Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1881 — HERE AND THERE. [ARTICLE]

HERE AND THERE.

3Ar Kan Bah will bare only half a cotton crop. ? Pbssident Garfield’s life i* in> B'ired for $60,000. The Republfeaa* gained heavily in the recent election in France. Ths surplus wheat crop of Oregon Is estimated at 300,000 bushels. Cincinnati has 2,000 saloons, and Mayor Means and Deacon Smith. A surviving brother of the late Jas. Buchanan is eighty-eight years old. On last Sunday the thirty-second murder for 1881, was recorded in Chicago. ** ; - COLORADO papers of the 20th inst., complain that “there is too much rain for-tl|e, crops.” .■ - ' It it estimated that sixty millions of eggs per annum, are bought and sold Id Ctactonati. It is estimated that there are 378,000 persons employed in the mines of Great Britain. * i ■- At a cost of $10.50 per day, New York gave 266,350 of her people free baths last week. * . The Minnesota wheat crop of this year is quoted at 10,000,000 bushels in excess of that of 1880. At’STRO-Hungary has the largest ■urplus of wheat for export that country has had since 1868. The Presideut grandly vindicates the truth of his maxim that “A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.” Catholic priests in several cities of the country, notably New York, are vigorously opposing Bunday .beer picnics, >' . A theater in Berlin gives a performance at half past 6 o’clock in the morning, when the weather is pleasant. ’ | The Liberals, under the lead of the - great statesman, Castelar, won a grand victory in the recent elections in Spain. 2 The movement to enforce the laws against carrying weapons is accpmiwnied. by a booming business in the pistol factories. The sale of five thousand lots of ground for’unpaid taxes is.the drag alleged real estate boom, in N4w York city.

There is now about 16,000,000 in gold in transit from Europe, which will tyjive iu New York within the nexf two weeks. The grain gamblers of Des Moines, lowa, are said to be $1,000,000 ahead on recent Chicago market bets. One man won $120,000. It is eetimated-that thp production of anthracite coal, this year, will be about 7,000,000 tons in excess of the amount produced last year. .The total value of our exports for the seven months ended July 31,1881, $82,708,977 as against $80,286,016 foaihe same time in 1880.

In tiie enforcement of • the laws against carrying j Concealed weapons itr St. Louis diiriug the last two moQthr, 556 weapons were captured. The Delaware peach crop is a failure tills year, “for sure.” Instead of the usual two to three million baskets, there will be not much over 100,000 baskets. 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. Gold shipments from Euprope to this country have been resumed. The seamer Gity of Richmond, which arrived at New York’ Friday, brought $500,000. ,

» ALuk'e Francis’s barn, on Rolling Prairie, Laporte county, full of grain, tongs and implements, was burned by an unknown incendiary. Loss, $2,500; „• u* insurance. _____ fTHB forthcoming report of the New City Saving’s Banks will show $10.000,000 of depot its during the past spi months in excess over the correspond! ug period last year. The assessed valuation of the real Mid personal property in Dakota, ex- . ciusiye of railroad property, this year, f hots up $30,000,000, an increase of 50 lier cent in one year. Hon. Alexander M Stephens is writing a reply which wHt straighten out the Crooked placei in J< fl Davis’ iccountof the “Rise and. Fall of the Southern Confedracy?’ ~ M’.Grkat excitement prevails in Fort bi!l, Indian Territory, consequent upon the recent discovery of gold deposits in the Wichita mountains, ten miles west of that place. A woman’s right’s convention at La Mars, lowa, would draw immensely. Three hundred stalwart young Englishmen, nearly all unmarried, settled •m that vicinity, recently. ; Charles Stewart, a Mississippi wife-murderer, was hung, the other day, by order df a Judge Lynch court, and hi* dear father-in-law bad the pleasure of-adjusting the noose.

