Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1881 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

Home Items. <T.*V! Gold is flowing into this country from Europe, in a large and 7 steady stream. At Chariston, 8. C., an easterly gale Sunday, caused a loss of >140,000 and several lives.

. Guiteau, the assassin, want* to'marry a Christian lady of wealth and aristocratic family. . a • Last month was the hottest August for- ten years, and had the smallest rain fall for the decade. At MorseviUe, UL, a valuable dis-1 covery of lead ore lias been found near j the mines of Booth by A Co; Durin^he storm at- ChariestomfiLJ C-ffienfKftbipeand buoys weFtTOTWfj eUiiftiip from their moorinaa... J

which is being rained by the drought. a -cun states Georgia. ‘has new In o^er-v mills, rspraeeoling an Investment of $5,000,000. v Paring the month of August over £2,000,000 worth of foreign gold coin wae turned into bullion at the United States Aseay Office. 71 *

Daring the past fiacal year $135,ttMOft were eoUeoted by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and Daid Into the Treasury. The National Board of Health reports two hundred and twenty-five caeca. of yellow, fever in Havana. , Twenty-aix eases proved fatal last week. It Is believed that the late George W. Briggs, the Washington Banlta’, lefts large sum of moneys perhaps to found a charitable lnstiGeneral Grant declined to acodjktiie reception tendered him by the citizens

itmsesft field. ■ •'* h*>ki fcjftiiu) J- ‘ml : giape Sugar mainriaotaring'ooik-j pauy has been incorporated in N^fv Moinee, lowa, tsl . , A farmer named , residing at ilthaoa, Mich., committed suicide Sunday, by shooting himself and allowing his body to ftdl into a pile of brush. Whisky caused it. tJ ...* r ji; v A family often persons living near Texas, were poisoned by eating oooken peaches containing arsenic. little nope .is entertained the recovery of any of the victims. In the case of McGrath and McKe-t vitt, the dynamite fiends, the Liverpool jery. foodd both ’pksens gnlity, and sentenced McGrath to penal servitude for life and McKevitt for fifteen yeats. > • ;;

In the Cramer trial at New Haven, Conn., a witness deposed that he raw Jennie Cramer and James Malley together at 7:45 on Friday evening, which demolishes Malley’s claim to an alibi, f, The city c/Plano, Texas, has been entirely destroyed by fire. Inside of two hoars every business bouse was destroyed, excepting a saloon and lumber yard. Total loss, $100,000:. insurance, $20,000. John C. Neil, a Chicago insane man, started out from a lodging house at 1 o’clock Friday mornings and shot fiv*e men, one at least fatalij, and then was shot himself by a policeman. SPThe city officials ot Lerwick, Shetland Isles, Noith Britain, have sent a circular to the Chicago municipal authoritiee asking aid for the families of, fifty-eight fishermen, lost in a storm whioh recently swept the Sbetlands.

Within the pastfew.days a remarka ble revival has commence in the quarter of Chicago which is largely occupied by of ill-fame. Miunie Brooks, for yeart the' proprietress of one of these houses, has been converted, and has abandoned a >)ife of vice. A* her house prayer meeting are being held for falleu womeu,.which are already meeting with good result^. Savannah, Ga., was visited on Saturday evening by a terrible tornado, which caused wholesale, destruction, unroofing houses, blowing some over, .tearing up trees, ete.j.Thirty-five l per- > sons were killed. The damage to' property Is estimated at si;o6o,fr'< ' ; One of the largest ’fires" which Tiai ever occurred- at The Chicag o Stock 1 Yards, Friday evening, and raged lor several hours. of J7c, fiaßy,. fhicb u was entirely consumed. -*Tbe. entire loss Will exceed $750,000, the Insurance being about 30 peroent.

