Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1881 — HERE AND THERE. [ARTICLE]

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Excessively warm weather to reported throughout Europe. Ar a recent parade of the New York police force there Were 1,300 men in line. T- - Some Ohio fanners are reporting measured yields of forty-ope bushels of wheat to the acre. p . The great Chicago Sangerfest didn't pay expenses— receipts, $53,000; expenditures, $70,000. One of. the latest discoveries to a patent process ice 'so intenaly cold that it burns those who touch it. Thebe are twenty millions of gallobs of whisky in bond in the Fifth Kentucky revenue district. It is expected that a firm and friendly understanding will shortly be arrived at between Bismarck and the .Vatican. Hox. Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine, was recently appointed Minister to Spain, in place of Gen. Lucius Fairchild, of Wisconsin, who asked to be relieved. » 1 The public debt statement for June shows a reduction during the month of over $12,000,000. The reduction since June 30,1880, amounts to slOl-, 573,483, •. The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company is advertising in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales for 10,000 laborers to work on their railroad extension in Colorado and Utah. The Revised New Testament is outselling all the novels ever written. Three and a half million copies have been sold in America and England, in addition to manyvAmerican re-prints. John Momfort married a widow at Bunea Vista, Ga., and o/f the day after the wedding undertook to whip hto stepson. The bride seized her husband and held him fast, while the boy killed him with a knife.

-A dispatch from Berlin says that the public exhibition of placards of emigration agents or of foreigu steamship companies has been prohibited, and that a bill impeding emigration , will beintroduced in the next session »f the Reichstag. President Garfield has expressed a sentiment which should l»e the ; Siding rule of all political teachers and advocates io the country, as follows: It is as much the duty of all good men to fliroteci and defend the reputation of worthy public servants as to detect public rascals Philadelphia guardian charged SSOO for administering an estate of $460. The ward was a girl, and he wanted her to jiay hi n the difference ***** ( 'f her own earnings. The court cut down hto bill to SBS. The greediest Indiana guardian would have been content with “the bird in hand." At a banquet given Parnell in honor of his thirty-fifth birthday, Parnell stated that though the Irish party had now to struggle with many difficulties, he hoped the day was not far distant when they would meet in College Green as an Irish parliament, and Ireland would have no master but the will of the majority of the Irish people. v An unarmed man was arrested in Washington Tuesday, who said he hjid come to that city to kill Secretary Blaine, It is true, as Governor Hendrick’s said of Guiteau’s attempt, that “It is in the atmoephereof the world." Let us hope that an aroused public sentiment may speedily purify such an atmosphere country. A workman grading the mill road at Edenville, lowa, was seriously assaulted on Mondaiy, from the effects of which he died, for expressing the hope that President Garfield would not recover. 'The pounding was done by another laborer. A similar fracas occurred at State Center, but not with •; fatal results. Charles Talbott, the youngest of the two young brothers, sentenced to be hanged in Missouri on the 22d Inst, for the murder of their father, has confessed the crime of which they have been convicted. H 9 says the killing was done while their father was cruelly maltreating their mother, and that their father, on hto death bed advised them to deny it tfnd lay it to an assassin.

BVjJa singular coincidence, the last letter written by President Garfield before he was shot was addressed to his opponent in the last Presidential cam Deign, Major General Winfield B."' Hancock. It was dated Friday, and related to the appointment recently conferred upon Colonel Mitchell, one of General Hancock’s aides-de-camp. It was friendly and pleasant in tone, and could not but have pleased the recipient. HRkv. Dr. N. W. Conkling, pastor of the Rutgers Presbyterian church, New. York, has been remarkably fortunate. Ii Is said that a wealthy Episcopalian widow, who became interested in his preaching, sent him, his wife and daughtePto Europe, paying all the expenses of the trip. On his return he found that she had bought and furnished a mansion for him at a cost of $70,000, and not content with that she presented Mrs. Conkling SIOO,OOO in government bonds. Ireland has decreased in population since 1841 from 8,175,000 to 5,160,000 in 1881, a loss of more than 3,000,-* 000 in forty years. At this rate the Irish troubles are on a sure road to settlement. When the people are all dead the country will be quiet. It must be that thought which leads the London Times to say that the depopulation exhibited by the census “indicates a constant weakening of tpe turbulent class,” Rad says it as though It was pleased by the outlook. The New York Public, which is said to be excellent authority on snch subjects, states^that there has of late been a great Increase in tbe volume of