The Right Reverend Joseph C. Tal-z-botL Episcopalian Bishop of the Diocese of Indiana, is lying.dangerously ■ ill at Indianapolis, from the effects of a paralytic stroke. This is bis third attack, ana a fatal result is feareo. QuHen Victoria has signed the Irish Land Bill, and it is now a law. A careful examination of this bill as it finally panned Parliament shows It to be much more satisfactory to the farm tenant than it was at fifstsuppoeed. ’ J. C. DAVIS, of Jefferson county, has a6M acre peach orchard containing 30,000 frees all full of fine fruit Heeinploys seventy-five men in gaihjetisg and shipping the* peaches, and toe crop this year is above the averintimate friend <.f

wffl induce the Vice President to assume the duties of. the President while the latter lives, and all the reports to the contrary are sensational falsehoods. It is now thought that the defalcation and embezzlement* of Captain Howgate may reach $4^0,000, which Is the largest steal.by any officer of the Government that has occurred in many years. ■The national debt has been reduced in the amount of $761,714,994 since August 31,1865, to July 31, 1881. In the meantime there has been a reduction of $81,596,782 in the annual interest on the debt

In.some portions of New England the corn crop will be almost a failure on account of unseasonable cold weather, and in Western New York, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, a partial failure on account of the hot weather and drouth. It is .said of the Rev. Thomas Harrison, the boy evangelist, that he is now not only .a man in years, but is quite able to manage his own worldly affairs. Being invited to attend the recent camp-meeting at Acton, this State, he demanded SIOO in ' advance for four days services.

One of the features of the Atlanta cott«n exhibition will be the manufacture of a suit of clothes from raw cotton- in twenty-four hours. The cotton will be picked, ginned, spun, dyed, wo ten and made into a suit of clothes for Senator Brown inside of one day. ♦ The petroleum trade of this country is becoming enormous. During the month of June, 1881, we shipped abroad $5,553,268 worth of that fluid, being double the amount during the corresponding month last year. During the last fiscal year the petroleum to $40,315,596. i

The two candidates for Governor of Virginia are holding Joint discussions, after the old-fashioned way of electioneering in the South, and the political cauldron is boiling furiously. The friends of both candidates flock to meetings in large numbers, and the colored brother enjoys the debates with a great relish. _ , In a recent speech in'the douse of Commons Mr. Gladstone declared that “there is no country in Europe that in the last thirty years has advanced more in wealth and prosperity than Ireland,” and “no country in Europe that has made such progress in the last half century with respect to obedience to the law.” It is said that on last Bunday the President kwoke from a troubled sleep and said: “I dreamed that I was dead, and the doctors were dissecting me.” Thaaccount ■ further represents that the dream cast him down greatly, and he did not recover from its effects for a considerable time—all of which may be true, and then again it may not.

The New York Times, an excellent authority, says: “The grain gamblers’ reports of the condition of crops are not always reliable. There is reason to believe the harvest iu the United States will show a yield but slightly foiling off* from last year. ■ The best agricultural authorities in England and France estimate a decided, diminution in the quantity of breadsuffs produced there this year. The indications are, therefore, that America will have a surplus which Europe will require.”

The New York Medical Record, speaking' of the condition of the President’s says:- “Whatever may be the result of the case, it is due to the gentlemen in charge to say that the treatment has been skillful from the start, and that every means has been used to mitigate the sufferings of the patient and to ward off every possible danger from all threatening complications. It is to be credited to our profession, and especially of the gentlemen in charge of the case, that so little can be said concerning what inighthave been done and what was not done. -

John Saville, the Allegheny min who drank three quarts of whisky on a wager, died at the hospital. The port-mortem examination shows that his stomach, and in fact the whole internal organism, had been burned to a crisp by the large quantity of whisky he so foolishly drank. This terrible condition of bis internal system caused intense suffering while ’Saville laid at at the hospital, and finally resulted in. his death. He was only 24 years o.' age, and was a very stout young man up to the time when he made the fatal wager.

