Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1884 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The Louisiana State Board of Education decided to locate the State Normal School at Natchitoches that town having given buildings and grounds valued at $60,00 J. Mr. John R. McLean, of the Cincinnati Enquirer, was married at Washington to M st Emily T. Beale, daughter of Gen. Beale of that city. A pleasure tug, carrying about twenty persons, has left Grand Haven, Mich., for New Orleans, on a fishing excursion, expecting to take six weeks for the down trip. A revenue cutter brings news to San Francisco from Alaska that the whale catch is of good average, and that a new volcano has been discovered and the Kowak River fully explored. The Clearing House exchanges last week—sßos,ool,lss—were $96,152,861 greater than the preceding week; but, compared with the corresponding period in 1883, the reduction.is equivalent to 23.7 per cent.. The Pennsylvania Line notifies the Baltimore, and ■ Ohio Road that from Oct. 12 it will not be permitted to run trains over the Beuuriylvania tracks between Baltimore and-New York'. Neither passenger tickets nor Saggage from the West, by way of the Baltimore'and -Ohio, will be received by the 'Pennsylvania Company. A cigar peddler in San Francisco, 'named John Jacobi, has official advises that property in England of the value of $3,500,000 awaits his orders. ’ Two men and their wives were murdered by Mexicans at Rafferty’s Ranch, in Arizona. Rafferty is missing, arid is also supprised to have fallen victim to the depredators from Sonora. •

A tax of $1,750 upon each box-holder of the Metropolitan Opera House at New York has been levied by the directors as> a subsidy for thirteen weeks of Gorman opeya, to begin Nov. 17. J. W. Rpsenthal & Co., clothing manufacturers at Rochester, N. Y., have made an assignment, giving preferences for SIOO,OOO. Col. Stewart’, one of the British officers operating against the Mahdi’s forces, is reported to have been murdered near Wady Haifa by Bedouins. Fourteen Austrian children were drowned in the River Drave while playing in a boat which capsized. , The house of John Sherry, at Edinburg, Pa., was invaded by five masked men while five persons sat at the supper table. After binding and gagging the family, the robbers took $6,000 from its hiding-place and S2OO from the safe, driving off in a carriage. John McCullough, the tragedian, whose engagements for the season have been canceled on account of his illness—an affliction that threatens insanity—became excited at St. Louis, And made a desperate eilort to get on board a train to go to New York, knocking down the conductor. He was with difficulty removed to the Southern Hotel, and is in the hands of kind f riends. At Newaygo, Mich., John Armstrong found a boarder, George Bates, in his wife’s room, and seizing an ax, rushed in. The wife held Armstrong while her paramour went in search of a pistol, but he broke from her grasp, and killed her with the ax. Hastening down stairs, he met Bates ascending, and slew him with one blow. Armstrong then surrendered to the authorities. The varieus Bible societies of the world last year printed and purchased, for distribution, 2,115,765 copies of the Scriptures. This does not indicate much diminution in the zeal of the church.— The Current. Do not despise the opinion of the world; you might as well say you do not care for the light of the sun because you can use a candle.— L. Gozlan.