Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1882 — THE NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The guarantee fund of the new Cincinnati industrial exposition is $72,100. At Moscow, Archbishop Makary the metropolitan of Moscow, died suddenly. One thousand live eels were deposited in the Ottawa River, at Lima, Ohio. The Hillsdale champion crew arrived at Queenstown in excellent health. Horde, the French secretary of Control, at Alexandria, committed suicide. General B. F. Lefevre was nominated for congress by the Democratic convention at Wapokoneta. Black measles and scarlet fever are raging fearfully among the children of the Russian half breeds in Alaska. General William B. Bate was nominated for governor by the Tennessee Democratic convention on the fifth ballot. A contract was signed in London by Manager Abbey, with Mrs. Langtry, for a tour in America, beginning in November next. Three hundred and four Jews, from Russia, started for America from Limberg, Austria. Bix hundred more will soon start. A Milwaukee special says the veteran theatrical manager, Sam Colville has purchased a half interest in W. C - Coup’s circus. Fifteen hundred pupils of the Cincinnati public schools pass from the district to the intermediate schools the present year. Marriot Brosius, of Lancaster county, was nominated for congressman-at-large by the Pennsylvania Republican convention, at Harrisburg. The United States treasury commission says pleuro-pneumonia exists in Baltimore county, Maryland, notwithstanding the denial of the governor. , % Mrs. MagdalenaHille, of Waukesha, Wisconsin, died from the effects of a dose of morphine, administered by a physician, who mistook it for quinine. President Shoemaker, of the Cincinnati street railway company, declares that the quarterly dividend of 134 per cent, which has been ordered, has been earned.

The Japanese government Is preparing to show marked courtages to Mr. Young, the new American envoy to China, while passing through Japan en route for Pekin.* Supervising Architect Hill has received thirteen proposals fer the sale of a building site for a public building at Frankfort, Ky. The offers range from $1 to $25,000. The Vermont Republican convention nominated the following ticket: Governor, John L. Barstow; lieuten-ant-governor, Samuel £. Pingree; treasurer, W. H. Duhcis. The French senate, despite a favorable speech by Tlerard, minister of commerce, rejected the bill on the importation ot foreign pork, on the ground that it did not offer sufficient guarantees. Prof. Holbrook, of the Normal school, Lebanon, Ohio, is mentioned prominently as one of the engineers to be appointed in connection with the Ohio river improvements. Joseph H. Sanborn, brother of the senier ihember of the firm of George H. Sanborn A Sons, manufacturers of book-binder’s machinery, New York, committe suicide by shooting himself through the head. The bill for the sale of a portion of the crown jewels and diamonds passed the French Chamber of Deputies 845 to 90, with an amendment that the proceeds be applied to the fund for disabled artisans. William Re boss, Lewis Silemna, and Bar to Santmeyer were killed, and Jacob Balder and Frank Patterson seriously injured, by the falling of a bank of earth and stone, at the Mt. Vernon cotton mil s, Baltimore county, Maryland. Herman D. A. Henning, a Baltimore sculptor, has recently finished the first of the four emblematic statues to be placed on the Bt. Paul street bridge of that city. It is a female form of heroic Bize, representing the city of Baltimore. Forty destitute Catholic boys have started from Liverpool for Canada, where they will be placed with farm erg. Cardinal Manning pays the ex penses. If the experiment proves successful, a large number of boys will be sent next season. Georgia claims a genuine Bltlebeard in a man 100 years old, who has had seven wives and has killed them all. A southern paper calmly adds that “he has not yet been apprehended, but the officers are tracking him through the mountains.” A statement by the Kansas board of agriculture places the winter wheat acreageat one million and a half acres. The weather has been favorable and prospects for a large yield were never better. Corn was somewhat frosted but not materially injured.