Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1881 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

Home Items. Oysters will be dearer this winter because of the exceptionally cold weather last winter. Ten thousand workingmen, with their lady friends, attended the picnic at Ogden's Grove, in Chicago, Sunday. The Chicago House of Correction has earned $40,000 this year by the labor system. It goes into the City Treasury. Sessions, the alleged corruptionist and briber, will be tried in Albany on the 12th prox. The anli-prohibitL.n majority in North Carolina is 115,556. Only four counties voted in favor of the law. • Later investigations into'' Captain Howgate’s accounts makes the sum total of bis alledaed defalcation so far about $70,000. A lady candidate is running for the office of County Superintendent of Schools on the Democratic ticket in lowa, county w Wis. The United States torpedo ram Alarm, has been thoroughly tested and pronounced the most formidable vessel in our navy. The case of the Malleys, charged with the murder of Jennie Cramer at New Haven, Conn., has been postponed for two weeks.

Mrs. Hayes* portrait, presented by the women of the United States, cost .$3,000. It was painted by Daniel Huntington, ot New York. During the past fiscal year $185,229,902 were collected by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue ahd paid into the Treasury. The widow of ex-President Fillmore makes bequests of $50,000 to various public institutions, including one of $20,000 to Rochester University. Further evidence in the Christiancy divorce suit is not at all favorable to the ex-Senator. A Washington druggist charges him with being an abortionist At Clinton, 111., the Circuit Court will try George Hale, a saloon Ist of Bloomington, whois under2o4indictment for selling liquor to minors and others. Mayor Grace, of New York, removed the Police Commissioners Tuesday, after a IriaMn which they were found guilty of failing to keep the streets clean. wi|h a 10-jfear-

Chicago, and remained to the alley all night A general strike of railroad hands is feared in New York and contiguous States. The operatives want an advance of from 10 to 15 per cent on present wages. At his wife’s request, a man in New York namqd Lantos sold his wife to. an acqualntaace named Jansen for sl. Mr. Lauten and Mrs. Jansen have both sued for divorce. In response to the invitation of the United States Government, the French Government has appointed a military commission to attend the Yorktown centennial celebration. That huge monopoly, the Standard Oil Company, has at last a competitor In the Buflfolo and Rock City Pipe Line Company, which commenced delivering oil Tuesday. In the case of McGrath and McK«vitt, the dynamite fiends, the Liverpool Jury found both persons guilty, and sentenced McGrath to penal servitude for life and McKevitt for fifteen years.

A majority of the stockholders of the .Etna Insurance Company, of New York, have petitioned the court to-ffis-Solve the corporation and divide the assets among the stockholders. The company ceased opeiations in 1879. 9Tne city officials ot Lerwick, Shetland Isles, North Britkin, have sent a circular to the Chicago municipal authorities asking aid for • the families of fifty-eight fishermen, ; lost in a storm which recently swept the Shetlands. A fight between Lieutenant Shaffer, of the Fort Bliss (Tex 4s) garrison, and Indians 100 miles northwest of El Paso, resulted in the killing by the enemy of Lieutenant Smith, four soldiers, and Mr. George * Daly, a celebrated ipining expert d mine owner For the Yorktown Centennial celebration a New Yorker has ordered a vase costing SI,OOO, to be presented to the best drilled battalion participating in the affair. The Pennsylvania Railroad have donated $5,000 to provide buildings for the convenience of visit ore.

The Becretacy of the Interior bas'ba I the felicity of bringing about a cordial interchange of fraternal relations between the Sioux aud Poncas. The former, with many kindly sentiments, are yielding the latter tribe a large slice of their reservation. Owing to the prejudice against American pork, and the scare of trichime’ there is a considerable falling off in trade in these products. In July of last year there was exported $1,078,136 worth of bacon, while during July of the present year there were only $3»633,559 worth. J . J Attorney General MhcVeagh decided that, although the law gave preference to ex-soldiers as candidates for government positions, the right for preference could not be observed until they had passed the same examination prescribed for other candidates in the civil service. j - • . 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 housesj 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. A letter has-been received at Washington from Captain Hooper, of the U. 8. steamer Corwin, sent into the Arctic seas iu search of the Jeanette, stating that he bad heard nothing of tnat vessel on the Siberian coast,) that lie had dicovered au island near Cape Serdze and bad victualled it for the winter, if he found that hehad to be out so long. Several great conflagrations occurred Wednesday. At Evansville, Ind., at 4 p. m., fire destroyed nine wholesale establishments,^involving a loss cf $200,000. At ’Harrisburg, Texas, the shops of the Galveston, Harrisburg and Bau Antonio Railroad were destroyed; loss, $200,000. Dangerfield, Texas, was nearly entirely destroyed; loss, $50,000.

