Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1884 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Daring the week 215,488 standard silver dollars were issued from the United States mints, against 324,000 during the correspond ing period of last year. A formal opinion that the fames of petroleum have no injurious effect has been rendered by Surgeon General Hammond on a case presented by the American Consul at Malta. Fire at North Mnskegon, Mich., destroyed half a dozen business places and offices and 200,000 lath. The loss is about sls 000. The English Court of Appeals has sustained the verdict of the lower courts decreeing the separation of Lord Colin Campbell and wife. The police of Warsaw seized a half million rubles and a large amount of revolutionary proclamations. On the persons of five men arrested in Moscow were found bombs and dynamite. European merchants have been in the habit of evading the Mexican tariff laws by shipping good 3 into Mexico as samples. The Mexican Government has, therefore, decreed that samples shall hereafter pay customs duties. A procession of trades unions in London, organized for effect on the franchise bill, formed on the Thames embankment, and called togother a crowd of spectators estimated at 750,000. In passing through the aristocratic sections of the city the paraders found the blinds closely drawn. Nearly one thousand watches were taken by pickpockets in the jam In Hyde Park.

Over five thousand bricklayers and laborers on new buildings in New York struok for nine hours of work. Most of tho employers yielded the point. Bricklayers receive $5 per day for front work and $4 for rough work. It appears that plasterers only labor nine hours and stone-setters eight. Artesian well-borers at West Point, Mississippi, found a huge poplar tree, in a perfect state of preservation, 550 feet below the surface. Green’s Bank, at Jackson, Mississippi, one of the oldest institutions In that region, where nearly every sheriff in the State kept bis funds, has suspended, with liabilities of $250,000. The private bank of G. Hall, at Elmira, N. Y., patronized by business men, laborers and farmers, has failed. The deposits are reported at about SIOO,OOO.

Near Chesterton, Md., two thousand men engaged in a riot at a negro camp-meet* lag, in which one person was killed, ten fatally Injured, and a number of others seriously cut. A dispatch from Chesterton gives the following particulars of the bloody affair: “Excursions were run to the colored campmeeting in Jarrell's Woods, near Worton Station, in this county, from several points In Maryland and Delaware. From Millington, in the latter Stata, came a crowd of men who had a feud with the negroes of this vicinity. The 3,000 negroes on the grounds had been drinkiug whisky all day, and were in gco.l humor for a fight. One of tho Millington men commenced to ill-treat the borße of a negro from this town and precipitated a row, in which 2,000 men participated, which lasted nearly three quarters of an hour and during which fully one thousand shots were fired. The mob became thoroughly infuriated and carried on a guerrilla warfare from behind treeß until a Sheriff's posso, 200 strong, charged through the woods into tno center of the camp. The new-comers had arrived by special train from Charlestown, and promptly scattered the rioters right and left, capturing eighteen of the ring-leaders. William Ashley, of Millington, was found dying with a bullet through his body. Razors had been used freely, and nearly every man captured was bleeding profusely from wounds inflicted by these weaoons. Many of the Millington party were also hurt, but escaped. About ten men were fatally wounded.”