Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1881 — HERE AND THEBE. [ARTICLE]

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Guitkau was forty yean old on the oth task Washington is to have a “Garfield avenue.” . Guitbau is in absolute solitary confinement. . • Christiancy divoroe case Is again on deck. The hostile Apaches number 900 fighting men. Philadelphia Is threatened with epidemic small-pox. Postmaster General James Is a victim of hay fever. Lorillard’s Passiac has been scratched for the St. Leger. Senator Ben Hill is reported to e In a critical condition. All the Michigan forest fires have been extinguished by rain. lowa cheese has been awarded a gold medal at a fair in England. A short crop is causing a considerable rise la the price of tobacco.. The flow of the gold of Europe to thlsoouutry is steady and copious. It is stated that 40,000 Americans nave sailed for Europe this season. It is said that the President’s mother has aged very much since he wa« shot. The prospects of a heavy fall and winter business are everywhere most cheering. It is estimated that the cotton crop has been damaged to the extent of 35 per oeut • The Public School instruction of Cincinnati oosts, per year, $22,50 for each puplL Kbntvcky is credited with the election of two women to tho office ol County Clerk. 'j Last Wednesday was the hottest day experienced iu Philadelphia for flfby-seven years. It is charged that Mormon influence is responsible for the outbreak of the Apache Indians. 2 The political creed of English Radicals is stated as follows: “No crown, no lords, no church.” The Evangelist Sankey has gone to England, and his 00-laborer, Moody, expects soon to follow. A late di. patch reported the cattle in Ontario dying in largo numbers bn account of the drougth. The finding of the church court trying Rev. Dr. Thomas for heresy, at Chicago, is against him. The educational fund of Brooklyn, N. Y., lias been robbed of over $200,000 by dishonest officials. Vanderbilt has expended $4 .'OO,000, nearly a whole year’s income, on his new “palatial’’ resilience. IkiE Pennsylvania .Railway Company makes no charge for its service in removing the President to Long Branch. New Yobk wholesale dry goods merchants report the heaviest saies in their experience during the mouth of August. Several persons were seriously, if not fatally, injured at the recent reunion sham battle, at Bloomington. Illinois. j" The Detioit Free Pre*s man thinks that “early to bed and early to rise, Is good for the sleeper, but rough on the flies.” The cases of Sessions et al., at Albany, N. Y. t (indictments for bribery,) have been postponed until the next term of court * Two brothers near New Castle, raised and sold, this season, from two acres of ground, over S7OO worth ol watermelons. Col. “Bob” Inqersoll cleared $30,000 last season from his lectures. That would have paid for the labors of sixty tract distributors. The American race horse. Iroquois, hai won another great victory in England, takiDg the famous St. Leger stakes at Doncaster. Cattle raised in Oregon are now driven over tjie mountlans to Montana, and thence are shipped to Chicago “and a market” The "immediate cause of General Burnside’s death was an obstruction of the circulation through resulting from a spasm of the ventricles. The Republicans of Cincinnati have nominated Col. “Bob” Harlan, a colored man, as a candidate for Representative in the Legislature. The Pennsylvania Railroad contemplates a considerable reduction of passenger train time between New York, and Chicago and St Louis. An investigation shows that the private banks of New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Chicago, owe the Government $1,250,000 of revenue taxes. Gen. Pope„ puts the whole Indian question in a nut shell in his saying that “the band that feeds them, (the Indians), if iron-clad, can control them.”

Mr. William M. Evarts, late Secretary of State, has been compelled to pay $14,000 in arrears of taxes in New York City, which he has fought for five years. The New York police have closed the pool selling rooms in that city. Be ft remembered that pool-polling is contrary to law under tkD uvw code in this State. It Is said the President la very anxious to attend the Yorktown Centennial next month, and says: “I may be able to gd there yet.” Heaven grant that he may. r After months of experimenting, jiersons in New Orleans have succeeded In making butter out of cottsn seed oil, that will pass iu the maiketfor the best dairy article. A heavy tax upon the manufacture of pocket weapons is recommended as a proper safeguard against the deadly work of the ready revolver and its less conspicuous cogeuers. The people of Louisiana are just awakening to a realisation of the fact that they have more ftau .17,000,000

acres of tim tiered land In that State, that is vastly valuable and easily marketable. Senator Ben Hill has lost about ono-half of his tongue in two operations performed upon it for cancer, and it is yet feared that the disease is spreading and must soon terminate The tobacco crop of United States Senator, John S. Williams, of Kerftuck y, was sold In Cincinnati, the other day, for $21,419.06. There were 94 hogsheads of it, produced on 75 acres of land. The Indianapolis Sentinel says: “If the President gets well the credit is likely to be divided between medicine and prayer. If he should die the doctors will be permitted to take all the responsibility.” Australia is to be a competitor with America in the meat market of Englapd. A steamer last week reached Liverpool from Australia with 120 tons of fresh meat In excellent condition. An Item going the rounds says that the poison of a bee sling may b* forced out by pressing the barrel of a small key firmly for a minute over the wound. No wound or swelling will result.

