Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1882 — THE NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The national exhibition has opened at Moscow. Matthew Curran.of Louisville, Irish agitator, is dead. . Milliam Moon, murderer, was hung at Carrollton, Ga. The general deficiency bill appropriates nearly $9,000,000. The Knights of Labor } of Pennsylvania have repudiated the Greenback ticket. Brennan, secretary of the Land League, has been released at Kilkenny, Ireland. Commander Terry, of the navy, brother of Major General Terry, died in Colorado, of consumption. The census, shows that the average number of persons in a 'family in this country is a fraction over five. At a blooded cattle sale at Harristown, Illinois, sixty-nine head sold for $16,846, or an average of $244 each. Mr. I. K. Grant, of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, was found dead in his room at the hotel Emery, Cincinnati. James E. Harvey, white, was hanged at Carrollton, Georgia, for the murder of Arthur McMullen in July last. An excellent collection of pictures for the art gallery of the coming Cincinnati exposition las been secured in New York. Another big oil well baa been opened up in Warren eeunty, Pa., flowing, it is reported, at the rate of 2,500 barrels a day. Work on the Red Bank extension of the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis railroad will, it is be begun soon. A janitor of Hadley & Roberts’ Academy, at Indianapolis, fell from a third-story window, and received fatal injuries. > A storm in Northampton county, North Carolina, ruined the obtton, wheat and corn crops. Two more persons are reported killed. she Standard Coal & Iron company has filed for record in Hocking county, Ohio, deeds for furnaces and mineral lands valued at $28,009,000. The tanners and leather dealers of Cincinnati will put on exhibition at the coming industrial exposition a full line of their manufactures. Mr. J. W. Scarge, the editor of the Express Gazette, has been arrested on a charge of criminal libel preferred by Albert Netter, of Cincinnati. Judge Pillsbury, of Pontiac, Illinois, shot in an attack of strikers on a car load of laborers, near Chicago, is not believed to be fatally injured. It is reported that a savage tribe in Central India captured the chief town of a neighboring tribe, robbed the treasury and killed over four hundred people. Postmaster-General Howe promises to give immediate attention to the subjects of Sunday delivery in lettercarrier cities and reduction of letter postage to one cent. Troops in different parts of Arizona and New Mexico have been ordered to concentrate at San Carlos agency, in anticipation of trouble over the proposed disarming of the Indians at that post. John Bright, at the opening of the Birmingham Central library, recommended the study of American poets, especially Whittier, the best gifts of whose genius were on the side of freedom. He also recommended a study of Bancroft's history of the United States. , • Father Raverdy, vicar general to the bishop of Colorado, refused to allow the rites of the Catholic church to be administered oypr the remains of the late Don Miguel Otero, the millionaire, on account of his being a Mason. The remains were buried by members of the Masonic order, assisted by an Episcopal clergyman, at Denver. President Potter, of the north Chicago rolling-mills, the best known and most influential iron man in the nortnwest, says, contrary to the claim of certain less influential men there, that the iron business is in a position to advance wages, and that it is not in a position to shut down profitably. His statement has created a better feeling in that vicinity. Ju’s band of renegade Apaches were surrounded by Mexican troops, under General Fuero, on the 27th ult., and wefe badly whipped. Thirtyseven Indians were killed and ten taken prisoners. The entire camp outfit, including fifty head of cattle, was captured. The Mexicans lost one officer and eight men killed, an 1 two officers and twelve men wounded. Representative Butterworth, of the sub-committee ot the appropriation committee, having iq charge the sundry civilaeWice bhl.asyH that an appropriation of $350,000 has been agreed Upon/for the Cincinnati postoffice building, $100,(00 has also been agreed upon by the appropdation oommittee for the erection oft aHuarine hospital at Cincinnati, and ot $16,000 .will pe made for *an iceharbor above ICMIThtiSU.,-lW same committee win also recommend an appropriation sufficient to complete the lighting of the Ohio river,‘and extending the aamte system on the Big Kanawha ana Tennessee rivers, as recommended in Mr, Butterworth’s MIL ’■ ’ ’ \. '