Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1884 — SPLINTERS. [ARTICLE]

SPLINTERS.

The South Carolina Legislature passed 283 acts in twenty-eight days and adjourned. IN a mock duel at Erie, one pistol was loaded, and James Brandt killed George Walker. A Philadelphia lady gave a party to her pet poodle, all the other dogs in her set being invited. - A cage containing twenty convicts fell 204 feet in the Pratt coal mine at Birmingham, Ala., and but one man was killed. Christmas day Mr. Laboucbere distributed 5,000 new sixpences among ihe poor children of the London charitable institutions. A firm in Americus, Ga., has obtained 5,000 cents from the North, and will endeavor to put them in circulation in trade in that place. Oscar Wilde first saw his affianced at Liverpool, where he delivered his lecture in St. George’s Hall, she being one of the three that composed the audience. Gen. Rufus Ingalls, who is living at Portland, Oregon, has received notification from Washington that his public accounts have been closed and settled to a cent. He had bandied over $500,000,000. The tramps steer clear of Trenton. In that interesting and historic city when they catch an adult male vagrant they tie a ball and chain to his legs and set him to breaking stone for his bed and board. Aleck, the President’s colored boy servant, has been showing the gold watch which Mr. Arthur gave him on Christmas to h s friends in New York City, and the e - es of the metropolitan Africans bulge out like dooreknobs. An lowa Judge has decided that the verd et of guilty against a defendant indicted for stealing money, and who was proved to have stolen silver cerdtlcates, should be set aside, on the ground that these certificates are not money.: A boy of 15 years started West on horseback from Livermore, Me., a few days ago, without the consent of his parents. His irate father pursued him and overtook him after he had ridden twenty-five miles, with the thermometer cloee to aero,