Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1885 — MISCELLANEOUS. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS.

President Arthur’s reception at the White House on New Year’s was a brilliant affair. The President was assisted in receiving the guests I y Mrs. McElroy, Mrs. McCulloch, Mrs. Chandler, Mrs. Brewster, and Mrs. Teller. The toilets of the ladies were very elaborate ard together with the uniforms of the military officers and foreign legations made a fine display. The diplomatic corps was first presented, and then the Judges of the Supreme Court and members of both houses of Congress. The army came nejt and the navy, followed by the survivors of the Mexican War and by the Grand Army of the Republie. The Executive Mansion was beautifully decorated. At Albany, Presldent-eldct Cleveland stood at his desk in the Executive Chamber for two hours and shook bands' with a vast multitude of people presented by his military staff. There will be no reduction in postage rates for the ■ present between this country and Mexico The proposed postal treaty has failed fit the Mexican Senate.

There were 366 business failures in the United States last week, an iiicrease of eighty-eight: over the previous week. The appearance of an infectious disease among sheep in the Province of Quebec was met by an order of the Government to slaughter all suffering animals on an allowance .of two-thirds their value. The Phoenix Manufacturing Company's building, at Erie, Pa., and three residences were, burned, causing a loss of $30,000. The Hon. Horatio Seymour’s residence, at Marquette, Mich., was burned, the janitor, who slept in the basement, being suffocated. Two stores, worth $15,000, at Mexico, Mo., and a residence valued at $20,000 in Syracuse, N. Y., were destroyed by Are. The Glen Woolen Mill at North Adams, Mass., was also burned, causing a loss of SIOO,OOO. A powder-mill near Xenia, Ohio, was demolished by an explosion, an employe being blown to pieces. The Irish - Republican National League is out with an address calling on its members to organize and prepare for victories to come. A howl is being raised by the Government of Hayti concerning the occupation by an American company of a guano island which Hayti claims as its own property.

Failures are reported of J. A. Andrews & Co., tobacco dealers, of Cincinnati; Graham, Walls & Co., dry goods merchants, of Crawfordsville, Ind.; Marks Brothers, cigar manufacturers, of East Saginaw, Mich.; Thomas H. Phillips, Jr., a hardware dealer, in Montreal; and Levy, Helneman & Co., lace merchants, of Boston.

American exporters should take warning from the information constantly furnished by the State Department at Washington. The Consul at Londonderry reports a steady decrease in the importation of Indian corn from the United States, on account of damaged cargoes. The Consuls at Jerusalem and Amsterdam complain of manipulations in petroleum by Americans, causing a demand for the Russian product.