Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1882 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

• All the Irish priests, save those under the jurisdiction of Archbishop McCabe, have been granted permission by their superiors to take part in the popular political movements for the amelioration of the condition of the country.... The Italian Premier, in a recent speech, said the relations with France were veiy friendly, while with England they were excel lent. He thought intervention by Italy in Egyptian affairs would not be consistent with her international duties... .The military tribunal in session at Balta, trying the of the anti-Jewish rioters, condemned one of the leaders to two years’ and five others to from sixteen to eighteen months’ imprisonment While baptism was being conferred near Canton, Ga., a bridge crowded with spectators gave way, precipitating 200 persons into the water. No lives were lost, but many limbs were fractured... .Rev. J. L. Denton, Superintendent of Public Instruction for Arkansas, leaped from a balcony at Fayetteville and was killed. Charges that he misused money furnished by the Peabody fund unbalanced his mind and caused him to refuse a renomination. The officers of the National Land League of America have issued a circular, entering an emphatic protest against the Truth World's statement that the League no longer exists in Ireland.... The German steamer Herder, from New York for Hamburg, with 288 passengers, went ashore near Cape Race, N. F. All the passengers and crew were landed without accident, but it is believed the ship and cargo will be a total loss.

Stewart *L. Woodford, of New York, addressing a Republican meeting in Tremont Temple, Boston, created a deep sensation by asserting that within four months of his occupancy of the Presidential chair Garfield found the pressure of party' influence so tremendous that he used the highest offices in the gift of the country in payment of political services. The receipts of the St. Louis Fair were $175,000, as against $77,000 last year. Over $300,000 worth of exhibits were sold on the grounds... .Ho? cholera prevails to an alarming extent in Hancock county, Ohio. Jacob Becker, employed in a Pittsburgh lead-pipe works, while standing on a scaffolding cleaning a shaft which was mak_ intr 150 revolutions a minute, caught his right leg in a telephone wire and was thrown upon the shaft The wire wrapped around his leg, cut it from hiß body, and he fell dead to the ground. William Dickson, foreman of the star route jury, has employed Walter Davidge, one of the Government counsel in the Guiteau case,’ to prosecute his charges against the officers of the Department of Justice whom he claims approached him to bribe him. A Little Rock dispatch says that returns of the vote in Arkansas at the September election on the liquor question have been received by the Secretary of State from all but one small county, as follows: For license, 78,880; against license, 45,041. Ohly twelve counties out of seventy-four voted against license.

Mr. Ed Trickett, the celebrated oarsman, Kingston, Canada, says: “Ihavfffound St. Jacobs Oil a sure and certain cure for rheumatism, etc. ” — New York Clipper.