The saving by Star Route reductions up to September 13th, is estimated by Postmaster General James to be $1,600,000. He expects to make the amount $2,000,000 by the first of January. 'A French Milliner has Invented an article called the “paralune.” Its use Is to ward off the rays of the moon from fair lunatics heretofore exposed, without protection, to that blighting influence. A destuctive typhoon has visited tho coast of China, near Shanghai. Over 200 vessels were driven ashore. Included in the losses is $3,000,000 worth of tea, stored for shipment, which was washed away. By a vote of thirty-tour to five, the Georgia Senate has passed an antiMormon bill which makes it a felony for any person, by persuasion or otherwise,'to attempt to mislead or influence others in the commission of the crime of bigamy or polygamy. Travelers visiting Glendale, Mo., the scene of the recent train robbery, report that the robbers captured a twobufhel coffee sack full of pocket book*, watches aud jewelry, and’that the valuables taken amounted to at least $30,000.

The London Truth says that Canada is an incumbrance upon the British government, and that Ontario, the only desirable part, is bound bv its position and business relations to become, in course of time, one of tho United Slutes. The twelfth annual convention of the Young Men’s Christian Association, ot this State, will be held at Richmond, commencing Thursday, September 22d, and closing on the following Saturday. A large attendance is expected. It appears that under the new code Justices of the Peace will not have authority to sentence offenders to imprisonment. They can only impose fire*, aud all cases in which the penally is imprisonment must go to the C it uit Court. Ik Dr. Bliss is correctly reported, he is of the opinion that the bullet by which tho President was wounded has become encysted, and that the passage made by the hall is closed and healed for about tbrto and a half inches from the location of the ball and within nine inches of the surface.

The inhabitants of Arizonia are organizing for self-defense against the hostile Indians, aud the government will provide them with arms. Governor Fremont is hastening back to his post, end will have an opportunity to again distinguish himself as a leader of meu. The twenty mile race between Miss Cooke and Mug Jewett at the Minneapolis, Minn., fair, was won by the former, who came out ahead by one hundred yards in 47:30. One of Miss Cooke’s horses, Emma Dixon, dropped dead just as she dismounted at the end of the sixteenth mile. A N i;w Orleans paper, which vigorously advocates the building' of cotton mills iu Louisiana, says “the little town of Fall River” made more meney in 1677 by the manufacture of 140,000 bales of Southern cotton than New Orleans made in the same year handling 1,300,000 bales. A few days ago in Virginia, a man rolled out of bis bed and was killed by 1 the fall. About the same time, at Lynn, Mass., G. A. Rogers fell 160 feet in a collapsed balloon, with “inconceivable velocity,” upon bis face In the sand, and is now busily engaged In telling how he felt while be was falling.

Tiie much talked of '‘meanest man” lives and does business in Boston. On the recent day of prayer for the President he closed his store for two hours in order that his employee might attend the prayer meetings, and then “docked” each one of them two hours for lost time. A woman is asking a Chicago court to divorce her from two husbands. One of the husbands deserted her, marrying another woman, and the wife thinking he was dead married again. Now she wants to be free from-him on account of his bad conduct, and the annulment of her last marriage because it'was not valid. Rev. Dr. Thomas, of Chicago, IIL, will recognize the authority of the church court that recently tried him for heresy to suspend him from the ministry until the General Conference which meets October sth, shall pass upon his ci<9. He still maintains the orthodoxy of his belief, and will not seek new any church connections with Unitarians or Universalisfs.

