Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1881 — HERE AND THERE. [ARTICLE]

HERE AND THERE.

.Baltimore has a cam of genuine leprosy. The Florida orange crop la very large this year. The President has designated the 24th as ThankagiYlog Day. The Spanish Government has released all political prisoners. There were 2,281 deserters from the United States Army last year. Baltimore baa a new ordinance prohibiting the sale of toy pistols. Seventy patents were issued to women inventors during the year 1880. ' Judge Cox, of Minnesota, has been impeached for habitual intemperance. The Irish Land Court has received 19,000 applications foe adjustment of rests. There i»a pleasant prospect that '.he Sprague divorce case will be settled by compromise., In lowa a Judge may adjourn his ooortrby telegraph if he is unable to be present in person. The resignation of Hon. John W. Foster, Minister to Russia, has been tendered and accepted.

During the last ten years the Baptists have gained .761,418 members in fifteen Southern States. - It is said that Vanderbilt and Gould have united their forces in efforts to gain contrsi of the Erie railroad. Two c/dets h|Lve been sentenced to four months imprisonment at West Polnl, for hazing. Good enough! Elhven local fire insurance companies in New York city have been driven to the wall by recent heavy losses. The Supreme Court of Massachusetts has just decided that women are toot' eligible to practice law lp that State. It Is sa'.d that the great Vanderbilt has been warned by his physician, that death by apoplexy may cut him down at any moment. If Secretary Blaine remains in office antll'the first of January, he will have been twenty-two years continuously in (he public service. It is believed by excellent authority that, at the present rate of taxation, the entire National debt may be paid within the next ten years.

Lefroy, the murderer of Gold, a capitalist, near London England, last summer,has been found guilty aud sen fenced to be hanged. It is estimated that $8,000,000 are expended annually in the Southern States for snuff, chiefly to supply the demands of snuff'dippers. Recent flobds In Honduras have eaused the loss of 5,000 lives and damaged and destroyed propefty to the amount o#(920,000,000. Secretary Blaine says he has been dk-oharged from the corps of aspiraots "cured of the Presidential fever,” but that disease is easily caught again. The church of St. Stephen, iu Lynn, Mass., has a mosaic pavement,'laid in an ancient Roman pattern, and composed of fifty-eight thousand pieces of stone.

The advance iu the' price of the necessaries-of life is discouraging to buyers. Even,diamonds have risen 25 • s per cent. What is to become of poor editors? It seems to be proved that the Ninth Regiment of Massachusetts disgraced itself at the Yorktowu Centennial by conduct unbecoming in soldiers and gentlemen. ' The subscriptions to the Garfield monument fund at Cleveland amouted to $50,000, aday or two siuce, and were slowly but surely swelling to larger proportions. An examination of the materials used in the manufacture of beer is to beamade all over the couqtry, under the authority of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. • There were coined by the United - States Mints bu-ing the months of October 648,500 gold eagles; 775,000 half-eagles; 2 350,000 silver dollars, and 4,350,000 cent pieces. Some Irish farm-teuahtshave ad >ptcd a new plan—giving notes to landlotds to pay their rent as soon as Parnell and his imprisoned associates of the Land League shall be liberated. *

Tub House of the Washington Territory Legislature, passed a bill giving the right of suffrage to women, by a vote 'of 13 to 10, but the bill has just been defeated in the Senate by a vote of 7 to 5. The Supreme Court of this Btate decided that the playing of billiards and pool where the loser pays for the game, is gambling, and that the proprietor of the tables is amenable under the statute for keeping a gaming house. r Aboct WO, OOO have.been subscribed for tbe Garfield Memorial Hospital at Washington. Mrs. Garfield has written a letter warmly approving that project, and expressing her intention to contribute to it* success. ,

Tv in repoted that Bismarck, being unwilling to remain at the bead'd a government be can no U*ng*r propose* to resign. Tbe Jen* *\m* in Germany certainly imytj * w**t of confidence In him end Me *■'<#> **, It ie said that the families «d President Arthur and ;the praaerd Iy»rd Mayor of London, were intimately connected in former days, and ibat many relatives of the. two distinguished rorp are still living in County Antrim, It Is stated that General Hbermsn is one of the principel witne*** for the defense in the star route cat's, be . having signed many petitions for lvereaeiog the service, and being Closed to Insist upon the. necessity of aft be aaked for,

The silver certificate Jteems \o Is .filling a large place in the business of the country. There are 988,020,000 of these certificates outstanding and daily employed, while only 1248,000 silver dollars remain in the Treasury thkt are not represented in circulation by this paper medium. The expenses of our Government were $6,030,070 less daring the fiscal year 1880-’Bl than daring the previous fiscal year. In the meantime there was an increase of $27,255,881 in the general revenue. During the year |OO,872.261 was expended in the reduction of the national debt

.The Pope expresses sore displeasure at the recent cordial reception the Emperor of Austria gave to the King of Italy. The Austrian Emperor has teen regarded as one of the strongest props of the Papal Government, and his friendly treatment of the Pope’s chief temporal enemy is not relished.

