Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1882 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Parnell, in a rec3nt speech at Cork, said he would always oppose any attempt of the Government to land emigrants in a hapless and penniless condition on the shores of America If. he said, England desires to promote the emigration of Irishmen, let them be placed on land in America, provided with houses and means to raise crops the first year of their residence. Parnell estimated that £8,000,000 of arrears of rent would be wiped out by the Arrears of Rent act He believed that since the commencement of the agitation £3,000,000 reduction of rent had been obtained for the people. Father Gallagher telegraphs from Killybegs, Ireland, to the New York Iferald: “The distress Is intensifying hourly here. The Government seems apathetic. It Is with us a case of relief or death. Disease has already many victims."... .The Austrian Cabinet organ advises the people to pay no heed to, the newspaper reports concerning the military preparations of Russia, as they are not worthy of credence... .Eight hundred houses were destroyed by fire in Canton, China, and several firemen were burned to death.... Francis Close, Dean of Carlisle, is dead. He was born in 175)7. News comes from Texas of tlie lynching of two brothers, George W. and Jim Fraley, the latter a mere boy. Both were arrested in the Comanche country, charged with stealing cotton. They were placed under guard at Hazell Deli At midnight a mob, armed w ith shotguns, overpowered the guards, took the prisoners to the woods and hanged them both on the same limb.... Imprisonment for six months is the penalty prescribed in Richmond for two medical students and their colored assistants caught robbing a grave... .An incendiary fire at Corsicana, Texas, wiped out a number of business houses, destroying property valued at #15(1,000... .It is estimated that the Southern cotton crop will exceed 7,000,000 bales. The Supreme Court of ihe United States made an important decision on the subject of political assessments. It upheld the recent prosecution of Gen. Curtis in New York, affirming the constitutionality of the statute under which he was convicted. Justice Bradley, in a dissenting opinion, declared that Congress had no right to interfere with the inalienable right of the citizen to be imposed upon if he paw tit to submit to it James R. Keene testified at New York regarding “corners,” and maintained that they do not injure the public. He asserted that the commerce of the country demanded dealings in futures, and believed that speculation was an agent of civilization, and helped to build up the West The Chicago markets reflected the opinions of the country, and he thought it wrong to mention tlie Board of Trade dealings in that city under the category of gambling. Mr. Keene thought the railway freight rates now existing more disastrous than any corner within his remembrance... .By the explosion of a powder storehouse near Paterson, N. J., three men lost their lives. Two express trains on the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and St Louis railroad collided in a curve between Foster and New Lebanon, Ohio. Engineer Peters was decapitated, and Postal Clerk Wharton was also instantly killed. Five other postal clerks were seriously injured.... .Fire in the Barton Block, at Minneapolis, caused a loss of #85,000, upon which there was #70,000 insurance;