Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1885 — THE EAST. [ARTICLE]

THE EAST.

A suit has been entered in the Supreme Judicial Court of Suffolk County, Maskichu6ette, by the National Soldiers’ Home against Benjamin. F. Butler, to recover $15,000, for which Gen. Butler is said to have failed to account whjle acting as Treasurer of the home Cyrus W. Field, after fifty years of active business in New York, is resigning his railway and telegraph directorships, and intends to spend the summer in Europe.... Byerson & Brown, livery-stable keepers at New York, who introduced what are known as the 'black-and-tan” cabs, have failed for half a million... .A commission will proceed to England to examine witnesses regarding the sanity of Mrs. Dudley, who shot O'Donovan Rossa.... Bid ard Grant White, the Shakespearean scholar, and literary and art critic, died at New York, aged 63....J0hn Marston, a Bear Admiral in the United States navy, died in Philadelphia, at the agesf 90 years. Kate SmuLsey, the faster of Fort Plain, N. Y-, who lived without food from March 11, 1884, till tho following Thanksgiving, and had subsisted since that time on wine and whev, died last week, weighing bat seventy-dive pounds.