Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1882 — Page 2

Rensselaer Republican Maiushall A Overackek, Eds. 4 Proprs. ’ *' RENSSELAER, : , : INDIANA-

CURRENT TOPICS

The gold shipment scare seems tr> be over. THBE-are over 400 divorce cases on the dockets of the Cincinnati courts. There were 134 deaths from smallpox in Chicago during the month of January. It is estimated that 10 per cent, of the railway passengers in lowa are dead-heads. An aged blind man was beaten to death by his nephew at Newport, Obi >, a few days ago. Queen Caroline, of Saxony, is said to he suffering from over-exer-tion in her kitchen. During the year 1881, 2 682 buildings were erected in New York city v at a cost of $43,391,300. It is said that the Government has decided to buy out the telephone ’Companies in Great Britain. A number of cases of death, and mutilation by amputation, from vaccination, are reported in the news of the day. The Massachusetts Legislature is considering the policy of having liquor licenses limited in number and sold at auction, : ' " r — A colored giantess was arrested in Chicago, the other day, for garrotiug ami robbing a man on the streets of that city. A fund of $30,000 is being raised at Cincinnati for a Garfield monument. About $9,000 of the amount has been collected. _____ It is rumored at Washington that Dorsey, Brady and their star route coparceners have been ludicted by the grand jury. : At Allegheny, Pa., a few days ago, a drunken husband named John Smith, Drained his wife, while she was lying in bed sick. A guano island has been discovered in the Gulf of California, which contains sixteen square miles and a very large deposit. Robertson county, Kentucky, has a married man who measures six ,feet, five indies iu height, and is only fifteen years old. ————————— , The Mayor of Philadelphia refuses to give a license to any place of amusement which has a bar-room attached, or in which liquors are sold. A Vermont farmer yearly fattens ,500 turkeys, 2,700 geese, and 2.100 ducks. One lot of his poultry last yearbrought $16,000 in the Boston market. A candidate for admission to the Bar in Ohio, defined libel, the other day, to be “Something a man says ami afterwards wishes to God he hadn’t ” v-- ■ ■ » The charge of embezzlement agaiust Lieutenant Flipper was not sustained, but he was found guilty of disobedience to orders. He will not be dismissed from the army. The dress of the Princess of Wales caught fire the other day, while she was playing snap-dragon with her children. She w»> equal to the occasion. and the dress without receiving serious injury. Large school buildings are going out of favor iu some of the Eastern cities and small ones taking their place, in order that the attention given by teachers to keeping order may be given to instruction. President Taylor, a boss Mormon, recently married a Massachusetts whfo ow as his twenty-eighth wife, but sbe raised such a disturbance iu his happy family that he was compelled, four days after the wedding, to ship her to Han Francisco. The Anti-Masons, of Batavia, N. Y., have started a movement -to erect a monument to William Morgan, the man alleged to have been murdered by the Free Masons for exposing their secrets. Any absurdity vvili find supporters in this county. Queen Victoria presented in her message, at the reopening of the Imperil Parliament in London, a scheme for more important legislation than has been proposed in Great Britian for : over half a century. Changes in the torm of government of towns and cities, criminal code reform, revision of the bankruptcy laws, the conservation of rivers, education in Wales and scholastic endowments in Scotland, and improvement in the law of entail are some of the features of what must!

