Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1881 — HERE AND THERE. [ARTICLE]

HERE AND THERE.

**fti weather scientists predict « i «)uJM winter. ■ ■_■ ' • Th» aUr route prosecutions will prot£ftbljNbe toe next sensation. -•> » Thxki axe about 4,000,000 bcahels -3>f Wheat In store at Draoro the month of Angmt the National debt waa decreased 9*4 - 181,2 a. Th« lsrgeei Florida watermelon reported this season weighed fiftynine pounds. , OpEES Victoria la neatly as riot as Vanderbilt, having a fortune estimated > muse, ooo,ooo. IJIS&F ® c P® ct< ? d toas et leak 60,000 .KaaonawlU attend the Yorktown OentleunJal celebration. •j* Th» white people in Alaskaltre^gi. • tottog the question of Territorial, rdlrj Congress. hog cholera le addthe season’s misfortunes to farmJJ* «** I? some portions of lowa. A shortage of 600,000 bales in the ewttonorop of this year, aslcompared with the crop of 1880, is predicted. -'*• Twknty-thrbb members of the • British House Of Lords havfe reached ■ *g% of four-score years or more. - Am, reports agree that recent heavy rainstorms In England have nearly destrpyed the grain crops in that ooun-

IjJSTHrr repons show that over 100 lives—were lost in the recent great ' storm In and about Savannah, Georgia. , coppßED' preacher In Kentucky arinoundefe that he will pray for any desired object on receipt of Iseventyflve cents. Dihthebia prevails to an alarming extent at Dauville r 111., attacking young and old, and many persons are leaving the city. Thus far during the present year the aggregate amount of new railway stocks and bonds issued lu this country is $870,030,100. Ex-6 xnatok.Thomas C. Platt has gone into the grape sugar business in an Incorporated oompany with a capital of one million dollars.

Out of twenty-five homicides now confined in the jail at Bt Louis, all kit three became through the habit of going armed. The Police Board of Indianapolis tfaa inaugurated a movement for the better enforcement of law, especially theiaw against selling liquor on Sun--aa*. J Tub 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. Luke Francis’s barn, on Rolling L * iX>rte 0011111 7» falP of grain, •Unnas,aad implements, was burned by an unknown incendiary. Lose, $2,500: insuiauce. - , 1 ’ » Ardrew CtARK, physician to •rfißlarfest hospital in England, Says tjbat seven-tenths of the diseases lall*J°® under bis care are produced by rwlcebolic drinks. ' M w York-physicians recently declared that a babv nursed by Its mother, who had been arrest- . under the stupefying influence of whisky.

* Jt is estimated that thefcimmigrants arriving in this country, during the last fiscal year, brpught with them ■a • MwWIMn cash; besides the brain tepd Isasde of 368,000 persons. k fex‘-GrOVKRNO» WaKSOITH, of Lo*-* «4Bte«a, says that the sugar crop" of that; WJ abort this year at least 1 fffe-haif of the usual average. Thei unfavorable weather last, wintflPis the! of the failure. \ wisely said w one who has a experience in the matter, that] i those - -merchants who do not allow Htoslr customers to forget them in the “dull season,” get the earliest and -jhjgflit trade when the "rurh’^Somes. debts of Archbishop Porcell to about >4,000,000, and there ty dot of which payment most come, it abaLi, consists of churches, parsoneges,- school hoosee, hospitals, etc. j Yhb Eight Reverend Joeeph C. Taltjptt, Episcopalian Bishop of the Diodwe of Indiana, is lying dangerously P ah Indianapolis, from the effects of fjraralytio stroke. This Is his third attack, and a fatal result is feared.

.A Tmak. disgusted with the silly demagogue be Governed of his State, writes as follows: ; - Dallas, Aag. 19,1881. xXab Qvitkaui Come dowu and kill our Governor. Texas Bill. Onb of the wonders of this wonderladen year was a recent shower of Winged-black ants at Winnepeg, Mantot*. i They came in great clowds that abscured the light, and during the night myriads of them dropped to the earth covering it for miles around, at some places to the depth of an inch. *4*is estimated that the actual cash outhyr during the years 1881 and 1832 ft* ridlrond and telegraph construction will reach the enormous figures of nearly f4f10.500.000. Of this amount abautfß76,ooo f *o is for the railroads built and the remainder lor telegraphs. lx Wytof that on last Sunday the Aesidentawoke from a troubled sleep end Mid: “I dreamed that I was dead, and the doctors were dissecting

dae.” The account further represents that the dream cast him down greatly, and he did not recover from its effects fa* aoonsideTahl* tune—all of which may ije true, and then again it may UHtof-nto near Wood river, in Mon- j tana, Era mountain peak, Over 11,000 fedf high, upon which a monument Wf|J|ftsted a law days siHoe bearing iijUCTtpriwn: “This mountain is

honor of our beloved Pspsident, and because of hopeful nefrs'W his reoovery received here this day. It is said that although France has the general reputation qf beings a vefT; Immoral coukfit, yet a, marriagekin-j der the Fw»ch lawr cannot be.wn-i nailed: I BFiUekandjkm the dontrkrjv; is credited with aU the virtues, and yet in that oountry, as well as in Belgium, divorces are permitted by mutual consent, but It should be remembered In bo*h eases that appearances are often deoeitful.

