Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1886 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. / The funeral services over the remains of jthe late Horatio Seymour were held in Trin- ' ity Church, Utica, previous to which thousands viewed the remains as they lay in slate in the residence of ex-Senator Conkling. The body was placed in the Chapel of Roses at Forest Hill Cemetery, where the sculptor, David Richards, took a cast of the features of the dead statesman... .Flames destroyed two stores at Whitehall, N. Y., value 4 at $60,000, and twelve buildings at Skarpsburg, Pa., worth $30,000. Sullivan, the pugilist, answers Ryan’s recent challenge by saying that he is not again desirous of entering the ring, but will not fight Ryan unless the stakes are $5,000 a side, five friends of each to be present, kid gloves to be worn, the battle to be to a finish, and to be fought six weeks after signing articles. John B. Gough, for the past forty years the leading orator in the cause of temperance, died in Philadelphia. He was born in England in 1822.... Gen. Sherman denied at Pittsburgh that he disparaged Gen. Grant in the Smith letter, recently referred to. The letter was written to procure information, as he was at the time preparing a eulogy of Gen. Grant. James Henby Paine, brother of the late Robert Treat Paine, and grandson of one of tire 6 signers of the Declaration of died recently at New York, apparently in extreme penury. In the rags covering his body a few hundred dollars were found; but it is believed that be was worth between $1,000,000 and $2,000,000, and he was known to have been a large owner in the Chicago Land Company. The question is, what has become of his wealth? Henry Johnson, a wealthy miser and hermit, died at Norristown, Pa. He would not allow himself the necessary comforts of life, and during the recent cold weather his feet were so badly frozen that the soles mortiflfcd and fell off. j. .Four young men were drowned at Harrisburg, while attempting to cross the Susquehanna. River in a rowboat.