Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1884 — HERE AND THERE. [ARTICLE]

HERE AND THERE.

Two more Maine towns, Dover and Foxcroft, have returned to local time. Lucky Baldwin, the San Francisco millionaire, has married a Miss Bennett, 20 years old. Seven of the jury who condemned John Brown to death are still living, and their ages average 70 years. A hen at Greenville, Cal., sat on a lot of eggs in an out-building while the structure was burning, and came out all right. Competent railroad men estimate the loss to the various lines in Texas incurred during the recent floods at $3,000,000. Two western inventors have recently obtained patents for the use of sawdust instead of sand in plastering compositions. Cbemation is an established usage in> Japan, the oldest empire in the world.