Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1883 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

XHE EAST. John Swixrox.of New York,appeared il | witness before the Senate Sub-Commit-tee on Labor and Education, sitting in that city. He recommended the revival of the income fa»v as originally in force; the establishment of a National Board of Industry empowered to collect labor statistics of every description, and including power to enforce the Might-Hour law; tne establishment of effectual Boards of Health, Education and Public Works; Industrial schools and colleges on the Erench system; the Belgium system of freedom from patents; postal banks under the British system; land laws which will prevent the holding by private individuals of great tracts of land; public ownership of coal, iron, gold and other mi««« and all oil wells. Every one of these measures has-been-pnl—in.. praotiee~in-.one-countrv or another, and they were all capable of enforcement by legislation, and have in every instance proved successful. Witness maintained that industrial schools, ■bch as exist in nearly all European countries, should be instituted here and be under the control of the Government; Working railroads and telegraphlines by the Government in Berlin showed conclusively it should l>e adopted in this country, lie thought the Legislature had the power to do tnis. He was also of the opinion that the Government' should institute postal banks, where the poorer classes could make deposita Ex-Presi-dent John Jarrett, of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers was also before the committee He favored the establishment of a Bureau of Labor Statistics, the enforcement of the Eight-Hour law, and prevention of strikes by arbitration. There should be a national law, he thought Incorporating trades uniona He believed {n*the organization of capitalists as well as workingmen The witness said there was a tendency to lower wages by the employment of Bohemians to do unskilled labor, and this tendency is encouraged by the constant introduction of labor-saviffg machines. Steel manufacturers have imported workmen for the purpose of lowering wtgea

A Boston dispatch says that “the ■evere drought from which New England is now suffering has not only ruined the ripening crops and spoiled the fall feed, on Which every farmer depends, but it has dried up the brooks and wells and scorched the forests until every meadow and grove is a tinder-box, ready to spring into a blaze on the first contact of lire. Forest .fires have been burning for several weeks in some of the outlying towns near Boston, tt is impossible to estimate the teal and entailed loss from these causes, but it will probably reach $1,000,000. Destructive forest fires are also reported in New York and other Eastern States.... .Mra Julia P, Smith, the novelist, was killed by a runaway at New Hartford, Ct - A SCORE of villagers attended the auction in Chappaqua, N. Y., at which Horace Greeley’s farm was sold. One bid waA made for the seventy-seven acres, and it was sold to Miss Gabrielle M. Greeley for #IO,OOO. Neighbors who wanted the property would not bid against the daughter. Die place cost Horace Greeley about $lO,-. OOQ. and he expended on 'its improvement about $75,C00..;. ,N. & H. O’Donnell’s steam cooperage works m Jersey City were consumed by fire, with ■ll the machinery and eight car loads of Staves The total loss is about $03,000..., The Elkhora tannery, belonging to Michael p. Kestler, at Stroudsburg, Pa., was destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $150,00.', covered by insurance. thl west, ... The Chief Magistrate of the nation was most royally entertained by the Chicagoans, and, from all indications, had ■ jolly good time in the Garden City. The presence of the distinguished visitor in the city had been so extensively advertised by'the local press that there was a feverisn excitement and constant anticipation by people who wanted to see a real live President The first evening of his stay he accepted a personal invitation from the veteran comedian and manager, J. H. McVicker, to attend his theater. When the party, consisting of President Arthur, Secretary Lincoln, Gen. Sheridan and others, entered the theater, the audience rose and applauded. The play was the ‘ Hunchback,” and ML-s Mather the star. At the end of the third act, ‘.vhen Miss Mather was called before the curtain with Mr. Leyick, she bad a bank of flowers in the center of which in violets were the words, “To the President, from Margaret Mather.” She handed this to him, and he bowed in return while thefiouseapplauded. At the end of the fourth act the President asked to be presented to Miss Mather, and she was accompanied to his box by her manager j Mr. Hill. The Pi esident thanked her personally and said he had been delighted by her acting. Miss Mather replied briefly and gracefully, thanking the President for the nonor he had bestowed upon her "by his presence. The party sat tbe play out, and when it was over the audience halted on the stairway and sidewalk while tbe President passed out, and cheered him as he was driven away. The next day the-,.President!: vidted the Boa’d of Trade, and devoted an hour or so watching the wild bulls and hears A dense crowd rfssemhlefl to set) the distinguished visitors. Ihe President was next driven to the rooms of the League Club, where a flue lunch was served. In the evening two hours were devoted to a pub ic reception at the Grand Pacific Hotel, and thousands of citizens availed themselves of this opportunity to Bee the nation’s ruler. The President left at midnight, expressing himself highly pleased at his sojourn in the Western metropolis. The young tragedienne, Miss Mar garet Mather, is in the third week of her en gagement at McVicker s Theater, Chicago, which has proven a highly-succe slul . ne. artis.ically and nnane.uilvi This week she appears in-‘-Romeo and'Juliet,” “Lady of Lyons,” and ‘-Leah, the Forsaken.* A Chicago dispatch of the 10th inst. ■ays: ‘Advices from representative points in the corn belt make it, positive that frost has wrought great destruction. Michigan seems to have fared badly, nearly everything in the vegetable line hav.ng bom kill® lat Battle Creek and Saugatuck, Tobacco in Dane and ltock counties, Win, was rained with the com. and cranberries at Bturgeon Bav got nipped. L ght frosts are reported at Des Moines, Atlantic and Burlington, lowa, and ice at Dubuque- Vegetables were injured at Klkhiin. and Huntington, Ind. Ice formed at Macomb, IIL, and frost was quite general throughout the central pnrt of the State, but the dry atmosphere saved corn at s- me points Leper jj from Northern Wisconsin, ... M innesrota Dakota andohio are fcaLbe-eTeat that the 6tund ng corn has been irreparably damaged. In some sections on the lowlands corn is a m st entirely destroyed. On the higher ground the frost was net so serious, and ie-s injury w as inflicted.” A Des Moines dlsi atcli says: “Beporis fiom different par sos the State to-night "indicate - that the damage to the corn cron of lowlands and ha* been slight" A dispatch from S ous Falls, Dakota, reports: “Another heavy frost last night has left no rco.n to doubt the ruiu of the com crop of this •action” The completion of the Northern Pacific railroad was formally effected forty miles west of Helena, Montana, on the Bth of September, ‘Jay. Cooke, the man tha: began, and Henry Vtllard. the man that fin-shed the work, were accorded the honor Of driving the golden spika WHO* a construction train on -the

