Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1881 — HERE AND THERE. [ARTICLE]

HERE AND THERE.

Them 1b an epidemic of cholera at Cairo, Egypt. It is Senator Riddleberger now in the Old Dominion. 4 . Bismarck’s Ulneee is caused by inflammation of his veins. Mrs. Abraham Lincoln is threatMed with total blindness. Efforts are being made to induce English women to emigrate to Canada. _______ P Tub Senate of Congiees appointed a standing committe op woman suffrage. f The Indiana members introduced siity-seven bills in the llouse of Congress last week. / ' The famous Hboeier horse, Red Cloud, died, day, .from the effects of a founder. The Garfield monument fund is slowly accumulating. At last accounts - it amounted to 190 000. *- r * •* • * - Imports to the contrary notwithstanding, the President is appointing women as post masters. Losses by crop failures in Great Britain during the last three years are estimated at $1,000,000,000. The physician in charge of the jail in which Guiteau Is confined testifies that the wretch is entirely sane.

IHE rresment nas nominaieu nuu. • Benjamin Harris Brewster, of Pennsylvania, to be Attorney General. The health of ex-Senator Coukling is so poor that he is not ‘able to give much attention to his law business. A Scaffold upou which three Lave expiated their crimes, is »U ready for service in the case of Guiteau. - The Irish anti-renters consider it as much of a crime to go into the Land Court with their claims, as it is to pay : rent. The Mississippi River Commission •wants *33,000,000 from Congress for the improvement of the Father of Waters. The act conferring the franking privilege on Mrs. Garfield is the first law passed at the present session of Congress. . “Old Ironsides,” the U. S. frigate * “Constitution,” has at last hauled down her flag in token of her surrender to old age. According to reports to the Agricultural Bureau, the condition of the cotton crop is lower than in any other season since 1886. Counterfeits are out' on the $lO 6 ilver certificates and the $5 bills of the Boylstcn National bank of Boston. The latter is dangerous. The indications are that Congress will adopt the suggestion of President Arthur and refer the whole matter of tariff revision to a commission. The championship of America in bicycle racing is awarded to fifty miles in 3 hours, 13 minutes, and 8J seconds. George D. Gideon was the winner. * It is believed that in most of the contests for seats in the House of Congress the contestants will be sent back to the people for a settlement of their olaims. Practical piety prevailed in Meridian street M. K. church, Indianapolis, last Sunday, and the sum of $30,000 - was raised, freeing the church from an old debt. ______ At Winnipeg last Wednesday the mercury marked twenty-one degrees below zero. No wonder there is a scarcity of marriageable girls out in that region. And now it is discovered that tub are adulterated by adding thick cned water, which increases the bulk of the oysters but renders them unfit for food. * It seems to be proved that the Ninth Regiment of Massachusetts disgraced itself at the Yorktown Centennial by conduct unbecoming in soldiers and gentlemen. The greatest tobacco tnioke on rec- ‘ ord was that of the storm bound steamer Herman, which on a recent ocean trip, burned twenty tons of tobacco tor fuel. The Board of Trade and Transportation of New York has adopted a resolution asking Congress to make trade dollars a legal tender to the same extent as the standard silver dollar. The State Grange at its recent session in Indianapolis, unanimously adopted a resolution in favor of severing ail party affiliations, to work .only for anti monopoly men and measures. Rev. Dr. Gage, of Hartford, Conn., bravely fought a midnight burglar recently, whereupon bisaomiring friends raise J a fund of sll7 to buy him a pis- *; tnl to use “the ne^ttime.” The Postmaster General has agreed to send a special agent to investigate the demand tor the restoration of the

f star-route mail service on the Ohio river, from Cincinnati to Louisville. A Washington special reports Commissioner Raum as saying that he would make no removals of Collectors of Internal Revenue, except for cause, until Congress fixes a tenure of office applicable to them. A gang of robbers took possession of the express car of a train on tha Southern Pacific Bail road, in Texas, Tuesday night, and after securing money and other plunder to the amount of $15,000, fled for the Mexican border. £The American Bar Association, now in session at Washington, is considering means to expedite business in the Supreme. Court of the United States. The docket of tho court is more than three years in arrears, and new cases are constantly accumulating. ' “No bonnets” is the order of the managers of a forthcoming Lafayette concert, and ladies who attend must either go without their usual head covering or take it off upon taking their seats. What a handsome and sensible audience that will be. ' It is said that one of the sons of the late President Garfield being offered an appointment either in the army or navy school declined, preferring to earn his living in his own way rather than be looked upon as the orphan of the country. It appears from statistics that the export of butter from this country to England has fallen off just one-half in twelve months, and threatens to fall off more, on account of the way oleomargarine has been imposed upon the English for genuine butter. •

