Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1882 — HERE AND THERE. [ARTICLE]

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~ Patti wears Que $12,000 “rig.” Alabama bps 2,500,000 acres of lands open to entry. ; An anti-polygamy Mormon church in Boston has seventy members. A Madison man aged 82 years is suing fora di Vprce ftom his wife. )t is now stated .that Captain Howgate’s defalcation amounts to $300,000. “ An Illinois cow weighs 3,000 pounds and is seventeen and a half hands high. A Several heavy manufacturers in Cincinnati are preparing to move to Chicago. . ~ THEtwo United States Senators recently elected in lowa’are tooth natives of Ohio. _ ; Hahrison. the revalist, is stirring up sinners at St. Paul’s Church in Cincinnati. _ The Congressional Garfield memorial services will be held on the 22nd of February. It is again reported that Mrs. Lincoln is suffering with a complication of disorders." Patti gets even with the baggage smasher by traveling with twentythree trunksGen. Hancock declines to call a court martial trial of Mason for shooting at Guiteau. Thirty new cases of small-pox were developed at. Pittsburgh, Pa., last Saturday and Sunday. A BILL for a stringent prohibitory liquor law has been introduced in the Missouri Legislature. Southern California is afflicted with and damaged by unprecedented cold weather and snow. It is said that General Grant has given up his Washinton visit to avoid the press of office-seekers.

The poetmaster atpSnfala, Alabama, being arrested the other day for irregularities committed suicide. Twenty-one shocks of earthquake have been observed in Switzerland since the first of December. It is skid that many Indianapolis maidens are pining with unrequited love for the “Boy Preacher.” Six denominations of the colored people of Topeka, Kansas, maintain fifteen church organizations. Arrangements are being made fcr holding a National Agricultural Fair at Washington, D. C., next summer. Caroline Richings-Bernard, the well-known sineer, died of smaU-pox at Richmond, Va.. last Saturday. Major General Hancock has been installed as the commander of the Military order of the Loyal Legion. The French Government is paying five per cent, interest on $1,386,000,000 of the National debt of that country. ■ -4 ■’ * Southern cotton factories are earning large dividends, which are attracting the attention of Northern capitalists.

Hundreds of camels and many soldiers have perished with cold recently -on the frontier of the great Sahara DeDuring the year 1881, three hundred and sixty-four decrees of divorce were granted by the courts of San Francisco. At Danville 111., ' Monday, Charles Hfalf fell dead white'Btrfrytag to the depot to see his daughter off on the cars., \ Over 20,000 copies of our Century magazine and about 10,000 copies of St, Nicholas are sold monthly in England. ■ . ‘ > > ANoflorb'is to be made in England to five million dollars for the relief of homeless Jewish families in .Russia. -• Greedy money getting, in the form of speculation, is producing numerous failures in London, Paris, and this country., Washington specials state that Burbridge is urged for the Chiiiafr Mission by a large delegation of JJentuokiajis. » . ;< t . $A RECENT census statement shows that there site 500 persons living in the Vatican at ot whom one-third ake women. . - The subject of a commission ofin«|ulry4uto tyd liquor traffic is pressed gtbe attention of Congress by ong - ’ £ statement that there are 28,000 med widows of the war,®/ 181£ in •untry, isgoingi the rottads, but it is not credible. ’ .1 ,f HecreTaE y“F6ix?er and Commissioner Baum are opposed to the reduction oftlte tai' on whisky demanded i>y the distillers. The Senate ot the Kentucky Lrgte-

