Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1881 — THE NEWS IN BRISP. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BRISP.

The fall official rote of Texasla just reported: • 186,101; Republican, total 234,214. TMs was the poll for governor. ' - In h 13 inaugural addreAs,G< >v. Plai*~ted, of Maine, says that the law In that' xtale tHilch permits iniprisoiiineutfor debt ia the chief eause of the losHof population by emigration. Thebe are indications that Irish members of parliament will lie divided at the very crisis when (hey ought to be moat united, thus making their saddest history repeat itself e Steamers are rapidly supplanting Bail-ship* in £he transportation of grain to Europe. A few few years ago the latter carried nearly all thia class of freight; now the sail-vessels• only transport a little over one half. nasajißL aia.su -a ■ •« , ( Science now informs us that there is positively no such tiling as “ozone” or “malaria.” We don’t know so well about this. As th “ozone” he is an upstart and may be unworthy a place in the dictionary, but “malaria” really seems like an old acquaintance. Here you are again! Another n-1-r . let entombed and embalmed in history. An aged colored man has just died ut Cambridge, Kings qounty, N. J. Lie was a slave on boankthe tynited'States frigate Chesspeake at the time she was captured by the British frigate Shannon in 1813, and ¥as carried tn Halifax by the Vie tors.-

An exchange thinks the operations of the Salem witches in olden days are outdone by those of the modern Irish Fenians. A meat shop blew -up at Salford the other day, close by an arsenal, and Fenian dymanite did it; a carman was beaten near Limerick, and Fenians did that; a score of cattle were missing' on one of the Arran Isles, and it is believed that the Fenian spirit entered Info them, and they ran violently down Into tire sea. Redfield figures it out that Vanderbilt individually owns more registered United States bonds than are owned in all the nineteen western states and territories. These stall's and territories have a populatipn of over 20,000,000, yet there ia held among them but $40,000,000 of registered ..bonds, or less thfoi Mr- Vanderbilt owns. In the fourteen southern states $12,000,000 are owned, or about onefourth . the amobut held by a single citizen In New’ York.

A death in which* the tragic and grotosijue.were strangely mingled,took place about two miles west of Wabash, Indiana, the other day.- Rolwrt Miller, bridge-watch may on the Wabash railway, it seems, made hiinself notorious by his inhuman' treatment of his wife. Somethn ago. Mrs. Miller was stricken down with a serious sickness, and her husband had her placed on a rickety old bed-stead, liable to tumble .down -at any moment. Her illness growing very dangerous, and she realizing that death was drawing neat, asked her attendants to move her to another couch. Miller; the brute, would not permit it; and soon after, while the poor woman was in the agony and struggles of dissolution,.fhe l»ed gave way, letting her down into a washingtub, beneath, ou her back, where she died! Are there no feathers or tar in Wabash county?

The New Yfirk Herald has taken ground strongly in fayor.of.the postal telegfaph system as the best ami (.Reediest method oTdefeating the mohopoly which tbe consolidation of the of three ccmlpaHjes ajms at M-tting up. The Baltimore American says this {View of the matter is rapidly gaining the popular approval. The rumored intention of the Engl jsh and French Atlantjc cablq companies unite and advance rates is another of the game of grab. According to the terms of the permission granted to the French corporation to land its cable on the shores of the United States it can be ordered oft by our government if i a consolidation is made.; but secretary Evarta is said lo have poiuted out to au inquirer that such a step is precisely what would suit the English companies, as we would simply be moving their rival out of the way. The American concludes that this may be a reasonable' view under all the circumstances, but thinks it only emphasizes the wisdom and the necessity of legislation and international agreements that will efficiently protect the people fropi monopoly. 2, ; A Washington dispatch says the California delegation in congress is divided in opinion as to the merits of the proposed new Chinese treaty. Tlie Democratic member*from the Pacific coast, however, are, united in their opposition to it, and seem disposed to oppose the' 'treaty from partisan grounds. "They (fonot wish to have it - appear that any branch of the Republican administration can do anything to settle the Chinese question' In a manner that shall be satisfactory to . the Pacific coast. It appears also that Republican corigressinen from the Pacific coast are not wholly in favor of the measure. They point to what they consider two defects in it; first, the possible construction of the “laborers’*; second, the fact that the treaty in effect permits the naturalization of the Chinese. The word “Ja■borers," as used in the treaty, some of the Republican members from the coast say, is not sufficiently specific, and it might be so coustrued as to give rise to misuudei standing or to defeat the real object of the treaty, it the Pacific Aoast folks could their way, they would put a clause in treaty, forbidding the importation of chop-rticks smPrat-tail files.