According to the last report of the United States Commissioner of Agriculture, it appears that 7,000,000 persons in the United States are engaged in agricultural pursuits. The total value of farms and farm implements is $13,401,200,433, or two-thirds of the productive wealth of the nation. A telegram from Hong Kong, states that a terrific typhoon has ravaged Western Tonquion. Two hundred churches, thirty-four parsonages and colleges,and2,ooo houses have been destroyed, and 6,000 Christians ruined, who are without resources. The losses are immense, and the distress terrible. The telegram begs for promptest help. There is one pinching place in the prosperity of the country. The cost of living has been greatly increased while the wages of labor remain stationary, yet it was labor that created our proeperity. There’s an unsolved problem of statesmanship of huge dimensions in this situation.

The population of some parts of India is being decimated oy a scourge of "choleric fever.” From Mecca, ih Arabia, there are reports of ravages by cholera. In this country malarial diseases have never been so prevalent as at present, In the East, West and South much sickuees is reported. an American citizen, named Chester, while traveling in Chili and Peru during the late war between the two countries, was arrested by the Chilian commander at Callao, and cast in a dungeon, has filed a claim for $50,000 in the State Department at Washington for damages against the Chilian Govern mint Several years ago a colored man named Lewis, at New York, died, leaving $1,500,000 to the government to pay the national debt. Ills heirs contested the will and have fought In every court for it, but it ts now decided that the executors of the must account to the Government for every dollar of the legacy. During the month of October the Government received from customs $18,200,000; from internal revenue (whisky and tobacco principally), $15,200,COO,and from miscellaneous sources, $4,000,000, or a grand total of $87,400,000. The total* expenditures during the same time weie, including $4,000 000 for pensions, $16,000,000.

The final report of the assignee in the case of Mrs. Sarah E. Howe, of the fraudulent Ladies’ Deposit Bank of Boston, new in jail, and awaiting trial on the charge of. "crooked” transactions as manager of the so-called bank, has been submitted to the court. It shows that 1,074 depositors have proved claims amounting to nearly $400,000. Gen. Rooer A. Pryor, in speaking of the Confederate bond speculation, says: "It is merely gambling. These investors think a time may come when the bonds will be salable at something more than they are paying for them now. They will never be worth anything unless they sell as curiosities. The value of Confederate bonds is null, and the South wifi never pay a penny of that debt”

Smitten in conscience, -or scourged by assessments, the people of Douglassville Pehn., who have been dealing largely in gravcyßrd insurance,have resolved to march in selemn procession, led by a dirge-playing band to the public square, and then and there commit their policies to flames that will purify their town of the iniquity. The United States Deputy Marshal at Boston has summoned for the defense in the Guiteau case the followingnamed witnesses: Norwood Damon, David Erskiue (in whose house the assasin boarded), and Frank L. Union. The witnesses are to report in Washington on the 14th instant. John W. Guiteau, the assjwsin’s brother, has t*en engaged to bring thirty-six letters aqd two family Bibles, to be used in evidence. -

The Agricultural Department has revised its estimates of the crops of corn and wheat for ’BO and ’Bl and now estimate the crops of wheat for’Bo at a total of 498,649,868, both winter and Spring. Tbe yield tot ’Bl is estimated at 400,000,000. The com yield for ’BO is 1,717,434,548 bushels, and for ’Bl at 1,251,000,000. The average yield 6f corn per acre for’Bo was 27J bushels and for ’Bl 19 2-3 bushels.

The story about ' General Grant’s eighty-two cases of valuable presents is pronounced a falsehood by Mrs. Grant, who says that f*w of tbe presents received abroad by the General were valuable, and th.it the great bulk of the contents of the cases consisted of articles purchased by him, blf eon Fred and Mr. John Ruaeell Y'sing. Hhe says, further, that It was •be General’s practice while abroad to 'lPmoorag* or refuse tbe presentation to him of valuable gifts.

Tbe assets of tbe wrecked Mechanics’ National Bank of Newark, N. J„ as reported by the Government examiner, amount to $2,036,262 98. and tbe liabilities $4,649,263.43. The actual deficiency is $2,411,000.46, which is to be made op by assessment on stockholders partly. Tbe examiner estimates, after making allowances for all probable losses, that depositors will receive from 60 to 60 per .cent., end that stockholders will lose an amount rqu*l to their stock additional Tug reforms ohd improvement* In

the Postoffioe Department, proposed and to be championed by Postmaster General James, are a redaction of letter postage to two cents; the establishment of the postal telegraph and postal savings banks; the running of special fast mail trains between the great commercial centers of the East

and West, and the issue of a currency which may be used for transmission in the mails in sum* of less than one dollar. Secretary Hunt has received the report of the Naval Advisory Board wljich has had under consideration the reorganization es the navy. The report says that there are now only twenty-one ships of war efficient or worth repairing, and the construction immediately of forty-one ships of various classes is recommended. Wood is considered the best material for gunboats, and for veeeelsof all other kinds a steel keel covered with wood and sheathed with copper. The cost of the forty-one vessels is estimated at $31,4)00,000, and It will take eight years to finish thrm.

