Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1880 — THE NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Foor busioess before «f Watford, Ont, hare been desirojel by fire. Loss, I*, ON. At a fire near the city market in Little Boek a Culorcd woman was burned to death. Magistrates in the provinces ate resigning, rather than to be compelled to enfant the religious decrees of toe French assembly. It te reported in Ottawa that the health ci the Princess Louise will not permit her to return to Canada thia winter. The German Count, Von Arnim, who renewed hte petition for a new trial cm the charge at treason, has been refused by high legal authority. The house of James Young, colored, of Philadelphia, burned while he and his wife were at church, and two children were burned to death. The general committee of the missiouof the M. R. ohureh has appropriated $3,600 foe mtastona in Mexico, with a contingent fund in addition ot $14,614. Thirty thousand dollars was appropriated tor the Japanese mteaiou. Alderman Jeremiah Murphy,’of New Tort, charged with assaulting a special marshal on election dsy, has been held in SO,OOO bail. The alderman claims ho did not know the man wasa marshal. By a care-in that occurred at Bebastapool, Penn., several thousand dollars’ worth of property was destroyed, and a number of dwellings have been abandoned by the inhabitants. The earth settled six feet, and mining in the vicinity has been suspended. Indictments have been lodged by the English government against Messrs. ParnelT, Dillon, Biggar, J. O’Sullivan, Sexton, Egan, Brennan, M. O’Sullivan, Boyton, Gordon, Harris, Nally. Welsh and Sheridan, members of the Land League, for conspiracy. August Navarre, a gymnast, fell from a balloon when 1,000 fee; above the earth, near Oourbevoie, Franc*, Sunday evening and was crushed and mangled almost beyond recognition. His body made a hole in the ground two feet deep and rebounded four yards. The persons expelled from Hamburg and neighborhood, tn accordance with the new socialistic law of Germany, include Herr Hartman, member of the reichstag for Hamburg; Herr Aur Saxon, deputy, and the-whole of the staff of the Gtrichits Zeitnng. The telegraph operator at Ozark, Ark., dispsubes that. on the top of the White Oak mountain, two milee north of Ozark, stones two pounds or lees in weicht have been rising from the earth and falling like hall, driving families out in the fit Idu.and that great excitemect prevails. The supreme court-of California has denied the writ of mandate ceitoria and habeas corpus in the case of J. M. Kalloch, sou of Mayor Kalloch, charged with the murder ot Charles De Young, ot the Chronicle. The case will now go to the low court for decision on its merits. ... Reports from the wheat growing regions of the United States, down to September SBth, indicate that the total out-turn of wheat for 1880 will not be in excess of 466,191,900 bushels. Of this California and Oregon promise tt,606/100 and Colorado, Nevada and the territories 10,000,000. At 3 o'clock Monday morning* Mrs. Sarah McManus entered alow drinking saloon in Philadelphia, to look for her husband. Frank Carroll denied that the husband was there, but as Mrs. McManus was persistent, Carroll drew a pistol and deliberately shot her. The doctors say she can not live.' A switchman named John McDonald, while coupling cars on the Burlington tracks at Chicago, Monday morning, had his head crushed to jelly between the timbers which projected over the ends of each car. Death was instantaneous. The deceased was a young man. unmanlea, and resided at 815 West Twelfth street. Thaddeus M. Baird, a well-known citizen of Surrey county, Ya, committed suicide Bunday by shooting himself through the head with a heavily-loaded musket. A few daf■ previous he attempted to cut Mis throat with a razor. He was for many years a conductor on the Petersburg and City Point railroad. Burglars entered the store of Holman Bros., of Sargent’s Bluff, six miles cast ot Btouxcity, Monday night, and nailed up the door leading to the rooms above the store, occupied by one of the firm and his family, blew open the -sate and secured about SIOO. Holman fired at the burglars when they wen leaving, but failed to f Miss Lula Cameron, the eldest daughter of Senator Don Cameron, of Pennsylvania, will be married to Mr. William Bradley on the 12th of November next Mr. Bradley is the eon of Justice Bradley, of the Supreme Court of the United States. The ceremony will be performed al Harris- • burg, Pa., at the home of the bride. Miss Cameron is noted in Washington society for her beautiful eyes. Judge Lawrence, first comptroller of the treasury, has rendered a decision in which he stows that there is no specific statue regarding the payment of lost bonds. The decision holds that when SvVt-rLment bonds payable “To bearer” ave been lost, the government, after a sufficient length of time, may make payment thereof on clear proof of ownership' and upon the execution of a proper bona of Indemnity. Intelligence from the Solomon Islands, in the South Pacific, has been received of an attack by the natives on the steamer Ripple The captain and three of the en.w were killed. Others of the crew were senoualy wounded. The natives were, beaten off with difficulty after lasing titty of their number killed. At New, Georgia the natives; seized and bound the captain of the schooner Esperanza fwo while men on board were put to death th cold blood. Chrisman Hall, the new college for colored youth at Atlanta, has Just been op eoed, sod is already nearly filled with pu pile. It has a president and five teachers, who are paid by the Freedman's Aid Bo ciety, and the price of tuition is very small. Mrs. Cbruman, of Topeka, gave |IO,OOO for the establishment of the college. and the rest of the $40,000 which it cost came from the Freedman’s Aid Society and from Bishop Haven’s efforts to get private subscriptions. Ail the Irsh|agitaten who were indicted have now been served with > summons. At a land league meeting in Dab lin, Parnell said he had reason to believe the government desired to poet pone the trial until the January term, which would prevent those traversers who are members of parliament from taking :their seats at the Hneeting of parliament in February. Parnell said he intended to press for immediate trial. Secretary Sherman says for the past two months the purchase of 6*s of 1880 have been preferred by the department, bet the price demanded by holders has been run up to the full amount of bonds, including interest, when due. The secretary instructed the assistant treasurer at New York to receive offers of 6’s of 1880 last Wednesday as heretofore, the offers to be strictly confined to bunds of that class, and has authorized him to purchase during the present week those bonds to an amount not exceeding $1,500, 000 at 1 08.75.