Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1881 — HERE AND THERE. [ARTICLE]

HERE AND THERE.

Everybody wants VennorW winter. Sweden is threatened with a famine. Babon James Rothchild died last Tuesday. Another Indian cut break In Arizona te feared. Secretary Windom baa become Senator Windom. Keene's Foxhall has won still another; race in England. r Nine Thousand emigrants arrived in New York last week. Cadet Whitaker fe managing a troupe of colored vocalists. General Walker, superintendent of the census, has resigned. The earnings of the race horse Iroquois amount to near $86,000. There were 16,000 “temperance” votes cast at the Ohio election. • f ■ ’:

Secretary Kirkwood will not be a candidate for Senator from lowa. Last week’s business in the principal cities is reported steady and improving. Gbated horseradish to highly recommended as a simple remedy for neuralgia. \ Sergeant Mason's counsel expect to have no trouble in proving that be to ineana. The fees of the Health Officer of the Post of New York amount to over $40,000 a year. Electric wires for illuminating purposes caused two fires in New York, the other day.

Moody and Ban key are campaigning against Satan and his hosts at New Castle, England. Mbs. Garfield has leased a bouse in Cleveland, and will reside there during the winter. Edison to the patentee of twentythree inventions, twenty of which relate to elect] ic light State Senator Astor is the Republican oanidate for Congressman to succeed Fernando Wood. Nearly 11,000,000 acres of the public lands were gold during the last fiscal year, by the Government Dynamite is to be used in New York to blow up buildings in cases of fire when water is scarce. It to said that lhe subscriptions to the Michigan sufferers only amounts to $7 for each ©ne of them. Four thousand of New York’s dram shops are kept by women, only one of whom is a ngtive American. Senator McDonald wisely withdrew bis opposition to the confirmation of Oom mis loner Dudley. The business wonder of the times is the number of.incorporated companies that are being chartered. * Nearly six hundred thousand immigrants have arrived in this country during the last nine months.

The prevailing floods In the valley of the Mississippi, are among the worst that have ever been witnessed. It Is asserted as a fact that pop corn has been popped by the heat of the sun lu some of the fields of Georgia. “Give Us a Best" is the title of Judge Tourgee’s new lecture. Will Rs delivery be “A Fool’s Errand?” The corrected official figures make Governor Foster's'plurality 24,309. He received a majority of all the votes cast General Grant, it is now said, favors Frank Hatton for Mr. Tyner’s place, and is not for Tyner for anyThe salmon season on the Pacific, coast has been and 47,414,064 pounds of the royal fish have been canned. Blanche Douglass baa been arraigned at New Haven, Conn., and charged with the murder of Jennie Crame.r

' Mass meetings in France are demanding the abrogation of the Govemment decree against the impoitation at American pork— —_ f Xt Is said that Indiana Republican members of Congress are urging the appointment of Hon. J. N. Typer to a foreign mission. * Prince Bismarch has ordered the Mormon misrionarire jejve Ger many. That was a wholesome use of despotic power. J A bkewbky containing 20,000 kegs of beer, and valued at >175,000. was destroyed by fire at Aurora, this state. Tuesday morning. Robert K. Scott, vx-Governor of South Carolina, is on trial at Napolean, Ohio, for the murder of Warren G. Drury, Dec. >4th 1880. i ' A thirteen-year-old boy was found dead on a commons lot in Brooklyn N. Y. a few days ago, from the effects of whisky, *ld that the Michigan sufferers need at least a quarter bf a million mere of money to tide them over the winter, and soring pleating. •> The pew In 8t» John’s Episcopal church at Washington, formerly occupied by President Madison, has been rented by President Arthur.

Washington reports Indicate that Hou. J. N. Tyner has > ’’fightihg chance” to retain his position, and proposes to make the moetof tt. h J • Nearly rix hundred deaths from 'tmaH-pox have oecured in Chicago Jhsoe Che first of January,lancf the dis •nre ftaeateua to beeomcepidemic. ' . we *i. . « mF A cannon weighing 56 000 jraa cast at Aeadipg, Aa, the other day. It is exymltodto oaVgJKMfe&ltf pounds weight a'd stance of twelve mftes. ' > Thu last oensus'snows that 74fi were speeded in 1879 for building yd wgMring brm too* in eleven

Ei coiajxtor, Ybomaa M&bf, to! ceed Levi P. Morton, appointed Minister to France. Mb. Murat Haubted profemta to know that the late President GarteW at one time eedowaly intended tn offer the position of Secretary of the Treasury to Roscoe Conkttng. - and searching preliminary examination, have been held for trial onlte. charge of murderifig Jennie Cramer, at New Ha-ven, ConikclicutJ x .