English co-operative socl ties appear to still flourish. The Statistics presented at the recent co-qperative congress at Leeds shows that the aggregate capital of these enterprises is nearly $85,000,000; their net profits about $8,000,000 a year; and theii membership over 500,000. It is estimated that at least half a million per-’ sons are directly interested in these stores, with their savings banks, read-ing-rooms and wholesale purchasing agencies. They support a large wholesale establishment at Manchester, and an agency at New York to buy American provisions of the best quality and at wholesale prices. The shipments of breadstuff’s to Europe have fallen off within the past few months. According to the report of the bureau of statistics just received, Jhe value of the shipments of breadstuffs for July t 1881, was but $19,981,792, as compared t 0531,229,677 for July, 1880. The value of the shipments for seven months ending July 31, 1881, was $131,962,709, as against $153,586,362 for the corresponding period last year. The decrease in Indian corn, barley, joats, and rye is large. The only description showing an increase is wheat flour, the value of. which increased during the seven months from $20,100,808 to $25,096,759. z

During the first six months of this year, no fewer than sixteen Russian cities inhabited by Jews were burned. Some of them had a population of 25,000. The most terrible consequences resulted at Koresz and Minsk. At the former place 1,020 houses were

persona destitute, and nine-tenths of the population are without Shelter. At Minsk it'to said to have been three times more terrible. It Is estimated that there is an average of fl ve drunkards to every saloon in Chicago, which indicates a good business* Two good drunkards will usually support a saloon. Their spendings in each case represent the average wages of a man, and sometimes that of his wife. On' the other side of the account the assets of the drudkard would would list about as follows: The saloon-keeper gets his money, he gets the spree, and his wife and fomily get the anxiety, disgrace and privation. It evidently don’t pay to be a drunkard.

Since the fight between the Monitor and the Merrimac, the powder charges of great guns have grown from 15 pounds to between 400 and 500 pounds, and the new guns to be built at Elswick for the Italia and Lepanto are to be used with a charge of powder 950 pounds. At first the powder charges of our 20-ton 15-inch gans were 35 pounds. They were then put up to 50 pounds, and when they were raised to 100 pounds of mammoth grain powder, after the war, the army and navy men trembled with anxiety. But now the 28-ton 12)-inch Woolwich rifles, of which the Thunderer’s guns were examples, use 150 pounds of puwder, and the 85-ton 11-inch Armstrong' guns made at Elswick for the Chinese navy use the charge of 235 pounds.

A quickly responsive chord in the heart of the people is touched by the Bpringfield (Mass.) Republican as follows: “The Garfield legend, sure to cluster and grow around the story of his life, whether it ends now or when he is old in years and of longer honors, will gather about him as his mother’s son. Their relatione will be remembered and told and made the foundation of tale and story and picture when the refunding of the 3} percents, or the struggle st Albany are the dry dust of forgotten politics. The son’s kiss on inauguration day, the heart-broken cry of the mother over ‘my baby,’ when the. strong man, high in place, was shot down, the solitary letter which the weak fingers of the President found strength to write in the weary weeks of illness—these are the things for which tie man and the mother will be remembered. Linked .to au emotion and a memory which comes home to the hearts and the bosoms of men and women, the lasting remembrance of President Garfield will rest secure.”

Governor St. John, of Kansas, in interviews published in the Indianapolis papers, bears strong testimony to the efficiency, popularity and good results of the prohibitory liquor law of that State. It appears that the people there had been prepared for prohibition by five years of local option which had become, in a large portion of the Blate, nearly prohibitory. The Governor says the law is enforced in all parts of the State except a few of the larger cities, and that its results are most salutary. Crime has largely decreased, the number of prisoners in the penitentiary being sixty less than it was before the law went into operation, while heretofore there had been a constant increase. The immigration to the State is choice and desirable, while the emigration from the State is a decided advantage. The people are more prosperous than they ever were before, and were the question of prohibition again submitted to them the majority in its favor would be overwhelming—n<,t less than 75,000. He is an enthusiastic believer in and supporter of the law, but he, also, has the best of opportunities for observing its working. Other reports and views on that subject, widely differing from his, are abroad in the land. The careful and conscientious searcher after truth and right, will “prove all things and hold fast to that which is good?’