- WE- v {Jfhe bfockadAWN-'Catfan l|*a Iwen The PnisrUn Counts-vou M|)t/<-n m 4, vmUdalfariifeM, NewiYdrk willsot up a>IlWUb ntonumentto Edgar A. EpiTf jMs money eaa-he rats*}. <v/ ■ The Muldoon-Whistler -M.restftng nfatch FhNev York m<led Ina draw, nejfibar .^curinga fall. ■ s' Robert Gordon’s dry goods store at 0-wegu, N. Y., Oss, $55/ Ort); in-urance, $43,060. The Oldham, Bartend, Spinners, have NBt»?Ved for advauee of five-percent. to wages. O’Neill, secretary of tlie Cork land league, has been again sumnwfofrr for Bit Imitation.* * • * j . 1 OMn| to tkUtartotat of 30 Apposed feniana, precautions have been takeffi’ against popular disturbances at Kbel*

Cardinal Johann ■R. Katschker, archbishop of,Vienna, who suffered * a stroke of apoplexy recently, is dead, age 7t. By the explosion of gas 4b*the Bt. Joseph’s home, New. York, Bso inmates w«?re badly scared,’but Rpne inL« -* • Frank Makley, a Da\ tou t black-, -initb, was b< :den and rei»be4 of SSO by unknown parties ph, ifljgries A IdlllaM bueu Introduced in the New York Mstmbly providing that telegraph jvirea musj be Jpid under THe sch<ftf»H D»ltS Ifiqbse went ashore at Matagorda Island. The captain's wife atari child soda sailor were gr—®- > ■—. ■ ■ '••*' Horn John T. Blair, of Blairstown, N. J. r lias donated $40,000 to Lafayette college for the*endowment of a presi- *< 1I ** ’ t <* Bullion in the Lank of England increased £407,000 in the past week. PrnpOaitfani "of .reserve to liabilitiy, 442-16 per cent. Thedate dwoige Ricard, president of the Williamsburg, N. Y., savings bank, left two million dollars to relatives and friends.

Durirfjf the, alioence of Mrs. Basle; comb from her home, at Altoona, the house caught fire and four children, were burned to death. A heavy earthquake shock’was felt at Montgomery, N» Y., Tuesday morn; 1 ing. The shock W’tis IMt distinctly a mije norfhof Bwctpwn. James O. Vandervoort, late superi intendant of the poor«»f Ulster county, N; Y., is charged with wholesale plundering of public property.' Spain has been in comiuunieati6ii witji the chief cabinets of Etnope with a view nf asserting Iyer .claims to be consiriere.| qne/d Ihe European p<»wers. Mr. I. W. Smith, cashier of a bank of ivho is sripitjosed tQ have fallen oVer the Idufl'.in that city; to the railroad track below, or to have been knocked down Uy a railroad train, is dead. ’ ’ • The Missouri legislature has passed' a bill relieving all -benevolent afid charitable assoeiatioits which have insurance features'froni the state insurance laws. ’ „ . One. of the jurymen in the late trial of the Irish traverse#* 'was elected a member of laud leugßc. Daritt. proposed his admissiou, and A. M. Sulli\an sfecoiided it. * J 'Hie peppleofChantaptiign, 111., hhVe fully determined to open a coal mine there. ' Tliey are now Uyiug to raise* a capital slock of sso,rtJo for a compHTiy to sink a shaft immediately.

The courf of the Queen’s bench of Montreal has given iudgmeut which virtually asserts the Juueriean edition of the Encyclopedia<Brlttanica may l»e imported ana sold iuCanada. J The ing WK> Harris, thn sAginevr, and reverrty jJßpa.yig Jotjir: Shea, the !><umer of Harmayor of ■LTveip' otjtaa beea iu cdSXfenunication Atath focabinliitwry tad authorities with-.refereno- re s<<x» suspected of iri'hmfiJDis not accuUa joint resolution exjwresing symCthy for the suffering people in Iread,* and .writing them to come to tbif ami settle Jn was adopted l.y the assembly of that state.’ 1 4 house-breaker, was shot on -East Water street, Dayton, 0., while trying to atitauX au euixanpeiute thareaidence of Robert Burn/. 'He was rtrfaoved.by accomplices, and has not been found by tbe Dblice. „ -Jta •<‘4£- ;«J<: ' ! An unknown man was run over and kiUad_-a€ AVeiaag)' Illa.? by a freight train, and conductor Morse barely saved himself frorti death by clinging to the revolving axle’of bis train under which he had fallen. . After an all-night sea.ion the Canadian house of commons, by. a vote of 140 to 54, rejected the Blake amende menjt. asking the house not to ratify the governraent contracts for the Cta-' nadlan Pacific railway.

An insane man on the steamer Annirrr snver,’UTiiw nr tub vicinity of New Madrid, shot and killed Dan Rhoke, second clerk of the Silver, and fired w second, shot at Captain Silver, wounding him in the hand. John CraTi’a livery stable at Avoca, lowa, burned. John .C'henaworth, a hostler, wak roasted to death, together with fifteen or more horses. The entire of the barn, buggies, etc., were destroyed. An eaMrbOiNAktrain oti the Atlantic & Pacific railroad was thrown from the track near Laguna, Texas. The engipu-nift! went over an «lufrankuient, wounding the engineer, KUfijJMen»»Tn Ilanundwcalpingauoth- . t' .HIII prillchAjWWti nonttal seboolAat Oregon, HAlLsfeitaty, NBnsotfri. wilt be private -iN'rrtary to Precident panfield. Proreskpr W tht faculty of the cortege-Nt WtoMgf Onlu when Mr. GarfiteWVne president o</bat instituA iMortgfoß l yf egwesal character UwS died St’ateTxAerder’s office in ; JBy IfiLteriiia thel_Wabash, BL Lona Pacific railroad pledges its pany, of New York, and James Cbwney of Indiana. . * i ,