Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1883 — NEWS AND INCIDENT. [ARTICLE]

NEWS AND INCIDENT.

Our Com-U*t»on o< the Important Happening! of the Week. THE WHEAT CROP. The April report of the Ohio Board of Agriculture based on returns from over 700 townships, gives the following percentage compared with April 1, 1882: Wheat, 63; old wheat in producers' hands, 38; old corn in producers* hands, 32; rye, condition, 69; barley, 60; clover, 89; clover, acreage, 100. lave stock, condition. 1 cows, 103; cattle, 103; horses, 103; sheep 100; spring lambs, 96; stock hogs, 101' spring pigs, 93. Number—cows, 96; cattle, 93; horses, 85; sheep, 99; stock hogs, 84. The fine condition of live stock is due in part to a fine hay crop and a fair corn crop in 1882. The wheat outlook is the most gloomy for eight years in Ohio. Severe cold with bare ground killed the lops to the surface in January and February. Warm rains and good weather till May may improve the condition up to 60 per cent; bad weather will send it below 50 per cent Official telegrams received April 7 from other States give the fallowing per centages for the condition of the winter wheat compared with the same time last year: Indiana, 72; Illinois, 68; Kansas, 61; Missouri, about 70; Michigan, 70; Wisconsin, about 75; California, about 85; Minnesota spring wheat probable acreage, 98. Reduced to bushels,the loss in these eight States will be 90,000,000 bushels, or 39 per cent,and they give *281,600,000 bushels of the 600,600,000 bushels raised in the United States last year. a pbofit of 35500,000. f A yeai ago the Legislature of Texas ceded a portion of the State known as the “Panhandle’ comprising 3,000,000 acres to a syndicate composed of C. B. Farwell, J, V. Farwell, Abner Taylor and A. E. Babcock, all of Chicago, in consideration that the latter should erect a capital building for the State in Austin at a cost of 31,500,000, thus fixing the value of the land at fifty cents. A London syndicate has just been given the refusal of the ontire tract until April 15th, and the sale is declared virtually concluded. The price is stated to be 310,000,000. The tract contains five thousand square miles,comprising the northern arm of the. State,and is declared to be rich in arable and grazing land, watered and timbered to such a degree as to attract the English syndicates, who sent agents across the water to purchase. The last agent made two propositions, to rent with the privilege of grazing stock, or to buy the land outright. The sale was closed on the latter proposition on condition that the first payment be placed to the credit of the Chicago syndicate in the Bank of England on the date named.

NEAR AND CRAFT. A Lexington, Ky., special says that Ellie Craft has received from his brother at Ashland a letter, from which the following is an extract: “They have got a negro in jail at Charleston, Va., and he hes told enough o clear you and Neal, and as soon as they get the other one it will be published all over the world. Tilman end Burns went and saw the negro in jail themselves and the Governor of Virginia made a big speech in your- favor. I will get the Breech and send it to you in the next letter. Keep in heart; I think you and Neal will be free again.” The Tilman mentioned is Craft's other brother, and Burns his lawyer. DEATH OF PETER COOPER. Hon. Peter Cooper died at his residence in New York, Wednesday morning, at the ripe old age of 92 years. His career has been unequaled as a financier, philanthropist and manufacturer. He has filled many posts of honor with dignity and integrity. His noble philanthropy gave him a special place among men, and his decease will be truly mourned by a nation of people. INDIANA ITEMS: Greenfield has 702 school children. Hugh Stout, a Bluffton lad, 12 years old, weighs 241 pounds. The Jeffersonville Mendelssohn societ lost its fine musical library by the flood. Huntington county has fifty-seven phyaicians,and yet its death rate is not above the average. ■ Fletcher Willey, the fruit grower, says the peach crop will be immense this year. —Jeffersonville News. North Vernon has six churches, six restaurants, six saloons, six ministers and six passenger and ticket agents. The Seymour Woolen Mills employ seventy-five hands, including thirty-five women and girls. A skeleton in a sitting position was unearthed in a gravel-pit at Connersville on Saturday. It is supposed to be aboriginal. * The ice on the lakes in Kosciusko county is said to bp now from fourteen to itwenty inches thick, and much of it still ■fit for packing. I Beports from some of the southern Bounties show that wheat is in a hopeful