It is stated that a prison especially designed for females is in course of preparation, at Dublin, for the reception of members of the ladies’ .land league, and that the arrest of several prominent members of the Dublin branch of that organization is expected. The Pope has asked th* special conference of Bishops, how in 'session at Rome, to 6ettl* the question of hi‘s continuance at the Vatican. He declares th&t his position is intolerable, and desires to go to Malta, where the English Government has offered him a permanent refuge. General Joseph E. Johnston, the distinguished cx-Confederate, charges the ex-Confederate President, Jefferson Davis, with stealing over two millions of dollars of gold that belonged to the Confederacy, and was taken out of Richmond in twenty wagons when Davis retreated.

It does not appear that Moody and Bankey are repeating their triumphs in England. Their audiences are comparatively small, and the clergy do not, as before, countenance their revivalism. The London Times says that nearly all of the converts made during their first visit are now back sliders. Ex-Governor Shepherd, commonly called “Boss” Shepherd, was bitten by .a tarantula, recently, while examining an old mine in Chihuahua, aud at last accounts it was feared that his leg would have to be amputated to save his life, which had been in great danger from the venomous bite. ( A novel shipment east from San Fr&ncUco on the Union Pacific railroad the other, was three cars containing 260,000 cards of silk worms’ eggs, each card having 30,000 eggs. The total value was $250,000. The eggs came from Japan, and were bound for Milan, Italy. Formerly such shipments were made via. India. Four Italian merchants had charge of the precious oargo. * The Finance Committee of the Senate has agreed to report favorably upon Mr. Sherman’s proposition for a bill to fund the “extended” bonds with new 3 per cents, to the amount of $200,000,000. Secretary Folger made an argument before the committee in opposition to the 3 per cent, proposition, prefering a Government option, of 3} per cent.

Sir Moses Montefiore, the wealthy English Hebrew, wrote on his ninetyseventh birthday a letter to Mrs. Garfield In reply to one in which she thanked him for securing the prayers of the Jewish Church for her husband at Jerusalem and elsewhere. Sir Moses at the same time 6ent his check for SSOO to a friend in Boston, requesting him to distribute the money among the charities of the city in memory of President Garfield. Queen Caroline, of Saxony, is suffering from an illness which is attributed to a cause unusual iu royal households. Her Majesty has a mania for cooking, in which she excells, especially in the preparation of fruit preserves. The crop of fruit in Saxony was this year so abundant that the Qneen labored night and day in the composition of her Jams and jellies, which she was, of course, obliged to taste constantly. The consequent fatigue aud indigestion bronght on a serious illness., In an interview in the Now York Herald the otherday, Sir Edward Reed, the eminent English naval constructor, is reported as say in g: “While I consider that the navy of Eoglaud is at present

the strongest in the world, it is not by any means so pre-eminently strong as to secure to Great Britain the certain command of the eeas. On the contrary, the navy of France under the Republic is very rapidly advancing toward an equality with the British navy in the matter of iron-clad, seagoing ships.” Japan seems to be marching on with giant strides. A recent imperial decree says: “In 1875 we created a Senate, in 1878 we inaugurated provincial and departmental assemblies. These were merely the inital steps toward the establishment of a Constitution. In order to realize our we determine to call together representatives of the people, and convoke a national assembly, which will meet in 1882.” Jewish exiles from Russia are now arrivio gin Chicago faster ban they can be cared for. During the last six weeks no fewer than 100 families have sought homes and employment there. They come from all parts of the Russian empire, but their common starting point is Brody, a city *in Galicia, just across the line from Russia, whither the Jews flock to avoid persecution. The Onited Hebrew Relief Association hopes to be able to found a number of Jewish agricultural colonies in the West early in the spring.

