Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1881 — THE NEWS IS BRIBE. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IS BRIBE.

Both Greece and Turkey are making ’ elaborate preparations for war. * Kossuth is living near Turin, seven-ty-nine years old but in excellent health. - The Moscow papers state * that RoussakofTs father bad committed suicide. Peter .Cooper declines to take General Grant’s place as president of the world’s fair. In the Lawson-Labour he re libel case, just tried in London, the Jury failed to agree. 1 The police authorities of Berlin have issued orders for the expulsion of eighteen socialists, y « A fire in Elizabeth, N. J., destroyed several buildings on Broad street. The loss was |60,000. Henry Rowland, a Jeweler of Albany, N. Y-, has assigned. Liabilities, $75,000; assets, $60,000. It is the impression in Calcutta that the British will not evactuate Candahar before the autumn.

A three per cent, bond was never placed at par. The French three per cents', were sold at $83.25. , Secretary Blaine has purchased a building site near Senator Cameron’s new house in Washington. Rudolph Zeigler A Co., rice merchants of London, England, have t died, with liabilities of $500,000. > The sultan of Turkey has pskefi Egypt to furnish a contingent of troops in the event of a war with Greece. E. G. Knowles-, a merchant of Cotton Gin, Miss., was found dead in bed at Sprague’s restaurant, St. Louis, y The king of Italy baa sent SIOO to the sufferers by the Nice opera house fiie. He still has a few dollars left Luther Bosworth, one of the early settlers of Western Michigan, died in Eaton county, aged eighty years.

. The president has nominated Win. H. Craig as Postmaster at Albany, N. Y. Cfaig is the present postmaster. The annual report of the Chicago police department shows that 28,480 arrests were made during the year 1880. • David Kennedy, the Scotch vocalist, is said to have lost a son and two daughters in the Nice opera house fire. The cotton compress of James L. Harway, in Norfolk, Va., was destroyed by'Are, The loss was SIOO,000. James Walsh, who killed his sweetheart, Barbara Groenthal, at Brooklyn, has been sentenced to be hanged May 20. Jesse W. Starr’s iron works at Camden, New Jersey has closed, throwing a large number of hands out of eniploymet. .The Chicago typogaaphical union has resolved to support the mdvenient for the erection of a fire memorial building. The pope has been warned by a lady that the aay and hour of his murder, and that of Cardinal Pecci, have been upon.

The body ot the Rev. Abiel an aged Sweedenborgiau clergyman of Roxbury, Mass., was found in the Charles River. The Austro-Hungarian delegates to the international monetary conference are instructed t<J enter into qo binding agreement. , . < Theodore Walters, a dealer in hide* and furs, residing in North Lansing, Michigan, committed suicide by shooting himself. / Lieutenant De Rudio, of the Seventh United States cavalry, was engaged with Felix Orsini in his attempt to assassinate Napoleon 111, in 1858.

The Northern Pacific directors have resolved to defend the suit of Henry’ Villard for an injunction to prevent the distribution of $18,000,000 stock. * The page of tke Czar of Russia has been arrested on •uspicion of having secretly served t>e nihilist sentence of death upon the late Alexander 11. Extensive forest fires are reported along the Lehigh and Susquehana railroads, in Pennsylvainia, and between Attleboro and MansfieJd, Mass. The report of the capture of Potehefstroom by the Boers is confirmed. Intelligence of the armistice reached there just twenty-four hours after the surrender. The English cabinet has been requested by the French government to prosecute Freihert, s German news-pap-r, for publishing an article approving of regicide. Dillion addressed a land meeting at Thuries, Tipperary county, Ireland, and vindicated his attack on Judge Fitzgerald. He advised tenants not to pay unjust rents except at the point pphe bayonet. . ' < The Crown Princess Victoria, of Germany, has received an anonymous letter, bearing a Berlin postmark, declaring that Prince Frederick William will be murdered during the cere- ■ monies at St. Petersburg. *- A seven-story warehouse in Manchester, England, filled with stock belonging to John Haslam A Co., was destroyed by fire. ’ One fireman was killed and two dangerously injured. The lose is estimated at about $400.000.

A wedding party in Waupaca. Wis.. got so gloriously inebriated In advance of the ceremony that the object of the Ethering was forgotten by all, includg the bride and groom, and the marriage did not take place. However an evening or two later the guests reassembled, and the knot was securelytied before refreshments were produced. The anonymous letter received by .the crown princess of Germany, declaring that the crown prince would be murdered during his visit at St. Petersburg, is believed to have been sent by some cruel practical joker Nevertheless, it will be the subject of an investigation, and will be considered in the reichstag. It is stated that Russia and Germany intend to Kpose to the other powers a coalii to stamp out revolutionary conspiracy.

As a preliminary step in the war against polygamy, a bill will be introduced in the next congress to change the form of government in Utah. It is proposed to place the administration of affair* in the hands of seven commissioners, to be appointed by the 'and continue in office during bis pleasure. It is thought the evil can be reached in this way more readily than under the existing form. The law disfranchising polygamists, male and female, will also be passed.