Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1881 — HERE AND THERE. [ARTICLE]

HERE AND THERE.

Florida oranges are ripe. The Ohio wheat crop is 32,500,000 bushels. Show fell in New England on Wed;' needay morning. Thebe’s a coolness again 'between Prussia and the Vatican. The government ‘ has not fixed a price on mutilated coin. Ah unprecedented demand for the “Daddy” dollar prevails., Fruit was frozen on the trees in Vermont, last Wednesday. The captors of the Arkansas train robbers get $16,500 reward. It Is said that New Orleans has six women to every five men. The White House at Washington is infested by myriads of roaches.

The estimated number of deaths of 1881, In New York city, is 38,000. Atlanta, Georgia, has a population of 37,400, and is growing rapidly. It is said that no one ventures to talk politics to President Arthur. Boston leads all other cities In contributions to the Michigan sufferers. ‘ The Southwestern roads in the Jay Gould system are to pe consolidated. The President of the Senate,:pro tempore, gets a salary of SIO,OOO a'year. The bail of the Star routers was fixed at amounts ranging from $7,500 to $4,000. Vanderbilt is about to get control of the Lake Erie and Western Railroad. , : • * Gold-bearing quartz, it is claimed, lias been discovered near Leavenworth Kansas. - - The taxable railroad property of Illinois is assessed at tne sum of $51,$17,038. The “unkindeet cut” of the drougth falls upon Bostonians. The bean crop s very short. In the splendid city of Pari-), Fiance, nearly every tenth person is a confirmed pauper. . ' - Tiie next Methodist Ecumenical Conference is to be held in the United States in 1887, 1

Hon. Charles P. 'Thompson is the Democratic nominee for Governor of Massachusetts. * The tobacco and cotton crops of the South are reported seriously damaged by recent frosts. % Tiie Mrs. Garfield fund baa reached the sum of $335,000; the Mothet Garfield fund, SO,OOO. „ Nearly six million dollars worth of petroleum was exported from this country in August. It is said that thq widow of Marshall O. Roberta is the prospective bride of the President. The average daily reduction of the public debt during the current fiscal year has been $450,000. The planets Jupiter, Mars and Batura and the star Sirius now glorify the heavens at midnight. • 3 Barnum’B "fat woman” died at Danville, this State, Sunday evening. She weighed near 800 pounds.

The Republican candidate for Governor of Wisconsin, General Rusk, began life as a stage driver. It is generally estimated that the oust of living this year is full 30 per oent. greater than last year. The Mexican government has contracted 4o pay $9,000,000 for draining the city and valley of Mexico. In September there were 36,376 arrivals of Immigrants in New York against 26,M2 in September 1880. Tub yield of wheat, oate and barley In Canada are reported to be much above the average of past years. Dotting the last six months fifty-two new National Ranks have? been organised in various States of the union. The total receipts of the State Fair last week were nearly SSI ,000, while the expenses will not be over $9,000. The Pope again threatens to leave Rome in order to protect the dignity and independence of his holy office. The rice crops of this country have doubled in fen years. This year it promises a yield of 150,000,000 bushels. .Capt. Howoate has returned to Washington, and was re-arrested on an additional charge of embezzlement.

Pope Leo approves the resolutions of the Irish Bishops, at Maynooth, expressing satisfaction with the land bill. Marvin, the bigamist and forger, was sentenced to the penitentiary for ten years, at Richmond, Va., Wednesday. Gen. Grant says be expects to go all the way by rail from New York to the city of Mexico In less than two yean. Two Latter I>*y Paints were egged at (Green Hill, Ohio, the other day for speaking disparagingly of President Garfield. * It Is reported that Hon. John W. Foster, Minister bo Russia, who is now hi Washington, has tender«d his ret'gnation. Indiana is "wall fixed" financially. On the JOth of Heptember she had a cash,balance in her treasury of $877,34L SI. It la expected that the embargo upon the Importation of American pork will soon be removed by the government of France, . Tmn Garfield funeral drapery need la New York Is being collected and arid for the benefit of the Michigan mfleretß. _ The Importation* of American cotton into China were 11,290,311 pieces In the fiscal yenr. 1860 against 9,452,476 pieces in 1878-9.

’• It is said that about 200 Western Postmasters are involved tn the guilt of the Star Route fraud?, and will be dealt with accordingly. The Atlanta Cotton Exposition was opened on Wednesday with an address by Senator Voorheee that was worthy of the great occasion. The ravages of “pink-eye” among horses attracts a great deal more attention Just now than the devastation of “red-eye” among men.

