Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1882 — HEBE AND THEBE. [ARTICLE]

HEBE AND THEBE.

Ex-Postmasxeb General James is a printer. > The demand for Garfield relids exceeds the supply. A Boston bank has sixteen tons of gold In Ats vaults. Thebb were 168 suicides in York city, in 1881. Highwaymen have been robbing street cars at Toledo, Ohio. Five million hogs were slaughtered in Chicago during the year 1881. i i mm i.... The saloon license fee at Balt Lake City has been raised to SBOO a year. A party of boys robbed a stage last Thursday, near Black Hollow, Texas. Fifteen hundred Mormon converts are preparing to leave England for Utah. The Chicago health authorities vaccinated 35,000 persons last month, free of chaige. During the year 1881 thirty-six murders andeighty-two suicides were committed in St. Louis. Hon. A. H. Stephens, of Georgia, has eaten twenty-five Christmas dinners in Washington. Forty cases of small-pox are reported among the students of the Keokuk, Towa, Medical College.

The Philadelphia tax frauds dwindle under investigation from alleged millions down to $40,000. The Episcopal authorities of Maryland have declined to ordain a colored candidate for the ministry. Seven pieces of bounty land script have been issued to the heirs of John PadPJones, the naval hero. A FOUR year old child killed its mother while playing with a pistol at New Orleans, Tuesday night. A rabid dog ran a muck on North Clark street, Chicago, Monday, biting six persons before it was killed. The pastor of the Christian church at Decater, 111., Rev. W. F. Maynard, has been dismissed for drunkenness. Over $4,000 in bogus notes against Fountain county farmers have been negotiated in Attica and Covington. The national debt was reduced in the amount of $12,793,623 during December, and $75,107,094 since June 30. Attorney General Brewster afinounees his intention to take an actice part in the star route prosecutions. The weekly ißsue of the Patent office aggregates 340 patents, nineteen designs, and twenty-four trade marks. The new Chinese Minister to this country claims to be first cousin to the moon. He brings fourteen secretaries with him. _____ A. Sister of Providence was killed at„ Indianapolis, Monday, by the collision of a Wabash freight train with a street car.

Under the operation of the high lioense law, 108 out of the 140 saloons In Omaha suspended on the day the law went into effect. ■ ■ Four postmasters have died recently from small pox, supposed to have been communicated to them by infected mail matter. The exodus fever has broken out among; the plantation negroes of Bouth Carolina, and thousands of them are moving to Arkansas. . " ■" ■■■ 'Sons df Senator Bayard and Mahone were arrested at Washington the other night for oreating a drunken disturbance on the streets. Near Hamburg, Arkansas, the other dajy, Col. L. M. Bell, a prominent planter beat his wife to death, and was lynched by his neighbors. T&Ehtotal number of failures recorded by the Dun & Co. Mercantile Agency in' 1881 was 5,582, with liabilities. slightly, over $81,000,000. The indications are decided that the star route cases are to be prosecuted as President Arthur directed with “the vigor and and the rigor of the law.” ’ The Mormon missionaries in England report fifteen hundred converts since last August. These will be forWarded to Utah early In the spring. ; A PORTRAIT of President Garfield painted on porcelain by Herr Sturm, a Dresden artist was sent from Germany as a Christmas gift for Mrs. Garfield. The year 1882 came,in on Sunday add will go out on Sunday, making 6s, Sundays ip the year. ,The preachCn will all be o*ught for an extra day's w«rh« ■•; :•oi’ 0 . lit seems to be proved that the Ninth Ittgddent of Massachusetts disgraced Itself at tiie Yorktown Centennial by induct unbecoming In .soldiers and genttemfe. ; . - • 'witness in the Guiteau trial testifies that One man in every

five is insane. He has never traveled, and speaks entirely from his Chicago experience. The greatest tobacco smoke on record was that of the storm bound, steamer Herman, which on a recent ocean trip, burned twenty tons of tobacco for fuel. The amount of school revenues apportioned to the State Normal school and counties of the State this yea! is $864,844, or $1.20 per capita for each child enumerated. The 'anniversary of St. Catherine, the patron saint of old maids, is celebrated annually on the 25th of November by large spinster’s societies in Paris and Brussels. During last October the loss of ves sels at sea was without parallel inflatory. Thirty-two steamships, and 236 sailing vessels Were lost in the gales of th \t fatal month. During last year in New York city there was an increase of deaths and a decrease of births —38,609 deaths • in 1881 t 031,963 in 1880, and 2,7636 births in 1880 to 26,130 in 1881.

