Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1881 — HERE AND THERE. [ARTICLE]

HERE AND THERE.

Chicago is receiving",over 50,000 hogs per day. Captain Hongate’s defalcations amount to about $1£5,000. Patti is to receive $6 000 for singing at the Cincinnati festival. There are over 2,000 licensed street peddlenin New York city. The themometor got down to 8° below zero last week in Minnesota. Violent shocks of earthquake were felt in Germany last Friday night. The prevalence of small pox isvaid o bein juricfg tho trade of Baltimore. MESSES. Moody and Sankey are meeting with tremendous success in London. > * ■ is said that the Marquis of Lome be appointed Lord Lieutenant ot Ireland. " v Most of the persecuted Hebrews who are fleeing to this country from Russia, are farmers.

It is said that the average profit of Southern cotton factories last year was 22 percent. • Dakota Territory this year yields 8,802,000 bushels of wheat against 2,830,000 in 1879. The Boston Land League sent $127,* 866 to Ireland during the three months ending Oct. 3d. The King of Spain and his mother and eldest sister are all first-rate shots with rifle or pistol. The Austrian Government has decided to increase the castom’s duties on many articles. Eight hundred Mormon converts have been secured in Georgia within the last two years. Henry Saville, the English jockey who died recently, had his life insured for a round $1,000,000. The latest estimate of the, Southern cotton crop of this year places the amount at 4,820 130 bales. The Clevelaud Garfield fund now amounts to $63,000 including the Cleveland subscription of $44,000. At the Hatton Garden, London poet office, registered letters were stolen supposed to be worth $200,000.

OurRAGES have broken out furiously in Ireland again, aud the prospects for peace and quiet are very gloomy. The betrothal of Prince Leopold.son of Queen Victoria, to the Princess Helene, of WaJdeck, is announced. The Malley boys, held for the mur det of Jennie Cramer of New Haven Conn., are denied their liberty on bail. The damage by floodsm the Missouii and Mississippi valley* this year is e*timated at an aggregate of $50,000,000. Beven indictments, one for forgery and the others for embezzlement,have been found against Captain Howgate. * RRHErick DqroLASB, the colored .orator, is s*i4 to l*e worltT SIOO,OOO, aud holds an office at a salary of $7,000 a year. > ' ' * The total population of the United states, as finally determined by the United Slates ceotus of June* 1880 is 50.155.-753. A MovsjtENr has been started in London, England, to found a home for wording gfHs to be callul “Garfield "Hous^.” Miss Annie Louise Casy, the great contralto singer, is engaged it is reported to become Mrs. Lorillard at an early day. The small pox has broken out in Eu-lham .College at Richmond, and the observatory of the college is used as a hoapital.

A 'woman is on trial iu'Michigan for the murder of another woman by pouring coal oil over her and setting fire to her clothe?. The burning of Ihe Custom House at Valparaiso, the principal commercial port of entry of Chili, is reported ; loes. about $1,000,000. ' The cholera has made its appearance at cm bo on . the Rtd Sea, and seems to be advancing for a summer campaign la Europe. The California supreme court has decided that no employe can engage in any business detrimental to his employer’s Interests. There are 13.001 locomotives at work in Great Britain, each earning on the average, $23 750 per annum, an aggregate of $7,126,000. A printed official report ot the previous days proceedings is placed every morning in the haods of each Juror in the Guiteau trial: Mr. James Vick, the eminent florist and horticultural Ist, says that J apples keep better in moist or damn cellars than they do In dry ones. The highest railroad teidge in the werld, to that of theClneinrjfcti Hopthern railway over tfte Kentucky river, I which to 272 feet above the water. It to estimate th*t during the last! two yean the people of tlie Coiled Htates have contributed an average of a month to the canse of Irish freedom. -I

It to* j>rov*rf fbat sh« Ninth of MmmmthnmUm 4>*%j%r+A rtmtf uUmYwrttrrwm \*j mm4nt* wmh**s4*h>% b» t*A Tmm Umih **tmm will »* m * tew week*. Tb* . tor U Umm tor mn $3 Vso,f/yj, and Coogre** will be asked ter $fA-'t,ViO addition*!. At Columbu*, UtortU, toe oth*-r d»y, Osborn Petto diank a quart of whisky, and was carted home dead. The man who furnished the liquor was arrested. PbofsbbOK Swing to not for wrong la hto opinion that the average man to a money-Worshiper and the average woman a doTotee to fashion and

It is said that the new Gambetta Ministry of France is in favor of removing the restrictions of that country upon the importation of American pork and lard. There is a movement In England to do away with trial by jury. A Parliamentary committee has already reoommended that a dispensed with except in special cases. The population of Leadville, Colorada, is 20,000. and the mines of the Leadville district produced two-thirds of the $23,000,000 worth of ore mined in that State last year. Under an old law of Pennsylvania profane swearing is punished) with a line of 67 cents for each cubs word. In this State, under the new code, tbe penalty is a great deal more severe. Secretary Blaine is reported to have said that if he wefe ? to remain in. the Cabinet, be would seek to annex Cuba by Diplomacy. He thinks the island would be cheap at $500,000,000.

