Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1882 — HERE AND THERE. [ARTICLE]

HERE AND THERE.

There is war between the Astors «nd Vanderbilts. The Boetoa too teos have masquerades on Vanderbii/t pays taxes to the amount It is claimed that playing the violiD cures nervousness. The six Governors of New England are said to The grand jury at Washington is grinding grists. are fleariy ready for shipmenlTOefrlh, la Florida. General Bußbrldge expects to get a South American mission. The financial disturbance in France aeftpW™ us course. woven' are County Superintendents of schools in Nebraska. ji c gnow fell in Louisville, Kyv, on the night of January 30th. There were 114 deaths from scarlet "SNjrer in New Yaric-City last week. attempt so light Liverpool, Engjjmd, by elecfkloity has proved a failure. - telo pay two million dollars a war indemnity to Russia. . ‘ of the deaths atPittsbdrgr iP%,*last year, was caused by BtaaU-pox. ; A HORSE at St. Louis is slowly re~coxexing from a clearly defined attack of small-pox. The school children of Kansas have , raised over SI,OOO for the Garfield mon- ! ument fund. r — : : »■ ■) The da**g* by the recent flood of the Tennessee river is estimated at half a million dollars. Half a million school children in Illinois Have been vaccinated during forty days. It ie estimated that nearly $100,000,000 are paid annually in New York for ntoxicating liquors. corporal punishment of negroes in Cuba has been abolished by the Spanish Government. The customs duties paid on books imported into this country amount to about $250,000 a year. ‘ ' Attorney CorShill is quoted as saying thatGuiteau will be hanged on Friday, June $8d,;I881. It is thought the mission of Walter Blaine and Mr. Trescott, to Chili, will be w.; jUßpn tobacco monopoly yielded the j do ■fern men t of France, last year, a net Legislature has stricken New Year’s Lay from the list of

legal hflidpys in that State. gix- hundred clerks will be dischargeeMfcoaa the Census Office at ip a few days. ’A Bailor lit Atchison, Kansas, is seeking fame by making each of the Guitean jurors a suit of clothes. athe present Congress eight Irishmen, four Scotchmen, five Englishmen and three Germans. A Cincinnati map offers $5,000 for the body of Guiteafi after the hanging. His offer is the fifth of the kind. A FUND offloo,ooo has been raised «t Oberlin, Ohio, to be used ia prosecuting violations of the liqour laws. It to estimated that there have been 12,000 cases of attempted poisoning in Orgatyßritaip during the last ten years. DtrftiNQ January over thirty tons of postal cards were sent by the Government to the various postoffices of the country’. 2__ The friends of a deceased editor in Jiostoa have raised a purse of SIO,OOO fttr and propose to make it 20,000. AN.aHtPgfaph letter of Gen. George Washington, taking strong ground against slavery, has recently been dis- ;■ ■ f IttW itited that the mines of Nevada 1881, $4,600,000 less than enough to pay the cost of operating them. • /" Bureau of Statistics esti«at hogs cost the farmer $4 per dA dn Ibot, and sl2 a barrel in jmWprfk. ; company, composed of saloon Beepers, with a capital of half a miUion dollars, has been organized at Cincinnati. ,* A w Italian colony has been established near Gainsvllle, in Florida, tor the of omnge, and lemons on eulogy on President Garfield win be delivered by James G.. Blaine, in the hall of the House of Congress, jm Feb. *7th. \. A of four hundred shoe last-

era, at Rochester, N. Y., for higher wages, has thrown 2,000 persons out of employment. The exodus fever has broken out among the plantation negroes of South Carolina, and thousands of them are moving to Arkansas. According to statistics there are 2,000 insane persons in the country, r within a small fraction of one to every 777 of the population. The cost to Chili of the war with Peru was about $30,000,000, and now Chili takes territory from Peru as an indemnity, worth $1,000,000,000. It is believed that the United States government has assumed a protectorate over Liberia by sending a war vessel to the assistance of that country. The bill to remove the State capitol of Kentucky from Frankfort to Louisville, was lost in the House of the Legislature, the other day, by a tie vote. It is estimated that the people of England have lost from a hundred to a hundred and fifty million dollars a year, during the last three years, by bad harvests. Eighty-three Clydesdale stallions were shipped, the other day, from Glasgow to Boston. America is rapidly becoming the great horse country of the world.

