Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1881 — HERE AND THERE. [ARTICLE]

HERE AND THERE.

- Pop* Leo is studying the EpgiMi language. Srx of the thirty-six Chicago Aidermen are saloon keeper*. It is stated that 106 men were lynched in Arkansas last year. July was a remarkably good business month in New York city. Tag national debt was reduced $lO,078,023 during the month of July. The Mrs. Garfield fund seems to be "sticking" at about the sum. of $155,000. The presence of the comet is utilized fn Virginia for tho con version of negroes. i , * ~A soldiers’ reunion will f be held ih Kokomo on the 24th, 2Sth and 26th of this month. National banks now hold as security for circulation $362,684,000 government bonds. The ratification of the two treaties between the United States and China was exchanged at Pekin, July 19. . Renan, the distinguished French author, is preparing -to writes history of the Jews, up to the second exile. ,

It isr now stated that the immediate cause of the death 6f the late Czar Alexander, was cerebral concussion. • Leadville shows a high state of civilization. Two •men' were hung there, a few days ago, according to * w - > ' # The .prohibition proposition was overwhelmingly defeated in North Carolina by the vote of the people on the 4th inst. It is predicted in well informed "irelea that Henator Edmunds will be tendered the. vacant seat on the Supreme Benoh. Only five papers of the one hundred and twenty-five published in North Caroiiua, oppose the prohibition move men in that State. T. H. Tibbets. the advocate of the y Poncas, baa married “Bright Eyes,’, the handsomest, best educated Indian woman in America. Senator Latha m is described as being a large, portly man, with broad shoulders, strong features, heavy jaws, tide whiskers find a pronounced dcuble ehiq.

A cablegram received reports the arrival at Glasgow of a consignment of Minnesota wheat, via the line and New Orleans in good rendition. ‘ A company, with $2,000,000 capital, lias been organized In New York for the transportation of cattle, to be known as the New York Live Stock Express. The la* of compensations appears to be in full operation in the crop prospects. The wheat yield Is short, but the potato prospect is uncommonly fine. Dobing the month of Juue the excess of import* into the United States from England, over eXp-irts, was $60,304,425. or at the -rate of $723,000,000 for the year. The highest temperature in Chiqaeo during July was 03 degrees; the lowest . degrees. The temperature of the month was a sfiiall fraction over 80 degrees. '* • 8m ino .Bull's band will be divided up among the different agencies. A little, dividingof 8. 8.-say bis head from bis shoulders— would- not be greatly out of place.

Lieutenant Schwatka, the Arctic explorer,Vay* that the coldest weather ever Vxperieuced by white men was 103 degrees below the freezing point, 6r 81 degrees below, zero". ■ Minister Chnistiancy’s divorce suit is said to have cost him $24,000 in counsel fees and alimony, and the end ta not yet. It has certainly cost him an irreparable loss of reputation. * * * -- _ Forepauqh’s ‘‘moat beautiful woman in America” has been discharged, and she threatens to sue for the ffo 000 prize he advertised he had given her wefek laCt be °“ Jy S**® her 5 30 a Thk London Times has a rumor from Berlin that Hon. Carl Schurz will be appointed by President Garfield the successor of Andrew D. Whim ae United Statee Minister to Germany. - Ex-Sen atob Conkung has been continuously In Congress up td the time of bis reeighation, with the exception of the two years from 1863 to 1565, since 1869, or for a period of twenty years.

It is said that the government of the great city of London has determined to aiscontinue the vaccination of the police force, so morally certain Is it that no member of that body will ever catch anything. According to the statistics the an nual consumption of eggs in the United States amounts to about 10,600,000 barrels. This poultry marketed and • consumed is estimated at 680,000,000 pounds, cot ting $68,000,000. During the past fiscal year 567.386,982 cigarettes were manufactured in the United; States, which, at (he tax of $1.75 per thousand, yielded a revenue ®T The tax for tne preceding fiscal year amounted to $716,^29j A very decided sensation has been created in Philadelphia, especial!* among the Catholics of that city, on account of the assertion of MaryAgnes Dunn, an iuvalidof long standing, that she has been visited in bet sick room by the Virgin Mary. The Sight Reverend Joseph C. TYdbott, Episcopalian Bishop of thaikoceee of Indiana, is lying dangerously ill At Indianapolis, from the effects of a paralytic stroke. This is his third „ attack, ?*nd a fatal result is fcaretv The Cincinnati Gazette says: “Of the 500 deaths which occurred in this city from the effects of the excessive best, three-fourths, if nut a larger

