Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1882 — HERE AND THERE. [ARTICLE]

HERE AND THERE.

General Garibaldi i 9 physically helpless. _ The lowa Legislature has repudiated free railroad passes. 0 The agitation against Mormonism is increasing and spreading. The mines of Utah yielded $lO,000,000 during the year 1881. General Btjrbridge expects to get a South American mission. Mr. Clarkson N. Potter, of New YorE, died Monday morning. Two elevated railway companies have been organized at Chicago. The indications are that Mrs. Lincoln’s pension will be increased to $5,000. Mrs. Lincoln is to have $15,000, and an increase of her pension to $5,000 a year.

Large quantities of vegetables from foreign countries, are arriving at New York City. Senator Lamar has been elected or another term by the Mississippi Legislature. Atlanta, Georgia, had a set back Saturday, in the loss of half a million dollars by fire. It is thought that the mission of Walter Blaine and Mr. Trescott, to ■Chili, will be afailure. The vaccine farm at Fond da Lac, Wisconsin, has recently been furnishing 30,000 points a day. It is probable that Mrs. Garfield’s pension will be $5,000 a year, dating from September 19,1881. Forty arrests have followed the recent attempt to assassinate the President ot the Republic of Hayti. It is thought the committee apportionment bill will fix the membership of the House of Congress at 319.

About one-third ot the population of New York City is foreign born— Irish, 198,595; Germans, 153,482. The applications to the Irish Land Court for rentadjustment, have reached the enormous number of 70,000. A bili. is pending in the House of Congress providing for the admission of Washington Territory as a State. The Governor of Pennsylvania has signed the death warrants ot six murderers, who are to '.ehung March 24th. It is unreliably reported that Glad stone has appealed to the Pope for assistance in settling the Irish question. Senator Fair, of Nevada, is the richest man in Congress, and probably the wealthiest officer-holder in the world. A resolution is pending in the House of Congress ordering the printing of the full proceedings in the Guiteau trial The Republic Insurance Company, of New York, has retired from business, re-insuring its risks in British companies. The falling off in the value of breadstuffs exported from this country last year, as compared with 1880, was $51,818,299.

One thousand two hundred dollars have been contributed to the Garfield Memoiial Hospital, by the Khedive and others in Egypt. The exodus fever has broken out among the plantation negroes of South Carolina, and thousands of them are moving to Arkansas. The first act passed by the Virginia Legislature appropriates 5400,000 for a public school lund, and SIOO,OOO for a normal school lor colored teachers. The officers of a “bursted” bank in Kansas City have been indicted for receiving deposits after they knew the bang to be in an unsafe condition. Ash Wednesday, Washington’s birthday, ground-hog day, and other events and anniversaries, come together this year on the 22d of February. During the last Congress 7,000 bills were introduced. Thus far in the present Congress 4,000 have been introduced. The number of bills is unprecedented.

The women of Kansas are getting their rights. Seven of them are School Superintendents,twenty are preachers, twenty six doctors, four lawyers and three editors. THE sub-oommittee of the House of Congress committee on appropriations, favors a postoffice appropriation of about $48,000,000, an increase of $4,-' 000,000 over last year. During last year in New York city there was an increase of deaths and a decrease of births —3B,6o9 deaths in IHBI t 031,968 in 1880, and 2.7636 births in 1890 to 26,130 in 1881. An American syndicate, with General Grant largely interested, has pur- I chased the Morelos, railroad, a Mexican

project of 130 miles, about sixty of which has been built. Kentucky justice seems to be aroused at last. Neal, the Ashland murderer, was found guilty by the jury in seventeen minutes’ deliberation, aad the death penalty was assessed. The wreck of the balloon which escaped from England in December, having on board Mr. Powell, a member of Parliament, has been found in France. Mr. Powell’s dead body was In it '' Lynch law is growing in favor, and will continue to do so until a revolution shall eliminate professional pollyfoxing and lawyers law from the practice of our courts, and plain, com-mon-sense statute law reign supreme in their stead. It is reported by Washington busy bodies that the bill of Senator David Davis retiring Justice Hunt from the Supreme Bench will pass; that Sec. Folger will be appointed to 911 the vacancy, and that Roscoe Conkling will take the place of Folger. - All the shares of the National Bank of Mexico have been subscribed, and over $3,000,000 of the capital paid in. Fifty thousand shares are held in Paris, 18,000 in Mexico, and 12,000 in New Y6rk. The bank will be opened for business the last of February.