A Sunday school paper in Philadelphia sets an example of practical piety worthy of general imitation by professers of religion. Learning that an article advertised in its columns was not what it was advertised to be, this honest paper offers to refund to any and all who bought on itsjrecommendatlon, the price they paid for the articles. The crash in the newspa^ r business, or any other business, that would follow such & course as that, generally pursued,is fearful to contemplate. The Rev. Dr. Parnell, Secretary to the Episcopal Diocese of Ontario, says he is unable to account for the shortage of $12,000 in his accounts, as he has not knowingly misappropriated the money. He rather thinks his bookkeeping is faulty, nd hence the deficit. He is willing to turn over his life insurance policy to the church, so that the loss may be made good at his death; but lie cannot promise an earlier reparation, as he owns no property. The case is peculiar, and opinion seems to be divided on the question whether the clergyman is a knave or, in a financial sense, a fool. IT is stated that Guiteau was warned by Scoville that if he should use any abusive lauguage toward his divorced wife while she was on the stand, her burly husband would resent it even in the court room, and, give him a sound thrashing, or treat him to something worse. Guiteau is a confessed coward, as all such ruffians are, and he allowed the woman whose character he threatened to tear all to pieces to proceed with hertestimony in peace. He did not have the pluck even to interrupt her once, but actually abused Scoville because the latter put a very pointed question to her.

In 1862, a oand of.Pottawatamie In dians left their reservation in Kansas, where many of them had improved farms, and went to Texas on a buffalo hunt. Being mistaken for hostiles, they were driven over into Mexico by Texans, and could not get back to their homes in Kansas until after the war was over. When they finally got back, they found their homes taken by Homestead pre-emptors, and have not since been able to get back their property. They have visited Washington without avail, as the lapd office books phow that they are dead, and their rights transferred in due form to their successors. Mrs. Garfield said to an intimate friend when she came her from Elberon, after the death, that there was one thing more than any other which she regretted about the President’s illness, and that was never allowing the President to think he was in any danger of death. Many times she wanted to talk to him about matters that it was of the greatest importance that the should talk about in case of his*death, but the /lector would not allow her to do so. Often the President would speak of dying, but.lhose immediately around him would urge him not to lose courage. Up to the hour of his death the President was fed with the hope that he would recover.

The Southern Pennsylvania mutual relief association, of Hanover, York county, one of the first grave yard insurance companies of nearly 200 organized in that State, has been dissolved at its own request by the court of Dauphin county, Pennsylvania. The company took this course because it realized that the witnesses summoned by the oommon wealth would show it bad conducted iis business in an illegitimate manner. This association was the most extensive in the State, having carried insurance aggregating $30,000,000. The books of the oomp&ny indicate that the officers and directors must have made handsome fortunes. A currbht item says the oonstant oocurrenoe of terrible results from employment of vitriol as a means of vengeance has induced the authorities of Paris to take steps directed to restrict-

ing its sale. Henceforth, by order of the Prefect of Police, no vitriol is to be sold to any one unprovided either with a physician’s prescription or a permission from a police superintendent.' In Ibis country the “constant occurence of terrible results” is caused by the employment of the “ready revokrer,” snd the methods adopted by the authorities of Paris against vitrol are exactly the remedy that will cure our revolver evil. If the sale of that and all other deadly weapons was restricted to the necessities of each case, the crime of murder would become a comparative rarity. The great lumber-producing regions of the Northwest are divided into three distinct districts, known as the Mksissippi Valley district, the Eastern Michigan and Hudson shore, and the Lake Michigan, The first named, embracing the territory drained by the Mississippi, St. Croix, Chippewa, Wisconsin, and other rivers, produced last year 2 000,000,000 feet of lumber and 950,000,000 shingles. The second district, including the Green Bay shore, Cheboygan, Manistee. Ludington. White Lake, Muskegon, Grand Hgven, and Wolf river, yielded about the same amount, while Eastern Michigan, taking in the Saginaw Valley and Huron shore, produced about 1,100,000,000 feet. Although there has been an unusual cutting-in the Saginaw Valley, the greatest increase this year is in the Mississippi Valley. *