constitute one of the most important I sessions eper held. \% $ t ' Dubin<J the last mu* mouths. ae-7 carding to an interesting pamphlet just published, the persecution of the Jews iu Russia has extended to sixtyseven towns and villages iu Southern Russia- It began at E’izabetbgrkd. where 500 bouses and 100 shops were destroyed, 800 Jewesses violated and one Jew killed. From the South the movement spread to "forty other towns and villages in western and southern Russia, and finally to Poland. Altogether, 100,000 Jews are said to have been brutally expelled from their homes. The money caused by their prosecutors’ stupidity is estimated at 100,GJ0,000 rubles. A CORRESPONDENT of the London News writes from Marseilles, France, that an Italian has invented a process of solidifying wine. From a small quantity of this extract may be obtained a bottle of generous wine - of good taste and beautiful color. The object is to victual ships and,supply armies. He adds that a chemist there has found a chemical combination by which he can solidify and even crvstalize brandy. The brandy in its new form looks like alum. It entirely loses its smell. The facility with which it can be transported is of course the main recommendation of the new invention. Russia and Roumauia are the only remaining European States in which Jewish disabilities now prevail. In some parts of Asia, however, and especially in the Flowery Land, the ehifdreu of Israel still lie under a prohibitory law which excludes them from participation in any civil" rights whatever, and prevents them from exercising any trade or profession in the character of Chinese subjects. Jews, however, have established themselves in all the Chinese ports under the protection of different European flags, and some of the wealthiest Jewish firms are on the best of terms with the provincial authorities, who constantly give them the preference over their Christian and Budekist eompetiters for Government contracts.

A new violin genius has suddenly appeared io Italy—a little girl, whose name is Tua. Her father, a very poor man, scraped a little money together to buy a violin for himself. His next extravagance was to buy his wife a guitar. When the little girl was 3 years old she tausht herself, and play* ed in such an incredible style on the violin that the father immediately unertook to produce her .as a prodigy. When she was 7 she arrived in Paris. There she was brought, to Massart, who was so struck with her precocious talent that he at once offered tc take her into the Conservatoire. To this the father oojected. But the sensation which tbe child created was such that a subscription was opened to secure the parents’ existence during the time of her apprenticeship. She has now left the Conservatoire, a phenomenon.

THE NEWS.

Home Items. Spring plowing has begun in many parts of the Northwest. The reports relative to starvation m Northern Louisiana are untrue. United States bonis redeemed under .the 106th call amounted to $16,556,100. This winter is pronounced tbe cold'est there has been in California since 1855-56. Recent rains have greatly improved the prospects for good crops in California. Michigan had a balance of $11,739 - 362 07 iu her Treasury on the 30th of September last. A five-cent postage stamp bearing an excellent likeness ot the late President will lie issued March Ist. A bill appropriating $50,000 to encourage immigration is pending iu the Mississippi Legislature.

It is claimed that the cotton crop of Arkansas is more valuable than the wheat crop of Minnesota. A New Yorker obtained SIO.OOO damages from a street car company for the loss of an eye in a collision. Arthur Dwight Billings, the wellknown actor, suicided in New York, Sunday, with a dose of laudanum. It is estimated that over half a million dollars was wagered on the result of the recent prize fight at New Orleans. At Canton, Ohio, a patient, suffering from cancer in the stomach," died of starvation alter an involuntary fast of fifty t -one days. Ryan, the pugilist, who was beaten so badly by Sullivan, is not so much injured as was at first supposed and is mending rapidly. Dubuque, lowa, has harvested 50,000 toss of ice, besides what the packers have gathered, making the crop an unusually large one.

