Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1882 — WEEKLY NEWS REVIEW. [ARTICLE]

WEEKLY NEWS REVIEW.

THE EAST. Henry Ward Beecher, at the autumn meeting of the New York and Brooklyn Congregational churches, took occasion to withdraw from membership in the association. His pulpit teachings, he thought, took a range unauthorized by the denomination, and he did not propose that the association should be placed In a position where It wtfuld be compelled to defend him. Future punishment, he claimed, would be mental, not physical; and the tire and brimstone hades lie denounced as a barbaric slaughterhouse notion. The doctrine of original sin, also, came ander his displeasure, but in the tcnity ftnd divinity of Christ he was a firm believer. On their arrival in Boston, President Arthur and party were escorted from the depot to the Hotel Brunswick by all the military organizations of the city. After lunch the guests were taken to Faneull Hall, where brief speeches were made by the President, Secretary Lincoln and Secretary Chandler. An elaborate banquet and a reception followed, after which the party proceeded to Marshfield to oelebrate the oentennial birthday of Daniel Webster. * At Marshfield, Mass., on the 12th Inst, the 100th anniversary of the birthday of Daniel Webster was celebrated in an impressive manner. The President of the United States, two Senators, nine Governors and many other distinguished gentlemen took breakfast with Mrs. Fletcher Webster. Afi er an inspection of the relics at the homestead the procession went to the tomb of Daniel, Webster, where a dirge was sung, prayer was offered and a poem was read. Dinner was served in tents for nearly 1,000 persons. Gov. Long introduced President Arthur, who delivered an appropriate address, and was followed by several others.... George D. Rice, Cashier of the Lebanon (Pa) Dime Havings Bank, While going to the bank the other evening, carrying a satchel containing *30,000, was set upon by two men, who fearfully maltreated him and robbed him of the funds... .The engineer’s estimate as the cost of the great rooklyn bridge was $7,000,000, and not to exceed'that sum. The expenditures up to the present time have been $13,973,45)0. The general belief is that $3,000,000 or $4,0U0,000 have been stolen by the construction ring and the trustees.... The 3i)oth anniversary of the discovery of America by CoJumbus was celebrated by the Italian residents of New York by a picnic and boll At the dedication of a soldiers’ monument at Beverly, Mass., a platform fell with a large number of spectators, five of whom were seriously injured. Assistant Superintendent Charles 8. Childs, of the Cambridge (Mass.) Cemetery, was murdered and robbed by unknown men. Mr. Childs had obtained $550 at the City Hall with which to pay the workmen employed in the cemetery, and was driving along I’-oolidge avenue when ho was assailed. He was shot through the temple, and, after having been dragged from his buggy, was beaten in the head with a brick until his skull was fractured... .Capt. Webb, the English swimmer, accomplished at New York the feat of r maining hours in water. He was rather unstrung from loss of sleep.

