Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1882 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

Home Items, The witness fees in the Guiteau. trial amount to nearly $7,000. Palmer, ex-City Auditor of Newark, N. J., has plead guilty to eight indictments for forgery. Mr. Fred J. Phillips is to succeed Mr. J. Stanley Brown as Private Secretary to President Arthun. « i During the year 1881, 13,830 persons died in Chicago, of which 7,405 were children under 5 years of age. Reports at the Post Office Department at Washington indicate that smallpox is spreading throughput the country. During the month of December 5,580,962 pieces of mail were delivered in Chicago, or about eleven each to every person. An Israelite named Wise, was fined $25 by a Justice of the Peace in the town of Lake, DI., for peddling horseflesh for beef. By a fire at Havemeyer’s sugar refinery, Williamsburg, near Near York, property of the value of $2,000,000 was destroyed. A drunken man at Bradford, Pa., fired three shots into a bowling alley, and wounded one man fatally. It was merely a drunken freak. At Newark, N. J., Assistant City Clerk Powell has been arrested, charged with complicity in the crookedness Of Auditor Palmer. Senator Hoar’s resolution for a select committee on woman suffrage, and all petitions referring thereto, was passed in the Senate by a vote of 35 to 23. The loss by the magazine explosion in Oskaloosa, lowa, will amount to $35,000. There were 12,360 pounds of powderin store at the time of the accident.

A firm of Rock Island, 111., contractors have the contract for building the State capitol of Texas. Their remuneration is to be 3,000,000 acres of public land. JjgThe Right Rev. Bishop Doane, of the Albany Protestant Episcopal Diocese, is not in favor of the use of the revised version of the New Testament, except by students. Delegate Maginnis, of Montana, proposes an excellent way to squelch Mormonism, which is to divide up Utah Territory among Nevada, Colorado, Idaho, and Wyoming. The Boston Memorial Association has been instructed to collect contributions for a statue to President Garfield, to cost not less than SIO,OOO. It is said that on Saturday Guiteau, the assassin, received two letters, postmarked Brooklyn, N. Y., containing drafts for SI,OOO and SSOO respectively. The Secretary of the Treasury has a circular recommending all the employes of the department throughout the country to be vaccinated. General Grant has asked Senator Miller to withdraw his (Grant’s) name from the Nicaraguan Canal bill. He believes that the Eads Ship Railway and the De Lessens Canal should be tried first. At Rochester, N. Y., on Sunday, the Right Rev. Bishop McQuaid spoke of the persons who advocated the latest measures of the Land League as “Catholics of unsafe consciences.” Eleven Chinese laborers working on the track of the Southern Pacific Railroad, near El Paso, Texas, were massacred last Saturday, it is said by the Apaches, but it is hinted that white laborers had a hand in it.

Sexton and Shaefer have arranged for another billiard mhtch of 600 points at Tammany Hall, New York, on the 26th of April, for $2,500 a side, the winner to take stakes and gate money, and the loser to pay expenses. Scoville has been offered SI,OOO for the body of Guiteau after execution, the would-be purchaser offering to wait twenty years for the delivery of the body. Guiteau is in favor of accepting $2,000. The Superintendent of the Railway Mail Service, has instructed Division Superintendents to suspend mail service between places where the continuation would be liable to carry the small-pox epidemic. It is said that a twenty-millionaire railway magrate m New York wears a patch on his boots three inches long. He could afford to wear to a patch on the seat and knees of his trousers, — where he is known. t *

Proceedings against Brady. Brown, French, et al., the Star Route frauds, have been begun by Assistant Attorney General Cook and District Attorney Corkhill before Police Justice Snell, in Washington. In his message, the new Governor of Virginia recommends a liberal scheme of education, especially with regard to the freedman, the rescinding of the capitation tax, and a vigilant protection of the purity of the ballot-box. Mr. S.D. Horton, one of the delegates to the International Money Congress, who is in Washington on his way home from Europe, says there is a probability of favorable action with regard to silver when the congress reassembles in April. At Baltimore thirty-two Pullman palace and sleeping cars were sold under a decree of the court, as a result of the suit between the Pullman Company and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. They sold for an average of $5,000 each. The United States Posfcfflce Department complains that the various jrailroads through the country are neglecting the railway mail service by refusing to furnish proper facilities in the. way of cars, or by trying £to run on schedule time. General Fitz John Porter, who was tried by court martial and cashiered, in 1863, for inefficiency, and failing to support General Pope, has appealed to the President for a rehearing of his

