Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1881 — HERE AND THEBE. [ARTICLE]

HERE AND THEBE.

Thb temperance question has “git into politics” in Georgia. Los don and Paris are in distress for lack of a sufficient water supply. The have given the name of “Europe” to the new comet. The bill making the Erie canal free of toll has passed the New York Assemoly. Lorillard shipped nine more thoroughbred horses to England, a few daysago. * _ -. • Samuel J. Tilden manages to live in bachelor comfort on an Income of $1,009 per day. A nugget of gold, weighing fiftyelght pounds, has been unearthed in a mine in Siberia. The late Daniel Royse, Clerk «.f the Supreme Court, bad his life insured to the amount of >11,000.« The army worm is making a clean sweep of the oats crop in many localities in Illinois and lowa. . Ho.n. W. H. English pays over >20,000 a year taxes in Indianapolis, on about $700,000 worth of property. THEtotal estimated yield of wheat In Michigan is 16,200,000bushels,which is a little over half of what it was last year. * . • ho far this season, according to statisticians, there have been about a hundred deaths In this country by ightniug.. It is said that President Garfield and his wife are the hero and heroine of Judge Tourgee’s poveh “Figs 'and Thistles.” , It is stated that there were seventy one deaths from sun stroke or overheating in St. Louis, on Monday, July 11th. j x. ' Twenty-six hundred vessels passed through the Suez Canal in the past year, and not one bore the flag of the United States. The Cincinnati internal revenue , collection district paid, last year, (o June 30th, $12.000,000 taxes on whisky, and tobacco.

Bonestter, a famous Chicago trot- •, ling horse, valued at >15,000, dropped dead in the second heat of a race, the other day, st Pittsburg, Pa. I ■ . It Is stated that 2,000 gallons of buttermilk are sold dally In the saloons of Milwaukee, and the effect is para- ’ lyzing on the pop business. Several prominent straightout Virginia Republictns have gone over to Mahone, Including two membeis of the Slate CoiAral Committee. ‘ A “329” coincidence is found in the fact tha’t it was just three months . and twenty-nine days from the time Garfield was inaugurated until he was shot. The South American republics propose to adopt the priueiple of peaceable arbitration fir tile settlement of their International controversies in the future.-’ ■ ■ - - - -* j One of the “prevalent that’is widely believed, is that Lord Colin Campbell married a daughter of Col. Blood, and the notorious Victoria Woodhull. . I

. It now turns opt that the bandits who captured and robbed an express train tn Western Missouri Friday evening secured less than 52,000. No arrests as yet t Thursday, July 14th, was very generally observed in tie States of Kentucky and Aikanras, as a day of tasting and prayer for the recovery of the President. , Mark 8. Brewer of Michigan, the recently appointed Consul General at Berlin,- served two years in Congress with General Garfield, and is said to "be an able man. - . The law of compensations appears to be in full" operation in the crop prospects. The wheat yield is short, but the potato prospect is uncommonly fine. An epidemic of duelling has broken out among the students in German Universities, hud they are cutting, slashing and killing one another at an unprecedented rate. An English firm has commenced the manufacture of blankets. They are made as soft, and are warmer and altogether lighter and cheaper than their woolen predecessors. French coutts are condemning duelling, having Just sentenced a duellinv who killed his man to four months in prison and that ho pay the family of his victim 100,000 francs. - k. ♦ , .Another Guiteau has turned up in Binghamton, N. Y. Jerome- Dean, a lunatic, attempted to kill Mayor Grant the other day, for some injustice tbat had been done him. • The Oil Qty Derrick says the cooling apparatus used at the White Hou-'e works so well that the. President’s cow, when placed under its operation for a short time, gives ice cream. The Ninth Industrial Exposition of Cincinnati will be formally opened on the 7th of September 'at noon. The Grand Lodge of Kniguts Templar of Ohio has been invited to'participate in the opening ceremonies. The Right Reverend Joseph C. Talbott, .Episcopalian Bishop of the Diocese of Indiana, is lying dangerously ill at Indianapolis, from the effects of a paralytic stroke. This Is his third attack, and a fatal result is fearec. The Cincinnati Gazette says: “Of thd 500 deaths which occurred in this city from the effects of the excessive heat, three-fourths, if not a larger proportion, are traceable to the Intemperate use Of intoxicating liquors.” Frank Kitchen, of Richmond, aged ten years, died of lockjaw, at bis home neAr Boston, Wayne county. His death was the result of the accidental explosion of a toy pistol on the 4th, which hurt one of his hands.