condition, and much larger crop® will An inmate of the Casa county poor house, whose son died in the army, has just bee awarded, back pension to the amount of 31,900. . The first marriage license issued in Grant county was issued on September 5 1831, to John Smith and Mary Ann Thomas, who are still living and enjoying good health. Louis Michel surrendered herself to the Paris authorites and was placed in prison. Her reasons for giving herself up was that the footsteps of her mother were constantly dogged, and was killing her. A number of Fort Wayne capitalists are said to be considering the advisability of purchasing 50,000 acres of land on the St Francis river, Arkansas. It is the property of a wealthy estate,and is offered at 70 cents an acre. Willie, the seven-year-old son of Stephen Elder, of Anderson, fell from the second story of Robinson & Gorvefs block to the ground, a distance of twenty-five feet Strange to say, beyond a bad cut on his face, he was not injured in the least Heck Powell and William Bushing, of Logansport, have been sentenced to the penitentiary for two years and fined 3200 each, for arson. These are the young men who were caught at house burning some time ago, at which time they confessed having set fire to quite. a number of buildings, i The following is an invitation to an “apple-cutting” in Warren county, in 1850, taken from the Wabash Commercial “toopolY hiN Ton froM sAHY. wiNKle. cum over to our hous too nite as wear agoin to hav a applecuttin an lots and gobs of fun with the fellers fetch that air sitty chap along.” English, in Crawford county, where land could have been bought a year ago at 375 an acre, “town lots” are now sold at a higher figure. The Air Line railroad did it. English is spoken of as the probable future county seat of Crawford county, At the general meeting of the Mormon Co-operative store, Thursday, a semi-an-nual dividend of 8 per cent was declared, and a balance earned to the reserve fund sufficient to swell the amount to 3110,000. John Taylor,president of the church was elected preeident of the society. During the last year the total postal receipts in this State-reached the sum of 31,112,536.14,whi1e the expenditures were 31,109,165,65. The main source of revenue was, of cpurse,from the sales <»f postage stamps. It was 31,057,516.08. The rents from|postoffice boxes’was 354,128.99 and even the sales of waste paper brought *3887.95. The Princeton Clarion says: “Those who write for a sample copy of this paper must enclose a postage stamp, not for publication, but as an evidence that they don’t take us for a bald-headed philanthropist, with a gold-headed cane and an income of 3700,000 a year, who is printing the paper for amusement and paying the postage for fun.” The wife of John Qliver.who is a sister of David Brigg, of Jeffersonville, has been totally blind for many years. What looks unreasonable, yet true, is the fact that she does all her own household work including the cooking and ironing, besides the milking of the family cow. She refuses to have a servant girl about the house. The census bureau gives some interesting statistics from which the following are taken: The total population in the State who can read, ten years of age and over, is 70,008, or 3.54 per cent, of the total population. The total population who can not write, ten years of age and over, is 120,761. Of the e the whites number 100,398; the colored, 10,393.

THE EAST: Peter Cooper's funeral was attended by over 6,000 people. The sum of $200,000 has been spent by 1,200 stockholders in the development of the Keely motor. The cotton exported from New York the past three months aggregated 39,908 packages, against 36,458 packages for the same period last year. A number of genuine Bedouin Arabs have arrived in New York, engaged by the agents of a prominent circus man,and are said to be bom acrobats. The New York east conference announces that the proportion of Metho-' diets to the population has fallen from one in sixty-four to one in 104. New York pays $7,000,000 a year for its religion and tor its drinks, which goes to show that New York is having more fun in this world than it will in the next. The bill for a constitutional amendment prohibiting the manufacture and sale of inloxicating liquors in .Massachusetts has been defeated in the house of representatives -115 8$ Aneraof retrenchment has dawned upon the Immanuel Baptist Church, of Chicago, of which the Bev. Dr. Lorrimer

