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

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

The Treasury Commission appointed to investigate the conduct of Architect HiJl have submitted their report to Secretary Foiger. They find the office which lie held guilty of official favoritism, which in its consequences entailed great loss upon the Government. The him of Bartlett, fyjbbins A Co., of Baftftnore, were jiaid $IH;f;0i) ftjr simply drafting the plans tor the heating apparatiis of .four buildings. In one case an they Were too popd rather than exactly of the qua itv advertised for. Mismanagement, robbery, inefficiency and many other kinds 'of rascality' are stated to have been preva ent all around Archi ect Hill, but he person :Aly is not found to have been corrupt.... Tne Agri.-ult.ural Department at Washington has issued its September report on the cotton crop, the average of which is now reduced to 74, while at the same time in 18,8 was 92: per cent. Drought has had this bad effect in almost every State, and rust, caterpillars, and the boil worm are prevalent in many districts. At a colored celebration in Beaufort county, K. C., boiled shrimps were freely dispensed Three negroes have died from their effects, aud seven are not expected to live... .A boy of 1« and a boy of 17 fought a duel at Richmond, Va. The difficulty was caused by a miss of 15l The difficulty was smoothed over alter a muss on both sides. The deadly toy pistol did not figure in the qffair. , _ ’

The Boston Herald says James G. Blaine recently informed a party of Maine politicians that if Gen. Butler, of Massachusetts, was elected Governor again he would be the next Democratic nominee for the Presidency, and win the contest. Mr. Blaine said that, as for himself, be was out of politics, and was not a candidate for the Chief Magistracy of the nation... .The Greenback and Democratic Central Committees met at Gskaloosa, lowa, and decided to support J. C. Cook for the seat in Congress made vacant by the death of Mr. Cutts.

A young man called for a glass of soda-water in New Orleans. The clerk responded. The customer said the glass was dirty. The clerk denied It The customer called the clerk a hog, in French. A duel was arranged. After a combat with rapiers lasting eighty-seven minutes one of the young men ' was “winged,” and the affair was ‘honorably”' terminated.... A mob of sixteen masked men forcibly entered the Yell County jail at Danville, Ark., seized John Coker and Dr. Flood, took them to a bridge and hung them from the centerspar cross beam. Coker was accused of leading into ambuscade the Sheriff’s party in search of the Danville outlaws several weeks ago, in which two men weie killed. Flood was accused of harboring the outlaws.

Edward D. Cowan, city editor of the I.eadville Herald, was brutally assaulted by Aid. Joy, of,that city. The parties were discussing local politica Joy took exceptions to a remark of Cowan’s, and knocked Aim down, and with drawn revolver kept the crowd at bay. Than he jumped on the face of the pros.irate man, and with his heavy boots kicked aud stamped until his vic.im was almost unrecognizable. Cowan will probably die. Joy escaped tothe mountains. Cowan was well known in the West as a brillian young writer of excellent character George Williams, a colored porter In the First, National Bank at Las Vegas, New Mexico, suddenly became demented. He took a gun and compelled the clerical force to stand in a row and go through military drill Outsiders came in and captured him.

The Newark (N. J.) Evening News publishes two letters from the abductors of little Charlie Boss, written Nov, 22 and 24, 1874 (the year in which the child was spirited away), to Mr. Christian K. Ross, and demanding 320,D00 ransom or his son would be put to death. The documents were found among the papers of the late William R. Heins, Chief of the Philadelphia detectives. The point aimed at by the Avum is that the evidence of those letters was unknown to Mr. Ross or his friends, and so prevented, in a measure, the return of the child to his farenta .... At a rehearsal in a theater in ourteenth street. New lork, a bridge gave way, precipitating a number of supernumeraries thirteen feet. Several persons were severely injured. Harry Hill, the stakeholder in the Mitchell-Slade contest, has issued an ultimatum that the men must fight Oct- '£i at a point within 100 miles from New Orleans Mrs. Philip Speed, of Louisville, a nieneiof«J®h»iKeats, the English, -poet,- died at Cobourg, Ontario. f~~