Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1881 — THE NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

era! Lonrsireet to the Georgiy marshatohip. , ' -■ *'■ Talk to mid lobe cheap, buttbwtalk that to now indulged in intlp»B«tote is costing the country a great deal, of money. ' 1 It to not generally known that Queen Isabella to an American property owner. She owns thirty acres pa Capitol Bill and a row of brick lauass in Washington City. IT the newspapers of the .dbuntrjr wiM unite and determine to make no mention whatever of the senatorial

sqabble, it w >uld do more to break the dead-look than any other thing could do. S*. ’ *\f J •BSBBBESESQ^Ugm * , Tits- main building of the eeuten Dial exhibition is advertised for sale. Some Ohio man w ill doubtless buy it end use it as s kitchen. Nothing is; now too big or too good for a man ] from A report hah been circulated in Ireland that the Fenian skirmishers have sentenced Gladstone to death. An old cook book gave the following directions for eookiug a h re: “Fleet catch your hare-” Moral self^prident.

Another New York millionaire merchant has just, died- insdnw In. the race for wealth he forgot to take care of himself and worked on for dollars till insanity overtook him. It to strange how few newspaper editors ever die of Insanity or as millionaires either. Pennsylvania joins the rank* of prohibitory stated—on paper. The two branches of the legislature have Just offered a prohibitory amendment dKmilar to the one enacted by our own liw makers. Like the Indiana amendjneal it goes to'the next Legislature, and then to the people. f'~ * ***■#. A Massachusetts man shot and killed a burglar on his premises the pther day, and the burglar was found to be one of the theological students of a neighboring college. Such a man would doubtless have made a fine ».• mister, but his field of usefulness was curtailed by a merciless bullet.

If the new czar wants to win the hearts of nihilists, he has only to commute the sentences of those found guilty of the murder of his royal father, to imprisonment for life. The precedent, however, would be a dangerous one, and It is hardly probable that Alexander 111, will establish it. It 18 Senator Johnston who gets the last bouquet. *lt was in the shape of a shield and was found on his desk with the following inscription: “Virginians to Virginia’s true son; may he continue to shield her honor and traditions from all assaults of her enemies foreign and domestic.” It is evident that Mahone’s recent attack upon Johston and’bis Virginia friends struck If the senate proposes to keep up the deitd-lock, the heat of summer will l* very weakening. We move that the wlioleahody be transferred to the steamer that goes in search of the Jeannette The northern atmosphere will not hurt the senators and may cool down their choler, and the vessel eau soon get 1; ?ond telegraphic communication, :i* 1 then the whole country will get -i iest. The Swiss paper* are angry at this country. A village in Switzerland recently segt ,a couple of its fallen women to ttiis country to get rid of them, and the United States sent them back again. Consequently thaSwisa waut.to fight us. All right, IK ’em come, but we want it understood that they musn’t load their guns with Sfriss cheese. We can stand bullets and cannon balls, but not Swiss cheese. •’

Mias Hattie Deuell, the TannerUe of lewa City, whose strange freak baa been the subject of so much newspaper mention, died after going fortyseven days and forty-five minutes without nourishment other than water. The funeral takes place today. Miss Deuell had no reason for her action, being in health and surwith plenty, but came to the> conclusion evidently beat Tanner or die.” She did both. After death ahe weighed fifty pounds, r • i - To what vexatious delays travellers to Russia are exposed at present, may be insUnced by the following incident. "Dr. Thomas, on passing the Russian frontier a few days ago, fell undgr thb-suspicions of the custom heuie officials. His instrument for boring the teeth was confiscated aa bearing perhaps too great a resemblance to an infernal machine or a dyanmite battery, and It was only; when the harmless nature of the last niment had been explained, that the dentist was allowed to proceed on his

journey. ___________ Richard H- Stoddard refuse* to .take part in fi proposed entertainment in behalf of the Poe memorial fund on the ground that, according to his beiiaf: “Poe’s doings in literature either of poetry or prose, were not of sufficient merit to entitle him to distinction after his' death.” Mr. Stoddard should wear a liver J?»d on his skull. >. He is refilly in danger of a rush of brains to the head, and H would take considerable of a a rush to make him tH fqn«i of the dead poet whom he maligns, Poe evinced more genius in fi single poem than Stoddard has ag|(*rn himself possessed, of in sO his writing*; and this is also phofit the Minion of the leading critic* and Ufc- ' v j£ify men tost aud west. Mr. StoJigrapes” attack on the memory of the a himself lire tty thoroughly disliked.

