Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1881 — HERE AND THERE. [ARTICLE]

HERE AND THERE.

Patti has been engaged to sing at the Cincinnati May Festival. Forty persons were killed Saturday, n Italy, by an explosion in a sulphur mine. Thr town, of Manzanillo, Mexico, was destroyed by a tornado on October 28th. The new hc’se disease in New York city, is regarded form of typhoid pneumonia. , The fast trains between New York, and Chicago make a run of thirty-five miles an hour. A young man died in New York the other day from pyemia, caused by decayed teeth. Thr vote of Pennsylvania at the recent election was 237,000 less than that of Last year. Thr majority for Cameron, in Virginia, with all the counties heard from, is reported to bell 304. Some of the pub’.ic schools at South Bend have been suspended on account of the presence of small-pox. The largest single contribution to the Michigan sufferers, SSOO, was made by Capt. Eads, the Jettyman. The public schools at Niagara, OaL, have been suspended on account of the prevalence of diphtheria. A weeping beech, pyramidal oak, a Rockeye and a silver fir are to be planted around the grave of Garfield. • The National Board of Health expended $440,898 from Its organization April 1, 1879, to June 80th. 1881. Seven shocks of earthquake in the interior of Italy recently caused a considerable loes of life and property.

The summer residence of Hon. Wayne McVeagh, near Philadelphia, was destroyed by fire, Wednesday. Internal Revenue Commissioner Raum has collected 1600,000,000 without the loes of a dollar by defalcation. A National convention of Irishmen ia sailed to meet in Chicago on the lust., for a three days* session;' ARCHbishop Purcell is so entirely helpless that he is fed with a spoon by the Ursuline filters who are nursing him. , Earthquakes are still shaking the island of Seto, and the sinking city q_ ■Bcio has been abandoned by its inhabitants. ,[ * The Emperor of Germany is said to be desirous of a reconciliation between the Cath< lie Church and his Govern- ' meet. v - ___ Bush fires in .Ontario, during the season .Just passed, caused a less of between fourteen and fifteen millions of dollars. •„ - The former wu«»ot iGuiteau, Mrs. Dunsmore, who notv lives in Leadville, has been summoned as a witness iu his trial. A large potton mill at 1 Evansville pa.-, sso wcil that, another is to be erected in the spring at a cos-t of near half a million dollars. . * Several ex-members of Congress will go to Washington next week tp boom the candidacy of Mr. Orth for - the Speakership.* The Polatka Journal says the Florida orange crop will reach the enormous and unprecedented number of 85,000,000 oranges. The presence of another comet has been discovered in the vicinity of “Cassioj eia’s chair.” It is supposed to be the comet of 1812. A new and destructive diatimper has broken out among horses in New York, and is spreading rapidly, especially among work horses.

Secretary Lincoln alll ask Con- . «Te»-s when it assembles to define tbe -statu* ot the Signal Service and that it be entirely reorganized. The apple crop of Maine this year Is enormous, the quali.y of the' fruit is • superb. and farmers are getting $3 a barrel for it at their own doors. The Czar is paving the way to important reforms in local self-govern-ment, which government is a redeeming feature in the Russian system. - 4 It is decided that tbe corruption of' ‘ the Cochituate water with which B-*-ton is supplied is due to the presence of enormous numbers of dead eels. A crank who bad been writing threatening let'em to Jay Gould, was trapped and arresed ' Sunday. He •‘fessed up” and was put out ot harm * *»y- ‘ At Deadwood, I'l uraday morning, the thermometer marked fF below Bern, and yet tbe people es Dakota want to .snuggle up to the Union Ugh! It seems to be proved that tbe Ninth Regiment of Massachusetts disgraced itself at the Yorktown Centennial by O>ndtict unbecoming in soldiers anil gentlemen.

The Pope and his advisers have formally Indorsed tbe action of the CaUiuiw iH>uvpn of Ireland in oppoe* log tbe continuance of. Land League agitation. * The Church Extension Committee of the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, has fixed the amount to be'asked of each conference at 5146 875. . Irish landlords, foreseeing the inevitable, like D*vy Crocket's coon, are coming down, of their own accord, in preference to having then rents adjus ed by the Land Commission. . aak Vincennes Common Council has granted tbe right to erect water works to an incorporated company. Tbe city is to have 144 hydrants for fire protection, at a coat of $9 000. At Battle Ci< e*, Mien., the contractor who was taking down an old jail found two glut) greenback*, and • large •mount of g« hi and jweJry, In • erev feggf th* wall,hMden there by Ujievea.

