Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1884 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The clearing house exchanges last week are but $703,645,589, a falling off from the corresponding period In 1883 equaling 23.5 per cent. Prof. Bichard A. Prector, the astronomer, with his family, has leached St Joseph, Mo., from London, and intends to reside there for the future. Burgert & Hart, who for a quarter century have conducted a wholesale boot and shoe house in Toledo, have made an assignment to L. S. Baumgardner, with liabilities of sioo,o:o. The failure is announced of Buford & Co., extensive plow manufacturers of Rock Island, 111. The small mission town of San Jose, Cal., was almost totally destroyed by fire. Ihe loss is $50,000 and tha insurance small. When water was exhausted, claret was used to extinguish the flames and prevent the destruction of the old mission church.

Secretary Frelinghuysen has instructed the consular odicers at London, Liverpool, Marseilles, Havre, Bordeaux. Bremen, and Hamburg to employ competent physicians to inspect all vessels and passengers departing from those ports to the United States, and to refuse clean bills of health to all unless upon the recommendations of such physicians* and sanitaray inspectors. The Consuls are instructed to report promptly by cable any cases of infectious disease. At Newberry, S. C., Mrs. John Nelson found in the center of a potato a bright go d ring. The vegetable had trown through the metal and then around it until the ring was completely concealed. Newton Carpenter and Ned Macks, negroes, were hanged by a mob near Starkville. Miss., last wees. About two year 3 ago Carpenter fatally poisoned B. J. Parish s two sons, aged 14 and 12, Macks furnishing him the drug. Carpenter confided his crime to a negress, who d.vulged the matter a day or two before the lynching.

W. J. Lucas, jailer at Owensboro, Ky., was riddled with bullets by a mob to whom he refused to surrender the keys. His wife took his pistol and vainly endeavored to drive back the bloodthirsty crowd. They then took a negro named Richard May, who had made a criminal assault on a white girl, and hanged him to a tree in the court house yard. Dispatches from Berlin state that the crops in Prussia are unusually good. An avalanche at Mont Blanc, Switzerland, overwh ’lined a party of travelqrs. One person was killed. Some 250 Italians brought into the Hocking Valley to take the place of striking miners have to be guarded by the police. The caving of an enbankment at Parker, Pa., buried seven men, two of whom were killed, two mortally, an! the others severely injured. An engine and coal car, running out of time, came in collision with a passenge r train at Greenwood Cemetery, near Brooklyn. Both drivers reversed their engines, and after the crash the engine and the coal car started back cn the traok and dashed into a crowded passenger train at the depot, causing a great wreck. Nine persons were injured, some fatally. The Secretary of the National Committee of the Greenback party, who accompanied Gen. Butler from Chicago to Buffalo, states that the latter will certainly remain in the teld as the Anti-Monopoly candidate for President. Intellectual and bodily activity are rarely found in men of great age; but when so combined add to the chances of prolonged life. Witness three men who have played a great and active part in the world and who combine these rare gifts of nature and will, the Earl of Shaftesbury, the great humanitarian Cardinal Newman, and the Emperor William.