. »' M 8 I' < r • " lature has passed a bill giving a married woman all the property rights enjoyed by her husband. " \ The Ohio Senate has adopted a resolution to place the statue of Garfield in the old hall of the House of Representatives at Washington. -■ g The exodus fever has broken out among the plantation negroes of South Carolina, and thousands of them are exoving to Arkansas. Experiments in cotton raising in Kansas have been very sucoessfuL One planter made one hundred bales, of an excellent quality. The railway passenger rate from Chicago to New York is $9. It was S2O last year. Rates to other points have been reducted in proportion. Both houses of Congress have passed a bill making up the deficiency of the appropriation for taking the census of 1880, the amount being $540,000. The surprising statement is made that not a bushel of grain or barrel of went abroad from New York last year, under the American flag. u A scholarship in memory of Garfield is about to be established in the University at Atlanta, Georgia, by the teachers and students of that institution. ** A Washington dispatch has it that the administration of ex-feecretary Schurz is to be investigated in search for alleged land department irregularities. ' Gen. Tom Bbowne proposes to supply a much felt want by introducing a bill in the House of Congress pioviding for the issue of $10,000,000 fractional currency. 14 The anniversary of St. Catherine, the patron saint of old maids, is celebrated annually on the 25th of Novembei by large spinster’s societies in Paris and Brussels.

New stock yards are to be established in south Chicago for the benefit of the Wabash road. They Will cost $3,000,000, of which amount Jay Gould furnishes $1,000,000. During last year in New York city there was an increase of deaths and a decrease of births—3B,6o9 deaths in 1881 t 031,963 in 1880, and 2,7636 births in 1880 to 26,130 in 1881. Sixteen states of the Union are more or less afflicted with small-pox, and the National Board of Health announces that the disease is spreading throughout the country. A recent typhoon swept the waters of the ocean over a town in China and four miles out into the country, destroying the place and its 3,000 inhabitants, almost instantly. A railroad agent at Little Rock Ark., committed suicide Monday, leaving a note stating that he was short $1,500 in his Accounts, having gambled the money away. When Hon. Alexander H. Stephens celebrated his seventieth birthday recently, President Arthur sent him a handsome bouquet of flowers in remembrance of the occasion. England and France having agreed to take joint supervision of the affaire of Egypt, the other European powers exhibit symptoms of jealousy. The balance of power is threatened. Twenty-eight . persons were sentenced to death for murder in England last year, of whom seven were wo- • men. Thirteen were executed, and the others sent into penal servitude

The Rev. George Banger, vicar of Carlton-in-Cleveland, in England, has been arrested on a charge of wilfully and maliciously setting fire to his own church on the 10th of October last. At a recent banquet in Rome, given in honor of veteran soldiers, the Mayor declared that the people of Rome would rather see the city laid in ashes than be again subjected to Papal dominion. Somebody who has kept count states that there were 1,226 murders, and 600 suicides, in the United States, dur-, ingjthe year 1881, and it is probable that several townships have not been from. Germany has §,200 co-operative assolations, of which 1,895 are loan or credit societies, people’s banks, etc., 674 industrial societies, 645 stores for \the sale of goods, and? 36 building societies. , The total value of exports of domestic breadstuff’s from this country for the twelve months ended December 31, 1881, was $224,118,560, a considerable falling off as compared with the previous year. A collection of letters written by Voltaire to the private secretary of the Empress Catherine will shortly be published. They were recently discovered, hid away in the library of a Russian country house. The anti-polygamy bill of Congressman Calkins does not Interfere with the religious pretentions of Mormondona, but simple disfranchises those who choose to ' live in defiknce of the laws of the United States. Temperance legislation in Aarkansas provides what is called a threemile local option law, which prevails in a large pbftion of the State under the sanction of the people interested,

closing hundreds of saloons at the end qf last year. The American association of window glass manufocurers has passed a resolution agreeing not to make any glass during July and August next. The product of the past year has been large, amounting to nearly 2,250,000 boxes, valued at about $6,000,000. Rev. Anna Oliver, the black-eved girl-preacher ot Brooklyn N. Y., proposes to raise money for her church by issuing 13,000 shares of stock at $1 each, the value of the shares being hei portrait on the stock certificates. It is said that a male member of her flock will take 500 shares. Commissioner Dudley has issued instructions for the establishment of medical boards at points throughout the country, about forty miles apart, where pensioners will be required to present themselves, exhibit their claims and undergo examination. It has been suggested that the most effectual remedy for polygamy would be to compel each Mormon to keep all his wives under the same roof. The present practice is, to keep them in seperate establishments, while the husband “boards around.” If he could be made co face the matrimonial music in chorus, it is believed that be would repent and reform. The public schools in the Southern States are constantly improving, and the attenance both of white and colored children is growing larger. In nearly all the cities and large towns as good schools are provided for colored pupils as for the whites. The maintenance of the separate system naturally increases the expense.

