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

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Rev. George C. Miln made his dramatic debut in Chicago in the character of Hamlet The house was crowded to the point of suffoention. The local press says Mr Miln excelled in the force and intelligence of his reading, and exhibited more stage resources and better command of them than oould reason*bly be expected. The audience was in thorough sympathy with the novloe, and repeatedly called him’before the curtain. -' Col. Slayback*, who was killed by Col Cockerell, the editor of the St Louis Toxt-Dixpateh, had the most-imposing funeral ever witnessed in tha* oity. The pistol which was found in the editorial-rooms of the Poet- Dixpatrh after the tragic affray was identified by a pawnbroker as one he sold to CoL Playback, which establishes the fact that he was armed when he attacked Cockerell: Hon. Frank Hurd, Congressman from Toledo, Ohio, an old personal friend of Cockerell, will oonduct the defense when the trial occurs.

Arabi Pasha, who it is alleged cannot be convicted of complicity in the Alexandria mdksacre, asserts the presence of the British fleet precipitated the murders. Victor Hugo appeals against the execution of Arabi The London Timex intimates, if a fair trial Is not given Arabi, the British Government will demand that he be returned to them... .The London Timex says It has reason to believe there is a good prospect of a friendly understanding being arrived at between France and England in regard to Egypt... .Cold weather has set in in Russia Navigation has been suspended in the Volga find Kama rivers on account of drift ice. Henry A. Bowen, accused of attempting to bribe William Dickson, foreman of the star-route jury, at Washington, was arrested in Philadelphia, charged with obtaining a month’s board by false pretenses.... The star-routers convicted at Philadelphia were refused a new trial Thomas A McDevltt was fined SSOO and sentenced to imprisonment for one year. Christian Price was fined $l9O and condemned to the penitentiary for six months... .Mrs BC. Robertson, an estimable lady of Coming, N. Y., who had suffered terribly from rheumatism, hobbled out in the night on the bridge over the Chemung river and threw herself into the water. Her fate was learned by finding her oane on the bridge. Henry George, the labor reformer, who has spent the past year in Europe, arrived in New York last week, and was welcomed by a large number of representative citizens. The total value of exports of domestic breadstuffs during the nine months ending the 30th of September was $134,512,779; corresponding period of 1881, $177,452,638.

Miss Mary Anderson is playing a remarkably successful engagemeni at McVicker’s Theater, Chicago, the house being packed every night of her appearance, and the local press is highly laudatory of her fine acting. The Inter Ocean remarks: “Each night this charming actress and briliant tragedienne has shown the bright blazon of Erogress and improvement along the line of. er work, adequately proving her capacity for advancement, givingtoridiculethe doleful complaints of some that she has suddenly stopped short in the progres- of developement We are heartily glad to see that Miss And< rson does not abate her zeal in the desire to master the conditions of her own nature in their relation to the noble art of character impersonation and expression to which she devotes herself. She is becoming an accomplished artist as well at an impassioned genius, lending rare beauties of acquired and external grace to the potent force of her inherent ability.”