Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1881 — HERE AND THERE. [ARTICLE]

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The Emperor of China has the small pox. Host.. James N. Tyner appears to be “in for durin." Mb. Conklino has given up bis ’ooms at Washington. • There are 5,000 armed soldiers In the County of Cork,- Ireland. The inflax of Chinese into Australia It causing considerable commotion. Chinese immigrants are. still arriving at San Francisco in large numbers. * The-tail of the comet is four millions of miles long, but it deu’tjwag the comet. Jesuit priests, expelled by order of the Government, are leaving Nicaragua in squads. . It is now reported that European harvests promise more tban an average crop of grain. The New York saiooq keepers are - organizing for the purpose of making their own beer. Gen. Footer has received notloe of his appointment as United States Marsal for this Statei. The Bfjtish Parliament Is giving ■ three days of the week to the consideration of the land bill. s I The Jews In New York are raising SIO,OOO for the relief of their persecuted co-religionists In Russia. an Anti-Monopoly League hss been established in every Assembly district of the State of New York. Mr. Porter, a census expert, estimates that the National debt is owned by less that 100,000 persons. * • The commission of Judge Robertson as the Collector of the Port ‘of New York has been signed by the President. A Judge of election at Chicago has been found guilty of fraud on the bal- ‘ lot-box, and sentenced to imprisonment. ;j Col. Dudley has taken the oath of • dice, and entered upon <he discharge of his duties as Commissioner of Pensions. , • The London, England,- newspapers crowded With the prospectuses of speculative companies recently organized. * The King of Biam has Just sent over a stone for the Washington monument, and the Legislature of Nebraska appropriated SI,OOO to help along. The Grand Jury at Albauy, N. Y., has found indictments for bribery against'three Legislative lobbyists— Barber, Phelps and Edwards. The Tiades’ Union of New York are demanding a weekly half-holiday ou Saturday aftertToons, and employers ki*e generally opposing the demand. The grand Jury at Albany, N. Y., Inis presented twelve indictments, of « hich seven are sealed, and the names of the persons indicted are not disclosed. * 4 .

A proposition to abolish capita punishment recently received 80 votes in the English House of Commons, hut was defeated by 189 votes in the negative. • Prof. Klein, of Kentucky, claims to have discovered the comet last September, and says it is the same visitor l hat produced a disturbance of the element in 1783. * It Is rumored in Washington that the President is abbut to ask Attorney CP.-neral MacVeagb to resign, and that illlara E. Chandler will probably be .offered the position. ' —_ % The saloon license having been recently raised In Pittsburg, Pa., from SOO to S3OO, the s&loonatics refused to pay, whereupon 300 of them were indicted in one batch. It is said that \V illiam/Herndeo, the former law partner of Abraham Lincoln, is now a pauper, at Springfield, 111., in consequence of his intemperate us 6 of ardent spirits. The wheat harvest in Southern Kansu* is over, with an estiniated average yield of fifteen bushels to the acre, against sixteen bushels last year. The grain is of superior quality. In Oregon, recently, while a farmer was driving 1 a drove of 1,110 sheep over the Blue Mountains, the sheep stampeded and leapt over a precipice, killing 950 of them outright All the gambling houses of St. Louis have been dosed, an act of the Legislature declaring the" keeping of sueh houses a felony having gone Into effect midnight Saturday. The maimed soldiers’ and sailors’ League pf Philadelphia, has drafted a pension bill, fixing the pension of all combatants who lost a limb or the use of it, at forty dollars per month. At Merced, Cal., last week, a fire swept over 7,250 acres of wheat and other grain, destroying everything iu its course, including many farm houses and a great deal of farming machinery. . " The Pennsylvania Legislature passed an act making bribery, corruption or frauds at primary electionE and delegate conventions misdemeanors, and punishing them accordingly. Baron Maonus, the German Minister at Copenhage#, who was summarily dismissed by his Government some months ago because of his domg honor to Sarah Bernhardt, the French actress, is now a lunatic. i Professor Peter Litchfield, the Hamilton College (Utica, N. Y.) astronomer, says the dark line through the center of the comet is the shadow of the nucleus. He doee not believe this is either the comet of 1809 or that of 1812. i A stone fifteen feet wide, twenty- . five feet long, seven inchee thick, and weighing twenty tons, has been quarried in New Jersey,and will be laid in front of the New York residence of W. H. Vanderbilt.

