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

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. The East Atlantic coast was visited by a destructive storm on the 24th of November, accompanied by one of the highest tides ever known. A New York dispatch says: “Old river men in this city compared the tide to the disastrous rise of the rivers in 1854. Great discomfort, damage to property, and delay to business were caused by the submerging of slips, streets, and piers, and the flooding of basements and cellars. Ferry-boats stood so high in the slips that teams could hardly get aboard. Along the Jersey coast the storm was especially severe. Sandy Hook was inundated and the Government station was in danger of falling. The Southern Now Jersey Railroad tracks were submerged. Two fine summer cottages at Seabriglit were swept into the Atlantic. Few steamers and no sailing vessels attempted to cross Sandy Hook bar to go to sea Off Ocean Beach tho ship Malta, from Antwerp for Now York, stranded early in the morning. One sailor jumped overboard and was drowned The other thirty-three members of tho the crew were rescued by the life-saving crew. Walks and beach improvements at Ocean Grove, Deal Beach and Atlantic City are submerged and damaged. Houses are undermined all along the Shrewsbury rivor and many familios liavo had to leavo their homes. All along tho east shore the docks are submerged. In Jersey City sewers and basements were flooded Prisoners in the City Prison had to stay in their sleeping bunks to keep out of tho water. A sewer in South street burst, flooding the cellars of tho finest residences on tho Heights. Tho railroad depot floors wore under wator, and improvised bridges wero laid for passengers to walk on. Most of Coney Island was submerged The Brighton race track was flooded and the races wore postponed Tho water is six feet deep on the Shoepshcad Bay boulevard Hotel property on tho island is flooded, but will probably not be seriously damaged. Tho contour of tho beach will, however, bo much changed by washing away, and tho damage to shore improvements is serious. Every house and summer resort bordering on Flushing Bay is more or less damaged. It is estimated that the losses will foot up into the millions. ” Warner and Work, who were indicted for aiding and abetting Ferdinand Ward in misapplying S7O,.'ST of Marino Bank funds, appeared in tho United States Court at New York, and gave bail each in $.‘10,000. At Elmira, N. Y., the Bev. Father Bloomer, pastor of St. Patrick’s Church, denounced the members of the Ancient Order of Hibernians as wolves in sheep’s clothing, unworthy the confidence or respoet of good Catholics. A condemned structure at Jersey City, from which tho boys and girls were carrying firewood, suddenly collapsed, killing two hoys and two girls and injuring a dozen other persons, a few of them dangerously. A warrant for the arrest of tho proprietor, charging manslaughter, has been issued Postmaster Pearson, of New York, reports a decrease of one-half in tho number of special-delivery stamps sold The messengers in Brooklyn surrendered their positions, being unable to average more than six dollars per month. Letters of administration were ganted on the estato of John McCullough, tho actor. Ho left‘property to tho value of $45,000, of which $20,0 0 was in personal offects. Tlie firm of W. E. Connor & Co., stock brokers in New York, will be dissolved by the retirement of Jay Gould and his son George, who intend to devote their timo to the management of three corporations. The senior Gould expects to take a five months’ cruise in the yacht Atalanta.