Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1882 — HERE AND THERE. [ARTICLE]

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Smale- pox is reported at 61 points in Illinois. • ■’ There were 118 deaths from smallpox in Chicago last month. Richmond, Virginia, had a seven inch snow Wednesday night. THfe receipts of two of Patti’s concerts at Chicago were $28,000. ■ z The Hiinois oom crop last year was only-half as large as that of 1879. THE whipping-post bill has been defeated in the Kentucky Legislature. The grand total of foreign immigration to this country in 1881 was 700,U00. It is said that an American war steamer is quietly surveying fiamana W,. z Fifteen hundred Mormon converts are preparing to leave England for Utah./ . It is estimated that the orange crop of Southern California is worth over SI,OOO, too. • ' THE Utah Legislature met Tuesday. Its thirty-six members have an aggregate of 100 wives. There were 1,207 cases of small-pox reported to the Chicago Board of Health in 1881. The sale of leaf and manufactured tobacco in Cincinnati last year amounted to $15,000,000. Ex-President Hayes has contributed $250 to the Garfield monument fund at Cleveland.

During the year 1881 thirty-six murders and eighty- two suicides were committed in St. Louis. • During the past year 17,767 Chinaman arrived at Ban Francisco, while 8,178 returned to China. EpisoN, the great lightning tamer, owns two hundred and fifty patents, and still he is £iqt happy. There are cheerin g> indications in last year’s operations of an active revival of ship-building in Maine. The provisions of the naturalization treaty with this country have been extended to all parts of Germany. President Arthur's seventeen-year-old boy is a stalwart of the stalwarts. He is six feet four inches high. The total losses by fire in Chicago during 1881 were $1,784,312.96. Loss over and abova insurance, $107,385.58. The .exodus fever has broken out among the plantation negroes of South Carolina, and thousands of them are moving to Arkansas. Near Hamburg, Arkansas, the other day; Col. L. M. Bell, aprominent planter beat his wife to death, and was lynched by his neighbors.

The State capitol building of Texas is to be 366 feet high, the seventh highest building in the world, and the second in the United States. TH® total number of failures recorded -by the Dun & Co, Mercantile Agency in 1881 was 5,582, with liabilities slightly over $81,000,000. New York city has 540 printing and publishing establishments, with 11,803 and representing capital to the amouftt of $17,007,210. In his morning sermon last Sunday, Henry Ward Beecher caused a sensation by taking open and emphatic ground against eternal punishment The Senatorial excitement in lowa is settled by the nomination of Hon. James F. Wilson for the long term, and Hon. J. W. McDill for the short termi*«■ ■ *■' * UK ■< J The municipal authorities of Philadelphia have decided to tax parsonages and other xjhurch property, except the church bnildings in use as places of Wp-. Theaters in Russia are to be closed on Saturday as well as Sunday nights, by order of the Government, on the greyed that Saturday night is a part ofSunday. The anniversary of St Catherine, the patron saint of old maids, is celebrated annually on the 25th of NovemberJjy large spinster’s societies in Paris and Brussels. . Postmaster General Howe annotaices that he has no places to fill now, but will be compelled to reduce his force in order to bring expenses do|rn to appropriations. DfigfNG last year in New York city there was an increase of. deaths and a decrease of births— 3B,6o9 deaths in 1881 toBI.W ih 1880. and 2,7636 births Mormop question, the tariff, and* Senator Sherman’s three per cent, boijji bill have been the chief topics oi general interest discussed in Congress since theiyjlday recess. THE elections Hi Trance for members of the National Senate have resulted in*Mrge' gains for the Republicans, rendering Doth htfliaes of the Legislature very largely Republican.

] Foors 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 profeesionallbeauty. Mrs. Langtry. Ban Francisco seems to be still the center of an El Dorado. During 1881, $12,115,500 were distributed in dividends by, the banking, mining, insurance and other corporations of that city. , \ A bill has been introduced in the House of Congress requiring the Burgeon General of the Army to keep on hand a supply of pure vaccine virus, which all physicians may obtain at cost. , '? The Democratic candidate for Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives, at the recent organization, was C. N. Vallandigham, son of the noted waiter and watcher over the border. The Roman Catholic archbishop at Montreal has withdrawn his opposition to the deceased wife’s sister’s marriage bill about to be'introduced in parliament repealing the laws prohibiting such alliances. Twenty-five houses were set on fire in Philadelphia, last week, by electric light wires, and (it is probable that the authorities of that citiy will carder the discontinuance of that system of street lighting. First Assistant Postmaster General Hatton isf appointing anti-Mormon postmaster&in Utah, and the’Mormons are resenting liis action by going miles out of their way to patronize the polygamous rascals who yet remain in offico The largest steel sailing ship afloat, registering 2,220 tons, has just been launched for Isma, Imrie & Co., managers of the White Star line. It bears the name of “Garfield,” and will be employed in the Australian and California trades.