Harrison, the 1 misnamed “Boy Preacher” revivalast, is at work again in Robert’s Park church Indianapoliß, and his labors are quite as successful as they were last winter. The depositors in the Massachusetts Hayings banks number 838,951; aggregate deposits, 230,444,479; increase, 52,556 depositors and $13,320,556 in deposits over the previous year. Fools and their money were parted by the payment of SSO for a stall to witness the recent debut upon the stage, at London, of the English professionai.beauty, Mrs. Langtry.' " French officers are now in this country purchasing 5,000 horses for the cavalry service of France, and it !t> said that the foreign demand for our draught horses is growing rapidly.; v /Rev. Mr. Green, in St. Joseph, Missouri, is in danger of dismissal from his church o» a charge offletting a young woman sit in his lap while was he teaching her aSundaytschool les&ern.

TnE plan for the relief of the Supreme Court of the United States by the establishment of an intermediate court to pass upon a large class of cases, meets with much favor from the legal profession. Twenty-five houses were set on fire in Philadelphia* last week, by electric light wires, and it is probable that the authorities of that eitiy will order the discontinuance of that system of street lighting. vy y • It is saiid that a bed of crystalized chemically pure soda, nine feet thick, and containing fifty million cubic feet, has bebn found in Wyoming, and, that the Union Pacific Railway Company is preparing to develop it. The Mountain of the Lord is a solid rock, 100 feet in height, rising above the street level at Manti, Utah. The Mormons are building on this eminence a temple of fine marble, 95 by 170 in area, and handsomely adorned.

“As the old cocks crow, the young ones learn.” During a quarrel at Springfield, Mo., between two children aged seven and five respectively, the younger one secured the family revolver and shot his little adversary, killing him instantly. It fls positively asserted that the Pennsylvania Railway Company, and every other person who rendered the least service in connection with the illness and burial of President Garfield, will present bills to Congress for the; full value of such service. A London paper requests farmers to note the fact that the Irish Revolutionary party in America has been collecting Colorado beetles, which are intended for exportation to England, where they are to be let loose for the purpose of preying upon English crops. The exports of domestic produce from New York for the week ending December 20, were $10,175,412, against $6,632,474 for the corresponding week last year. Since January last the exports amounted to $373,689,740, showing a decrease of $30,356,390 as against the corresponding time of 188 Q.

A fostmastee wrote the postmastergeneral: “A man’s wife dropped a letter in this office addressed to another man. The husband 1 suspects something wrong. Shall I deliver the letter to him?” The postmaster-general answered that the husband could not get the letter in that way. The father of the young girl Jennie Cramer, whose murder attracted so much attention bust summer, has just died. It is supposed that his death was hastened by the mental distress caused by the terrible tragedy, and the fear that the Malley boys wpuld escape the consequences of their crime. There was a sad scene in New York city last Saturday morning, when Louis Hamer staggered into his bedroom wounded by a burglar’s bullet, and fell dying to the floor, with his wife and seven children, suddenly roused from sleep, gathered around him. " The [latest? swindle Is, a fellow goes through the country making contracts for grain, stock, etc., to be deliv- j

ered at certain dates, and payihg $lO in cash to the seller to bind the bargain, taking a receipt for the same. This receipt afterward turns up as a note in some broker’s hands for S3OO or S4OO. The report of the Chinese Custom Hqjuse shows the foreign trade of nineteen ports of the empire to be open to the trade of foreign countries. The whole amount of last year’s trade sums up to $231,371,855 of imports and $112,961,765 of exports. Of this trade Great Britain has $177,778,510, and the United States $14,961,392. The Boston city government has voted to extend the lighting of the city by electricity, and a contract will be made with the Brush Company for 100 more lights for the principal streets ‘knd squares. There are already about the same number in operation on the streets, so that Boston will be a welllighted city the coming year. A writer in Bradstreet’s has discovered that fifteen million dollars’ worth of musical instruments are made and sold in/this country every year. ' Of this sum nearly eleven millions are expended for pianos, more than three millions for organs, and nearly three" hundred thousand for other instruments. The vote of nineteen cities chusetts was very nearly equally divided last week on the subject of license for liquor selling, the aggregates being: In favor of licensing, 31,687; against it, 29,681. Eight of these cities decided to try the experiment of local ptohibi-; tion, Boston’s voie is not included in the foregoing figures. W. EL Kileourn, of Jamestown, N. Y-., has invented and secured a patent on a device for heating passenger Oars by utilizing the waste heat from the locomotive. The hot air is carried in pipeefto radiators in each £car, and the heat is claimed to be sufficient for all the purposes required. The plan promises to do away entirely with the use of stoves in the cars. The latest controversy over exclusion of a negro from the best part of a theatre is in St. Louis. The man who brings the suit for damages is the principal of a negro public school, and a sufficient sum has been subscribed by his friends to meet the costs of extensive litigation. The Supreme Court of that State has hitbertofore decided that the manager of a theatre may refuse to admit anybody whom he chooses. Tables just completed at the statistical bureau show that the wheat crop for 1881 in Indiana was 30,000,000 bushels against 47,000,000 in 1880. The corn crop amounts to 71.000,000 bushels against 87,000,000 last year. The corn crop is unexpectedly large, a* the estimate given has been fifty, per centum of last year’s product. The wheat raised corresponds very closely with the estimates that have been given through the season by Mr. Connor, chief of the bureau, based upon his postal correspondence.

