Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1885 — EATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

EATER NEWS ITEMS.

The mediation of the Italian Consul aving proved of no avail, hostilities have again broken out between the French and ovasin Madagascar. Maud S. htft been temporarily retired from the turf, and will be taken to New Fork to the stables of Mr. Donner, who will, be says, take pleasure in driving her on the roa 1. While temporarily insane, William H. Taylor, of Worcester, Massachusetts, shot cis wife and then himself. Both were fatally injured. Harrisburg, Pearsylvania, last week celebrated the centenn.ai anniver.-ary of its incur, oration, the venerable Simon Cameron presiding over the exercises. The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics reports the total valuesof the exports of domestic cattle and hogs, beef, pork, and dairy products as follows: 1885. 1884. August $ 7,313,147 $ 8,635,509 ■ ight munths ended August 31... 64,217.516 62,947,275 Beet and pork products for ten months ending Aug. 31 73,761,451 71,736,810 Da ry products tor four V months ending Aug. 31.. 5,289,504 7,733,619 John L. Sullivan, the pugilist, pleaded guilty at Cleveland to the charge of Sunday bal.-playing, uni was fined $1 and costs —a total of sl6. Miss Arvilla M. Bogart, aged 23, living near Oconomowoc, Wis., was stung on the head by a bee, and died in twenty minutes from the effects of the sting. A female horse-thief, giving the name of Mary L. Sheppard, aged 14 years, of Webster City, lowa, was captured at Dodgeville, Wis., while attempting to sell a stolen team. C. E. Cook, proprietor of the Jennings County Bank, at North Vernon, Ind., has made an assignment, having become involved by dealings in the warrants overissued by various township trustees in Indiana. Miss Dean, daughter of a wealthy lumber dealer of Chicago, began working in a spinning mill at Rockford last week for 60 cents per day. Her father, however, gives her a dollar for each cent earned.

A recent dispatch from Denison, Texas, says: “The princip'.eof woman s rights sustained an ignoble defeat here alter an heroic onslaught. Three maiden sisters named Cash, of mature years, reside on a street that is being repaired and graded. They objected to any work being done in front of their premises, as they had no voice in ordering the improvement. This afternoon, while the street boss and his laborers were at work in front of the Cash res.dence, the throe maiden sisters came out and assaulted the workmen with rocks, put ting over a dozen brawny men to flight. The City Marshal and two policemen then essayed to protect the men while they returned to work, but the irate sisters were equal to the emergency, for this time they sallied forth with two old pistols and a garden hoe. The chivalric Marshal and his aids hastily retreated before the foe, and again the work men were severely pelted with rocks, and fled. Calling re-enforcements, the Marshal ral ied his men and finally captured the Amazons and landed them in the calaboose, where they are passing to-night singing hymns.” The first race between the yachts Puritan and the Genests, whieh was sailed on the 14th inst. over what is known as the inside course of the New York Yacht Club, a length of thirty-e ght miles, was won by the former in 6:04:30. The English cutter was beaten by a little more than a mile, and crossed the line in 6:10:30. The event excited great interest throughout the country and in England. The rich as often need societies for the amelioration of their condition as the poor. A very rich man was once hea d to say, “I worked like a slave till I was nearly fifty to make my fortune, and I have been watching it ever since like a detective 1”