Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1882 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

Home Items. Senator Hill, who was reported dangerously ill, is now better. President Arthur has rented a cottage at Long Branch for the summer. Another National Bank will soon be started in Nashville with a capital of S6OO 000. Grasshoppers in midwinter is the latest novelty in Westchester_couuty, New York. A young man of Terrell county, Ga., sold his wife to a friend for fifty cents, believing he had the Itgal right to do so. At Painesville, Ohio, Martin Noonan was convicted of robbing the American Express Company of $21,000 in 1878. The Chicago Union Stockyards and Transit Compauy has increased its capital stock from $3,400,000 to $13,800,000. A vein of pure eannel coal has been discovered on a farm in Marion county, lowa, about thirty miles below Des Moines. It is now estimated that the loss by the Haverhill (Mass.) fire is $2,250,000, of which all but $250,000 is covered by insurance. Miss Hoover, of Wabash, Ind., has refused to marry that Polo, 111., young man who missed the train and the wedding feast. The House Committee on Postoffices, have agreed to favorably report tbe bill increasing the pay of auxiliary letter carriers.

The Rev. Father O’Farrell suicided at 81. Fiancis Hospital, Peoria, 111. He was located at Monmouth for fifteen years. Another sea serpent has appeared at Long Branch, N. J. It was a fishlike monster, forty feet long, and had horns on its head. Father Agredi, of Winsted, Conn., loved Bridget Welsh tetter than he did the church, married her, and turned restauraut keeper. The schooner C’orrena, from Grand Banks, arrived at Gloucester, Mass., reported the loss of six of her crew in a violent hurricane. , Mrs. Seoville, the sister of Guiteau, has written a lorg and earnest letter to Mrs. Garfield, asking her to intercede to save his life. In the Christiauey divorce suit counsel for the ex-Senator propose to show that Mrs. Christiauey’s wituesses are unworthy of credence. Among the freaks of marriage was the recent nuptials of a Minnesoca man, aged 57, with the 17 year old daughter of his second wife. The ice bridge at Niagara Falls, which has formed within the past few days, is said to be the longest and strongest seen tor many years. A Cleveland, Ohio, dispatch states that Mrs. Garfield has not received the letter alleged to have been written her bv Mrs. Seoville, on behalf of Guiteau. the Georgia Car Works, near Atlanta, a boiler exploded, killing five men instantly and injuring a number of others, two of whom have since died. At Milwaukee, Wis., a meeting was held to discuss the evils arising from obeoene literature. The advertisements and circulars of quack doctors were condemned.

The Department of Agriculture at Washington, reports the increase of acreage in cotton last year at about 3 per cent., tbe total acreage being esii mated at 16,560 O'RJ. A young lady jumped from a train on the Lake 81iore R til road, near Rtplev, Ohio, wfcjie it was running at the rate of thirty miies an hour. Strange to say she was not hurt. A rotary cancelling stamping machine has been invented for the purpose of cancelling postage stamps on’ letters, which stamps them readily at the rate of 600 per minute. Nothing has yet been heard of the whereabouts of Navin, the absconded Mayor of Adraiu, Mich. Jewell, the ex-Treasurer, is still in jail, and his creditors have seized upon his store. Professor Greener. Whittaker's counsel, is endeavoring to secure speedy action on the question raised by the Judge Advocate General as to the illegal composition of the court martial. The discussion in the Senate on the anti-polygamy bill ran all the ladies out of # the galleries. One lady upon leaving* remarked that she believed that the “Senators did it on purpose.” The cost of removing from the Bos* ton streets the snow deposited in the last two storms is estimated at $50,000. All through last week 1,200 men and 126 teams were employed in the work. ■Sullivan challenges Ryan through the New York Helald to spar him with boxing-gloves, aud offers to wager SI,OOO that he can get in a larger number of clean hits than Paddy can. Twelve applications for appointment on the United States Supreme Bench aud forty-seven applications for appointment on the C< dirt of Claims are now on file in the Department of Justice. A watchman on the steamship Niagara, at New York, isaw a stranger come on board wfth twenty pounds of gunpowder, and an investigation revealed the presence of sixty pounds in the mess-room. Mrs. Garfield has received Mrs. Seoville’s letter. While she cherishes no malice against the assassin, and feels only pity for his sister, she leaves him to his God and the American people. A modest headstone with the words, ‘Mrs. Surratt” has beeD placed over the grave of Mrs. Surratt in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Washington. The grave, w T as formerly unmarked save by the corner stones of the lot. At Detroit. Mich., Mr. Crosby, Treasurer of Wayne County, was entertained by one thief on official business while a confederate deftly stole a roil of bills amounting to over S7OO when both thieves escaped.

