Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1880 — NEWS SUMMARY. [ARTICLE]

NEWS SUMMARY.

The Uak» League club of NewYosk gave * very elegant reception last uigbt to (General Grant- / - Royal Carr, for the murder of a haltbread ladiaa at Worcester, Vt, baa been • sentenced to be hanged oa the last Friday ia April next. r kn. Lydia Maria Child* the well knows authoress, died October Mth, at Wayiaad, Massachusetts, aged aeventyeight year*. The elevator of the Soft'A Woodman’s linarictl oil work*, at Omaha, burned Octo ber 28. 'Loss, $35 000; nearly covered by insurance. luceodiary. Yesterday was the last day of registration in New Yoafc. T e total number registered ia 216 J 74. The total number registered 1876 was 188,064. The amount of gold withdrawn from the bank of Sag land yesterday waa Itr 000 pounds. It went to Egypt to pay for the cotton crop, which i» Urge. The indictment against the land league in Ireland will include two hundr* d speeches ami drafted testimony of 890 witnesses and various newspaper arts, else i 3 The secretary of the treasury yesterday instructed the assistant United States tree, surer at New York to purchase 88,900.000 in United Bute# bonds for the sinking fund. The country residence of Charles J. Backer, president of the Franklin Na tional bank, of Baltimore, wae burned October 90. Lota, 880,000; insurance, SIB,OOO. The servants of King Barman, ex-mem ber of parliament-for Sligo, and nt other landlords in Ireland,"have received notice not to pay lull rents, under penalty being shot" The woolen mil's of the Anchor works and other manufactories, .at Camden, Maine, have shut down for want of water The Megauticook river waa never so low as at present * The Democratic wing of the wotkiogmrn of San Francisco, have withdrew Senator Enoa.their candidate for congress, and endorsed General Rosencrans, the Democratic candidate. Orr. Leonard A Daniel’s large oil mill at Piqua. Ohio; waa burned October 20, with in* a. Joining warehouse. Both w*>re full of flailed a«id*»fl. Lo-b from $l5O/ 000 to $900,000; insured. While Mr. Bridget and bi* wife of BanfanwTo, i'al., were attending a political meeting at that pUoc tbeir house caught fire a»«.t their four Vhildren, the eldest, aged 11, were burned death. <, Geo. Messer, while firing a saluta on the arrival of GwerDur- Porter, at Madison, Ind., bad both his arm* blown off and h'S eyes blown out by the premature discharge of the cannon. He will probably die. •

A large livery stable on Fourth street, Quincy, 111, burned together with a large number of hacks and carriages and fortytwo hones, including the stallion, Amboy, owned by Wash Corbin and valued at SIO,OOO. United State* Marshal Tonie Neis, while in search of a gang of road agente in New Mexico, was fired oa by five of t‘i ?m without being hit. He returned the fire with & Winchester rifle, killing one. The reat fled. IS la said that the Russian finance minister has decided on a complete revise of the tariff. Higher protective duties will be levied on imported tallow, grain and caaj- The duties on cotton goo Jt will be completely revised. The five story brick" building on Canal, near Thompson, occupied by Alexander McConnell, morocco manufacturers, and John J. McConnell, manufacturer of cotton and woolen yarns, burned. Loss on stock and machinery, $50,000. Insured. Justice Cross, of the coart of the queen's bench, has ordered the liberation of Ziuck, alias Brooks, the alleged Colum bus, Ohio, forger, on the ground of insufficiency of evidence to warrant extradition, aad defects in the warrant of commitment

Dudley Porter, of Tennessee, charged with accidentally shooting Mr. Doty, and under bail to await the action of the grand jury, has been again arrested at Poughkeepsie, New York, far another asunit on Wm. Ostrom, and pnt under additional bonds. Propellers arriving at Detroit report the storm last Saturday on Lake Superior as ot unprecedented fury. The Arisons, ot the Lake Superior transit company’s line, experienced great difficulty in making Duluth harbor, the wares running thirty and forty teet high. The national board ot health has submitted its annual report uS the secretary of the treasury for transmission to congress The expenses of the board to September 80 were $825,830, of which $210,177 were expended by the board, and $116,971 by the southern states. During a dense fog, one section of an east bound freight train on the Pittsburg, Fort, Wapne & Chicago, ran into another sect too, near Alliance, Ohio. William Seifert, a brakeman; was crushed to death, and engineer James Schiltz. and conductor Mathew Jaquee painfully injured.

The amount paid for conveying United States mails by sea during the fiscal year, ending Jurif 80, last, was $196,684, of which $153,906 was paid for the trans-at--1 antic mail service, all to foreign steamship companies, except $1,964, earned in •ea postage by ftie American line from Philadelphia . " Colonel William P. Adair, assistant chief of the Cherokee Nation, died in Washington, October 23, of typhoid pneumonia, aged fifty-two. He commanded a brigade of Indians ip the confederate army, and since the close of the war has been the principal representative of Cherokee interests in Washington. The following is the basis for the proliminaries of peace in the South American war: “t&ili, Peru and Bolivia will each elect three commissioners to discuss the conditions of peace to meet on the Peruvian territory occupied by the Chilian army, the United States minister taking part in the conference aa a inend ly mediator. London dispatch: Steps are being taken to form aa influential committee of liberals to strengthen the hands of the government in dealing with, the disorder in Ireland, and to urge the 1 necessity for immediate measures for the protection ot life and property. Sergeant Heron has already been engaged by the crown aa one of the counsel for tile protection of the land league. ▲ sensation was caused 6y Duke DeCharties at a military dinner at Evrenx, France, proposing a toast to France and the government and to the president of the republic. The Legitimists consider this an indirect acceptance Dy him of the republic. The duke, in his speech, said: “In America, where he passed part of his youth, it was customary to give such loyal toasts before all others.” The failure of Merwin, Huribut A Co_, dealers in arms and ammunition. 82 Chambers street and 65 Beads street, New York, is announced. They made an assignment *«> Andrew Van Ivndren. The firm wan one of the largest in that line in the cltv, and waa estimated to be worth $200,000 to $900,000. The liabilities are eottmated at $190,000 to $260,000 It is sakl the stock is valued at SIOO,OOO.