During the past year 1,532 persons died in London of the small-pox. Of hese, 325 had been vaccinated and 637 neglected that precaution, the remaining 570 being doubtful. Of the population of London 3,620,000 are- Vaccinated and 190,000 are not. It appears that we haven’t got rid of he Mother fihipton prophecy yet, as a Hartford man has 'discovered that the time of its fulfillment should be computed under the old style, which would extend the year 1881 to the 24th of next March. The following States will elect Governors during the present year: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan,! Nebraska, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas 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.

AJChristian Army has been formed in Chicago.like the Salvation Army of England, with a General in comjnond, Captain for exhorters, “knee drills,” instead of prayer meetings, “skirmishes” by small parties in saloons, and “battles” in a public hall. The bonds recently stolen from Daniel P. Eells, President of the Commercial National Bank of Cleveland, amounting to $117,000, have been returned, but to get them back again, Mr. Eells paid the of $30,000. The negotiations for their return were conducted through a New York detective. The vote of nineteen cities in Massachusetts 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, 29,661. Eight of these cities decided to try the experiment of local prohibition. Boston’s vote is not included in the foregoing figures. The work of counting the funds in the United States sub-treasury, at New York, began Tuesday morning. There is eighty tons of silver, amounting to about $26,000,000, of which $16,000,000 is in silver dollars and the rest in subsidiary coin; $50,000,000 in gold and $5,000,000 in United States notes and silver certificates. It will require three weeks. A temperance crusade in St. Albans, Vermont, closed the hotels, the proprietors adopting that course in preference to stopping the sale of liquors. The result was so unfavorable to business, that petitions were al m nst unanimously signed, requesting the hotels to open again on their own terms, and the request has been corn - plied with. It is announced that Dr.McGettigan, Archbishop of Armagh,and Primate of all Ireland, has been appointed by the Holy See as the successor of the late Cardinal Cullen. The new cardinal, it is said, has never Interfered in politics until recently, when he came out in a vigorous denunciation of the Land League. He iff a prelate of magnificent presence, and a singularly sweet and saintly expression of countenance, is a just index of his character.

The Supreme Court of the United States has just decided a case which concerns all borroweis and lenders of money. The decision is that the prohibition against usury in the National Banking act extends not only to paper of which the customer of the bank is the maker, but also to the paper of others offered by him for discount The act limitslhe rate of interest on discounts as well as loans, and limits it to the rate fixed by the State law for the use of money. A London company, with a capital of $2,5000,000 has acquired a million acres in Manitoba and the Northwest territory, and intends to divide it into farms of 160 to 640 acres each, with certain improvements in the way of buildings, stock and implements. The tenants are to work the farms, and the harvest is to be equally divided between the two parties to the contract. Some of the Canadian newspapers are opposing the scheme as introducing objectionable landlordism. A Washington dispatch says that Postmaster General Howe finds that his predecessor had an excess of clerks, and will cut the force down within the law. He removed one $1,400 clerk, whose only duty was to read newspapers and cut out complimentary notices of Postmaster James, and paste them in a scrap-book. He has also accepted the resignation of Post-office Inspector Hinds, an ex-straw bidder, whom James had in the service.

Of the 385,007 immigrants in 1880, one-third of the whole number 148,132, remained in the State of New York. Pennsylvania absorbed 36,475 and New Jersey 11,587. To Massachusetts went 11,007, to Connecticut Rhode Island 2,180, to New Hampshire 583, to Maine 226, to Vermont 204, or 21,169 to New England. The share of the Southern States was 24,354. Of the remaining 148,330 Illinois took the greater number 43,410, Ohio following with 19,107, Michigan with 17,088, Wisconsin with 15,701 and Minnesota with 15,698. Sarah Taylor, a Quakeress of long unquestioned devoutness, has been exposed at Waynesville, Ohio, as a confirmed thief. A search of her house revealed great quantities of booty, some of which had been stolen twelve years ago, and all carefully secreted in the cellar, under floors, and in the other out-of-the-way places. The articles ranged from brooms to jewelry, and included much wearing apparel. She had taken nearly all these things from neighbors’ houses and from guests in her own house, going so far on one occasion aS to rob the mourners at a funeral. She has made a full confession, declaringthat she was irresiatably impelled, and her friends call her a kleptomaniac. In the raising of blooded cattleln, England for several years past, the short-horn classes at the various shows have been running very weak, while the polled Aberdeens have been the theme of universal admiration. Ata late show of Smithfield club at Islington, a black, polled heifer belonging to Sir W. J. Gordon-Camming took £250 in prizes, although only weighing 15 cwt. 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 States and Canada.

