Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1881 — THE NEWS IN BRIEE. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BRIEE.

} |IMDf ana's school fund is now $9,■ILi..I.AiIJ.JAAJ 1 1JiJIL-!!!$l ■ , - : ; British reinforcement.* are being Borried to South Africa. ; ,* v-» I 1 | , A NOTED Kurdish Chief has entered Persia and captured a village. r,% EBSS----S9S9S-S9S Th» late “George Elliott’, realized about $250,000 out of her boots. TaWofflcial Agues of tits census count in twenty-two states and six territories are published. From this statement it appears that the population of lowa is 1,924,463; Kentucky, Wisconsin, Kansaa, 986,386. The population of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio is not yet given. New York state has a populatiamjai MAMt - white Nevada has 4- only 82,265. Massachusetts has 1,783,€B6, and Delaware only 136,654 people. Utah has 143,807, and Wyoming only 90,788. The population of the District of Columbia is 177,630. . | Prof. James H. Smart, superintendent of poblie instruction for the state of Indiana, has just issued his I annual report. The working of our free school system is clearly set forth and the fact that It is now established upon a firm -.basis, satisfactorily tie- j marstrated. In the year 1865 there) were in Indiana 7,403 school houses, i valued at $3,827,173, while in 188 p there j are 0,347 school houses, valued at sll,-1 817,954.53. In 1862 the state had a j school fund amounting to $7,193,154.01; in 1880 the fond amounts to $9,065,-1 254.73. But while the fund has in- j creased the number of children has I also increased, and that, too, faster i than the school fund. In 1882 there were 528,583 school children in the . gt*ts; In 1860 there are 703,558 school j children. The school fund is large. I but, in + he opinion of the Professor, j not as ample as it be. 'Carbfully' outilplled * statistic j show that duriixg the past year there have been eonstimcted 5,889 miles of new railroads in the country, aguiast 3,594 in 1869, 24243 in 1878, 1,944 In 1877, 2,283 in 1876, 1,264 |in 1875, 1,806 /in 1874, 3,607 in 1873, and 7,065 in 1872. The roads have been built at an estimated cost of $30,000 per mile, making over $175,000,000, and most of this money has been expended upon lines west of the Mississippi river. It would not be surprising if the construction .of railroads next year should be as great as that of 1872, for the capital is ready for the extension of all the Southwestern lines and the completion of the .Northern Pacific. This enormous absorption of capital in the construction of railroads, is regarded by some observant sagacious financiers As one of the “financial storm signs Is” of the day, presaging another collaps e anderash like thatof 1873.

The south is waking up to the importance of improving her agricultural and manufacturing facilities. This is as it should be. Whatever of agricultural, manufacturing and general business success the south may acquire, will be a matter of congratulation, and must benefit the whole country. The more money the southern people make and the more business - they transact, the better it will enable them to pay their share of the tax burden in liquidating our national debt, and add to the national wealth. The South Carolina legislature for the first time in the history of the state, has bestirred itself in passing enactments looking to the encouragement of emigration to that state. In lien of southern exclusiveness, a broad and liberal policy is to be substitutedWhen the .south generally wakes up to * the importance of this subject a new era in the prosperity of that section may be looked tor. The south has, as a

thing, a good genial climate, tflnespiland inexhaustible mineral renounces. Ts develop these she must have capital and labor. These will naturally come to her if properly protected by law. But let the resources be ever so abundant, and 'the t opportunities to make a fortune ever so great, unless life and property he made secure and the rights of the emigrant be scrupulously respected, the tide of emigration will not Bet in .that dlrec- ■ tlon. The fact that in the past, Ilf* ; and property have been insecure and tthe civil as well as the political rights <of the stranger have not been respected, is why the tide of emigration tot been to the north and north-west *4 not to the south and south-west ' \ ♦riklng Illustration of this fact may \ 9> out in the fact that I* of thousands of ' ***** annually go to ®“ - through Missouri. &. Utter .tote «», '***s£ ££££ respects, to the former. in many respects may . among the northern state.' state receives many more thap most of the southern staU the facts still remains that ten to Kip*** to one to Missouri. Let t.

emigrant receive the same welcome and the same treatment in Missouri as in g*"«« and he will not go through one to reach the other. . _ A fashionable lady was unexpectedly left without a servant. She undertook to make her husbana a cup ofcoffee, but it took so long he asked what in the Halifax was the matter with the coffee. “I don’t know,” she baid, bursting into tears; “I’ve boiled these beans for a full hour, and they are no now than they were when I first put them in the pot.”— Galveston JVeawWaufaca, Wis., has created sometMn> of a sensation at her house by suddenly disappearing and marrying Wm. H, Jackson, of Jersey City, who became acquainted with her last sammer. She was the teacher of the town school and a great favorite.