The indications are that the defense in the Guiteau case has been playing some very crooked games, with a view of securing a new trial for the wretch, all in vain. The Bishop of Newark, New Jersey, has Idecreedt.hat the Roman Catholic drunkardsjwho die under his jurisdiction, shall not be buried in Catholic cemeteries. Hon. John L.Deftees, the veteran Public Printer, has settled the “racket” over his “fat take” by tendering his resignation, under the advice of his physician. The City of Sonora, New Mexico, sets a good example by enforcing an ordinance compelling all persons between the ages of' 6 and 16 to attend the public schools. Dr. Billings, of the United States Army, expresses the opinion that 100,000 persons die annually in this country from preventable diseases and avoidable accidents. 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 18S0 to 26,130 in 1881.

It is shown by the census of 1880, that there are 146,138 children in Pennsylvania, over the age of 10 years, who l cannot read, and 228,014 of the same age who cannot write. Over six hundred Chinese immigrants who recently arrived at San Francisco, were vaccinated at Hong Kong, before starting, with mucilage. The fiendish fraud is being investigated. Eleven persons who had partaken of some raw ham sold at a butcher’s in Minneota, Minn., have been attacked with triebiniasis. Three of them have died, and the others are still suffering. A TUTTJtftiiAM from Paris says that Mr. Rosaud, the husband of the great singer, Christine Nilsson, has become insane on account of financial losses in the French financial panic, and has been placed in a lunatic asylum. A new use is suggested for ether. A patient recently, at Infirmery in Ireland, while under the influence of ether, acknowledged that he had been connected with several moonlight outrages in the district from which he came. A Chicago lawyer says: “J suppose that about one-third of the juries in justices’ oourts are packed. It is very easily done, if a lawyer is unprincipled enough to do it, by paying the oonstable a little more than his lawful fee.” The bean crop of Oneida county, New York, is infested with a small, black fly, that burrows beneatb’,the out side shell and makes the bean unfit for food. Now if this fly shall spread itself like the “tater” bug, what will become of Boston culoha afid too, too? About a thousand million dollars of our national debt have been paid since the war ended. France has now nearly treble our debt, and Great Britain more than double. Even Spain has a bigger debt than that which remains of ours. The English Roman Catholic Directory shows 38 Peers,47 Baronets,6 Privy Councillors, and 56 M. P.’s, of whom 11 represent English constituencies. Within twenty-five years the number of Roman Catholic clergy and churches in England and Wales has doubled. The Mayor and Chief of Police of Chicago, were called before the Grand Jury, the other day, why the professional gamblers are openly permitted to carry on their nefarious calling in that city, in defiance of law, and without interference by the local authorities. During the last twenty-five years about thirty inebriate asylums have been established in this oountry, and nearly all of them are still in operation. I They are sustained by those who be- (

lieve in their sanitary value, and those Who find them convenient prisons for incovenient relatives. The financial panic in France continues, the Union Generate Bank having stopped payment. The Banks of England and Belgium have raised their rates of discount, and more failures are reported on the London Stock Exchange. The financial situation in Europe is anything but reassuiing. 1 Lamb, the murderer of Officer Race, in Chicago, after having two trials and found guilty in each, is to have the benefit of a third. The case is so old that many people have forgotten it, but those who watch interests of the murderers and thieves of that city are far more active than those whose business it is to see that thfelaws are enforced.

About the cheekiest performance on record is the appeal of brother-in-law Scoville for $2,000 from the American people to aid him in efforts to defeat the verdict against the wretch Guiteau, and prolong his hideous, worthless life. The man who would give money for such a purpose, would not hesitate to contribute to a fund for spreading the small-pox. A bill has.been recently introduced in the House of Congress, by Representative Hamer, which provides that any person who has served faithfully in the postal service twenty-five years, or who, after a continuous service of ten years, shall become physically and mentally disabled, shall receive for the remainder of his natural life an annual pension equal to two-thirds of his annual salary at the time of his retirement..

The new building to be erected in New York city by Cyrus W. Field, on the site of the old Washington estate, facing the Battery, is to be one of the finest and largest in this country. It will be sixteen stories high, and have a frontage of over 500 feet. Its cupola will command a view of the whole city and surrounding, and will also bring into view the lighthouses at Sandy Hook. It will cover about half an acre of ground, and cost over $1,000,000.

