Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1883 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

' The long drought in New England was broken last week by rains that extended all over that region The prevalence of dry weather has been almost unparalleled, and grass, fob age and growing crops have been parched, and in many instances destroyed, while the soil has been dried to the condition of an ash-heap... .Seidenbach, Schwab <t Co., New York clothiers, have made an assignment. Liabilities between $350,000 and S4OO. i OJ. I WjlLiam Sims,. Secretary of the Kansas State Board Of Agriculture, makes an estimate of the corn yield of tire State, l ased'on returns from 350 correspondents. Ihe estimate is -14.4 bushels per acre, or a production of bushels, 50.000.0iki bushels more than the large crop of last year. This yield, if realized, will place Kansas nearly'at the head of the corn growing States for 18'3. ...An appraisal of the estate of the late Senator Matt Carpenter, tiled In the Probate Court at Milwaukee, shows property on hand of the value of $102,00c. Officials of the Postoffiee Department say that Postmaster General Gresham will in his forthcoming report take stronger grounds in favor of the adoption of the pos-tal-teiegraph system than any of his predecessors. Mr. Gresham will also urge the establishment of a postal savings-bank system similar to that now in operation'in England, which has been found to work very successfully. S. W. Tallmadge, of Milwaukee, whose reports are alleged th be held in repute, est mates the wheat crop of the United States for 1883 at a little over 403,000,000 bushels being 101,100,000 bushels short, as compared with last year, and 50,010,000 bushels less than the average of the past five years. A meeting of Deurocrats was held in Cooper Union, New York city, in the interest of harmony among the county factions. David Dudley Field presided, Charles A Dana and Joseph Pulitzer were among the Vice Pi eside.nts. Congressman Potter presented the resolutions, and Dorsheimer made the speech of the evening. Negotiations between the Vatican and France have reached a satisfactory conclusion. The French Government has restored the suppressed stipends to the Catholic clergy and given formal assurances of most pacific intentions toward the Hclv Sea The Vatican has authorized the Catholic Bishops who were expelled from Prussia to open negotiations with the Prus-ian Government tor their return to their pastorates.... The London Times thinks France can have Annam, with the right of commercial settlement in Ton juin"; further than this France cannot go without war with China The Timex seems to think that such a solution of the question is still far from satisfying France..,.. A great crowd attended a Mill-town-Malbay (Ireland) proclaimed meeting, an.l were dispersed by the police, the people on retiring groaning the Queen and shouting “God Save Ireland.”.... -Henry M. Stanley writes to the British Association for the Advancement of Science urging that Great Britain proclaim a protectorate over the Congo district in Africa. A le ter from Lisbon is to the effect that the Engli'h Commissioner has been charged with the duty contained in Stanley’s suggestion... .The widow of Informer Carey arrived at Plymouth, England, last week, closely guarded by detectives