Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1882 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

: Home Items. The Hop. John C. New has accepted the Russian Mission, so it is said. New York erected $47.000.000 worth of new bnildings daring the year. 7Smallpox is spreading rapidly in Newark, N. J., and Fort Wayne, Ind. It is diminishing m Chicago. There are 3,489 licensed saloons in the cityof Chicago, which pay $181,428 i a the city treasury. Mrs. Cruz, living at .Florence, Los Angeles, county* Cal., gave birth Thursday, to.jaix female children. General IJatch, the Indian fighter, gives full credence to the reported massacre of Nana and his band - by Mexicans. Small-pox has been reported from thirty-seven towns and villages in Illinois, in most of which the epidemic is under control. During the past year there were in Louisville, seventy-three murders, seventeen’suicides, and sixty-six accidental deaths. Commissioner of Pensions will in a few days send aa officer of his bureau to investigate pension frauds in the Southwest. The House Committee on Elections, will, it is said, decide that neither Cannon nor Cainbell are entitled to the Utah seat in Congress. There is alarm over the supposition that the government printing officeat Washington is unsafe. There was quite a panicthere Saturday. AtTombstone, A. T., Deputy United States Marshal Earp, was fired at by three men, and received nineteen shots. He is not expected to recover. j A little boy, six years old, was shot dead Thursday at Oshkosh, Wis., by one of his playmates with a gun which was not supposed to be loaded. Two girls' aged 11 and 13 years, respectively. and a boy aged 10, wereburned toneatb in a fire at a boarding house Sunday, near Richbug, Pa. There have been fourteen serious railway accidents during the year, and the number of persons killed in this way amounts to more than 1,000. The Chicago Board of Trade has passed resolutions favoring increased compensation to the employes of the United States Life-saving Service by Congress.

It is said that Judge Advocate General Swaim decides that the court martial which tried Cadet Whittaker for mutilating his own ears was illegally constituted. A Chicago physician, who has made a specialty of cancer, has discovered what he claims to be a positive cure. He will lay the details before the profession shortly. At Biddeford, Maine, a young man named Moore shot his affianced, Miss Belle Cushman, dead, and .then shot himself. Jealousyis supposed to have prompted the double crime. During the past year the .Peoria distilleries manufactured 19,091,538 gal-. lons of spirits, consuming 5,003,972 bushels of grain. The revenue on whisky for the year was $12,463,872. The Brooklyn Board of Education are exercised over the remark made by Henry Ward Beecher in his sermon on New Year’s Day, that the men who perverted educational funds should be hanged. For the foundation of the Garfield Professorship in Williams College, which requires an endowment fund es $50,000, the sum so:;far subscribed is $35,000. Of this amount SB,OOO was raised in Boston. General Grant, interviewed by the New York Times, has expressed the opinion that great injustice has been done to-General Fitz John Porter, and will in due time publish his views in extenso on the case. . At Graham, Texas, two murderers broke jail after wounding one of the jailors and shooting the other. They were pursued by citizens,who shot both dead, but not before they had wounded two of their pursuers. A Washington paper hints that Mr. Blaine has already entered upon his campaign for the Presidency in 1884, in which, it is alleged, he will try and form a constituency from “liberal Democrats and Republicans.” During the past year the Illinois Humane Society has rescued 186 children from conditions of neglect or cruelty, and has also investigated 789 cases of ill-usage of dumb animals. During the year just closed there was almost an epidemic of defalcations among persons intrusted with the care of other peoples’ money, and nearly all Would be attributed to a mania' for speculation. Baron Von Schlozier, for twelve years German Ambassador at Wash ington, has been recalled by his government and will leave on Wednesday. He is to be the representative of Germany at the Vatican. The Chicago Christian Army '.has been organized under Bishop Fallows, a minister of - the Reformed Epieeepai Church. Its members will wear a uniform and march through the streets to the music of a drum corps. TheJßeV* Richard JCain, the colored Bishop of Texas and Louisiana, and wife, nave sued the Galveston, Texas and Louisiana railroad for $20,000 damages, for being refused a., ride as firstclass passengers after purchasing a ticket. g Congressman Burrows, of Michigan, will take the position that neither Cannon nor Campbell, of Utah, phould be allowed a seat in Congress—the first because he is a alien, and the second because he did not receive a majority of the votes .cast. Monday, the legal New Year Day was dtfiy observed throughout the Drilled States as a general holiday. In Washington the President held a grand reception, which was very largely attended, and other receptions were held by the ladies of Cabinet officers,

Chief Justice Carter is reported to 1 have said that If Gaiteau, the aseamtn, was either gagged or excluded from the courtroom, he would‘be entitled to a hew trial. On this account, it is ailed red, Judge Cox allows the fellow so much latitude. •"-* •• ~ The wretches who perpetrated the outrage and massacre at the Gibbons’ homestead, near Ashland, Ky., have been'arrested; Their names are Neal, Craft and Ellis, They were present at the fire, and at the funeral one drove the hearse, and another was pall-bear-William Gilchrist, of Philadelphia, was Swarded the SI,OOO prize offered.by the Cincinnati Musical Festival Association for the best original composition for orchestra. The judges were Carl Reincke, of Germany; M. St. Ssens, of France, and Mr; Theodore Thomas, all well-known musicians. The catastrophe at Shanesville, 0., on New Year’s Eve, where the eutire floor of the Town Hall caved in, was much worse than at first reported. Two persons were killed on the spot, five fatally injured, and some twenty persons .’received injuries more or less sevehe. • / *

