Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1882 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

Guiteau, the assassin, was vaccinated Sunday. , - StD&ll-pox is decreastog- in Pittsburg and vicinity. 4 .' Scoville asserts j that : somebody is sending him small-pox through the mail.. - - _ A Boston wumau who died of starvation had 14.000 in bankyami money in Jie house. • • Archbishop Purcell, is not, as was supposed, at the point of death, but in remarkably good health. The Sultan of Turkey has sent to thi country for specimens of the most improved'agricultural implements. Lieutenant Danenhower, of the Jeannette search party, id suffering from his eyes, one of which is ruined. It is believed that the rapacity of white settlers will render a war with the Crow Indians of Montana a necessity. The Senate concurred in the House resolution fixing the 27th inst., as the day for holding the Garfield memorial service. At Decatur, 111., a woman who kept a house of ill-repute was sentenced to the county jail for four months and fined $1,900. It is believed that Scoville has practically abandoned Guiteau’s case, but that, whether or no, the court in banc will not change the verdict. Two Chicago saloonists were fined in justice courts Tuesday for selling liquor to drunkards. ? The Citizens’ League were the prosecutors. Heavy snow storms are reported throughout the Eastern States, which began Tuesday morning, and are blocking horse and steam railroads. Captain Eads believes that his ship canal scheme is not receiving fair treatment in Congress, the. trans-continen-tal railroads working against it. Guiteau’s body, according to the latest story, is to be dissected and the skeleton prepared and preserved at the Washington Medical Museum. In Shawano county, Wis., 2,200 acres of land were purchased upon which to locate a colony of forty families who have not yet left the old country. A number of ladies interested in tt e cause of temperance met in Chicago and passed a resolution favoring the establishment of an inebriate asylum for women. A great snow storm raged throughout the Eastern States and Canada Saturday, which in some plaees was said to be the severest known for several seasons. So far, but five bodies have been recovered from the Midlothian coal mine, Chesterfield county, Virginia. Collections are being made for the bereaved families.. At Louisville, Ky., a man named Owens was beating his wife, when her brother, Oyler, came to the rescue. Owens raised a club to him, but was fatally shot by Oyler. A coal company at Pittsburg, Pa., has sued a labor journal and the President of the Miners’ Association for $70,000 damages for injury to their business resulting from a strike. The physicians who attended the late Piesident Garfield have decided not to ask a stated sum for their services, but, stating what they did, leave the sum to the generosity of Congress. In 1881 there were f&2 deaths from smallpox in Chicago; 1,319 in Philadelphia; 454 in New York, and 444 in Pittsburg, which had the greatest mortality in proportion to population. Small-pox in Chicago kills, on an average, one person to every 125,000 of population, and a goodly proportion of the victims who die at the Chicago pest house are tramps from other towns. , ■-•••; . , „ The Grand Jury of Westchester county, New York, have found indictments against the officials of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, on account of the Spuyten Duvvil disaster. Mr. Hill introduced a bill into the House reducing postage on letters and sealed packages to 2 cents per half an ounce, 4 cents under two ounces, and 2 cents for ea3h additional 2 ounces. It was referred. A lady sued the Continental Passenger Railway Company, Philadelphia, for injuries sustained by falling in a crowded car in which she was obliged to stand, and received a verdict of $12,000 damages. * Governor Jerome has called an extra session of the Michigan Legislature for the 23d inst, to provide, among other things, for an appropriation for the sufferers by the great fire in Huron and Sanilac counties. A call has been issued for a convention to meet at Springfield, 111., for th purpose of appointing committees in each oounty or the State to report and prosecute the railroad corporations for violations of State laws. The Pullman palace car investigation by the Canadian customs authori ties at Montreal, tended to show, on the evidence of a former employe of the company, that carpets had been purchased for the cars in Canada and sent to the United States. The Secretary of the Navy has

