Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1881 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

Home I toms. The damage caused to public and private property by the floods around Quincy, 111., Is estimated at over $3,000,000. During the past fiscal year the United States Quartermaster General’s Department disbursed $1,705,206 less than the appropriation. lowa has 457 mines in operation Employing 6,176 men. and has for the current year mined 3,500,000 tons of coal, worth $7,000,000-on the dump. Small-pox is raging at Madison, Indiana. There are twelve cases there, and two deaths have occurred. The trustees have ordered the schools closed. The Methodist Eidscoi>al Conference, which adjourned in New York Tuesday. during their session appropriated for foreign ami domestic missions the sum of $680,482. The State Depsrtment knows noth-, ing of any Coufcdrate moneys in England, and will not nake the new financial craze a subject for any diplomatic correspondence. xMiss Emma Smith, of Peoria, 111., has been admitted to the histological department of the Leipzig (Prussia) University, being the first lady ever accorded that honor. G«n. Lew Wallace, the United States Minister to Turkey, has amicably arranged with Said Pasha for the trial of the brigand Kivass, among whose victims had been scveial Americans. It is claimed by persans who have seen both that the Vtianta Cotton Exposition exceeds in interest and to far exceed in value to this country the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia.

The State Capitol of Texas, at Austin, was burned to ashes Wednesday. Besides the archives of the republic of Texas, the battle flags of the Alamo were consumed. The building cost $300,000. The Department of Justice is considering charges which have been made against Cbiet Justice Sherman, of Dakota, who desires reappointment. A Chinese missionary student named Ah Kirn, at Marietta (£hio) College, committed suicide Tuesday morning with a dose of chloral or chloroform, because a servant girl had rejected his proffered love. Baldwin, cashier of the Mechanics National Bank, of Newark, N. J., has been released on SIOO,OOO bail. His bondsmen are his brothers, H. P.,Wm. H., aud Theodors F. Baldwin, and seven other persons. At the Michisau Agricultural College, Lausii.g, thirty-three students were suspended for complicity in robbing a melon patch, ana then in fore ing the man who was robbed to refund the money paid him by the thief. Among recent suicides in Chicago, caused directly or otherwise by drink, was that of Mis. Melville, who was fbuud dead in her bed. It was stated at the inques’tliutsho had not drawn a sober breath since last June. At a Jewish fair held at the Music Hall, at Cincinnati, which closed Saturday evening, the receipts for ten days amounted to $57 000, of which $50,000 was clear profit. The fair was for the Jewish Orphan Asylum, Clever land. Nugent, the aider and abettor of flaldwin, the mastodon embezzler of the Mechanics’ National Bank, of Newark, N. J., is worth $1,000,000 in real estate, much of which will be taken for the benefit of the bank’s creditors. • * Two three-story tenement houses in New York City, situated on the corner of South Fifth avenue aud Grand street, fell in, burying their occbpants in the ruins. Seven dead bodies have so tar been recovered, and a number of wounded were removed to the hospital. Sullivan, alios Delaney, one of the young men who was sentenced at Little Rock, Ark., to twenty years imprisonment in the penitentiary for robbing a train on the Iron Mountain Railroad, died of "home sickness.” He was 23 years of age. Mr. Church, Examiner of Interferences, of the United States Patent Office, is engaged in hearing an interesting case involving the question, •'Who invented the telephone.” About twelve lawyers are engaged, and the testimony is very voluminous.

Mrs. Garfield has wrlten from Mentor, Ohio, to the Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of th National Garfield Hospital, Washing ton, a letter expressing her sympathy with the,object which she regards as a grand tribute to the memory of her departed husband. The Commitee of the National Garfleid Memorial Hospital are making strenuous efforts to make it a success. Appeals were made in a large number of churches Sunday, and Secretary Blaine has appealed to American Ministers aud Consular agents to secure contributions. The Commissioner of Pensions recommends that Congress be asked to appropriate $100,000,000 for the disbursement by his office for the year ending June 30, 1883, in payment of annual and accrued pensions. He also requires $20,000,000 to pay the arrear claims for the current year. Fire destroyed the Eagle Dock, Hoboken, Sunday afternoon. Thesteam-