nmnnrtlnn an tOOMhlfl to the internr r v ’ perate use of intoxicating llquops. ” * Captain Rkub. Kolb, of Eufeute, Ala., pulled from his sixty-five acre watermelon paid* one Jay recently 10,000 melons, tkeWgart number that .was ever pulled from patch in ’one day In the State of Alabama, ft not the entire South. The finding of the Coart Martial in the Whittaker ease will not be made pnblic until the President has examined it, but it is understood that the verdict of the Court is unanimously in favor of discharging Whittaker from the military service, r , Rising Sun was ‘’all tore up,” from the rising of the Sun to thegoing down of the same, the other day, over thediscovery of the lifdeee form of a very small colored baby in a large jar o/ lard, from which a hightoned family had been using shortening sot two weeks previous to the "find.* 1 It is stated that the members of the Cabinet are receiving letters threatening them with death unless certain persons in government employ *fe discharged, so as to make place for new appointments. From inferaa machines, Socialists, Nihilists and Aaiassins, “Good Lord, deliver us.” The United States owns 5*528,920 acres of coal lands situated» in the western Territories, about fifty per cent, of which is located in Utah and twenty per cent, in Colorado. Under the pre-emption laws these lands can be bad for S2O per acre in tracts not exceeding 160 acres.

Reports of the probable yield, of wheat along the line of /he Northern Pacific road indicate that although the yield will not be quite up to ihe average, the increased acreage will compensate for it. Some sections show a much higher yield, and on the whole it is considered (hat the crop ft excellent '■ The Coghlan claim against the State, twenty-three internal Improvement bonds of SI,OOO each, issued in 1836, since outstanding drawing 7 per <“ent. interest, and now amounting to. the round sum of $128,560.34, was paid by Treasures of State Hill Tuesday. It was the largest sum paid out of the State treasury at one time for many years. . . ’( New Jersey bad a surplusage of lunatics the other day. A mad mail ran about in Jetfeey City bltmg men and boys, a mad cat enlivened the proceedings of a home Railroad, and in Passaic a mad woman was found in the act of putting a boiler frill of kerosene oil on her stove to boil. while the flames were already spreading about It Ex-Conoressman Tom Creamer of New York, a Democrat, says of the two Senators: “Miller is a soldier, and a fine organizing politician. Mr. Lapham is a good high liver, a good lawyer, and greatly beloved by bis neighbors in the ancient Massachusetts town of Canandaigua. Lapham ought to make a learned Senator in law thing*, Millers keeu one.”

There te a general railroad and manufactur'd.if boom in the South. New railroad are being projected and burn in a;i jim-eiions, and consolidations,’'combi nations aud poolings are aU the r.ijM* • Manufactories are being establish*.-I t very where./ Northern capital i> <lie moving power of this new iadus-r.U and commercial life in the South. * There tea counterfeit ot the silver dollar now in cimulatiou, which expert* pronounce tne’most perfect ever made. ' The Chicago Inter-Ocean describing it sayb: It is silver plated, to resist the action of acids, is of good weight, 98 per cent, of genuine, and has a good coin ring It so clearly resembles a genuine coin that not one in a hundred will be able to ’ detect it in ordinary trade. A St. Paul, Minn., dispatch sivs: A contractor named Goodal-?, a near neighbor of Governor Pillabury, was sunstruck recently, ami -ever since has believed he was commissioned to assassinate Mr. Pillbdry, a- la (juiteau. He has so frequently announced Lis intention that yesterday he was examined by the commission on lunacy aud committed to the St. Peter’s insane asylum. His bouse was found to be a modified arsena’.”

i-.ln a letter to W. H, Lamaster, of Nohlesville, this State, Ex-Senator Oonkling says he never made the remark, “The President has forced me to commit suicide or murder; l r prefer murder.” Ms. C. says this “is one of the 'countless falsehoods with which the country has been filled. *• • Ail- I kuo\y about is ' that some scoundrel * set afloat tbjs particular falsehood.” * / * „ The Bllver medal for the iiest cheese at the showln Birmingham, England, has been borne, away by' Mr. Jubal' "Webb, who Has been xtyled * Tlie Cheese"Elead, 11 in consequence of his indefatigable exertions in prociylng the best cheese to be had in America. The one which obtained the prize is pronounced the largest dht«< se ever made, weighing three-quarters of a ton, and came from lowa. John Bf Grinned, of lowa, who lias beyn over the State a good deal during the last two or three makes a gloomy report He says that there will be a shortage of 15,000,000 bushels in the wheat crop as compared with last year, land that the corn yie’d will show a decrease of from 73 000,000 to 100,000,000 bushels, but there will he a great increase in the number of horses, cattle and sheep.