The admission of a colored clergyman to the Memphis Presbytery has disquieted the Southern Fresh terian Church. The Rev. Dr. Baird, one of the foremost men in the organization, strenuously objects. “One of the conditions of ordination,” he says, “is that a man shall be able to edify the church. Now, I risk nothing in asserting that no negro man in the present condition of [the Church and the world can attain unto this essential qualification for the position of a minister among us.” Henry C. Spaulding, who claims to be the inventor of Spaulding's glue, was sent to jail in New Albany, a lew days ago, on a charge of drunkenness. He says that the man to whom he sold the right tq manufacture the glue made a million dollars off of it, while he, the inventor, has spent $60,000, left him by his father, in suing the million man to recover his inventor’s dues. The cost of mail transportation for the year ending June 30,1881, was $19,323,890. The cost of the star service for 1881 was $6,957,365, a decrease of 4.97 per cent, in cost compared with the amount expended during 1880. The appropriation for the year ending June 30, 1882. is $7,900,000, being $942,647, or 13.55 per cent, in excess of the cost of this service for 188j[.

A syndicate of English capitalists have just concluded the purchase of 1,300,000 acres of land from the State of Mississippi. Seven hundred anu sixty thousand acres are known as levee lands, and located mostly in the Yazoo delta, comprising some of the richest cotton and timber land in the South. The intention is to improve, colonize and cultivate these lands. California fruit-growers are making extraordinary preparations this year for future demands, the operations in this line surpassing those of any previous year in the history of the State. Vineyards varying in extent from twenty to two hundred acres are ready to be set, and new 'orchards will be limited only by the exhaustion of the nursery stocks. With an eye to the possible ravages of the phylloxera, many vineyards will be set with hardy cuttings supposed to be proof against this pest. Cincinnati detectives have a case;

’on their hands that bothers them. Hie First National-Bank of that city wanted to send a package containing $5,000 to Blufiton, Ind. A package was sent. It reached its destination apparently intact. The seals were all right, and there was no indications that the package had been tampered with; but when it was opened, instead of bank bill, it contained newspaper slips cut to the size of bank bills. The bank people say that the package contained bills >vhen it left the bank. The express people say it was not disturbed in transit. Somebody has been very cute. ~ The ocean storms during the months of November and December were terrific—a ; succession of tempests and hurricanes. It is freely said by vessel captains that the average steamers of a generation since would not have been able to withstand these unprecedented gales. Three steam vessels are still unheard from, the Bath City, which undoubtedly foundered; the City of London, and the Henry Edge. To a large number of other steamers more or less damage was done, and several of the officers and crew were either killed by the fury of the waves, or washed from the decks. No steamer escaped more or less injury. The only wonder is that many did not go to the bottom.

The Rev. A. W. Wild preached a particularly eloquent sermon on the death of President Garfield, in the Congregational Church of Peacham, Vt,, and admiring members had it published in pamphlet form. Brother Parker, who disliked the pastor, did not believe him capable of producing such a discourse, and set about finding US Source. Aftk a long and industrious search, he has found that about a fourth of it is identical with an article in the Christian Statesman. Mr. Wild admits the plagiarism, but says it amounts to nothing, as nearly all .clergymen incorporate newspaper clippings into their sermons. Germany, besides being one es the chief military powers of the world, is gradually becoming great as a naval power. The official navy list Jfor Germany for the year 1881* has'been published, and it appears that the entire fleet now comprises 7 armored frigates, 5 armored corvettes, 12 unarmored spar-deck corvettes, 5 gon-boats of the first class, 1 armored battery, 13 armored gun-boats, 2 still in process of construction, 4 torpedo boats, 4 mine layers, 3 gun-boats of the second-class, 8 dispatch vessels, a transport, 11 training and school ships, 11 vessels for harbor service, and 8 pilot boats. There are at pi esent 5 German men-of-war on the Eastern Asiatic station, 3on the Australian, 2 on the eastern American, and 1 on the Mediterranean. In the raising of blooded cattle in England for several years past, the snort-horn classes at the various shows have been running very weak, while the polled Aberdeens have been the theme of universal admiration. At a late show of the Smithfield club at Islington, a black, polled heifer belonging to Sir W. J. Gordon-Camming took £250 in prizes, although only weighing 15cwt. 3 qrs. 24 lbs. She was admitted to be the finest beast ever exhibited in the country. The price of polled Aberdeens, it may be interesting, to our cattle breeders to know, has increased from 10 to 30 per cent in England during the' last six months. Orders for young bulls and calves are said to be pouring in from all parts of the United Suites and Canada.