The Fire Commissioners of Boston have ordered rope tire-esoapes to be supplied by all mamlfaotuiWs employing five or more hands J. R Brodhead, a clerk hi the Military Division of the Pacific at Han Francisco, was arrested for raising a check frr m §4.50 to St 500. That part of tbe Kansas prohibition law whicb prescribes a punishment for drunkenness has been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme court at Topeka. = - , The Methodists of Matooc, 111., are incensed agaiust their preacher, Mr. Villars, for having allowed his wife to oreaeh in his pulpit on the evening of January 15th. At Fern Ridge, Mo., Wiight, the Postmaster, shot and killed a drunkeD colored man who was cheating a disturbance and threatening with a pistol. Mrs. Wing, wife of the pastor of the Wesleyan Methodist Church of Grand Rapids, Michigan, while leading in prayer, fell to the floor, and died two hours later. Andrew Olson, a young man of Chicago who thought he was going to have small-pox, drank two quarts of whisky by way of antidote, and died iu half an hour. A man in North Carolina named Bivans, only two weeks married to an attractive looking lady, repented of his choice, and suicided by walking into the river. Count Z. Von Steuben has written to Mayor Hariison, thanking him, on behalf of the seven Steubens who recently visited Chicago, for the hospitalities received here. A wealthy English capitalist has purchased 45 OOP acres of land in Dakota of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, and will locate an English colony there iu the spring. Iu St. Louis a man named Kring, who murdered Dora Broemser in 1875, and was sentenced to be hanged on tbe 24tfi inst., is to have a new trial,which will be the fifth he has had. William Miller, the oldest Freeman son in the United States (and probably in the world) died at Caldwell. Ohio, Thursday evening. He was 98 years old, and was initiated in 1801. The search for the bodies of the victims of the Midlothian coal-mine disaster has been stopped by fire m the mine, and tbe shah will be shut up. Twenty seven bodies are in the mine. D. W. Vfenderhoof, first book-keeper of tbe First National Bank of St. Paul, Minn., was arrested Friday evening, for embezzlement, of an amount variously estimated at from $20,000 to $30,000. A Nashville, Tenn., dispatch states that Wood Hight, a cousin of the James brothers, the highwaymen, was arrested iu that State and "taken to Missouri, where he is wanted for robbery. At Lawrenceville, 111., Miss Seed Postmistress of the town, recently superseded, took a fatal dose of chloroform, either with suicidal intent or to cure toothache. She died in a few hours. Craft and Ellis, the perpetrators of the horrible murder and outrage at the Gibbons farm, near Ashland, Ky., a few weeks ago, were sentenced to be hanged April 14, and the motion for a aew"trial overruled. At the blast furnace of the Calumet Iron and Steel Company, at Irondale, near Chicago, five men were suffocated by gas on Thursday evening. Two of them have died, two are iu great danger. and one has recovered. Adrian, Michigan, is excited over the discovery that some party or parties unknown , have been negotiating in New York fraudulent water bonds of the city of Adrian to the amount of §75,000. Mayor Navin has suddenly left for parts unknown. The till for the appointment of a tariff commission adopted by the Ways and Means Committee, provides for nine commheioners, who shall thoroughly consider tfo best method of revising tbe tariff, and report to Congress not later than December, 1882 At Lima. Ohio, Mrs. Vanatta sued a saloonist for §5 000 damages for selling liquor to her son, which intoxicated him, and caused him to engage in a quarrel, during which he received injuries which ended his life. She was a ward* d SSOO. / The Secretary of the Treasury has reported to the House that in the enforcement of the internal revenue laws twenty-nine officers had been killed and fifty wounded, and eight informers bad been assailed and wounded. Pitney, the ex-custodian of the Treasury, denies the statements attributed to him by the Associated Press reporter at Washington regarding the work done for Mrs. Sherman and notes relative thereto. He says there is not a word of truth in the story. Captain James B. Eads feels confident that the Senate Committe will make a favorable report on the sub ject of his proposed Tehauntepec ship railway scheme. If Congress, however, will not assist him in this way, he proposes to get foreign aid. The Adriau (Mich.) city water |bond complication remains inexplicable on any other grounds than that Mayor Navin intended to have the bonds cashed. Whether he intended to use the money'for legitimate purposes or otherwise-fs not yet fully decickd.

