Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1881 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

Home Items. It is authoritatively denied in Washington that President Arthur is engaged to Miss Frelinghuysen. The President has signed the commission of J. C. Bancroft Davis as Assistant Secretary of State, vice Hitt. For the year 1881 there arrived at the port of Chicago, 12,250 vessels. Thfe previous year there were 12,788. New York has organized a committee for the relief of the sufferers by the Vienna disaster, the Austrian Consul General, Havemyer, being President. It has been proposed in the Chicago Common Council to erect a temporary small pox hospital in the White Stocking base ball grounds on the lake front. ThePresidenthas appointed William Henry Trescott, of South Carolina, to be Special Envoy Extraordinary Minister Plenipotentiary to Chili, Peru and Bolivia. A Salt Lake City dispatch states that Chief Justice Hunter, by his recent decision, reaffirms that Cannon, the Mormon, is an alien and disqualified to sit in Congress. The welcome news of the 'of the crew of the Jeannette will stimulate the British in the expedition for the rescue of the bold >■ Arctic yachtman, Leigh Smith. It is expected that the Directors of the Pacific Bank, of Boston, will succeed m starting the bank again on a business basis, with new officers and renewed securities and capital. The Right Rev. Bishop McQuaid, of Rochester, N Y., in a sejfmon in his Cathedral Sunday sard that the line between “No rent” revolutionists and good Catholics was sharply drawn. The surgeons and other attendants upon the late President have sent in their little accounts, which foot up SIIO,OOO. Two-thirds of the amount are the bills of Drs. Bliss, Agnew and Hamilton.

Mrs. Oicott, the woman who astonished Chicago last year by promenading the streets in outlandish garb, and carrying a lantern dimly burning, has sent Scoville thirty pieces of silver (dimes) for the benefit of the assassin. Secretary Frelinghuysen has instructed Mr. Hoffman, Charge d’Affaires at St. Petersburg, to convey the thanks of the President to the Russian authorities who so promptly aud generously cared for the survivors of the Jeannette. Colonel Forney’s will was admitted to 1 probate Tuesday. He instructs his executors to press a claim against the government for $40,000, which he paid while Secretary of the Senate on account of the defalcation of one of his assistants. The State Committee of the Pennsylvania Citizens’ Republican Association have issued an address, calling for a convention in Philadelphia, to make nominations for State officers, and to consider other matters looking to the overthrow of “boss rule.” With regard to the Chilian-Peru difficulty, it is noted that the President’s message referring to that subject was not in accordance with Mr. Blaine’s notes, but the President took a different and independent view of the matter, and wrote accordingly. At Caldwell, Kas., a party of cow boys on a drunken spree commenced firing on the townspeople, and killed Mike Meagher, a special policeman. One of their number, Speer, was shot dead while attempting to escape, and the others, after being corralled by a pursuing party of citizens, managed to escape.

At Forest, HI., a boy of 13 was thrown from a freight train and hail a piece of his skull about two inches M]uare knocked out, and sustained other severe injuries in the bead. In spite of this he gathered up the articles he had been carrying and walked a mile and a half to a bouse, where two surgeons mended the hole in his skull with a silver plate. They report the lad to be doing well, and to have a good appetite. . Foreign* Prmoe Bismaick is seriously ill. The oorrect list of the deaths by the Ring Theater fire at Vienna is 794. From Algiers, North Africa, a cablegram states that by the bursting of a dam 400 persons were downed. was visited by severe gales on Saturday and Sunday, which did

considerable damage to ti*« - and houses. The work of recovering, bodies from the ruins of the Ring theater, Vienna, has been checked by the falling in o ,the walls. • . ~ft fe reported at Berlin that ‘another Nihilistic mine assassination plot has been discovered at the Czar’s nalaoe Gatchina. * The Rifle Association of Great Britain has appointed a committee to ar- - range for the reception at Wimbledon* of the American team.. - Hanlan has at last agreed to row Boyd on the River Tyne, England, for the championship the world and £SOO, April 3, 1882. It is denied that the Holy Father consulted the bishops who were at the canonization services at Rome relative to his leaving the Vatican. An explosion in the Orrell ooal shaft in Lancashire, England, about noon Monday, resulted in the lots;.of 18fr lives in that and an adjoining mine. A German named Meffert, a painter by trade, was shot dead in Chicago by a colored woman, who was his divorced wife, who then gave herself up. The discovery of arms and ammunition in Dublin, reported in Monday’s dispatches, resulted from a drunken quarrel among- the 1 Land Leaguers implicated. . No less than 1,500 arrests for political offenses were made in Russia during the present year. Many of them were by false accusations; aud the maligners are to be prosecuted. A Cairo, Egypt dispatch reports an insurrection in Soudan. et, with a following of 1,500 men, has put to flight the Egyptian force of 350, and killed the Governor, . '