South Park railroad Thus coming down Kenosha mountain, in Colorado, the engine jumped the track and qight cars back of it were telescoped down the embankment Conductor Livingstone, Engineer Foster and Brakeman Lake were injured, probably fatally. / THE SOUTH. During the inaugural ceremonies, at Frankfort, Ky., - the outgoing Governor, Blackburn,endeavored to excuse himself for tlje large number of pardons granted, and the incoming Governor, Knott, declared that in no case would he remit criminal penalties unless satisfied that the sentence was unjust to the convict... .Two negroes of Edwards, Mis& confessed having robbed the grave of Mrs. of them who attempted to escape was riddled with bullets. The other was taken from the Sheriff and hanged. They confessed that they stole the .body- for the purpose of securing the bones or the arm, which they used in carrying out their profession as conjurers... .Sumuel Bulger (colored), for outraging a white chHd some time ago, was-hanged in the jail at Maysville, Ky. A raving maniac, armed with a club, entered a school-room at Williamson, Va, and attempted to kill all the girls in the room. His hallucination had taken the term of belief that, m order to escape eternal torment, he must sacrifice 200 female children. He hurt a number of the pupils, and was himself knocked senseless beipre his capture.... At Plaquemine, La, Henry Dickenson, colored, was hanged for murder, and at Greensboro, Ala, Frank .Sheldon, also colored, paid the extreme penalty for uxoricide. -~ TEASHINGTON. The United Spates of Colombia are again in trouble. Dom Pedro Solear Martinez has set up a little Government for himself at a town inthe interior, and President Otalora has marched with 1,000 men to overthrow the insurgents ~C. Thk forthcoming annual report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office will show that 50,000 agricultural patents were Issued during the fiscal year ended June 80, 1883. This is the largest number of patents ever issued in anv one year. Cot. David P. Holloway died at Washington last week in his 74th year. He edited the Richmond, find.) Palladium for many years, commencing in 1832, was a member of the Indiana Legislature for ten years from 1843 to 1853, and was one of the Indiana Representatives in Congress in the 1855-’SB term. He was appointed Commissioner of Patents by President Lincoln in 1851.