’ The Committee of Ways and Means of the House of Co§ grew is considering the question of the right of the Senate to originate a funding bill, and seems to betjjuclijaed to <Jenj such right. If that concision is finally reached, a new funding bill will be framed, ignoring tbe Sherman bill entirely. The Presbyterian Synod, com posed of (delegates from presbyteries in the ■ adjoining parts oi 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 r to turn him out. This action was based solely od his color. 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. The Committee on Civil Service Reform, of the House of Congress, is represented to be favorably considering a proposition to create a new department of the Government, in the interests oi agriculture, commerce and manufactures. This- department would have charge of the signal and life-saving services. It is said that the House of Congress Committee on Bauking and Currency has favorably-considered a bill which provides that the legal tender notes shall be liable to taxation on an equality with gold and silver coin, during the time they continue redeemable in coin, buton|y during such time. It is a just measure, which should become the law. - 1 -•* An interesting dispatch, giving a sketch of the Jeannette artic expedition, has been received. Many important results obtained by the scientists were lost in the wreck of the steamer. Three islands were discovered, viz,, Jeannette, Henrietta and Bennett Islands. Ice was eight feet thick of the winter’s growth, and the heaviest seen was twenty-three feet iu thickness. The conversion of Gen. Buford, the Kentucky race-tracK King, to Christianity, is creating something of a sensation in religious and sporting circles. It is said that he still thinks that horse-racing can be carried on legitimately, and not in a consisent with morals and religious principles, but admits that the sport has fallen very low in the scale of honor and decency, and he . will probably quit the track forever.

Foreign.

Ceylon will suffer the loss of nearly half its coffee crop from blight. The massacre of a Jewish family of thiee persons is the latest Russian atrocity. The Russian governmant denies its culpability in the matter of the Jewish persecutions. In London the Lord Mayor’s fund for the relief of the Russian Jews, amounts to $215 060. Gladstone promises to deal with the laud system of England during the present session of Parliament. A dispatch from Jerusalem reports the desecration by Chaldeans of some of the holy places of Christendom. At Genoa, Italy, deceased persons may be burned instead of buried. The crematory furnaces are in full blast. The Hindoo pilgrims returning to their own cities from Allahabad, are carrying the cholera epidemic with them. The Canadian Government will be asked to extend the telegraph system ail along the 1,560 miles of the lake system. . Present indiacations for a good croD of spring wheat in England, are, according to the Mark Lane Express, favorable. The Spanish Government will prohibit the propose ! pilgrimage if it assumes any other than a purely religious character. Russia has backed down squarely on her interference in the Balkan insurrection against Austria on account of Bismarck’s threat. * During the past year the Right He n. W. E. Forest. Secretary of State for Ireland, received four hundred ening letters from Irish patriots. The Canadian Parliament is being petitioned for and against a repeal of the old ecclesiastical law forbidding marriage with a deceased wife's sister. Stillman, the American who is the London Times correspondent, and tobo was leported to have been murdered iu Turkey, telegraphs his paper that he is all right. Itlssaid that Senor Zamacona, late the representative of Mexico at Washington, is a candidate for the Presidency of that sister republic, to succeed President Gonzales. « English merchants are agitating for cheaper telegraphic facilities. The government controls the telegraphic., system in Great Britain in conection with the Post-office Department. Mr. Gladstone states that the reduction in rentals made by the Land Commissioners has been an average of 23 per cent. He says the Laud League has been confronted, and there is every indication that it has been defeated. Chinese advices', considerably overdue, received via. San Francisco, report that on Jifly 10 an earthquake, followed by a heavy rainstorm; destroyed

many human lives, live stock, and property in ilm Kiuyrbjw district. A miserable ruffian, named George ■Robinwii, shot and mortally wounded his MBs Mary JBaggaa, in Chicago, because she rejected his attentions, He then shot and killed himself to save the hangman a job. Lucifer ranches found iu bales of oakum, v h di came from Dublin, have been discovered at the Davenport dockyard, one of tbe principal depots of the British navy. It is beiieved to indicate Irish incendiarism. > In cpsuing the Dominion Parliament at Ottawa, Ont., the Marquis of Lome spoke o' the prosperity pi Canada, and the auspicious prospects for the future. He alluded in feeling terrhs to the death of President Garfield. Bradlaugh, the free-thinker, appeared in the House of Commons as the member from Nottingham and desired to be sworn, Sir Stafford Northcote (Conservative! moved that he be refused, which was carried by a vote of 286 to 227. A medical student has created a sensation in Toronto, Canada, by taking pieces of a woman’s skin to a currier to be tanned, and representing the material as pig skin. The deception was discovered after the fanning process was completed, and it is said tbaf the tanped skin is tough and apparently durable.

CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY.

Tuesday, Feb., 7th. The Senate bill donating 150 pieces of condemned bronze cannon to the Society of the Army of the Cumberland, for a statute of Gartleld In Washington, was passed. Mr. Coke addressed the Senate od the MornlTariff Commission Bill. House— The apportionment bil was consul ered without action. The Indian appropriaion hill was reported. It appropriates 511," 20,205. - —Wednesday, Feb. Bth, ISB2. — Senate.—The Ingalls resolution with reference to the repeal of arrears of pensions acts was further discussed. A numbar ot hills not objected to were passed—creating ports of entry, etc. House.— The tariff commission bill was reported from the Committee of Ways and Meani and referred to the committe of the whole Rouse. The bill of Mr. Peele, authorizing;'the F. M. General to adiust certain claims of postmasters for losses by lire, burglary, etc., was passed. The apportionmentbill was further considered. Eulogies upon the late Representative, O’Connor, of South Carolina, were pronounced and the usual resolutions adopted. Thursday, Feb. 9th. Senate,— Several bills were reported fav---rably. The lonealls resolution was further considered. Eulogies to, the memory of the late Representative O’Connor were pronounced. HousE.-The appoitlonment bill was further considered. -Friday, Feb., 10th. Senate.—The pension arrears resolution was further considered and laid aside for the discussion of the Morrill tariff" bill, House.— ln Committee of the Whole on the private calendar, the bill to appoint D. L. Kirby, who had been cashiered for drunkenness, as Captain in the Army, provoked warm discussion. The bill was finally reported favorably to the House and passed. Both houses adjourned ’till Monday. Monday, Feb., 13tb. Senate.— Bills were passed to provide for the sale of the lands of the Miami Indians m Kansas; to amend the articles of war, prescribing a limit against prosecutions lor desertions; to promote the efficiency of the navy by discouraging drunkenness. Mr Dawes addressed the Senate in favor of civil service reform. A bill was favorably reported providing for the payment of the five per cent, claim of the States. Several new bills were introduced. House.— The supplemental census bill was passed, making an appropriation available. Several new bills were introduced. The apportionment bill was further considered.

Owned to his Record.

Salt Lake Tribune. The editor was sitting m his revolving cav e-bottomed chair, when Tornado Tom, the traveling terror of Texas, came in and demanded a retraction of the statement that he had swindled an orphan out of $4. “It’s a lie cldkr through,” said the terror, striking the table with bis fist, “I’m as good a man as sraeils the atmosphere in this section J’ “Perhaps you are better,” said the editor, meekly. “My record’ll compare favorably , w r i s h yourn,” said the terror, with a sneer; “perhaps there area few little baek rackets in your life, sir, that wouldn’t bear a microscopis investigation.” “Oh, sir,” said the editor, visibly agitated, “don’t recall the st; don’t bring up the memories of the tomb; I know T’ve led a hard life—l dou’t deny it. J killed Shorty Barnes the Bowery Boy of New York—hacked him all to pieces with a knife. I have atoned for it a thousand times. I blew a man’s head off at a log-roll in Kentucky, and bitterly have I repented of my folly. I slew a lot of inoffensive citizens of Omaha over a paltry $4 pot, simply because I got excited. Oh, could I but cheat the tomb of the men I have placed in its maw I would be happy. But it’s ail owing to my high temper -mid lack of early traiuiug. I know that I have been wayward, wicked; and yon have a right to come here and recall those unhappy memories; but its d—d mean for all that. Nobody with a heart would treat a man like you have me. Don’t leave, stranger; i’ll tell you alh I sawed a man’s head off with an old sabre just for ” The Texas terror was down stairs and half way round the corner, while the editor, taking a fresh chew of rattlesnake twist,- continued his peaceful avocatiqn as quietly as a law-abiding citizen,