John Jay Knox, Comptroller of the Currency, expresses the opinion In his current report that ninety per cent, of the business of the country is transacted through the medium of checks aud drafts. The Supreme Court of Vermont has just confirmed the death sentence of Emeline Meeker, for the murder of her child, but the hanging will not take place until tbe last Friday in March, 1883. . Augustus Smith, colored, was hanged at Smithfield, N. C., last Friday for a heinous crime committed upon a white girl 6even years old. His last words were: “Farewell and meet me in heaven." The Comptroller of the Currency has ordered an assessment of one hundred per cent, upon the stockholders of the Mechanic’s Bank, of Newark, N. J., to meet, as far as possible, the defalcation of Cashier Baldwin. The State Board of Health of Illinois, which claims to have oontrol over each matters, have decided that pupils should not be admitted to echoo’s anywhere in that State after January Ist, unless they have cer* tificatesof vaccination.

The wool clip from General Garfield’s farm has been purchased by some patriotic gentlemen in Cleveland and will oe seut to the Produce Exchange in some of the largest cities and scld for tbe benefit of the Garfield monument. Dr. Buss stated under oath, as a witness iu tbe Guiteau trial, that he had been employed to attend the President by Gen. Garfield himself in the presence of Mrs. Garfield, and also, that be had been requested to select and dismiss other physicians by the same authority. "'V The president ha*Accepted 100 miles of the Northern Pacific railroad, lately examined and reported on by the commissioners. The section begins in Dakota territory, 150 miles west o Bismarck, and ends in Montana. As the company receives 25,000 acres per mile in the territories, this section will entitle them to 2,500,030 acres. The flouring mills of Minneapolis, owing to the high price of wheat, which prevents the manufacture of flour at a living profit, have shut down, thus withdrawing from the market from 75,000 to 80,000 barrels of flour weekly, the amount usually shipped from that point. .

Colonel Neenham, the Bank Examiner, who has been examining the affairs of the Pacific National Bank,of Boston, believes that its capital of sl,000,000, and the additional $1,000,000 for which the stockholders can be drawn upon, will be enough to pay its creditors in full. It is said that President Arthur positively declines to remove officials to make places for frieuds of members of Congress, and emphatically declares hto purpose not to make removals except for cause, or In the line of promotion for the benefit of the public service. The Indianapolis Board of Health has issued the following order: All unvaccinatQd persons within the city ot Indianapolis are hereby ordered to be vaccinated within the next ten days. A penalty cf five dollars will be assessed upon all violators. The City Dispensary will vaccinate all parties who are unable to pay for the same. .

The commissioner of pensions states that 227,040 claims for arrears are on file, and that 195,482 will probably be allowed. The sum of $254 126,600 will be required to pay them. Allowing $15,000,000 for paymenls not demanded, about $235,000,000 will have to be paid out. , * The adulteratiou of cotton has grown to be such an evil that one of the large spinning companies of Oldham has applied to Liverpool merchants for redress. Cotton to adulterated, it to claimed, by the southern shipper, who drops into every bale several pounds of fine sand, which is weighed with the staple, and paid for, too The minister of war of Russia apprehends that the army curtailments will place many officers in reduced circumstances, and that these officers wiil swell the ranks of the nihilists. He asked the minister of finance to find employment for surplus officers, but tits request was refused. Extra post* in the f'aucasn* will |irobably be provided for dismissed officer*.

HVLventek Hendermon fell asleep I during service In a Kt. Louis church, awl tie lenelktom dl I not thoroughly arouse him. The consequence was that. In going outof hto pew, he stejqe *d lo a dazed condition on Charles Gib•on's foot, which had grievous, oorns. Gibson drew a knife, chased Henderson Into the street, and dangerously stabbed him. At the trial of Oxford for shooting at iluiea Victoria, Lord Denman used thto language, which applies wilh singular significance to the 'case of Guiteau: “But, although he labored under a delusion, if be fired the loaded pistol at the Qneen, knowing the result which would follow hto conduct, and although forced by hto morbid desire for notoriety to the act, be would be responsible lor hto conduct and liable to criminal punishment.