r case. His appeal is indorsed by General Grant, General Terry, and many persons of note, ■ • Louisville has a religious sensation. One George O. Barnes, the “Mountain Evangelist,” as he is called, is stirrifig up the entire community by a revival movement, which he calls the “faith cure.” At Quincy, 111., during a funeral at Salem Evangelical Church, which was crowded, a panic occurred by which several persons were fatally and many otherwise injured. A cry was raised that the gallery was falling, and the galleries were choked up for fully ten minutes. . . \ /'■’*'; Three boys in Oskaloosa, lowa, were using the magazine of the American Powder Company for a target, when it exploded with a force which was heard thirty miles away. The" boys- were instantly killed. The explosion caused $20,000 worth of damage in the town. The Presbyterian Bynod, composed of delegates from presbyteries in the adjoining parts oi Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi, admitted a negro for several years, but tn the present session the question of excluding him was raised, and a majority vote! to turn him out. This action was based solely on his color. , Grave abuses are alleged in the preemption of land in Northern Minnesota, where thousands of acres have been located by speculators, who, in most cases, make no improvements, and in. others are not even United States citizens. The Commissiofier of the General Land Office is about to investigate the matter. A very exciting chase was made after the murderers of the Gibbons family while they were being transferred from Catlettsburg, Ky., to Maysville jail. The steamer in which they were was chased by another, on which a number of lynchers had embarked. The presence of the military finally scared off the mob.-

Foreign • The Czar has subscribed 100,000 roubles (about $80,00o) to the sufferers by ! the recent riots in Warsaw. A Berlin paper which designated the Emperor’s rescript as a coup d’etat has been seized by the The report that an attempt was made to steal the bodies of the late Emperor Louis Napoleon 111. and of the Prince Imperial is denied. A revolution is feared at San Tomas,, Venezuela. President Blanco, fearing assassination, has a strong guard surrounding his house. The Czar of Russia has issued a ukase which will materially lessen the debts for lands granted to the serfs when they were manumitted. The Viceroy pf India, Lord Lytton, has intimated to the King of Burmah that his system of commercial monopolies does not suit his British neighbors. The police have unearthed near the city of Cork a case, buried six feet underground, containing a large number of rifles and a quantity of expiodents. The Cardinal Archbishop of Rouen France, has published a letter in which he advises the Italian nation to choose another capital and leave Rome to the Holy Father. Those members of the Dublin corporation who favor Pamellism will petition the Lord Lieutenant to allow the freedom of the city to be presented to Parnell and Dillon in the jail. _ The freedom of the city of Dublin was by vote of about 50 per cent, of the Council conferred on Parnell and Dillon, and they want the Lord Lieutenant to allow the two patriots to attend at the City Hall to receive the certificates.

The government of the Province of Quebec is about to consider a proposal to take under its auspices a lottery scheme with two semi-annual drawings of $500,000 each, and to get 10 per cont. of the gross proceeds. &The Canadian Government, in connection with various companies, Is about to organize a scheme for bringing from Europe female domestics for the especial benefit of the Northwest provinces. ' The excitement in Berlin with regard to the Imperial rescript is increasing. Anticipating the efforts of the Liberal party in the Reichstag looking to a rebate of the document, Bismarck has caused the imperial circular to be placarded all over the country. A correspondent in Rome denies the ; truth of a sensational dispatch purporting to be from that city to a Parisian paper stating that Bismarck had addressed a note to the Quirinal, 'and that the Pope was preparing to fly from Rome. The horrid report received in this country last fall, but not credited, to the effect that the heathen, King- of Ashantee, Africa, had massacred two hundred young maidens and mixed their blood with the mortar used in building a new temple, is confirmed. It appears that the girls had been captured from neighboring tribes. The Emperor of Germany has issued a “rescript” which is countersigned by Prince Bismarck, in which he informs his ministers and all officials of the government that, as King of Prussia, his right to dictate the policy..of the government must he unquestioned by them, and that he will insist on his prerogative as King. This rescript creates a decided sensation in Berlin, and will, it is asserted, precipitate the impending conflict in the Parliament A St. Petersburg dispatch states that Admiral Saulkowsky, who sailed in the Russian man-of-war Chasseur, in search of the Jeannette, has informed his government that he had been in company with the Rodgers, search vessel, which he had leit AuSist9tn, returning to Irkutsk, and at the Rodgers had sailed for Herald Island, having heard that one of the Jeannette’s boats (containing corpses) had been cast ashore there. 'The commander of the Rodgers had made preparations for wintering at Herald Island.