Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1883 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

IzAST week’s aggregate clearings reached over a billion dollars, but are copsidered to represent a serious decline in the volume of traffic expected at this season of the year. The business wave which now seems to have so far subsided, started at this time in 1880. In that year tho weekly total of the country’s clearings began to increase in October, and by midsummer' in* 1881 hud reached a figure not much below $1,700,000,0000 A dispatch from Mat amor as, Mexico, says: News lias been -received of the insurrection of the Fifth. Infantry at the Pueblo barracks On account of being paid off in nickles. The ‘ Captain and officers of the guard were killed and eighteen soldiers escaped to the mountains. It is stated that the drought in the cotton States is more severe than since 1851, no rain of any consequence having fallen for three months Fire, which broke out in Cole A, Co.’s paint and oil store at Menlphis, destroyed that structure, aud, spreading, quickly consumed the Greenlaw opera-house. The loss will exceed $125,000.... A fire in New Orleans consumed eight residences at the corner of Carondelet and Second streets, ; valued at $30,000. The President has appointed a com- | mission to investigate all the questions con- ! nectod with the foreign objections to American pork products. The members are Dr. George B. Loring, C. F. Chandler, of New York; E. C. Blatchford, of Chicago; F. D. Curtis and Dr. D. E. Salmon, both of the Department of Agriculture.-. ..The United States Supreme Court met last week, and adjourned without transacting any business of importance... .President Arthur has 'returned to Washington for the winter. The Menasha (Wis.) Chair Company, an institution which was generally considered to be rock-rooted financially, has failed. The liabilities are SBO,OOO, while thq assets will aggregate SIOO,OOO An Indian, who for some time has been professing to cure by apells and incantations, at Quincy, 111., murdered his white wife and then killed himself.... A demand by a New York creditor forced an assignment by the dry goods firm of Warwick & Florer, of Lafayette, Ind., whose liabilities are $30,000..... It is proposed to reorganize the business of* Brown, Bonnell & Co., the suspended ironworkers, tho creditors entering the new corporation as stockholders. The capital stock is to he $1,200,000... .The stockholders of the Denver and Rio Grande road have authorized the Issue of $50,000,000 in 5 per cent, thirty year bonds. In a collision on the Boston and Lowell road, an engineer and fireman leaped from a locomotive without moving the' lever. The engine ran to the end of the track in Lowell and buried itself in the cellar of the express Office, killing a woman... .The Legislative bribery case against Loren B. Sessions, in connection with the New York Senatorial imbroglio of 1881, was begun at Albany last week. It will be remembered that Sessions was accused of attempting to bribe Assemblyman Bradley to change his vote from Conkling and Piatt to Depew and Wheeler.... Simon Mack & Co., wholesltHTblothing dealers of 487 Broadway, New York city, has made an assignment, giving preferences to creditors of $302,030. The debts of the firm amount to $700,000... .Because of the growth of Catholocism, the diooese of Portland, comprising the States of New Hampshire and Maine, will be divided.

Henry M. Stanley, the African explorer, writes to a Boston friend of fresh explorations and new discoveries in the Congo region. In the equatorial districts he find* the population very dense, which, if it were uniform, would, give about 49.000.000 people in the equatorial basin of Africa. He says the natives are born traders, that their products would repay transportation, and-that Tribes between whom he made peace elected him father and mother of their country.. Advices by mail from Java and Sumatra corroborate the statements telegraphed at the time of the great volcanic disturbance... .No riot occurred in Canton, China, as reported by cable, and Consul Seymour was not killed. The story was a hoax, originating in Paris. .., .The German Government has prohibited the importation of swine from Russia into Germany. “I wanst’s to know?” said an old negro man, addressing his wife, “whar yer got dat goose?” “Ain’t it a good goose ?” “Yas, but whar did yer get it ?” “Now, Silvey, yer knows dat I ’longs ter de chnrch. Whar did yer s’pose I got it?” “Stole it.” “Dat’s it, chile. I knowed dat yer didn’t step aside very fur from yer teachin’.” —Arkansaw Traveler: