Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1885 — NEWS CONDENSED [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED

Coneise Record of the Week. EASTERN. The New York Coart of Appeals has declared the tenement-house cigar act unconstitutional. Advices from Eastern Pennsylvania report increased activity in the iron trade. Plate and structural iron is in demand for bridge-building', the pipe-mi Is have secured large orders, other mills have more business, and in general the market is gathering strength. Mother Superior Theresa (niece of Mr. Blaine), of the Catholic Convent at Wilkesbarre, Pa., died last week. In the suit of Mrs. Paton against C. P. Huntington, the railroid millionaire, in New York, Mr. Huntington said that his profits in Central Pacific were less than 000,000, The creditors of Oliver Brothers, of Pittsburg, have decided to grant a five-years extension, taking separate notes for the payment of interest semi-annually. The velocity of the wind on the summit of Mt. Washington on the 22d of January was 100 miles an hour, while the rnecury registered 50 degrees below zero—the roughest weather ever experienced. So serious are the undervaluation frauds which are charged against the New York Custom House that in some cases, it is said, invoices of silk have been reoelved at that port, the valuations upon which were 70 per oent. less than tho actual cost of production. The statement is made that foreign-born agents in New York, representing foreign manufacturers virtually control tho importations. Silks aro even said to be purchasable in New York from these foreign agents, duty paid, for less than the cost at which they can bo procured by American merchants at the European factories. The remody suggested is a uniform system of duties upon tho yard or pound.

At the Hough Well, in Washington, Pa., a heavy flow of gas was found at a depth of 1,990 feet. A Boston dispatch announces the death of Joseph M. Wrightman, formerly Mayor of that city. A loss of $60,000 wa.s incurred by the burning of one of tho shops of tho Whitney Arms Company, at Whitney vllle, ConD.