GurrEAC’6 , '*|ftiL. i has been’ ptet* poned until November UUi. Ttto now thought that the question of juried ic tion will not be raised, and the trial will take place at Wasbiagtrn. .■ > *»i A great hurricane at Mata tian, Mexico, ins the Gulf of California, on the 28 th of last month, destroyed many vessels and bouses and much other property, and cashed a loss of W 0 Uvea. The scarcity and high price of cabbage in this country iadrawinglmporationa from Gecmany.. Eight thenfe and heads* were received from that! country at Baltimore, a fewdays ago. A recent religious census taken ilk* Prussia strews that that country Oonaius 17,66*,*2 Protestants, 9.2MJW Catholics, Jews, 42,518 Diseentere, and 22,006 persons professingi nW religion. s -h 1 A PABBAuain a recent speech* by lhe Pope has again started the. report of his approaching departure from Rome.' An organ of the church st Rome professes to know that the Holy Bee will' be transferred to Batoborg. . ( A. S. Trude, a prominent lawyer ff Chicago, has notified brother-in-law Scoville that he, Trude, will take prin*j ci pal charge of Guiteau’s defense provided be can get released from certain profarional epgagemesto. C INDI DATES for adrfi'ißßlon to thb military academy of France are requir-, ed t« pass a rigid examination in the' German language. Of oourae tbla.roquiremenibas ttre’pastibie contingency of a French army on the soil of Gee many in view. ' TTri

Binge the inauguration b’f the late Preident GarfieM, Starch 4, the bounds ed debt of the United Blates has been reduced in the amount of $705,836,f60, and the annual interest hks been reduced jn the amount of $15,793,75b £ Thb Duke of Sutherland to at the head of a. company of Englishmen, with $2,500,000, who have bought Sixty square miles on the Bt.Ptal and Omaha railroad, sixty miles east Of Sioux City, for a colony', price, <163,000. There is a prospect tbAt the Owner of the factory bufttflhg that burned at Philadelphia last week, involving a lofts of a dozen lives of operatives, will be sent to State prtsorr for criminal neglect in hot providing means of escape from the building in case, of fire It is said that the Mrs. Garfield ftrod is composed of about 12,000 subscriptions. Thirty-one of these are tor $5,007 each and eighty-seven for $1,690. The smallest was fi ve' cents fro m“a poor colored person,” the largest, SIO,OOO, from E. N. Benson, of Philadelphia. J

Hon. Schuyler Colfax has pre-; pared a lecture on “Our Martyred Presidents,” which includes a revision of his lecture Abraham Lincoln with an addition on James A. Garfield. It is said that he already has over 100 engagements to deliver this new lecture in various parts of the country. The location of the “meanest man” has been transferred from Boston to lowa City. The thing called a man at the latter place was a landlord, who wanted to levy on a corpse, and sell it for dissecting purposes, to secure the payment of a few dollars of rent from a destitute family. J. N. Tyner, having received aaaur- j anejes from the President'add Peatmaster General James that there are no chargee ofTpay kind against him, and no imputations upon his official Integrity, has concluded to place his resignation inthe'President’s bands. Y Hon. Delana E.. Williamson; while pleading a case the Putnam Circuit Court, cafkd' the prosecuting witness, (a woman) a and the jury in returning its verdict, rebuked him severely, asking the Comt to reprimand him for the offense.

Col John C. New, proprietor of the Indianapolis Journal, has aoPresidency of a large and strong financial Interest in N>W York, and will eutrr upon the discharge of hfs duties within the next two s-eeks. He will place the control of the Journal in the bands of his son, Harry 8. New, now its city editor. A fastidious Poughkeepsie girl has written to the Presidents of all the principal colleges in this country to Inquire whether she should say “mumps is” oi “mumps are.” Some of the Presidents spoke feelingly of “one mump,” while others were tenacious of “one mumps.” The chap that has 'em bad generally thinks there are several hundred of “it.” •

The mammoth steamship Grmt Eastern, which, a quarter of a century ago, was the maritime wonder of the world, was sold at suction at London the other day for >160,000. Her original cost of construction and equipment is said to have been about >3,000,000, and she ruined the company that built her. She has been “an elephant” on the hands of her owners ever since she was Munched.

