Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1882 — NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Fifty thousand dollars in silver bars /was exported yesterday. The New York and Brooklyn excise bill has passed the assembly. Secretary Hunt says he will tWve for St. Petersburg about the Ist of May. Amnesty will be granted the insurgents in Herzegovinia who return home. The Free canal resolutions ascorrected by the New York Benatebave again passed the assembly. John M. Hubbard, of Chicago, has declined the appointment as treasury ’ agent at Seal Island, Alaska. The Boston friends of Mr. W. J. Florence are petitioning the president to give the comedian a consulship. Baroness Burdett-Coutts bade Jumbo a friendly good-bye, going to the dock tp give him his final dose of English buns. In Japan there is a society for the study of the French language which is about to publish in French a history of Japan. Hon. Paul J. Doneghy, representative in the Kentucky legislature from Boyle county, and a Mexicjn war veteran, is dead. Edward Olmstead, a prominent young lawyer -of Wilmot, 0., was waylaid, badly beaten and robbed near Beach City, Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt, of New York, has given a house and grounds complete on the south shore of Long Island, to be used as a place of summer resort for the poor children of that city. The hearing on the petition of Sergeant Mason for a writ of habeas corpus before the United States supreme court, will come off on Monday next. The application at Chicago for the appointment of a con-ervator of the estate of the murderer of President Garfield has been denied by the court. The man who “bunkoed” Charles Francis Adams out of SIB,OOO was Gilbert Fitzgerald. He was raised in Milwaukee, and has many wealthy relatives there. Mr. Nat Pepper, a former Cincinnatian, and the oldest son of the late Capt. James H. Pepper, well known in marine citcles, died in Milan, Texas, on the 10th inst. An edition de lure of Thackery’s works will soon be published by Estes & Lanriat. There will be only 250 copies in the edition, which will have 217 illustrations. Dr. Harmon Schroeder, of Bloomington, 111., recognised authority on fruits, says the damage to fruit throughout central Illinois is much greater than is generally supposed. William Beck, aged twelve, of Racine, Wis., shot himself fatally because after having been out late on the preceding night his father woke him with harsh works in the morning. J. E. Millais has been elected foreign associate in the French academy of fine arts, in place of the Italian sculptor Dupre, lately dead. Millais’ comSititors were .Franz Liszt and the elgian sculptor, Guillaume Beefs. President Keep denied to a reporter that Chicago & Northwestern intend to build an extension to Denver, but says the intention is to push the system into the northwest, and will even neglect the Black Hills territory for the present. The official returns of the United States consulate at Sheffield ol exports to the United States for the quarter ending March 31,shows an increase of £33,344. The improvement is chiefly in steel and steel rails. Mr. John Russel Young, the new minister to China, is to be dined by the Harrison literary association, of Philadelphia, on Saturday evening, and by the Philadelphia Stylus club, which is composed of journalists, on the following Monday evening. The Council Bluffs, lowa, Nonpareil has reports of the wheat crop from western lowa which shows that little winter wheat has been sown but the prospect is very flattering. No locality reports less wheat sown than last year, and in some cases the average is 3334 per cent, greater. Frank A—Judd, aged 36, son of N. B. Judd, of Chicago, ex-minister to Russia, was declared insane and sent to an asylum. He was engaged in«a lead mine in Colorada and contracted lead poisoning, causing paralysis of one side of his body and brain. His friends hope to cure him. The Catholic clergy of the diocese of Cashel and Emly have passed res olutions pledging themselves to exert all their influence to prevent outrages, and demanding a cessation of the coercion and the eviction of tenants for arrears of rent, and also pledging themselves to co-operate with the people’s representatives with the object of securing an amendment to the land act. At Charleston, 8. C., the steamer Planter exploded her boiler just after leaving the dock. Jake Washington, a colored deck hand, was killed -and L. F. Bosong and W. T. Ham, mate and engineer, were seriously scalded. Two co.ored men were slightly injured. No passengers were hurt. The vessel and cargo are slightly damaged.