Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1881 — TELEGRAPHIC. [ARTICLE]

TELEGRAPHIC.

And now the press of the country is taking a rest on cabinet building and commencing to wonder what General Garfield wHFtiave to. say in l»Ls Inaugural adßirdw It Lb rumored that W. D. Howells is to be appointed United States minister to Switzerland. Mr. Howells has been the able'edrtor of the Allande Monthly for years, but has already sent in his resignation • And now the prophet rhea up and says that the world is coming to an end, A. D. 2370. Just onr luck; every shirt we’ve got to our back has gone lathe laundry, and that last lot of sale bills hav’ut been paid for yet. It fa not yet known what ship will be sent in search of tbe Corwin. The Corwin, However, is to be sent tn search of the-Jeannette. If congress proposes to follow the precedent made in this case,.it take many years for the nation to run but of ships. i Jay Gould - can buy a railroad, a newspaper or . a telegraph oompuny | without a miypnur, but when Mrs. Gould asks him to bring up a dozen < of eggs whence comes home at nfglit, he asks her ifahe thinks .“he’s made 1 ofjuoney.” • The absolute - losses by fire in the United States ainounletl to $74,838,000 in 1880, not counting the worth* of the eoat we Used to wear when writing , spicy articles with a past? brush, aiid I which re from our pipe ami | was entirely consumed. “Faith covers a multitude of sins,” said a senator,in debate,the other day. when it was found that he was from | Michigan rhe senate di<l not wonder | so much at tho' mistake tli'egihitleman made as at tire fact that he could | quote scripture in any style.

Jay Gould will add 900 miles to the, Pacific railroad during thia year, thus extending the Missouri Pacific systeifi to Laredo, on the Rio Grande. Fifty thousand tons oletcd rails, 40 loeomotlves, 3,000 freight card,, 20 passenger coaches and six baggage cars have been -ordered for the extension. L_ Lt ia rumored that the Irish Aaiid |Hague will their funds,to the United States for investment. The total amount closely antwoximates a half million of dollars. There would be some sort of justice in such a step, as most of the amount was contributed to the ftinds'by the Irish of tbiadouutry‘ ====—b * General Grant talks of resigning the presidency of the wor T d’s-fair commission, and now comes io the front as president of the new United States national bank, of New York. Since his recent jaunt around the General seems to be “ftoy put” in aa/one | C X Ohe of the original “six hundred” - who inode dowh “into the valley of death” at Balaklava, was found beg- • gingan England recently, and only a few years ago another of the noble bnnddied of starvation there.-* Hadn’t • England better rtuie over. here' and '.take a few lessons on pur manlier of treating heroesf‘ -; c ,};•» What with the constant Iosso(J«h j seis and crews sent fc search oF*4he | north pole, men of sense are about coming to the conclusion'that as this i country lias got along v **ry welt with-1 out it Heretofore, there are ho|»ea that sheban pull through a while longer ’ without ft. Lt has already cost more wdy of rornrey and lives than it i worth. Let the north pole.prqject die, or at least give us a rest- on the > subject until the wCather gets settled. The British crown has a number of subjects that arc inclined to be Boerisji. These are not confined to South Africa, but may be fount! also in Ireland and Afghanistan. - The government has given these Boers to understand that they can now peaceably acknowledge their allegiance and aeeepting a protectorate. This is what they are fighting against. They might have had peace on these terms before they struck a blow. It is the other thing the Boers want—liberty or independence.

The Baroness Burdett-Coutts,'that dear old girt of seventy summers and about as many winters, springs and falls, has married Mr. Ashineadßartlett at last, the giddy old thing. Mr. Bartlett is nearly thirty years of age, and when he is sixty his wife will be pt par—just to think of it—or at the cemetery, one or the other: By .her marriage the Baroness loses <500,000 per year, willed her toy the Duchess nt St Albans, but If she imagines that her dear Ash heap, or Ashment!, or whatever his name is, will be worth that amount to her, it’s all right. Sne has <10,600,000 besides the <500,060 and if they are real' economical,’ and the old lady does her own housework they can worry along/ According to the terms of the marriage settlement the husband must take the wife’s name, which he did—and will doubtless take her fortune too,when he gets a rfaiM*’*. . J. 1 “Indian Jim,” or iamea- Jacobs, a Jamons hunter of the Beneca tribe,was found dead in of Potter eounty. Pa., lately by a party ofhunters. He was 80 years cqd, Mod it is supposed he diM of heart disease. During bls life Jim took great pride in wearing the typical dre® of the backwoods, and was always- seen in beaded moccasins, buckskin breeches, B-doeukiri shirt, and velvet vest. He was known t*r and wide, his trapping and hunting teritory extended from the headwaters of the Lsfckawaxen river to the Susquehanna and. Delaware, and embracing nearly one hundred square miles of wooden gosq-