The French astronomers aay that 1 the comet has no head worth speaking of, bat an immense tail, which Is seven million leagues in length. It is to be visible about three weeks longer and then to disappear for seventy-four yean. - * - ' - - Minneapolis, Minn., is to have a monster flouring mill, requiring 10,000,000 bushels of wheat per annum to supply it. It will turn out five and-a half barrels of floor per minute, 333 barrels per hour, 8,000 per day, and 2,400,000 barrels per year of 300 days. It was announced in the British House of Commons Monday' that twenty-seven Justices of the peace have been reported guilty of corrupt practices during the last general election, and fifteen have placed their resignations in the hands of the Lord Highchanoellor. A celebrated French physician says that tobacco smoking oolora the bones. Think of that, gpnng man, when you pufl your cigar or cigarette. How can you bear to have your bones a sickly yellow or dirty brown, when they might be beautifully white? Swear oft, y. m., swear off. A striking illustration of the depreciation in the value of landed property is afforded by a remark made recently by one of the rioheet noblemen in England, who, in conversation on the subject, said he should be glad to get a return of one per oent. on the estimated value of his land. Because Mollie DeHart ovas only 13, her parents forbade her to marry Bruce Cooper, a yonng lawyer of Moore head, Ky. The couple eloped, but had not gone maoy miles before the bridegioom was very sorry for what he had done, advised the girl to return home, and committed suicide by shooting himself.

An English is wearing him sellout in New York city in an effort to confer lasting benefits npon this country by walking 6,000 quarter miles in 6,000 consecutive ten minutes. Such humantarians as this British hero and Griscorn, the Chicago faster, are sure to receive more than their due of honor and renown from the great American public. General Sherman lately stated that Custer, previous to his last fight, had ridden his men so hard that When they went into the fight they were net, upon dismounting, able to stands but staggered like drunken men, and in some instances were merely clubbed to death by the Indians. Riding as they rode, lad est with amunition, they were whipped before they could strike a blow. • ~ ' Astronomers are s'ill undecided as to the identity of the comet now visible in the heavens. Professor Swift, of Rochester, thinks it resembles Donates comet of 1858, and is not the one of 1812. Professor Draper, of New York, believes it is not Gould's comet, seen about June 3, in South America, while P{pfessor Stone, of Cincinnati, thinks it is the same one seen by Dr. Gonld, and also that it may be the comet of 1807, whose return was not expected for 1,700 years.

A census expert estimates the distribution of the bonds as follows: “In the absence of exact figures, I should say that the New England States own about eleven per cent, of- them, ihe Middle States about forty-three per oent., the Southern States a trifle over two per cent., and the Western States nearly eight and one-half per oent.. while the banks, insurance companies, and other corporations own about thirty-five and one-fourth per cent." The latest ill news from Russia is that there is a famiue in various departments of the empire. The condition of the population in these districts is said to be wretched in the extreme. At the same time typhus is reported to be raging iu a deadly form among the garrisons of Uraisk and Kalmikowa, in consequence of the bad food supplied to the troops. Tainted fish and meat are said to have been furnished by contractors. The condition of the Jews in Russia is improving somewhat. In one village in the district of Kieff the peasautshave voluntarily compensated the Jews to the extent of 800 rubles for the lose they had suffered, the amount of money, though insignificaht, being evidence of a return of human feeling. Good effect is also expected from orders given by the Metropolitans of Moscow and Kieff to, the clergy of those districts to preach against the persecution of the Jews. - The new Rhode Island liquor law provides that no license shall be granted for any place situated within 400 feet of a public school, and that a majority of the land owners within 100 feet of the place for which the license is asked shall be sufficient to prevent thq. granting of the license. interest is furious and breathes vengeance against the members of the Legislature who succeeded in passing the law. The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics reports that the total values of the exports of petroleum and petroleum products from the United Stales during the month of April, 1881, and during the ten months ending the same, as compared with similar exports daring the corresponding periods of the previous year, were as follows: April, 1881, $2,762,716; April, 1880, $1,995,182; ten months, ended April 30.1881, $31,401,223; ten months, ended April 30. 1880, $32,607,997. *

