Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1880 — NEWS SUMMARY. [ARTICLE]

NEWS SUMMARY.

’ J. T. Waite was renominated for con. gress by Ute republicans of the 3d Connecticut district. , The Republicans of the Seventh diatrict of New Jersey have renominated Lewis A. Brigham for Congress. Greenbackers of the Second Wisconsin district hgve nominated R. P. Wairle, of Dane county, for congress. ‘ Nine business houses on the south aide of public square of Winchester, 111-, burned Thursday, entire loss about $30,000. Hon. J. M. Campbell has been nominated for congress by the Republicans of the Seventeenth Pennsylvania district. The Republicans of the Seventh congressional district of Pennsylvania have renominated William H. Goodacnalk for coo grew. ▲ waterspout, at Pay, France, destroyed three houses and caused much other damage. It is feared several persons werekilled.

The treasury department yesterday purchased 305,000 ounces of fine silver for delivery to the Ban Francisco and New Orleans mint*. The Democrats of the second district of Kansas have nominated L. F. Green for congress. Green has also been nominated by the Greenbackers, The weekly statement of the bank of France shows a decrease of gold to the amount of 14,759,000 franca, hod an increase of silvesto the amount of 3,216,000 francs. The state convention of colored Odd Fellows met at Columbus September 10 to form a grand lidge. About eighty persons, representing forty lodges, were present.

On the island of Dominca, continuous rains and high winds prevailed from August 15 to 19, putting tte whole island under water.. The crops were rotted and destroyed, . Checks for payment of quarterly inter-est-on registered 4 per cent. loan, due October 1, and numbering about <60,000, are now being prepared at the treasury department. The board of trade of Louisville has passed resolutions deploring the death of General Meyer, and recommending that the war department retain control of the signal service. Dan Camery and Sam Shields descended into a silver mine six. miles west of Hannibq), Mo., too soon after a blast and while vacium still existed. They were dead when taken out. The death is announced of Jules Nicolet, an eminent French lawyer, at the age of 61. He had been retained as leading counsel for the Jesuits in their suits against the government. Inspector Byrnes has announced that he .found among the bonds hypothecated by’Alleger of the Third National bank ol New York, four SI,OOO bonds of the Cincinnati Southern railroad. In addition to the gold withdrawn from the Bank of England yesterday, 25,000 pounds, for shipment to the United States, 40,060 pounds was also taken from the open market for shipments. The Republican convention of the Third congressional district of Virginia has nominated C. P. Ramsdell for congress. Ramsdell is United Stales m .rshal for the eastern district of Virginia.

James Thomas DeJarnette, of Danville, Va n who killed his sister, was Thursday found guilty of murder in the first degree, with recommendation to mercy in view of the circumstances of the case. Charles Rowell, pedestrian, has sent to the New York Spir.tof the Times articles of agreement tor the signature of Pegrim, es Boston. The articles are similar to those generally governing such contests. Hon. Silas Richardson, a prominent citizen of Waukesha, Wis., blew out the gas on retiring at his home, and was found dead in the morning. He was absentminded, which accounts for blowing out the gas. The citizens of Yanktou have subscribed $lO-000 for an experimental artesian well, and boring will begin as soon as the contracts can be concluded- There’s a great interest manifested in the experiment in that section. D. W. Caldwell, general manager ot the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis railroad, has been appointed general manaager of the Vandalia line in the place recently made vacant by the death of Maj. John E. Simpson. At the request of the Uncompaghre Utes, the body of Chief Ouray will be exhumed and taken to the Los Pinos agency for interment They also request that he be given a Christian burial, with appropriate ceremonies. President Hayes has commuted the sentence of death recently passed by a representative in Turkey on an American citizen ghllty of murder to imprisonment for life. The convict remains provisionary in the consular prison at Smyrna.

A strike of 28,000 nail makers of East Worcestershire and Staffordshire, England, began September 10 in opposition to any furrher reduction ot their wages, whieh they allege have already been reduced 20 per cent. Mosby, the United States consul at Hong Kong, was charged on the 30th of Ju'.y with committing an assault with a spear on an American seaman. After hearing the evidence, the magistrate cautioned Mosby and dismissed the summons. The entire wheat crop of the stale of Illinois for 1880, will be 53,836,500 bushels, the whole value of the crop being estimated at $444,570,000. This crop was never beaten or equaled in the history ot the state. There will be over 46,000,000 bushels shipped, after taking ont all necessary for consumption and seed. A dispatch fiom Vienna says the idea that the interview between Prince Bismarck and Baron Von Haymerle, has been for the purpose of making any positive stipulation to provide against eventualities io the east, and above all, against possible separate acts of England and Russia may be entirely dismissed. A Berlin dispatch says: Dueling is increasing in the German army at a most alarming rate. Count Goltz, of the cap-tain-general's staff, has been killed by a brother officer in an encounter at Tulda. Gen. Count Von der Goltz is one of the emperor’s aides de camp, but it can scarcely be probable that he is meant. The weekly statement of the association of banks, issued from the clearing house in New York, Sept 11. shows the following changes: Loans increase, $1,773,400; specie increase, $805,600; legal tenders decrease, $598,900; deposits increase, sl,163,700; circulation increase, $11,300; reserve increase. $314,700. The banks now hold $6,700,875 in excess of legal requireA Berlin dispatch says: The semi-offi-cial statement reasserts that in no case has the Imperial bank of Germany, in Berlin, refused to pay gold for its notes or checks. It will, moreover, adhere to the same rule in future. Ou the other hand, certain demands on provincial branches of ‘he bank for gold have had to be referred to the bank in Berlin. The same course is followed by other large German Dflri