The first cause of the railway accident at Spuyten Duyvil, N. Y., has been traced to whisky. One of a party of carousing New York legislators pulled a cord that put on the air brakes, and stopped their train until it was run into by the following train. Congressman Browne is trying to get an appropriation of $50,000 for a Postofflce building at Richmond, Congressman Peelle wants more cannon for the Morton monument and Congressman Calkins is pushing a bill requiring a registration of voters in Utah. The extraordinary fertility of some lands in Washington Territory is shown by the statement, vouched for as being reliable, that a farmer on Pataha prairie raised last season 202 bushels of wheat from one three acre lot, and 274 bushels from a four acre lot.

There has been a heavy snow storm in Southern California and Arizona, delaying trains on the Southern Pacific Railroad. The snow is from sixteen to eighteen inches deep, lying in many places among olive and orange groves, something heretofore unknown in that region. Another lot of eight thousand chests of tea, soaked in water and scorched by Are, has been thrown upon the market at auction sale, and will impose its nastiness on many millions of “thecup that that cheers but not inebriates.” It is said that Commissioner Dudley favors the bill introduced by Senator Logan, proposing to inflict a fine of SI,OOO and imprisonment at hard labor for a maximum term of five years upon any claim agent or pension attorney who may demand or receive greater compensation than is allowed to them by law.

In a message to the New York Legislature Governor Cornell directs attention to the recent railway disaster at Spuyten Duyvil, which he regrets as one, that could have been easily prevented and was wholly inexcusable. He calls upon the Legislature for speedy action looking for better laws ni this direction. The new Southern Pacific rohte across the continent is suffering seriously from the lack of water for engines on the plains in Western Texas and New Mexico, and trains have been late from six to twelve hours every day since tbe line was opened. All the carpenters and bridge builders that cau be secured, are building tanks for a sufficient supply of water. The Edmunds’ bill regulating the Electoral count, which passed the Senate of the Forty-fifth Congress, is regarded with great favor by Senators of all parties in the present Congress. Senator Pugh has introduced a bill, which is supplemental to that of Edmunds, making it a criminal offense for any person to frame simulated electoral returnslfrom any State.

A correspondent of the York Herald, who has been to Panama looking in to Isthmus ship-canal matters, says that the estimate made by the French contractors is at least $60,000,000 less than the lowest cost fixed by the technical commission. He thinks that it is simply a bait to investors. DeLessep's plan by a sea level cut is, it is generally agreed, the best of all presented. The Secretary of the Navy” has*"received the following from Engineer Melville, of the lost Jeannette: “Melville, Danenhower, and eleven men returned to the Arctic Ocean, and found the log-books and four records left by DeDong. No tidings of the second cutter or Lieutenant Chipp. The search will be continued during the winter. lam acquainted with the country where DeLong and party are, and request orders to remain with two men to renew tde search in March, Danenhower and nine men to return to the United States.

I A hint is given to towns and cities that desire to increase their manufacturing facilities, by the business men of Baltimore, who propose to organize a manufacturers’ aid association with a capital of $1,000,000, the prime object of which shall be to erect and equls buddings with motive power for the pun pose of renting the same to manufacturers who can not afford to own their own works. It is believed that such an association will attract important manufacturing interest to the city. . The late Orson Pratt was one of the original Mormon apostles, and none exceeded him in zealous propagation of MormoD doctrines, but he failed to convince his own son of their truth, and the latter gives the reason as follows: “I am the son of my father’s first wife, and ha,d a mother who taught me the evil of the system. There are many such persons in Utah, and the tendency of their education being opposed to Mormonism, they grow up hostile to the institution, and more than half are apt to be disgusted with all forms of religion.”

Chicago has a court muddle which "passeth understanding”. The Illinois Supreme Court has declared the Probate Court of Cook county unconstitutional, and, as many estates have peen administered by it and titles to much real estate given, there is likely to be a great deal of trouble. Many divorces have been declared, and these also are illegal. The Supreme Court decided, also, that the County Court had no jurisdiction in chancery cases, thus overthrowing all the chancery business done in five.yeare. No adequate remedy has been suggested. A ‘‘Sunbeam” says: ‘‘A thoroughly American city has been laid out in the State of Chiapas, Mexico. The site is a beautiful plateau of land, through which runs a never-failing stream of mountain spring water, clear as crystal, full of fish, and affording power for any amount of manufacturing machinery, at an altitutde of 3,000 feet above the sea level, on the line of the Mexican Southern railroad. It is called Allen City. Around the city are laid out and taken up twenty-four coffee farms, each touching the city plat. There will he over 3,000,000 coffee trees in nursery cultivation at this place within the coming year, all to be transplanted and raised to bearing within the next lour years. All goods, stores and supplies, agricultural implements, machinery, building material, and furnitdre for the colonists are exempt from duty; also all exports and imports of productions of the country, and stock for work or breeding purposes, are exempt for ten years. The colonists thus far are from California.”