Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1881 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

y~ r* TJ Railroad building is now |qingron j so Ote oenntry at the a week. A rich vein of silver has been discovered near Fort 801, in the reearvar tiou of tea Kiowa Comanches. A Braid wood. HI., Marshal named Stewart, has been arrested for beating a prisoner so severely as to cause his death. Daring the pest fiscal year IHP 229,902 were collected by the Commisstoner of Internal Revenue and paid Into the Treasury. ’ * The colored Bishops of the Southern Methodist Episcopal C-harch have arrived in London, to take part to the Methodist Edhmenioai Council. * . Parties from the Rosebud Agency state that Spotted Tall was killed for sedoeing another Indian squaw, and they my this was the 150th oflepf*. Anticipating a cold winter, Chicago coal merchants have raised the pride from f 7.26 to $7.75 pel ton for range and nut coal. They claim there is a searci tyDanville, one of the most important oenters for leaf tobaooo In Virginia, reports the certainty of a short o*dp thereabouts. What there is will bo of poor quality, The St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners have instructed the police to arrest every man known to have, or suspected of having, firearms on their persons. A team of English professional oricketerß is being formed visit America and Australia, with Shaw as Captain. They will sail from Liverpool toward the end of next month. <t

A San Antonio special says Lolren O. Pomeroy, alias Charles L. Royal, was arrested Sunday, charged with appropriating a valuable letter while postmaster at Hebron, Ind. Professor Parkhurst, the astronomer, asserts ttaht there is no reason to fear p collision between the earth and the new comet, as the latter will not oome within 50,000,000 miles of our planet. In the case of McGrath amkMoKevitt, tee dynamite fiends, the Liverpool jury found both persons guilty, and sentenced McGrath to penal servitude for life and McKevitt for fifteen years. An American missionary has obtained, after an interview with General Tgnatieff. Russian Minister of the Ulterior, a letter to the authorities allowing him to preach to the Inhabitants of the district of Cauoasus. A mountain, twenty miles east of Mount Idaho, I. T., on the 9th Inst., sent forth a column of fire and smoke several hundred feet in height, with trembling of the earth distinctly felt, seventy-five miles distant.

Commissioner Dudley, of the Pension Bureau, is considering the advisability of recommending to Congress a new act, the object of which will be to pension all soldiers who were in rebel prisons any length of time. The Mascalero Apaches are giving the settlers in New Mexico considerable trouble. .The Indians are divided iqto small bands, and are committing murders and depredations. The citizens have taken the field against the red savages. A cordial invitation has been extended by the United States government, through its Minister to Germany, to the family of Baron Steuben, Inspector General of George Washington’s army, to become the guests of the Nation at the forthcoming Yorktown celebration. The assault made by Guiteau upon McGill at the jail is believed to have resulted from nervous excitement. He desired General Crocker, the jailer, Thursday, to Inform his sister m Chicago that he was well, that he regretted the assassination, and was prayiDg dail/ for the recovery of the President. ! As the arrangements for the York town centennial celebration are developed some idea r of the grand scale on which it is to be conducted is afforded. It is believed that the various States are contributing at least 30,000 of their citizen soldiery. The Governors of the various States, with their staffs, will alone form a small regiment. Within the past few days a remarkable revival has commenced in the quarter of Chicago which is largely occupied by houses of ill-fame. Minnie Brooks, for years the proprietress of one of these houses, has been converted, and has abandoned a life of vice. At her house prayer meetings are being held for fallen women,.which are already meeting with good results. The latest report from Rosebud Agency is to the effect that Crow Dog and Black Crow conspired with other Indians to assassinate ’Spotted Tail, with a view of making Black Crow chief in place of the murdered man. The criminals have been arrested and sent to Fort Niobrara, where they will be tried under the laws of the Tearitory. . • Yung Wi Chaing, the Assistant Commissioner of Education, attached to the Chinese Legation at Washington, states that the removal of the Chinese youths from Hartford is not on account of any fear of their being Americanized, but because the Imperial Government wishes to avail itself cf their services. Special agent Bigelow, after a tour o investigation in the Dominion of Canada, found that one-third of all the mall sacks, and four-fifths of all the pouches used by the Canadian Post Office Department belong to the United States, It i» likely that the State Department will make a demand on Canada for compensation lor the use of the property. v

Foreign. Mysore, one of the largest territories in Hindostan, is suffering from drought. At Adrianople the Turkish revenue officers have been detected in a gigansystem of fraud on the government. The Right Honorable W. E. Forster, Chief Secretary for Ireland, will retain that office as long as the coercion Mil is in force. One of the Greek brigands who captured Colonel Suter, last April, was arrested near Athens with 11,000 francs in his possession. > Signor Marinetti, a distinguished Alpine traveller, was, with two guides, overwhelmed by an avalanche while ascending Mont Rosa. The London Times says that the land MU in its present shape gives the tenant termers all that Reasonable men expected, or even demanded, a year The Chilians have suffered % dt—; trot* defeat at Pisco, forty-two leagues smith of Lima. It is reported that otf the Chilian force of 400 men only 26 withiom on^.

antt-Jewishrfot*^ the jpjfti two dtfuiafrhed tlrefce heW Frederick William, the | Crown Prince, ttu interested himself in the anti. Jewish persecution, and, as a eon; tea ihe. the Ministerial wfatte-toatt dinner, gtv«,wwi summer b*„JI» . Premier of England to his colleagues, was attended *fiya guard of police. The House of fjords has sueenmbed to the Inevitable, waiving thsig; proposed amendments (with a protest, however,) to insure the speedy passage of-the bill, with the magnamimodß denlgjv aidiogtbe solution of The Par nail branch of die Irish Land League at Cincinnati, paaerid resolutions severely condensing Irishmen who fevor the use of dynamite, and other 'Nihilist methods to promote theoaase es Ireland. *uc The House of Lords looks upon the Irish land bill as s yepry bitter doss, which It is compelled xo accept as an will be considerably amended by them, however, before It receives the royal signature. , < * she Orangemen in Liverpool have enlisted 406 laborers to reap the harvests of “boycotted” farms. Sixty of the recruiter started fbfr Dublin Tuesday. More disturbance*, will attend this movement as a matter of oeurse. ~ Prthie Bismarck is going away for a few months’ rest to Varsien, and is this week arranging matters of policy with his ministers, prepared, whan he returns to the capital, to find the church question settled and the elections concluded. ,i- ' '» In the House of Commons Parnell told the members that 09 acoount of the imprisonments under the coercion bill, Ireland felt no gratitude for the passage of the land biU, which, moreover, he attributed to land league agitation. - : 1 f •

Afghanistan dispatches state *that the battle between the Ameer and Ayood Khan lasted three hours, and that 800 or 400 men were killed on each side. General Hume, in command of the Anglo-Indian contingent at Quetta, had from 6,000 to 6,000 men with him. His nearest outpost '"as ’seventy-eight miles from Candahar. , * v v < v ■ ; ■?. * f An investigation by a member of the Russian Imperial Government Into the Jewish persecution at Khar Koff suggests the fact that in that city the Jews outnumber the Christians, and monopf olize trades and accupations. The Minister of the Interior has called for statistics on this point from tbe Governors of Western Provinces, with a view to regulate this condition of things.