Tbs Hon. W. H. Hawkins, of An* torn; ID., la dead. 5 « ; . • - Mrs. Born Fitzpatrick, the young with of John Russell Young, Is dead. H. M. 8. Garnet la hi quarantine at Montevideo with yellow -Jever on board. *"<>>.... -f Baron Simon Von Oppesbetm, of the London banking firm of Oppenheim A Sons, is dead. Fire at Linden, Ohio, destroyed Boyd’s block and the etpre of Stroup Bros. Total lose, SO,OOO. The death of General Moriones, one of the ablest officers in the Spanish civil service, is reported. It is believed at St. Petersburg that the Czar intends to confer equality of civil rights on the Poles. By the capsizing of a barge in the Mississippi a cargo of grain worth $24,000 was dumped into the river. The state police has discovered a new secret organization of socialists existing over the whole of Germany.

A German war vessel will probably proceed to the Cape to watch the course of hostilities in the transvaal. The spinners and weavers at Suncook, New Hampshire, are striking against a ten per cent reduction in wages. An effort is being made to induce the German parliament to adapt custom war duties, which it has hitherto refused to sanction. Bowman A Bleyer, liquor merchants, of St. Louis, have made an assignment to their creditors. Thefr liabilities are $130,000. The extensive bams with the live stock and farm implements and green houseo, at the Oaks, Long Island, owned by John Taylor, burned. Loss, $50,000. The deaths are announced from London of John Stenhouse, L. L. D., F. R. 8., the chemist, and John Thomas Towson, a scientific writer on navigation. T’« Z . The report of the commissioners of the Southern Illinois penitentiary strongly recommends the adoption ,of the single cell system for sanitary and moral reasons.

The western railroad managers have finally come to an understanding in regard so immigrant rates. Hereafter no commissions will be allowed to the eastern trunklines. The commAssion and shipping firm of Ray A MoLaury, of Chicago, who failedin the recent heavy decline of grain, have paid their liabilities in full and resumed business. Mrs. Governor W. R. Shannon of Lawrence Kansas, is dead. Her husband was at one time governor of Ohio, and under Franklin Pierce was territorial governor of Kansas, At a meeting of the corporation of Dublin, the Lord Mayor was directed to present at the bar of the British house of commons a petition asking a radical reform in the laud laws. The committee on finance of the chamber of deputies of Mexico have reported a bill granting a pension of $40,000 yearly to Josephine Iturbide, daughter of Emperor Iturbide.

The customs war duties which, it is thought, the German government contemplates imposing as an offset to -the increase of Russian duties, means the adoption of retaliatory measures. The steamship St. Albaiis, from Baltimore, lost ninety-four cattle on the passage, and the steamer Enrique, from the same port, 126. The Brazilian, recently wrecked, lost forty head. Fowler, Cramptou A Co., importers, No. 42 Front street, New York, made an assignment to Alfred "W. Lewis, with preferences amounting to SIO,OOO. Liabilities given as $500,000. Heavyassets. Failures are announced at Dubuque, lowa, of E. Miller, confectioner, anil A. Hubert, one of the oldest hat and cap men in the state. The liabilities are believed to be quite large In the latter case. The fast mall train on the Wilmington & Weldon road, bound south, ran off the track near Magnolia. Several persons were hurt, but no one killed. The accident was caused by the freaking of a wheel. Matthew Schealer, aged 50, went into au oil tank at Bradford, Pa., to recover aft auger bit, and was overcome by gas arising from .the oil. Hr was discovered lvlng dead in the bottom of the tank naif au hour later.

J. 8. Freeman, a druggist from Chicago, who obtained a sitUhtion with J. C. Vaughn, at Leaven worth, Kas., about a month ago, has decamped, taking with him a considerable sum of money.be longing to his employer. The grand jury of Pittsburg, Penn., has ignored the bill against conductor Routte engineer Huey and flagman Penrod, who were indicted for criminal netrliirence In causing the late railroad disaster at Twenty-eighth street crossing. The letter of Madame Groux accusEmile De Girardin of betraying France to Bismarck, got her husband into’trouble. He was obliged to fight M. D’lafreville, the nephew of Mme. de Bremont, and was wounded by a sword thrust. An engine at Long Weil, Quebec, while crossing the ice on a bridge of the ! .Sonth eastern railroad broke through and is submerged in twentyfive tost of water. The driver and fireman hearing the ice oracking jumped off and are uninjured.

The United States electric light company is now having made the cables necessary tolay iU wires along Broadway, Wall and Broad streets, NtfwYork,by which electric light will be furnished to many banking houses where owners have made application General Lew Wallace, Governor of v Mexico, is In Washington trying £ * nre a modification of the “posse iL-.*—-N*” clause in the army bill, so that kem-V ca U upon the troops to break no th.? bands of outlaws who info* the reut Vm portion of the territory. •

the Mexican* a*C of dancing, but 4 Santa Fe the >T*ltz is not countenanced in good societal ft nd can onty be seen in the low Public dance houses. “At a fashionable gathering,” says a recent visitor, “even the square dance is'ftonducted with great : decorum* The indies all sit on on* side of the Wl room and the gentlemeu on the other, and when the music begins the young min walk into the middle of the floor and beckon to the young ladles whom they desire for partners. At the close of the danse the ladies return to their aide of the room and the gentlemen to their own.”'