Russia Will not give Greece military assistance in caao-of **r. f* Tfiere is a colored man in Sanaa City named Jay- Gould. Steamship Westphalia, Rom Europe, brought 1752,754 in marks ahd trance. Rear Admiral James L. Lardner, of gle Uhited'States airy, died at Philadelphia, aged 70. ftffo* lH*«4e ©ueli, of lowa City. lowa, died after forty-seven days of starvation. James Daly, proprietor of the Connaught Teiegntph, was arrested under the coercion act. ?. ’ * The Boston Advertiser to soon to have a new press, and will appear as an eight-page paper. Treasury officials now estimate that less than $10,000,000 of the called ffs will be sent in for redemption. Three large petards were thrown into houses, in Madrid, Spain, causing considerable damage to property. By a supreme court decision, the Pai ide mail steam ship company will come in for a windfall of about $250,000 from the government. * *

Mollie Taylor, whose husband, a' notorious burglar, was shot three years ago, tried to shoot Officer Leonard, of the Chicago police. The amount of capital invested in the iron and steel industries of the United States in 1880 was $280,971,884, against $121,772,074 In 1870. • The carpenters of New York have made a demand for $2.25 per day, and It will be generally oomplied with. Ex-Goveruor Pacheco and Colonel Lewis. of California, are in Mexico in the interest of the Topol a wain pa railroad. . jSgST ..;*£• • 1 The King of Abyssinia was in battle with tbe Aflaai werks, and his son Michael has succeeded to the throdfo The April reports received at the agricultural bgreau show an Increase of oearljr 4 per cent in the area sown in winter wheat. * War has broken out between the American and Mexican residents of El Pgso,Texas. Six men have alreadyufefeli killed. Postmaster-General Janies has designated as u/nnaiiable matter any publication issued in violation of any American copyright. The freight lines operating over the New York Central are said to be cutting rates, and the trunk-ling pool i* in danger of dissolution.

The Rotchschllds refuse to loan money to Italy for the resumption of specie payments while the difficulties with France remain unsettled. - The board of trustees of Hamilton college has unanimously elected the Rev. Dr. Hertry Darting, of Albany, president of that institution. •A case of small-pox has been discovered at Lowell:. As the patient worked in a.lnill since being taken, fears are felt of a general outbreak. W. J. Munden, a member of the North Carolina legislature, eloped with the wife of J. A. Johnson, carrying off a large amount of money. John Morden, a Canadian farmer’s boy, self-taught in the art of taxidermy, has a collection of 1,800 bjrds, all caught, stuffed and mounted by himself. Cases of poisoningby wearingcheap yellow-colored stockings are reported m county papers. Twat deaths occuried from this cause iq the Mohawk Valley lately. Another rich Englishman has fallen into hands of bandits, and is held for a hesvy ransom. Brigands near Salonica were the captors in this case, and their price is $75,000. General Grant and Senor Romero nave arrived at the City,of Mexico. The dispatch says the movements of the former are regarded with apprehension, and that the latter is in bad odor with the president. _ The Cuban court-martial, after investigating the frauds in the marine department at Havana, sentenced the principal culprit to eighteen years imprisonment at bard labor, and the others t« shorter terms.

* Vogel, one of the New York blackmailers, has been held for trial in 110,000 bail on the charge of attempting to rob'Louis Strasburger of $60,000. Vogel expresses regret that he was not snot instead of Sagert. The union theological seminary of New York has purchased for $275,000 a plot of ground oounded by Madison avenue, Fourth avenue, Sixty-nintb and Seventeenth streets, and a new building will be erected thereon as speedily as possible. A surgeon of Cleveland has for a Aim cf money induced two men to allow blm to amputate a little finger of eSchaadPtfansfer it to the hand of the other. He says thus far there is ar good prospeet that the transposed fingers w!i] five. Quito a sensation was caused at the Chicago ofty hall by a negro wandering through the building in search of the health officer, claiming to have the small-pox. However, it proved to be measles, much to the relief of the clerks. • ' ‘ *W' /

*• si Additional reports have-' been received in Washington concerning rich mineral development ifa/ Alaska. Placer operations are already being carried on with profit, and it is said valuable quarts lodes have been discovered about 200 miles north of Sitka and twenty miles front the British Columbialfne. , The Rev. W.-*G. Teal, a prominent Methodist preacher, Who was convicted of an attempt to outrage a lady at Waxahatchfej Texas, has just had his second trial. ,ffis first trial took Blace8 lace two years ago, and resulted in a ne of SSOO. He appealed and was granted a new trial, which was concluded Saturday. The verdict was guilty, and the fine SI,OOO. .jr - ' ’ . ■ Nathaniel Deering, the .last survivor of the Harvard class of 1810, is dead. It I# told of him" that when “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” ', was being played in a theater which he owpfd atrortland, and the poor black wo* man was being sold by auction to the villain Legree -for $5,000, he, leaned out of his box aud excitedly cried Fll give $6,000.’ * A mafi built arouse worth SIO,OOO at Andover, MfifiS-V without spending A doU&f bought all tile mfttAxrial uidJOta mxl of that time refused to nay. AH * Se &rfw«jfost in the honse. which he had s«ld to his wifek The labor was . obtained on the #me j3lan, and even - ■ in hlafl&e residence, but Is not greatly loved by his neighbors.