M. Leon Chotteau, the able French commercial savan who recently visited the large cities of the United States and addressed tbe Boards of Trade, has published communications to the French Minister of Foreigu Affairs and the various Chambers of Commerce inl'ratice demanding t4© repeal

of the law prohibiting the importation of American pork. A Washington special states that it is hinted by Commissioner Dudley that he has discovered a ling in the pension bureau that has made a large sum of money out of fraudulent pension claims. It is understood that the Commissioner is trying to induce a member of the ring to turn state’s evidence in order that bis accomplices may be discovered. Onb of the indications of the pros' perity of the country Is the extraordinary sales of publlo lauds during the last year and a half. Officials of the general land office say that the returns for. the fiscal year 1881, when completed and tabulated, will show that the sales of land during the year will exoeed the sales of any other in the annals of the government. Thb laws of Michigan regulate the retail liquor traffic. Recent enactments provide that liquor canuot be sold In any room where theatrical exhibitions are given, nor in any adjoining room, and it Is not lawful to keep a pool, billiard or card-table, or any game, in any room in the same building in wbioh liquors are 'sold. Saloons must dose at 0 o’clock p. m/, except where city ordinances permit them to remain open until 10 o’clock p. m. r

A recent enactment in Canada provides that the beastly cowards who commit violence of any kind on women shall be imprisoned, and shall receive an application of the cat-o-nine-tails every ten days. If the law made one further provision for the worst of these beasts, it would be perfect or Its kind. / The wretch Gulteau was terribly frightened by the Shot of Sergeant Mason last Sunday. When the attendents reached his cell after the shooting, he was found crouched in a oomer, uttering prayers for protection, and writhing about the floor In an agony of fear. The fright continued all day, and fears were intertained that hiß reason would give way. It was a punishment that nearly reached his deserts while it lasted. The church court that recently tried Rev, Dr. Thomas, of Chicago, for heresy, was composed of nine Methodist clergymen. It is now said that their vote stood on the charges as follows,: On the Thomas views of the atonement, four with Thomas ahd five against him; on hiß views of the inspiration of the Scriptures, three with him ami six against him; on his views on future punishment, one with him and eight against him. From this statement it appears that his heresies have obtained a considerable foothold in the church.

Mr. Ia M. Bates, a member of a prominent New York dry-goods firm, in a recent reportoriol interview, dwelt with much unction ou the growing prospects of the south. He stated that no merchants came to the New York market with so much ready money to purchase goods as those from the southern states. The majority of them have the cash to pay for their bills, ranging from $6,000 to $7,000. He gave as a reason for this that the south was recuperating from a long period of depression, tbad her magnificent re sourocs were being developed, and that large amounts of capital wero flowing in from the north for her products and to develop her industries. % The alleged heresy of Dr. Thomas consists in the fact that he holds and preaches that all the books of the Bible are not of equal authority upon the consciences of men; that the atonement was not the effect of a penalty executed upon Jesus Christ and that there may be justification and redemption after death. Dr. Adam Clark and John Wesley are quoted as holding the same view with Dr. Thomas on the first two points, and it is claimed that there is no article in tho Methodist creed that is contravened by the Thomas teaching on the last point. The district Conference will probably sustain the charge of heresy,but the General Conference will not dispose of the matter so easily.

CJen. « Ambrose E. Burnside, Utilted States Senator from Rhode Island, who died suddenly at Bristol, that State, on the morning of the 13th Inst, aged 57 years, was a native of Indiana. He woa a graduate of West Point and served wi(h distinction In the Mexican War. and the war of the rebellion, attaining the rank of Major General in the latter service. He was also distinguished In civil life, having held many important positions of rub--110 trust including that of Governor of Rhode Island. He had Just entered upon his second term as United States Senator. The story of his life may be summed up by. saying that he was a brave soldier, an honorable man and a true patriot

Judc/e McCrary, of the United States Circuit Court of the Missouri district, has given a decision of great importance to railroads and transportation companies as well as to the public. Ihe gist of it is that courts have the right to prevent transportation companies from discriminating in favor of or against any class of customers to the prejudice of others of the same class; that a railroad company is bound to carry freight for any ex press company, and that it must not discriminate against it in favor of itself or any other express company; and that courts may even go so far as to fix maxlnum rates which may be eharged by railroad companies for the transportation of express and other freight

Investigations make in Canada and Michigan show that the destructive forest fires generally start and spread in the branches and foliage of trees that are left on the ground by the lumberman. The resinous bougln of pine, hemlock; spruce, and fir, will, when dry, kindle with tbe touch of a spark, and ploduoea heat so intense as to give a fire a great headway. It will then dry the wood in living trees to such an extent that they will burn readily. After a forest fire has been raging for considerable time it heats tbe air that moves before it so that it prepares the trees through whioh it passes to feed the advancing flames. 4 fire owe under wijl gpner-

