Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1880 — THE HEWS IS BRIEE. [ARTICLE]

THE HEWS IS BRIEE.

General ReflVe, inventor of the mitrail lease, is dead. The bullion to the Bank of England lta* decreased 4H2U.000 the past week. Nellie Edward and Bert G. Crawford, injured at the Toronto Are, are dead. . w h. . ■ v < The steamer Australia, from New York for Liverpool, lost seventy-five cattle overboard. > The office of the North Chicago rolling mills in Bar View, were partially destroyed by me. horn, $8,000; insured. ; , Two men have been arrested whom the police are positive were implicated in the murder of Officer Walsh, at St. Louis. The steamer Gillert, , from New Y6rk for Hamburg, was. obliged to lay to twelve lioan to consequence of a gale. * The receipts of Booth’s theatre, New York, during the Bernhardt season of twenty-four nights, which closed Saturday, were $98,000. -> Mine. Thiers hail been very ‘lll for some time, and her death is! momentarily expected. Her, disease', is reported lo be caneeT. * James B. Ca*£y, Covington, Ky., lias been elected tobacco inspector for the Cincinnati market by the board of | officers of the tobacco association. . Parnell received two threatening | letters during his stay to Watertown- ; One accuses him of destroying the country to benefit his own pocket. ; t The government of Italy pays only I $12,000,000 yearly for pensions, despite two or three wars and revolutions and the pensioning of civil officials. Ed Powell sliot Dr. T. N. Cushing, a prominent citizen of Trinidad,Texas, probably . fatally, in self-defence, caused by a quarrel over a game of J cards. ' * .1 The death was lately announced of ‘ Genera] Low, son of sir Hudson, Na- ; poleon’s custodian at Bt. Helena, whose wife was one of the New York I De Laucvs. The Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph j Company has declared a quarterly dividend of % of 1 per cent, of the j earnings for tne quarter ending No-j vember 30th. Crowds of people were at the corners of streets in Dublin to witness the entry of the first liattalion*of4he Cold Btream guards. There no raani- j fes tat ions of feeling. John Noons', clerk, and Wm. Smith, a telegraph operator, were killed at | Mauch Chunk, Pa., by au engine ofi the Lehigh Valley railroad lieing r thrown off the track. r ' George C. Gorham, of California-, is | to be editorial manager of the Nation- 1 al Republican, at Washington, which I has passed into the hands of Assistant Postmaster General Brady. The 1,500,000 American*, oysters planted last spring in German waters, j are doing well, and the Germans are | smacking their lips in anticipation of j soon enjoying the lucious bivalve. The unfinished portions of the en- I larged \V#l land canal into beeomplet- ' ed with all possible dispatch. It is expected the canal will be ready for operation by the first ,of July next. » Some “martyrs” get well paid. For instance, Professor Swing’s salary has just been raised from $7,000 to SIO,OOO per annum. ’The vice-president of the United States gets only SB,OOO per j year. The United States grand jury j»as ; indicted for manslaughter the directors of the company and captain and j engineer, of the steamer Sawanhana- ; ka; also the government inspector of i steamboats. , | Mrs. Ellen McCarty, residing on Chestnut street, Columbus, Ohio, was ; fatally burned while standing in front * of a stove. Her dress took fire and J she was frightfully burned about the body before itelp arrived. Captain Joseph D. Willson, who, j previous to the war, was ip the UnitedStates navy, and, during the war a lieutenant on the confederate steamer | Alabama, was killed In a railroad accident near EUavitle, Florida. A passenger tiain on the Ohio A Mississippi railroad mn off a switch : eleven miles east of Salem, 111., and Henry Wade, of Chilicothe, p., was killed, and a lady passenger, name and residence unknown, seqerely injured. * Ah incendiary fire destroyed all the stores and dwellings on the east side of • Main street in Lounsburg.N.C.,extend- j ing from Fountain’s dwelling to the Carolina Central railroad shops,which were saved. Eoss $40,000; insurance light. Seventy-five per cent of the horses In the Ottawa, Ont., district ait* effect- > ed with epizootic. Many fine annuals have died in the shanties for want of > proper treatment. It is feared this; will interfere with lumbering opera-i tions. * A man at Greenville, 8. C., made; reckless by drink, made a wager that i *he would 'ride his horse across a rail- 1 road track, several hundred yards dis- j tant, ahead, of an approaching train. \ Southern locomotives are proverbially. | -slow, but this one beat the horse, and j the rider was killed. A St. Petersburg dispatch says the' loss to the revenue by the caneeLlatioaof the tax on salt will be covered by aa increase in duty on foreign manufactured goods and the imposition of| a >«t on patents. An income tax is i also contemplated. All the railroad express departments centering at St. Louis, including the Pennsylvania, which covers all the Gould roads, the Iron Mountain. the Ohio A Mississippi and Louisville A Nashville, have made a j local combination, and will hereafter occupy one general office. The combination is to save the expenses of separate offices, the arrangement* being that one set of men, wagons, ete., shall do all the collecting and delivering of goods for all the roads. Pat Booney, the pride of the concert halls, was performing in Chicago. Alderman Peevey called on him at midnight, at his hotel, in a state of ( effusive intoxication, |o express admiration and to be presented to his wife. Pat said it was too late for such a call. The Aldemum insisted. A terrific fight ensued, the eity father getting the want of it. A man who will be “tired todeath,” and feel his faltering lags give way tuider Jxlm to utter exhaustion after jie has walked Up and down the room ten pounds of baby and a ton of «colie f*f half an hoar, will hand them *>vortslri* wife, and go down town sand walk azogna » billiard table till (two o’clock to th» morning, and then die astonisned because the other man araoted to go home “so early.”