A Dubuque (Iowa) special states that Miss McMahon, living at Monastery, joined the Convent.of the-Bisters of St. Joseph, and in a few days became in sane and was taken to the Asylum. Her mother, hearing toe bad news, also became insane. On Monday last the mother died and toe daughter’s death occurred on Tuesday. <* The Wabash railroad oompany ts being sued by-Che . Magi 11 Bros., of Clinton, 111., for-damages to a large shipment of wool which was caught during the Abode at Toledo. 1 The company refuse payment on -the ground that tße flood was the aot of God, and they are therefore not Iteepousible. Many other ckses, amounting to near $1,000,000, will depend on the decision in this case. - -i '

Foreign* The English oorn fields are flooded again, and there is no hope for the harvest Pere Hyaclnthe (Father Loyson), the French reformed priest, will visit the United States in the spring. In the neighborhood of Kingston, OnL, many farmers have been driven from their homes by bush fires. Count Jourdeuil, a member of an old French noble family, has been arrested in Vienna for stealing a carriage and team of horses at Spa. . Th%forest fires in Algeria continue, and now cover a large tract of country. It is said thatjmany of the natives, have been burned to death in the province of Constantine.

The Parisians have a sensation. M. Felix, the President of the Union Fianciere Bank, has fled the oity suddenly with the contents of the strong box —£loo,ooo. . The Irish electors of Berwick-upon-Tweed, Durham, and Sunderland have agreed to follow Parnell's advice and vote against the Liberal candidate for Parliament. The steamship Teuton was wrecked near Cape Town, south coast of ArrJoa. She had on board 227 passengers, of whom only twenty-eeven were saved in two boats.

Empbror William, of Germany, was on horseback three hoars Wednesday at Berlin during the annnal inspection of the army. He has quite recovered his illness. A Bombay dispatch from Caqahar reports that the Ameer is rapidly advancing oq Ayoob Khan, who hM only seven Weak regiments to opDose his now powerful foe. Gambetta attended the lecture of Bert, who violently attached the Cfcthspokeln praise of the This considered sign iff cent. The Moasian Government has promised ta : give every assistance to the protected:,scientific expedition to the Tefeke Oasis, in Central Asia. The correspondent itfhta ttflst ~‘St>cb expeditions have generally prooeded annexation. At Montreal, Me., McKinnon, Chiefm He threw ‘ *' hmrf Hammer 96

uJ. la fert Marquis de Rocbambeau, accompanied by the Marqolae, will leave Havre, France, Jor America, rathe Fren< M*‘T, to the JlykMwn OentenniEtCAhrifd'm ' ,0 t. _ Jlhpaderakirms. acdompaaletisdiym. deluge of rain, completed the disaster to the British harvests on !Tharaday and Sunday. Wheat in mow parts of England is badly mildewed from long? cotftlnued rains. as Bishop of Treves has been indorsed "byriss imperial Government,' r The London Times, deploring the probable failure of the harvests in England on account of the oontinuapoe of the rains, says the loss will be reckoned by millions, and wifi* prove abeplute ruin for many of thy. farmers. Japanese advioes of recent date r»i port the success of the’Corea Mission, the birth aUk prinbeUVto the the extension oMhe mlroad and street PartreTT and ■ Dnioh 'and the Ladd Heaguerir genecaily are bitterly oppos-

xette (a leading London Liberal organ)' charges that the polity of the agitators is dictated by the necessity. /of A,meri<?an money. v t ‘ Afghnit-atan dispatches ‘state . that the blttfe 7 between the AyoOd Kbah lasted three hours, and tlyat 800 or '4OO men' killed .on each side. .General Hume, in command bf the Anglo-Indian contingent -at Quetta, had from 5,000 to. 6,000 men with him. His nearest oqtpost was seventy-eight miles from Candahkr, The Irish pßoplfe 'hre apparently growing disgusted with Partiell’s opposition to a government which has done so much for them. At Ballymena the Tenant Right Association passed a resolution declaring the attempt to'run a Land League candidate in place of Dickson, the government candidate, to be unwise ana Impolitic. A‘“memoir” of the actual condition of Russia has been published, by 4wo prominent friends of the Czar. The memoir acknowledges the provenh sad condition p( affairs, and advocates a popular administration ot some kind. It is supposed to be published with, a view of showing what the Czar might do if the Nihilists would give him a chance.