It appears from ” late revelations made in England that Premier Gladstone’s father, Mr. John Gladstone, a Liverpool merchant, who was subsequently made a knight, was the sole owner of 880 slaves in British Guiana, and the part owner of 393 more. For these slaves he received £21,011 compensation under the West India emancipation act. The Conservatives in England are now publishing this record and contending that if the West Indian slave owners were compensated in this way for the loss of their property, with what face can Mr. Gladstone refuse compensation to the Irish landlords for the loss of theirs. They say that it is merely inconsistent to demand and reoeive compensation for property in men and women and refuse it for property in acres. A Washington dispatch says that cine of the last official acts of Mr. Blaine as Secretary of State was to ask the Russian Government to recall Mr. Michael Bartholomew the Russian EnExtraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Washington. The Russian Government has made a favorable response to the request, and Mr. Bartbolomei will leave for St. Petersburg the 10th of January, leaving Mr. Gregorie de Wilamor, Secretary of the Legation, in charge. The reason given for the Russian Minister’s reqail is said to be the same that caused the recall of a former Russian Minister, Cataoazy, while Hamilton Fish was Secretary \of “State. Bartholomei has lived a scandalous life while in ( this country, and besides has contracta large number of personal debts which he has dishonorably refused to pay. Mme. von Koerbeb, a German philanthropist, has come to this country to organize a movement for enoouraging and protecting the emigration hither of respectable women,. It

is her desire to form societies of influential ladies and gentlemen in the large seaport cities who will receive requests for women from’all parts of the country and forward them to the central society in Europe, which will then obtain and transport the number called for to fill the various positions requiring their services. Tfrefr passage will be paid for them and the cost deducted from their , subsequent earnings. An officer of the society will accompany them, and special arrangements for their protection and comfort will be made with steamship and railroad companies. Such an enterprise, if supported by the right people and conducted with efficiency, discretion and perfect hbnor, would accomplish an admirable w*rk. Since the war between France and Germany ended, the growth of the two countries in population has been curious in its contrasts. Germany has increased by 4,500,000 souls, but France by only 612,000. Births in France in 1867 were 26] to every 1,000 inhabitants; but in 1878 they were only 25J in every 2,000. The figures which correspond to these in Germany aie 38 3-5 and 38 J. In 1867 the excess of births over deaths in France was 140,600; in 1878 it was only 98,175; Germany, on the other hand, shows an excess for 1869 of 428,000, and for 1879 one of 550,506. With these figures as a starting point, it is estimated 1 that at the end of the century,provided epaigration and immigration do not interfere with conditions as they now are, France will have scarcely 40,000,000 people to the 60,000,000 that Germany will have.

Speaking at Carlisle lately, Sir Wilfred Lawson, M. P., said, referring to Ireland: “If people had something disagreeable they did not stick to it, but got rid of it. If they had a housemaid who was constantly breaking crockery, getting into hysterics, and acting in such a way that two or three had to be called in to her, they would say to her, ‘Wayward sister, go in peace.’ ” [Loud cheers.] And if they did not get the Irish question settled, he would cast away all prejudice and look the question impartially in the face. He did not see much argument in the way the leaders and everybody dealt with this question. There was one thing, they said, which could never be allowed —the disintegration of the empire. “A five-syllable word always fetched John Bull, and yet we have been disintegrated over and over again, and it did us a great deal of good. Once upon a time we ruled America, but the Americans did not want us to rule them any more, and were disintegrated.” Senor Martinez, the Chilian minister at Washington, has published his country’s side of the question on the relations of our government to the South American republics. It is, in brief, as follows: Chili is desirous of ending (he war as soon as consistent with justice. "It was begun only after the most flagrant violations of treaties on the part of Peru. The Chilians have not fought with wanton cruelty, and have not treated the Peruvians with cruelty since Jfhe occupation. The demands of Chili are just and far below what she might justly claim. Peru and Bolivia have no claims on the United States stronger than Chili; Peru is bankrupt, without credit, is revengeful, blood-thirsty, treacherous, deceptive, in the wrong from the beginning; she is not entitled to even the same consideration from the United States that Chili is. As to the Peruvian company’s claims, he says nobody knows how, when, or in what manner it obtained possession of the pretended claims of the Frenchmen, Cochet and Landreau; this he deems a matter of great importance, since the validity of the titles is one of the chief points in question; the claim tends to convert Peru into a colony or American factory, since the Peruvian company would modestly absorb the entire natural resources of the country.