Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1884 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

In a four-oared combat on Saratoga Lake, the crew of the University of Pennsylvania defeated those of Cornell, Columbia, Princeton, and Bowdoin, The assignee of the firm of Grant & Ward has filed an Inventory at New York, showing nominal assets of $27,139,098; actual assets, $37,174, and liabilities of $16,792,647. It has been Impossible to determine the owners of the securities in the hands of the firm at the time of the failure, the firm never having kept a cash book or journal, and a balance sheet was never taken. A new counterfeit $lO silver certificate has made its appearance in the West. On the back of the note whore it should read “And all public dues, and when so received,” the word “all” is entirely omitted. Messrs. Frew and Hart, editors of the Wheeling (W. Va.) Daily IntefHyencer, have been fined for contempt of court. In having charged in their journal that three of the Supreme Court Judges attended a Democratic Legislative caucus and advised the pissage of certain pernicious laws. One of the Judges wanted the editors Imprisoned. A letter, from Cuba, has been received from Navln, the absconding Mayor cf Adrian, Mich., desiring a compromise of the claims against him of the Clark estate, which he mulcted out of $20,000. The French Minister at Pekin has been instructed to demand from China a war indemnity of 270,000,000 francs, and Admiral Courbet has orders to seize the Foucheon arsenal as a guaranty. In the Chamber of Deputies, Premier Ferry charged the Chinese with foul treachery in attacking the French troops near Lang-tou. A person named Joseph Gratton was arrested at Henley, England. Dynamite cartridges and fuses were found in his possession. He is supposed to be an Irish dynam.ter. John O’Connor, a Nationalist, has been elected Lord Mayor of Dublin. He is a liquor dealer. Advices from Snakin report that Gen. Gordon has been murdered by his soldiers, and that the Mahdi has occupied Khartoum. A dispatch to the London Times from Dongola, says: “The Mudir of Dongola achieved a brilliant victory over the rebels at Debbah. The enemy was routed with a loss of 2,000 killed. We now consider ourselves saved.” Work has been suspended at the Washington Navy Yard owing to the failure of Congress to make an appropriation for its continuance. In pursuance of the provision in the legislative, judicial, and executive appropriation bill reducing the number of internal revenue agents from thirty-five to twenty, the Commissioner of Internal Revenue ordered the discharge of the follow-ing-named agents: A. J. McKusick, California; John Young, Tennessee; John M. Burns, Kentucky; J. B. McCoy, Wisconsin; James A. Ray, Kentucky; C. B. Harrison, Tennessee; John M. Raum, Illinois; Jasper Packard, Indiana; W. L. Hollister, Minnesota; A. M. Crane, California; J. L. Trumbull, Indiana.

Congress reached a final adjournment at 3 o’clock on the afternoon of July 7. During the morning all differences between the House and Senate on the appropriation bills, with the exception of the navy bill, were settled by mutual concessions. The Honse refused to recede from its position on the navy bill, and the Senate refused to yield. The measure did not pass. The last hours of the session were tame, comparatively speaking. President Arthur spent several hours in the Capitol signing the appropriation bills. It is said that if yon will measure three times around an elephant’s foot yon will have its exact height. By that rule a St. Louis girl is about sixteen feet high. As reasonably expect oaks from a mushroom bed as great and durable profits from small and hasty efforts.