The cases in tthe Irish Land Court have been piled up to the number of over 40,000, and there appears to be danger that the court will be smothered under the immensity of its burden. Thr grand jury at Indianapolis has returned indictments against the leading publishers of newspapers in that city, for publishing lottery advertisements in violation of a provision of the new code. • The Irish people pay about $90,000.OCO for rents every year, and it is estimated that at least $75,000,000 of this vast sum goes out of that country to be spent in riotous living in the great cities of Eutope. , The strength of the regular British army—including the regular troops in India and the colonies—is 296,000 men; of the militia, 126.000 men, and of the reserves, 42,000 men. The cost in time of peace is $75 000 000 a year.

The total amount of bonds continued at 3} per cent is $579,560,060, and the total cost to the government attending the refunding operations was about SIO,OOO, of which nearly $6,OCO was for paper and printing the new bonds. Jk < The arrest of Tobin, an* active Fenian, at London, a few days age,.led to the discovery of the existence o' an organization called the “Royal Irish Republican Society,” which has for its ■Object the establishment of an Irish Republic, by foice of arms. The value of choir singers in St. Louis is stated to be about as follows: A good tenor from SSOO to SI,OOO a year; good baritones from S4OO to $800; a good second basso (scarce), $1,000; sopranos, mezzos and altos from S6OO to $1,000; bassos, not quoted.

The official returns ’from every county in the State of Pennsylvania give Bailey, the straight Republican nominee for State Treasurer, 7,002 plurality over Noble, Democrat Wolf, the independent Republican candidate received about 40,000 votes. * A member of the Canadian Parliament receives SI,OOO per annum and 10 cents per mile for traveling expenses. The turn of $8 per day is deducted for every day’s absence of a member,unless the same U caused by illness. The Speaker of the House gets $4,000 per annum. The Mayor and, Board of Public Works of Cincinnati, have approved an ordinance for the appointment of au Inspector of Furnaces, and requiring all users of steam and other. furnaces to provide tome satisfactory method of preventing the smoke nuisance, which has grown to such magnitude by the use of soft coal. A leading furniture establishment of Cleveland has been given the contract by the relic bureau to manufacture articles from the lumber used in the Garfield catafalque. They enter bonds in the sum of SIOO,OOO not to manufacture from lumber other than that used at the obsequies. The articles will Le sold for the benefit of the Garfield monument fund.

California a curious case at law as follows: “Olive and Henry Wood,'of Santa Clara county, had been married and divorced. ‘He courted her a second time, and promised to marry her, but did not live up to his vows; She became a mother, and sued him for S2O 000 damages for breach of promise. Judgement was given by by default for $5,000, and the case api>ealed t® the Supreme Court, which affirmed the decision of the lower court.” i A movement has been started by railroad authorities to induce the use of tfie word “station” instead of “depot” . in reference to passenger buildings and conveniences. Station is the English word that correctly describes such places, while “depot” is a French word meaning “a place of deposit” The reform suggested is desirable. Let us all speak and write “station" instead of “depot” The price of potatoes is rapidly declining in New York city, and it is to be hoped that an elimination of the ficticious, speculative value of all provisions will speedily follow. The legitimate advance in the price of the necessaries of living, caused by crop failures and tbe law of supply and demand, is a sufficiently heavy burden upon the wages classes, without the addition of forced values caused by speculation.

The Holy Synod of the Russian issued a Jecree forbidding priests to refuse the rites of religion in the cases of persons whose deaths bava notoriously been caused by the excessive use of spirituous drinks. It is stated that from time immemorial the R-AMiian clergy have l>een accustomed •to class such deaths with suicides, and as such have declined to give the body Christian burial. Senob Emilio Cabtelab, in the course of a speech in theHpanbh cones tbe other day, said in describing tbe various forms of government, in tones of deep emotion that thrilled through tbe bouse and galierwM, alluding to Presklent Garfield: . “How can ws terget that noble chief of a free people who fell at his post of herw/r, a martyr to duty, after an honorable ar»d brave career, an example of republican fortitude, and tern by tbe hand of a cowardly aasaasin from hl* devoted wife, bls loving children, hl* true colleagues and a great nation.”

The Churchman shows that even though the lamented Garfield’s life was cut short at apparently the very zenith of its glory, yet It was grandly complete: If it was Mr. Garfield’* ambition to build for hlmael! a wider fame than man ever be fore gained, be succeeded, If M-was Mr. Garfield's ambition to build in himself a kingly example of private and public virtues, he succeeded. If it was Mr. Garfield’s ambition Io serve hi* country in bi* Hl* and In hU death, be succeeded. If it was Mr. Garfield's ambition to die In such a manner that all g<x>j men may well envy him, he succeeded. A Washington *j»eci*l say*: “The government baa some ten or twelve letters written by Gulteau to President Garfield, some of them demanding tbe Austrian mission or the oonsul-gener-•hhlp at Paris, atd others (threatenlng 14* ip® unl'-es bls demands arstcoeded k, Tbeegistgnnepf Vhgae letter* has

f been kept a profound secret, and their production will undoubtedly create a decided establish the fact that the murder was premeditated several weeks before the fatal 2d of July, and was the result of a deliber ately formed purpose.” Prince Bismarck appears to be preparing himself for the part of “awful example” in a German movement for temperance reform. Here is his reported bill of fare anef fluid for one dinner: |Onion soup with port wine, a saddle of wild boar together with beer; upon this, Irish stew, turkey, chestnuts, all washed down with red wine at discretion; finaly dessert, in which pears are conspicuous. The Prince is exceedingly fond of trout and hard-boiled eggs. His favorite drink is said to bo porter mixid with champagne, though be has a strong liking for a compound invented by Von Moltke, consisting of hot tea, sherry and champagne.”