The New York Tribune of last Sunday says: ‘Tne condition of the city's water supply Is exciting the gravest apprehension. There is now in reserve barely enough water to last sixteen or seventeen days, and unless there are heavy rains within a fortnight the metropolis will be exposed to the horr ire of a water famine and the ravages of Are. The Mayor, in a forcible appeal to the public, reminds everyone of his individual responsibility to avert, as fat as may be possible through etpnomIcal use, the terrors of po appalling a catastrophe, CARFjTLtnvM.lgatlnn hu resulted l-l ob uiuji.g !r t-i woriliy flgu'es m to

bvthelato ire dtowteHn NorAeastenj f fotodtfat 1.&0 square I whlra’iTpot 2 HMM®, reduced by I insureoee to 51,m.000. Included tai this loss to the total destruction of hundreds of home* of poor mW! hardworking farmers and lumbermen, *»d the aafifhilatirii of theirfibilhtel and stow ann—Blatfou of yean. Venndr is soomwhkt elated over the winter < bta Mbtam Weather guesses. Be now itigks for a continuance of tbe thtateontihent dos lug thaappeowshing Winter. This may. and will he broke*, ho. says,. toy waves I hf low temperature, tout they will be of brief duration; aa Bdtapaii.il with Ihe protracted periods of mtodnen and Itarmttu There may Advanced and terte of CDto in October or November If ap# took onMw an open' Oirtotmastide. He< disregards the sun and suR-spot ttwory, afol predtets open Winter. J nj Ui.s .The tiftfon Congrert by lire Whisky makers of the oohhfry that has bein'* foreshadowed’ fbt tohi* fhne ptet.'fias tekta bhspe end consistency, and Will, belrabhed with toowbr and They' asto that-the tkx be, red treed frotetalirelytb fifty 'eißhte. There' te : a 'tact of WMaiy iflhobd Which■Yhe tefok muht r iK>otrbe' total V" this redwtlob <Wn be tatale most of it. Will go Into the pefekete bf dlstfltere otrto whisky tn 1 bond. The lobby ftdior iif their rhtesare Witttte*W'elji heeled,” and metabere of will b» tried In the furnace of temptation.

The British Government has prtfhlAlmed the fttkh-lAnd League a tree* sonable organlaitlon. Nearly all of It 3 chief offlefers and teatdetft ‘befog th Jail, It te probates tbit tbe dperatlom of tbe League art now—fob tbe present at tetst—-subpended. in the meantime ttrepublte wits wMt <U» kee What the QommtaionerefclSbttiit created by the hew Land act, and now in seteion, : wttl do.*; BhouH that tribunal, In good ftotih ahow adlspoeitloM to right the grievances of the tenant farmers, possibly the oause fox further agitAtien frill be otoviafteL Twte th&ianapolis News says: “At'lorney General Baldwin has returned from Washington, where h* ’tfc'nt to arrange foe Hre flffesentatiou of the $300,600 War claim to 'Congtete at the opening of ha December session* He also file other claims amounting, to $400,000. Judge' Baldwin is confident that these cteims Will be Allowed •oener or tatter, fourteen other Statfe have similar claims averaging $560,060 efoh,and pcftiticiAns Will be alow to alloW anv Of thete) but tudian'a’s totaird Will be eventually allowed befilhse it is Just The report of the Dirt&ibr df tbe Mint. relative to life . production of ptWelolis metals for the fiscal year 1830 shows that the estimated.producliou of in gold has been sustained* and that the value 6f silver produced during 1888, natfiely, exWeds the estimate of the Director by $1,500,000. Silver bullion purchased during the fiscal year for coinage •mounted to ’ $21,262,571 standard fomoes,Worth in its coinage value $28,282.810, and the deposit of silver coin and bullion not of domestic production was $2,507,776, df wbiebich probably $2,000,000 was purchased and used., The statue ot Liberty donated by Frenchmen to America,and to be placed on Bedloe’s Island, in New York harbor, is approaching nompletion. It is a female form 12Q feet high, from whose brow an electric light will guide the great ships safely to port. It is so near complete that it is expected to be in position In about eighteen month? or twd years hence at most. It is made of hammered copper, the - expense being borne by the people) ,of France. Tbe statue will stand on a pedestal of masonry 100 feet in height, giving the light gleaming from the diadem an altitude of 250 feet.

Commissioner Dudley estimates that there will be a deficiency in the payment'of pensions this year of >20,000, making the entire expenditure under that head >70,000,000. . For next year'he will ask an appropriation of >100,000,000, and expects that the annual pension ' appropriations will have* to be oenttahsd at about that amount until the pension'arrearages have been all settled, after which the annual pension expenditure will be kbout >40,000,000. The Commissioner favors liberal appropriations and a large increase of ths clerical force in his department so that the great mass of claims pending may be adjudicated and paid as speedily as possible.