The constabulary barracks at Croboy, Ireland, was burned ou Friday night. The men barely escaped with their lives. Arrests were mane of the suspected incendiaries. . 1 *’ Irish landlords who feel agrieved a the decisions of Court, propose to hold two meetings to protest against the act and the Liberal Ministry, aud to demand compensation; The Dowager Countess of Crawford and Barcarres will not offer a reward for the recovery of the body of hen late , for the sensible reasob that it would encourage the Repetition of such outrages. ? The halcyon prospect of an era of peace between the Conservative .and Clerical parties in ihe Legislature has been abruptly darkened by the newspaper controversy between Prince Bismarck and Herr Windthorst. * ,At Dublin the offleersfof the governmen 1 have made an importahtdiscovery of arms, ammunition and explodeqts, and a list of officers belonging to an old Fenian organization. Four persons were arrested in connection with the affair. , . The English newspapers contiuue to editorialize upon ex-Becretary Blaine’s position on the Panama Canal question.' 1 They consider the proposed suzerainty of the United States in the canal as unreasonable, and a menance t > British commerce. ... A Panama dispatch states that a Lima correspondent charges that the United States steamer Alaska was used by the order of Minister Hurlbut to further the scheme of the revolutionists against Pierola. Tue story needs confirmation. • T‘ Unable, or unwilling, to correct the evils complained of by the national press, the Russian authorities propose to place further restrictions upon it. This policy of intolerance Is a signal proof of the Incompetent cowardice of the Tartar General Ignatieff. * Dr v Samson, master of a fashionable English boarding school near Wim- ' bledon, Surry, is being tried for the poisoning of a pupil with a view of succeeding to his property. It ik suspected that he also poisoned the brother of the last victim. The aocused is unterrified, and claims to be entirely innocent.

A story of severe suffering is told by the survivors of the steamship, Bath City, which fonndered off the coast or\ Newfoundland. The crew of twentyseven men embarked in two boats; four were drowned by the boat capsizing, and the captain and five of the men died from exposure. Tne surviv- < ors, seventeen m number, were picked up by a vessel and carried to Liver- * pool. The Dublin (Ireland) corporation are quarreling'-over the question of whether Parnell and Dillon, who are still in jail, shall be presented with the “freedom” .of that city. DunDeJ a farmer in Queen’s county, was murdered by his brothel 1 , recently from America, who has escaped. The tenants in the northern part of the island are dissatisfied with the ruling of the Land Court. William Shaw, Liberal M. P. for Cork county, one of the ablest Irish patriots has resigned his. membership with the Land League. Toe Ijord Mayor’s fund for distressed Irish ladies, amounts to $40.060. .. The Warden’s report of the south ern prison, at Jeffersonville, shows that there are 618 convicts there, who were, maintained last year at a cost of 39 3-20 cen ts per day each. The expenses of the prison were $74,831; receipts, $57,007.04 There were nine deaths during the year. Twenty-two per cent, of oonvicte could neither read nor write, and sixty per cent, were married. >’ Texas Pecans. Before the civil war the exports of peaan nuts from Ind ianola, Texas, we ."** reported at $100,000; now it is estimated that the amount annually gathered exceeds $2,000,000 in value. No care, however, has been taken of the tress; in toot, in many localities tree* flffy to one hundred years old have been cut down to secure the nuts. With proper care of the trees and systematic ga tiering of the ciop it is believed th»t $10,000,000 could be annually realized. Mexicans and negroes are the mott numerous pecan gatherers.