A Chitese acrobat and juggler recently gave a performance at Brighton, England, in the course of which he fired a small cannon which he had balanced upon a sword held in his mouth. The cannon was directed toward the upper gallery, and when the smoke had cleared away it was discovered that the charge had blown the head off a boy sitting among “the gods. ’ ’ According to a German economist, the income of thelworldis $13,520,000,000; debt, $10,926,000,000; taxes, $2,002,000,000; capital, $85,612,000,000. Sweden has the smallest debt, or $50,000,000; France the largest, or $2,140,000,000. The United States has the largest income, and England the most capital. Italy is the heaviest taxed, paying 35 per cent, of its income for taxes to the average 15 per cent of other nations. The disqualification of a witness in Toronto, recently, because he was an unbeliever in revealed religion or a a God, and called himself an agnostic, was accompanied by the presiding Judge’s remarks that he regretted to be compelled by Canadian law to take such a coureJudge Thomas, however, in making a like ruling at St. Thomas, said emphatically that be considered the law fortunate and proper.

The statement in the recent messaga of Governor Cornell that the attendance in the public schools of New Cork had fallen off about 10,000 during the past year, is attracting much attention in that state. The enormous number of children who do not accept the benefits of the common school system of the various states of the Union, is a deplorable and alarming sign of the times, which demands prompt and efficient remedial measures. / The Hudson River Railroad brakeman who is responsible for the terrible disaster of last Friday evening, was arrested and jailed on Saturday evening, but Monday was released on $5,000 bail to await the action of the Grand Jury. The list of known deaths resulting from the collision is eight, and possibly one or two more. There appears to be no question that the collision would have been avoided had the brakeman obeyed orders. —. f ' Garfild is quoted as saying one day: “When I went into the war I gave my life unreservedly to the, Union. I said to myself, ‘lf any part of this surrender shall not be required of me—if it is only a limb, or an eye, or a faculty, that must be the sacrifice —I shall consider all the rest as given back to me by a most kind and indulgent Providence.’ The belief that I should return a whole man, a well man, had no place in my most sanguine thoughts.” It appears from the last volume of the history which Germany is publishing of the lateiwar with France that the number of men whom Germany put into the field for fighting purpokes was 33,101 officers and 1,113,254 subordinates. Of these 1,146,355 men, 290,000 were nursed in field hospitals and 812,021 in hospitals for reserves. The lives lost numbered 123,473, of whom 6,327 were officers and 123,453 subordinates. More than 40,000 men either died in battle or afterward from their wounds. \ , The Rev. George Ch Barnes is conducting in Louisville 4 religious revival which in most respects is not uncommon ; but he introduces a novelty by carrying a bottle of oil as hie goes among the penitents and annotating them on their foreheads. He claims Scriptural authority for this ceremony.

Although harshly criticised for his oddities, he is said to be sincere in his Work—eo sincere that he will take no pay except food and lodging—and his converts are numerous. He is a seceder from the Presbyterians. Some years ago the State of Maine abolished the death penalty as a punishment for murder inthe first degree.* It would seem that the experiment has not been a success in that State, as the number df murders in the State have largely increased since the new law went into effect. The Attorney General of State has made a report, in whieh he says the number of convictions for murder duringXthe last year have exceeded the number of convictions during the entire three years preceding the abolition of the death penalty, and he recommends the restoration of that form of punishment.