boatera la all the graft etties. New York, Boston and Cincinnati have Increased their business over 50 per oent.; Philadelphia, 84; Chicago, 27; 8t Louis, 22; Baltimore 28, and San Francisco 42. The increase in the net earnings of all the western railroads for the month of Jan? bee been enormous as compared with the same month last year. A London Daily News correspondent, writing from Nelson, New Zear land, says: “Whoever In England, whether farmer, tradesman, ftrtisafcr or laborer, can by anyhoneftt and honorable means manage to keep a roof ever bto head, let him by all means stop where he is. The safest speculator In this direction is undoubtedly the British farmer with a moderate capital; but even him, In view of the low prices of produce here, I would advise to wait till we see the effect of the better times which have already begun. • , The prospects of the cotton crop to the latest date are encouraging. Hie Financial Chronicle, after making a very thorough investigation of acreage and condition ooncludes that the acreage to 5 per cent, greater than in *BO, and condition favorable beyond doubt everywhere, except, possibly, in parts of Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana, and growing more favorable even there. Fertilizers have been extensively used and have had a magic effect, and the enormous yield of 7,000,000 bales to the present estimate. Cotton goods]will continue to]be cheap,' for with such a yield cotton cannot be cornered.

The Europe, of Brussels, publishes some curious statistics of suicides attributed to unhappy marriages., According to this statement, in Sweden, out of every 1,000 suicides, those of 16 men and 24 women were said to have resulted from matrimonial misunderstandings or incompatibility of temper. In Norway the figures were 21 men and 18 woman; in Prussia, 48 men and 51 woman; in Saxony, 26 men and 29 women; in Italy, 75 men and 76 women ; in France, 138 men and 164 women . It to remarkable that the largest number of these suicides occur in France and Italy, where divorce does not exist. - A considerable amount of clerical time lias been devoted recently in the Treasury Department at Washington to sendisg'out stereotyped negative replies to inquiries whether there really was a premium on the first issue of silver dollars, of 1878, on which the eagle appears to have eight tail-feath-ers. Upward of a million of these pieces were struck and issued, and they are of no more value than other dollars. The dollars struck off since the first issue show but seven feathers in the eagle’s tail. Owing to a change in the position of the arrow the eagle bolds in its talons, by which one of the tailfeathers to concealed. . . ' When the late lamented Lincoln was shot down by the hand of the assassin Booth, a raging mob, the day following, went up and down the streets of New York city, and it was on that occasion that President Garfield, who was then there, gave utterance to the following words which Calmed the troubled waters and stopped the tumult among the maddened people: “Fellow citizens, clouds and darkness are round about Him! TTi« pavilion to dark waters and thick clouds of the skies! Justice and judgment are the establishment ot His throne! Mercy and truth shall go before His face* Fellow citizens, God reigns, and the government' at Washington still lives."

Resistance to the new prohibitory laws of Kansas has gone so far that while juries in the cities refuse to convict liquor sellers, e ven upon the clearest evidence, in Atchinson the Common Council, with the co-operation of its presiding officer, the Mayor, has adopted an ordinance providing for the granting of licenses to taverns and saloons. This action was taken in express ridicule and defiance of the prohibitory constitutional amendment and the laws based upon it. The temperance men have since then had a mass meeting, and call upon the Mayor to resign, while Gov. 6t John threatened to call out the militia and put the laws into execution by force of arms. Col. Brooks, Chief of the. Secret Service Bureau, sums up his conclusions with reference to the motive and actor in the crime of Guiteau as follows : “We have carefully gone to the bottom of the conspiracy business and find there is nothing in it. A dead beat and a fraud, who had his twisted oftener and received more leather in the shape of kicks than any other man in the country, life .to him was a burden It he had to labor to furnish the means of existence; so be deliberately set to work to iuvent a plan to provide himself a domicile and food aT]the expense of, he cared not who. The result was the shooting of the

-President, the inordinate vanity of the wretch making him single him out as the victim, that his name might be connected for all time to come with that of a great man, and that he might become notorious and an object of interest to every person on the civilized globe. That same inordinate vanity would not permit him to have an accomplice.” The anti Jewish riots in Southern Russia resulted in the destruction of property valued at 13,600,000, a smaller amount than the first accounts reported. All the leading rioters have now been tried at Kief by court martial, and several Were condemned to loes of civil rights . and terms of imprisonment, varying from a few months to three and a half years. One individual, at least, was condemned to twenty years' exile in Siberia. At Odessa, wfiye the prompt action of the authorities prevented much damage being done, the rioters were tried by a magistrate, and a few of the principals were sentenced to undergo short terms of imprisonment, varying from one week to three months. It is now considered pretty certain thatjhese riots may be ascribed to the impoverished condition of the country through the failure of last ybar’s harvest; to the igoorance of the peasants; their hatred of the Jew aa a- money lender; their

jeakmsyof hto wealth; their desire to revenge themselves upon those whom they consider to have Impoverished them, and the hope in some of plunder. «v ' ---