A flourino mill with a capacity of 5,000 barrels per day is to be erected forthwith at 8t Louis. It will be the largest of its kind in the world. A grand truth was uttered by Garfield when he said: “Statesmanship consists rather In removing causes than in punishing or evading results.” The Grand Master of the Masonic fraternity in this State, has issued an appeal to Masons and their Lodges in behalf of the Micblgan sufferers. The “boy preacher” (thirty years old,) Rev. Thomas Harrison, claims, it is said, one thousand converts as the result of his week’s labor in Chicago. The three young desjjeradoes who recently robbed a railway train and its passengers In Arkansas, have been in that State, and are now in

Less than half the children of school age in Cincinnati attend schools of any kind. Forty-eight thousand of them get no school influence or train; 4ng. • I The Inter-Ocean suggests that when the Territory of Dakota is cut it two, as it probably will be, one-half should be called Lincoln and the other half Garfield. * The Land League agitation is to be resumed with increased fury and biterae«B.“Whatever is is wrotfg”appears to be the watchword dC_t£ie leaders of this movement. It is mentioned as a curious coincidence that there were Just three hundred and twenty-nine days between the day of President Garfield’s election and his borial at Cleveland. Ex-Governor Moses, of South Carolina, was locked up in a New York police station, Monday evening, on a charge of swindling a hotel keeper out of twenty-five dollars. A merchant in South America was recently assassinated by dynamite placed in the lock of his store door. When the unfortunate man turned the key he was blown to atoms. Nelson W. Aldrich, member of the House of Congress, from Rhode Island, has been promoted to the United States Senate. His district gives about 5,000 Republican majority.

Attorney General Baldwin decides that the office of Master Commissioner is a lucrative one, and therefore debars its iucumDent from holding auy other office of trust or profit. The fatality of the horse disease, “Pink Eye,” is increasing in Chicago, and horse men are seriously alarmed. Its attacks are frequently followed by lockjaw, and are becoming very obstinate. According tb President Garrett, of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the great trunk lines of the country lost over $2,000,000 during the months of July and August through rate-cut: tings. ' The Kingston (N. Y.) Freeman is authority for the statement that President Arthur proposes to give the whole of the first year’s salary of his office to Mrs. Garfield. Gossip Says that President Arthur is. engaged to be married to a wealthy New York widow, and the probability is that'the country, for the first time in its history, will witness a Presidential -wedding. *

The President died in the anniversary of the battle of Chicamauga, a x>ntest in which he tendered glorious service to his country. The coinci denoe, to say the least of It, is .very striking and ‘suggestive. A Missouri court has turned over a new leaf in that state -by sentencing one of her train robbers to a term of twenty-five years imprisonment. A sufficiency of that sort of medicine will cure the train robbing evil. A company is forming with a capital of £3,000,000, under the auspices of member of theSßritish royal family, for the purpose of purchasing wastelands in Ireland, to be reclaimed and let or sold to tenants on easy terms. The elopement of Martha Neally, the richest heiress of Clermont County, Ohio,'with Dr. John McDonald, an already married man, was note worthy from the fact that the girl’s mother accompanied the oomple in their flight. The Methodist Episcopal Church has in India 4,668 church members, 6,500 native Christians, 9,108 secular and 11,396 Bur day-school scholars, all under the care of eighty foreign and native ministers and pastors, and 124 hnordaihed preachers.

The growth of Irish agrarian crime during 1880 is made very plain by the recently published statistics. The Indictment offences which can only be tried by a jury show an increase yf 1,480, or 43 per cent, over 1870, lawless as that year was, Notice ha* been served on the Missouri authorities by the Chicago Alton Railway Company that they will be held responsible for the damages committed by outlaws preoisely as the authorities In PUtsbuig were during the riot in 1877. It ia very positively asserted that Secretary Wlndom desires to retire from ti»e Cabinet In Urn* to be a candidate for the Henate to succeed himrelf, before the Legislature of Minnesota, which meets In called session in a few days. The Peru Republican is authority for the statement that Jacob K. Marsh, of Miami county,"increased the weight of fifty bead of hogs 4,060 pounds in thirty days by actual weight, thus realbeing one dollar a bushel on 208 bushels of or ro.” Chicago is to have, right away, a “Garfield Aveuu*,"a‘‘Oarfield School” and a "Garfield Park.” Cincinnati

already bos a “Garfield Place,” and tt I is probable that nearly every city in j the Union will honor the name in a similar manner. The American residents la London, England, propose to place a marble slab in memory of President Garfield, in Westminister Abby, if the Queen consents, and it is believed she will. This will be an honor never before cqncided to an American. Thb London Truth says: Americans ore a very iDgenious people. Finding that the boxes in which American apples are sent in such large quantities to England were afterwards of little use, they now pack tiie apples in coffins, which command a ready sole.

