Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1888 — TEE WORLD AT LARGE. [ARTICLE]

TEE WORLD AT LARGE.

It is rumored that another Cardinal’s hat is soon to come from Rome to America, and that the exalted honor will be conferred upon either Archbishop Feehan, of Chicago, or Bishop Ireland, tho great temperance orator of St Paul, who has lately been created an Archbishon. The visible supply of wheat and corn is, respectively, 33,473,243 and 8,539,311 bushels. Since last report wheat has decreased 1,60,175 bushels, while corn has increased 342,088 bushels. The opposition to the re-election of Presi dent Diaz in Mexico has brought out Jose Maria Iglesias as a candidate. The gentleman seems unwilling to make tho race, believing that no one can be elected against Diaz. The Canadian Government will improve the quarantine service at Grosse Isle, in the St Lawrence Rivor, to prevent the introduction of cholera this season. A new fumigating apparatus, coating $120,000, will be adopted. The Comptroller of the Currency has declared a sixth dividend of 5 per cent to tho creditors of the Richmond National Bank, Richmond, Ind. The address of tho Methodist bishops, read at the general conference, shows that in the past fajir years 450,000 souls have been brought into the church and the membership increased from 1,769,534 to 2,093,935. The bishops are opposed to high license and in favor of total prohibition of the liquor traffic.