The organ of the liquor trade in Massachusetts says that the recently enacted law of that State requiring drinking bare to be open and visible from the streets, has not lessened the sales, and is making the traffic more respectable. . The Indianapolis authorities, after an inspection of the electric light at Cleveland and Akron, Ohio, have entered into a new contract for gas, stipulating, however, that opportunity shall be afforded for practical experiments with the electric light A careful estimate of the damage done New Ulm,Mlnn., by the cyclone, places the number of buildings destroyed at 350, and the money loss at >500,000. Eleven persons are known to have been killed and eighteen wounded, some fatally. The Ohio Prohibitionists have again placed a full State ticket in the field, and will nominate local candidates in all cases where other candidates do not subscribe to their views. They demand the enactment of a local option liquor law. The Rev. James Freeman Clarke has lately been preaching that Christ wss the type of the coming man, whose psychological and moral developments will qualify him to work the same or equal wonders attributed to the founder of Christianity. Still another sporting victory for the Americans in England. Frank Hyde, an American rifle expert, has won the Albert Jewell shooting match at Wimbledon—the best shot at a distance of 1.000 yards. This match has been won by Americans three years successively. The anti-whisky movement, which seems to have become popular and formidable in some portions of the South within the past few months, has taken strong root in Mississippi, where the opponents of King Alcohol propose to force the issue in State and local politics this fall. The water supply of Cincinnati is short, and the brewer hands theie are on a strike, which makes a terrible combination of misfortunes for the sweltering denizens of the seething, boiling red-hot hole in the ground that aspires, (or perspires), to be known as the Paris of America.

A large number of tbe leading cities throughout the country, in consequence of the recent hot weather, are erecting free, public bath houses. Wherever used they have been found to be of the greatest utility in a sanitary point of view, besides bring beneficial in many other respects. Miss Nellie Rossiter, of Philadelphia, last year received a State diploma, for her success in silk culture. She begun with 200 worms; in a few days she will have 100,000: She has made >3OO this year. She has written a work on the care of tbe worms, and has Vice President Wheeler, General Grant and President Garfield ss subscribers. , Secretary Windom has issued a circular transferring to the Internal Revenue Bureau ad business in connection with the appointment of gaugers, storekeepers, etc? This work for tbe past year has been done in the appointment office.* The circular just issued is a practical restiiution to the Commissioner of liitiFnnl Revenue tof tbe control of the patro nxge indicated. The balance. <f irai!-’- to favor o this country for the je.r -ndingJnue 80, 1881, was >171,000,000; the previous year it was $92,000,000. Our exports during tbe year ending June 30, amounted in value to >923,000,000; the imports, to $752,000,000a The specie imported into this country from abroad during the year ending June 30, amounted to about >100.000,000,- a gain of >17.000,000 over the previous year.

Gribcom the Chicago faster, during iris forty-five dayA.abstihence from food, drank 1.433 ounces of water, an average of ab-;ut 32 ounces a day, and lost in weight a fraction over 1 1-10 pound d per day. The fast was not successful financially, but the doctors think some good may came of it in a medical way. They will make a summary of the results of the experiment, and publish it for tlie benefit of the profession. Commissioner. of.Pfns.'cns Dudley says there is no truth in the report that he had ruled that no Con federate soldier should remain in his department to pass upon the claims of Union soldiers. Co). Dudley proposes simply and only to reorganize his clerical force so as to secure the greatest efficiency in the service for tlie pay he has at his command. The bitternjMTof feeling existing lu Rome betweeif the supporters and the opponents of, the Papacy was freshly demonstrated the other day on the. occasion of the removal of the remains of the late Pope Pius IX. from St.-Peter’s Church of San Lorenzo. The procession waa attacked on the streets by anti-Pa pal mob, and there was a disgraceful street fight. Pope Leo has written a letter of complaint to the King of Italy. The early publication is expected of an imperial decreed n Russia ab .dishing public executions. The scene which occurred at that of the assassins of the late Emperor has determined the Government to take this step. In future executions will be conducted within the walls <f the prison, and in the presence of a limited number of specially appointed witnesses. • , It is the generally accept* d theory that the notorious James brothers were the ring-leaders of the gang that robbed the train and' killed the conductor and another man on the C„ R. L and P. Railroad, a few days since. The mother of the boys, however, states that they are dead, a story, hy the way, which is not believed in the section of country where they have been in the habit of committing their terrible and outrageous depredations. ‘jNEARLY all .General Grant’s military abilties,” says General Longstreet in a' recent interview, “fa in his sublime control of himself. Ninety-nine officers out of every 100 in the army would probably pass a better theoretical examination than Grant, but when the blood begins to run, or there is a man wanted for an emergency, Grmt