As if the fits had not wrought ruin enough In Michigan, Clare county has Just been the prey of a hurricane. This made terrible havoc in the lumber region,- snapping trees like pipe stems. Two men thus far are known to have been killed by Its fury, and the loss of property is great Father Beckx, General of the Jesuits, who is 87 years of age, lies dangerously ill at Home. The Pope, leaving the Vatican by a secret door, proceeded to call upon the sick man. It was night, and his holiness stumbled and fell in the street, but, fortunately, sustained no injury. Charles Pierce, a horse thief confined in the Jail at Bloomington, 111., grabbed a revolver from the pocket of Henry Franks, bis jailor, last Saturday, and shot him three times, killing him iustantly. A vast mob soon afterward assembled, took Pierce from the jail and hanged him to a tree. It is again announced, apparently by authority, that the Treasury Department has decided that mutilated silver coins are only worth the price of the bullion they contain, and that they shall be paid for at the mints *at the rate prevailing for uncoined silver metal on the day they are presented.

The condition of the Michigan sufferers still appeals loudly to the charity of the country. Many of them are said to be dying from exposure. Hundreds of living in brush buts with lfttle to eat or wear, and the winter near at hand. In every respect their situation is as pitiable as it well can be. At Crawfordsville,Monday morning, Levi B. Willson committed suicide by cutting bis throat with a knife used as an eraser and paper-knife. He was a talented lawyer, a good speaker, a poet of ability, a witty, genial companion, a man of fine address, aud had even been licensed, recently, as a local preacher in the M. E. Church, but all this availed nothing against his appetite for strong drink. He leaves a wife and one child. Mrs. Garfield says that if the trustees had not offered a lot she would have purchased one in Lake View Cemetery, as she believed, if alive, the late President would have so directed. She thought it was his wish to be buried there. She adds that the question of burial is no longer open and will not be opened. The Engineer Corps of the United States army has been awarded the first prize by the International Geographical Congresss recently in session at Vienna, for the best display of maps, surveys, etc , and to the Signal Corps of our army was awarded the first prize for its proficiency in predicting weather and for the perfect details of its system.

After the aohievments of Dr. Billroth, of Vienna, in the removal of cancers from the stomach, comes now Dr. Schinzenger, a professor in the university of Freiburg. In one case, that of a woman, a section of one of the intestines had to be cut out and the severed ends sewed together. In both instances speedy recovery followed. The report of the manager of the New York Clearing House shows the total transactions for the year were $50,341,836,373, an average of $165,055,201 a day. The volume of business was greater by than in any previous year. The balances for the year amounted to $1,776,018,164. | IThere are 64,000,000 gallons of spirits in bond in this country, representing an internal revenue tax of about $55,000,000. One-half of this amount must be removed from bond within. this year, and the taxes paid, hr be forfeited to the government, and it Is whispered that an effort will be made in Congress to give its owners more time. Internal Revenue Commissioner Raum has rendered a decision in wbicli he maintains that every person, firm or company, having a place of buisness where stocks, bonds, bullion, bills of exchange or promissory notes are received for discount or for sale, is regarded in law as a banker or as a broker, and that the capital and deposits of such bank or banker are subject to taxation.

The Indianapolis Journal says: "There is good authority for the statement that, by request of Mrs. Garfield, Dr. Boynton will withhold from the public his promised statement as to the autopsy on the President’s body. Mrs. Garfield is satisfied that the wound was mortal, and she does not desire a discussion over the dead body of her husband. Another fund for Mrs. Garfield 'should be raised by a people.” The Catholic bishops of Ireland, in session at Maynooth college, adopted a resolution that the land aeff is of great hetft fit to tenants, for which the gratitude of the country is due the government and all who helped carry the measure. The' bishops summon the dergy to guard their flocks against all agencies of violence and intimidation, and appeal to the laity to prove their patriotism and faith by seconding the clergy in removing the stigma which enemies have sought to fix upon the people. The State Bureau of publishes a table showing the number of Horses, mules, eattle, sheep and bogs, in the State in 1880 ar.d 1881. There is an increase In the number of horses, cat) Ic and sheen, and a decrease in mules and hogs this year as compared with last. Marion county leads in the number of horses, having 11,573

bis year. Vanderburg ha 52,329 rauhr, and leads in this. Allen has more cattle than any other county, 24,509. Rush has 37,495 hogs, more than any other, and Lagrange the largest number of sheep, 43,533. "The substance of the information filed against General Brady in the fraudulent star mail-route cose Is that he Increased the compensation for carrying the mail between Prescott, Ari, and Santa Fe, N. M., from $13,313 a year to $87,862, making it daily instead of weekly, and afterwards a commission of $17,750. It was afterwards manipulated so that the contract was for $136,000 a year. It is alleged that by these operations the Government Was defrauded out of $350,000 between July 1, 1878, and June 30, 1880.

