Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1881 — HERE AND THERE. [ARTICLE]

HERE AND THERE.

SxiiirPOt is tfldifflie in Cincinnati. * Pmbid; jrr Arthur weighs 215 poa»k. i . •Mu Gabrielm's in— is now. •bout 100,000 • twA tHrbb-dat* sbo* storm to reported In the An»trl»n Alps. ”•

(Jamßarra and Bismarck “talked mitten over, M a few days ago. It to stated that leo Hartman, the Niblltot, has gone back to Europe. A bkw Nihilist conspiracy,to agsaaenate the CaarJias been discovered.

A MOTHS B Cosset h*a been discovered, making the fifth daring the present year. __ 4 - : r Thb name of Guiteaa street in Cleveland has been changed to Abram street. - 'lt to said that twenty chorchee In Now York use the revised New Testament. ... . Through trains will be ran .o California on the Texas Pacific railroad in January. •

Thb radical Republican, Gambetta, will be the Premiecof the new French Cabinet. - • Francs to building ’seventeen new iron-clad ships, and Edgland is buildjog tea. ' Focmdays ot mourning for Pretident Garfield has been ordered by the Court of Portugal. Thb damage by frost last week, with in ten miles of Boston to estimated at $1,000,000. • ■■ Dipthbria and typhoid fever are becoming alarmingly prevalent in Louisville, Ky. " N

Db. J. G. Holland, the poet, physician and author, died, suddenly, Wednesday morning. Tiikrk are about tea million bushels of corn in Chicago, being Ihc largest amount ever known to be there, Thb new international five cent postage stamp will he adorned with the portrait of President Garfield. A Youicw lady in Peru, Nebraska, lias a lies', of hair sjxty-eight indies long, for which she has refused SSOO. Tub Arkansas trslnfrobberß, on pleas of guilty, were each sentenced to seventy year’s terms of imprisonment. gallery at Cleveland has secured a rush of business by settiDg 14P an effigy of Guiteau as a target. The Masonic Grand Lodge of Illinois, at its recent meeeting, appropriated SI,OOO for the Michigan sußerer*.

Tub Russian newgpapetu are agitating the question of transferring the capital from Pt. Petersburg, to Moscow. The Mexican Government has appointed a commission to negotiate a commercial treaty with the United States. The value of the hay product in I*ew York, in 187 i, was $60,207,240, t»htg the largest product in any State fd>-be Luton.

* It ta in evidenca in the Christiancy **** tbat Mrs.C.had refused twenty-five offers of marriage before ehe accepted •the old Senator. McDonald, who rode Keene’s FoxTian to victory at the Newmarket races in England, winning half a million for 5 Keeue, received SIO,OOO for his services. Several cities in this Stale have recently organized associations for the purpose of promoting the manufacturing interests of their respective com- . inanities.

Th* Land League agitation is to be resumed with increased fury and bit•cness. “Whatever is is wrong’'appears to be the watchword of the leaders of tula movement. This balance of trade for twelve inonths ended September 81st, was $251,531,618' in favor bf this country, while that of September, 1880, was in our favor.

jProwxkhb about the‘tomb of Garfield are notified . the Cleveland Chief of Police tL they wil be shot at sight. Th'e Stewart gra*«>-iolrblijg industry went be encouraged there. The movement in Ireland for ming only ar iolrs bf Irish manufacture is said to b? vefy popular.and gives gTeat promise of success iu its object, which is the amelioration of the condition of Irish laborers. - 0 Tas President died in the anniversary of the battle of Cbicamauga, a Jojitest in which he tendered glorious C ‘tvice to lis country. The coicci ‘M ce » »y the least of it, is very sinking and suggestive.