Nww York, February HL—ln the Western Union telegraph company to $>0,000,000 was filed. It is signed by NervhiGreen, E.D. Morgan,Augustte Sclrdl, E. Darke, B.F. Barger, Joseph Harker. A. B. Cornell, Russel Sage, J. W.-JVanhorn, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Wilson Hunt. E. Sanford, Thopias T. Eckert, D. C.MUIa t . O. H. Pifrntr, Samuel A Munson, Jay Gould, Anson Stager, ME. D. Worcester, aad Win. D. Bishop. The certificate is filed “because of questions that have been made as to whether the articles of the association under which it is said the company is organized have provided for the Increase aforesaid, and to exclude all possible pretext for doubts respecting the same; but the company also claims said articles do provide for such increase, and that it has already been authorized and made." A messenger was sent by special train to Albany this ■afternoon to file a copy of the certificate in the office of the secretary of stety. President Green, of the Western Union telegraph company, said to-day that the supposed consolidation of the telegraph companies had been accomI plfahed, and that the present action of i the stockholders had been taken to I provide against legal contingencies. Referring to the suits brought by the i cable‘companies, he said: “The suits' | are the durndest sham I ever saw. The cable companies practically are one company as much ’as . we hire. They have a working arrangement under which the business is diI vided, and in fact it can make no posI sible difference to them if the land lines are consolidated. The reasons for the sufts do not appear in the legal I papers. The chief reasons are the in- . terest (if stock speculators in opposing union for pecuniary purposes,and fear on the part of the companies of laying two new cables by the American l telegrajih cable company. Gould, who i is the originator of tliat company, has ’ not said one woid about these cables i to this company, and no arrangement has heen made. Ido not know that I he has indicated his purposes to any one, but the present c bie companies stand in great dread of the scheme.” London, February 19.—The Economist says of the stock market: The . buoyancy abroad and the reduction of Hank of England rate are strong i elements in favor of advancing prices. 1 The English colonoial and foreign markets show a decided improvement. American and other foreign railways and bank shares also .met 'with good inquiry. Ip foreign governments Virginia new funded advauce<| 4on the week. In American railroads New Jersey Central shares advanced 7, Central Pacific A California, Illinois Central, Union Pacific, St. Louis bridge preferred. and Erie preferred 3 each; Ohio A Mississippi and St. Louis and San Francisco 1 each, and St. Louis A San Francisco preferred 4. Chicago, February 22.—Thompson A Strogles oat meal manufactory burned this evening the building was owned by Hiram Brooks, of Boston. Loss SB,OOO. The loss on stock and machineiy is $17,500; insurance $9,000 on machinery. ' .. ’ Richmond, Ind., February Walker Ames has entered a plea of guilty to the charge of kidnapping, and has confessed that he enticedfa small ls>y named Adolpbita Williams from his home, No. 303 Bright street, Indianapolis, and started - on foot with L hjm toward this place. They walked sixteen miles the first day, when the boy’s feet became sore Aines took a rope and made a cat-o’-uiue-tails and .lashed the boy. making him walk on. He whipped the boy until he nearly fainted. They walked on to Richmond, lagging as they went, the boy being forbidden on pain of death, to make a complaint, At this place he took another little Itoy named Ratlifie, and started on towards Pittsburg, compelling the Itoyslo walk oVer tlie frozen roads, and beating them unmercifully whenever they complained. He reached Troy, Ohio, when they were overtaken by parties from here and brought back. Ames says he intended to take the BbyfTto' Harrisburg, «4te., to his mother and have her raise them. He is a light-colored mulatto, very tall und slight, and says he was the porter in. a disreputable saloon in Chicago during the winter. . . Hakrishi rg, February 22.—The senatorial conference committee on theftrst ballot unanimously selected J<gt* J. Miteboll, of Tioga county, as of the conference for United Steffis senator. Mitchel i< - represents tlipt 16th district of that slate in the present congress, his- term * expiring on the 4th of March. The selection has been received as entirely satisfacto|y. Each faction holds a caiicus to-morrow to ratify the action of .'the copforeuce, after, which a general Republican caucus will be held to endorse him. X- C Eaht Liverpool, 0., February 23. —A family of eight persons, named Sloan, were burned to death thia morning. About 1:30 flames were seen issuing from wfow «tory.fram» owned rZ&f&fr&A and occupied as a drug -’sCorr, fee 4 storey grocery aud. dwelling'. The proprietor of the drug store,*fiwilHani fttoartj with., his family, liver!lu.Uiala^tM - portion. As soon as the flftnes weft Oiscoveftd