Three German burglars, who came as cabin passengers to New York from Europe, were arrested on their arrival Tuesday. They are charged with burglarly and larcency of 24,000 marks (about $6,000). One-quarter of the amount was found on their persons and in their baggage. - , • On the Boston and Maine Railroad, near Kennebunk, Me., Monday, as train drawn by two locomotives had partially crossed an iron bridge, when it broke down, throwing the four last cars down an embankment, where they took fire and were destroyed. One man was killed, one fatally and about twenty severely injured. A mysterious Washington special to the Louisville Courier-Journal says: Vlt may be accepted as abertainty that Brady will not, under the present administration, as he waa under the one previous, be furnished wnh transcript Of all the papers prepared, and a history of all the steps taken by those supposed to be at work in the alleged prosecution of the star-route thieves. There is yet good? reasbit 1 for believing that something will be accomplished in the court against the star-route swindlers. Dutch potatoes from Holland are being largely imported into New York. A bag of these esculents worth $3.59, weighs 155 pounds, and is about equal to the ordinary barrel of two&nd a half bushels. They have been imported into New York for some years, but this year more largely than ever. Holland has a reputation for the unequaled quality of her potatoes. She is as famous in this as in the cultivation of the tulip, the hyacinth aud crocus. It is said that many attempts have been made to cultivate a similar grade of s)otatoes on Long Island, as it was beieved the sea air would favor them; but nothing has been obtained that equals the product of the sandy soil of Holland and its painstaking, industrious gardners. The Dutch potatoes, it is said, retain their soundness far into the'summer months. . 3 \

' 1 Foreign, Mile Sara Bernhardt receives SIOO,000 for her St. Petersburg engagement. A Tangier dispatch states that the French troops are fighting frontier tribes. At Roscommon the officers of the Ladies’ Land League have been arrested. . *, The Emperor of Germany has cejtej brated the 75th anniversary of his admission to the army. The Czar has subscribed 100,000 roubles (about $80,000) to the sufferers by the recent riots in Warsaw. Arzate, a robber chief, with thirty of his band, were captured near Chihuaf hua, Mexico, and promptly executed. Iroquois and Foxhall, the famous American racers, will, it is said, be matched for a race early (next season at Newmarket. The Irish police .have discovered a quantity of rifles and ammunition in the basement of a Protestant church, in the County Clare. Captain Cheyne, of the British Navy, is trying to enthuse Canadians with his project of making a trip to the North Pole in a balloon. —A

A branch of the Irish Property Defense Association has been formed of merchants and land owners in the city and county of Dublin. The Khedive of Egypt has forwarded S4OO to the fund for the erection of a Garfield hospital at Washington, and promises to send SI,OOO more. Seventeen hundred persons, mostly young men, were arrested in Warsaw by the Russian authorities in connection with the recent riots there. Bismarck is reported to have submitted to the powers a proposal for a congress to consider the resestalishnient of the Pope’s responsibility. 'The anti-Socialist law of Germany' has, in three years, been the means of diasolving 225 Socialiat societie@,„ and of suppressing 758 of their publications. In seizing the property of the Pullman Crir Company, the Canadian customs officials own they have “found a mare’s nest.” Tire prosecution has been abandoned. The two Croghan sisters were murdered near Mullingar, Ireland, because they were suspected of giving information to the police. The assassin has not yet been arrested.

O’Brien, the editor of United Ireland, the Land League organ, will, it is said, be released from jail on. account of falling health, provided he will promise to leave tfie-cbuhtry. <7 Mr. Henry Gladstone, son of the British Premier, who has been travelipg in Ireland, states that the repressive measures of the government are proving successful, j\ ~ ABt. Petersburg dispatch says that the government has recently discov-

ered a custom house steal at Tagarzog, Involving millions of rubles. All the officials have been arrested. A Berlin journal faTauthority for the statement that Borne servants of the Portuguese royal household have been dismissed for complicity in an allleged plot to poison the king, Dom Luis I. A brace of polygamous missionaries from Utah were roughly handled by a London mob, while attempting to hold a religious (?) service, and were obliged to seek refuge in a police station. The Rt Hon. W. E. Forster, Chief Secretary for Ireland, told the English Liberals who asked the liberation of the imprisoned Land Leaguers that the present condition of Deland would not justify such clemency. The Socialists at the New York convention, among other small reforms, wanj to abolish the offices of President" and Vice President of the United States and substitute a Federal Council, to be elected by the House of Representatives. The “Grand Society of Railways” of Russia is to be declared insolvent. On the St, Nicholas Line the sum of 25,000,000 .roubles of government money has been misappropriated. The government proposes to assume the control of the roads of the society,