\ LifAiETTE and Fort Wayne are cloying a lively poetoffice ‘contest. *nd the Elevehth atd Thirteenth Revenue District* are stirred up by eager aspirants for the pceitkmof Collector’s Moon and Wild man. U • Tile [<* by the Michigan fires is estimated at $2446,413, and included the destruction of 1,147 dwellings, 28 ichool houses, 8 churches and 34 mills. The entire insurance upon pro per tv * tost was only $623,632. < . *

Washington Butch ek’s Fons, a PiiikdeJphia provision firm of 121 standing, suspended the other i+fj Uabl, ’o ß » initiated, at ?iSW,OQO, and Chknigo speculations in > gyMtipiroMppoeed/lo be lie tot use. President Arthur baa been memorialized by 4he temperance peopla of the Untied States prhying that iu social entertainments and official acts be will favor the temperance cause, and awist in the great work of final prohibition. The American resideets io London, England, propose to place a marble slab in-memory of Prrsident Garfield, iu Westminister Abbs, if the Quoy* consetffis, and It is.'’believed ih« will. Tbte will be an honor never before coucided to an American - Mim A* 11 "**'™ $!«,-!

vilie and Nash villa Ball way Company, ««king only $25,000 for the fractured j one of priceless accident St Heeling y*n, V At thes&cent towyetoctlons cectfbut the qfiestK* olhcciiMTf in liceuoa in respect to the sale of Uq—• was submitted to a vote of the people. The result to that seventy-three town ships voted for Uoenarand thirty-th—-against. '

Hardy and Mcßride, telegraph op—wire. Hardy went to Mcßride's ofc ffee, to have the mattes »«t,11i.3s *°Ptosed/ and. MMay marntog*iWaa found there stool d«U«, Was missing- ■oO.uil v. alia lui _ SeventW** tßWßind acres of land in Arocstodk COuQty^f^whoee Stale valuation has tseen^fiS sold at auction TlfTitfgfto, ago, for 73,4-10 cents per acre. ot 5,000 acres la Somerset, oountytoold #t f 54 oenU per acre, the Stati* vnuaflag being 39 cents pet acre.-

It is stated that gig Franch ffittteaye kill prouallyrlone to.fyi*y;?.W 0 i 00( * passengers and wound op* ip 500,000; the English ra4vkj* Nfflt Ib ersry 6.200.0QQ and wwr&joa? in every third :t)f • teWhdH Prumian railway* hill 21,508,000 and wound onfc,4B.jaVefy 4,000,000. .; / i vJ. .it or yih?M H °

A OENTLBMAIt' W%O recently 0 T&0 through Ex-Senator Doruay's battterinch in New Mexico, says dfltt w lt is forty by Bixty mUss In eteeaad baa on It twenty-eight thousand bead cattle’and thirteen hundred horses. The income from this place ean hot- be less than $76(000 for the present seg-. eon. • ■ - -

‘ The President, under the operation of his new rule, can dispose of hundred appointments per day. These appointments of postmasters etc. are decided by the heads of Departments and recommemtottd to the President who merely Bign s hto uame td the homfc nation, and they are ready to go to the Senate. ’, .. ' , t

The State Supreme Court reSenOy rendered a decision that where B bounty, during th * War, ottered a bounty for volunteers \n a certain regiment, and R person, acting on the Inducement, enlisted, and was subsequently assigned to another regimrtit, hat credited tbw quota, the person so enlisting was entitled to the bounty. *" i" ~ ■ru C’oMMif sioNER Raum has decided that the Internal Revenue Department cannot properly -sanction the sate of compounds made of whlskoy, Water and strychnia, and called “toufq Mfcters.” He says it should he (tolled “poison.” The fatot that tometkm for the sate of mith compounds* has bpen asked for should be a .walrmug ltd Imbibers to “Unfit a little ouV. I’’ 1 ’’ ThW ftthte bureau of Statistics publishes a table showing the number of horses, mules, cattle, sheep aud hogs, in the State in 1880 and 1881, There is an increase In the number of horse*, cattle and sheep, and a deAre&Se in mules and hogs this year as compared with last. Marion county leads in tiro number of horses, having 11,573 bis year. Vanderburg ba52,329 mules, and leads in this. Allen has more cattle than any other county, 24,506. Rush has 37,486 hogs, more than any other, and Lagrange the largest number of sheep, 43,533.

Fires in the past three months the New York Commercial Bulletin shows from its own files to have consumed an aggregate of $6,800,000 In July, $6,200,000 in August, and $9,800,00 in September; aud from this account are omitted all fires causing a loss less than $20,000 each. September was the worst month on record, exoept those, months in which the great fires of Boston and Chicago occurred; forest fires in that month aggregated a loss of $4,000,000, and with $1,500,000 allowed for the smaller fires not above enumerated, the total is $11,300,000, The great cause of fires is carelessness.

