Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1886 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

It is stated that the Knights of Labor know no distinction as to race, creed, or nationality. Thiß statement is made because of the fact that colored delegates to the General Assembly, soon to meet at Richmond, Va., have been refused quarters at the hotels. The conductor and engineer of the excursion train recently in collision at Silver Creek, N. Y., by which a number of lives were lost, have been indicted for manslaughter. Colonel Charles C. Greene, ex-editor of the Boston Post, died at Boston last week, aged eighty-two. He was connected with several newspapers prior to 1831, when he founded the Post, with which paper he was connected for nearly a half century, retiring in 1879, at the age of seventy-five. A session of the Board of Public Works at Jersey City was interrupted by the horsewh'pping of a reporter named Leuhart by Miss Mamie Gannon, one of the belles of the city, who has $210,000 in her own right. She was enraged by a stat3ment in the Evening Journal that she forged checks on her father. After vindicating herself she was serenaded at her residence by a large party of admirers. Assistant Secretary Fairchild has issued a call for the redemption of $15,000,000 of 3 per cent bonds. Commissioner Colman, of the Bureau of Agriculture, refuses to permit the sale of any of the infected cattle quarantined at Chicago. He has requested four eminent veterinarians in the Eastern States to proceed to Chicago and ass st in ascertaining the condition of the quarantined beeves. The agricultural population of Italy is so oppressed by tuxes and lngh rents that serious agrarian disturbances are threatened. Gov. Rusk, of Wisconsin, has issued a quarantine proclamation against the importation of Illinois cattle.

Chicago elevators contain 8,561,628 bushels of wheat, 5,429,645 bushels of corn, 1,249,942 bushels of oats. 2.4,460 bushels of rye, and 681,579 bushels of barley; total, 16,128,254 bushels of all kinds of grain, against 13,533,271 husho’s a year ago.

Dr. Joseph Le Conte, write? from Berkelen, Cal., to Science , calling attention to the fact that Dr. Dowdeswell’s claim, in the London Lancet , of discovery of the hydrophobia germ, was ante-dated by Prof. Fol, of Geneva. “I do not remember,” says the Doctor, “that the attention of your readers has been drawn to the fact that this discovery had been previously claimed, with much show of reason, by Prof. H. Fol, of Geneva (Archives des Sciences, vol. xiv., p. 449, 1895, and vol. xv., p. 414, 1886). According to Fol, also, it is a micrococcus found only in this disease, and so minute that it requires a good 1-12 objective to see it at all. Of til's micrococcus he has made pure cultures, which by inoculation communicate the disease with certainty.” Prof. Fo.’s discovery was editorially discussed in the Daily News, but Dowdeswell describes in the Lancet a very different organism—fully thfee times the dimensions given by M. Fol, and not found in the same tissues. Like Fol’s microbe, however, Dr. Dowdeswell claims that pure cultures of his hydrophobia germ will also communicate the disease with certainty. Dr. Spitzka and others do the same with inoculations of all sorts of substances. If this sort of thing continues much longer, Pasteur will be imploring to be saved from his friends. They are proving too much for him.