would te head and shoulders above them all. The excitement of battle seams to cool rather than excite him. He ia a great practical soldier.” ’ cA. pfrßKtr.T., the Government attorney in eharge of the case against Guitau, says: “I find beyond a doubt that it was the first bullet that struck the President This is the statement of Guiteau and others who saw the shooting; the second ball went in the direction of the baggage room. Again I find that the dramatic story about the assassin’s exclamation, *1 am *a stalwart of tbe stalwarts; Arthur is President now,’ was a pure fiction. His only words at the commission of tbe deed were, ‘Don’t let them hurt me; take me to the jail quick ’’’ Ey-Senator Merrimon, of North Carolina, is reported to have said recently in a speech at a prohibitory meeting In Reidsville, that state: “I have never meddled with liquor! I have never drank it, have hardly kept, it as a medicine in my family, and yet it has meddled with me, has made my boy a wandering vagabond, has broken my wife’s heart; yes, when -1 was asleep, thinking him at home in the house, be was being made a drunkard in the bar-rooms of Raleigh.” The Associated Charities of Boston have published a circular warning people against giving money to street beggars. “They are almost sure to be swindlers,” say a committee of the society, after careful investigation: “ninety-nine out of one hundred is not too high to put it, and, in fact, is being very lenient to the hundredth; and yet, because it is an easy sort of selfindulgence to put one’s hand in one’s pocket and give what one will never miss, the impostors wiH live , and thrive, to the detriment and loss of the worthy poor, and thedemoralization.of the careless rich.”

A Berlin correspondent says: Statistics published by the Hamburg police authorities, show the number of German emigrants passing through .Jamburg alone to America, from January 1, to June 30, 1881, amounts to 74,683, being twice the number for the same period in tne year following the late war between France and Germany. The figures for auch immigration in. the corresponding period of Jast year were 32,489, and the total for the year, 106,190. So that if the immigration proceeds in the same proportion for the half of 1881, the government will find that, reckoningthe fugitives by other channels, it has lost in 1881 about a quarter of a million of its mosLefficient. subjects.' The decision of Judge Biddle and the Supreme Court that a h->tel keeper did not desecrate the Sabbath by selling cigars on that day, because selling cigars is an incident to his business of hotel keeping, was ,tho law to Judge Heller of the Indianapolis Crimiml Court, when he decided, the other day, that the selling of railroad excursion tickets on Sunday is not a desecration of the Sabbath. He argued that as railrioad companies are allowed to run trains on Sunday, and as excursion trains are in the line of regularbusiness, the railroad compaines have a right to run them on Sunday. It is thought that the Biddle decision will not stand as the opinion of the thia case is taken before it on an ar- , * peal. • An Illinois woman was unwilling, on marrying a second time, to give un the alimotfy which she had been receiving from her first husband, from, whom she had been divorced. She brought a suit to compel the contlnqance of payments, but the Supreme Court decided against her. “Treating allimony,” said Judge Scott, “as tbe equivalent of that obligation for support which arises in favor of the wife out of the marriage contract, aud which ia lost when that contract is annulled by the decree, she obtains the same obligation for support by a second marriage. It is unreasonable thatshe should have the equivalent of an obligation for support by way of alimony from a former husband aud an obligation from a present husband for an adequatesuppoj t at the same lime.” Speakung of the storm which raged - in the Northern part of this State on Wednesday and Wednesday nightman Elkhart special says: “Last- night was by far the most -severe night Elkhart ever experienced in the wjy oT light--Ding, rain and thunder. Almost the night long did tbe heavens look as if ablaze. People were half crazed. Every tbuuder shock seemed to tear the earth loose. The damage done to property throughout this vicinity will aggregate a large amount. The most damage done to our place vat ‘the burning of a straw board mill, which was struck by lightning and set on fire. The loss amounts to >15,090. The amount of insurance is thought to cover the but is as yet unknown. One of the freaks of the l.ghtning was something worthy of notice. Mrsr Minton was sitting on ope side of a window and her two children on the other, in the dark, when a terrible flash pf lightning burst through the window and, to their astonishment, lighted tbeir lamp, which was sitting on a table between the mother aud children. None of the;n were injured. The reports are being received here to-night from the farming country, which was a sufferer by the terrible storm,” • •

It is believed that the dare-devil who with consummate address, robbed the stage-coach running between Del Norte and Alamosa on the night of June 29th, was entirely without assistance in that bold operation. If this be the fact, his exploit will rank amohg the most audacious in the annals'uf highway robbery. There were eight men and one woman inside the ccach and four men on top besides the driver. When they were about twenty miles from Del Norte, at midnight, the robber appeared behind a piece of canvas stretched along the roadside, ordered the driver to halt and the Entire company to dismount from the stage. All the fourteen persons immediately complied and ringed themselves lu line in accordance with the robber’s instructions. He then took all their money and sacked the mail bags, coolly cautioning his prisoners meantime not to make any unnecessary motions, for they were all covered’by the guns of his companions stationed close by in the woods. Thus with an

occasional observation uttered In a soft and mellow voice he finished his job and retired into the darkness. After his departure the passengers picked up the scattered mail and the A maa -by the name of H. M. Burton was arrested in Pueblo on July 1, charged with the robbery, and on July Bth underwent a preliminary examination in Denver and was committed for trial.