Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1885 — LATER NEWS IETMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS IETMS.

The German government has declined to permit the landing of an American cable on its coast The hangman at Norwich, England, severed the head from the body of Robert Goodale as though it had been done with a razor. Many spectators sickened pt the sight The drop was six feet, and the weight used was fifteen stone. King Thebau, of Burmah, becoming alarmed at the rapid approach of the British expeditionary force, notwithstanding the resistance offered by the Burmese, sent a messenger to Gen. Prendergast begging him to giant an armistice for the purpose of peaceably settling the difficulty between Bunnak and the Indian Government. Gen. Prefidergast, i i reply, demanded the surrender of the Burmese army and Mandalay, the capital, stating that only then could he entertain any request looking to a settlement of the dispute. King Thebau acceded to the terms, and the Ava forts, with twenty-eight guns, were turned over to the British troops. A garrison was placed there, and the British troops proceeded to Mandalay. By setting fire to a mattress, the three little children of Mrs. Patrick Fitzgerald, living at Providence, R. I, were suffocated. The franchise of the Providence Base Ball Club has been purchased by Mr. Soden, of Boston, hut not for tho Boston Club. Radbourn, the pitcher, has signed to play with the Bostons next season. Major General Alexander Shaler, commanding the First Division New York National Guard, President of the Board of Health, and Secretary of tho Armory Board, was indicted at New York for bribery, and arrested and locked up at police headquarters. Furthermore, Mayor Grace has preferred against him charges of fraud and conversion of public money. John L. Sullivan, who had just secured a divorce, was last week married in Washington to a variety actress named Annie Livingston. The Federal Commissioner of Bailroads recommends that tho debt of the Pacific lines be extended to a period more convenient to the companies. The Union Pacific has $225,554,747 of stock and debt; the Central owes $179,823,218. Gov. Hubbard, of Minnesota, has decided not to call an extra session of the Legislature. From tbe opening of lake navigation to Nov. 30, there were shipped by lake to Buffalo, 2,783,558 barrels of Hour and 48,909,371 bushels of grain. The shipments from Buffalo of coal, cement, and salt are largely in excess of the shipments last season. The school children of New Orleans arc contributing five cents per month to purchase a monument to the memory of John J. Audubon, the ornithologist, a native of that city. “The Queen,” says a paragraph in the “Greville Memoirs,” “wrote her family and announced her marriage to them. When she saw the Duchess of Gloucester in town and told her she was to make her declaration tiie next day, the Duchess asked her if it was not a nervous thing to do. She said: ‘Yes; but I did a much more nervous thing a little while ago.’ ‘What was that?’ ‘I proposed to Prince Albert.’ ” Prof. Cope says that a party of Englishmen not long ago killed (in defiance of law) twenty or thirty bison 19 the Yellowstone National Park, without taking apy parts of the animals for use. This was about a fourth of the total herd.