A curiOUß conflict his risen between the Administration and the office of the Public Prosecutor at Moscow relative to the right of parents in Russia to imprison their children, and a commission has in consequence been appointed to inquire into the subject. The article of the penal c >de Under which this power is exercised, limits the confinement to from two to four months in a public prison. Tbe Russian Journals state that the absolute authority of tbe parentsis not tempered by any mitigatiug word, though the edition of the general collection of laws published in 1857 is careful to forbid parents selling their children, and the civil code now in force solemnly reminds them that they have no power over their lives.

During the days that the body of President Garfield lay in state in Cleveland a woman annoyed the wid ow and the friends with whom she was then staying, by most presistent efforts to get Queen Victorla’B wreath and some of the other floral relics from the catafalque, for the purpose, as then represented, of embalming and preserving the flowers for Chicago ladies to present to Mrs. Garfield. She was frequently rebuffed, but finally procured a card from Stanley Brown to the Mayor of the city, irom whom she succeeded in getting a number of the floral pieces. She took them to Chicago, and now has advertised them for, sale, claiming to have paid several thousand dollars for them.

A Washington special eays: “It is more than probable that the action of the court to-day finally and forever disposes of the star route prosecutions. In every care, with but one possible exception—that of Dorsey—the statute of limitation Intervenes and bars any criminal proceeding. The counsel for the government maintain, however, that the battle which has been go'ng on In the courts for the matter of a week is but a mere preliminary skirmish, and that behind it they have sufficient evidence to make a ease by regular proceeding before the grand jury for presentment aud indictment. Still, however, the current of opinion is that tbe last has been heard of the star route business.” .

The capture of the wculd-be-black-mailer of Jay Gould,a New York paper eays, was one of the cleverest bits of police work that has been accomplished in a long time. It having been observed that all the letters from tbe blackmailer passed through Station E. Inspector Byrnes secured from Postmaster Pearson the services of fifty letter carriers for one day, and every letter-box in tbe district was watched by one letter carrier and one detective, both in citizen’s dress. When any person deposited a letter in the box, tbe carrier instantly opened the box, and it was arranged that if the letter wa.one addressed to Jay Gould, tbe carrier should raise his hat as a signal to the officer, who was in the meantime to keep the person in view. By this clever device the bird was finally caught, and is likely to learn that the way of the blackmailer is hard.

An Italian law court has just bad to decide a case of great interest to fowls. The Duca di Lavella and his brother, the Marchese di Ban Marco, had patented an instrument, called “tbe mechanical stufter,” for feeding and fattening fowls against their will. The Italian Society for the Prevention of Cruely to Animals prosecuted the two noblemen before the tribunal of Naples, and-they were sentenced to a fine, the Judge remarking that he thought it was certainly cruel to make fowls eat when they were not hungry, and to fatten them grossly for tbe mere delectation of epicures’ palates. But the Duke and Marquees appealed against, this decision, and tbe Judges of the higher court, while regretting that they had to give up a whole day to what they described as a trivial ques tion, felt bound to reverse the finding of the lower court. They decided, in fact, that to fatten fowls with a mechanical stutter is not cruel.

A gentleman of much intelligence and trustworthiness, who has just arrived from Panama, gives a very gloomy account of the state of things at the Lesaeps canal. Tbe death rate 1* alarming, especially among foreigners. Of 200 Frenchmen sent out within the last few weeks, and who arrived rijddy and vigorous, eighty-five had died when be left, and nearly all the <rth*r* were In hospital. The Gallio immigrantsail take brandy and absinthe to excess, under the mistaken Impression that it will enable them to withstand the climate, while it has precisely the opposite effect, and hastens tbe coming of their certain doom. Alutrleans will not be templed by any wages to remalm. The only workman who can withstand ibe horror* of Um beat and rains are the West Indian negroes and those from around C*rthagena. Of course, these men will not work like English or French navvies, and can command, neverihefcw, I heir own prices. Tbecomeq icnce h that work estimated to emu three cents a foot has cost fl 60. TheHtate authorities of Indiana will t y tp make the mutual benefit life insurance societies pay the deposit of SIOO,OOO to the State Treasurer, the same a* commercial insurance companies. This will oom® very hard on tbe R'jal A i can urn,' Knight* of Honor ana other secret benevolent bodies.