j r t *• v ■? / ordered the r^v^rn *• *toV America of. Lieutenant Danenhower,' of the Jeannette fßarW«proti|it tfoh,'af§3 has sent two other- officers to continue the search for Lieutenant De Long and the Guiteatjjfijja acoyilje is a “cr&tok.” The prisoner believes he will live many years yet. He intends to have a new photograph taken for money-making purposes. His health is said to be bad, as<f ajail official said he did not think he would live long enough to be haogfd. • The Presbyterian Synod, composed of delegates from presbyteries in the adjoining parts of Tennessee, Alabama iind Mississippi, admitted a negro for several years,out in the present session the question of excluding him was raised, and a majority voteu to turn him out. This action was based solely on his colbr. A Philadelphian who builds refrigerator cars has made an offer to the family of Guiteaa, the assasin;' to exhibit Guiteau’s body, after death, in this country and Europe, .for the benefit of the family. He offers to spend $25,00<? in fixing the remains. Scoville thinks favorably of the proposal. The 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. Foreign > The Queen of Greece has another son. Her oldest, Prince Constantine, is 14 years old. The Queen’s speech at the opening of parliament will indicate a better condition of Irish affairs. France is purchsing a large number of repeating rifles from - the Austrian small-arms manufactory. Germany will not adopt an international bi-metallic standard without the concurrence of England. There have been more murders of Russian Jews, and the government is fearing a fresh outbreak. A 81. John, N; 8., dispatch announces the burning at sea bt the ship Roxellana, with the loss of several lives. The Hindoo pilgrims returning to their own cities from Allahabad, are carrying the cholera epidemic with them. The international billiard match in Paris was won by Slosson, with a total of 3,000 points. Vignaux’s total was 2,553. Vera Sassuliteb, the female Nihilist, is one of a committee forming in Switzerland, to relieve the victims of Russian tyranny. In tfce palace of the Czar wood will be used as fuel, because the rigicidal Nihilists are suspected of having fixed the coal with dynamite. A Madrid dispatch states that the Spanish pilgrims bound for Rome are largely composed of the adherents of the pretender Don Carlos. The corporation of London has subscribed £BOO to the fund in aid of the Russian Jews. The Rothschilds, of Paris and London, gave £5,000 each. Bernhardt, playing “Dame aux Camellias” at Genoa, fainted and expectorated blood, and tue audience cried "Enough,” and left the theater. Russia is accused, in spite of her assertions to the contrary, of having inspired the Herzgovinian trouble by the Pan-Slavic agitation in Bosnia and Herzgovina. The ill-feeling between the citizens of Limerick and the British troops creates much uneasiness. The soldiers are stoned by the rabble when walking the streets at night. Russian newspapers commenting on the English meeting in sympathy with the Jews, ask how England would like similar meetings in Russia expressing sympathy tor the Irish. English merchants are agitating for cheaper telegraphic facilities. The government controls the telegraphic system in Great Britain in conection with the Post-office Department. The Home Rule party in the House of Commons have re-elected Parnell tbeir Chuirman, and want to agitate Irish grievances in the Commons in reply to the speech from the throne. Mr. John Dillon; writing tojthe Rt. Hon. W. E. Forster, declines the offer of leaving Kilmainham jail for the Continent, and asks that the Secretary address him no more communications. The Pope does not approve of making political capital out of the Spanish pilgrimage, and has given instructions through the Spanish Minister at Rome that the clergy alone must manage it. A letter containing a damp powder, which became explosive when dry, was recently sent to Secretary Forster by some Irish patriots. Mr. Forster had left Dublin before the letter reached the castle.

So microscopically perfect is the watch-making machinery now in use, that screws are cut with nearly 600 threads to the inch—though the finest used in the watcn has 250. These threads are invisible to the naked eye, and intakes 144 000 of the screws to weigh a pound, their value being six pounds of pure gold, - '■ ■ ———— Oats grow on clay land make the best meal, keep longest and bring the highest price.