- In an address to the State Grange, the other, day, Governor Porter said a timely word for farmers’ wives, as follows: Invention has almost revolutionized the 'Tiys of farming. The farmer can cultivate his crops with far less than half the labor he could a generation ago, and do his work much more efficiently. But the farmer’s Wife has been by no means an equal sharer In alleviation. Invention has done little for her., The clothes-wringer and the seWittß machine are nearly all the aids that Invention has furnished her. The wearing cares and work remain to her as of yore. It Is the duty of every farmer, therefore, In proportion ns Ills burdens have been lightened, to supply his home with every convenience that can possibly lighten hers. How to do this best is a most fit subject for your thoughts while here and your anxious Inquiries afterwards. Every alleviation of her condition tends to make home more cheeriul and[attractive, and enables her to bring up her children more carefully. The moreyou render the home attractive the less they will become haunters of the town or try to make amends for pleasures denied them at home by seeking dangerous pleasures elsewhere. A dangerous social vice alleged by the Indianapolis Journal to be widely prevalent in that city, is probably not confined to that place. The Journal says: “Amateur gambling is doing more harm than professional. - And why? Simply because it Is, teaching young boys to do that which the law forbids, Bn'! which, morally, is stealing. In fact, gambling seems to be assuming a degree of respectability. Iu hundreds of homes in the city,‘draw piker,’ ‘ecarte,’ ‘vingtun’ and other g*raes are played nightly for “mall stakes. It is not uncommon for gentleman to spend the evening with their lady 'riends in playing cards for a consideration. Often the head of the family participates, and his wife and children win from him enough money to buy many little articles for the toilet.”

A Washington special says that ‘President Arthur has certainly introduced a new order of thiDgs at the White House. He seems disposed profit by the lessons of the murder of Garfield. He has made the rules gov erning the admission of the public to the White house as strict as they should have been made long ago. No stranger is admitted to see him now until he has told his business to the Private Secretary. Very few persons are allowed to ascend the stairs and take their places in the waiting-rooms, where last spring one hundred and fifty to two hundred persons were often to be seen at one time. He proposes to abolish the practice of seeing people simply for the purpose of shaking hands, and will not go out into tfie ante rooms.las Garfield used to do, ana shake hands all round with the crowd. The attendants at the White House say they never saw anything like it b> fore.

The Sanitary Engineer recommends the following as a protection from fire in theaters: “The terrible disaster in Vienna reminds us that where so much combustible material is used as on a theater stage, it is absolutely necessary that it should be rendered fire-proof if possible. Silicate of soda has been employed with great advantage, both in the paint itself which is used in the production of decorations and also as a varnish for all canvas and wood work used in constructing the scenery. The silicate of soda is not expensive, and there is no reason why the use of some such material should not be compulsory. It can be applied within twenty-four hours to the scenery of eveiy theater in the city without in any way changing the effeot of the deoorations. It would render the scenery practically incombustible, aud so simple a remedy for an existing evil every theater manager owes it to the public to apply. It is stated by New York journals that the projected Lorillard Atlantic Steamship company is an assured sue-

cess so far as the project of the construction of the new ships is concerned. They are to cost from $1,500,000 to $2,000,000 each; are to carry only passengers and mails, and to cross the Atlantic in six days. They will probably be built in the Delaware, and John Roach, of Chester; Harlow & Hollingsworth, of Wilmington, and other American builders will be given an opportunity to make proposals for the contracts. Mr. Wilitam Pearce, representing John Elder & Co., the great ship-builders on the Clyde, haa had an interview with Mr. Jacob Lorillard. He offers to build ships sure to record twenty knots an hour, and to cross from New York to Milford Haven in six days. But Mr. Lorillard feels certain that twenty-four knots can be obtained. Mr. Austin Borbin has secured a large block of the stock in the company. The president of a prominent life insurance company has also taken $1,500,000 for himself and friends. Theee subscriptions, with Mr. Lorillard’s, cover the entire capital stock. It is intended that the ship 9 shall not land in New York harbor, but above Montauk point, on Long Island. This will save twelve hours on the voyage. The American Express line is to be the name of the new company.