Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1882 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

A dispatch from Hampton Court House, 8. C., says that a negro named Jake Gantt collected about twenty colored men to prevent Policeman Reid from taking away his (Gantt's) pistol When the difficulty recommenced, Reid was killed by the negroes, and three white citizens were cut or beaten. A white man who started for help was stabbed in the thigh and left on the road. A great checker match was played at Boston between Wylie, the great Scotch player, and Baker, the American expert. Eiity names were played, each contestant winning one, while forty-eight w'ere drawn. Alexander MiTcHELL*predicted that the gross earnings of the St Paul road for tlie current year would reach $20,000,000. The annual report shows them to be $19,143,890, and tue operating expenses were Slo, 151,(3.). The company has 4,249 miles of track, and has issued stock and bonds to the amount of $120,746,59'....The puddlers at the Tene Haute (Ind.) Iron and Nail Works and the Wabash Iron Company went on a strike last week, demanding $6 per ton until J une 1. - Distress prevails to a great extent at Alexandria among the sufferers by incendiarism, and while waiting for the indemnity they are compelled to appeal to private charity... .The Prince of Wales will serve as Chairman of the Longfellow Memorial Committee, and expresses pleasure at being able to show the high est :em in which he holds the verses of the dead poet... .The committee for tue prosecution of the rebels, which is holding daily sessions at Cairo, has tried 380 prisoners, of whom fifty have beep found guilty. These will have trial by court martial as soon as it can be convened Peace negotiations between Chili and Peru have fallen through, and Calderon has been imprisoned at Angel... .The mission of Moody and Sankey at Cambridge, England, hus been suspended on account of the former’s illness.. ..Queen Victoria has made Admiral Seymour a peer, with the title of B iron Alcester. .. .Bismarck contemplates no change of importance in his foreign policy... .Tne river Neva, in Russia, is blocked with ice, and navigation has closed. Mrs. Langtry’s first theatrical appearance in America, at Wallack’s, New York, was witnessed by a critical and fashionable audience, who repeatedly called her before the curtain, and bestowed upon her floral tributes and deafening applause. Her acting in “An Unequal Match" is praised by the critics William A. Leavitt, a gla s manufacturer of Philadelphia, has made an assignment to Nelson F. Evans, to ever heavy liabilities’.... Barnett, Bach & Hart, of New York, wholesale dealers in no lions and auction goods, have made an as ignment... .A fire on the water front at Portland, Maine, swept away establishments valued ao nearly tf2s i,o>ki. ... .Flames swept away over $200,(00 wbrth of business property at Red Bunk. N. J. All the prisoners in the jail of Prince George county, Md., escaped by burning a lock from the iloor. The Mexican Government has received a report that the Governor and Secretary of State of Tabasco had been murdered.