ship, Rialto, trading between Hoboken and Hull, England, and the excursion steamer Plymouth Rock, narrowly escaped the lire by being towed into mid stream. Tbe total loss is estimated at $500,000. A quarrel between the city officers and lire department delayed the latter till the tire had got good headway. Boycotting has commenced n InUnited States. The Central Branch of thelrieh National Land League a Boston, have decided not to purchase any goods of English manufacture. As English goods are very succesfully imitated by American manufactures, tills rule of theßostou-Irish may prove injurious to home industries. A Land League meeting was held in the Tenth Ward, Chicago, Sunday. The first speaker was in favor of abolishing rents, not only in Ireland, but in tlie United States. The next speaker recommended that there be no politics, aud that Ireland was not yet ready to fight. - An interesting incident is narrated by the Washington Star as oocuring at a Cabinet meeting held soon after the York town celebration. The President thought it the Attorney General’s duty to conduct the prosecution of Guiteau, the assassin. Mr. McVewgh denied this. The President thereupon named two prominent lawyers to prosecute Guiteau. * r

Foreign. On account of the failure of the crops in Northern Russia, a famine is feared. Political relations between Mexico and Guatemala are said to be very oritical. has asked Russia for an ex-

planation of the arrest of three French men in St. Petersburg. On leaving Ha warden, his country residence, for London, Mr. GlwJstcne was guarded by constables.

Ex-President Dias was married, by civil process, in the City of Mexico on Tuesday evening to Miss Romero Rubiso. The Land Court is doing its work well, and making large reductions in rent, to the delight of the tenant formers. Parnell U unwillingly admitting that, after all, the land act may prove as successful as Mr. Gladstone designed it to be. His Holiness, the Pope, has again expressed himself strongly in condemnation of the proceedings of the Irish Laud Lesgue. Among the newly appointed subcommissioners of the Land Court is ex-Attorney General McDcvltt, of Queensland, Australia. At Darjeeriug, India, choleraic fever is unusually prevalent It Is said that 9.000 deaths have occurred, being ten time as many as in previous years. To facilitate the working of the land act nine new commissioners have been appointed, of whom six are practical agriculturalists and three are barristers.

Auother great robbery of the Government In Havana. The Treasury assessment books were purloined by a dishonest clerk, and for want cf them the government suffers a loss of $30,000,000. Irish landlords are in great fear that the decisions of the Land Court will prove ruinous to them, and will hold out a premium to indolent and incompetent farmers.

King Asbakree, of New Calabar, Africa, is engaged in a sanguinary war with some of the more powerful chiefs. Yellow fever is causing terrible havoc in Senegal. ~ Bismarck is not left helpless. The Conservative committee telepraphed nim that they will oppose the Progressists in the Reichstag. Bismarck replied. gratefully thankiDg them.

It is feared that six fishing boats of Boulogne, wbioh left that port two weeks ago, were lost in the terrible storm of October 14, on the French cosat. There were 119 men on board. The tenants on the estate of Sir John Ennis, at Atblone, held a meeting at which it was resolved to ask for reduced rents, and in theevi-nt of refu<>al to take the request to the Land Court. Ihere are 5,000 tenants on the estate. The Central Executive Committee of the British Land League, has issued a violent manifesto, in which they pretend the League is still in existence, aud ask for more money. A man named Finn, Secretary of the Dublin League, has been arrested for advocating “No rent" Venice, the “silent city of the sea,” will soon lose that character. The authorities have sold a right to a steamboat company to navigate the large canals, and the smaller ones are to be filled up. This course will take ail the romance from the ancient queen of the Adriatic. The Lend League organ, Cnited Ireland, in its recent issue, alluding to the fact that the league has been crushed vi et armis, /-acknowledges that on financial assistance from Irish-Ameri-cans alone dependsAhe future existence of anti-British agitation.

The German political struggle seems to be narrowing down to Catholic vs. Jew. For instance, Liebenacht, a Socialist, was elected at Mavence by a large majority, being assisted by Catholic votes, and defeating a Progressist. Bismarck, lu entertaining a promineht Jewish manufacturer at Varzin apologised for the sympathy he had apparently manifested for the antiSemitic party. In responding to their dispatches and letters he had only done so as a matter of courtesy, and would have done the same for the Progessists. The Marquis of Salisbury, one of the leaders of the Conservative party in EDgland, asserts that the operation of the land act will drive capital from Ireland. “In a country from which capital is repelled,” he says, “there is little hope for labor.”