. It is said to be a fact, of general knowledge in that region, that the Jamee brothers and the rest rrf the gang of bywaymen and dteperodoes of Western Missouri, frequently visit Kansas City, stopping at the hotels and business in the tqwig and that, although the police and ifi'any of the citizens know«hem sight, the raaoals are permitted to come and go without molestation or- interference, the general understanding being that they shall do all theih robbing anti murdefing outside of that mtinici-; pality. ' The Irish Land bill, which finally passed the House of Commons by an overwhelming affirmative vote,appeals to be acceptable to many of the Home

finally withheld any oppotetion. I Kin believed that the Mil will pan the House of Lords after some debase. It is a significant fact that in tha-House ot its only opponents. The measure, if te' becomes wiUjfc it bdJevej? greatly mitigate the ills of the Trish land-tenants and farm workers. A Remarkable man-hunt has been going on tor some time in the wilds ot Wisconsin. On the 10th of July, t w p brothers, named Coleman, officers of the law, .who were endeavoring to arrest two horse- liiteves, Lon and Edward Williams, were xAurdered by the thieves in the village of Durand. A posse of citizens usd officials at onee set out and chased the outlaws into a forest known as the “Big Woods.” The woods have been traversed by armed parties, assisted by Indian scouts and packs of blood-hounds, at a heavy coat in money, but without result, and attest accounts it was believed the-mur-derers had escaped from the forest, by the tsonni vance of an Indian scout.

It is said that “the hot weather in London has assisted the Government largely in carrying its Land bill through.the committee iu the House of Commons.' The Premier, with white odfct, dqck trousers, and a sporting tie, is pictured as the gayest an# airiest member in Parliament. He. rises briskly aud often, and strikes' hard. He passes over Lord Randolph Churchill, Mr. War ton, Lord Sandon and two or three more meddlesome’ gentlemen like a , clod crusher in a cornfield, and seems positively rejuvenated in a temperature .in which everyone else te gasping for breath, and under au electrical state of »the atmosphere . which- throws half telegraph wires .in the -country into disorder. ;

The Postmaster General te reported to he preparing a very desirable change, in the postal money order system. Instead of the present cumbersome and slow machinery he proposes to have an engraved blank of two tions, 'funning up to $2 50 aud $5., Upon these blanks numerals are printed in cbluthne, and amount of the order is punched out. • If tho ordehis for $3.75, a three is punched out of the first columu, a seven out of tbe second, and a five out of tbe third. A purchaser will present his money, get his order for ad nfany of '* them as he pleases, and present tlfemwhen he pleases for payment. They are to be good for three mohths from issue, and payable to the person to whom they are endorsed. In this way a large saving will be made, and the bueluess much simplified.

According to the . -census report there were fllty-pine life insurance companies in the United States at tbe close of 1879. Thirteen of these were located ih N*w York City. Tbe capital stock of tbe fifty-nine amounted in the aggregate to $14.9201,000; the assets were $419,000,000; liability to; policy holders, $365,668,883; number -ol policies, 725,418, involving in the rggregate, $1,660,191,924. There was a great falling off in the business during the last decade. The amount of money iu »uGtd In 4070 ftni tbo total QumUri of policieswefe less by 65 and 28" per cent, respectively than in 1870. This great falling off' te attributed to the depression existing from 1873 to 1879. Many were by this forced to succumb. Since 1879, however, there has been a marked improvement in the business.

