Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1882 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

Nome Items. The General Assembly of Virginia is thioßing of abandoning Richmond on account of the small-pox scare. Representative Townsend has introduced anew national bankrupt law, which, h§ claims, Is in every way superior to the old ohe. Ex-Governor Bullock, of Massachusetts, dropped dead on the sidewalk, in Worcester, Mass., Tuesday afternoon. Apoplexy was the cause. Mr. Keyes has been rejected by the President for reappointment as Postmaster of Madison, Wis., because ne is a member of the Legislature. A disastrous fire in Galveston,Texas, destroyed about a dozen large business edifices on the Strand. The loss will not fall far short of $2,000,000. The Sbutji Carolina State Legislature has been apprised that ‘within the past six weeks an exodus of 5,000 negroes occurred from one county. GovernorJSt. John, of Kansas, denies that the prohibition law of that State is invalidated by a recent decision of the BtateSupreme Court. has beep arrested in Detroit, Mich., charged with the murder of Martha Whitla, three years ago. The evidence against him is very strong. A number of manufacturers met in Chicago and formed the National Glucose and Grape Sugar Association, for the protection of that new industry. . Over 11,000,000 pounds of cheese and nearly 4,000,000 pounds of butter were sold on the Elgin (Ill.) Butter and Cheese Board, during the past year. In his annual message to the State Legislature, Governor Cornell, of New York, ad vises a reconsideration of the. auestion of fth international exposion.

A subcommittee has been appointed by Congress to consider and report on a system of postal telegraph hi this country, to be operated by the Government. . ? There wilt be a further deficiency in the Census Bureau, the amount of $540,000 asked for by General Walker, being inadequate for the completion of the work. A bill has been introduced into the Senate asking arrearages of pensions for Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, amounting to $15,000. It was referred to the Pension Committee. At Wilmington, Ohio, a child died of what was supposed to be chickenpox. After the funeral was largely attended, fifty cases of virulent smallpox were developed. Mutilated silver and gold coinage can only .be sept to the U. S. Treasury at Washington in amounts of not less than SIOO, on which there is a melting chargeof 1 per cent. The Grand Jury of New Haven, Conn., has feund true bills* for murder in the first degree against the Malley brothers and Blanche Douglass, for the killing of Jennie Cramer last August. Speculators are operating in Washington to endeavor to secure grants of land in the Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming Territory. They are said to possess strong political influence. Chicago detectives have arrested an expert baggage thief named DeForrest, with several aliases, who is believed to have stolen about $12,000 worth of baggage f rom railroad depots within a very short time. A National Board of Health official thinks that] the present smallpox epidemic came with the emigrants from Europe. There were between 1,200 and 1,400 deaths from the disease in Philadelphia during 1881, and 700 deaths in New York. The Army of the Cumberland have asked Congress, through Senator Harrison, for an appropriation of $7,500, payable from the proceeds of condemn • ed ordnance, for the erection of a statue to the memory of Gen. Garfield.

The Apaches are at their old work •f murder and rapine in the neighborhood es Sonora, N. M. The State troops and citizens of the Territory are chasing the who are believed to number 200, under the leadership of Nana. Frank Burr, the engineer of the Tarrytown train which run into the Chicago express at Spuyted Duy vil, testified at the Coroner’s inquest that there was no warning given him by that train until it was too late. He stayed on his engine to the last. The Board of Education of the city of Quincy, 111., having established a color line in the public schools there, the State Supreme Court at Springfield has decided this illegal, and reversed the decision of the Circuit Court which was favorable to the board. Secretary Folger, of the Treasury Deparment, has issued the 107th call for the redemption of bonds of the loan of July 17 and August 5. 1861, continued at 3j per cent, from July 1, 1881. Interest on these bonds ’will cease March >3, 1882. The amount ailed in is $20,000,000. The Presbyterian Synod, composed of delegates from presbyteries in the adjoining parts of Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi, admitted a negro for several years,but in 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. - -I Probably the largest hog in the United States was lately exhibited at Junction City, Kansas. His length is 7 feet; girth of neck, 6 and a naif feet; girth of chest, 7 and a half feet; girth of c?nter, 8 feet; width across the hips, 50 inches, and weight, 1,532 pounds. Ttfe Pennsylvania Revenue Commission at Philadelphia has agreed to a report recommending taxing money at interest and personal property at 2 mills on the dollar, and that foreign corporations should be taxed upon the ratio of business done in the State, on the same basis as home Institutions. B

A terrible accident occurred to the Chicago express train which left Albany, N. Y., p. m. Friday. Near Souyteu Duyvil junction, with the Harlem main line, the Tarrytown special tram ran into it and telescoped the Igst two Wagner palace cars, which took tire and caused a loss of twelve lives. Among those who were killed was Senator Wagner. the eminent palace-car proprietor. ; " The star-route cases were taken up for preliminary examination in the Police Court, Washington, Wednesday. Colonel Bliss stated that out of 14.101 bids, bonds were given for $8,000,000, and there was not value enough representedby the eight millions “to buy a spavined horse.” Counsel for the defense made the postofflee inspectors testify that in the bids the government had sustained no lose. / Gen. Brown, chairman of the Invalid pensions Committee, has a queer case .before his'eommittee. It is an application for a pension by a man who first entered the Union army, then deserted and enlisted in the Confederate army, and finally re-enlisted in the Union army, from which he received an honorable discharge. The question with General Brown is, which service shall he be pensioned for, the Union or the Confederate?