THE WEST. Farmer Davidson, of Deckerville, Sanilac comity, Mich., quarreled with his wife and son, Bhot the woman dead, and fatally injured the young man. The murderer iied....A block of business houses on Front street, El Paso, EL, valued at SIOO,OOO, was wiped out by fire.... Great excitement prevails in L'ncoln county, Mo., because the County Court levied a tax of l per cent on property to pay a judgment on radroad bonds amounting to $3»)0,OX). The people will resist the levy by every legal means.... John Connell, Ran Erickson, Robert Roberts and Peter Dower were killed, and Tom Hooper was fatallv injured, by a fall of rock in the Republic mine at Republic Lake Superior Charles Irvin, a 16-year-old bpy, stabbed and killed Chilton Lemmons, a boy about the same age, at church, near Hammersville, Ohio. Irvin fled. The strikers on the Northern Pacific road in Montana demanded an advance of 50 cents per day in wages. The superintendent of construction refused to yield, and telegraphed to Missoula for troops. The strikers then drove all Chinamen from the works. At Tipton, Ind., seventeen manufacturers of spurious coin were captured by secret-service detectives. They had been operating for a year past, and were all farmers save three^—a saloonkeeper, a lawyer and a druggist....An engine on the Houth Park road in Colorado was taking u fiat-car down » stoop wnen a collision occurred with a mole which stood on the track. Conductor Bledsoe and two men were instantly killed The Grand Jury at Evansville, Ind., indicted for conspiracy the. three captured lynchers frpm Posey county, and ball of SI,OOO each was furnished bv men who represent over $2,000,030... .Bob Taylor, one of the brothers who murdered the Sheriff and Deputy of Hamilton countv. Tenn., on the 14th of September, was killed bv Sheriff Goodall, of Laclede county, Mo., on a railroad train while resisting arrest. At Fort Fetter man, Wyoming Territory, J. H. Capp shot and instantly killed R. R. E-gin, book-keeper for Searight Brothers, anti dangerously wounded Mike Egan. The latter and a party of cowboys took Capp from custody and iynched him. THE SOUTH. The aid of the charitable is invoked for the suffering city of Pensacola, where yellow fever is increasing, and contributions are greatly needed There have been 1,100 cases since the beginning of the epidemic, '* aaid 113 deaths....A train on the Texas Pacific road went through a bridge over Sweetwater creek, 300 miles west of Dallas, and from three to six pnen were kided....A freight train on the new road between Chuttanooja, Terip., and Atlanta. G%, ran into a passenger tra)n, and the engineer and fireman were killed and two persons injured. When J. Ambler Smith accepted the challenge of George D. Wise to fight a duel, .and named shotgnhs loaded with buckahot as the weapons and forty paces as the distance, Wise seems to have concluded that dueling was a barbarous practice.' , Nearly 200 deaths from diphtheria have within two months occurred in Pitteylvanla county, Ta., including twenty pu-

nils in one school district... .A fire at Terrell, Tex,, destroyed nearly a block of business houses. The loss will probably reach SIOO.10u... ,W. M. Lowe, a member of Congress from Alabama, died at Huntsville to that State.

William Austin was hanged Lancaster, Ky., for murdering his great-aunt He confessed the crime, which was perpetrated while he was under the influence of whisky.... Paul Pringle, colored, was hanged at Mansfield, La, in the presence of over 3,000 spectators Green B. Mayo and Martin Harrqji, with a number of adherents on either side, engaged in a battle at Tifton, Ga, about a trivial matter. The two principajAwere mortally wounded, one of Harrell’smsrce was shot dead, and another man' was seriously perforated. A Dallas (Texas) telegram says “there is much excitement in Erath county. At Alexander, Maj. Penn, the evangelist, prayed for the punishment of a disiurlier of his meeting, and the man dropped dead. At Lampas, as the meeting lagged, Penn prayed for the removal of the disturbing cause. A young lady at once upset a lamp and burned to death. A tornado blew over Penn’s gospel tent and killed a child, fatallv hurt a young lady, and injured others. A fearful panic ensued. The water was two feet deep in the tent."

WASHINGTON. Lack of funds caused the discharge of ninety-three employes of the Public Printing Office at Washington Clerk Taylor claim* to have selected those who would suffer the least inconvenience at the loss of employment. The President has made the following appointments: F. G. Ward to be Receiver of Public Moneys at Susanville, CaL; Y. Randa to be Rooeiver of Public Moneys at Niobrara, Neb.; and A H. Jackson to be Agent for the Indians of the Pima Agency, in Arizona Territory. Applications of all descriptions filed at the Patent Office during the fiscal year ended June 30 numbered 30,062, and for the previous year 24,900. According to the r sport of the Director of the Mint, the imports of gold coin and bullion for the year ending June 30,1882, exceeded the exports only by $1,789,183. The amount of gold deposited was $74, < 00,000 less than during the preceding year, while the silver purchased and deposited was $3,000,000 greater. The total coinage of the year represented $851,413,447, which is largely in excess of the coinage of any previous year.

