Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1881 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

Home items. At Huntsville, Ala., Ryland Jones, colored, in trying to kill his own wife, shot the wife of Henderson Brandon. At Evansville, the wife of Jackson Bacon, put out his eyes with cayenne pepper because he refused to live with her. Postmaster General James, in his forth coming report, will give a history of the star-route system, with special reference to the conspiracy. It is said that an additional $40,000 bas been found in Captain Howgate’s grand total of embezzlement, and be is to be indicted by tbe Grand Jury. A pr< cession ot one thousand German residents of East Brooklyn, N. Y., marcli2<l to Cypress Hills Cune tery Bunday and planted an oak in memory of the late President Garfield. It is discovered that J. Howard Welles, Jay Gou’d's blackmailer, is a commissary who defrauded the government of at»out $2,000,000 and then went to Europe duringtbe war. At the session of the National Labor Congress in Pittsburg; resolutions were passed protesting against convict la bor, the “truck” system, and in favor of a reduction of working hours.

The steamship Bohemia, which sr rived at New York Tuesday, brought out 160 Russian and German Jews. It is said that 5,000 will emigrate this winter. They are mostly agriculturists. By the cansizingof an overcrowded skiff Saturday evening, at Troy, N. Y., seven persons were drowned. The accident was caused by the criminal carelessness of the Captains of three propellers. Near East Saginaw, Mich , at the salt and lumtier manufactory of Hamilton & McClure, ten boilers exploded Sunday morning. Four firemen were killed, and $25,030 worth of property wrecked.

In response to tbe charges made by the Connecticut Bible Society against the American Bible Society, the latter have issued an elaborate relply, deny-? ing the charges made by Mr. Dennis’, of the former society, and his accountant. Miss Clara Barton, the President of tho Ami rlcan Society of the Red Cross, to which offi jeshewas appointed by the ate Presi lent Garfield, is doing a noble work in spreading tbe principles and increasing the membership of the society. The National Labor Congress, In session at Pittsburg, perfected a federation of the labor unions of the United States and Canada to secure legi-lation favorable to tbe indusfrial classes, and for o her cognate objects. Tbe Industrial League of America, in session in Philadelphia, passed resolutions favoring the arrangement of export duties so as to protect home industries, the reduction of internal revenue, and the promotion of American ship building and ship owning interests.

Colone J. Howard Wells, an elderly gentleman ot high social standing in New York, has been arrested for Griting threatening letters to Jay would, the well knowr. capitalist, in mhich lie stated that God had comMissioned him to assassinate Gould. It w believed that the wrier is insane. , Tlie commission appointed by the Governor of Massachusetts to invest!-; gate the charges of scandalous conduct madeaga nst the Ninth Regiment of that State have found “a true bill” agaiust the regiment, arid Governor Long has instructed Colonel Strachan to report the names of tbe culprits within thirty'days that may bedishonorably discharged. “At tbe second day’s session of the Missionary Conference of the Episcopal Church in Boston, a choir of clereymen sang the choral parts of the Eucharistic service, the Right Rev. Dr. Whipple, Bishop of Minnesota, being the celebrant. The society reported excellent financial progress during the past three years. Bishop Whipple made an interesting report of his work among the Indians of the Northwest

. Foreign. Cholera is decimating the British troops in Barbadoes. French exports of food staples are increased, and the imports proportionately diminishing. A (.ir.i rsl jail delivery in Ruisia ot Nihilist prisoners will beheld previous to the Czar's coronation.

The losses at Gloucester, Mass., during the fishing season of 1881, have been 7 vessels and 48 men. Seven earthquakes are reported from Chaos—the village sinking Into the earth. The inhabitants have fled. In the center and south of Russia diphtheria, small pox and scarlet fever are raging with unprecedented severity. It is said that the immense cannon factory of Herr Krupp at Essen, is to be transferred to a joint stock company. Lieutenant Subanoff, accused of supplying the Nihilists with dynamite, has, it is said, been secretly executed in prison. At the late funeral obsequies of the late Most Rev. Dr. Mac Hale, Archbishop of Tuam, at Taum Cathedral, 200 priests officiated. In the suburbs of Bradford, Yorkshire, Eng., a box filled with revolvers, and containing a list of Fenians in England, was seized by the police. A pullman palace car company is about to establish a branch company in England, to run palace slee(ing-cars between London and Liverpool. The duel between Paul de Cassagnac and Adrien Montebello lasted twentyfive minutes. The latter,the challenger, was wounded in tbe right arm.