They.have a summary wax -Of disposing of troublesome revolutionary conspirators in San Domingo. On July 29 three revnlnttaury Gepeeals and three other revolutionary officers' were discovered and arrested, Kid on the next day * pAflHy shot, notwithstanding the efforts of the diplomatfe representaHves of other countries, and of the priesthood to save -them. Three days ol*tet> right others of the same gang, asdt: a like ikte. : iUuomv PiltfcANlW* of, generosity, embodied in the expression b big hearted,’* ‘is ‘flatly oontradicted by a current statfeaaent that in the offloe of a well-known phyah clan in Pittsburg/is preserved smallest hedrt that brat in a hu* man breast, so far as the records show.” The organ is less than onefourth the average size, and, strangely enough, it belonged to otae of the “biggest hearted” men in the West. He was whole-souled, generods, sympapathetic, gentle and brave as a lion. i

The gushers and gabblers whq ere trying to make a tragedy q«e»nV>f Mrs. Garfield, are dolDg her great Injustice. She is a brave, noble woman, who acts naturally and speaks discreetly, and is an ornament to her sex, which, if the occasion was presented, oould produce thousands and tens of thousands just like her, and it is little lees than slanderous to pose her in dramatic heroics that, in these matter-of-fact days, would be criticised if presented on the stage.

#TppRE’B food for sober reflection on the part of those who are aocused in the following from the London Truth: “No man attacks the reputation of a youth as women attack that of a girl. The man who should come Into his club and whisper about damniDg stories of his friend’s young eon, who should accuse him’ of dishonorable doings, such as would ruin the lad’s character as thoroughly as (he charge of immodesty, flirting wilh married men, aDd the like ruin that of a girl, would soon have the room, to himself. But women over the tea table gather up the crumbs of scandal with relish and appreciation, and even the mothers of girls are not ashamed to believe and repeat stories against their dear friends’ daughters which may have no foundation in fact, and which even if true, they have uo means of proving and testing.”

The recently appointed Cattle Commissioners on the part of the Treasury Department have issued a circular to Governors of States and Territories west of the Alleghanies, warning them of the danger there is in the purchasing oif dairy calves from the east in distriofcHfiltefcd with pi eoro-pfieu moil £a, apd scattering them throughout the w«l,‘ which Baa heretofore been soj free of the contagious ‘ diseases:* The; districts known to be infected with: the roourgqembrace pretty - - much the whole of the country-befdering on the coast from New York city southward to Washington City, and extending to a greater or leas distance inland. The danger that the great cattle fields of the west may be infected by this growing importation of dairy calves from the east is a perilous one, and it is recommended that the traffic should be discouraged and prohibited. “Whatever Is Is right” Even the drought, so much complained of by the unthinking, had its oompensatlpna. shown by ail agricultural authority ai> follows: “During the diy, hotwe^i her of summer' at)■immense amount of moisture is pitied frpnp the soil by evaporation;ks'tne draft la made from the surface, the"deficiency in some degree is made up front tie depths of the soil below, by the process of capillary attraction, just as water will rise from the lower point of ajjiece of moistened sponge, when heTd in contact with water—or by a more apt illustration, as a piece of sugar will drink up a body of water when placed In contact with it. This supply of the draft of moisture made from above is continued from the depths below so long a* the earth remains in the condition favorable to this upward circulation of the moisture that has been stored up from previous rains, and that will be so long as the drought

continues. With this continued rise of the moisture from below there is a corresponding proportion of the inorganic, or mineral constituents of plants, brought up in eolation with it; and thiA left within the reach' of the roots of the present or future crops. / “Numerous experiments have been made by scientific cultivators, which have afforded abundant proof that the moisture which rises from the earth below, caused by the evaporation from the Burface, brings with it, in eolation, lime in its various forms—magnesia, potash, soda, and whatever the subsoil may contain of this kind. This is a wonderful and wise provision of nature for maintaining in the soil all those essential ingredients for growing crops—a provision not always considered by tne complaining farmer.”