The cable line of streetcars on State street, Chicago, was inaugurated last Monday with appropriate ceremonies and great success. A cable under the cars,worked;by stationary engines,propels the cars at a standard speed of eight miles an hour, which can be increased to twenty miles. San Francisco and Chicago are the only cities in the world that have such street car lines. Investigation shows that land grants to various railroad corporations to the amount of 128,160,792 acres have been forfeited and revert to the government. Of this, 10,872,955 acres are in the Southern States; 7,140,391 acres in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Dakota. The forfeited grant of the Northern Pacific amounts to 37,000,000 acres, the Atlantic and Pacific 42,000,000 acres, the Texas Pacific 18,000,000 acres, besides 12,000,000 acres in Oregon.

The anti-Polygamy bill reported by Senator Edmunds from the Judiciary Committee, seems to be strong and complete: It provides for the punishment of uien in the Territories who marry more than or who live with more than one woman as wives; for the of women who marry men who already have wives; prevents polygamists from serving on juries; disfranchises all polygamists, both men and women, and puts Utah for election purposes under the rule of a commission appointed by the President.

Commissioner Dudley has made two decisions that will be of interest to pensioners. He decides that if a soldier was captured in good health, and when released was found to have contracted a disease, it will be presumed that he was disabled in the line of duty; also, that if a soldier was captured in tbe line of his duty, and never heard of again, or proof of his death can not be established it will be presumed that he died on duty, and a pension will be paid to his widow. * 0

It is stated in a “current |comment” item that the total losses of flrp in the United States last year were $81,280,900 against $74,643,400 in 1880, The insurance companies had to pay last year, $35,114,300. The heaviest loss of any one month was October,sll,Bl9,ooo, and the smallest was June, $3,878,900 or over SIOO,OOO a day. The total losses in Canada were $8,237,400. In ludidiana, the loss during the year was $g,248,400, which oost the insurance companies $1,735,400.

Senor Sagasta, the Prime Minister of the young King of Spain, has announced his programme not only fbr this year, but for three years to come. It is this: For 1882, financial reorganization, conversion of the debt, treaties of oommeroe, and oolonial free trade; for 1883, administration and judicial reorganization; for 1884, the establishment of public works on a large scale; for 1885, the “crowningof tbe.'ed• iflee by electoral and political reforms, whioh are to prepare, on the eve of the elections, for another live years’ triumph of dyhastid Liberalism.”.. A letter of Cardinal Bonneohose, Archbishop of Rouen, who has just re-

turned from Rome, describes the posfy tion of the Pope, and says it is evident that hid Holiness cannot remain In his present situation. He urges the Italians to solve the difficulty themselves by choosing another capital and leaving Rome to the|Pope, In order to avert his departure from the Eternal City. But tfce prevailing Italian sentiment is not exactly in accord with that of his Eminence. v " ’’ '<

A special dispatch from South Bend to the Indianapolis Journal, dated January 30th, gives an account of one of the most remarkable cases of repentance on record. The dispatch says: “At a protracted meeting in New Carlisle, a stranger, who gave his name as Arthur Thomas, took his place at the mourners’ bench, and, after the meeting, coofessed that he was a professional safe burglar from Chicago, but "was so affected by'the sermon that he desired to mend his ways. He said be had come to the village to rob two safes, and had recently robbed a safe in Whitley county, of S2OO. He was arrested and brought to this city, and today the Sheriff of Whitley county took charge of him. He had a number of burglars’ttoois in his possession, which he gave to the minister when he experienced religion.

The trial of Guiteau began on the 14th of last November, and ended on the 25th of January. The jury made up its verdict in six minutes after it had retired and entered upon its deliberations. The verdict was, “Guilty as indicted.” The jury was polled and each man responded “Guilty.” It will be the duty of the presiding Judge to pronounce the sentence of the law, which is “deatu.” The usual motions for “a’hew trial,” “arrest of judgment” and other relief will be made and urged, but there is no probability of their success. The wretch must die, but it appears that his execution cannot take place before July. With his usual brazen impudence, Guiteau denounced the verdict saying, “My blood will be upon the heads of that jury, and don’t you forget it.” The Judge complimented the jury highly and justly, and it was dismissed, gome accounts say that the result was received by the crowd present with “rounds of applause.” It is certainly so received by the civilized world.

