Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1880 — THE NEWS IN BRIEE. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BRIEE.

It is bow denied that the viceroy of India intends resigning. The steamships Bothnia and Frisia, from Europe, brought $550,900 in French coin. The entire garrison in Ireland does not include a single distinctively Irish regiment. Cardinal Manning lately lost his brother. Their father was governor of the Bank of England. Chicago Land league has voted to tend 11,000 to Ireland to be used for the defense of the agitators. Mayor Btokley. of Philadelphia, when a boy, worked for a dollar a week and slept under a counter. Harvard University announces that the fond of >130,000 necessary to endow the divinity school has been subscribed. The death is announced in Bing Sing, of Eugene Fairfax Williamson, alias “Gentleman Joe,v the persecutor ofDr.Dix. . Five men, pleading guilty to sending lottery certificate* through the mails, haVe been each fined >SOO, at New York. • (

The weekly statement of the bank of France shows an increase of 8,725,000 frances in gold and 16,406,000 francs in silver/ . » The Rev. Talmage has received notice that he will again be called upon to answer the charge of lying, before the Brooklyn presbytery. The will of Mrs. Maggie Emboy, probated at Elkton, Ky., gives $200,000 in Louisville 4 Nashville stock to the Vanderbilt university at Nashville. John Clay, the brother of Henry Clay, is living in Kentucky, and is still a strong and active man. Henry Clay’s estate at Ashland is rapidly going to decay. The famous Stevens battery, at Hoboken, N. J., upon which millions . have been spent, having recently been sold for $55,000, is being broken up by a Boston firm. The remains of Mathew Lynch, the well-known New Mexican mine owner, w ho was killed in the Moreno Valley, N. M.. last July, hav® been interred in PiTildelphia. . The oldest postmaster in the* country is John Brown, of Brownsville, Washington county, Md. Hew ninety years old, and was appointed in 1830 by President Jackson. GkThe Marquis of Ripon, will resign the vice royalty of India, owing to iris inability to stand the climate. Lord Dufferin, formerly govetnoregeneral of Canada, will succeed him. T-he tire comrafewioners of Cleveland, have c'onvicted John A. Bennett, tire department chief, of insubordination and violating the rules, and dismissed him from service.

. The portrait of Mrs. Hayes, which is to be painted and engraved as a temperance testimonial, is to be the •work of Mr. Huntington. Mrs. Hayes gave her first sitting on Saturday. J. Henry Perkins, a prominent stock broker of Boston, has been arrested for unlawfully disposing of collateral security to the amount of $12,000. He was admitted to bail id $25,000. Governor Long, of Massachusetts, has sent a reply to Secretary Schurz’s letter on the Ponca Indians abuses, an does not think the secretary presents . a candid and fair statement of the case. ■ . ' , Judge Houston, of Wilmington, Del., has notified Hon. E. ,L. Martin, through his counsel, that he will withdraw his contest oi the election of the latter as congressman from Delaware. Joseph Cook has been lecturing to immense audiences in the. .city of Edinburgh. He has been received with very cordial greetings in all the cities of 'Great Britain where he has appeared. The clergy of all the Roman Catholic and several Protestant churches at Montreal, denounce Sara Bernhardt in strong terms and warn their people against patronizing her performances. The story is pronounced unfounded that Herr 'Wettendof, the Prussian official who undertook to reform the Turkish finances, had given up his mission as a hopeless task, and would quit Constantinople shortly.Michaeloff, the nihilist nobleman anx'sted, was an active participator in the attempt against the life of the emperor of Russia at the winter palace on the 18th of February last, when ten soldiers we.re killed and 44 wounded. On the Bearic Meadow division of the Lehigh Valley railroad, Richard Sherry was killed, Jasper Taylor fatally hurt and Wfliiam Conner and Lawrence McGinley badly injured, by the explosion of giant powder cartridges. < A freight train on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad ran into a' freight train dh the Wabash road at the crossing of the two roads at-Cha-fin, ten miles west of Jacksonville,’ Ils., smashing three loaded cars of the Wabash and badly damaging its own engine.

A haunch of mutton was lately sent anonymously to a gentleman in England, who invited some friends to eat it. A slight bitterness in some of the meat excited suspicion, and it was found ,to be impregnated with quantities of strychnine. Mr. Adolphus Cones, a respected citizen of Suffolk county, Va., is dead, aged 60. He was in attendance at the count v court as a witness, and while conversing with a gentleman, suddenly fell back in the chair and died without uttering a word. The executive of Mexico has ordered two engineers, three officers of his staff and one physician to accompany Captain Eads on his surveying tour over the Isthmaa of Tehuantepec. The expenses ofthe commissioners wDI be paid by the government. Nine buildings were recently destroyed by fire at Duke Centre. McKern county, Pa., with a loss of $25.000. The fire started in the Apple Bee hotel, while the guests were yet in bed, several of whom had narrow escapes. Among the number was Anna Eliza Young, Brigham’s nineteenth wife, who lectqred there, and was rescued by the firemen from the second story window. The loss is about onethird covered by insurance.

Charles McAdams shot and instantly killed Phillip Rial, at the house of C. J. Sterritt, editor of the Plaindealer. " Hawesville, Ky/ Rial commenced the»ftay by firing at McAdams with a pistol, when the latter replied with a shot gun. Both, parties are well " known and highly connected young men. McAdams’ brother married Rial’s sister. It is said that some remarks by McAdams about Rial’s ais- . ter caused ths resentment of the latter knd a fatal encounter the result