Foreign. It is reported that a case of yellow fever has appeared at Key West which was not imported. J f , A Madrid dispatch announces the arrest of forty incendiaries in the Province of Madura, Spain. Twenty-seven persons were killed and 306 wounded al the bull fight of last Sunday at Marseilles. A St. Petersburg dispatch states that the Russian Government will ask the pxtraditlon-of Leo Hartman, the dynamist, from the United States. Parnell made a motion in the House of Commons for the release of Michael Davitt. waß defeated by a vote of

The Kilfiuane, County Limerick, branch of the Land League has, in spite of Parnell, heartily approved the laud bill. Another Hungarian loan jf 40,000,000 florins is tote placed on the market at 4 per cent. \by the Rothschild syndicate. \ The military authorities in Dublin have ordered flying detachments to proceed to different parts of .County Limerick to quiet anticipated riots. Of five persons arrested at Genoa for participating in the meeting for the abolition of Papal guarantees only two Were sentenced, and to very light terms of imprisonment.

Heavy rains in England and Ireland have done great damage to the crops. This is especially the case in Ireland, where wheat and potato crops have suffered extensively. The Central Land League at Dublin acknowledged £1,815 at the last meeting, and granted the Whelans, who were tried and acquited for the murder of farmer Boyd, £SO. Bangkok, the capital of Siam, is being ravaged by Asiatic cholera. From 100 to 300 natives are dying daily. The Europeans have mostly fled to Singapore and Hong Kong. It is stated, that Father Sheehy, Mr. Kettle, and six other persons arrested under the coercion act, will be released before the dissolution of Parliament. There will be no general amnesty. In the Frenfch elections so far the Republicans have been the principal gainers, the Bonapartists losing the most The socialist and revolutionary candidates received a mere handful of votes.

’ As a measure of precaution against the machinations of the Nihilists the Czar, who is residing at the palace of Czarsko selo, near St. Petersburg, Is paying more attention to the well-be-ing of his army. Since the Emperor of Gernpany has expressed bis dislike to the autlJewisb persecution, the authorities have made efforts to suppress further rioting. The pro-Jewish press Is triumphant ‘ ♦ Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, the well-

It to stated that he will form a new Irish party. The House of Loreto looks upon the Irish land biH as a very bitter dose, which it to compelled to accept ss an expediency. It Will be considerably amended by them, however, before it receives the royal signature. It is rumored that the Ultramontane tender* in Germany have been inr structed from the Vatican to support the Conservatives in the elections for the Reichstag in those districts where their oyn candidates’ chances tor electton are doubtful. Cardinal Jaoobini, on behalf of his Holiness Pope Leo XII., telegraphed Secretary Blaine the congratulations of the Pope on the President’s escape and prospect of recovery. In response, Mr. Blaine spoke of the unfavorable change, adding the hope that remained. A scheme has been proposed to the German Government to unite Alsace with Baden, and make the Grand Duke of Baden the first king. Lorraine to to be united a ith the province of Rhineland, and become a part of Prussia. Afghnlsatan dispatches fetate that the battle between the Ameer aud Ayood Khan lasted three hours, and that 300 or 400 men were killed on each side. Geperal Hume, in command o! the Anglo-Indian contingent at Quetta, had from 5,000 to 6,000 men with him. His nearest outpost was seventy-eight miles from Candahar. Geneva, Switzerland, dispatcher state that the SocialSts have written .the Federal Council a bulldozing tetter, threatening to blow up the half of Switzerland with dynamite, and start the fire there which bto -burn up the world. The threat la ou account of the Grand Council of Zurich forbidding the bolding of the Social Congress there in September. The w’orld’s harvests arc reported from Loudon as follows: France, a better crop than 1880; Great Britain, 10 per cent, blow the average; Austria and Hungary, good; Italy, good in quality, below the abundance ol last year; Turkish Danube Provinces, medium; Russia, barley and rye abundant; Germany, generally good; Prussia, fait ; Switzerland, small, but fine; Belgiu n, wheat below the average; Spain, bad; Holland, good; United States, under the average. <-