GENERAL. On account of continned ill health Herbert Spencer has abandoned his projected Western trip. He will return to England as soon as he is able to stand the voyage. Mr. Spencer Is now in Philadelphia ... .An earthquake severe enough to awaken people was felt in Montreal, Canada Four tidal waves overwhelmed a Mexican island on the Pacific coast, and seventy people were drowned The calamity occurred simultaneously with the earthquake on the Isthmus, Sept 7. The Western Union Telgraph Company, at its annual meeting at New York, elected directors, with Dr Norvln Green at the head The net revenue from earning*, utter doduotmar expenditures o t al descriivt ons. is $1,664,240. The gross receipts for the ensuing year are estimated at $19,000,000, and the net profits at $8,(XXl,OoO. The Board of Directors of the Western Un on Telegraph Company met in New York and elected the following officers: Norvin Green President; Gen. Thomas Eckert, Vice President and General Manager; Augustus Schell, John Van Home. Harrison Durkee, Vice Presidents; D. H. Bates, Acting Vice President... .reace negotiations between Chili and Peru, under the friendly offices of United States Minister Logan, have failed Mrs. Ellen Thorne has been granted a divorce from her husband, Charles R. Thome, the actor, on tee ground of adultery, the divorce alleged to have been obtained in Indiana having been reject* *d as worthless. Tne woman with wh«Jm Thorne has been living, Mrs Mary Swift Brown, is said to be worth $500,001).

POLITICAL. The Minnesota Democratic State Convention ratified the nomination by the Republicans of James GUflllan for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court The Democratio platform declares for such a revision of the existing tariff as will bring about a gradual and systematic reduction of duties, and, without injury to- existing interests, will eventually result in the establishment of free trade as the permanent commercial policy of this country... .The Republicans have nominated Howard Carroll, of the New York Timm, for Congressman-at-Large from New York. FOREIGN. A Cairo dispatch says that Arabi Pasha believes his life is in danger. There have been certain incidents which might have demoralized the Circassians guarding hinC One of the Khodivb’s entourage has been heard to say that he would like to administer to Arab! a cup of bad coffee, and tho Khedive has remarked that he and Arabi could not live in the same country. Tho Indictment against the rebel chiefs contains thr>*e counts: First, instigating massacre; second, directing the burning or Alexandria, and third, abusing a Hag of truce..... Such is the increase of pauperism in tlie South of Ireland that the Dublin Union proposes to expend £7,000 in sending 1,000 ablebodied men and women to Canada.... William, youngest son or Prince BLsmnrok, has been elevated to the rank of Government Councillor.

Evidence taken so Jaf tends to show that the outrages ip- Egypt were perpetrated against the vdsrtfes of Arabi Pashm Indignities have b&tfp oommitted on the unfortunate prisoners, a eunuch having visited Arab's cell and spat in his face....An American horse, Lorillard’s Touch-Me-Not, won the 2-year-old stakes at Newmarket In the Hungarian Chamber of Deputies Herr Tisza, Prime Minister, has Introduced measures revising the usury and trade law«, with a view of removing the causes which ied to the recent anti- 1 ewish riots.... The bodies of Lady Hanham and Mis- Hnnh.im, who died >n Dorsetshire, England, in 1877 and 1876, respectively, were cremated the qther day, be ne placed in a furnace on plates of iron and flr<- brick and reduced to ashes—the first cremations which have ever taken place In England.... Ingestre Hall, the s at of Earl Khr wsburr, near 8t ifford. England, wa- comp ete gntte i b fire, the loss being £500,00 ....Russian revenues lncrea-ed 30,128,000 rubles fromJonu ry to August, wd e tho expo d-it-ire far tho same period were reduced 26,603,000 rubles. . . .The steamer Be ium, Imltt at Aberdeen for th American trade, w~s totol.y wrecked on her trim trip.

* • . *; _ ■;! . / +£ ■ Broadley, the English barrister, will defend Anfci Pasha It is believed that landed properties, valued at $2,000,000, belonging to the Egyptian leaders will be confiscated The Ministers say they will not remain in the Cabinet if Arabi is not promptly executed... .A report that the Channel tunnel is dangerous to England lias l>een made by Gen. Sir Archibald Alison, and Gen. Wolseley anil the Duke of Cambridge have also entered objections.

Stanley appeared in London last week, looking in robust health. He considers the work undertaken on the Congo for the King of the Belgians pratically finished. He treats Brazza’s claim as a joke, but intends to make a full statement next week in Paris at a dinner to be given to him. It is not likely that he will revisit Africa at present.... The Egyptian Ministry has decided not to permit Arabi Pasha to employ foreign counsel Gen. Wolseley has been ordered home from Egypt.