Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1884 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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For the year ended Sept. 30 the New York Central lload earned, net, 810,000,000, and paid more thnn $7,000,000 In dividends. The furniture factory of Clark Bros. &Co., at Philadelphia, and several tenements adjoining were burned, the losses aggregating $165,000. Silas Savage, the holder of a French spoliation claim for over $2,000,000, was last week buried at Hartford, Conn., at the expense of the city, after living in hope for a half-century. Miss Newman, whose supposed dead body was taken from a grave in Egremont, Mass, to Albany and was restored to lifo oil the dissecting table, is now perfectly sane and wedded to a physician—nephew of one of the men acquainted with the facts of her resurrection. She proposes to visit friends in the Berkshire Hills within a short time. Silas Sanders, colored, two months married, and a witness in the Crouch murder trial at Jackson, Mich., attempted suicide by cutting his throat. Assignments have been made by Wescott & Co., bankers, at Syracuse, with liabilities of SIOO,OOO, and E’rastus C. Alden, a dealer In millinery goods at Providence, who owes $60,000. Henry H, Green obtained in a Boston court a judgment for $6,025 against Jho Now York Central Koad for injuries to a base viol, at Bochester. The instrument was a Stradivarius, to which fact many experts were called to testify. Fire consumed a block of wooden buildings at New Bedford, Mass. The loss was $1)2,000 and the insurance $75,000. It was resolved by the Leaf Tobacco Board of Trade at New York to protest against the ratification of the proposed treaty with Spain.