O. B*. Potter, who owned the World Building in New York, which burned a few days ago owing to a defective flue, will have to auswer before the Grand Jury for his neglect in not repairing it. He is on bail for $5,0.0. The citizens’ reform committee, of Philadelphia, has issued a proclamation, in which they offer rewards aggregating SIO,OOO for the arrest and conviction of election officers guilty of frauds, of intimidation of voters, and of bribery in elections. Rev. M. Finertv, pastor of the Methodist Church at Mokena, 111., was arrested in Chicago, Saturday, for attempted rape on Miss, Mary Sheridan. a member of the Wabash avenue M E Church. Finerty is still in jail, awaiting examination. Martin Piaequette, who was to have been banged at New Madrid, Mo., for the murder of a member of the Legislative named Barnes, over a year ago, has been granted a stay of execution by the Supreme Court, until that tribunal cau hear his case i The break in the levee near Helena, Ark., is about three hundred feet Wide, and the water rushes through with great force, driving the inhabitants from their homes. Appeals have been made to the Governor of Mississippi for aid for the people. In the case of J. hn Lamb, whose trial for the murder of officer Race in Chicago, terminated Tuesday in the Criminal Court, the jury rendered a verdict of “not guilty,” and the accused. who had been imprisoned for three and a half was liberated. The conorer’s arv in the inquest on the victims of the World building in New York, returned a verdict censuring, O. B. Porter, owner of the building and his.employes, aud commending M. C. Taggart and the boot black Charles Wright. Tne small farmers in the south west portion of Illinois, including Wayne, Franklin, Wabash, Saline, Gallatin, aud White counties, are in great destitution, owing to the failure of the crops last fall. Efforts are being made for their relief. A brutal fellow named C. C. Peterson, who keeps a cigar store and pool room at 6>l West Indiana street, Chicago, was fined SIOO and costs by Justice Morrison, for setting a bulldog to attack a lad ofls, who had turned to leave the place. Efcward L. Merrifield, of New York, has entered a claim before the Commissioners of the General Land Office at Washington, for a large elice of the lake front of Chicago, part of which is now covered by the depot and tracks or the Illinois Central Railroad. Congress is receiving a large number of petitions citing that the railways are public highways, built for the benefit of the public, and that the people are

entitled to receive them oji equal terms, and praying fordegiidatiou to regulate inter-State commerce and present extortion. • , - During the year 1881, 31,773 arrests were made by the Chicago police force. Of these, 17.892 were American born, and of the balance, 13,881, there were 4,700 Irish. 3,800 Germans, about 1.400 Canadians, English and Scotch, 840 Seandinavins; and of other Europeans, about 1,100, of whom 50 per cent, were Poles. Captain McGarigle, Superintendent of Police in Chicago, has completed his annual report, which contains some interesting crime statistics. The total force of officers and men is 505, of which only 272 are patrolmen. During the past year property stolen •was valued at $147 000, of which SIIB,OOO worth w 7 as recovered. The Presbyterian Synod, composed of delegates from presbjdettes in the adjoining parts of Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi, admitted a hegro for several years, but in the present session the question of excluding him was raised, and a majority vote.l to turn him out. This action was based solely on 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. John Gyumber, who got a great deal of space in the newspapers last year, by hislong sleep at Lehigh, Pa., is now well and at work in an iron mill. His first remarkable sleep was seventy days in unbroken duration. Then he awoke, leaped from a window, and fell a sleep again for four weeks. After that his sleep grew gradually shorter. His memory is left a little defective, but in other respects he has recovered from his ailment, whatever it w T as. Joseph Wood and A. L. Brockev, prospectors, are reported to have struck the richest gold mine ever discovered in Colorado, near tbe town of Maysville. At a depth of eight feet an ore body w T as struck which runs SI,OOO to the ton in gold. The pay streak in the vein is about six feet in width, and resembles sand carbonate, and it is spread with cobalt, iron and other minerals. The neighboring country has nevtr been prospected to any extent, and there will be a tremendous rush in that direction.