President Garfield’s cousin, Mr. Henry Boynton, relates a pleasant little Story of the dead patriot’s early school life. There was a spelling match in the little log school house in which James, who was thirteen years old, took part. The teacher told her scbolars that if they whispered she would send them home. The lad standing, next to James became confused, and to help him James told him how to spell the word. The teacher saw this, and said, “James, you know the rule; you must go home.” James picked up his cap and left. In a very minutes he returned and took his place in the class. “Why, how is this, James? I told you to go home,” said the teacher. “I know it, and I went home,” replied James.

The Monument Fund Committee at Cleveland announces it has lithograph certificates ready to be Issued to all persons who may contribute one or more dollars to the Garfield monument fund. These certificates are for sl, $5 and $lO, or more, according to the amount of the contribution. The Committee, bankers, postmasters and all other duly appointed agencies in soliciting funds in any portion of the country will have certificates forwaided on application. The certificate has a lithograph of the late President and his photograph, and certifies (blank) has contributed (blank) dollars to the fund for the erection of a monument in Lake View Cemetery to the memory of James A. Garfield, and 1h signed by the Committee.

In his sermon on the death of President Garfield,Rev.llenry Ward Beecher endeavored to impress one lesson particularly upon the mind* of ambitious young men. He said: “Our government may be compared to a stately mansion which many are desirous of enteiiug. Some walk boldly up to its front entrance and go in; but others seek to enter by the back way, from which all the refuse comes. By the nature of our constitution we are obliged to send men to our legislative bodies, and sometimes the ones selected are not the most suitable persons. But we can not bear to have the public ideal destroyed and the opinion prevail that he who would enter politics must give up his honor and advance by ignoble means. Aud when we behold a man struggling honorably for a political career and equipping himself as a statesman, it is an example that honor aud integrity are not incompatible with political advancement, and that man’s life will bean example as Washington’s has been.” • ,

Gen. Fremont has announced a novel solution of the Indian question. He proposes that the government of the United States shall purchase from Mexico, Lower Calffornia, and place place upoh it all Indian tribes which it is impossible to restrain upon reservations. That territory iies between the Gulf of Califoruia and the Pacific, has an area of about 60,000 square miles, is uninhabited,-and at its junction with the main land is about eighty miles wide, and most of its northern border is upon a deep river. This would make it easily guarded, and once on' there the Indians would be as fastly secure as a ily iu a bottle. Here the Sioux, Kiowas, Comanches, Apaches, Utes, aud other i>estiferou3 tribes could be congregated and could trespass on no white settlements east, west, north, or south. If any tribe desired a few scalps, they could be easily accommodated by getting up wars with other tribes, and no one would be any the worse off except the Indians themselves, aud it is probable they would not carry on the recreation a great while. The region is one of perpetual summer, and there would be a vast saving to the government for blankets and ether supplies.

Thirty-two! young Indians passed through Chicago, a few days ago, on their way to their tribes aud homes, after spending some years at the National school at Hampton, Virginia. Great interest was manifested in them by the people of Chicago, and in response to numerous requests, Gen. Armstrong, their custodian, gave an account of the scheme of Indian educaton,from which the following extract is,taken. General Armstrong said: “Seven years ago General Sheridan bad dispersed a lot of troublesome Indians, taking several hnndredsof them prisoners. Seventy of the wildest and most savage of these prisoners were sent to the fort at St. Augustine, aud placed under the charge of Lieutenant Pratt. Pratt was good, Godly and a tamer of men. He bad extraordinary gifts, and exercised the same Influence over wild men that Harey did over antractablehorses. In three years these seventy wild Indians changed wonderfully, and twonty of the younger men elected to remain In the East aud be educated In preference of returning to the old life. Lieutenant Pratt did not know what to do but wrote to the speaker. The result was that the young men were removed to Hampton, where they how to work and study. Out or this, twelve Joined tho church, four died and two returned to barbarism. The twelve were In coarse of time*sent back to Ihelr people to so-v the seeds of civilization. They had since done good work and thus showed what could he dono with the wont kind of Indians, lieutenant Pratt had been at Hampton, but was now at a larger Indian school in Pennsylvania. It soon bocAine apparent that before any groat amoaut of good was to be accomplished, the girls as well as the Ikij-h would have to be civilised. This was a hard matter, for 1 ndlan women, being the beast* of bunion’ were not easy to obtain. In this dilemma they went to Secretary Mcliurz, and, In tho end, acting under orders, Lieutenant Pratt took to Hampton forty boys and nnd nine girls. This was on the 6th Out of that number, thirty-two,Jtioxe present, were going back to Ihelr people after tlireo years of study. The result of u, e ir stay at Hampton had been very encouraging Sixteen of them had joined the church. All were going bock with the tools of their trade

The boys were carpenters,»Uoeiiittkers,blaofcstnifa, wheelwrights. And IkrmSs, anp'tho giifebavwbaMa t—gbpanmettr duUefc. how. to mend their own clothes end so on. They also understand the roapels of cleanliness end salvation~by hard work.”