by Mr. Sloan 'he asvokr alk, qnd telling them to efdilow, picked up qj three year old daughters and startecß for the stairs. The flames hud cut ojfcJ this retreat by/-this time, howevpEl and turning to a window, leaped oirti] <nd at the same tlmeielling his wfre] and children.to do the same. It isaupposed that , before they had time to follow bis advice they were overcome by the stifling fumes Atom the drag store, as no others escaped. The building burned like tender, and haviugsßßinerourfjeievatoira to the upper floors which opened a pathway for the tames, waa in a. short time in ruins. A search for the bodies was begun at an early bout this morning, and soon 'MI were discovered. Mrs. Sloan was ihirty-one yean old. The six children were- from eighteen months to thirteen years old- Wilbur S. Keete, a brother-in-law of Mrs,. Sloan, was the other’vicum. The nbe started pi <he drug stoje, and te^upposed-to lurve been incendiary. The loss will reach. <16,0()0, which fe fqliy insured. NkW February s3—Thei provision dealers here say there!# a scarcity rather than an abqndanictewpt EThe demand has been My : the past eighteen months, and eldom been larger, while Mt-the same time the production has been, comparatively short. Though exports have been very large the last rear And a half, there is really no m ie *' k produced than can be readil y whether or not several foreign ! iitriea prohibits its importation. a 4 for the prevalence of trichinosis, were inclined to regard the report as f * SAM' A*Fe,‘ ffoMuary 23.—The flUtl of the week a shooting match occurred’ in a gambling booth in a secluded

spot five miles from the stage road, between Fort Wingate and Bacon Springs. Four men entered a saloon and sat down with the proprietors to play cards. After some playing a row began, resulting in the death of all the card players, each being shot several times. No arrests. Pittsburg, February 23. At a meeting of the Western Nail association to-day, it was unanimously decided to advance the price of nails to $3. St. Louis, February 23.—Fred Bechtolheim, who has occupied the position of Austro-Hungarian consul here for several years past, left the city last night. He is accused of the embezzlement of hinds entrusted to his care. The amount is not known. New York, February 23.—At a regular meeting of the United States international exhibition commissioners to-day, President Grant said it would be impossible for him to give much personal attention to the enterprise for some months, as he was about to leave the city. He said he was surprised to see so little interest taken in the movement, and thought some action should be taken to arouse the ardor of our public citizens. He recommended that another effort be made to secure Central park, for the site, and believed the city would be a liberal subscriber, it being fully as able to subscribe as Philadelphia in 1878. Considerable opposition was manifested to the Central Park site, on the ground that the present subscribers believed the fair was to be held in the woods. The matter of selecting another site was delayed until the Ist of March. A committee was appointed to go to Washington to secure additional legislation. As soon as $1,000,000 is subscribed the stockholders will be called and a finance committee ejected.

East -Saginaw, February 24. Eugene A. Davis, proprietor of a law and intelligence, office in this- city, and Wm. Wiskerker, clerk in the ? eneral ticket office of the - Flint A 'ere Marquette railroad, were arrested this afternoon charged with conspiracy to defraud and the embezzlement of passenger tickets. Both were lodged in jail to await examination. Washington, February 24.—Senator Matt H. Carpenter, of Wisconsin, died at his residence in this city at this morning. Three days ago va|M>r baths were tried upon Senator Carpenter with such appareut success that it was thought he would recover. His health has been failing for about two years past*. Several times he has been down, with no expectations of his recovery. His naturally strong constitution enabled him to rally from these several attacks, but he has been almost a wreck for the past six months. -Though his death was caused directly by Bright’s disease of the kidneys, there was a general dissolution of the vital energies, Yesterday afternoon he. had improved considerably, and it was expected he might again be able to get about. During the night, however, he grew worse, and it was known he could not live. Last Friday he was out iu his carriage and called upon the president and several of the departments. He went to bed the next day, and never rose again.