Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1881 — HEBE AND THERE. [ARTICLE]

HEBE AND THERE.

Six inches ol snow fell in Quebec, ] Monday night. ; N i Gold Is sUll pouriDg into this conntry from Europe. ' Tax new Senator from Rhode Island comm raced life as a poor boy. NxwYoxKcrrr has given about M 00,009 to the Michigan sufferers. Tax Missirsippi river ws» eight miles wide at Bariington, lowa, a day or two •*<>- Couplet* ' bat unofficial returns from Ohio jjve Foster a plurality of 24,062. - \ Tax State and city taxes In New York City this year aggregate $31,071,840. ■ - f It is said that 160,000 persons are destroyed annually in China, by the use of opium. IHi Republican majority In the lowa Legislature Just elected, is 06 on Joint ballot * ‘ * Thx Marriage association insurance bueinees appears to be flourishing ill over the State. Thx people at Tyrone, Ry., are excited over the opening of a sixty barrel oil well at that place. Thx cranberry crop In two counties of New Jersey is damaged by frosts to the amount of SIOO,OOO. A." greatly reduced production of corn and hogs is “figured out” by the latest Chicago estimate*. Mon. Roseox Conklixo is confined to his room, at bis home in Utica, N. Y., by a serious eickness. The contributions to the Mrs. Garfield fond closed Saturday, with an aggregate of $357,851 reported. These Is a water famine in New York, and the fluid has been sold from barrels at fifty cents per gallon. It is announced that Rev. Dr. Thomas will continue to preach, pending bis appeal and further trial.

The Rothschilds, it is said, have determined to places hungarian loan of , 300,000,000 Annus In this country. It is said that theie are 25,600,000 barrels of crude petroleum stored in the tanka of the Pennsylvania oil regions. It is estimated that the late growth of grass will be equal in value in this State to at least one million bushel* of com. • Gen. Banks is named as the probable successor of Gen. Fremont as Governor of Arizona, the latter having resigned. _____ The friends of a National bankrupt law are preparing for a strong effort to pass such a law at the petting session of Congress. The Jew* of New York are agitating "the question of bolding their relig-

iota services on Sunday instead of Saturday. “ . I-'oub and a half miHion bathe were taken at the public tanks In New York this year during the four months they were open. The Society of Fnends (Quakers) In this State numbers about 18,000 members and 200 ministers. Of the latter 67 are women, T\\ iSTY-rivs thousand dollars was re*li*ed in New York for the Michigan sofferers from the sale of Garfield mourning drapery. The Standard Oil Company rnon°p°ly ha Just been sued by the State of Pennsylvania for 1300,000,000 'of taxes and penalties. Promotion from the House of Congress to the Senate is beooming quite frequent Eight Senators were recently Representatives, . ,

Thrke persons in New York city have given Mrs. Garfield SK, OOO each, depositing the money in a bank to be drawn at her pleasure. , Considerable opposition to ,Becxetary Windom as a candidate for United States Senator, is developing in the Minnesota.legislature. Db. L. W. hMflkaxx preached to 1,000 young iq,enfn the opera' house at Knoxville, 9 Tenn., Snndey night, and 57.0 f them publicly professed conversion. _. w T* The three young thieves who robbed alaim house in kfaconpln County, Ills., of SB,O 0 in gold on Tuesday night, have been esughtand jailed. Tiix/etind list of the army islimited to four hondred. At present there are only reven vacancies, while about fifty officers are eligible to retiremenr. Pogtmastkk General Jsmxs lias beeu elected President of the new Vanderbilt bank in New York city,and it is understood that he will accept the posit ion.

The Indianapolis Board of Health is accused of receiving unlawful fees (whacking) from the city vault cleaners, and the charge is being investigated. . Th* small far mere are giving up the contest for existence in Germany. Nearly 4.00 Q of these farms were offered for sale last year, and over 1,000 found no perehasers. At Portland, Oregan, fnbibers dr tbs ardent have to procure a Ik* nse, for which five dollars a year is charged, before they can procure beverages at the hare of saloons and boteis. • T

Th® total amount of gold find silver " to ULccountry is estimated to be $E79,* C 4W,M4,whJob gives a specie circulation j prer capita, redling tbepopula- ' UawotdauntfjrM.ooo,ooo. Kew Yef* float master bag Poetasseler General James that 1 cfprw’f'°* bas>4eobtou|Wed JJg thak office frgas money order., *mintern wks originated.. Tag,winning the grtat Engiish place (J ibe season* the Kawmarket tMrby, by LortliartTs Iroquota, folioworowu* the American borre as Klflffcf wt mtunm twi^. . j

Tux President died in the anaiversary of the battle es C&tfoamauga, a contest in which he rendered gfcqfcms rervieeto bis country. .Yl» cotnci Jence, to say the least es lt- ls .very striking and wffijtotttE W | Guiteac’s lawyer annoxneee that he has abandoned his plea of surgtoal malpractice, and will rely soMy on (be plea of Insanity. He Unde that no reputable surgeon in the oouqtry will testify In behalf of the plea of maK practice.