Tbs London corresponds t of the New York World says: "The chief topic of conversation, cu’eide of Irish affairs, is the Yorktown celebration, and more especially the saluting of the British flag. Nothing that has occurred for many years has so deeply gratified the English people. The mark of good will from Americans is more esteemed than if all the other natlons'in the world had combined to pay a compliment to England. It is impossible to exaggerate the impression which the incident has created in the public mind. President Arthur’s graceful and dignified remarks have given the greatest pleasure to all classes, and beyond doubt wiH be most gratifying to the Queen, whose high respect for the Americans has been often manifested. She has never forgotten the mangnificent reception accorded to the Prince of Wales in 1860.”

Secretary Lincoln has appointed Thomas B Lynch to the position of a messenger in the War Department. Lynch’s career has been somewhat remarkable. In 1860 he enlisted-- with Colonel Keogh, the late Secretary of the National Republican Committee, and the two became fast friends. After the war Lynch drifted northward and took part in the Fenian raids. He was captured in Canada and sentenced to death. The Queen commuted his sentence and he went to prison. He spent five years in prison making shoes aud was ieleased. An outcast, he wandered, penniless and starving, over several States of the Union, and fianally drifted into Washington. Meeting Colonel Keogh in that city the other day, the two went to Secretary Lincoln, and the Colonel told the story of his friend’s adventures, with there suit as stated above.

The Supreme Court of the United States has just rendered an important decision, holding that where an agent deposits the money of the concern which he represents with his own money, and although he keep but one account, the bank is directly responsible to the concern, and the concern’s money can be recovered from it,though the agent may have drawn the money on his personal account; also, that if money held by a person iu a fiduciary capacity, though not as a trustee, has been paid hy him to his account at his banker’s, the person from whoa he holds the money can follow it, aud has a charge on the balance in the Banker's hands, even though it is mixed up with the depoeitor’s own money. The same court held that a penalty for failure to pay premium expressed in an insurance policy can be enforced in all cases, regardless es all or reasons that may be Assigned. It is again reputed in New York that the body of \he late merchant prince, A, T. Stewart, which was stoled from the place of its interment, some time ago has been recovered. The body, it is said, was recovered through the agency of an impecunious lawyer In New York, who received $12,000 of the $87,000 paid for it. The men who, it is alleged stole the body, are Frank McCoy, alias Big Frank, companion of Red Leary, Dan Noble, Baltimore Denis, and Johnny JJourdan—a most expert and dangerous bank robber— Canada Mack, a bosom companion of McCoy, and one John Scott, alias Scotty. These compose also the trio of worthies through whom the lawyer above referred to recovered the body for Mrs. Stewart, the condition precedent being that McCoy, Mack and Scott should enjoy immunity from arrest. In pursuanpe of this infamous arrangement the body of the hitherto unhurried dry goods millionaire was secretly conveyed to Garden City, aud interred there on Tuesday night last. Judge Hilton, it-is said, was no jiir'y ! to the arrangement, his determination being that thesacrillg<>ouß depredators should be prosecuted with the utmost rigor of the Jaw.

The State Board of Health met at Indianapolis last Thursday and organised by the election of Dr. John W. Campton of Evansville, as President, and Dr. Thaddenß M. Stevens, of Indianapolis, as Secretary. The Board is composed of the following persons in addition to the above: Dr. W. W. Vinnedge, of Lafayette; Dr. J. N, Partridge, of South and Dr. William Lomax, of Marion. The law under which the Board of Health has been created provides that its president shall hold office two years, and its secretary four years, the former serving without compensation and the latter receiving a- salary of $1,200 per annum. The secretary of the board is constituted tbe health officer of (Instate, and besides being (he costodiau of all the books, papers, documents and other property of the board, is to maintain frequent communications wilh other State and local boards of health, obtain contributions to a library and museum proposed to be established by ths board, and is also charged with • lie duty of collecting information concerning vital statistics, knowledge reflecting diseases, and all useful luurination on the subject of hygiene, tu b information to be disseminated among the people by means of an an uual report and otherwise. The board is to. Livp general supervision of (he JO«teni>T)f registration of births, deaths aud marriages provided for in the act, and la authorised to prepare and circu-

late the requisite forms for the oollec tion of sanitary and vital statistics.