Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1880 — THE NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

In Birmingham, aU.. more than 100 houses nave lieen built ill six weeks. Allen Campbell, the new eomptrol- " ler of New York, has assumed his , duties. Mk The Lake & Western railroaa will Extend the line of that road, to St. ‘Louie. H. H. Brainard, editorial writer on the Deadwood Daily Pioneer is dead. Subscriptions to the Panama ship canal have been discontinued at San Francisco. Edward Crane has sued the Boston Advertiser for libel, laving damages at $200,000. Mr. Defrees, the public printer, at Washington, is seriously ill, and his friends fear the worst. * 0 Wi S. Andrews, a mimic and comic lecturer, has been elected a member of York legislature. Richard Law, of Mason county, Illinois, has received a legacy of $50,€BO by a relative in Irelahd. ' * The cabinet organ belong! ngssto the Fmt Baptist sunday-school of Jackson, Mien., has been stolen. General Drum is said to be the only soldier who has risen to be a * origOTier general in the United States -army. General D. 8. Stanley has assumed' temporarily the command of the department of Texas, viee-General Ord, retired. President Hayes, Secretary Ramsey and General Sherman attended a dinner given, by the Earner’s Club in Philadelphia. ' J , The people of the town of “Tombstone,” Arizona,, have tired of the name, and ask hacharge its name, to Monterico.- ‘ w . Ex-Governor Warmoth, of I»uisiana, expects to make 1,000,000 pounds of sugar this year from his Magnolia plantation; building oebupied by three manufacturers of shoes and stockings at Hharon, Massachusetts,burned. I>»ss $37,000; light insurance. Richardson's extensive saw factory, at Newark, New Jersey, the largest in the United States, burned. I»ss estimatedat s.jfl,ooo; lightly insured.

The municipality of Rome, in spite of the the clerical members, has granteira site in the public ! cemetery to a cremation company. Mayor Hinton, of Paris, Ky., fined C. H. Singer SSO for whipping Louisa Kliser, colored, and Judge Turney reversed the decision a few days ago. Homes, have been provided among Prince Edwards (Va.) farmers for about thirtv orphan hoys, who have arrived at Farmville, from New York. The king of Siam has conferred the ■ decoration of the golden flower <rf Siam Mpon the Hon. Thaddeus Fair- i banks, inventor of the Fairbanks | scales. -Rice culture bejrins to attract attention in Carolina. It has been tested on highlands with good success in Pasquotank and other counties. A London ,dispatch says Dr. Carver challenges Capt. Boganlus to a pigeon match’ for £SOO a side and championship of the world, they to shoot at 100 pigeons. For ladies whose sole objection to short skirts is that the heels kick them up at every step, has been devised the plan of running a short piece of watch spring through a casing in the back breadth. Mrs. Newt Moore, living near Eminence, Ky., accidently swallowed a needle. It lodged in her throat and is causing her extreme pain, and may cause her death. Thomas Collins, who robbed O. E. Gartside, a eoal operator, near Belleville, Illinois, in Oetol>er, 1870, of $528, has just been sentenced to ten years in'the penitentiary for the crime. Samuel Hall, a former resident of Btreator, Illinois, was murdered a few davs ago at Denver, Colorado, by* notorious ruffian. The remains vere sent to Streator for interment. A man named McAtree, aged 30, and Jacob Dunn, agen dS, were drowned n Eagle creek, twelve miles south WUllanistown, Ky. They were in a „kift when it became unmanageable and overturned. 1 „ “I am a Methodist,” pleaded a prisoner before a police judge the other, day. “All right', then,” said the judge, “we’ll put you on Which by interpretation is, he was held for trial. *

At Oakland. (Ud.j ‘ Miss Elizal*eth 'Tyler, aged 18, was allot dead at the of her resilience by the accidental discharge of a pistol in the handii_of her*afflaneed, John Scott, a •well-known commission merchant. The wife of Frank Smith, a com-fortably-situated resident of Midland, Mich., has eloped with James Mitchell, who had one of his feet cut otfin a mill a few months ago, and who had been stopping at Smith’s house. Henry Enderis, formerly Swiss consul, at Chicago, hut latterly in the r*«J estate ami book business, is discovered to have appropriated a trust fund of SB,OOO belonging to a family of his countrymen in Michigan, who intrusted It to him for payment on some property. As a partv of young people were crossing the* railroad track near Elmwood Station, Ohio, their carriage was struck bv an express train and demolished. ' Miss Clara Hansbraugh, of Dublin, was instantly killed, Miss Anna Arts had her collar bone broken in two places, and Charles Fuller was badly injured. The party was singing, and did not see the approaching tram. The count of seven days’business of the Cincinnati poet office, ordered- by the poet office department, makes the following showing: Letters mailed, 279,828; postal cards,'*Bs,7o4; regular newspaper* and magazines, 571,415; circulars books and transient newsSapers, 296,296; packages of merchana venues, 176,882. Increase over last ykrMW. • • . Hiram 8. Holbrook, local agent a American Express company at Dubuque, lowa, while lying in bed fired • bullet into the brain of his sleeping daughter, two years old, who was In a crib Dy his side, and then shot himself fa the*head. Hp was In poor health, •id was naturally sensitive, which art the only causes known for this rash »ct His wife had left him only fifteen minutes before in order to prepare, breakfast.. Holbrook died in thre*hours, and the child cannot survive.