,— Some statements alleged to have been made to President Arthur by Hon. Edwards Pierrepoint. of the Utah Commission. so astonished A. B. Carlton, another member, that he has addressed Secretary Foiger on the subject He claims that the hoard was completely successful’ in excluding polygamists from voting or holding office, and* that ten Mormons have sued tbe Commissioners for using authority in excess of that granted by the Edmunds act In the New York Greenback State Convention at Rochester George O. Jones, of Albany was nominated for Secretary of State, and declined. The Rev. Thomas K. Beecher was then nominated by acclamation. Louis A Post, of New YVrk, was nominated Attorney General by acclamation. CL L. Halsey, of Unadilla, was unanimously nominated for Comptroller. Julian Winne, of Albany county, was nominated for Treasurer. Edward' A. Stillman, of Ontario county; was nominated-for Engineer. The dissatisfied Democrats of Hamilton county, Ohio, held a convention at Cincinnati at which eighty delegates were present They nominated a ticket in oppo-sition-4® the one, which the resotioiis said was controlled by fraud and vio lencu. The platform indorses the Democratic State platform and ticket, demands municipal reform and a reduction of taxes, opposes “boss” rule, and farors honesc primaries and fair conventions... .EiaisSar.es of the National Woman s Suffrage Association are now at work hoping to eliminate from the new constitution of Dakota the hated word ’’male. ” GENERAL. Capt. Eads seems to have impressed Pittsburgh capitalists with the practicability of his ship railway across the Isthmus of Panama. One of the heaviest coal operators says the work will be ready for the commerce of the world' within four yeais, without assistance from, the Government The Mercantile Agency of It. G, Dunn A- Co., of New York, in their last weekly review of the state of trade say that during the week nothing occurred of a “character adverse to the steady improvement of trade It is true the exchanges chow a considerable decline in transactions, but this may be the result of hesitat i n and embarrassment growing out of the recent heavy dej tension in securities and j roduce. But notwithstanding this fact the tiguies show the volume of business is large on the whole, and larger than ivir Les >ie at a'>out half the leading centersoutside of New York citv. All indications point tothe I act that general business is getting into Letter sh /pe steadily and the ussjjrance of good crops and a fair market abroad for our products is stimula lug ino-t lines of trade.. ; xu : ;Uis c ty dry goods interests seem in tliema nheal liy, and the demand is beginning to be quite a..I i vo, nbsori ing !; rgP quantities of goods. In the grocery trade the- sitII ition seems to lie equiby favorable The demand for iron continues slow, and quotations were about steady ... .The bus:nes.s failures in tbe 'United Sca'es for the week numbered 142, being sixteen more than during the preceding wee i. and an increase of twen y-one over the correspouding period of 1.-52.... The tncht Explorer founde;ed ou Greenough Shoals, Lake Huron, and all on board peiished... .11 ail an offers to row Laycock on the Thames for $..,000 a side. FOREIGN. Farther accounts of the horrors in Java and Sumatra arrive with every hour. A whole district is entireiv inaccessible, and (he population Is sut posed to have perished Nothing can be heard from Laiupoug, the district of 8i in. ra nearest to Java Tue tidal wa\e wbi h swe; t over the Tjeringin province in Java crowned all the inhabitants, a out It.OOO ;eo 1e... .Specials to Lend n journals s y B\U> • C h.nese troops have entered Tonouin territory and others ere moving to the frontier, ihe trench Cabinet decided to sect reinforcements to Ton ui:i. Advices reepi ei at Berlin are to the effect that C inn means war... .Matwood, the Em Ish hangman, 1* dead... The Swiss Governm nt refu es to extradite an American student, named Lcun*g, who killed a schoolmate in a vine! in Germany, as dueling is not named in the treaty. At LePuy, France, a largo concourse a statue to Lafayette Messrs. Morton and Sargent, Ministers to Fiance and Gc many, were among the distinguished persons prevent, , • .The fiulus are figuting among themselves. . y An article by Henri Eocbefort, in Bj« journal K VS. Humbert of Italy with having poeketed funds, sent fer the relief of the Ischia sufferers has caused much inu:gnat;oa in Huiniarts ‘domain. An Indian o c .-r challerged Ro- hefor the insult but the la ter i efased to fight, j .... Under instructions item hue G vernj msnt, the Mai- ulsl'-eng d in ndedtha the ‘ trench withdraw from Ihe nue t:eaty. Piimc Minister terry refused to re lv, i ut gave assurance- th't Innsewil giuyrantej tue integi tty ot the Chinese fron mr... .The d tie plague in Russia at present is very virulent With n four years ~tAJO,tU) head have fallen victims to the disease.. ; .Fam-

ine is adding to the havoc wrought by the volcanic eruptions in Java.. . .Wet weather is hinderfug harvest work in England, and a large quantiiy of grain is still uncut - - RiGHAftD Power, a Parnellite member of Parliament, addressing a meeting at Waterford, described England as a nation insulted by France, hated by Europe and embarrassed by Ireland. Michael Davit-t, who addressed the same meeting, said that the object of tbe National League was to achieve national independence for Ireland, by which he doubtless meant legislative independence. .. . A dispaich from Rome says the Vatican has about come to ,an understanding with Prussia in regard to the church ouestion.