Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1882 — CURRENT TOPICS [ARTICLE]

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.