The Chicago Sabbath Association formally requested the publishers of the newspapers to use their influence to stop the noise made by newsboys on Sunday mornings. The Times declares itself “most earnestly, unalterably, and ferociously opposed to every thing in the nature of needlees noiees on Sunday.” But it takes the occasion to put forward the following theory: “It cannot be supposed that tbe members of the Sabbath committee are so inappreciative as to think the musical notes with which the newsboys arouse sluggards from their sleep on Sunday morning deserves to be called noise. They resemble, rather, in their dulcet cadences and pious use, the Turkish muezzin’s call to prayer. Let the committee remember bow many pious but drow’sy Christians would inevitably doze in bed through the hours of morning service in church every Sunday, but for the \ newsboys’ cheery summons, and they will applaud rather than condemn so important an aid to piety.”

Around some of the parsonage houses of England may yet be seen enormous barns dating from the time when thrthes were paid m kind. The author of “Not Many years Ago’’relates some stories about this period which few now personally recall. His father, a farmer, sent a polite message to the rector that he intended to gather his apples, and thought the yield promised some fifty bags; he would, therefore, if the rector pleased, send six. But the rector preferred sending his man to watch, who, therefore* appeared with a chair, table, and good supply of cider, and, after sitting in the orchard two days, carried back three bags. On another occasion some potatoes were taken up for dinner, and half an hour latter a message came from the rector’s daughter demanding the portion due of the potatoes taken up that morning. Everv tenth day the rector sent to take the milk of the cows, and on those occasions tbe milker was not too careful to extract the last drop.

Two grandsons of John C. Calhoun made significant statements in the February Century, in Edward Atkinson’s paper on the Atlanta Cotton Exposition. After the war, one of them moved with the family slaves on to a rioh Mississippi Valley plantation, and succeeded in placing both himfielf and freed laborers in a position of prosperity. He details the difficulties upder which Southern planters like himself have;labored, and |he expresses gun bounded confidence in the ability of the freedmen to support themselves iu comfort. One of the grandsons, in referring to the elder (Calhoun’s belief that the two races could pot exist on the same soil except in the relation of masters and slaves, made .this surprising remark: “If my grandfather and as sociates had as muoh about the negro as I know, And .could have., the same faith in his oapaciiy for progress which I have attained from my own experience, there would have been neither slavery nor war.”

The Indianapolis Journal says: “Few people, who have not visited the building lately, have an adequate idea how rapidly the new State House is building. The walls are now so well up that the interior arrangement can be seen. The marble columns are now being put in place in the corridor on the lower floor. There are seventy-two of these, eighteen feet high and twentyeight inches in diameter. Besides these there are fourteen piers and a large number of pilasters, all marble, obtained from the quarries of Governor Proctor, at Rutland, Vt. On the second floor there will be forty-four columns, eight piers, and sixty-fonr pilasters, and on the third twenty-eight columns &nd eight piers, and sixty-four pilasters, besides eigtU immense granite columns on the last two floors supporting the dome. According ;to the original specifications, all these were to have been of limestone, but 'the Commissioners concluded to use marble instead, so as to make the corridors in harmony with the remainder of the building. They say that the interior of the house will be the finest of any building in the country.” * •» *_

The little mystery there was remaining in the Jennie Cramer story has been cleared up by the confession of the she-devil, Blanche Douglass. Jennie Cramer was a beautiful and fast, but repectable young girl, at New Haven, Connecticut. James Malley, a young “blood” of the town, saw her and resolved to possess her, at the cost of her ruin. Failing by the ordinary methods, he engaged the services and assistance of Blanche Douglass, a handsome and accomplished New York courtesan. Blanche, in the guise of a virtuous and charming girl, made the acquaintance of Miss Cramer and an intimacy at once ensued. Then the Malley brothers were brought into the plot on terms of easy friendship. The crafty Douglass girl led poor Jennie, despite the warnings and remonstrances of her loving but too indulgent parents, from one imprudent step to another, until at .last she was placed in the power of James Malley, at the Malley residence, with no one near her but the younger Malley and the Douglass fiend. There she was forcibly outraged by* James Malley, while the devil Dougless stood outside the door, unmoved by her screaming and crying,; begging her to be silent and submit to her fate. She was held a prisoner in that accursee house for many hours, persistently declaring she would expose her ravishero, and that persistence sealed her doom. Her ravisher and his assistants became her murderers. The story is a terrible one, but its lessons and warnings cannot be too seriously regarded by young women who are “not afraid to take risks” for the sake of fleeting and dubious pleasures. Heed to a mother’s homely aud loving counsel would have saved Jennie Cramer’s honor and life.