Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1881 — HERE AND THERE. [ARTICLE]

HERE AND THERE.

Now come frosts in Scotland injur* pg the crops. Jeff Davis is in England ‘ enjoying” poor health. DaAsmoos fires’ are raging in the pine forests of Michigan. * Kansas trumps the drought with a corn crop of 100,000,000 bushels. A bushing fall trade is reported from al| the large cities of the country. The high price of wheat in St* Louis has drawn shipments from Toledo. . Wednesday wai the hottest day of the season at Boston, Massachusetts. MudiTTudes of squirrels are overrun nin g Arkansas, causing large losses to planters. The State of Michigan supplies about two-thirds of the salt produced in this country. < Cholera has appeared at the port of Aden, Arabia. Out of thirty«seven cases thirty proved fatal. A bicycue race for a puree of SIOO will be a feature at the State Fair, oij, Wednesday of Fair week.

The trunk-line railroad war and its slaughter are discouraging to the antimonopoly movement There are politicians who think that Senator David Davis is looming as a possible President of the Senate. It is stated that Commissioner Dudley estimates that $88,000,000 will be required to pay pensions next year. The Masonic lodges of Spain are ottering assistance to the Jewish refugees from Russia who will settle in Spain. z .The total amount of reduction by the discontinuance of the Star route mall service March 19th is sl,470,779. The Ohio river has been lower this season titan it ever was before since its rise and fall has been observed and noted. Lt is estiulated that the hog crop of thia year is twenty-five per cent, below the average in number and condition. , In the vintage of Hastings, Mich., with a population of 2,000, one hundred and fifty cases of virulent diphtheria are reported. • The losses- by-'fire in the United . States, during theseven montbs'ending August plst, suggest an estimated loss of $60,000,000 for the year 1881. The study of grammar has been discontinued in the public schools of Cincinnati, and elementary lessons in the best English substituted therefor.

Harry and James Garfield, sons of he President, left the "White House, op Monday evening, for Williams College, where they will resume,their studies. - The work of improving the Wabash river, under the supervision of Major Smith, V. A., Jias been commenced and wull extend from Terre Haute to Vincennes. y The trunk line railroad passenger ■ war has broken' out again at Cnicago, with tremendous fury, and tickets to New York aud. Boston are selling at five dollars? In Albany, New York, during the last twenty-five years, while the population lias increased 39 per cent., the consumption of op|um has inerwased 900 per cent. Indian raids continue to be reported in Southern Colorado, New Mexico and Nor them and United States troops and armed citizens are pursuing the spoilers. Mr. Vernor "missed his guess” on twenty-seven of the thirty-one days of the “long month of August,” and has probably retired from the weather prophet business. - A silver service valued at S7OO has been* presented to D. W. Caldwell, General Manager of the Pennsylvania leased railroad lines, by citizens of Colymbus, Ohio. Beer brewing appears to be considered a noble calling in England, as Mr. Gladstone has recently selected a wealthy London brewer as a new “Peer, of the realm?’

Workmen are engaged in putting down extra tracks on the Pennsylvania Railroad, with a view to making ,it ultimately a four track line from Pittsburg to New York. » The alleged Nihilist, Hartmann, who is attracting so much attention Is this country, is pronounced a fraud h|* Russian authoritv. Mrs. . 'Lincoln is recovering her health, and expects to spend the winter at Washington with her son, Secretary Robert T. Lincoln. Three of the Presidents physicians, Dr*. Heyburn, Barnes and Woodward, have, at bis request, retired from atteodauce upon him, leaving Dre. Bliss, Hamilton and Agnew, in charge of the eaanu * The saloons were all closed at Indiaoapoite last Sunday, while the streets were eumparatirely deserted and the ehurdM* were unusually well attended. lite an />peti question whether tMs ndurui has >um« to stay ■or > IM'him o the last fifteen years county and etty indebtednew* have increased la this country over a fl,ixjo,(XX),ooo, or nearly W per cent, of the national debt. The necessity of a period of retrenchment and economy is loudly suggested by these figures. The foreign trade of this country loathe fiscal year ending June 30, TBBI, amounted to the tremendous sum total of >902,377,346. On the other band we imported from foreign countries merchandise and bullion amountAng4o fiOKWlOfl tbs assets of the life la*