Interesting statistics of the World’s correspondence uy post and telegraph* were published recently in Germany. The latest returns which approached completeness jwere for the year 1877, in which more than four thousand millions 'letters were sent, which gives an average of 11,000,000 a day, or 127 a second. Europe contributed 3,036,000,000 letters .to this enormous mass of correspondence, America about .760,000,000, Asia 150,000,000, Africa 25,000,000, and Australia 50,000,HX). Assuming that the population of lite globe was between 1,300,000,000 and 1,406,000,000, this would give an average of three letters per head for the entire hum »n race. There were in the same year3B,ooo telegraph stations, and the number of messengers may be set down for the year at between l!O,00Q,000 and 111,000,000, being an average of more than 305,000 messages per day, 12,671 hour, and nearly .212 per minute. *

The astronomer of the Naval Observatory at Washington is reported to have said that there are three comets now visible. The latest arrival is the comet known as Encke's. It can be seen through telescopes, about 2sßo in the morning, just a little north of the “Pleiades.” It is , about 167,000,000 miles from the earth, and traveling toward it tjuite rapidly. It will be visible to the naked eye about the middle of October. Comet C, recently discovered at Ann Arbor University, is becoming brighter every morning, apd the astronomers think it would, be visible 15 ■ the naked s eye now if it was .not so near the horizon. The Oqtnetß., whiclj has been visible for some time,,ls fast traveling south. It is etill an interesting object in the Evening sky. No special observations will be made ofEqeke’ys comet for several davs. It is regarded with great interest by astronomers on account of its gradually shortening periods, which is considered as proof of Encke’s theory that there is a resisting medium In space. Its period is about three and a half years'.

The physicians In attendance upon' the President have been experimenting for some time with an electric apparatus called the “induction"' balance,” in the hope of determining the location of the bullet yet remaining in bis body, hnd now announce their ponvlction that their experiments have been successful. Tpey , are convinced that the bullet has been found or at leasjt located on a straight line runnir ; through the body from front to back just abqye the groin on the right, side. It was pot possible to ascertain any degree oK certain ty the (depty, at ball lies Imbedded on this imagin aJwline, but as the front wall ■fefthe abdemen at this point is about two aad ope-half inches in thickness, the ball must lie within that distance of the surface. These results fully

confirm pyglpfl dteatek n f the I— , iiiilclij lln sttfiwlhifwijfpMi soon after the Pres Went received hi* injary, and the result te as gratifying ti.q '—mpHy —y—the, Auction balance is £» it* injfentors/ Hbfeaeora BeU aud Tkinfof ffhte k* t£ first instance te which* andmbeded bullet has been accraately and definitely located without probing, and by purely scientific methods. These is no intention on the part of the surgeons to perform the operation /or (be tetekratef the bill M -present So long as it gives no trouble it will be allowed to rpittsinde 1* present place The miration, of the disposition to be fthalfy made of it will be considered wb%n tbe President shall -have, recovered his strength. '*

The National Catholic Total Abatinance Society, at, its recent session In Boston, adopted a series of, which are presented and summarised as follows:, “That we acknowledge with gratitude tbe encouraging words of our hierarchy, the zealous efforts of their prieqty, who, during the paVt, fostered the good cauaegmd helped it along by word and, example, and we hope their suceeeaps will be a stimulus

to stiff mods .earnest efforts injfhe future; -that it is to theinterest every citizen in the oouutry jto. help on the good ;Work, tor ;iui piopwtion as the vice 9i intemperance decreases, so wiH men-, become better, citizens, honest, uptight in their dealings with others. Trade,!nwiU! ;si»>'qnperi,lrtiugtry will flourten. The of thinking men, tfaedailyiekperienaa of those in authority, )* agreed In- demanding increasing efforts in Tth3' ' suppression of so odious* advice. We. view with justs . pleasure* • the rapid -progress •$! the • cause among the ladies of the land, ahd the nnmf>er of ladies’ branches already started shows that-they are'-ditva:to its benefits, and is a bright pros-’ pects for the rising generation, for good mothers will bring up :gcted children. That while the organization 'of cadet societies te not altogether dead, we regret the apathy In tfcetf formation, mid weagree to Urge with all pur power the Oigahization J of cadet societies in every parish. Recognizing tile power •ot thi press, we call bn Catholic papers to advocate in sfeason and out of season the bause of total abstinenoe. The seventh resolution urges*' the import-

ance of making meetings attraclivp. The eighth termers thanks t<> tin- clergy and press. A resolution of sympathy with the Irish their struggle for land reform, and' d-'daiiog the land league has uo rrto're tllk ijn-t .sup - porters OT its principles than the Catholic Total Abstinent Union of America, was adopted.