Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1884 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

Sergt. Bates, who carried the starspangled banner through the South, is sick, and nearly destitute, at his home in Saybrook, HE A constable last week sold his saber to satisfy a debt. The Bailroad Commissioners of lowa have been at last aroused to action concerning the oppression of the’ farmers by the railroads whose exorbitant charges for freight transportation. are causing such widespread distress, and are moving toward an investigation sf the abuse. Judge "Woods, of Indianapolis, positively refused to spread upon tbe records of his court the statementof JamesG. Blaine that a fair trial of his libel suit against the Sentinel could not be had in Indiana. The entry was, therefore, made that the case was voluntarily dismissed. Hog-cholera in Nebraska has caused a loss of probably $500,000, the loss In Sarpy County alone amounting to $75,000. From March 24, 1855, to April 30, 1884, the Illinois Central Bailroad has paid to the State of Illinois the sum of $9,648,649.41. The Bev. H. D. Jardine, an Episcopalian pastor at Kansas City, has sued a newspaper of that town for SIO,OOO for slander. At a convention at Des Moines, lowa, of representative temperance people, it was decided to call a State Convention for Jan. 21, to oonsider the outlook for the prohibitory law. Hog cholera around Dayton, Ohio, was checked by the cold snap, after a loss in eight counties of 10,000 hogs. During the year ended June 30 the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Road earned, net, $7,227,257. In response to a request by Sheriff s! l?oden of Athens County, Ohio, that two companies of troops might be sent to tne Hocking Valley, Gov. Hoadly said that he thought the local-authorities could meet the emergency. Surgeons at Lafayette, Ind., successfully cured a case of strabismus, or squinting, by use of the new anassthetlc, muriate of cocoalne, a few drops of which rendered the eye of the patient insensible to pain. J. Henry Hobart, the .civil engineer who built the famous loop on the Southern Pacific Road, was frozen to death in the street at Omaha after becoming intoxicated.