President Arthur has been memorialized by the temperance people of the United Btates praying that in •octal enter tain meat* and official acts he will favor the temperance cause, and asrist in the great work of final prohibition. _ The convicts in the Ohio penitentiary are credited with sending SIBO to the Michigan euffirera, which they 4 raised by'denying themselves the luxury of tobacco and from th> sale of trink ets made by themselves.

A secret writer asserts that blue is the tree national odor of Ireland,'While green belongs to Scotland, the former being the color of the Order of St. Patrick, wfatle the latter U the color of the Order of the TbUUe. The Poetoffioe Department has conferred aatortty on Postmasters, not pueeuwd before, to oorreot mlsdirected letters where possibles and forward them, instead, as has been the custom, of sending them to the dead-letter office. The recent disastrous hurricane which caused some loss of life and great loss of property throughout Great Britain, extended into Franoe, the Netherlands and Germany. In the Netherlands much damage is reported.

The belief appears to be gaining ground that Judge Cox, of the criminal court of the District of Columbia, will decide that he hasn’t Jurisdiction in the oase of Guitean and that the assassin will have to be taken to New Jersey for trail. ’ The American residents in London, England, propose to place A marble slab in memory of Prekfcfeht Garfield, iu Westminister Abby, if the Queen consents, And it is believed she wilL This Will be an honor never before concided to an American. According to the latent Complied statistics, Europe has how a population of 314,929,000 inhabitants. Asia 835.T07.000, Africa 205,079,000, America 95,000,000, Australia and Polynesia 431,000, the Polar regions 82,000, giving a total of 1,445,923,000. The new crlmiual code of Now York provides that indictments bv grand juries must be presented by the foreman, “In the presence of the accused parties, to the court, and must be filed with the Clerk and remain in his office as a public record.” Two burglars got their dues The rtfday night, without the intervention of courts or lawyete, at Bradford, Pa. They attempted to break the lock of a torpedo factory, and the thing went scattering their worthless carcasses into a thousand atoms, which was just right. » At the recent World’s Electrical Exhibition in Paris, gold medals were awarded to Messrs Edison, Brush and Maxim, of this country, giving our electricians more than a proportionate share of the honors of ■ discovery and invention in the science of electricity.

A W ashinotob special to the Indianapolis Journal says: “President Arthur has, it is understood, requested First Assistant Postmaster General Tyner to hand in-his resignation, and will appoint Frank Hatton, of the Burlington, (la.) Hawkeye. his successor. Three murderers were hung Friday, the 14th inst., as follows: (A man named Earle, at Bageville, N. Y., for wife-murder ; a colored assassin named Hudson, who killed an entire family at Dawson, Georgia; one McDonald, a robber and murderer, at Silver City, Colorado. «. . The experiments of the last four years in the manufacture of silks at Paterson, N. J., have demonstrated (that American goods are far more durable than those produced by the French or Swiss. liPplain goods for ordinary wear the American productions are '"now for superior to the foreign. Andrew Von Bibber, of Cincinnati, mistook his wife for a burglar on the night of the 4th -inst and shot her. Th 4 matter was kept secret until Just before |bc death of the wpman on the dOth, when tbe husband was arrested, but was released when an explanation ivai givefi.*

Ti/k New York fire department has Uncovered that more alarms oocur on Thursday than any other day in the week; that July is the luckiest month, and the fourth days of the months average the hottest for underwriters. These phenomena are based on the reoord of sixteen years’ experience. Prof. Klein, a Louisville astronomer, writes tbe Courier-Journal that for many weeks he has been watching a strange doable comet, which is attended by nine smaller comets or oometary fractions. He believes it to be tbe comet of 1811 and 1846 the latter of which was thought to have been destroyed.

UoMMiaaioNEß Raum, in a letter to New York, says: “I think the tatak% ere of the United States, who arean-dcnt-iod to inslat upon the obaervanoe of cm (met* and the en ornament of laws, should set the example to the other tax-paying citizens by showing awlHiugneee to pay promptly such tsxe* as may ha imposed upon them by tow;” . j?