Mr. Maginnis, delegate in Congress from Montana Territory, proposes a new and radical method to put an end to the Mormon problem, which is, in brief, that Congress shall, as it has the authority to do, divide Utah Territory, giving the western part to Nevada, the southeastern to Colorado, and the remaining small northern‘portion to Idaho and Wyoming. By this disposition of the matter the greater portion of the Mormon population would become citizens'of Nevada and Colorado, and, hence, become amenable to established laws concerning the crime of polygamy. Speaking with reference to his proposition, he says: “Is there any reason why Utah should not be blotted out of the map? And would this not be a better, because Jess violent and more natural, way to deal with the Mormon problem than any other that has been proposed.” The New York Tribune gives a list of the marine disasters of the past year. It is a startling exhibit. One hundred and ninety-eight steamships were lost durii the year, with a total tonage of about 200,000 tons. The loss of life nvolved was 1,459. Their ecord shows that of the disasters 141 ■ rere to British steamships; 15 were Am irican: 6 French; 6 Danish; 5 Gen lan: 3 Dutch; 3Swedish; 1 Brazilian; 3 Belgian; 4 Spanish; 2 Chilian, Mexican, Chinese, Austrian, Japanese and Norwegian, 1 each; of 8 the nationality could not be learned. Oi these 4 were of steel; 5 of wood and the rest iron vessels. Of the disasters, 99 vessels were stranded; 30 sunk by noli is. ion; 40 foundered; 7 burned; 11 are missing; 6 were abandoned al sea; 2 were sunk by ice ; 1 broke in two. and 1 was destroyed by explosion. Eleven of the vessels are known to ha 1 e been laden with grain; 23 with coal;: 1 with I

iron; 2]wlth cotton, and one each with copper ore, petroleum, provisions, Wool ana sugar. The Atlanta cotton fair which closed with the year was a success. The expenses, including the cost of the build - ings, were about a quarter of a million dollars. Toward them somewat lees than half this amount was subscribed as stock, and provided the subscribers expected no return the exhibition paid its way, since the gate money and sales of privileges covered the difference between this capital and the expenditures, After the sales of ’ material are made, there may even be some returns on the stock. The good achieved was the stimulus given to industrial enterprise at' the South, the acquaintance of the people with improvements in machinery, the turning of Northern capi- 1 tai to Southern fields, and the friendly intercourse between people from different parts of the country who assembled there. The value of the exhibition, though greatest for the South, belongs to the whole country, since the agricultural inventions of the North were prominent* with the products of the South. i-' Z__ . . The recent race on the Ohio river, between the Mountain Boy and the Mountain Girl, the former carrying a Sheriff’s posse, with Craft and Neil, two of tjiose charged with the triple murder of the Gibbons family at Ashland, Ky., and the latter carrying a lynching party in hot pursuit, was certainly one of the strangest incidents on record either in steamboat racing or lynch law. The Boy had two miles the start, and was crowded up to twelve miles an hour; the Girl was also put to her top speed, and rushed along the river amid tremendous excitement on the banks. At some joints the shores were black with people,who some how got the news, and the river was crowded with boats. The steamers were mates and a match; but the Boy had the largest supply of coal aboard and the advantage of the start, While the lynchers, in their eagerness, had over-crowded the Girl. Whether it was that she could not make ud the distance, or that the Boy stopped at a point and took a body of armed militia aboard, at any rate the Girl at length gave up the most exciting chase known on the Ohio of late years, and the Sheriffs prisoners were safely lodged in Marysville jail.

In a libel suit in San Franciscb growing out of the Chronicle’s accusation that the Bulletin sold its editorial influence to the Central Pacific Railroad for $30,000, the presiding judge ruled that such a charge was not libellous. “Is it morally or legally wrong for a person to advocate a project, matter or claim, for pecuniary or valuable consideration?” his Honor asked, and he then proceeded to answer the question in the negative: “Talent is as much the capital of the advocate, the lawyer,and the editor as merchandise is of the merchant; he has as much right to sell his talents as the merchant his merchandise. The lawyer, the minister, the parliamentary advocate, the lecturer, the author, sells his talent, and he is not the less respected for so doing. The greater his learning, industry, eloquence, and the esteem in which he is held, the greater his pecuniary compensation. It seems to me that it is no more libellous to accuse one of selling for gain the support and advocacy of his newspaper than it would be to accuse the merchant of selling for gain his merchandise.” This reasoning is fallacious. The newspaper sells its talent and influence to the public and is bound by every consideration of honor and integrity to take the side of the public against any and every conflicting private interest.

It is noted by an authority familiar with the subject that with the creation of four new saints the other day at St. Peter’s, the number of eminent personages upon whom the Holy See has conferred the highest honors since the termination of the tenth century has been brought up to a tatal of 225. The present century has added more largely to the calendar of saints than any of its precursors. Forty-nine have been canonized since the Ist of January, 1880; whereas during the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, respectively,'only eleven Church notaries were sanctified by the reigning 'Pontiffs. A list has been published of the names, callings, and qualifications for canonization of the 225 saints in question. Only one lawyer has been deemed worthy of supreme distinction by the Roman Church during the period of nearly a thousand years. The largest contingent—sixty-one— is furnished by the minor Catholic clergy. Next come the martyrs, four-ty-seven in number, and thirdly, as many prelates, save one. Only two popes, three cardinals, three hermits, three doctors of the Cnureh, and the three unmartyred laymen are set down in the atx>ve mentioned' list, which, however, records the canonization of an emperor, an express, seven kings, two queens, two\ dukes, anil one duchess, as well as\of three v onder working virgins and Ope widow. Pius IX. made more saints than any of his predecessors. I flThe sulphur mines at Schmolnitz’, Hungary, are ,on Are, and cannot be, extinguished. The loss will amount to many naillions of florins, I