Foreign. The Herzegovinian revolt has com to a halt. The insurrection at Yemen, Arabia, against the Porte is increasing. The Egj’ptian Government has de cided on the abolition of slavery. The Russians will neither encourage nor oppose the emigration of the Jews. The Czar of Russia aud his Ministers are divided in opinion with regard to war with Austria. It is rumored in Berlin that the cor onation of the Czar has been postponed until September. The gay and wicked “Jardin Mabille” of Paris is no more. The land has been sold for building lots. A late dispatch from London places the number of victims of the Durham colliery disaster at seventy. Two Mexican rival editors at Guadalajara fought a duel with pistols, aud both fell dead at the first fire. The Hindoo pilgrims returning to their own cities from Allahabad, are carrying the cholera epidemic with them. The steamship Saidiniau, of the Allan Line, was found disabled in mido 'ean by the steamer Texas on the 15th inst. The Austrian commander at tbe Herzegovinian frontier wants reiuforo ments and better weather before attacking the rpbels. The Aeronauts’ Society of Loudon want to rescue Mr. Leigh Smith, the Arctic yachtsman, bv a balloon expedition. It will cost $70,000. The Pope has addressee! a letter to the Italian bishops on the subject of the increase of church work, aDd advocaiug the temporal independence of the Pope. At Edinburg, Scotland, two boxe containing infernal machines were delivered to two different, addi esses, and upon being opened injured eight persons. The Roman Catholic Bishop of Montreal has ordere i that the tenants of church property engaged in selling liquor shall be notified to stop the traffic at once. The Canadian Government have, it is alleged, found an immense revenueswindling system a s Marble Island, Hudson Bay. in which Massachusetts shippers are concerned. An eight-year-old boy has died at Point St. Charles, Montreal, from the use of liquor, and the cononer’s verdict holds the person wno sold the liquor guilty of murder. Nearly three hundred women confined in the prison just outside of Montreal made a desperate attempt to escape, and were only suppressed by vigorous blows from tbe police. Popular support in Russia by the Pan Slavist party 1b given to the Herzegovinian rebels. A St. Petersburg dispatch states that General Skebelefl intends to join their forces. 1

Bulgaria is on the eve of another political ovists. The people desire a revision of tbe Constitution, and Russia is 'll nm-.l to suggest a return to a constitutional government. Refeiriug L« Genera! Skobeleff’s recent buifcottbe speech, toe London " Times si ty* ih.it the Russian govern ment..by allowing its officers to talk is endangering the peace of Europe. ’ English merchants are agitating for cheaper telegraphic facilities Tbe government controls the telegraphic system in Great Britain 15 eonection with the Post-office Department. ./ Sir Charles Dilke, Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs, told the House of Commons, in relation to the Jewish prosecution in Russia, that England’s interference w T ould do more harm than good. At Yemen, the Arals are advancing on the sacred city of Mecca to proclaim the deposition of the Sultan of Turkey as tbe successor of Mahomet, and to restore the dynasty of tbe Arabian Caliphate! At Carrick-on-Suir, Ireland, the military custodians of a house, from which a “no-rent” tenant had been evicted, were fired at Saturday night. They responded with a volley which disperstd the mob. The Shah of Persia has granted a French company tne right to construct a railroad in his dominions from Teheran, the capital, to Resho. They are to pay a heavy sum on the completion of the road, and a rental of 55,000 francs a year for sixty years.