A bio fight Is organizing against that most tyranical of all monopolies, the Standard Oil Company, which has for some years absolutely controlled the petroleum interest of this country. Many of the oil refinery firms and companies of Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York, are combining for mutual protection agkinst the Standard Company’s despotism, and to aggravate the hatefulnees of this despotism, it has been discovered recently thst the Standard Company has been cheating by a shortage of fromone to four gallons m the contents of its barrels. Of the late Henry 8. Lane an old friend relates, he was chosen Chairman of thi Philadelphia Republican Convention in ’56, just after a severe Attack of illness. Pale, cadaverous and

weak, he took the eha&.'and was regarded with astonishment by the Southern delegates, some of whom asked. “What is there about that man to recommend him for Chairman?" Presently Mr. Lane began to epe#k, and In the flowery manner especially pleating to the Southerners. At the end of his speech they rushed over to the Indiana delegates, enthusiastically shaking hands, and one exclaimed. In the exuberance of his joy, “Heavens! he’s old Demosthenes! Have you any more men like him in Indiana? ’ The Census Bureau gives us the grain product of the United States for the year 1879. From these tables we learn that from 62,327,952 acres planted in oorn there were raised 1,772,909,846 bushels; from 35,478,065 acres in wheat the y iuld was 287,745,626 bushels; 36,150,611 acres of oats produced 407,970,712 bushelk; 2,005,466 acres devoted to barley gave ui 41,149,479 bushels; the 1,844,321 acres sown in rye brought fourth 16,918,795 bushels, and the 856,304 acres of buckwheat gave a return of 9,821,721 bushels. The total, acreage for oereals in. 1679 was 118,665.619 j and the yield nearly 3,000,000,000 bushels, or an average of fifty-four bushels to each individual of our 50,000,000 of population.

The New York workmen In many trades who have been trying to secure a-half holiday on Saturdays are, contrary to first reports, meeting with considerable suooess; and if they are not too greedy the chances are that their “demand" will be generally conceded. Some of the employers are willing to give their men two hours of leisure on Saturday, but say that 1 an entire half day would jeopardize their business. It is thought that the men would do well to accept this offer, aud not make it the pretext for a foolish strike. If they get two hours Ibis year, and are grateful for so much, they may get more hereafter. This movement is a reasonable one, anu considerate employers will not frown upon workmen who ask for a few hours of leisure once a week.

The emigration statistics of Germany are engaging the serious attention of the Imperial Chancellor, who has submitted to the Bundesrath tables showing that during the year 1880 no fewer than 11,454 young men liable to military service quitted the Fatherland for America. As the exodus during the pait year was nothing beyond the common, whereas this season tinnumbers are assuming alarming pro portions, it seems likely that the military service will be deprived of at least 20,000 young men. The worst feature of the case, of course, is that the emigration of this class means a twofold loss to the country—the sinew and backbone of the land are leaving it, and the aged, infirm, and children are left behind. The chief exodus seems to be from Prussia. Bavaria, with a population equal to one-ninth of the whole of Germany, only supplies one-twentieth of the emigrants, seeming to demonstrate the fact'that life in the .south is not so unendurable as in Prussia itself.