —the best price ever obtained for such lands. In the Senate June 23, a resolution was adopted for an Investigation into the recent defalcations in the departments, by the committee on expenditures of public money. After prolonged debate on the Mexican pension bill, the amendment of Mr. Ingalls to extend the time in which to fill applications for arrears, was lost by 20 to 27. In the House, a bill was introduced to authorize the funding of the entire bonded debt in 2 per cent, bonds running fifty years. The Sundry Appropriation bill was passed, under a suspension of the rules, amended in s.vcral respects. The clause which cuts off the powei of members to print speeches in the Record not actually delivered was struck out.

The cultivation of flowers is, of all the amusements of mankind, the one to be selected and approved as the most innocent in itself and most perfectly devoid of injury or annoyance to others. The employment is not only conducive to health and peace of mind, but probably more good w 11 has arisen and friendship been founded by the intercourse and communication connected with this pursuit than from any other whatsoever. — E. Jesse.

They have passed a “Wild-Flowers Protection Act” in the British House of Commons, punishing persons by fine and imprisonment for “grubbing up” any fern, primrose, violet, or in fact any native plant. Imagine, dear reader, not being able to lawfully pick “wildflowers.”