Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1880 — THE NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Poetma-rtcr-f renera! Mavnard is in . New York. Parnell lias suddenly returned to Dublin on important political business. It Is estimated $12,000,000 in gold are now on steamers bound for this country.' There is a fresh issue of lava, from Vesuvius, descending to the base of the cane, . Crawford's ojtera house, Topeka, Kansas, bunted, ixsts, $£0,000; lnsura nee. 415,000. Henry D. Day, an old citizen of Union county, was killed by a Call front a wagon. The store of T. F. Malin, in EauClaire, Wisconsin, burned. Doss, $15,000; partially Insured. The failure is announced of Dunum A Hons, piano manufacturers of New York, with liabilities of $40,000. Again is it rumored hat the marriage of the Baroness Burdett-Coutts to her young secretary, Bartlett, Ls off. The weekly statement of the hank of Franco shows a decrease of 5,090,000 j francs in gold and 5,079,000 francs in silver. James .Sloan,in Jail at lk-llefontalne, Ohio, on an indictment for shooting with intent to kill, cut his throat ana will die. • The land league agitation is rapidly spreading In Ireland, and there Is now an almost universal suspension of pay-, merits of rent.

Mrs. Casey, of Toronto, was found in. .tied with her two children roasted to death. The mother is not injured, and it is held a murder. Steamer Odor, from Europe, yester- ! day, brought sl-,004,-HE* In British and French coin, and the Cambria $912,- I 300 in French coin. Tom Castle, seventeen year-old printer, staldied Charles Htuhblefleld, j “a noted character of Petersburg, several times the other day. *4 * . mm I Dispatches from Arthohaska, Can-' ada, says I/ochance, the Buistrade ' murderer, has been senteuced to lie hanged oh the 28th of January. O’Brien Bros’ plug tobacco inanu- , * factory, Covington, Ky., burned. Loss ! on stock, $10,000; on building, $1,500.: The stock was insured for $5,200. The town of Prescott, Ontario, isj greatly excited, owing to the fact that the bodies of Daniel McNutt and Mr. ! Dunsmore have been stolen from their ; graves. Madame Msntifande,a well-known Paris writer'has been sentenced by -I default to six montlis’ imprisonment ami 500 francs fine for offences against public morals. , Colonel Porter, D. W. Hodge and ex-Governor Ward are on their way to j Washington to look after the interests of the Creek nation during the coming 1 'session of cougress. Peter Hanson, a saloon keener of, Manistee, was, one'day last week, shot by Peter Johnson in a row alsiut a dog. Johnson's arm was injured so badly that it had to lie amputated. R - .* - The present pressure for cars with which to move the produce of the west by rail is stated by men in the trude to be greater than at any pro: vious time since the year 1867. * .1 Dr. Frederick Lehmann, president of the Capital university,of Columbus, 0., for 90 years and president of the synodical conference of the Lutheran church of the United Btates, is dead. The will of Frank Leslie has been admitted to probate, the surrogate holding that when the will was made Leslie was of sound miud and free from unlawful influence or restraint. When the Mexican extension is completed, and other lines are brought iuto the organization, as is non' contemplated, the Missouri Pacific system of railroads will embrace ulxiut 4,500 miles. Baron Von Uadowitz, the German Ambassador, will renew his advice to the Greeks not to be in too great • a hurry about going to war with Turkey- The Greeks will probably take the advice, t 1 ■ The gerinart steamer Silesia brought 100 Socialists from Hamburg to this coutry recently. These enforced immigrants arc mostly eigarinakers. -though there are some printers and one or two editors among them. The Wainut, Valley elevavor and’ bonanza mills, at Eldorado, Kansas, owned-ky E. K. White, burned, together with some 10,000 bushels pf wheat and several thousand bushels oif corn. Loss about $20,000; insurance, small. There is an infinite variety in the trimmings of dresses, quillings, scal- - lops and pleats, blouses, revers, shirriugs, poufs, embroidered hands, pipings and cordings, vandycks and pans —the latter frequently laced, hanging straight or gracefully draped as scarfs. ' During a discussion of the budget in the Italian chamber of deputies, the minister of agriculture, Lascurelli, a distinguished entomologist, declared that American mildew was more dentructive to vines than was phylioxara, aud that it had spread very considerably In Italy. T:»e condition of the Ohio fimded debt is as follows: loans payable July 1, 1888, not liearing Interest, $2,500; loans payable after June 20, 1881, six • per cent, interest, $4,072,840; loans payable December 31, 1886, six per cent, interest,s2,4oo,ooo; domestic debt, $1,665. The total funded debt outstanding November 16, 1880, is $6,576,805. ' ■ The report which gained circulation abroad that the St. Louis Bridge company, had notified the railroads that in consequence of the immense traffic thrown upon the bridge by a partial blockade of the river, only 'perishable freight would lie transferred, is pronounced *by Wm, Taussig, general manager of the bridge company, as utterly false. During a slight fire in a boarding House, at No. 154 Grand street. New York, James H. Dewitt was suffocated while in bed. Mary Hawks threw her child out of the second story window and leaped after it. The child was caught in the arms of a fireman and was uninjured, and the woman was only slightly hurt, the fireman having broken the force of her fall. A number of prominent ministers who belong to the evangelical alliance • of Bt. Louis, have given the question of violation of the Sunday laws a free discussion. It has been deckled to bring suits against saloons,, theatres. other places of amusement, and all who violate the Sunday laws. The advlaorv board of the association has been instructed to prepare a plan of operation.