JTle Villainy of “grave, yard insurance” is shown up in a special dispatch from Harrisburg, Pa., as “Henry Stewart, a negro aged about 80 years, who at one time was insured lor >125,000, died last night in this city. Last su aimer Stewart came near dying, and the symptoms of his disease strongly indicated poisening. His illness was due to drinking whisky adulterated with strychnine. Several of the persons who held policies on bis life are said to have given liqudr vendors orders to give him all the Whisky he Wanted and charge the amount to them. This is about all he received for allowing himself to be insured. The relatives of the old man will take steps to enjoin the compa■nies tn which he Jias been insured from- paying to the men who held policies on his life."

A Philadelphia dentist has fan vented a surgical engine that will out al< g otTki thirty seconds and shave toa bone in two,, minutes. The machine consists of an u origin iren standard about four foot high, end a couple of inches in diameter, with a foot treadle and driving wheel at the base. At the top Id a flexible arm, being a long iron bar, with- the shoulder) elbow aq'd wrist made flexible. Into the wrist part a band piece is. sc re wed, and at the end of this is a small circular saw. An endless cord, attached to the driving wheel tubs up the standard and along the arm. and as the wheel wks revolved b/ q>e ? m,oyement of the treadle the circular sawWenV- at th? rttte eMB.OOO revc&tons per minute. Various aizefl in it and also drills for perforating bone. Tiie msobluo bM already been tested in hospitals.

ble way, Mar Ortod Rapda, Mibb. The history of the GarfieM family sbowa that this sorvivtahr brother, though less fortunate than Ute younger was too boor io visit the President on irissick-bed, though In esfteitowttaß to very much, te te I* regretted that tire privilege was not placed wlthfatebMoti. it MM W a j gnat odnsofattan ta> this nsbte man wh<V*t£ils jte abar, toilsdtoeam the mougyito buy .James Bifair afaboes, and who often carried the future Prre> ideal on. Wk ; .uft»k tn school, to have seen that gram! brother taj h|s list hours, amid the surroundings of his great eminence, retoeitjng frttW him at least a bahd pressure-orajook of affeclien to cherish «B • memory during bis remaining ydhrs. L, z

. • The demand ftrf “servant girls” in far in excess oftbe supply. Perhaps if tbe name of thta Class of fsorkgrs coyld be cfiangi'dl to “tady domestic*^’or softietbing like that, with I corresponding modification of their Boblal status, lhere woU(if tte less objection to the service. “Indy clerks,” “tady behfa keepers,” “lady telegraph afcftVatorsi” ►’lady competitors” and mhuy tfiher “huly” employes .are numerous in tbe )*nd'. Why should there not be “lady domestics ’” Tie inatoe of ‘servant” is not agre< ablh to American earft, and lhere is really no good reason why it should be applied, in imitation of lire Social dib Unctions headed toy royalty and the Mobility, to domestic . lat*fr In A IsbA Where all honorable, labor is respectable. 07 couise snobbery will out that la impossible that household wdrkbrs shall be any thing but servants, but while snobbery mainfa'Vis that p 6 sition. and “tbe rest of mankind” ae* cepts it, the demand for ilbftrestio service will alWiy's exdeed the supply, and the service Instead of being ae It might be, the beat la the World, will continue as It ft In thia country the Worst on the face of the earth. Aa a Xjiie, In the nature of the c*«e, thelre cannot be such a thing this country aft good ,l ri»Wiintß,” while tb?rq fmignt easily bt?, instead, a rule of tbe very oest and most agreeable of domestic helper*.

Some weeks ago, in Mississippi, D. 8. Ipve, a prominent business rtlafi, acd a Mr. Lanifer, Were suitors for the Ifand of a young lady. The lady finally decided In faVor ofLadier,and they wtere married, whereupon Love publfcly aasaUed hek character in the vilest t'erma, uring language utterly unfit for publication. Lanlet vowed vengeance, And started in piirsiilt of Love overtaking hilh a few days since at Greenville Mississippi. At twenty paces distance Larmer poured the contents of a double barreled shot-g'dn into Love’s body and tbe latter retreated. Lanier billowed, shooting revolver bullets into his now crawling victim until the latter reached a manure pile and died upon it with fourteen bullets and » handful of buckshot in his carcase. He died faca downward, and when turned over his mouth and eyes were filled with manure. Lxneir piaoxl himself in the custody of the officers of the law, and was taken before Judge Vallie nt, the Mayor Of tbe City, who is vouched for as ‘‘otte of our most highly respected citizens.” In rendering his decision the Mayor said* “I kava been a 'practicing lawyer for more than twenty years, ehd I have never seen or read of such a case as this. There is no law to which the defendent in a ease like this could appeal. If any one In a position like that occupied by him had BUed for damages, he would simply have been laughed at. It is, therefore, my opinion that he did just what lor arty other man of honor would do, and I- therefore discharge the prisoner and bid him go hence without delay.” The decisiou Bas received with shouts of applause.