In County Mayo, Ireland, the County Commissioners have reduced rents 50 per cent. One thousand new applications ter reductions have been made. Woodstock, New Brunswick, was almost entirely destroyed for the third time by fire Thursday midnight. It Is believed to have been the work of incendiaries. Owing to the large number of cases which have accumulated In the Land Court, the Government proposes the appointment as a fourth tempowy sub oommiieion. Off Kingstown, Ireland, the coasting steamer Bo 1 way took ' re from the bursting of a barrel of naphtha. Blx pet sons were burned to death, and many others badly injured. Havana Hw-makera will increasi the export duty on cigars and tobacco from January 18, 1882. Hid news foi smokers. The duty on Cotton is to b« abolished at the same time. Bulldozing is again reported by IrLh patriots. A farmer named Gavin was dragged from his bed fired at five timesand severely wounded for having paid bis reut.

Bismarck proposes all kinds of popular reform now that his party has been so dcpkledly defeated. Among other lbings*he propose* that minorities be represented in the Reichstag.

Captain E M. Hhaw,- Chief of th London Fire Brigade, has written to Fire Marshal Swenie, asking for ‘“pointers” on the Chicago Fire Department, which is generally conceded to be the best in the world. The Nihilists have issued another number of their newspaper in St. Petersburg, in which the assassination of President Garfield is condemned in the strongest language, and the article enclosed in mourning lines. The captain and thirty-eight seamen of the Dutah steamer Koening der Nederlanden, which was wrecked about a month ago in the Indian Ocean, were picked up at the Solomon Islands. There are other boats to be heard from. Twenty-five farms in County Tipperary, principally on the estate of Viscount Hawarden, were sold by the Sheriff. The idea seems to be that the late leuates can, it the price is low enough, buy them in again with the assistance of the Emergency Committee. #

The Marquis of Salisbury, one of the leaders of the Conservative party in England, asserts that the operation oj the land act will drive capital from Ireland. “In a country from which capital is repelled,” he says, “there is little hope for labor.” Over 12,000 applications for reduction of rent were hand?d in to the Land Court at Dublin on Saturday, the court fritting till midnight to receive them. Among others a pile of applications came from Parnell’s own county, Wicklow. The Bub Commission of the Land Court at Limerick has reduced the rent of a tenant of Lord Clariua from £53 to £44, notwithstanding the land lord contributed to the expense of building and drainage. The judgment in this and other cases is considered startling. Miss Sara Bernhardt took Jehan Soudan, a French Journalist, with her on her travels in this country to act as the historian of her triumphs and experiences. On his return he basely deherUd her for JaColombier, her maia, whose n-csntly published book Soudan wrote for her. The Marquis of Lome will return to Canada in about five weeks, with H. R 11. the Princess Loujse. It is said be will resign the Vice’ Royalty early next vear. In speeches in England, the Marquis s'ates that the Canadians are all proudot their connection with the mother country.

It would seem that as the Land Leaguers increase in bitterness and ferocity the Fenians grow more pacific. O’Leary, one Of the brotherhood, writes from Paris deprecating the malignant attacks on Mr. Gladstone, Secretary Forster and other prominent Englishmen, whom be rightly regards as doing more for Ireland than anybody expected years ago. • Chinese advices received via San Francisco report the opening at Tien Tain of the Woman's Hospital. Li Hung Chang and other high native officials were present. United States Minister Angell made the inaugural address. Mrs. Dr. Howard, an American medical missionary who cured Lady Li, wife of the Viceroy, when her Chinese physician had given her up to die, is Superintendent! This lady has established a similar hospital in Perkin.