A late Irish Journal gives an account of a new departure in the milling industry of that country. The Messrs. Furlong, millers of Fermoy, in the county of Cork, have purchased in the United States 13,000 acres a of prairie land, on which they intend growing wheat, to be ground on their premises at Fermoy and at others owned by them in the city of Cork.® They also intend converting an old paper-mill at Fermoy into a sack and twine factory. The sacks are to be used for the conveyance of the flour to England. Fermoy is noted for its fine water power. The “Presbyterian” gives churchgoers counsel worthy of their consideration and adoption, as follows: “Having entered a pew, move along: be sure and move along. Do not block up the end of the pew as if you did not intend to have anybody else to enter it, or as if you were holding it for some special friends. Do not rise to let others in, but move along' and leave the pew invitingly open so that they will Know they are welcome. If a pew holding six has has five already in it do not file out m formal procession to let one poor, scared woman go the further end, but move along and let her sit down at the end next to the aisle. It is not necessary now for a stalwart man to sit at the end ready to rush out and kill Indians, as possibly it was once.” The Baptist ministers of Virginia are opposing the passage of a bill for the relief of men who have fought duels, the present law disqualifying them from holding office; but there is one of the clergymen who does not favor the movement. “Duels are usually bloodless, inconsequential affairs,” he said,.“and the field of honor is one whereon a couple of loud-braying donkeys meet and shake their large ears at one another, and retire without the slightest evidence upon their persons of having passed through any physical conflict. A trifling weariness of their overexercised ears and hoarseness of their strained voices are the only indications of their having met and adjusted their differences in mortal combat. When it takes notice of such affairs, the law but dignifies them.”

A romantic story has lately been published to the effect that Chin Chin Chan, one of the Chinese boys sent to this country to be educated, and recalled last May by the Chinese Government, has been beheaded in Hong Kong for refusing to rennounce his allegiance to a young lady whom he met and loved in New Haven. The Rev. Dr. Wentworth, formerly a missionary to China, writes to the Troy Times that this story cannot possibly be true; that, Hong Kong being a British settlement, an execution like that described could no more take place there than in New York or London. It is intimated that the shrewd Celestial may have devised this desperate hoax in the hope of touching the heart of the New Haven girl, wno is said to have. looked coldly upon her lover. Wagons loaded with the various products of Utah industries are constantly passing through the gate into the tithing house in Salt Lake City. The Mormon law requires that one-tenth of all things produced by the labor of the faithful shall be,given to the Church, and the compliance is in the main honest, though attempts at shirking are occasionally detected. The annual income from this source is kept a secret by the rulers, but has been estimated as high as $5,000,000, and undoubtedly reaches $3,000,000. “It is thought by the Gentiles,” says a correspondent (of the Boston Herald, “and intimated by the saints themselves, that a portion of the tithing fund has been employed, and every effectively employed, in securing favorable legislation in the national Congress. The departed Brigham was wont to speak very contemptuously of Congress, boasting that he oared nothing for it, because he could influence its votes with money whenever he deemed it desirable. And there is reason to think that his boast was not wolly idle.”

In a recent number of the New York Herald,Dr. Lewis A, Sayre,a physician of some local distinction, publishes a communication full of facts and figures in connection with the disease of small pox, and the utility of vaccination. It is his opinion that re-vaccination every five years up to the age es 21 Is neces-

sary to secure immunity from attack/ and should be made compulsory. Onehalf of those vaccinated in infancy are, he claims, susceptible to infection until reaching maturity, or to 30 years of age, although the disease is not likely to assume a maligant form. Up to thirty years of age the susceptibility to the contagion increases, and apparently in regular proportion. After that there is a continuous decline iu the liability to contract the small-pox. Dr. Sayre draws these conclusions from his experience with this [disease: That perons under middle age cannot be revaccinated too often; that those over middle age should give themselves the benefit of the doubt by being revaccinated now that the disease threatens to become epidemic; and that all should exercise the utmost caution not only for their own safty, but aiso to avoid carrying infection to others.