Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1884 — EATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

EATER NEWS ITEMS.

United States mints coined $4,039,700 in November, of which $2,450,000 were standard silver dollars. Dallas, Tex., seems to be an uncongenial sort of a place for gamblers. One hundred and twenty cases were disposed of, the flues aggregating $6,030. Altogether the gamblers have recently paid the municipality over $30,000 in fines and costs. Knowing, like wise men, when they have had enough, the Dallas gamblers have quit. Judge Wallace of the United States Court at New York, in the great suit of the rival telephone companies which involves about $100,000,009, decided in favor of the American Bell Company. The decision grants a i>erpetualinjunction restrainingthePeople’s Telephone Company from using or disposing of the telephones wbich conflict with Bell’s patent. The case will be appealed. The Italian government has prepared a bi.l devoting $20,000,000 to sanitary works in Naples. The French Senate has passed a bill abolishing public executions. The redistribution bill presented in the British House of Commons by Mr. Gladstone will give Scotland six additional members and the English cities eighty-five. In a street brawl at Vienna, Mo., John H. Diggs, editor of the Courier, shot and killed Thomas M. Watkins, editor of the Hcral'J. The fight grew out of a personal controversy in tho columns of their newspapers.

Science Hall, at Madison, Wis., with its chemical, physical, zoological, and geological appliances and coliections, laboratories, etc., was entirely destroyed by fire. The insurance is $41,000, but the loss can not be estimated, as somo of the materials and collections destroyed can not be replaced. The second session of the Forty-eighth Congress opened at Washington on Monday, Dec. 1. Promptly at noon of that day the President of the Senate called that body to order, prayer was offered, and word was sent over to the House that the upper house was ready to proceed to business. Messrs. Sherman and Garland were appointed a committee to inform tile President that the Senate was ready to receive any communication he might be pleased to make. Mr. Cullom introduced a bill to prohibit distinctions being made in the military service of the United States against any class of American citizens; also, to enable officers of the army, promoted for gallant and distinguished services in the war of the rebellion, to be retired with the rank and full pay of the grade to which they were promoted; Mr. Doldli presented a bill to prevent the obstruction of the navigable waters of the United States and to protect public works against trespass or injury. Mr. Ingalls offered a resolution which was agreed to, instructing the Committee on Public Lands to report such legislation as Is necessary to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to summarily remove all fences illegally constructed on the public domain. Tho President’s me.-sage was received and read, after which the Senate adjourned. The Speaker's gavel rapped the House to order promptly at noon. The roll-eaU disclosed the presence of 222 members, and the Clerk was directed to inform the Senate that the House was ready to proceed to business. The Speaker appointed Messrs. Randall and Cox, of New York, a committee to wait upon the President in conjunction with a similar commit ee from the Senate, and inform him that Congress was ready to receive any communication he might be pleased to make. Mr. Holman presented the credentials of Mr. Shevely, member elect of the Thirteenth Indiana District, to succeed Mr. Calkins, resigned, and that gentleman took the oath of office. After listening to the reading of the President's message, the House voted to adjourn.

“Oh, yes,” said Mrs. Parvenu, talking about music at Mrs. Suddenriches’ reception, “I just dote on them sympathy concerts, and my husband insists on our prescribing for the whole series. Ain’t them Beethoven rhapsodies real elegant ?”

A modern writer thus defines honor: Standing fire well, and shooting a friend whom you love, in order to gain the praise of a few others whom you despise. A young lady is said to be “of age” only when she is married.