One of the strongest points recently made in tbe Guiteau ease, is suggested by the South Bend Tribune, as follows: "The court In giving Gnitean the privil ege of speaking in his own defense most take the ground that he is not insane. It would be a travesty on law and justice for a judge to permit a crazy man to address the court and jury. This is a point the jury want to bear iu mind when making up their verdict.” Thu six healthiest cities in the United States are said to be in tbe order following: Knoxville, New Haven, Portland, San Francisco, Cleveland and Lawrence.’ The unhealthi***' *«*• Charleston, Memphis, Lynn,Non York and St. Louis. St. Petersburg is the unhealthiest city in the world, and is followed by Malaga, Alexandria, War saw and Buda Pesth. In New York the deaths exceed the births by J ,090 a month, or 12,000 a year. The postoffice department has decided that matter produoed by hand stamp, type-writers and copy presses, are all prima facie subject to first-class Tates of postage, but that this presumption may be removed by an examination of the matter produced by the process of adoption; the question to be determined in each case being whether or not the matter is intended for use only between tbe parties n subjects personal to themselves.

Professor Bruniylti, of the statistical archives of Rome, estimates that there are altogether in the world 6.568,000 Jews, of which number 5,500,000 are iu Europe, 240,000 iu Asia, 500,000 In Africa, 308,000 iu America, aud 20,000 Australia. Taking the European countries, by far the largest number of Jews in proportion to the population are in Romania, where the average is 7,44 per 100 inhabitants. Russia comes next with 3.57 per 100 inhabitants, while Germany has 1.22, Great Britain 0.20, and Portugal only 0.04. John Jasper (not the preacher of that name,) and James Casey, colored men, nad a dispute about politics, the other day, in Virginia, and their friends just for fun arranged a mock duel -to settle the difficulty. The men were placed according to the code, with double-barreled shot-guns in their hands, supposed to contain powder and wad only, and at the first fire Jasper fell dead. Casey’s gun was loaded.

ADTSpATcrt has been received at New York from the Governor of Michigan, stating that the sufferers in Michigan will probably require about $500,000 more to provide for their necessities until next harvest, when they will again become self-supporting. The Governor also Bays that tnore is a constitutional obstacle to the Slate of. Michigan providing for the sufferers. The general contributions, therefore, Will have to be continued. ACCokDino to a statement submitted to the Secretary of the Interior by General Francis A. Walker, late Superintendent of the Census Bureau, the following changes in Congressional representation, with the number of Representatives still fixed at 293, will occur in the Forty-eighth Congress: Arkansas, California, Michigan Mississippi, South Carolina and West Virginia would gain two each; Alabama, Illinois, Maine, Maryland,New Hampshire, Ohio, Tennessee and Vermont would lose one each; Pennsylvania two, and New York three. The other States show no change.

A Washington special ruys: “It is more than probable that the action of the court to-day flually and forever disposes of the star route prosecutions. In every case, witli 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 s 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 case by, regular proceeding before the grand Jury for presentment and indictment. Still, however, the current of opinion is that the last has been heard of the star route business.” The pension rolls for deeember foot up $7,900,000. The rapid swelling of the pension list sixteen years after the close of the war that brought it into extotanoe,to attracting much attention, and will probably be the subject of a thorough investigation by Congress. The payment of pensions to-worthy recipients is not complained of by anybody, but there is a general suspicion that a very large portion ol the enormous sums used for that purpose is wasted upon recipients who do not deserve and are not entitled to the aid

or bounty of the government. If tbe people in every locality would give attention to the matter, and speak out fearlessly, a great many fraudulent pensioners would be stricken from the lists. A Washington special speaks of the jury that has been impaneled to try the assassin, Guiteau, as follows. John P. Hamlin, a tall, silver haired, thonghtfnl faced, conscientious American, a restaurant keeper. Henry J. Bright, a broad shouldered, bright faced, comfortable looking, keen fritted American, a retired merchant. Frederick W. Hrsnkenbnrg, a little, excitable, black haired, honest German, a cigar manufacturer. Charles J. Htewart, merchant. Thomas 11. J,an <\j, grocer. Michael Stephens, grocer. Hsinuel K. Hobbs, plasterer, George W. Gates, architect. Ralph Wormley, laborer. W. II Bran ner, grocer. Thomas flerallns, machinist. Joseph Pratter. The dispatch conclude*: All'the Jurors are Inteltegent, educated, thinking men. Ttaag are all Christians. Tiiers are no Masons and no office-holders or office-seekers among thorn. Moat of them are men'of family, and all are respected residents of tbe District. Taken as a whole. It Is one of the best Jorlea ever Impaneled here.

The Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce changed Its quarters, the other day, end the “bbys” made tlie leavetaking of the old rooms an occasion of uproarious hilarity. A solemn, speechmaking programme had been arranged, bat that sort of thing soon became a bore, and the spirit of mischief broke looee. Barrels of flour were used by member* throwing It on each pther, and when the prooesaioti, ted by the

music of a dozen tin horns, started for the new rooms, each man had a pocket full of flour to be used on bystanders along the line of march, dt was a jolly and queer-looking crowd of oosinesa men, covered from head to foot with Hour, and they created an* immense racket as they passed along.