When President Garfield was a young Professor, he wrote these lines in a young girl’s album: If (be treasures of ocean were laid at my feet. And Its depths were all robbed of Its coral and pearl',. • And the diamonds were brought from tbe mountain’s retreat, And with them were placed.all tbe wealth of tbe world— ■ '■ 1 Not silver, nor gold, nor tbe spoils of tbe Nor tbe garlands of fame that tbe world .. can bestow, ,• 1 \ But a purified heart that, from sin is made free, ... . m-•. L I would ask for thee, friend, on tbe journey belftW.*

Hiram, Jan. 8, 1857.

J. A. GARFIELD.

A Philadelphia dispatch gives what purports to be the true inwardness of, tbe “infernal machine” plot which recently created so much excitement in England. It is declared that the scheme whs organised to cheat the British Government out of the rewards to be offered. Peter H. Foye,a saloonkeeper of Philadelphia, caused the manufacture of the infernal machines and turned them over to O’Donovan Rosa. Foye tfien began negotiations with the British Consul it New York, and received SIO,OOO for Information leading to the discovery made on the docks ot Liverpool. He some weeks ago fied from the United States detective* at Philadelphia, and no w knowß his whereabouts. ’

In the opinion of. the Journal of Education 'the public schools in the proeperous west are driving with ■dangerous speed. It advises (he schools at onoeto begin the neosssary work of slacking up ihe.wslooitj% out uociseaoi study; relieving this in-tensity-pf examination and ceasing to act bn'tbe assumption that the avert age child can sndfirS the fitrafti of the average hard-beaded, 0 n4p#M*>ni*r. t oritip, “with the fopd delusion that H? Vfit outstrip the Vrorid ih public school tVafnlngi beCatisC lit ‘ briAftog the iptodlgtodß Vnsrgy tbit hhs fruuie it ;great- in industry,! in war*ftp* 1n statesmanship the production 6F such a generation of youthfulprodigies as no country has yet seen. But the willbreak doWftftWthe simple reason that irchiid is-l cpfld, fign gqt be shot into mataris acouree of study and f mQajfily f?amination. rt , ~

- fm ■* /‘Vkaswwsll Jli I TmitojTinlßf tefap—' “ about three bandied *•*#■** repraaanUng the daring the next poUUoal campaign. wbb nnanimoaaly adopted: The tempenaee pepoU or tbe State of mmt -, l|B| laulln seenelijj 1 recosnlaloa the rnin aad writ caneert to TndfvWnel and eommualty by U»« see of MronyUrlnk, declareU»e followtag ae UtaMMto

--rust ■ Me set! ees ki iMfiTert nr taipptftoa Wtta it. laloien—am sin elweye pre▼sit mßiarTtodf aiiiilMdir »>“ «>—*fetroved. Men ttastrer ce kept sober or re•tirtewtett ’TBti>iiPfrt n oo runtkvir or probMyteßaij vva r ,y'T, i dSK thsu^ Stetinatpenij and ae each they febe heard pipmibttion;

wkitofjifprthatato^era^^ur;ben' totoe kU^toeqcan-, 7KSSS79IB sfiKIEt the Bdhititiwfon nffT» tetoiaCSbpkftttd by uto lest togtoteiuje “tow hate w mirntm rwch a gSnrousL’aSkKa-

tßAtShedLsmsloftotohrtoMthy iegtstataroU iyrannleal, and sqch a dluttuit Of the people aa tboold tohdseVbe lessor any man mr thetlbectr«MiU opoatfy. - we here ptodaa M«u aaertW too*s» to stand by the Ibtgolo* leclkratloh. . Resolved, That bertiAftil-, ts !t ltibtmd that tbs atocbfbtory ot parties n testrcMed by ip* xrgtoMß mr^x hrJm the peopMUttsakferad etcht Ot (VOtlD* apoh tub RtHflect of.anvenCUns tha coristil'dftcrti,‘then, appealing t 6 me cbrfttfJm rnoral elements of oar'State fttt the Of!ftVcanao, we will, lusuch cata,,organize thn/oshodt the State, independently, and -fiiitkbe contest sat hnttl the areetrteken from osr people.