A hobo the notable persons attending tii* National Missionary Convention of the Disciples church at Indian* apol*, «4s Mra. Alexander Campbell, wife of the great founder oftbat church, Although W yeafe old her i* still 1 Week, Mr fejvs bright, Un somewhat souken, and her whole face indicates gfrat mental activity. SUiaw been *a»«sgtil*forovar two yean in'writing a book toentitled 'Rem In licences m.Jnwsir iJt?6rA&x+nde?Csmp-

ALaaffiA b a candidate fair territor-J I*l housed.* dcretofom the territory! . "SKedjgfoffi of life and property, have led the people to ball a convention, Which was held on the Ifith of August. At this and a elected to present them to Congress asking for organization into a territory.

" AioSd||snS gr*U ‘jpiinT mo-1 nopolks olthe CodntVy— the Mcfcay leather sewing machine —has expired, having been la operation ainoe jlfiSO. The number of pairs of shoes made in America by tide machine is estimated, at 699,605 and of late years ninetea ths cfall dm shoes mad* in the United States have paid tMbhte to the inventor of the machine, having been about $i ,(ft0,006 yearly. In no country are inventors so 'fully given tbe bsnsfit ofr their labor so in America. .•jTT^s —j The State Bureau of EPatisAos pubfishes a table raowtnfc . the number of i bonds, mhlea, cattle, sheep and bogs, fn the State in 1880 and 1881. There Is an in Breads In the number of horses. ‘Cattle end sheep, And a decrease iu toffies and hogs this yeat as compared with last. Marion oonnty leads -to the Dumber T>f horses, havirg 11.578 his year/ Vanderburg has 2,829 mules, and leads in this. Allen has more cattle 'than any other county, 24 509. Rush has 37,496 bogs, more than any other, and Lagrange the largest number of sheep, 48,583. *

As thx returns come in from different parts of Great Britain and other parts of Europe, the .ex tent of tbe disasters hy the recent great barricade prove to have been much greater than the first reports indicated. It is now astertalned that at least eighty-five Veesels Were lock along the British oosefe, attd that in all lso vessels were Wrecked dttrlbg last week. ° Over 140 tiYee were lost, and the lose of property Is estimated at over s32,od6 > dk) ) of which $24,06>\606 fiaißk (ft Great Britain- > New York Commercial and Financial Chronicle, in its statement of the cotton crop in the United (Rates for the year ending September 1,1881 shows that the production reached the Rtaptefeedented figure of 6,589.329 bales —an increase of 832,000 bales over the prodnetlon on last year, and 1.515,000 over that of two years ago. The average weight of cotton per bate this year is 485 86 pounds, While that of last year was 481.55, and that of the year before 478.66. Thbee figures a ill'be a surprise to those wh‘6 had supposed that by reason ol the drouth last shhVfoer in the cotfem Ifolt this staple would Show a shortage of at least thirty-three per cent.

A Washington special to thb l3t. Louis Globe-Demotfat throws light upon the subject of matrimonial insurance as follows: An extensive scheme has been developed here In the operation of_ th* to-called “National Capital Motttal Beneficial Association hr tihmarrled Persona,” which etatnUi to have branch offloss In all the principal cities of the United States. It wm originated by a discharged Treasury clerk named P. H Rein hard, who In a “confidential” letter to a prominent cttlsen of Washington, outlined the scheme aa folows: • ‘ » “Allow me tosoggest that yon take speedy steps toward eecarlng a number of good men In Washington, who with yon and four Pennsylvania citlcens, will embark in this enterprise. It Is a money making enterprise to persons who shall become tne Incorporators, and I have no bestt&ncy la saying that within the first year of tbe existence of the association there will accrue for the exclusive use of the In corporators, as salaries of officers and board or directors, a greater sum than HTO.OOO.

There it a charm In# frankness about the proposition to rob somebody Which Will be appreciated farther along. It thoold be •tated that, according to a provision of the circular, no money It payable on policies before the end ot the flr»t year. The letter proceeds: "Thu, Of coarse, U not Intended to be pat within tbe knowledge of the masses, for you,ae-a boalnesa man, well know that In any organization, from a bank down to a railroad corporation, there lsmach pertaining to the working of the enterprises not known to the public, and which belongs exclusively to the officers pllclt, let me remind you that all annual does from such—-‘the masses’—who become members at the rates shown by the printed leaflets I left yon will create a fond for the payment of the Incorporators which, wk a matter of bourse, will pay under the names of salaries of officers and directors. Tbe money to be paid oat upon the certificates of members when the same bceorae beneficiaries or when endowment becomes doe will be realised from assessments on the policy holders. Besides, lnsrmuch ss it would not be required to pay .ie lull face of the certificate In lees than about six years, yoa will not fall to see that upon every assessment the reserve fond must augment.” It Is said that this agency, by means of gliterlng promises and misrepresentations, is securing a very large patronage through oat the west, principally among lnnooe young men who contemplate matrimony, and who are persuaded to boy shares with the expectation of getting large returns from very small Investments.