W "F « WMV —V ..is pastor, and the services of its 36,000 choir have been dispensed with. • anuoiaiatod man Washington says: * Reports coming in at the agricultural bureau go to show that the reports cf damage to the wheat in the northwest have been greatly exaggerated. The Poet-Dispatch says Lotta contemplates a two-years* retirement from the stage which may be permanent. A young man named Cedi Beryl, with large eetates and things, is connected with the affair. The investigation into the management of the Tewksbury Almshouse, Mass., reveals a most distressing state of affairs. One witness testified that of seventy-three children that came therein one year,only one lived. Statistics of crime in the seven largest dries of the Union, complied at New York and based upon the population, show that San Frandsoo leads in the number of homicides, followed in the order of mention by Cincinnati, Baltimore, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and Boston. Adirondack Murray, the Ex-Boston preacher, who quietly left that city and many creditors a few years ago, and settled himself in Texas,. has again disappeared under similar circumstances, leaving debts to the amount of 312,000. He also takes with him a young lady of the vicinity of his late exploits. A bill was introduced in the New York Senate and immediately ordered to the third reading to prevent any attempt to personate or represent Jesus Christ by any show,play or dramatic representation whether free or by an admission fee,making it a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than 3100, and imprisonment for not less than six months. A Dubois, PA, special says: “In aprize fight here Monday evening, between Mike McLaughlin and Martin Linksy, a miner, six rounds were fought In the last round both men clinched and fell, Linksy breakk g his neck in the fall, which resulted in instantaneous death. Me Laughlin gave himself up to the authorities. The participants in the fight were eighteen years cf age.”

THE WEST: Election frauds are reported in Chicago. The bricklayer? strike in Chicago has been resumed. About 3,000 men are out Ex-Governor Roberts, of Texas, has been made president of an Austin university. Senator William Windom, of Minnesota has been elected President of a Mexican railway. Close estimates put the cattle drive from Texas the present season at about 230,000. The price of gas in St. Louis has been reduced from 32.50 to 31.50 per thousand cubic feet. The Tombskne, Arizonia, people have secured 100 Papagoes to go on the warpath against the Apaches. The funeral of the late Postmaster General Howe took place at Kenosha, Wis., Wednesday afternoon. The remains will be interred at Green Bay. • x The argument on the petition for a rehearing of the prohibition amendment case in lowa, is concluded, and a decision is expected at the next term of court. The lowa.Grand Army Post is in session at Des Moines. There are 157 posts in the State with a membership of 4,701. Eighty-seven posts were formed in 182 Ten churches in Springfield, Illinois, have united in the services conducted by* Dr. L. W. Munhall since February 24. Up to date 800 conversions have been reported.

The Ohio legislature have agreed on the report of the conference committee for the submission of two propositions for amendments to the constition on the liquor question. One provides for pro* hibition and the other legislative control. ; The results of the elections in Ohio Tuesday, are rather mixed. Cincinnati elects a mixed ticket, with a Democratic Mayor. The returns are generally uninteresting. Cleveland turns Democratic while, the Republicans elect the Mayor in Toledo.. Mias Housa, a young lady of Paris, 111. is exciting much wonder and curiosity by her trance like sleeps, in which she claims that she visits heaven. She has been affected in this way since last September, and during her trances she converses readily in several languages. “Blue Horse” an Indian Chief who states that he is “going in the white man’s ways,” that while splitting wood for his wife a piece flew up and put out his eye. He asks the Great Father at Washington to send him another eye. We believe such industry ought to be encouraged. Mayor of Cincinnati, attempted toehoot County Jailer John Brady, Tuesday morning. They had been up all night Iwuring election returns, and the’mayor got drunk and started for Brady, with whom he has not been on good terms for years. Friends interfered and bloodshed was averted. A mob broke into the jail at Hastings, Neb., Wednesday night, and taking three men to a railroad bridge half a mile away,

hung two of the CEreeloHs* third saved hfa neck by giving away a gang of criminals. The crime against the men was highway robbery of a merchant and shooting him when he tried to esThe prizes in the great Chicago billiard tournament were distributed aa follows: The purse of >1,200 and gold miniature billiard table, emblematic of the world’s championship.were given to Jacob Schaefer j second prine, 3800, to Maurice Vignaux; third prise, 3500, to Morris Daly; fourth prize, 3300, to Wm. Sexton; fifth prize, 3200, to. Alonzo Morris. An epidemic smallpox exists in the southern part of St Louis. Sixteen pupils in the Catholic school of SS. Peter and Paul, where the malady first appeared, have been taken with the disease, and several have died. Entire families have been taken to the smallpox hospital, and the corps of nurses there is altogether inadequate to properly care for the invalids. A hungry, dejected looking dog came to the yards of the Wabash railroad at Carmi, 111., and made his home there being allowed to drag out a miserable existence. Now he is petted and led and is a happy hero. A little child was playing on the track, and an engine was thundering down the rails and no one to save. But just as the horror-stricken spectators expected to see the little one caught under the cruel wheels, the old vagrant dog bounded to the child and dragged it out of danger.

