Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1882 — THE HEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

THE HEWS IN BRIEF.

Egypt is buying heavy guns. The corn in Georgia is in silk and tassel. Anti-Jewish disturbances continue in Russia. - I / Dr. C. A. Logan, United States minister to Chili, has arrived at New York. Minister Sargent sailed for Germany Saturday. The Chicago Bible society received last year $3,634.38. Illinois has ninety-one towns and cities incorporated under the state law. Three men were run over and killed by cars in Minneapolis on Wednesday night. Commodore Rodney French, of New Bedford, Mass., is dead, aged eighty years. The Cincinnati exposition guarantee fund is reported as larger than ever before. t * A London dispatch reports a ship asboreat Swanage, England, and all on board drowned. Wm. Hadeler, formerly a prominent business man at Rainesville, 0., ended his life with poison. The European steamer sailing from New York Saturday carried away 1,217 cabin passengers. The graves of the confederate dead in Elmwood cemetery, Memphis, were decorated Sunday. The ladies’ Calhoun monument association, of South Carolina, have raised a fund of $70,003. The Pacific Coast congressmen believe the president will sign new Chinese prohibition bill. The New York police, eight hundred strong, were on duty to prevent a Sunday Socialist parade. It is believed that the Parnellites are negotiating with the government for their release from jail. 1 General Ignatieff denies that the Russian government are tolerating the persecution of the Jews. The eastern branch of the Indiana, Bloomington & Western railway was completed Saturday evening. Charles Rowell, the pedestrian, has sailed from New York for England with three fine trotting horses. At the annual meeting of the Mithgan Central rail way .last year’s board of directors were all re-elected. Blanche Douglass denies that she was offered $6,000 to travel w th a circus after the Malley trial is ended, A girl aged thirteen and a boy aged nineteen, belonging to French families. were married in Kankakee county, 111., the other day. On Saturday, May 12, Queen Victoria will Visit Epping Forest, and,with elaborate ceremonies “dedicate it to the use of the people forever.” Senator Ben Hill has lost a brother, sister and two aunts from the same disease —cancer—winch has taken such a hold upon his own system. Mrs. E. E. Snowdon Washburn, a lady well known in art circles in Cinnati, claims to have b?en restored by prayer from a condition nextEo death. The Sprague property sale has been postponed until the 18th, the offer made by the syndicate having been withdrawn. The Princess Louise will return to Canada this month, and spend the summer there. In September, with Lord Lome, she will visit British Columbia. William H. Vanderbilt now owns $60,000,000 in government bonds. He has lust received from the secretary of the treasury a check for the quarterly interest thereon, amounting to $475,OJO.

The Garfield memorial flowers, in dispute in a Chicago justice’s court, have been compromised upon, and will be sent to the Garfield Memorial association. The Ohio Republican state convention has been called for June 7th, to nominate a secretary of state, supreme court judge and member of the board of public works. Count Von Moltke, Germany’s veteran field marshal and chief of stall, has taken leave of absence for an in- • definite period, preparatory to final retirement from office. The trustees of Lane seminary have tendered the professorship of church history, made vacant by the death of Dr. Humphreys, to Rev. Thomas Dewitt, of Philadelphia. Ex-Secretary Hunt’s wife is the godmother of President Arthur’s son. She has known Mr. Arthur since he was a young man, and knew his wife during their engagement. England will co-operate with other nations in establishing a chain of circumpolar magnetic and meteorological observations. Fort Rae, Nortn Canada, is the station selected. It is considered in bad style to wear the crinolette or bus'le close up to the waist; it must be fastened some inches below it to be in fashionable position.