New York State have nearly doubled, increasing from $211,849,116 to $417,797,554, or 97jjfr whilj their plus has inoreased ahMt 8-5 per cent., or from $58,585,825 t$ $71,561,670. , The distance from Washington Long Branch by the short route taken by the Presidential railroad train, is 228 miles. The trip was made in precisely 389 minutes—that is, in six hours and twenty-nine minutes, or at the rate of a mile in one minute and fortythree seconds. B*VttAL thousands of the good people 'of Birmingham, Alabama, were amused and edified, the other day, by witnessing a fight between two bulldogs ajjd a wild cat. The cat blinded both the dogs, and was declared the victor, after, a savage battle lasting twenty minutes. Shortly after bis election last fall, Geu. Garfield wrote to a friend saying: “I believe all my friends are more gratified in the personal part of my triumph than I am, and although I am proud of the noble support I have received, and the vindication it gives me against my assailants, yet there is a tone of sadness running through the triumph that I can hardly explain.” The latest dodge in avoidance of the prohibitory liquor law in Kansas, is the authorization by the City Councils of Topeka and other cities of the issue of city licenses for the sale of “soda, mineral water, and other drinks.” The effect of this action is to free the" liquor seller from the interference of the police, and to throw- the burden of the enforcement of the State law upon the prohibitioadsts. • •

Embezzlements by officials of secret societies are not very numerous, but in too many instances, probably, they are hushed up and condoned. Sometimes, however, a sterner course is pursued, as at Seymour, this State, a few days ago, George Pomeroy was arrested on a charge of embezzlement rom Beharrel 'Encampment, L O. O. F., and held to bail in the sum of S3OO. Pomeroy was Secretary of the Encampment, and of Lincoln Lodge. The pecuiarities of legislation in Maine are illustrated by the laws bearing upon the subject of surgical dissection. la that State no medical student can be graduated unlees he has had regular practice in a dissecting room, and no bodies can be lawfully dissected except those of criminals which have been executed; and capital punishment has been abolished. Hence, if the law is obeyed, the law must be violated.

The banks all over the United States now refuse to receive Canadian silver fractional currency except at a heavy discount. It is stated that in New York this discount amounts to 5 cents from off the face value of each of the pieces, from the 20-cent piece upward, while the 10-cent piece and the 5-cent piece are received for only 7 and 3 cents respectively. The discount is put on on the principle of “tit for tat,” the Canadians .having discounted American silver. The New York Sun describee a “sublime , spectacle” showing th sanctity of human life, and the equality aud fairness of our institutions as follows: “There is no other man in America so universally despised, so universally abhorred, as Charles J. Guiteau. He is imprisoned for shooting down the .Executive Head of the government. And yet in such sacred regard is human life held in this country that the army and the navy are already put in requisition to protect the life of this execrated miscreant,and to secure to him a fair and impartial trial. Verily," the equality and fairness of our institutions are.not an idle and empty boast, but an invaluable reality.”

It is noted (hat of late the rush of British capital into all descriptions of American investments has been immense. These are principally railways, banking, insurance, and commercial business. But now there are unmistakable indications of a movement among the higher middle class in England that point to the settlement ot regularly organized British communities in the Western and Southern States. Tennessee, Virginia and Colorado, are just now the favorites. But the movement ter spreading to Kansas, the Carolinas, and even to Louisiana and Texas. Large amounts of British capital are being vested in lands in the United States oq bond and mortgage. Evidently the English people have had enough of Egyptian, Turkish and Peruvian bonds,and have made up their minds to plant their feet upon the solid earth and among civilized people.

A strange incident of our times and the of the opposition to anity among some who claim to be men of thought and culture, is noted in the fact that X morions have gone to Ceylon, in the East Indies, in order to teach and preach Buddhism. It Is claimed that the schools of these teachers have great success, and that they openly oppose the spread of Christi* anity. Many of the wealthy natives are repoi ted to be contributing liberally to the support of the enterprise. There are already in the new schools on the island over 600 pupils who have been taken from Christian missionary institutions. In the meantime, Mahommedanism is grasping at Africa with renewed fknatlc zeal; while in Asia that old religion which has for ages dominated the hearts of hundreds of thousands ’of millions is a second time preparing to grapple with the faith of Europe. These are curious signs and portents of the times.

A popular theme is very justly and Judiciously commented upon by the New York Hun as follows: “It may well be a source of national pride that all which is Justly said of the self-sacri-fice and of the thoughtful and tender devotion of Mrs. Garfield to her husband during his long and distressing illness, might be aaidwlth equal Justice of almost every American wife under similar circumstances. Indeed, nothing leas is expected of American women ; and though they attract little or no attention, such instances of wifely care and watchful affection are of constant occurrence, in the palatial houses of the rich and in the humbier dwellings of the poor and lowly ;so that when Mrs. Garfield is praised, the high pvooooneed upon her belong

not to her alone, but are tributes to the character, the disinterestedness, and the of American, in general. Indeed, so much is the exercise of alßthffiK wpmanly virtues looked public would be greatly shocked at the manifestation of any lack of them in a case where the sufferings of a husband have been so terrible and prolonged. Many a common laborer, living from hand to mouth on his daily earnings, possesses the priceless treasure of a wife just eadevoted; while it is fortunato. that the conspicuous example of a President’s wife has brought these common hut high qualities of American women so prominently before the world.”