THE SOUTH: Four inches of snow fell at Baltimore Friday. The riyer at New Orleans is higher than during the great flood of 1874. John Jackson, a negro, who ha '. committed several asssaults upon women, was hanged by a mob at Moscow, Tex, Sunday night A three-story brick hotel collapsed at Greenville, Texas, Sunday, burying 19 persons in the ruins. The ruins afterwards took fire, causing a scene of horror. The New Orleans Times-Democrat Moss Point, Miss., special says the boiler in one of the Griffin mills exploded Monday, and nine persons were killed and wounded. A Hot Springs dispatch says a terrible cyclone swept the country south and east Sunday night, and scarcely a tree is left Farm-houses, fences, bridges, eta, were demolished. A twelve-year-old girl in Holmes county, Miss., whose parents are as black as native Africans, has white ears, cheeks and nose, and the color is spreading over her whole body. B. 0. O. Benjamin, a colored lawyer applied for and obtained license to practice law at the Albemarle county Bar. He is the first colored man who ever applied for license in Maryland. At Nashville, Tenn., there is fear o f a smallpox epidemic. The efforts of the health authorities have failed to check the spread of the disease. It is proposed to close several of the public schools in the infected localities.

FOREIGN: Edwin Booth has made a great hit in Berlin, and is the idol of the day. The Irish members fear that an attempt will be made to saddle the crimes act on Ireland as a permanent statute. Mr. Parnell has definitely decided that he will not attend the Philadelphia Land League convention. Franklin Simmons,the Maine sculptor, will leave his studio in Borne, in May, to spend the summer in this country, bringing with him his statue of O. P. Morton. A powder depot at passo Oorreee, Italy for the use of engineers conducting the operations there, exploded.. Forty persons were killed and many injured, some fatally. Late reports from Coomassie, Upper Guinea says that the king of Ashantee has relinquished the throne, and the entire coast of western Africa is in a state of confusion. The local chief of police of St Peters* burg and all others who contributed to the oomfort of the crews of thp-Jeannette and Rodgers, have been decorated by the Ozar. It was reported in London on Thursday evening that the Government had asked the American Government to lend a force of skilled detectives to assist in tracing the dynamite fiends. The exhibition of marine products and fishing implements opened on the Ist of March, in Tokio, Japan. Fifteen thousand varieties of fish were shown, with other productions of sea. lake and river. Dawson, lord mayor of Dublinjs forming a national committee to raise a fund to present to Parnell. The committee is composed of bishops, priests, members of parliament, mayors, and other officials. The fund reaches £BOO, It is reported that important Joon n<snts have been found implicating met*. - -/s of Parliament inthe dynamite I Threats of destroying the 'public v tidings have been renewed, and England'

with is in TturJ moilJ !U * The German socialists held a three day’s conference in Copenhagen, recently while thitelfee Ware looking for them ha Switzerland. It was decided ta strongly oppose at the elections in 1884, Binmark’s policy chiefly in regard to his social program, and force a fight against capital. About ten years ago a rich lady left 3100,000 to build a foundling hospital in one of Hesse’s three principal citie&Eaoh of these three cities had opportunity to avail itself of this bequest, and all have declined it on the ground that it is a slur on their morals. The good cities are Darmstadt, Mayence and Giessen. American bonded whisky is being exported to Bermuda and immediately returned. The barrels are simply rolled ashore and back aboard ship. This enables the American consul to certify that the whisky has actually been landed, and on its return to New York it can remain two years longer in the United States bonded warehouse without paying taxes. Severe and continuous floating has taken place along the line of the Panama canal works, originating in race hatred between the Jamaicans and Carthageniane Some twenty of the former have been massacred, and the government finds itself unable to restore order. Arms are being indiscriminately purchased, and aa no work is going on, and as there are about 8,000 men drinking freely, serious trouble is expected on the isthmus, which is being rapidly overrun by the dregs of all nations. The President is on a visit to Florida. Ex-Senator Ferry will soon sail for Europe to spend a year for the benefit of his health. The Interior Department has refused the request of Chief Bushyhead, that the importation of whisky in small quantities into the Cherokee reservation be permitted.