' ally continue in its course till an extensive clearing or a body of water is reached, In addition to a large area of forest and faitns, about thirty villages and smsSe** towns Were either partly or completely wiped out by the recent terrible forest fires in northeastern Michigan. It was one of the most appalling calamities that has ever occurred in thus country. The loss of human life is now estimated at about fiOO, and the loss of property is Immense. The flames were driven forward over many miles of territory by a terrific hurricane, and camre upon the inhabitants so suddenly and overwhelmingly, that escape was iu many instances impossible. Great distress is reported among thb survivors in the region of the calamity, and their appeals for relief should be promptly responded to by the charitable throughout the land.

The attention of General Neal Dow having been called to a statement that 604 persons have paid government special tax as retail liquor dealers in the city of Portland, Maine, he explains by saying that the 604 persons are all who have paid this tax in the whole State. “The law of Maine provides that the sale of liquor for medicinal and scientific purposes shall be placed in the hands of a , responsible agent, and every city and town in Maine is supposed to have such an agent, and all these agents and other persons selling, are required by the tJnited States law, to pay the special tax miscalled /license,’ consequently a large number of the above bo4 ‘licenses’ are issued to agents whose sales are legitimate.” Under this explanation, it is possible that prohibition does, practically, prohibit, in Maine.

The hostile Apaches of Arizona have commenced a general war against the whites. Reinforcements are going forward to strengthen the inadequate force of United States troops now in that region. For a distance of 100 miles along the Southern ‘Pacific Railroad there is ft reigh of terror. The inability of the President will probably prevent any decided change of the Indian policy, under the aggravation of this outbreak, but it seems to be an opportunity for vigorous treatment that should be pressed to the Uttermost. If the army Cotiki be reinforced by Indian fighting volunteers, and war waged upon these hostiles until they shall be exterminated or forever subdued, and all the Indians of the country taught a lesson they will never forget, the Government would only be doing it plain duty. The “peace policy” will be much more practicable after the savage fed devils have been convinced by a severity they can understand, that they must submit to a superior jx)wer, or be destroyed.

The subject of Sunday law and Sunday observance is receiving a thorough overhauling at Indianapolis, and a broad area of the bard-pan of common sense has been uncovered. In this hard-pan it is discovered, and generally conceded, that Sunday laws are, or should be at least, chiefly a police regulation, securing to man and beast a neceesaiy one day’s rest of seven; that this regulation is subject to the necessities of society, and hence the work needed to supply these necessities is, or should be, considered proper and lawful, while all labor or employment outside of the limits of these reasonable necessities is, or should be, unlawful. Under the law it is the province of the courts to define these necessities, but the average public sentiment will soon settle that matter, if the basis ®f public opinion is once firmly established. Keeping the idea in view that Sunday is to be as neariy as possible a day ot rest for everybody, there need be no great difficulty iu determining between the necessary and useless disturbance of the purpose and meaning of the day’s separateness from other days.

The Rev. Charles Rohe, pastor of the St. Paul’s German Lutheran Church of Detroit, is the object of a curious suit brought in the Wayne Circu.t Court by some of his parishioners. It grows out of his views on salvation. The Rev. Mr. Robe’s interpretation of the scheme of salvation is that God, from eternity, has predestinated those persons to eternal life of whom he foreknew that they, by the grace of the Holy Ghost, would believe in Jesus Christ, until their end. At a recent meeting of the Missouri Synod the scheme was interpreted to be that God, without respect to faith or unbelief, has from eternity predestinated certain persons unto faith aui salvation that they shall and must be *aved, as certainly as God is God, and besides him there is none other. The Rev. Mr. Rohe said that he could not not subscribe to any such interpretation, and told the Synod so. Five members of the Synod agreed with him, and they were all expelled from membership, and now twenty-two of the members of St. Paul’s want the Rev. Mr. Rohe to resign, and the refining ninety want him to stay. As lavishes to . stay, the twenty-two have brought suit to compel him to go. If the suit that will follow soon is the means of deciding just what is the correct interpretation of the true scheme of salvation, the Rev. Mr. Rohe will not have lived in vain, but then again, it is not probable that the decision of the Wayne Circuit Court will be accepted by the doubting aud inquiring world as a final authority on such a subject. It is a knotty question for the court to tackle, and if there is not a decision that will be satisfactory, there is a fair prospect of a naughty row among the contending hretbren-